Hoi,
Consider the number of links that are possible from a travel experience to
an encyclopaedic experience .. !! Travelling has always been considered
educational.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 9 April 2012 18:39, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com wrote:
I think I would consider it educational.
Hoi,
The WikiData project is at first very much technical. Software is developed
and as the software gains a certain level of maturity, a community will
start to grow. This community will slowly but surely become integrated with
other Wikimedia projects.
At this stage all eyes are on Wikipedia
Hoi,
Commons as a project provides a service to any and all projects. It does
have its own community but as Commons is a shared resource it is similar
but not the same in its autonomy. This should be obvious .
Thanks,
Gerard
On 13 March 2012 08:23, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
Hoi,
When you consider that the current proposal is for a system where it takes
one click to see something anyway, I do think the notion that something is
not knowable is over the top.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 12 March 2012 14:07, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 March 2012 12:28,
it at that?
Thanks,
Gerard
On 12 March 2012 15:25, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 March 2012 13:55, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
When you consider that the current proposal is for a system where it
takes
one click to see something anyway, I do think
Hoi,
In the Netherlands we have our own bible belt.. it is not exclusive to the
USA
Thanks,
Gerard
On 12 March 2012 16:43, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
The bible belt phrase that some people throw around in this discussion is
just a stand-in for anti-Americanism and a sign of profound
Hoi,
This would in my opinion be more appropriate on the Wikipedia-l. This list
is for foundation related subjects.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 11 March 2012 12:19, Robert Alvarez vez...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone explain why Arbcom members are not required to refrain from
posting and responding
Hoi,
With all due respect, there are plenty of images that do not particularly
add to the sum of all wisdom. There are plenty of images in that category
that do not add anything at all to what is already there.
Commons has as its motto: a database of
:01, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.comwrote:
Am 09.03.2012 15:50, schrieb Thomas Morton:
On 9 March 2012 14:47, Tobias
Oelgartetobias.oelgarte@**googlemail.comtobias.oelga...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Am 09.03.2012 15:34, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
The question you have to ask
articles should we reach to apply
for the LangCom?
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BBzxiofuz4
Osmar Valdebenito Gaete
Presidente de Wikimedia Chile
http://www.wikimediachile.cl
2012/2/20 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
Hoi,
This sounds like a great initiative. I am sure
Hoi,
This sounds like a great initiative. I am sure that the language committee
will aim to help you as much as possible.
The language policy is designed to ensure that new projects have an optimal
chance of success. There are a few things that we require from you. They
are that you localise the
Hoi,
MediaWiki supports an input method for German in the Narayam extension.
There is no need for alt key codes typing German... This was possibly
created by Erik in anticipation of this need. Then again, it may be easier
to refer to him as Erik. When this is not precise enough you could add the
Hoi,
When you consider a new project, it is important to consider how it will
fit in. Just being able to have 3d images makes sense when people can view
them. Making them only available does not strike me as that interesting.
Working on such models is probably more interesting. The question then
Hoi,
I think we should not support Apple in breaking the standard and in
preventing us from using our work anywhere else. We take pride in being
freely licensed and there is no excuse for the walled garden approach taken
by Apple. There is also no excuse for us endorsing this behaviour.
Obviously
(almost all non-Apple) with no
problems. We've even turned some of them into interactive web pages.
I haven't heard of this software breaking the current standard so much as
further enabling HTML5 within it - but I could be wrong.
-greg
On Jan 25, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote
Hoi,
A comment section under every Wikipedia article seems to be a very bad
idea. You read a Wikipedia article to learn about the subject at hand, you
can read comments on the talk page. Reading the talk page only makes sense
when you are interested in learning more about what people have to say
Hoi,
It is nice but it is from English to Spanish and seriously, we support 280+
languages so it is interesting but not that relevant.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 16 January 2012 02:19, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I just found this today, from New Scientist: learn a language,
Hoi,
I felt inspired to write this ...
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/01/wikilivres.html
Thanks,
Gerard
On 13 January 2012 16:32, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
2012/1/9 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:22 AM, David Gerard
Hoi,
It was a bad plan to create a Wikipedia in all these languages. It is made
worse by not creating wikis that have an equivalent on any of the
other WMF projects. When you think that the other projects are treated
fairly, please reconsider. What is clear is that what I used to call the
other
Hoi,
Tim, how hard is it to create a missing DNS entry for a language code that
is eligible under the language policy?
