Thanks Gerard, could you also inquire about the year before? I remember them being in some obscure ftp directory, unlabeled.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hoi, > The Wikimania presentations of Alexandria are no longer online.. I am > trying > to find out if a backup exists.. > Thanks, > GerardM > > PS If you have a copy of the Merrick Schaeffer presentation, I would be > happy to learn that you do.. > > 2009/1/11 Brian <[email protected]> > > > Perhaps, do you have a link? :) > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Sunday 11 January 2009 20:08:22 Brian wrote: > > > > pointed out, "I would bet there's at least one template that uses a > > > > ParserFunction on 75% or more of all the articles on enwiki." > MediaWiki > > > > effectively has a programming language in it because of a few hours > of > > > > developer work and a few minutes of conversation. A programming > > language > > > > that, apparantly, cannot be reverted. > > > > > > That programming language was introduced solely because Wikipedia > editors > > > have > > > already been using another programming language, which had the same > > > capabilities, but used much more resources. If you can get Wikipedians > > not > > > to > > > use any programming language in their templates, you can effectively > > revert > > > the change, and I don't see why the extension wouldn't be turned off > > > afterwards. > > > > > > > I have been to the developer presentations at all but one Wikimania, > > and > > > > they are dissapointing. I don't really see new ideas for features > being > > > > presented to the community, and I do not believe that the developers > > > ideas > > > > > > Including mine? :) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > foundation-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
