On 19 July 2011 21:07, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Vaguely related:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft
Aaron Swartz charged by federal prosecutors with illegally downloading
over 4 million journal articles from JSTOR, with the intent to
Although we supposedly don't do POV forks, we effectively *have* with
the different language versions. So -
http://manypedia.com
On Manypedia you can compare the same Wikipedia page as it appears on
2 different language Wikipedias, both translated in your language. For
example you can search for
On 15 July 2011 02:11, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Three cheers for open standards and and backwards compatibility!
I would like to know if it is technically possible to edit a WP article
through that system.
I found it almost unusable on a 56k modem. So have fun!
- d.
On 15 July 2011 01:03, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed. They're a very very special tool, but software not a
reasonable definition for a movement. The Unnamed Movement should be
software-neutral, if not in name then CERTAINLY in practice.
It's a thing and it exists and
On 15 July 2011 08:31, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Congratulations Liam, you've just made the case for micro stubs.
http://twitter.com/#!/qikipedia
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On 15 July 2011 20:07, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, I think debating the name is a bit cart before horse -
the idea is that these organizations seem to share common ideals, and
could cooperative in mutually beneficial ways with some sort of formal
vehicle.
I don't entirely agree.
On 11 July 2011 13:57, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
If Wikimedia projects and WMF leave to die 90% (or 80%, or 70%, or 60%) of
current languages in the next 40 years (we will be alive to see it,
probably), then both are failures.
First thing would be a Wikisource or similar then. Just
On 10 July 2011 10:55, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
Is mentioned in a offiical policy on the Dutch Wikipedia here:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sokpopmisbruik
The relevant paragraph appears to be
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sokpop#Ontsnappingsclausule
The
On 10 July 2011 11:50, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
Just to be clear: the alternative situation was, and would probably be,
that
people who currently can choose to use this clause, would simply be blocked
forever without a way of getting unblocked.
That's the approach
On 10 July 2011 11:48, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:03 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blokkeringsmeldingen#Ontsnappingsclausule
The Google translation for this one appears to quite definitely be
trying
On 10 July 2011 21:28, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote:
Well I don't know about your EU but in ours we have a method called
collecting private data by agreement for a given purpose and it is
completely legal. If I say to you that you have to provide this and
that private data if you want
On 9 July 2011 11:02, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
The WMF is not responsible for private mails you send to anyone. The only
people who officialy can receive a copy of any ID you may have are
Philippe http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Philippe_%28WMF%29,
On 8 July 2011 09:20, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, and I'm sure Wikipedia also has lots of copyrighted and dubious
content, as hard as we try...
We're reaching the stage of arguing category membership. This suggests
stepping back:
John, what do you anticipate as the useful
On 6 July 2011 20:58, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
We need a Wikijournal project, where scientists can do all the
functions of a journal without any prior approval-- collectively form
groups, review, and publish.
Free content is going to capture science eventually-- scientists
On 6 July 2011 21:29, Arlen Beiler arlen...@gmail.com wrote:
Once it is published, can't it just go to Wikisource? Or would it have to be
CC-By or something like that. If so, Wikisource would still be the best
suited for that, we would just have to put it in a journal namespace or
something
On 1 July 2011 09:27, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 07/01/2011 09:15 AM, David Gerard wrote:
Per HaeB's link, this is a perennial proposal. People like the idea,
but in eighteen years - back as far
On 1 July 2011 07:58, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 06/30/2011 07:35 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Further to your idea: people developing little specialist wikis along
these lines, and said wikis being mergeable. This makes such wikis
Some things I believe could be easily
On 30 June 2011 10:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Tom Morris, 30/06/2011 11:28:
I'd have a problem if people started making overwrought
comparison to Nazi book burnings too.
Wow, a reductio ad reductionem ad Hitlerum argument.
Trained professional philosophers can get
On 30 June 2011 12:31, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
The further we can get away from the model of elementary schools and
towards the model of the global universities, the better.
+1
(This entire post is gold.)
One *big* problem we have now is: Wikipedia has won. Wikipedia is the
On 30 June 2011 17:00, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
[a git-like distributed wikisphere]
It's not my idea, I believe it's been independently suggested at
least five different times that I know of. But it's a HUGE step that
would require a big, bold push from developers and thus
On 30 June 2011 19:49, HaeB haebw...@gmail.com wrote:
I have added your postings to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_proposals
:-D
Do you have an index of this sort of perennial proposal? Apart from,
of course,
http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Publisher-Steps-Up/128031/
People are exchanging and selling access to the databases to get the
damn science.
