On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
The answer, evidently, is not as much as Bing -
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2161910/Bing-Not-Google-Favors-Wikipedia-More-Often-in-Search-Results-Study
Thought people might find it interesting :)
No question
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa
http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0112/morningtech377.html
Interesting. Any details?
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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I'm worried that we may be getting
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Jan Kučera, 31/12/2011 01:52:
I see following wikis hold secred information:
http://internal.wikimedia.org
http://office.wikimedia.org
http://board.wikimedia.org
Try harder:
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Patricio Molina
patriciomol...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote:
That page seems to be incomplete. I know for sure of some private
wikis not listed
Are you talking about http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org wrote:
2) A conspiracy to push Wikipedia at the expense of the sister projects
In regards to #1, although I'm somewhat aware of the discussions
around the image filter, this is not affecting how we are approaching
this
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
ASK THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.
Damn. Joke fail.
-Sarah
Emijrp has a valid point.
We routinely dismiss this kind of bogus claims of copyright from museums
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http://drini.mx
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2011/3/8 Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com:
Lo sentimos, pero el Inglés es el idioma principal en esta lista.
:Not only is english the main idioma, dare I say the only one (any
thread started on another language would raise complains and quickly
turned into english)
2011/3/8 Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:55 PM, MARIA DE LOS ANGELES HERRERA GARCIA
meriaherre...@live.com.mx wrote:
NO ENTIENDO INGLES . POR FAVOR ESPAÑOL...GRACIAS
Hola, Maria,
Hablamos inglés en esta lista. Quizás usted prefiere la lista de la
Wikipedia en
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote:
As Wikimedia's paid staff continues to grow, the decision to move to San
Francisco (and its consequences) actually gets amplified, doesn't it? It
would only be offset by the benefits that Wikimedia gets for being in
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yes, that was what we were said several years ago
and I think now there's ample evidence to show it was true, look at
all the partnerships and support we got
I presume you meant that sarcastically?
I don't know
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Teofiloteofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Mexico switched from PD to CC-BY-NC-ND in 2006 (1)
Argentina from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC some time in 2009-2011 (2)
Brazil removed CC-BY-SA altogether
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:22 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The part where adding this person leads to better content? Wikimedia's
mission is to educate the world with free content. I'm not sure how a
Propaganda Minister really furthers that goal. There is a very finite amount
of
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:56 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 February 2011 03:55, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Expanding the identification policy without a thorough grounding risks
it turning into worse security theatre - a completely lost purpose.[1]
[1]
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Ting Chen tc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedia community and friends:
I am very pleased to present the summary report of the Wikimedia
Foundation's five-year strategic plan: our first-ever such plan,
developed through a transparent collaborative process
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
You make some good points, but err in several respect: We don't, and
can't limit hiring to seasoned Wikipedians, and there are quite a few
seasoned Wikipedians who are behind Sue with respect to this issue. As to
the 9
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:49 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
We have heard a great deal lately about a gender gap. Is there really a
gender gap? With 93% of editor not marking there gender known per
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-14/News_and_notes
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/sandbox.4/Special:Contributions/213.5.64.179
I don't know why SUL doens't work there
I can't find the proper database suffix on
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/all.dblist
Therefore I can't grant me sysop bit there to do somethign
So... to anyone who actually have
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:26 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
The prototypes are designed not to be added to SUL, so that won't be
happening.
-Peachey
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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 off-list as it seemed to be a question that was more
Media-Wiki centered, and not as much Foundation centered.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
While I sympathize that people think this issue should be discussed here, it
is a direct question to the Wikimedia Foundation from a government official,
and it needs to be responded to by the WMF. While the post wound up here
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
The discussion has only been going on at the OTRS list sine February 1st. I
know a public announcement is coming because it's standard operating
procedure at the Foundation. Please be patient.
at the english otrs
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
(...)