Thanks,
Gerard
On 23 December 2011 01:24, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 23/12/11 09:44, Milos Rancic wrote:
This is great news! In the sense of
Hoi,
The category system is as far as I am concerned of little interest. It
is as far as I am concerned not helpful for Selecting one from a
bunch. It is a sick dog and it is in misery.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 14 October 2011 01:14, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
The term lumper and splitter are used for ages in the world of
nomenclature. Really it is more expressive and less officious.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 17 November 2011 01:03, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 November 2011 18:35, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
Sometimes
Hoi,
For reasons that are not in line with the policies of the language
committee, the board has refused to allow new projects in any of the Arabic
languages. The Language policy allows for this; the WMF board will decide
if it will allow a new project when there are issues, any issues. The
Hoi,
Apparently I do not suffer because as an admin I should know what RFC/U or
WP:WQA or RFA is. Or is it only when I meet people who know their acronyms
that I suffer ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 7 November 2011 13:48, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Does anyone feel that the Wikiquette is too
October 2011 12:17, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote:
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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:40:37 +0200
From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove
To: f
: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:05:37 +0100
From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Message-ID:
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Hoi,
I totally agree that Commons needs tagging and that such tagging will do
much more to help people find the illustrations they are looking for then
the current category and whatever system. WereSpielCheckers we agree on
this. Now let us concentrate on things where we can win.
When Commons has
Hoi,
Given that the English Wikipedia has a problem, its page views is going
down for instance, there is a well documented division between the oldies
and the newbies. There is a natural attrition as well as open conflict
resulting in their being not as many editors as there used to be.
Wikilove,
Hoi,
I am happy to make a distinction of what I do officially and what I say
because I am personally of a particular opinion. This is very much my
personal opinion.
There have been LOADS of opportunities where the community is asked, begged
to be involved in what will be the way forward. The most
Hoi,
I am here in Los Angeles with Amir. We have discussed the dead sea scrolls
extensively. We discussed transcription, fonts appropriate for such old
texts. The use of the text.
Do you believe that the suggestion for transcription was made by someone
from the museum at Wikimania? That Amit is
that browser language preferences and location are anything but a
surefire predictor of language preference.
2011/9/28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
Hoi,
Easy.. we recognise where someone is coming from ... check the browser
language and dependend on all this we serve what is likely
Hoi,
Today it is both Rosh Hashanah and the start of Dussehra. It is also the
first time that the Wikimedia Localisation team is coming together. We are
still waiting for Santhosh his flight has been delayed... We will be
planning what to do, when to do it and how we can get the most out of the
Hoi,
The main page at translatewiki.net is not less complicated imho. However, it
has been localised and we know quite precisely what the state of the
translations is. We can pinpoint precisely what needs doing.
Thanks,
GerardM
2011/9/27 とある白い猫 to.aru.shiroi.n...@gmail.com
Hoi,
The language policy does not allow for Wikipedia in extinct languages.
However, a Wikisource for the old Greek languages does make sense.
When such a Wikisource would be created, the user interface would by default
not be in modern Greek because more people study old Greek outside Greece
Hoi,
With the strategic plan it is clear and obvious that the WMF intends to
expand. It is clear that India and Brazil get serious attention. With the
creation of the localisation team there is now substantial attention for
language issues and language technology. This will make the technological
Hoi,
The argument for or against using ku.wikipedia.org are interesting but at
this time rather irrelevant.There is a long list of pending name changes
waiting to happen. Also we are quite happy to keep codes that are in fact
representing macro languages like ar or Arabic.
Thanks,
GerardM
Hoi,
Much of OpenStreetMap is localised at translatewiki.net ... A license can be
translated as well. Given that OSM is already done at twn, it is just
another addition.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 August 2011 00:30, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
openstreetmap tries to
Hoi,
There is fundraising together and there is fundraising perse. What is at
issue is that chapters are and have always been expected to disclose their
activities, providing financial statements. They are expected to be
accountable and many chapters have largely not been accountable.
The
Hoi,
There is nothing wrong with the term incubating; it indicates forcefully
that we want full projects in those languages. A test wiki is even more
ambiguous because we have things like test.wikis for new software.
Having a landing page with texts in languages that are likely to be
understood
Hoi.
The committee is doing its things. Working on archiving is peripheral to our
work and consequently the answer to your question is the committee working
has an unreserved YES.