This is why we need to keep pushing the free content and open access
message. You cannot do science in a system with these effects.
- d.
On 23 June 2011 01:18, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
why. It's not that we're 'novel currency enthusiasts', it's not that
we're trying to undermine the US federal reserve or anything crazy or
overtly political.
I've looked at the forums. The above doesn't appear to hold.
Random
On 23 June 2011 15:39, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
Arcane legal arguments about what the law is falls outside the
foundation's remit. We are not a lawyers benefit foundation. No the
foundation has taken a very practical real world campaigning position
which probably sounds great to a
On 23 June 2011 16:17, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
If you think the foundation's involvement will have no wider impact
feel free to make that case.
Considering that that's precisely the point - that if the US starts
re-enclosing the public domain, it will use its influence to get other
On 22 June 2011 20:15, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to personally thank the WMF staff and board for having
pursued this.
Seconded. This is something important enough we need to stand up about it.
Is there anything we can do, in practical terms, to support this?
On 22 June 2011 21:14, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Is this something the WMF will do more often in the future (or has done in
the past) or is this an extreme exception due to its importance?
I was talkiing to someone today, describing WMF as an 800lb gorilla
that tries very
On 21 June 2011 10:50, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote:
I edit the WP in English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, German, Spanish ...
This is happenning in all languages - it is not a WP-E issue.
Categories work a bit like a hierarchy, a bit like tags.
There's a perennial proposal[1]
On 21 June 2011 15:13, Mono mium monom...@gmail.com wrote:
Supposedly the Bitcoins system was just hacked.
The biggest Bitcoin exchange was apparently hacked, both machines and
socially. This is the part of the system that is not immaculately
cryptographically sound, i.e. the humans.
- d.
On 21 June 2011 17:52, robert_horn...@netzero.net
robert_horn...@netzero.net wrote:
I'd be far more worried about the stability of currencies like the U.S.
Dollar and the Euro as their basis in reality is even shakier than Bitcoins,
yet the collapse of either or both currencies could
WIk
On 20 June 2011 15:29, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
*: Yes, in principle. But two special criteria would need to be met: the
language should be a world language with many L2 users, and there must
be a reliable, published specification of the controlled language to be
used.
On 17 June 2011 16:08, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
To be honest, when you release your work under cc-by-sa you grant a
third party the right to reuse a (small or large) part of your work to
make a derivative work. The license in itself is not what determines
that the live
On 17 June 2011 12:29, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
That could be a good
use case for a project like Knol, which was advertised as Wikipedia
killer once, but didn't grow much.
Minor note: as far as I know, *no-one* from Knol/Google ever claimed
it had anything to do
On 17 June 2011 16:19, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect the board will recruit, formally or informally, the top n
runners-up to help provide the usual new bloodish infusion that a
normal election result provides. The global community wants to keep
the keys in the current
On 16 June 2011 09:06, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Well, they appear to have re-written their blurb to make it far enough away
from Wikipedia text to keep them safe.
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07767/john-michael-wright
What an effort, just to
On 13 June 2011 09:23, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote:
Thanks. I mean all they need to add is text taken from Wikipedia - it
shouldn't be too hard.
Hm, I'm afraid that is not sufficient. :-) It's CC-BY-SA.
*Surely* the NPG should be able to figure out that by doing this,
On 13 June 2011 10:34, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I would rather see this as an opportunity for friendly dialogue
to help improve our working relationship.
Absolutely, a non-apocalyptic response is desirable.
However, they're still being blitheringly stupid and obnoxious, and
On 11 June 2011 00:27, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
You are third person to respond as if my email was about me personally
looking for help editing. And the second to snip my writing out of all
context. Steven seemed to actually get what my concern was. You can hate
whatever you like,
On 10 June 2011 21:05, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
This doesn't have to be complicated. How about 3 strikes, you're out? Get
banned from 3 projects and you automatically qualify for a global ban.
There's no sense in wasting hundreds of manhours trying to coordinate
information
On 3 June 2011 23:58, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
My local IT got back to me today and agreed to unblock all of Wikipedia for
all 25,000 computers they manage. A bit of success for increasing access.
IMO Wikimedia needs to stay on top of these issues. I have emailed Websense
who
On 4 June 2011 15:42, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I think it's a fairly dangerous precedent to have the Wikimedia Foundation
involved in making individual decisions about who can and can't edit.
