On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:18:03 +, Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:05 AM, H hillgentle...@gmail.com wrote:
Brian,
It is usually the responsibility of the proposer to notify the
community. I am very surprised that no one did.
Er, the community was
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Brian Salter-Duke b_d...@bigpond.com.auwrote:
They know about it because of [[Template:Bulletin/News]] on Simple. As
far as I can see the place(s) that this is transcuded are the only
places. The question however is how does a Simple WP editor who never
2009/2/23 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
The discussion has to
take place somewhere, meta seems the best option (the only obvious
alternative is to have closure discussions on the project in question,
but that would
Proposals to close Simple English projects are like the perennial proposals
of Wikipedia: not going to happen. As long as a project has an active
community, there really is no good reason to close a project. OK, Simple
English might not meet current standards for language, but it has an active
This is wrong; the Siberian Wikipedia had an active userbase but was
closed because it was deemed to be in a fake language.
Mark
skype: node.ue
2009/2/23 Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com:
Proposals to close Simple English projects are like the perennial proposals
of Wikipedia: not
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
This is wrong; the Siberian Wikipedia had an active userbase but was
closed because it was deemed to be in a fake language.
As long as a project has an active community, there really is no good reason
to close a
That may be your opinion, but that doesn't mean it can't be done,
hasn't been done before, or won't be done again.
Mark
skype: node.ue
2009/2/23 Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
This is wrong; the Siberian
Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
However my central point that a discussion of something as important as
closing one of our most important projects in a way that few know about
it remains. The !vote is 42:102. We get more at en:WP on a RFA.
A further argument against having this principally discussed
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
A further argument against having this principally discussed on Meta is
that those who are best served by Simple do not have the language skills
to participate fully in a discussion where there is unlimited use of
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
A further argument against having this principally discussed on Meta is
that those who are best served by Simple do not have the language skills
to participate fully in a discussion where there is unlimited use of
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
The question of how such a discussion would be closed is what concerns me
the most - I can't see allowing a meta bureaucrat to close such a poll
(which is what we would do in en.wp), and since the Foundation would have
to
make
2009/2/23 Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
The question of how such a discussion would be closed is what concerns me
the most - I can't see allowing a meta bureaucrat to close such a poll
(which is what we would do in
I'm not familiar with the details of the data dump process, so I can't
comment on whether it's broken or not.
However, one question that I have is whether the dump includes, or should
conclude, all namespaces, or only articles. In the past, there have
allegedly been instances in which database
2009/2/23 Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkb...@gmail.com:
I'm not familiar with the details of the data dump process, so I can't
comment on whether it's broken or not.
It's broken, I don't think there is any dispute there.
However, one question that I have is whether the dump includes, or
2009/2/23 Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkb...@gmail.com:
However, one question that I have is whether the dump includes, or should
conclude, all namespaces, or only articles. In the past, there have
allegedly been instances in which database dumps have been utilized for
purposes such as
Actually, I was thinking primarily of userspace.
Newyorkbrad
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:44 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/2/23 Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkb...@gmail.com:
However, one question that I have is whether the dump includes, or should
conclude, all namespaces,
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:44 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/2/23 Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkb...@gmail.com:
However, one question that I have is whether the dump includes, or should
conclude, all namespaces, or only articles. In the past, there have
allegedly been
2009/2/23 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:44 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
The value of providing good dumps is forkability, in case WMF is hit
by a meteor, hit by a legal meteor, goes collectively insane, etc.
Imagine trying to fork Wikipedia without being
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:01:11AM -0800, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
However my central point that a discussion of something as important as
closing one of our most important projects in a way that few know about
it remains. The !vote is 42:102. We get more at en:WP on a
Copying the Commons list.
I am interested in hosting (and running some scripts on) copies of the
commons media dump on offline regional servers for offline-reading
purposes. This is difficult without an image dump.
The last time I looked, I was able to find an image dump from 2007?
Now I have a
2009/2/22 River Tarnell ri...@loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk:
currently the dump process is a bit broken. what is the Foundation's position
on this?
Making the full history dump process scale to en.wp, and dumps more
reliable in general, is a high priority project. It was assigned to
Ariel,
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