Casey Brown wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:57 PM, effe iets anders
effeietsand...@gmail.com wrote:
Hm, btw, where was again that list with all incoming donations?
Lodewijk
There are many statistics pages, see the Contributions/Fundraiser
section on
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
I have submitted a new project proposal, at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Soviet_Repressions_Memorial
Isn't this the sort of thing we've been in the business of slowly
getting out of, with the move offsite of the September 11 memorial wiki?
The
It works and isn't terribly invasive, and realistically financial difficulty
will find sympathy right now. I think it's brilliant.
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Within the last 24 hours, we've raised a total of $283,859. That's
more than 10 times as much as we made during a typical weekday in the
last few days of the fundraiser, and the single highest day on record
for community
If the list is dead, it is because there is nothing to discuss at this
time. This isn't a forum. Someone will bring a new topic in as
appropriate, which is far preferable to trying to keep this list active
and clog our inboxes with less relevant discussions, surely?
Milos Rancic wrote:
2008/12/24 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com:
So, if not visibility, then what is really going on. In my opinion,
if you want someone to read something, personalizing it is a very good
idea. I think describing it as a personal message and putting a face
to it, provides engagement and gets
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 03:10, Delirium wrote:
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
I have submitted a new project proposal, at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Soviet_Repressions_Memorial
Isn't this the sort of thing we've been in the business of slowly
getting out of, with the move
Hoi,
Given that some of our Betawiki localisers have not provided us with their
e-mail address and given that this is an open call to contribute to our end
of your localisation effort, I forward this mail to you all.
Help us to end 2008 with a bang and in the process you can help yourself or
the
2008/12/24 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
Europeana (http://www.europeana.eu/) is working again. I think that it
has a lot of useful (PD) materials.
Looks like it *could* be an interesting project. Any pointers to good
places to start looking?
- d.
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 11:02, David Gerard wrote:
Yes. However, it could be a valuable wiki to create privately. Generic
hosting is (a) really cheap (b) often includes MediaWiki out the box.
The wiki is unlikely to be vastly overloaded, so cheap hosting would
do for a start.
See
On 12/24/08, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/24 Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com:
A project which is motivated in such a way cannot possibly be anything
else than biased...and indeed, the very concept of memorials is
biased: Why should we have a memorial of the victims of
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 24/12/2008 21:12:
Interesting material, definitely. But PD; I think not...
Europeana is only a portal and metadata search engine: content is
actually in other sites (e.g.:
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CPicZ.aspx?E=2C6NU045OU4Q), which terms
of use is relevant only.
New wikistats reports have been published today, for the first time since
May 2008. The reports have been generated on the new wikistats server
Bayes, which is operational since a few weeks. The dump process itself had
been restarted some weeks earlier, new dumps are now available for all 700+
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Thank you Erik!
Erik Zachte wrote:
New wikistats reports have been published today, for the first time since
May 2008. The reports have been generated on the new wikistats server
‘Bayes’, which is operational since a few weeks. The dump process
John:
For the Page Views data on some projects, the May data
looks unusually lower than the June data;
could it be that the May data isn't
a complete month for some projects?
Yes, that is indeed the case. I will omit the incomplete month on subsequent
reports.
Erik Zachte
Hi Brian, Brion once explained to me that the post processing of the dump is
the main bottleneck.
Compressing articles with tens of thousands of revisions is a major resource
drain.
Right now every dump is even compressed twice, into bzip2 (for wider
platform compatibility) and 7zip format (for
Also, I wonder if these folks have been consulted for their expertise in
compressing wikipedia data: http://prize.hutter1.net/
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
Interesting. I realize that the dump is extremely large, but if 7zip is
really the bottleneck
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a memorial
project for all disasters. I echo Mr. Bimmler in his concerns about the motives
behind this proposal.
From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
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On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:12, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a memorial
project for all disasters.
And what, in principle, is wrong with that?
--
Kurt Weber
http://blog.kurtweber.us
k...@kurtweber.us
2008/12/25 Erik Zachte erikzac...@infodisiac.com:
Hi Brian, Brion once explained to me that the post processing of the dump is
the main bottleneck.
Compressing articles with tens of thousands of revisions is a major resource
drain.
Right now every dump is even compressed twice, into bzip2
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Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:12, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a memorial
project for all disasters.
And what, in principle, is wrong with that?
Kurt, et
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a
memorial project for all disasters. I echo Mr. Bimmler in his
concerns about the motives behind this proposal.