They certainly can determine who can and can't use the servers they
are custodians of.
I
On 4 June 2011 17:47, Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
There's been some ongoing work on TimedMediaHandler extension which will
replace the older OggHandler
Yes, been hammering away on associated bugs. People can help
On 3 June 2011 14:54, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
For the usability, last time I checked the usability wiki was dead as well
as the Wikiproject Usability on en.wp. If someone can show me what would be
an appropriate place to list my issues (meaning there is somebody there who
On 3 June 2011 15:45, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote:
We have uploaded images from Flickr, and Commons supports image formates
like, jpg, png, svg, and others, but for videos it supports only ogv
formate. So, I think most of the YouTube videos need to be converted to ogv
(from mpeg
On 3 June 2011 16:40, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote:
In view of the entire history of this matter, not all of which should
necessarily be discussed publicly, Poetlister should not be editing under
any account name on any project. The fact that as recently as a couple of
months ago
On 3 June 2011 17:21, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote:
Poetlister is the level of case where project autonomy is an actively
bad idea. e.g. en.wikiquote deciding to demonstrate their independence
of en:wp by letting him onto the Checkuser list. Nice one.
Not to digress, but in
On 3 June 2011 21:09, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/6/3 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
I suspect there is more than a little of that in current local wiki
defiance of global bans. And it's really, really not a good idea.
Please argument that position David. Has this person abused
On 3 June 2011 21:25, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote:
I'm now actually wondering whether there is a structural problem in getting
lunatics like poetlister banned, or whether it is just the case that one
community (wikiversity) is seriously messed up.
Note that we had pretty
On 3 June 2011 22:01, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh? You knew who he was and didn't inform anyone?
Yes, and we were telling the arbs on the functionaries list.
Don't rewrite history.
You seem stressed. Assume good faith!
- d.
On 3 June 2011 22:23, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
no, just confused. how were you telling the arbs on a mailing list
that didn't exist at the time Cato was checkuser.
Ah, that would indeed have been the arbcom list at the time, yes.
I note you weren't an arbitrator at the time,
On 2 June 2011 13:24, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote:
There should be no explicit statement because the WMF holds it
self-evident to preserve. The bigger problem might be the project
scope. I don't know what kind of images your academic partners wishes
to upload.
There's also
On 2 June 2011 15:19, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
I think what needs to happen is to explore ways to cooperate using each
institutions relative assets. That might include, for example, endowing
Commons with assets sufficient to support long term archival services as
well as a
On 2 June 2011 18:48, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:
In 2016 San Francisco has a major earthquake and the servers and
operational facilities for the WMF are damaged beyond repair. The
emergency hot switchover to Hong Kong is delayed due to an ongoing DoS
attack from Eastern European countries.
of the world...
Speaking of which, David Gerard has just posted this to wikiEN-l. :)
http://xkcd.com/906/
Ta bu shi da yu is still slightly chagrined that the (likely) one
thing he has created that will resonate through culture is [citation
needed].
- d
On 1 June 2011 14:07, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Today we hear of a new way to exploit the unpaid Wikipedian: lazy
college professors can use the crowdsourced encyclo-custodians to mark
their students' work, again without any guarantee that they will do so
properly or
On 1 June 2011 21:35, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Forgive me if I find these resolutions rather toothless; this is
another in a string of board resolutions that simply urge the
projects. I'd love to understand what the Board thinks such
resolutions will accomplish.
It says very
On 1 June 2011 23:03, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I expect and hope that the WMF board is a little more honest and
straightforward than that would suggest. The resolution could be read
as CYA - an intentionally deflective statement with no concrete
impact.
I think that opening line is
On 22 May 2011 23:03, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Writing to someone involved with the issue personally is always more
complicated, especially if they're - justifiably - angry or worried
about the situation. The problems are often quite complex, so can sit
longer while people
On 21 May 2011 14:39, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any project which allows usernames such as Administrator,
Bureaucrat, Oversight or Steward? Isn't that confused and probably not
allowed? Or which project allows a user name for more than one person?
en:wp has
On 20 May 2011 19:21, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
I think any user who uses Twitter to publish information in the U.K. may
potentially be liable.
The jurisdictional issues impact the users. Suing Twitter is unlikely
to go very far. It is *possible* they may be able to do
On 20 May 2011 22:22, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Twitter are planning to open a London office:
http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletin/digitalambulletin/article/1066031/twitter-open-uk-office-serve-commercial-needs/
This should be... interesting.
