On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Christine Moellenberndt
cmoellenber...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am loathe to dive in here, since it was my post that kind of
kick-started this whole thing and I certainly don't want to draw any
more fire to be honest. But I also feel loathe to stay away,
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Christine Moellenberndt
cmoellenber...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am loathe to dive in here, since it was my post that kind of
kick-started this whole thing and I certainly don't want to draw any
more fire to be honest.
Don't worry you didn't kick start anything,
Hoi,
Communication is why I am absolutely happy when I find someone from the
staff doing his or her thing on meta or foundation-l. When you compare that
to the separation between the professionals and the community that is the
result of the many private ways of communicating.
Why for instance is
I stayed at the WMF offices a couple of months ago and checking out this gap
was one of the aims of my visit. It was quite an eye opener.
Although WMF staff can learn to communicate better, the position seems to be
that the community grossly under-estimates what they are doing, their
competence,
- Original Message
From: Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wed, February 16, 2011 11:07:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)
On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:00 AM, MZMcBride
On 17 February 2011 08:47, Christine Moellenberndt
(and by the way, this is just little me with a cat on her lap
talking, not WMF employee talking)
Something which might be worth bearing in mind is that (sfaiaa!) everyone
involved with the projects - staff and volunteer alike - use a
+1 Thanks, Thomas :)
2011/2/16 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
I preffer wp.org (if is possible) to make internationalization easier.
So to
en.wiki would be en.wp.org, de.wiki de.wp.org and etc.
That would be a good
On 16/02/11 23:06, Moka Pantages wrote:
If WMF want enwp.org I will gladly hand it over.
Thank you for running this service! I use it all the time for including
wikipedia links in Twitter.
It would be nice if it was officially supported by WMF or you were given
resources necessary to
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Alison M. Wheeler
wikime...@alisonwheeler.com wrote:
On 17 February 2011 08:47, Christine Moellenberndt
(and by the way, this is just little me with a cat on her lap
talking, not WMF employee talking)
Something which might be worth bearing in mind is
Oh Congratulations to Mr. Mundol.
Don't forget to pass on my regards to Mr. Achal Prabhala.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:32 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Barry Newstead wrote:
As I have mentioned in the
One suggestion I made was that, since communication between office and
community is so critical, it might be worth the foundation employing one
person at the office purely for community/office liaison (via this list,
on
Meta, etc). In other words their role is to be at the office and
On 2/17/11 9:23 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
Yes, worthwhile, although this list would be only a minor part of such
monitoring. An experienced Wikipedian needs to monitor the mailing lists,
Village Pump, requests for arbitration, and the administrative
noticeboards regularly and prepare a brief
i (sic) also noticed the grammar.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Christine Moellenberndt
cmoellenber...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The answer is, to the best of our knowledge, no. But we'd like to
improve that.
i took it
On 2/17/11 8:29 AM, whothis wrote:
If someone asks a question in a
conference publicly, you can't take them aside and answer individually and
expect that to satisfy the rest of the audience.
Actually, I'd like to beg to differ here. I have been to conferences
where questions have been
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Not quite so. I've just been working at the community department and
indeed, it does include quite a large proportion from the community. When
I
was there, Steve Walling was around, two people from Russian community were
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Christine Moellenberndt
cmoellenber...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/17/11 8:29 AM, whothis wrote:
If someone asks a question in a
conference publicly, you can't take them aside and answer individually
and
expect that to satisfy the rest of the audience.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Christine Moellenberndt
cmoellenber...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/17/11 9:23 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
Yes, worthwhile, although this list would be only a minor part of such
monitoring. An experienced Wikipedian needs to monitor the mailing lists,
Village
On 16/02/11 21:37, Thomas Wang wrote:
If WMF want enwp.org I will gladly hand it over.
Can we please stop multiplying the number of domains? Although the
registration is cheap, the administration overhead is not that cheap.
I also find it dilutes the power of the Wikipedia brand.
The '140
Hi,
probably a lot of people know http://www.khanacademy.org . Really cool
stuff, that could potentially be a great base for Wikibooks etc, and
Wikimedia could possibly be a great help in getting stuff translated,
subtitled etc. However, it is NC-licensed.
Did anyone ever have contact with
- Original Message
From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 11:23:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)
One suggestion I made was that, since
On 17 February 2011 18:49, whothis whoth...@gmail.com wrote:
All that seems rather useless for the most part, I doubt anything from an
RfA or the AN/I has been brought up this list.
WT:RFA tends to be pretty wide ranging and WP:AN/I is one of the
places major flareups can begin (although I
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