Fred Bauder wrote:
I must agree with Mr Gerard, and taking that position, or any position
by the Foundation is a road I don't want to see WMF go down. I don't
want WMF to alienate anyone... anyone. The information must be free,
and global. For everyone.
Please don't intrepet this message
Fred Bauder 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 think half a dozen might do, one for the victims of Hitler, one for the
victims of Stalin,
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
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
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
I fail to see how simply presenting a list of peoples' names and telling
their
stories constitutes taking partisan sides in political disputes. It's
educating people about the impact of these events, plain and simple.
If we cannot present the personal tragedy
Fred Bauder wrote:
Can you and Kurt come up with a proposal that doesn't abandon our
fabulously useful and marketable air of neutrality?
Yes, good thought, I think we could. After all, it is a sort of cemetery.
Maybe it would be better to start the project on Wikia. That would
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
Can you and Kurt come up with a proposal that doesn't abandon our
fabulously useful and marketable air of neutrality?
Yes, good thought, I think we could. After all, it is a sort of cemetery.
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Can you and Kurt come up with a proposal that doesn't abandon our
fabulously useful and marketable air of neutrality?
Yes, good thought, I think we could. After all, it is a sort of cemetery.
I suspect it would turn into a universal
2008/12/25 Ian A. Holton poe...@gmail.com:
I do however believe that such a project is a good idea and also believe
that it being hosted outside of the WMF might even be benefitial and might
even be worth an organisation itself if the scope is extended to cover more
than just the victims of
There is something seriously wrong with the figures for some wikipedias in
the new wikistats reports. The figures for some wikis are much too low. When
comparing csv files (raw counts) produced in May 2008 and produced recently
it is quite easy to tell the difference. For some wikis the data for
2008/12/25 Ian A. Holton poe...@gmail.com:
I do however believe that such a project is a good idea and also
believe
that it being hosted outside of the WMF might even be benefitial and
might
even be worth an organisation itself if the scope is extended to cover
more
than just the victims
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Can you and Kurt come up with a proposal that doesn't abandon our
fabulously useful and marketable air of neutrality?
Yes, good thought, I think we could. After all, it is a sort of
cemetery.
I suspect it would turn into a universal
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
I fail to see how simply presenting a list of peoples' names and
telling their
stories constitutes taking partisan sides in political disputes.
It's
educating people about the impact of these events, plain and simple.
If we cannot present the personal tragedy of
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:09 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
On Thursday 25 December 2008 03:34, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
I fail to see how simply presenting a list of peoples' names and telling
their stories constitutes taking partisan sides in political disputes.
It's educating people about the impact of these events, plain
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