Thanks,
GerardM
2011/8/10 Lucas Teles salvadore...@hotmail.com
I'm afraid you didn't get my questions.
Hoi,
Because nobody else is interested in doing this. He is a full member of the
language committee he does import data from Incubator into new projects. It
is known that he has been framed multiple times and it is proven
conclusively for the last time when this was attempted
For more
Hoi,
Macro languages are nicely defined. They are languages that used to be
recognised at one time as a single language but are found to be a
combination of multiple languages. Kicking the idea of macro-languages is
daft; it is not only a result of the work of SIL it is more the consequence
of the
Hoi,
So you understand what a macro language is. Why the kicking then ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 12 July 2011 10:59, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 08:03, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Macro languages are nicely defined. They are languages
Hoi,
If you do not trust the person involved, you are crazy to send him a copy of
your passport. This is a common sense. This policy as it obviously works..
what is really your issue ?
Do we really need a theoretical approach that only can bring us less
functionality ? I do not think so.
Thanks,
2011 13:27, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 28 June 2011 08:35, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
I have read the replies that are against social networking functionality.
In
my opinion you are all missing the point. Our projects are crowd sourced
, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi.
Wikipedia should be more like a social network. It provides us with the
opportunity to reach out to people when we want to crowd source some
activity. We have a problem in retaining people particular newbies. When
we
show a social side
Hoi.
Wikipedia should be more like a social network. It provides us with the
opportunity to reach out to people when we want to crowd source some
activity. We have a problem in retaining people particular newbies. When we
show a social side to our work on open content (not only encyclopaedic
Hoi,
Hear, hear !!
Thanks,
GerardM
On 25 June 2011 07:29, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
Sue Gardner writes:
Would inviting Matt to join create perception problems?
Probably not among external stakeholders because donors serving on
boards is fairly normal in non-profit land,
Hoi,
Studies are expensive, often a time waster. They provide some kind of
legitimacy and is asked for when you do not really want to accept a verdict
from someone else. The board has a function and it CAN make decisions. The
issue here is that exceptionally there are people who are poisonous and
Hoi,
It is the explicit goal of the Wikimedia Foundation to make information
available for as long as it exist. In addition to this, there are several
copies at the Internet Archive.
If there is no statement that satisfies your need, it will not be hard for
the WMF board to come up with one.
Hoi,
This is a sad day.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 2 June 2011 18:23, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
It is with considerable regret that I inform you of my planned departure
from the Wikimedia Foundation at the end of July. I’ve really enjoyed my
time here, and I’m proud of what
Hoi,
Having projects that rely on volunteers does not mean that what they do is
without consequence. The policy of the language committee insists on
requirements. They have to be met. One of the things we consider is the
involvement of native speakers ... In the language committee we are
Hoi,
Leave off. Foundation-l is a place where relevant subjects can be raised. It
is a place that has a bad reputation among some because of the aggressive
tone.
When Dror complains about stalking, it is a valid point of concern. It is
the reason why some people I admire left our community. When
Hoi,
Agreed.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 May 2011 10:38, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2011/5/22 Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com:
That said, to me, I don't see any stalking whatsoever. It is common when
investigating sockpuppets to send evidence privately to other
Hoi,
Please read about the Chinese language and writing system. It helps you to
understand.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 May 2011 18:42, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 5/22/2011 4:38:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
smole...@eunet.rs writes:
Aren't these languages written with
Hoi,
When you are uploading pictures the UploadWizard will provide the new
default interface. It has a much more intuitive interface and, you can
upload 10 pictures at a time.
Enjoy !! It is in my opinion a big step forward.
Thanks,
GerardM
___
Hoi,
The wp.org is probably for sale ... It makes more sense to acquire that
domain.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 8 May 2011 15:18, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote:
Back to the issue at hand though: Thomas is (quite generously)
offering the enwp.org domain. Would the foundation
Hoi,
Mike is a well know activist who promotes Open Source and Wikipedia in
Albania and Kosovo. People do know him and will find the information he
provides.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 25 April 2011 22:55, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Hi there,
look guys someone deleted my pages
Hoi,
The best thing regarding the Chinese Wikipedia is that the last few months
the traffic has been growing astoundingly. This to an extend where in
traffic Chinese is now the tenth wikipedia in traffic.
In the end it is not about Baidu, it is about bringing great NPOV
information to the
Hoi,
I am so bold and forward this message about our blog aggregator in
Spanish... It does need attention but I have no clue who to approach..
