On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:35 PM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
internet - Internet
zip code - ZIP code
Should be fixed.
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On 18 January 2012 05:04, Chris Lee theornamental...@gmail.com wrote:
The Learn More link at en.wp is blocked too.
Works fine for me (and I can read about SOPA and PIPA too), but I've
seen a couple of reports of it not working.
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Erik Moeller wrote:
Should be fixed.
Yep, I got someone's attention via the #wikimedia IRC channel.
Thanks! (And my apologies again for the duplicate posts. There
appears to have been a significant delay.)
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 06:35, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
Can someone please correct the following errors in the English
Wikipedia's blackout notice?
Just a foreigner sidenote: we got the notice about SOPA and PIPA which
does not start by defining, or even linking to what SOPA and
Hello dear community,
the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation passed the following
resolution with seven approves and three abstains:
Following consultation with the Wikimedia community on meta, the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is now releasing the guiding
principles
Why is the mobile site operational for English Wikipedia?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
It says,
The Wikipedia community, as part of their request to the Wikimedia Foundation
to carry out this protest, asked us to ensure that we make English Wikipedia
accessible in some way during an emergency. The English
On 18 January 2012 08:03, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote:
Just a foreigner sidenote: we got the notice about SOPA and PIPA which
does not start by defining, or even linking to what SOPA and PIPA
is, what they are shorthand for, and background if anoone wants. It
could be (should be)
On 18 January 2012 08:26, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Why is the mobile site operational for English Wikipedia?
The herd of cats wanted it that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action
Provisions for emergency access to the site should be included in the
the emergency access should be at a different location.
mobile users should not be privileged.
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On 18 January 2012 08:58, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
the emergency access should be at a different location.
mobile users should not be privileged.
Yeah, I thought it was a bit silly too. But I think we can live with it.
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So lets say that Wikipedia doesn't have a active anti vandal crew today,
but people can still edit within the English Wikipedia by mobile phone.
So we will find in a year all kind of vandal edits done today?
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bringing my 5 cents: think that mobile users are not the one privileged
here, since anyone can surf on m.wp. Guess that limited usability of
m.wp compensate 100% lack of normanl WP. (following my friends post on
WP this morning - everyone feels disturbed by this, and I am not from an
english
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:09 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Only bots (I think) and some WMF people can edit en:wp today.
Stewards and staff. No bots.
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Hi,
apparently if you disable java in your browser - you have normal access
to en:wp!
the best,
/gheorghe
On 18.01.2012 11:06, David Levy wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Yeah, the page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
should link to those two articles (which
On 18 January 2012 09:16, Zugravu Gheorghe zugravu.gheor...@gmail.com wrote:
apparently if you disable java in your browser - you have normal access
to en:wp!
JavaScript, not Java :-)
It's not a hard, secure block. Basically it's a black, full-page ad
banner. Think of Wikipedia Blackout as
Zugravu Gheorghe zugravu.gheor...@gmail.com writes:
apparently if you disable java in your browser - you have normal access
to en:wp!
Or if you click on the stop loading button of your browser
soon enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-Rf-VKHY8
Funny darwinian selection: only the
Can someone remind me, Which ones of these are emergency edits?
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N19:15 User:Leinad/common.js (diff | hist) . . (+37) . . Leinad
(talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'function insertBanner(a) {
return; }')
This is just cruel... read the rest yeah right :P
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Data: 18 de Janeiro de 2012 01:05
Assunto: [Daily article] January 18: Nick Drake
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emijrp, 17/01/2012 22:11:
The Italian bill was not removed, the vote was just delayed. So, if any, I
see a poor effect here after compromising our goals.
What do you mean? There's no way to remove a proposed law, here. And
it will surely not be approved, like tons of other proposed laws
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:07:42 +0200, Zugravu Gheorghe
zugravu.gheor...@gmail.com wrote:
bringing my 5 cents: think that mobile users are not the one privileged
here, since anyone can surf on m.wp. Guess that limited usability of
m.wp compensate 100% lack of normanl WP. (following my friends post
Le 18/01/2012 05:25, Ting Chen a écrit :
Hello dear community,
the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation passed the following
resolution with seven approves and three abstains:
[...]
* Minimal cost and minimal disruption. All Wikimedia fundraising
activities must aim to raise
Thank you for your information:
But I´m not able to enter the refering link.
http://board.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_fundraising/Guiding_Principles
hubertl
Am 18.01.2012 09:25, schrieb Ting Chen:
Hello dear community,
the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation passed the following
Am 18.01.2012 12:48, schrieb Pronoein:
Le 18/01/2012 05:25, Ting Chen a écrit :
Hello dear community,
the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation passed the following
resolution with seven approves and three abstains:
[...]