So users are requested to either
* Let awkward translations go on being displayed on their language
version of Wikipedia
* Or open an account on a non-Wikimedia project, which means providing
non-Wikimedia managers
I just found
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_of_Online_Interactions_and_Behavior
and it repeats a lot it's supported by the Foundation
where can I learn more about it, since it says participants will earn money?
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2011/1/19 Colombia Pérez Muñoz colombia.pe...@ucc.edu.co:
Hola: soy candidata al doctorado en Sociedad del Conocimiento y la
informaciòn de la Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, mi tesis se llama wikis
para la gestión del conocimiento en la universidad. Trabajo en la
Universidad Cooperativa
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
Why are you saying the staff answer is wrong? If staff says use
le...@wikimedia.org why are you changing it?
Best,
Huib
wasn't legal-en@ about english queries?
in any case, it makes more sense to have legal@ for a
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
By shading his radicalism and collaborating with mainstream outlets, Mr.
Assange created a comfort zone for his partners in journalism. They could
do their jobs and he could do his.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado v...@fct.unl.pt wrote:
Adam,
What a timely post. What an opportunity to test the Santa Claus
hierarchical structure.
(...)
If you do succeed in bringing any change to Commons through this
request of yours, I will follow with a similar
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2010 22:09, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote:
If WMF wanted to spend less money, the fundraiser would have much lower
profile, right? :)
I somehow want us to think about our users and service
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Sebastian Moleski i...@sebmol.me wrote:
Hi all,
to give a little insight here: about two years ago the German Wikipedia
community reached consensus that, for the page
(...)
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On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
I will say though that trying to control the ways that already public
data might be aggregated is pretty unexpected from my American
viewpoint. It is also seems pretty clear that aggregation of edit
statistics is
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:20 AM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:
Consider Malayalam Language sentense വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഒരു നല്ല വിജ്ഞാനകോശം ആണ്
means Wikipedia is a good encyclopedia. How one can understand if a
translator picks meaning of Malayalam words and create an English
sentence like
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I forward a mail from ThomasV.
This tool as a potential much beyond Wikisource.
Regards,
Yann
-- Forwarded message --
From: ThomasV thomasV1 @ gmx . de
Date: 2010/7/9
Subject: [Wikisource-l]
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de
wrote:
Jiří Hofman hofm...@aldebaran.cz wrote:
You are aware of [[en:Wiki]] for a history of wikis and
WMF's part in it?
Tim
In other words, the use of wiki predates wikipedia (wikipedia gets
its name since it was a
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
change it back if people complain loudly. It means someone who
happens to be in charge of making the decision needs to make a
judgment call, based on all the evidence they have available.
Aryeh, I was under the
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:22 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
(...)
The default should be flipped. There is near-universal agreement on this
point at this point, including from Erik Moeller. I expect this will happen
on Monday.
And, for those curious, the article with 243
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, this.
The list of available languages is a key part of a page, not a
navigation nicety.
They used to be available at the top of an article by default, until
that started taking up a few inches of screen space across
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
Here here.
300+ users have ordered the removal of Jimbo's founder powers. Not
some of those powers, not half of those powers, ALL of those powers.
He doesn't get to negotiate his own remedies-- the community wants
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm surprised it is apparently needed to be said, but I'm here too
because I have faith in universal values. In fact I've been attracted
like a magnet since the day, one year and five months ago, that I wondered:
In this world
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote:
While I personally am very pleased with the results, I wonder how the
election results will be perceived outside Wikimedia.
With numerous media outlets reacting to PARC's research about the state of
the community,
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Mathias Schindler
mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=866109
I am getting timeouts on this server. Does any have copy of their
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ruwrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM,
Mike.lifeguardmikelifegu...@fastmail.fm wrote:
I'm sorry, this is really not something that needs discussion on
foundation-l. This concerns English Wikipedia, and not the wider
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Hall sinew...@silentflame.comwrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 16:31, Yaroslav M. Blanterpute...@mccme.ru
wrote:
My point is: We don't write for students. Our articles should be on a
There is some overlap though. I tend to find (certainly on en-wikip)
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Cetateanu
Moldovanucetatean...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:06 PM, John Doe phoenixoverr...@gmail.comwrote:
...
consider that these developers run one of the top ten websites on the
I didn't try to underestimate the *importance* of wikipedia.
