Responding to Jesse Plamondon-Willard's points:
The current draft still as a few issues:
* It allows wikis for languages that have no written form.
This is not an issue. The Wikimedia Foundation itself has in
the past advertised meeting its goal of spreading knowledge
by providing a platform
Hello Dovi,
The language subcommittee has no official opinion on the issue; I'm
disagreeing as a member of the community. A lack of comment is not
consensus. Several discussions on the talk page went quiet without
ever reaching agreement. A consensus is not reached simply because
nobody recently
Several people on the talk page have done exactly that recently, calling for
conclusion
and ratification, because both discussion and formulation seemed to have had
long been
accepted by everyone working on it (and you were one of the people who
contributed).
If you felt it was inadequate, you
Nathan wrote:
My sense was that Nikola was using tl:dr to respond not to George's e-mail,
but to the process he described for creating a new page. I could be wrong,
though.
I wanted to say that due to the length of the text, new users' response
would likely be tl;dr. I haven't realized it
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Nathan wrote:
My sense was that Nikola was using tl:dr to respond not to George's e-mail,
but to the process he described for creating a new page. I could be wrong,
though.
I wanted to say that due to the length of the text, new users' response
would likely be
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Nikola Smolenski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Nathan wrote:
My sense was that Nikola was using tl:dr to respond not to George's e-mail,
but to the process he described for creating a new page. I could be wrong,
though.
I wanted to say that
2008/12/5 George Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think these are valid concerns about my idea.
I would respond with But you can always create pages the existing way 8-)
But some new users won't want that much framework either. I don't
know how many different methods/paths we can set up for
This [1] is the sort of thing I'm thinking about. David, has this been
proposed, discussed, modeled and rejected in the past? (It seems like it
must have, for something that is pretty common around the web).
[1]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Add_an_article_-_basic.JPG
Nathan
2008/12/5 Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This [1] is the sort of thing I'm thinking about. David, has this been
proposed, discussed, modeled and rejected in the past? (It seems like it
must have, for something that is pretty common around the web).
[1]:
We could just build the thing and then ask permission to put in the
link on the default UI..
Forgiveness easier than permission, etc etc.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:25 AM, David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/12/5 Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This [1] is the sort of thing I'm thinking
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, effe iets anders
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
More then 10 billion page views per month... (or 3900 page views per second)
24 hour average HTTP request rate is 46347. So thats 120,131,424,000
HTTP requests per
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM, David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Donate
4 million pictures
11 million pages
10 billion page views
Educating the world
I think this is really fantastic, by the way. The educating the
world has a lot
2008/12/5 Gregory Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think this is really fantastic, by the way. The educating the
world has a lot of resonance for me and people that I talk with about
Wikipedia.
How about:
11 million articles
150,000 volunteers
Your faith in humanity
-
Donate now
;-)
--
Erik
2008/12/3 Erik Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As per Michael's earlier e-mail:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_to_become_more_user-friendly_for_new_volunteer_writers
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Lolcat2.jpg
- d.
Brion Vibber wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, effe iets anders
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
More then 10 billion page views per month... (or 3900 page views per second)
24 hour average HTTP request rate is
Andrew Gray wrote:
268,000,000 contributions would be fun; probably ~500,000,000 for
all wikis put together.
We're now very close to a mathematical definition of the idiom my
two cents, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom)
If every one of these 268 million edits was followed by
McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month
Wikipedia: 275 million
'nuff said.
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
268,000,000 contributions would be fun; probably ~500,000,000 for
all wikis put together.
We're now very close to a mathematical definition of the idiom my
two cents,
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month
Wikipedia: 275 million
'nuff said.
That we're more addictive than fast food?
-Chad
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Welcome Naoko :)
I'm sure you will do a great job in your new position.
All the best,
James
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Erik Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring Naoko
Komura as Program Manager for the Stanton Foundation
Semantic Mediawiki and Semantic Forms are already high quality mediawiki
extensions that go along way towards usability and quality issues. They are
also free. I hope the Wikimedia Foundation plans to flex its muscle in
urging projects to adopt these extensions as a part of this larger goal,
2008/12/5 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Semantic Mediawiki and Semantic Forms are already high quality mediawiki
extensions that go along way towards usability and quality issues. They are
also free.
Hi Brian,
an environmental scan of available technologies is part of the
project plan. We're
2008/12/5 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Thank you Erik!
But I do not believe the potential scope of these two extensions has been
appropriately realized by the powers that be, otherwise the technologies
would have been put to a large scale trial sooner.
Up until July 2008, the paid technology team
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