Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009-10-09 Thread Happy-melon
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote in message news:4ac226e2.7010...@gmail.com... Indeed I fully agree that ensuring that using the extension on massively edited pages is something that works fine, is entirely prudent; whereas ensuring perfect functionality for the full force of

Re: [Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

2009-07-19 Thread Happy-melon
IANAL, but I don't think I need to be to say the The Foundation is not in legal jeopardy here unless it chooses to be. It's protected by a four-thousand-mile moat, a war of independence, several layers of legal code and a US Supreme Court decision. It doesn't have any assets in the UK as far

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices andsystems

2009-07-19 Thread Happy-melon
We need to think a little bit outside the box, here; this domain should really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites. http://www.wm.org is only occupied by a websquatter at the moment, AFAICT; I think a schema like http://wm.org/wiki_code/article_title or

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 63, Issue 39

2009-06-15 Thread Happy-melon
Something tells me that this was put back and forth through a machine translator... :-D --HM Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote in message news:41a006820906150349r26bb0335ve99c0dd42130...@mail.gmail.com... Hoi, It would be nice if you rephrase this. I do not have a clue what

Re: [Foundation-l] pt:wiki policies

2009-06-07 Thread Happy-melon
Yes, that's definitely true. But our ultimate guiding principle is the greater good of the project. Anyone can edit should apply to, as you say, anyone who is prepared to work constructively with the project, regardless of any disability (we take great pains, for instance, to make pages

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third partycompanies #2

2009-06-06 Thread Happy-melon
bug18898 (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18898) is relevant, both in the technical response proposed, which is more appropriate for the parallel wikitech-l thread, and in that the wiki in question is frwiki. The external URL linked (http://pacli.appspot.com/posterstats/tick)

Re: [Foundation-l] pt:wiki policies

2009-06-05 Thread Happy-melon
The Wikimedia wikis are, ultimately, private websites, owned and operated by the Foundation. That the software they run happens to allow millions of users the ability to make changes to said site is ultimately just fortunate coincidence: the ability to edit Wikimedia wikis is a privilege, not