2009/9/28 wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk:
From the earlier poster Teofilo:
I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full
resolution pictures of Public Domain works.
That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible.
That sets it out as a goal, not a
David Gerard wrote:
2009/9/28 wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk:
From the earlier poster Teofilo:
I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full
resolution pictures of Public Domain works.
That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible.
That
Hello list ,
Based on the foundation proposals and the other projects that I am working on,
I have chosen something that I think mixes in with the wikimedia
foundation, creative commons,
opencourseware and openstreetmap.
it is the goal of life long learning and sharing of knowledge, from your
On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
IRC office hours for the strategy project are upon us again Our
next office hours will be: 20:00-21:00 UTC, Tuesday 29 September.
Local timezones can be checked at
Thank you, Brion. Through your many years of volunteering and then
staff work, you've secured your place in Wikimedia history. It's been
a pleasure to work with you over the years, and I'm glad you'll
continue to be involved. As I said privately, I'm happy you've found a
great open source company
Hi Greg,
a quick note on Sue's behalf since we're all quite swamped right now.
On the tech side of things we're planning for the CTO transition right
now, as well as building up our capacity; those are core
foundation-building priorities that have to be higher than any
specific deployment,
2009/9/28 Mohamed Magdy mohamed@gmail.com:
This really sucks.
Hey, we'll all live, and he's alive and well :-)
I'm now sending the job opening around my SF contacts ...
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Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/9/28 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on
the
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Mohamed Magdy mohamed@gmail.com wrote:
This really sucks.
As Kat Walsh alluded to on ... Facebook?!?... free/libre real-time
services are more important than a lot of Wikimedians think (because
we've spent so long pushing back against merely social uses of
2009/9/28 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/9/28 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
going to be starting a new position at
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on
the
Hoi,
Brion thank you for everything and more. I am happy that LocalisationUpdate
is live... but I am sad for all the other things that will be postponed. I
am sad because there are so many things that are waiting to be assessed. I
am happy for you, but to me it feels like MediaWiki meets the
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
I was really looking forward to you handing over the
administrative part of your job and concentrating on coding, great
things would have happened, I'm sure!
No reason he can't keep coding. He just won't be paid
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[snip]
plan, and Brion is hoping to invest some of his remaining time with it
in helping to get the extension ready for en.wp. It's not trivial: The
scalability concerns at that size are a step more serious than with
2009/9/28 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on
the open-source microblogging system
2009/9/28 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com:
Of course. But I wasn't expecting a turn up on English Wikipedia yet.
I'm asking why the 25 lines of configuration that EnWP specified have
not yet been added to the test wiki at
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
I'll review the
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[snip]
plan, and Brion is hoping to invest some of his remaining time with it
in helping to get the extension ready for en.wp. It's not trivial:
On 9/28/09 12:53 PM, Sage Ross wrote:
As Kat Walsh alluded to on ... Facebook?!?... free/libre real-time
services are more important than a lot of Wikimedians think (because
we've spent so long pushing back against merely social uses of our
wikis?). In the grand scheme of the things we care
On 9/28/09 12:56 PM, Anthony wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
I was really looking forward to you handing over the
administrative part of your job and concentrating on coding, great
things would have happened, I'm sure!
No reason he can't
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/9/28 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
going to be starting a new
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
and we're also concerned about the potential negative impact on
participation.
Please help me understand the implications of this statement.
It simply means that
a) we want to make sure that for the production roll-out,
Greg, I really don't want to reply to the specifics of this conversation --
Brion and Erik and others are much more deeply involved, and therefore better
situated to respond.
But I will say this: I know some people have speculated, or asked, if the
Wikimedia Foundation is deliberately holding
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:33 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/28 Mohamed Magdy mohamed@gmail.com:
This really sucks.
Hey, we'll all live, and he's alive and well :-)
Yes. But I find it difficult to understand that he leaves wm for some
social networking venture, I hope
2009/9/28 Sue Gardner susanpgard...@gmail.com:
Greg, I really don't want to reply to the specifics of this conversation --
Brion and Erik and others are much more deeply involved, and therefore better
situated to respond.
But I will say this: I know some people have speculated, or asked, if
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Aude wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome
years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm
going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading
On 9/28/09 2:23 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi!