With the license move...
do we still accept GFDL-only material?
I've seen OTRSer today accepting and tagging entries released as GFDL only.
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.comwrote:
Of course, there are and always have been a wide range of free content
licenses used for images on Commons, not just GFDL and CC.
Thanks,
Pharos
OTRS doesn't handle only commons.
This meant wikipedia's text
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Huib Laurens
abi...@forgotten-beauty.comwrote:
effe iets anders schreef:
Hi Huib,
yes, that seems to be an accurate description of the current situation.
However, what would you /want/ it to be, and /why/ ? :)
Thanks,
eia
2009/6/16 Huib
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Tim 'avatar' Bartel
wikipe...@computerkultur.org wrote:
Hi,
recently the report of the KnowPrivacy [1] study - a research project
by the School of Information from University of California in Berkeley
- hit the German media [2].
The case of vlswiki is
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote:
I believe that this is an example of principle overriding pragmatism in a
way that has great potential to cause the project harm - both in reputation
and utility. If you're reading this and are a bit confuddled
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote:
Re : Pedro - heh... I take your point - doesn't mean we shouldn't talk
about
the merits of the point at hand, though, no? If there's an improvement to
be
made, that's gonna be a good thing regardless of the opinion
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote:
Hi all,
I'd like to invite the interested people to submit some best practices from
their communities about the bureaucrat procedures. Please let me know what
works well and what not. Appointment, removal, rules of
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Yoni Weiden yonideb...@gmail.com wrote:
The Hebrew Wikipedia community decided that Southpark episode named Chef
Aid is not worthy of an article, not because of it's content, but because
it is an unimportant episode.
In spanish wikipedia we soemtimes delete
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Yoni Weiden yonideb...@gmail.com wrote:
The question is - shouldn't there be one set of standards for all
Wikipedias? I think it is unfair that I can read about Simpsons
episodes
in the
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Jaska Zedlik jz5...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 21:27, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
The question was about a list which should exist somewhere (at Meta).
Thank you, but not obligatory a list. I meant any form, even a number
of rules
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.comwrote:
Hi all
I just came across this[1] policy on Commons, which states that from today,
non-free content is going to be allowed to be uploaded on Commons. I'm
rather shocked that this was pushed through without any notice
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
April's fools alredy? *sigh*
Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse
of the mailing list, I've created a
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com:
you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly
jokes on december 28
Yes, because December 28 isn't the traditional day for such things
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
This is a (predominantly) English-language mailing list, so using
those traditions used in the English-speaking world seems to make
sense to me.
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ruwrote:
I am not sure I understand the issue.
If we are talking about PD material, whether it is hosted on Flickr, on
the website of the museum or elsewhere, we can still use it and upload on
Commons (possibly by a bot).
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Is this clearly phishing? It looks like what we've always wondered
about, a functioning mirror carrying advertising...
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Should someone handle this?
http://www.blackwikipedia.org/
BlackWikipedia is a nonprofit private organization to support WMF, the
Foundation working to maintain and develop the free online
encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Wikipedia is constantly looking for donors as
you can see in the banner top of
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
I am afraid you do not appreciate the importance of localisation. Yes, there
are thousands of messages and it is possible to have them all translated.
Tagalog is proof that a full localisation is possible.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
it will add an
important part to the Spanish language projects; the ability for people who
do not speak English to understand what is being asked of them in the User
Interface. The UI does not only consist of the
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
Can someone please explain why this is ?
Thanks,
GerardM
Also, some of the (to use the same language as the poster) first
class wikis (top 10 on article count, on numbr of visits,
wikipedia.org main
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