be ported to JavaScript.
That's well within the reach of a project on this scale and it will
certainly be considered.
Non-technical users seem to be put off by syntax of any kind, simple or
complex.
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it's risky at best. A software development team working in an office
together might be old-school, but at least the management practices are
established, with good results commonly produced.
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developers are poorly integrated, he
wasn't a new developer.
I do count David McCabe's project LiquidThreads among those that have not
been useful for Wikimedia.
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be:
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a.k.a. http://www.omniture.com/
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Delirium wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Brock Weller wrote:
Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...
What do you mean still? Wikimedia has never been linked with Wikia to
the extent where this topic might be relevant on foundation-l. It's no
more relevant than Wikitravel
Delirium wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
I'm not seeing anything in that rant that contradicts the point I was
making. They might be different to Wikitravel in other ways, but they are
the same in terms of the lack of relevance of a content-related complaint
to foundation-l.
The point I
-disconnected field.
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a language community will include developers that will
take care for its language issues. In the mean time the Betawiki developers
do what they can and I think they do a pretty good job.
The Betawiki developers, as I believe you yourself have pointed out, are
part of the community.
-- Tim
to work
with them. We've even done language-related features with no help from
speakers whatsoever, just using online linguistics resources.
So I don't think the lack of a Lingala-speaking developer should be
considered a roadblock for the development of Lingala-related features.
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grant. Have you tried
contacting potential grant-making organisations? I imagine some
awesome things could be done with as little as $100K.
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a revocation certificate even if someone
burns your house down. And you can verify the authenticity of a public
key even if you don't have any friends.
My vote is for a Guitar Hero party instead.
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to find out what is possible with
state-of-the-art research systems, and then negotiate, or develop
software, to bring that technology to Wikipedia.
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all remaining operations in Korea to Florida, and to return the
servers to Yahoo. These plans can be hurried up if it's necessary for
legal reasons.
Is there an English translation of the law in question, available on
the web?
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Tim Starling wrote:
RYU Cheol wrote:
We have some servers in Seoul, Korea, which are donated by Yahoo,
right? (I'm not sure, let me know) Then it's a web site in South
Korea.
Those servers are no longer being used to serve the website, they're
just being used for a few miscellaneous tasks
to be acceptable to the community.
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for such an
archive in 20 years or so, when the process will be cheaper.
By the way, it's FIB etching, not laser etching, and the discs are
nickel-coated silicon, not plain nickel.
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, and expensive stunts are obviously a key
part of that.
But Wikimedia's goals are somewhat different, and we could probably
find some stunts which are more relevant to our mission.
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Milos Rancic wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It's not free software. The blog post says they intend to open source
the code. That generally means the code quality is so bad that they'd
be embarrassed to make it public, and would like to clean
register some
defensive patents, although they probably didn't realise how much time
and money is involved in registering and maintaining the things.
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be done. We would have to have that discussion,
and possibly a vote on the issue, before deployment of any software
solution. But the software should come first, at the very least it
will be useful to support alternate free formats such as Dirac, Speex
and FLAC.
-- Tim Starling
the quality of a video for a web user, the
process will be under server control and can be incrementally
improved, instead of using whatever outdated software the user has on
their computer. So the net effect of the feature should be a
significant improvement in video quality.
-- Tim Starling
I'm taking Stevertigo off moderation. He has agreed by private email
not to continue the dispute resolution mailing list thread. Stevertigo
is a long-serving and trusted (if passionate) member of the community.
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-profit world.
However, the reserve is enough that if one income source were to stop,
others could be developed before money to pay the fundraising staff
dried up. So it's self-sufficient in that way.
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have the book being searched
for, in the requested edition or a different edition. It may even be
possible to report whether the book is on the shelf or not.
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their goals and ours, so that we have a
better answer to the question when it inevitably comes up.
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So my question is: why is it not enabled yet on most Wikimedia wikis?
The LocalisationUpdate extension is slow, with a significant
performance loss per page view due to DB queries, and it's
unnecessary, because the same effect can be had with a script that
runs svn up periodically.
-- Tim
Roan Kattouw wrote:
Tim Starling tstarl...@... writes:
The LocalisationUpdate extension is slow, with a significant
performance loss per page view due to DB queries,
I can't reproduce that locally. After installing LocalisationUpdate and
visiting
a few pages, I get:
LocalisationCache
can't
the same backporting be done for the wmf-deployment branch?
