Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-11 Thread Mike Dupont
Well thanks for the invite, and I voted. Same here two invites, and also I got the mail a little late, cause the voting is already half over. I blogged about this as well http://undeletewikipedia.blogspot.com/2011/06/funny-voting-for-wikimedia-board-of.html mike On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:00

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-11 Thread Fajro
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Election committee did what is in their power to increase participation. That's sad. :( -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-11 Thread Jyothis E
Dear fellow Wikimedians, With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0 at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital collection of free books in Malayalam language

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-11 Thread Béria Lima
2011/6/11 Fajro fai...@gmail.com On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Election committee did what is in their power to increase participation. That's sad. why try to increase participation is sad, Fajro? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-11 Thread Fajro
2011/6/11 Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com: why try to increase participation is sad, Fajro? The lousy performance of the committee is sad. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Fajro, 11/06/2011 19:13: 2011/6/11 Béria Limaberial...@gmail.com: why try to increase participation is sad, Fajro? The lousy performance of the committee is sad. What did /you/ do? Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikis around Europe!

2011-06-11 Thread emijrp
Hi. I forward this e-mail, I hope there are people interested on this map. -- Forwarded message -- From: emijrp emi...@gmail.com Date: 2011/6/11 Subject: Wikis around Europe! To: wikiteam-disc...@googlegroups.com Hi all; A friend of mine has sent me this link about wikis

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikis around Europe!

2011-06-11 Thread Juliana da Costa José
Wow, very interesting. But there are not allready all Wikis inside. I know especially from Germany two, three RegioWikis who are missing. How the tool is working? Juliana 2011/6/11 emijrp emi...@gmail.com Hi. I forward this e-mail, I hope there are people interested on this map. --

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-11 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Congratulations and Kudos! Another really great effort! Excellent collection all in one CD. And thanks for continuing to raise the bar. Best regards Arun On 11-Jun-2011, at 10:31 PM, Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear fellow Wikimedians, With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-11 Thread emijrp
Creating an offline version of a wiki project is a hard work. Keep up the good work! Congratulations! : ) P.D.: downloading... 2011/6/11 Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com Dear fellow Wikimedians, With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project Selected Books

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-11 Thread Sarah
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 21:03, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 10/06/2011 5:55 PM, Sarah wrote: [...] that the software is actively inviting all accounts that meet those requirements, it means we're alerting all the socks that they're able to vote. They might otherwise not even

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-11 Thread Sarah
Also, looking at the elections e-mail again, it links to a page that, so far as I can see, doesn't tell people where to go to vote, except for those most active on meta. Sarah ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sarah, 11/06/2011 21:54: Also, looking at the elections e-mail again, it links to a page that, so far as I can see, doesn't tell people where to go to vote, except for those most active on meta. It says «Go to the wiki page Special:Securepoll on one wiki you qualify to vote from». Could be

Re: [Foundation-l] About the low-hanging fruit

2011-06-11 Thread Samuel Klein
There is certainly a lot of low hanging fruit. I don't think we've covered more than a few percent of the topics currently considered notable. We still have a factor of 10 or more to grow covering things that others have already included in existing summaries and references. But the parallel to

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

2011-06-11 Thread Samuel Klein
James - Wiki Edit is pretty nice. Is this a one-man project by Don Kosak? On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes I eventually found that app.  And it is much superior to editing from the browser. But it doesn't support ProofreadPage extension. Still between the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

2011-06-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 June 2011 00:27, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: You are third person to respond as if my email was about me personally looking for help editing. And the second to snip my writing out of all context.  Steven seemed to actually get what my concern was.  You can hate whatever you like,

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

2011-06-11 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:55 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: This is the actual problem. What would happen to a Bugzilla entry flagging systemic problems of the sort Birgitte flags? It would get marked INVALID in short order. I'm not sure this is true. What about a Bugzilla tag

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikis around Europe!

2011-06-11 Thread Harald Haugland
There is a regional wiki in Norway called Setesdalswiki. It has about 1350 articles about people, nature and culture i Setesdal, a region in the mountains of Southern Norway just north of Kristiansand. http://www.setesdalswiki.no/wiki/Hovedside It would be nice to have this wiki on the map.