And you'll still have commit access, so I
hope to keep seeing Revert rXXX, totally broken
Don't be so harsh on Brion, not every commit of his has been totally
broken :-)
*reverts domas* :)
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From: Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org
Subject: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet
To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia
Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org,
On 9/28/09 4:18 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
On 9/28/09 1:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Erik Moellere...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[snip]
plan, and Brion is hoping to invest some of his remaining time with it
in helping to get the extension ready for en.wp. It's not
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
Gregory,
To address:
My leading hypothesis were either that the staff was incredibly
overloaded with new initiatives like usability and strategywiki...WMF's
priorities have become so warped due to petitioning by
On 9/28/09 4:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
3) This page does not have a stable version; page stability settings
can be configured.- click this link [ideally that next form will be
better integrated into the protection form in future]
On 9/28/09 4:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
Switching it in for thie page to The stable revision; if not present,
then the current/draft one, I now see the little 'sighted' box on the
article page and have the review interface at the bottom (though some of
the UI elements haven't been fully
I also forwarded this to the English Wikipedia mailing list...
Brion Vibber wrote:
It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the
configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to
function when I test them.
Quick steps to try it out:
1) Find a
On 9/28/09 5:15 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I also forwarded this to the English Wikipedia mailing list...
Yay! :)
Also added on the tech blog:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/flaggedrevs-test-wiki-awaits-you/
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Brion Vibber wrote:
On 9/28/09 5:15 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I also forwarded this to the English Wikipedia mailing list...
Yay! :)
Also added on the tech blog:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/flaggedrevs-test-wiki-awaits-you/
Actually it bounced, on account of I am not a
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Of course. But I wasn't expecting a turn up on English Wikipedia yet.
I'm asking why the 25 lines of configuration that EnWP specified have
not yet been added to the test wiki at
I think having the thursday meeting one or two more hours later would work
fine for Europe, so if that works also better for Australia... Not sure
about the Friday one, although the next day is weekend. 2130 UTC sounds like
a good time though.
2009/9/29 Angela bees...@gmail.com
1) Have the
2009/9/29 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the
configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to
function when I test them.
Quick steps to try it out:
[snip]
Where do you want comments? I'll put the one I
2009/9/29 effe iets anders effeietsand...@gmail.com:
I think having the thursday meeting one or two more hours later would work
fine for Europe, so if that works also better for Australia... Not sure
about the Friday one, although the next day is weekend. 2130 UTC sounds like
a good time
On 9/28/09 5:19 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
On 9/28/09 5:15 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I also forwarded this to the English Wikipedia mailing list...
Yay! :)
Also added on the tech blog:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/flaggedrevs-test-wiki-awaits-you/
Actually it
On 9/28/09 5:23 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the
configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to
function when I test them.
Holy crap!
In my defense:
It's pretty clear that no one was aware that it was turned
2009/9/29 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2009/9/29 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the
configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to
function when I test them.
Quick steps to try it out:
[snip]
on a friday? :S
2009/9/29 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
2009/9/29 effe iets anders effeietsand...@gmail.com:
I think having the thursday meeting one or two more hours later would
work
fine for Europe, so if that works also better for Australia... Not sure
about the Friday one,
2009/9/28 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the
configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to
function when I test them.
Thanks for looking into it, Brion.
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia
But not established users ?
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From: Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 5:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions)
for
2009/9/29 wjhon...@aol.com:
But not established users ?
Not established users what?
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You cut off the response.? I was responding directly to the post previous
where it was stated that crats and admins could poke at this.? So I'm wondering
why not open it to all established editors.? There are editors who have been
around a long time and are not admins.
-Original
2009/9/29 wjhon...@aol.com:
You cut off the response.? I was responding directly to the post previous
where it was stated that crats and admins could poke at this.? So I'm
wondering why not open it to all established editors.? There are editors who
have been around a long time and are
Thanks.? Ok I've found you do that now.
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Adminship_requests
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From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Mon, Sep 28, 2009
Brion, thank you for your tremendous work, enthusiasm, and grace, and
congratulations on your new job. StatusNet will be lucky to have you,
and I hope this means among other things that we will see better
integration of real-time communication into platforms such as wikis.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com
wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
2009/9/28 wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk:
From the earlier poster Teofilo:
I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full
resolution pictures of Public Domain works.
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