I'm in some agreement here because my experience of UK charity law is that
it is not generally
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Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:43, Phil Nash wrote:
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have
a memorial project for all disasters. I echo Mr. Bimmler in
his concerns about
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:43, Phil Nash wrote:
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a
memorial project for all disasters. I echo Mr. Bimmler in his
concerns about the motives behind this proposal.
I'm in some
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
Interesting. I realize that the dump is extremely large, but if 7zip is
really the bottleneck then to me the solutions are straightforward:
1. Offer an uncompressed version of the dump for download. Bandwidth is
cheap and
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Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 19:25, Jon wrote:
I don't think it is something we should focus on. Let us focus
on our existing projects, perfect them. Reference my earlier
rationale.
Given that these are all volunteer
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Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:12, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a
memorial
project for all disasters.
And what, in principle, is wrong with that?
Kurt, et
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Fred Bauder wrote:
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Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:12, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have
a memorial project for all
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Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 19:25, Jon wrote:
I don't think it is something we should focus on. Let us focus
on our existing projects, perfect them. Reference my earlier
rationale.
Given that these are all
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world to collect and develop educational
content under a free license
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content or in the public
domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
The memorial
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
If we stood for something, it might serve to invigorate.
You mean, taking a particular political position? I don't see that in
the mission.
- d.
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2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Each of the millions who were starved, imprisoned, tortured, or killed
has a unique story. Each story is more significant and educational than a
Wikipedia article on Hitler or Stalin.
The same applies to the Sep11 wiki. Why was that moved
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a memorial
project for all disasters. I echo Mr. Bimmler in his concerns about the
motives behind this proposal.
I think half a dozen might do, one for the victims of Hitler, one for the
victims of Stalin, one for the victims of Pol
Hi Robert,
I'm not sure I agree with you..
(3 terabytes / 10 megabytes) seconds in days = 3.64 days
That is, on my university connection I could download the dump in just a few
days. The only cost is bandwidth.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed,
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David Gerard wrote:
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
If we stood for something, it might serve to invigorate.
You mean, taking a particular political position? I don't see that
in the mission.
- d.
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Oh, but we are, just by what we do. And the mass murders of the twentieth
century would have made short work of us. In fact, in the last regime
controlled by them Wikipedia is blocked.
Controlled by the Soviets, who I understand were the subject
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a memorial
project for all disasters. I echo Mr. Bimmler in his concerns about the
motives behind this proposal.
I think half a dozen might do, one for the victims of Hitler, one for
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
Hi Robert,
I'm not sure I agree with you..
(3 terabytes / 10 megabytes) seconds in days = 3.64 days
That is, on my university connection I could download the dump in just a few
days. The only cost is bandwidth.
While
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geni wrote:
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a
memorial project for all disasters. I echo Mr. Bimmler in his
concerns about the motives behind this proposal.
I think half
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Oh, but we are, just by what we do. And the mass murders of the
twentieth
century would have made short work of us. In fact, in the last regime
controlled by them Wikipedia is blocked.
Controlled by the Soviets, who I understand were the
2008/12/25 geni geni...@gmail.com:
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a memorial
project for all disasters. I echo Mr. Bimmler in his concerns about the
motives behind this proposal.
I think half a dozen might do, one
2008/12/25 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu:
But at least this would allow Erik, researchers and archivers to get the
dump faster than they can get the compressed version. The number of people
who want this can't be 100, can it? It would need to be metered by an API
I guess.
Maybe we can
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
I'm also curious, what is the estimated amount of time to decompress this
thing?
Somewhere around 1 week, I'd guesstimate.
-Robert Rohde
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2008/12/25 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2008/12/25 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu:
But at least this would allow Erik, researchers and archivers to get the
dump faster than they can get the compressed version. The number of people
who want this can't be 100, can it? It would need to be
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 20:30, David Gerard wrote:
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Hard to keep things straight isn't it when the object is to make a point.
I speak of Red China, still controlled by Mao's heirs.
Well, yes. (Who thankfully are not gross incompetents at
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 20:30, David Gerard wrote:
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Hard to keep things straight isn't it when the object is to make a point.
I speak of Red China, still controlled by Mao's heirs.
Well, yes. (Who
Hoi,
It is not one either. It has been said repeatedly that the process of a
straightforward back up is something that is done on a regular basis. This
however includes a lot of information that we do not allow to be included in
the data export that is made available to the public. So never mind
I agree. As I said before, where would this stop? Memorial sites for specific
incidents will lead to more and more requests. If we have one for an event, we
must have one for all.
From: Jon scr...@datascreamer.com
To: k...@kurtweber.us; Wikimedia Foundation
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