Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Based Open Source Project - Help On Licencing

2012-01-03 Thread Mono mium
They are using MediaWiki for their support site, which is perfectly OK. However, if they took the MediaWiki source code, closed it, and tried to sell it, that wouldn't. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I know that the software we use for our website

Re: [Wikitech-l] grouping users - an idea for a new SUL improvement

2012-01-01 Thread Mono mium
I had a related question: Is there any way to actually verify the logins of Wikimedia users w/o username/password? On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Looks good. Although I'd rename the member of Group:Bob to belongs to User:Bob, so you would have: User:Bob

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed chat system

2011-09-04 Thread Mono mium
Hi there, I'm working on a live help system. I'll send more information as development progresses, but I simply wanted to let you know that this is in progress. Thanks. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Harry Burt jarry1...@gmail.com wrote: Hey wikitech-l, I finally got around to reading the

Re: [Wikitech-l] ICANN expansion, relative URLs

2011-06-20 Thread Mono mium
Has anyone looked into introducing .wiki, initially for Wikimedia, but later for others (the fee could support the foundation)? On Saturday, June 18, 2011, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose in theory having apple available is no worse than apple.com (since you *could* have an

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc.wikimedia.org status

2011-06-08 Thread Mono mium
http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/156492/IRC-RecentChanges has some pretty graphs. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:54 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: John wrote: irc.wikimedia.org has been down for six hours without any information can someone please take a look and give us some information?

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
We don't want to use Microsoft's, whatever we do, because it promotes their own borked browser IE9. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mark Dilley markwdil...@gmail.com wrote: aside from main conversation Would it be a good community gesture to join Microsoft in trying to eradicate IE6?

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
Why not? On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Thats completly not the point. 2011/6/3, Mono mium monom...@gmail.com: We don't want to use Microsoft's, whatever we do, because it promotes their own borked browser IE9. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mark

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
Anyone can upgrade, Chad. It's not hard and any sane IT department should have done it six years ago. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: We shouldn't throw annoying text/graphics at people who probably *cant* upgrade. -Chad On Jun 3, 2011 4:27 PM, Mono mium

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
I still support input type=crash. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson rnnel...@clarkson.edu wrote: Another possibility is for us to 1) announce that IE6 is no longer a supported browser, and 2) just stop worrying about IE6. Not take support out, but not worry about

Re: [Wikitech-l] On the IE6 query string security check breakage (bug 28235)

2011-06-02 Thread Mono mium
Look, we're moving into a new generation of web browsers. It's time to upgrade - it's easy and free. We shouldn't spend our time/resources trying to support ten-year-old technology. Even Microsoft is trying to get people to stop and it's the responsibility of any popular website to support modern