* Minimal cost and minimal disruption. All Wikimedia
2012/1/17 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
Wikimedia Serbia also supports English Wikipedians [...]
Wikimedia Italia too, see http://www.wikimedia.it
Here's the text (in italian):
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Milano, 17 gennaio 2012
Domani, 18 gennaio 2012, l'edizione in lingua inglese di Wikipedia
On Twitter:
Wikipedia
#WikipediaBlackout
and
Imagine A World Without Free Knowledge
...have all been trending for the late morning, early afternoon.
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Oh, damn: regarding the below... I meant to say in the UK.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:58, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
On Twitter:
Wikipedia
#WikipediaBlackout
and
Imagine A World Without Free Knowledge
...have all been trending for the late morning, early afternoon.
On 18 January 2012 11:48, Pronoein prono...@gmail.com wrote:
Le 18/01/2012 05:25, Ting Chen a écrit :
* Minimal cost and minimal disruption. All Wikimedia fundraising
activities must aim to raise the maximum possible amount of money from
donors while minimizing administrative costs as much as
Why does the Board of Trustees think that WMF should raise the «maximum
possible amount of money»?
Why not ask for what is needed and nothing more?
Because we don't expect to be JUST Wikipedia forever. We have a lot
of innovation ahead of us. If we stand still, we'll be overtaken.
With
I advise you delay it again - we need the mailing lists at the moment
to coordinate the blackout.
On 13 January 2012 13:54, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote:
(rescheduled after the cancelled maintenance of last Friday)
Hi,
Today I will be migrating the mailing lists from a very old
Le 18/01/2012 10:14, Alec Meta a écrit :
Why does the Board of Trustees think that WMF should raise the «maximum
possible amount of money»?
Why not ask for what is needed and nothing more?
Because we don't expect to be JUST Wikipedia forever. We have a lot
of innovation ahead of us. If we
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
I advise you delay it again - we need the mailing lists at the moment
to coordinate the blackout.
Mark's email is 5 days old, so I suppose this has already happened, hasn't it?
Cheers,
Delphine
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
I advise you delay it again - we need the mailing lists at the moment
to coordinate
On 18/01/2012 14:14, Alec Meta wrote:
Why does the Board of Trustees think that WMF should raise the «maximum
possible amount of money»?
Why not ask for what is needed and nothing more?
Because we don't expect to be JUST Wikipedia forever. We have a lot
of innovation ahead of us. If we
AND, I also meant to say #FactsWithoutWikipedia is trending in the UK.
This user is cataloguing Wikipedia-related tweets of people that seem
to lack basic skills in reading/comprehension (not realising it's just
for 24 hours for example)... many tweeting RIP Wikipedia!:
Just seen the datestamp... why did that email just come through now?!
On 18 January 2012 13:42, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
I advise you delay it again - we need the mailing lists at the moment
to coordinate the blackout.
On 13 January 2012 13:54, Mark Bergsma
gmail is having troubles the last few weeks... I miss e-mails daily that
arrive much later...
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
Just seen the datestamp... why did that email just come through now?!
On 18 January 2012 13:42, Thomas Dalton
On sJan 13/sJan 18, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Mark Bergsma wrote:
Today I will be migrating the mailing lists from a very old server (lily) in
Amsterdam, to a new server (sodium) in our new Ashburn data center. Mailman
will be upgraded to version 2.1.13 along the way.
During the migration, mail
as explained in another email: it was actually sent today, with the wrong
datestamp.
L
No dia 18 de Janeiro de 2012 16:35, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.comescreveu:
gmail is having troubles the last few weeks... I miss e-mails daily that
arrive much later...
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:43 PM,
On 18 January 2012 13:46, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, sorry, I've made rather a pig's ear of what was meant to be
some light coverage of UK Twitter responses to the blackout. I shall
post no more on the subject.
Heck no, this is useful :-)
- d.
Top trending topic on Twitter right now:
#DayWithoutWikipedia https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23DayWithoutWikipedia
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 January 2012 13:46, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, sorry,
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:44 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
Can someone remind me, Which ones of these are emergency edits?
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I'm not a Steward so you may not have directed this at me, but I am happy
to
I rather thank by creating SOPAonWheels account and following edits:
they made a good laughter at least on me with which I sustain this
hard day with stomach ache.