Over the last several years, the UK
On 26 April 2011 20:22, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
It appears that nobody appears to actually follow this rule (including the
New York Times), but I find the nuance interesting. I imagine one would
perform better than the other during fundraising; perhaps there's hard data
on that.
On 25 April 2011 07:45, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
They have copied articles from Chinese Wikipedia and translated articles
from English and Japanese Wikipedia so in my opinion their work is a
derivative one
This is true.
and according to the CCSA terms it is also CCSA no mater
On 25 April 2011 23:30, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
So I see the things this way
You asked if it was a good idea and your understanding was correct. So
far no-one's agreed your understanding is correct and no-one's agreed
your plan of action is a good idea. You appear to insist on doing
On 19 April 2011 07:55, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
There's been a lot of talk about getting new editors and keeping them. I
would think something like working e-mail notifications would be a high
priority. There are plenty of features and enhancements that could improve
the user
This is not directly relevant to WMF projects, but it's of great
importance in helping the free content world along.
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/13/howto-turn-your-scho.html
http://repository.alt.ac.uk/887/
Is there anything we can do to push this along?e.g. Would a blog post
be apposite?
On 12 April 2011 19:46, Quim Gil quim@nokia.com wrote:
In fact Wikimedia content is also popular among mobile users (directly
or through apps), but what about mobile contributions?
I just tried editing an article on en:wp on my shiny new BlackBerry
9300. (Which can browse Wikipedia just
On 10 April 2011 13:14, David Moran fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com wrote:
That being said, I think explicit drives and events that encourage
non-creation and article cleanup are great ideas. How is the community at
large to know about our backlog if we don't try to communicate it to them?
Site
On 10 April 2011 22:56, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
At one point there were anon tips above the tabs in Monobook. These were
text-only snippets that appeared only for logged-out users. For example one
snippet was, Have questions? [[Wikipedia:Questions|Find out how to ask
questions and
On 6 April 2011 19:50, Lennart Guldbrandsson wikihanni...@gmail.com wrote:
In the future, please remember to put any of these on the Bookshelf at
http://bookshelf.wikimedia.org. Right now, I am reorganizing it a bit, but
it should be looking better in a week or so.
So I see. Do the obvious
On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
A lot of the projects that Wikimedia is investing in today are small and
focused on particular needs of the Wikimedia Foundation, not the Wikimedia
community. One example might be an article feedback tool that's largely
focused on
On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Another example might be an UploadWizard that is focused on
ensuring that Wikimedia fulfills its Multimedia grant requirements rather
than actually being fully developed and ready for use by Wikimedia Commons.
These examples are off
On 5 April 2011 09:48, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2011/4/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
Article rating has been a wanted feature for *years*.
... And in the Hungarian Wikipedia it was even implemented quite a
long time ago. If i recall correctly, at some point i
On 5 April 2011 22:20, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 April 2011 09:40, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Article rating has been a wanted feature for *years*.
What I'd like to see is article rating being more widespread. But
having a grant push it through is *just fine*, because
On 4 April 2011 16:20, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I understand that WMF's resources are limited, but the development and
the deployment of Vector did cost some money and also forced a lot of
volunteers in English and in all other language projects to make
adjustments
On 4 April 2011 16:33, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Thread title?
Focus on sister projects. Lots of the archive page as of today:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-April/
- d.
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On 4 April 2011 17:20, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not seeing discussion of chronically broken code there. Just
discussion of redundant code (due to 1.17) and cleanup. Any chance of a
pointer to something that sums up the chronically broken nature of site
script?
e.g.
Post from elsewhere, forwarded with author's permission.
From: Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net
Date: 3 April 2011 14:44
[quote snipped]
Just a little contrarianism on this ...
Should we be worried about the trendline in newer editors (and more on
this below) or the
On 1 April 2011 15:46, Hydriz Wikipedia ad...@wikisorg.tk wrote:
Well, I am very sure I joined Wikimedia due to the change in skin and liked
the new skin as compared to Monobook.
I've been using it on our work intranet for new wikis. It's gained
unsolicited positive comment. Vector looks
On 14 March 2011 10:50, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Stovepiping is already a problem. Breaking up the project in this way
would make a science of it, creating a plethora of petty tyrannies in the
style of Wiktionary and Wikipedia Commons but even less responsive.