Thanks,
GerardM
-- Forwarded message --
From: Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com
I left a message on meta, but Ive gotten
Hoi,
Marion has not only been involved as a board member and the secretary of the
Dutch chapter, she has also been really successful working for Kennisnet
where she supported many educational projects that struggled to fit
MediaWiki in their plans. In addition to that she has worked for several
Hoi,
I am really happy to announce that the first Toolserver tools can now be
localised at translatewiki.net. Thanks to the hard work of Krinkle the first
tools make use of the Intuition messaging framework. People who know
Toolserver, will know that there are many useful tools that help
Hoi,
You do not ask a serious question on a day like today..
Thanks,
GerardM
On 1 April 2011 17:29, shi zhao shiz...@gmail.com wrote:
see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads#Status
The original LiquidThreads code has been substantially improved and
augmented by Andrew
Hoi,
They are national radio and television. They are particularly influential
with the young.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 March 2011 22:26, Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl
wrote:
See
Hoi,
I have asked women from different communities about this, I have asked men
from different communities about this. For some languages the compromise is
not one of selecting either but using unnatural language. For some languages
women indicate that not being addressed properly makes them less
Hoi,
I could not disagree more.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 21 March 2011 15:21, brock.wel...@gmail.com brock.wel...@gmail.comwrote:
It's a chicken and egg thing. The elections arent important so they dont
know about the candidates and they dont know about the candidates because
the elections not
...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 March 2011 15:26, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
I could not disagree more.
Can you elaborate? There isn't much point saying you disagree if you
don't say what you think the truth actually
Hoi,
One technical resource lacking is time. The 1.17 code is not stable enough
for a full release. There is a lot of code that wants to go into 1.18 and
until new releases are going to appear regularly a lot of stuff will
continue to wait for it to happen. At this moment the feet of the
Hoi,
Then it is both off topic and balderdash.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 21 March 2011 20:42, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 March 2011 19:27, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
The statements I reply to are balderdash. The board is relevant
Hoi,
The eo.ws is in the process of being created and sadly things do not
progress as hoped for. In the mean time a bug for the creation of the Greek
Wikinews has been added and we are in the process of approval for a new
Wikipedia.
As to Wikisource being a good start for a small language. I do
Hoi,
How about the 622 people registered as MediaWiki localisers. They make the
experience of the different language versions as good as it is.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_translators
On 20 March 2011 17:32, Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
When you look at the people who put themselves forward and stood in the
elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation in the past, those that
were chosen had a great resume of activities and known points of view before
they stood. Many of these people are known, well known,
As our
Hoi,
The lack of options to vote for makes it a biased attempt at strong arming
into a specific directions. In my opinion as it is flawed it is hardly
relevant.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 14 March 2011 07:21, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Liam Wyatt wrote:
I presume you are raising this
Hoi,
Who is going to reach out and ask for some photos that are giving to us
under a free license. Moaning does not help.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 13 March 2011 18:23, Hans A. Rosbach hans.a.rosb...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 March 2011 15:30, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13
. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:26:04 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
Who is going to reach out and ask for some photos that are giving to us
under a free license. Moaning does not help.
Thanks,
GerardM
I think
Hoi,
Amir wrote a text that I posted on my blog. He wants proper tooling on Meta
to do the translation of the survey. Personally I will not translate at Meta
because I find it horribly inefficient.
My question to Mani is, can you PLEASE take up the suggestion of using the
existing and available
Hoi,
So far the balance has been seriously wrong. Because of the underinvestment
many of our Wikipedias are not doing as well as they should. There are for
instance technical solutions to give many of the Indian language Wikipedias
the traffic back they lost.
As this is not considered as a
Hoi,
As far as I am concerned, there are so many things we could do if we had the
capacity that would still only be about enabling our communities to write
their Wikipedia in their language. There are development projects that will
not benefit all our projects.
We are still at a stage where there
Hoi,
The notion that everyone working on Wikipedia and MediaWiki is a volunteer
is a fallacy.
The one thing I have been advocating is that the different languages and
scripts are performing technically on a level playing field. This is not the
case and there is a lot that can be achieved with
2011 21:48, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
The notion that everyone working on Wikipedia and MediaWiki is a
volunteer
is a fallacy.