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to the backport automation
scripts run on translatewiki.net? And then we'd be able to get
translation updates with a simple svn up instead of adding a
complex, tightly-integrated extension to the main MediaWiki instance
on Wikimedia.
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a proportional method such as
STV. Markus Schulze himself has been developing a multi-winner
election method which combines STV with Condorcet winner concepts. But
that's a discussion for the next election, what's done is done.
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will be desirable at least until the lease there expires.
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are far less capable than
those that have been developed for Wikipedia.
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discussion we have, and increase our reliance
on private mailing lists.
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have to
evangelise the clients, say in a footer in outgoing emails.
A quick google search turns up the following NNTP clients for mobile
platforms:
Java: http://mobilenews.sourceforge.net/
iPhone: http://inewsgroup.googlecode.com/
Windows: http://www.qusnetsoft.ru/
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email client you liked when
connected to AOL, you only have to use the broken one they supply if
you don't understand how to use computers.
http://help.aol.com/help/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexternalId=217449
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by moving economic activity from corporations to charities.
[1] http://www.garnautreview.org.au/chp9.htm#tab9_3, and see chapter
4.3 for the impacts of 550 case.
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Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm not appealing to the PR benefits here, or to the way this action
would promote the climate change cause in general. I'm just saying
that as an organisation composed of rational, moral people
melting) rather than
incremental ones. How much money do you owe for increasing mean
global temperature by a billionth of a degree fifty years from now?
The cost per capita can be derived from the total cost using a complex
mathematical process known as division. Maybe you've heard of it?
-- Tim
other people will be able to
read it and comment.
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of an
exaggeration. It predates the namespace feature in MediaWiki; it
originally had a role similar to the Help and Wikipedia namespaces on
the English Wikipedia today.
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maybe not the high quality of Nupedia, but with time? Who knows...
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consider resigning, but obviously that wouldn't
come up if I'm being asked to remove some rubbish cameraphone home
video from the deletion archive.
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that was a design goal when I rewrote it for MW 1.12. In
fact, the Preprocessor_Hash implementation was meant as a model for a
C++ port, not as a permanent and useful part of MediaWiki.
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-missile lasers.
Seriously, the only reason I can think of that the committee would
choose the internet as a recipient is if they wanted to make an even
more bizarre choice than last year.
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Marc Riddell wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Seriously, the only reason I can think of that the committee would
choose the internet as a recipient is if they wanted to make an even
more bizarre choice than last year.
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Bizarre? See beyond the visible, Tim.
I'll try not to bait
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on this one as well? By what
date will VR be a significant part of our lives? And will Google Wave
be embedded in VR, or will VR be embedded in Google Wave?
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appointments.
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Of course some contributors would have left, that's partly my point.
The policies Jimmy imposed on Wikipedia caused an accumulation of
like-minded people, and that's why Wikipedia's culture today is what
it is.
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there is potential for some very shaky and
tentative common ground, in the area of parental control over young
children. Libertarians might be convinced to make an exception to
their principles for that case, which would open up room for small but
valuable concessions to conservatives.
-- Tim
is a feature to encode
SignWriting to video, showing a computer-generated figure acting out
the text. Then those who do not know SignWriting (which includes the
vast majority of the deaf community) would benefit from it. Just an idea.
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=20050608022530
Click show preview to see it with formatting.
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would make compromise difficult. The
Foundation has spent a lot of time and money on the Vector skin, and
it would be a pity to see it thrown away.
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, and always look forward to
having it changed. I've heard that conditions in the West Bank are
pretty bad, although the Israeli government disputes this. Maybe the
Wikimania team could organise a day trip to a nearby border town like
Baqa or Nazlat 'Isa, to change our minds about this.
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to Israel by the
construction of the West Bank barrier. On the south side of the town
is one of the West Bank's many long-term refugee camps, established in
1949.
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from scratch). (2)
Is there a bug report for this?
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On 07/09/10 20:01, Teofilo wrote:
2010/9/7, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org:
If you don't like it, you can request that it be switched off, using
Bugzilla. You will need to demonstrate that the community is in favour
of such an action.
This is not proactive. Giving more power
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Paper_Wikipedia
From August 2003:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Pushing_to_1.0oldid=1319379
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, a prominent section in the sidebar, and even blog posts on the
Wikimedia blog shilling for their products.
The reason they are treated differently is that their activities
further our mission. I understand that you don't agree with that part
of our mission.
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as an organisation. I'm not referencing any particular tagline or
mission statement.
