Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

2008-12-11 Thread Milos Rancic
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Angela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: example to see what happens to the {{sandbox}} template. Wikia has been working on WYSIWYG for a long time now, and I hope the code that is available at http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be useful to

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

2008-12-11 Thread Angela
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Milos Rancic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be Is it a MediaWiki fork or just an extension? If it is a fork, up to which extent it is compatible with the main MediaWiki? If it is an extension, where is

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

2008-12-11 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Angela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Milos Rancic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be Is it a MediaWiki fork or just an extension? If it is a fork, up to which extent it is

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki (usability) summer - like google summer of code?

2008-12-11 Thread Tim Starling
THURNER rupert wrote: hi, on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2008 there was a statement that such efforts are restricted by mentoring-manpower. now that there are real people and a budget dedicated to improve usability, could it make sense to leverage that effort by bounties

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

2008-12-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is a question in the wrong order, the first question should be do you think that the WMF projects will benefit from this. The second question would be what does it take to make this happen. Wikia has had much more incentive to concentrate on usability. It has many wikis that demonstrate

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

2008-12-11 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a question in the wrong order, the first question should be do you think that the WMF projects will benefit from this. The second question would be what does it take to make this happen. Wikia has had much more

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki (usability) summer - like google summer of code?

2008-12-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Last year Nikerabbit was enrolled in a Finnish Summer of Code project. He did a ton of great work for Betawiki as part of this project. The Liquid Threads project was a GSOC project. It is used by the WikiEducator project and as such I would rate it successful. When you look at our own

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

2008-12-11 Thread Milos Rancic
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Platonides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It surprised me that the jargon didn't mention the really wikimedian terms: AGF, RFA, NPV, NOR, NLT, BLP, NPA, AFD, db... After IAR and BOLD, you're blocked for NPA and NLT on a BLP article where you didn't follow NPV,

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki (usability) summer - like google summer of code?

2008-12-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you consider that the WMF and its projects have not benefited from Betawiki and its functionality, then you prove again for how little internationalisation and localisation count within MediaWiki development. Consistently you will find Siebrand or Nikerabbit as top developers for

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation applauds IWF decision to reverse Wikipedia censorship in the United Kingdom

2008-12-11 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/11 Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org: And sometimes even pluralized, like I was searching through your internets intarwebs, get it right! - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation applauds IWF decision to reverse Wikipedia censorship in the United Kingdom

2008-12-11 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/11 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:44 PM, KillerChihuahua pu...@killerchihuahua.comwrote: Don't forget intranets. Hehe, this is a real one. Intranet is just a private network, so there actually are quite a few intranets out there :) Back in the good old

Re: [Foundation-l] Some Ideas About Technical Stuff/Community Relations Improvements

2008-12-11 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brion Vibber wrote: Please see my reply on wikitech-l. :) Archive link: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-December/040611.html (Cross-posting is great for announcements, but trouble for discussions... :D) - -- brion -BEGIN

[Foundation-l] Categorization of Bundesarchiv pictures

2008-12-11 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, We now see that there are much more non German persons on the pictures from Bundesarchiv. Please have a look and help us with the categorization. You may start from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_German_Federal_Archive and have a look by year or searching via

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki (usability) summer - like google summer of code?

2008-12-11 Thread Tim Starling
Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, When you consider that the WMF and its projects have not benefited from Betawiki and its functionality, then you prove again for how little internationalisation and localisation count within MediaWiki development. Consistently you will find Siebrand or Nikerabbit

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

2008-12-11 Thread Milos Rancic
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2008/12/3 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2008/11/3 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: More information will follow later this month as we develop