If the English Wikipedia community however has a strong feeling toward
these edits, you at EnWP can revert and none might oppose. I
Well, I hope you people are happy with blocking access to the English Wikipedia.
http://gawker.com/5877192/stupid-high-school-kids-and-teachers-freak-out-over-wikipedia-blackout
Now people can't finish their reports! Particularly considering I am
getting the feeling that the US government
Wikipedia has references, so your description of stupid is correct. There
are thousands of other sites.
Ebe123
On 12-01-18 5:31 PM, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I hope you people are happy with blocking access to the English
Wikipedia.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:18 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi George,
The push came about after the IRC office hours.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-01-12
After ongoing review of the IRC thread, on-wiki threads, mailing lists etc...
I think
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/technology/web-protests-piracy-bill-and-2-
key-senators-change-course.html?_r=1nl=afternoonupdateemc=aua2
MR
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On 18 January 2012 23:08, Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/technology/web-protests-piracy-bill-and-2-
key-senators-change-course.html?_r=1nl=afternoonupdateemc=aua2
Call me churlish, but I find it difficult to assume good faith in
Orrin Hatch
On 18 January 2012 23:08, Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/technology/web-protests-piracy-bill-and-2-
key-senators-change-course.html?_r=1nl=afternoonupdateemc=aua2
on 1/18/12 6:16 PM, David Gerard at dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Call me
It's worth pointing out the discussion was open from 15 December to 16
January before any close. (Note: 15 December is not when it actually
started, it's when it was formally opened as a community discussion -
earlier suggestions were also discussed less formally from 10 December on
various
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
It's worth pointing out the discussion was open from 15 December to 16
January before any close.
No, there was informal discussion going back into December. The
discussion - the concrete, date-attached specific policy and
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
It's worth pointing out the discussion was open from 15 December to 16
January before any close.
No, there was informal discussion going back into
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:02 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
It's worth pointing out the discussion was open from 15 December to 16
I do agree that this kind of action must be severely limited. We cannot go
on like this; we've used up our shutdown for about five years. The shutdown
makes waves, but its effect will diminish with overuse. This is the kind of
thing we should not repeat for a long while.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote:
I do agree that this kind of action must be severely limited. We cannot go
on like this; we've used up our shutdown for about five years. The shutdown
makes waves, but its effect will diminish with overuse. This is the kind of
I wasn't involved but I can guess one key issue. On this of all things, the
foundation's hands were tied,. it could not pre-empt the community or do
things in a way that would let it be seen as foundation pushing, or
hinting, or anything. And the community well it just yapped and
yapped,
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:35 AM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
[crossposted to Foundation-l and WikiEN-l]
Can someone please correct the following errors in the English
Wikipedia's blackout notice?
internet - Internet
zip code - ZIP code
Nah, for those politicians it was meant
FW on request.
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*Béria Lima*
http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos*
On 18 January 2012 17:07,
Were there notification about removal of edit rights? At least not on the
interface. Announced on this list maybe?
I did not know about it until told by someone else.
Best regards,
Benjamin Chen / User:Bencmq
On Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 2:19 AM, KIZU Naoko wrote:
I rather thank by
Few stewards were not aware of it I think. Because as they were not
technically able and they failed to realized the difference (as there were
no warning notice). Few edits were in user spaces (common.js and
common.css) which I think should not be counted, as it was intended to
avoid the banner.
This is to draw attention to the translations that have been made
available for the December 2011 Wikimedia Highlights - combining
some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation
Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for December 2011 with a
selection of other important
(Also posted at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_blackout_supports_free_and_open_internet
)
*Wikipedia blackout affirms overwhelming support for free and open Internet
*Millions “Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge” and act to oppose
SOPA/PIPA
San Francisco, CA -
Jay Walsh, 19/01/2012 07:05:
The protest drew worldwide attention to SOPA and PIPA, legislation that
had previously been cast as a battle between powerful corporate interests
I don't know elsewhere, but here in Italy this doesn't seem to have
changed, Wikipedia and Google are put in the same
Bastien Guerry, 18/01/2012 10:23:
Zugravu Gheorghezugravu.gheor...@gmail.com writes:
apparently if you disable java in your browser - you have normal access
to en:wp!
Or if you click on the stop loading button of your browser
soon enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-Rf-VKHY8
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Or those with a slower CPU hence loading of the page.
Nemo
Or a slower modem, like Liam linked to six months ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE
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