Defining our mission and interpreting our mission statement is the
role of the Board, the executive and the strategy process. They have
produced various documents and decisions which help to guide the staff.
-- Tim
robust in
order to have a reasonable chance of staying up during downtime. We
didn't think it was appropriate to spend a large amount of time
setting up such a server, just for this feature.
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who made these edits had no
expectation that their IP address would be kept private. That, coupled
with the passage of time, makes me think that no harm to user privacy
can come from releasing these files.
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On 14.12.2010 16:54, Tim Starling wrote:
I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I
opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete
backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001
, the numbers in the revisions, e.g. 979694938, are UNIX
timestamps. That one was 17 Jan 2001, 01:28:58 UTC.
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',
'WikiPedia' = 'Wikipedia',
'UnitedStates' = 'United States',
I'm not sure how many links were changed in this way, but it seems to
have been a hand-constructed list.
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by some Wikipedia user and not reviewed by anyone. If you
don't like the quality of it, you shouldn't link to it from the geo
templates.
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, which is one of the safest states
in the US for earthquakes. Only the office is in San Francisco.
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Email notification for user talk page changes is now enabled on all wikis.
The issue came up at the MediaWiki developer meeting here in Berlin. A
few ops people were sitting together, we couldn't think of any reason
why it wasn't enabled yet, so we just did it on the spot.
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. But since the
downtime in this case was only half an hour, there was not enough time
for this to happen.
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24/7 sysadmin manpower that we can
respond to any unplanned downtime in the way you suggest. But we don't
have that capability just yet.
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On 25/05/11 21:19, MZMcBride wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Maybe we can replace the IRC link in the Squid error message with a
link to the WatchMouse page (status.wikimedia.org). That would reduce
the IRC flood.
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16043
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we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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the body with some other text, presumably
with the original text embedded somehow for debugging purposes. But I
don't think Squid has such a feature, and we have very little
development time to spend on this sort of thing.
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On 26/05/11 17:57, Milos Rancic wrote:
On 05/25/2011 01:12 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
On 25/05/11 18:14, Thomas Morton wrote:
IRC was flooded with people who didn't understand what was going on. And
many didn't believe/understand that it was maintenance... so this is
definitely an area worth
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?
I'm just trying to evaluate the scale of the risk here. The amount of
resources that we need to spend on this should be proportional to the
risk.
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On 15/08/11 18:14, Fred Bauder wrote:
I'm just trying to evaluate the scale of the risk here. The amount of
resources that we need to spend on this should be proportional to the
risk.
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That technical staff have effective power to decide whether a fork is
justified is reason
with the Chinese Wikipedia completely blocked in Mainland China.
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those who support the
filter have differing views on cultural neutrality to those who oppose it.
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that it is a good idea.
Personally, I think the filter will be mostly harmless, and that it's
not worth the effort to rail against it. It will be useful for PR --
it will seem as if we are trying to accomodate all points of view even
if the feature is not particularly useful for parents.
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On 06/09/11 22:56, Milos Rancic wrote:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 14:33, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Personally, I think the filter will be mostly harmless, and that it's
not worth the effort to rail against it. It will be useful for PR --
it will seem as if we are trying
the same as a true random sample.
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Wikipedia is always
up and available for people to read, so it's painful to see a small
proportion of a wiki's users decide to take a whole wiki offline for
everyone.
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fundraising as well..
Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe.
We've talked this exact idea at length in the office .. I'd love to see it
happen.
Maybe someone could create it if the 3D model used to create the
current logo were released to the public.
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by this feature, and I didn't
challenge that.
I think it's too early to focus on recriminations, we risk distracting
people from actually fixing the issue.
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the review stage.
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On 20/12/11 12:50, Kim Bruning wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:35:24AM +1100, Tim Starling wrote:
On 13/12/11 01:36, Teofilo wrote:
Let us stop asking users to individually tag every wrong picture! Let
us have some developers create a tool to find wrong pictures and
rotate them back
it, in favour of a meta.wikimedia.org request process.
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the
fancruft we were allowing would be featured on the main page, with the
only criteria being that a fan puts enough effort into their style and
citations.
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Really, It's not that much different than the Simpson episodes there
have been on the MP, Just this one has a more adultish name attached
to it...
I also opposed the Simpsons features, for much the same reason.
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for general
knowledge that was served by both. I don't miss print encyclopedias:
today's internet is far better for satisfying my curiosity than any
encyclopedia.
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