Re: [Foundation-l] Policies on wikimediafoundation.org

2012-01-21 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
the licensing policy) and staff policies (like the credit card usage policy): https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:Policy-board . -- Yours cordially, Jesse (Pathoschild) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Translatewiki illustrates how low internationalisation is in the priorities of the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-01-27 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
the MediaWiki namespace, the same way it has always been done. This change will not be available to other wikis, and the message will no longer be updated from Translatewiki. -- Yours cordially, Jesse (Pathoschild) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Four new language editions of Wikimedia projects

2010-10-17 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
Wikinews at http://fa.wikinews.org. The Gagauz/gagauzça Wikipedia has also been approved and is only awaiting final details (logo, namespace translation, etc) before creation. (As usual, this is a personal message and not an official language committee announcement.) -- Yours cordially, Jesse

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-26 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
. Any comments from Gerard or I are our personal comments. -- Yours cordially, Jesse (Pathoschild) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of experts, mostly from similar

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
local blocks will still be used when necessary to globally suppress attacks names. -- Yours cordially, Jesse (Pathoschild) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-29 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
and gained widespread support in the local wiki community. -- Yours cordially, Jesse (Pathoschild) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-29 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
(My last message incorrectly insinuates Nihonjoe himself is a paedophile, due to momentary confusion when I was writing it. Disregarding that, my arguments remain.) -- Yours cordially, Jesse (Pathoschild) On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild) pathosch...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Foundation-l] Greek Wikinews Proposal

2009-03-23 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
Crazy Lover always_yours.fore...@yahoo.com wrote: For GerardM, Pathoschild or another langcom member. Can someone of you make a unofficial analysis page of this proposal? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Greek Done. -- Yours cordially, Jesse

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

2009-02-26 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
Hello, There have been a lot of points raised, so I'll answer a few generally. (All messages from committee members, including this one, are personal messages and don't represent the committee.) New simple-language wikis will not be created under the current policy, simply because the policy

[Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

2009-02-08 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
Hello, This is a summary of the steward elections and confirmations so far. The elections are open February 1 to 22, at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2009 and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/confirm respectively. 902 unique users have participated in the elections

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility at wikinews [en] warning: contains rant

2009-02-05 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Civility, or more properly abusive editors, is not a petty problem. If I had Jimbo's God-Emperor powers several existing WP users would be walked out the door and invited to not come back, on the grounds that they are persistently abusive and