Some
On 14 March 2011 12:51, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
Currently such pages tend to be locked to all but admins. That doesn't
work either - people just keep on their fighting on the talk page
until someone gives up, after which the page is unlocked and their
opponent can declare
On 14 March 2011 12:53, Dror Kamir dqa...@bezeqint.net wrote:
As a first step, I think it would be useful to appoint an ombudsman to
Wikipedia, either one to all of them or to each one. We can start with
the English Wikipedia. This ombudsman will be identified by her/his real
name and receive
On 14 March 2011 13:34, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:18, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
The main problem I've found is that aggrieved BLP subjects don't
understand that they can actually email i...@wikimedia.org and have
someone seriously look
On 14 March 2011 13:46, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Having a single person would not work, as people would assume that a single
person may have their own personal biases affecting their judgment.
An elected committee might work, and I do think we should look at empowering
such a
On 14 March 2011 15:01, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
David, I strongly object to your continued twisting of my words,
The link to your precise words is there. It's what you actually said.
Or are you claiming those links are not to your words?
- d.
On 14 March 2011 15:21, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
But for the second time now, you are derailing a discussion on one topic (in
this case, whether there is a benefit in breaking up large projects, and in
the prior case, how to attract and retain female editors) so that you can
focus on
On 14 March 2011 19:29, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Andrew. I think I'll add that second email address to the policy.
In fact, if i...@wikipedia.org doesn't exist then it should be created
to point to i...@wikimedia.org - so that it can be communicated
verbally with
On 12 March 2011 22:59, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:
Deindividuation pervades virtual worlds, and the results are mixed.
Download “Second Life” and take a stroll. Sooner or later you’ll end
up in a sex dungeon. Play any game on Xbox Live, and someone will
eventually claim to have
On 11 March 2011 06:32, Pronoein prono...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Keegan. I think this list is not about siding and throwing
moqueries at each other. We should respect what each one believes.
To have an opinion respected,it helps if that opinion is not both (a)
snide and (b) provably,
On 8 March 2011 21:50, Melissa Hagemann mhagem...@sorosny.org wrote:
It would be wonderful if we could find a way for the WMF and OA
communities to more closely collaborate. Aubrey is right in that to a
large extent, OA is not well known outside the library community.
Big time. They're a
On 8 March 2011 23:03, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Because of that genetically inherited disability, humans tend to learn
one language common for the cultural context in which they live, which
is called lingua franca. With some pauses, from ~100BC to 1900 it
was Latin in Western
On 9 March 2011 23:02, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote:
Until recently, the foundation has been increasing its staff by hiring
the best person immediately available, rather than a person good
enough to do the necessary job.
Citation needed.
1. keep the job unfilled , and search
2011/3/9 Alison M. Wheeler wikime...@alisonwheeler.com:
- David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Karibu foundation-l. Lugha rasmi hapa ni Kiswahili na Kiingereza.
Nini ni lugha ya si Kiklingoni? Ingekuwa kwamba kuwa sawa na haki kwa wote.
Au Kiesperanto labda?
Hovercraft yangu ni
On 7 March 2011 17:02, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
Andrew Garrett writes:
We might be growing, but I don't think anybody in the industry would
hesitate to say that we're still small and running on a shoestring
budget. The websites that we compete with run budgets in the hundreds
of
On 7 March 2011 17:19, church.of.emacs.ml
church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote:
I don't know if you're directing this at me, but if you are, I seriously
would be interested why you think that I'm trolling or assuming bad faith.
I'm not, several others in this group of threads are.
The
On 7 March 2011 17:29, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Juergen Fenn juergen.f...@gmx.de wrote:
this time it
was not possible to switch the banners off, even you were logged in as a
user.
It's disturbing to hear you say that: every banner run
On 7 March 2011 18:19, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps there is something I don't understand. It seems strange to me that
having 24M$ of current assets we don't have any financial income but 0,5M$
bank fees.
AIUI, it was long a goal for the foundation *not* to be living hand to
On 6 March 2011 04:03, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:30 PM, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
The attraction of Wikipedia -- to editors, readers, and donors -- was
that it was run on a shoestring by a bunch of volunteers, for the
benefit of other people.
On 5 March 2011 14:19, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
And also, WMF should make it possible to accept continuing donations as
a subscription on a monthly basis.
Even better, they should do this already!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Monthly_donations/en
(a link from
On 5 March 2011 21:15, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Defined by what the Foundation wants to accomplish? I think you've
highlighted the problem pretty well, right there.
Then please answer my question, and give your plan, working backward
from the mission statement to the necessary
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