The one thing I have been advocating is that the different languages and
scripts are performing technically on a level playing field
Hoi,
Innovation happens often under the radar screen. At translatewiki.net we
frequently have people request features that are necessary to properly
express the user interface in their language. This steady trickle make
MediaWiki one of the best applications when it comes to
Internationalisation,
Hoi,
I am really happy to announce that the Narayam extension is installed and
running at translatewiki.net. Currently it provides input methods for the
Malayalam and Bangla languages. It has been enabled so that Narayam can be
tested both for its functionality and for these input methods. We
Hoi,
If a copyright holder makes something available under a particular license,
it is made available in a particular way. Yes you can for instance print or
do whatever with what is provided, but you cannot claim the same right on
the same object in a higher resolution.
A license is given for
guess my email is only leading to different side tracks.
Best regards,
Lodewijk
2011/2/23 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
Hoi,
If a copyright holder makes something available under a particular
license,
it is made available in a particular way. Yes you can for instance print
Hoi,
You are correct :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On 24 February 2011 00:50, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 06:55, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com
wrote:
One thought occurred to me:
Hoi,
There are no benefits to indicate gender for the English language at the
moment. There is for Russian and the consequence is obvious. There is no
reason to believe that there is any other reason for there being more women
in the ru.wp then there being a benefit.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 21
doesn't fulfill the
condition, they had to use another wiki engine I am afraid.
Greetings
Ting
On 16.02.2011 19:49, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
Given that Unites States government agencies do use MediaWiki, it is
quite a
relevant question. Given that we provide such an important
Hoi,
In Berlin, in parallel to the MediaWiki http://mediawiki.org/ hackathon,
members of the language
committeehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committeeof the
Wikimedia
Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/ will meet for a first time in
real life.
As I read the roster of the people
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
Hoi,
What IS a VPAT for 508 in the first place ?
Thanks,
Gerard
On 16 February 2011 18:16, McGuire, Jill jill.mcgu...@opm.gov wrote:
Does Wikimedia have a VPAT for 508 compliance?
Thanks,
Jill McGuire
USOPM/HRS/LTMS/HRMS/TOOLSTECH/QA - Macon, GA | 478.744.2374 |
aims well when we achieve
highly in this respect.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 16 February 2011 19:43, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
What IS a VPAT for 508 in the first place ?
Thanks,
Gerard
See
Hoi,
Eh? When Wikipedia is to comply with this, technically it will be in
MediaWiki where such compliance is realised. Also MediaWiki is a Wikimedia
Foundation project in its own right.
Many people who read this list, including me, find this a subject that is
absolutely on topic. Even stronger, I
Hoi,
Would it be possible to add other Wikipedia languages... I would not only
welcome Dutch :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On 15 February 2011 14:15, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote:
This is really interesting.
Do tyou think is it possible to have similar stats also for sister projects
Hoi,
So far I knew that the Slavic languages need support to properly address
women. I just learned that the Indic languages also differentiate between a
male and a female user (inlike English). To top it off, Hindi has a form for
inanimate objects. I do not think that we need to go as far and
Hoi,
Could you share with us what university or school you are studying ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 13 February 2011 16:44, Jeroen Kleijn jeroenkl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
You are being invited to complete an online questionnaire concerning
your attitudes and ideology related to Wikipedia.
Hoi,
In English the word User does not indicate if it is male or female, The
word Gebruiker or Benutzer do; the female form is Gebruikster or
Benutzerin. It is with pleasure that I learned that Nikerabbit has written
the code that allows for those languages where there is both a male and a
female
Hoi,
Even better then URL shorteners is the presentation of the URL in Unicode.
This will make the URL readable, memorable and guessable. It may be that
this has everything to do with the browser that is used.. It is certainly a
good reason to select one browser over an other.
Hoi,
What would more notice achieve ?
The process of installing release 1.17 is important. It did not succeed for
now but I hope it will be tried again when feasible. There are improvements
in 1.17 where people have been waiting for for a long time.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 8 February 2011
Hoi,
The Ada initiative is something you may want to learn about ...
PS you know what Ada they are referring to I am sure ...
Thanks,
GerardM
http://adainitiative.org/http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3923936_1/Ada-Initiative-Supports-Women-in-Open-Source-Counters-
Hoi,
The milk has spilled so it is time to mop up. As we gain more experience, we
learn that having new wikis is often a bad idea in the long run.
We live we learn..
Thanks,
GerardM
On 31 January 2011 14:25, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 20:33, phoebe
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