Re: [Foundation-l] Font support for our domains

ntry TLDs. .org and other gTLDs will not be internationalised for the moment. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

gt; It would therefore make sense for WMDE to try to reach Macedonians > living in Germany, and for future WMMK to help them in doing so. It would make sense. But at the moment WMDE is not even actively doing anything for the _native_ languages of Germany except for German. I think

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

cit material is to introduce a more professional release procedure. If we'd require proper USC 2257 releases for explicit content, that would improve our legal position and it would automatically lead to less anonymous low quality uploads. That's something I would support. Marcus Buc

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those factors can be very different but the concept can be there. > Interesting. What's the math behind that numbers? Or the source? Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Changes in Language committee practice: ancient and constructed languages

eaningless. So the requisites for "sustainable activity" should be quite low for Wikisource, but much higher for Wikinews, Wikipedia being somewhere between. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

differences. But outsiders shouldn't impose decisions on the community. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

nd in many jurisdictions also PD-ineligible) and they have no problem defending their brand. Why should Wikimedia logos be any different? Just release the logos under a free license and the problem will be gone. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

anization with non-copyrighted logo) does not? Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

This is a thread that accidentally became off-list due to a wrong reply-to header. Mike Godwin hett schreven: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Marcus Buck wrote: > > Mike Godwin hett schreven: > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Marcus Buck wrote: > > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Status report on logo copyright issues at Swedish Wikipedia

start of the discussion or were easy to find for anybody who cared to look. It was not lack of information that produced the 50 messages. It's just that people disagree about the conclusions drawn from the facts. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ founda

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

power at all to stop the "Founder"-flagged berserk. [affirmed] Is this the story? Or are there any story arcs that I missed? Please correct me, wherever I am wrong. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

eted by a third Commons admin. (Jimbo is not online at the moment to overturn that decision.) I think this is a really obvious example how Jimbo breaks policies and why large parts of the Commons community are upset. Marcus Buck User:Slomox __

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

bation sessions! It will be a total explosion if you are used to masturbate to Commons material! Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

isallows showing them) a filter could be set to remove those images. Creating a technical solution like that is the task of the foundation. The _real_ task of the foundation. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.

Re: [Foundation-l] What the board is responsible of (was Re: Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions)

racy the government is just an executive branch of the overall society that takes measures to improve the society's welfare. The Foundation is just the executive branch of the Wikimedia community. It's sole purpose is to serve the community by doing tasks that cannot possibly

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

he penises, not the other pages. Better than being blocked altogether. The tags applied should be clear and fact-based. So instead of tagging a page as "containing pornography", which is entirely subjective, we should rather tag the page as "contains a depiction

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

David Gerard hett schreven: > On 9 May 2010 21:17, Marcus Buck wrote: > > >> The tags applied should be clear and fact-based. So instead of tagging a >> page as "containing pornography", which is entirely subjective, we >> should rather tag the page as &q

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening

I think the world has moved on a bit from the one country, one > religion / set of values / morals. > You are of course right. But what is the alternative? The only alternative is not basing it on location so everybody sees the same. That's like "one world, one set of value

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

r free encyclopedia project would have evolved in place. Wikipedia wasn't the only community-driven encyclopedia project. But it made the race and beat all its competitors cause no other project was as free and easily accessible as Wikipedia. Marcus Buck User:Slomox __

Re: [Foundation-l] Are Wikimedia websites a proper venue for an artistic contest ?

> If that really is the only reason for deletion then the deletion request will be denied soon. It's just a single person. Everybody can file a deletion request. You don't need to bother about a single person with bad judgement. There are other people with better judgement who

Re: [Foundation-l] Are Wikimedia websites a proper venue for an artistic contest ?

There's no limit in disk space, so no reason to delete images that could be useful in contexts that may not be imagined at the moment. Marcus Buck User:Slomox Marcus Buck hett schreven: > Teofilo hett schreven: > >> I discovered this morning "poor composition" as an ar

Re: [Foundation-l] Country portals

mes redirecting to a single project, sometimes redirecting to non-Wikimedia-related sites. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

ou are a stalker and legal action may be taken against you. Just because collecting public data is legal doesn't mean that aggregating it is legal. And German law is less lax with privacy than other laws. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

An'n 03.08.2010 18:58, hett Marcus Buck schreven: >An'n 03.08.2010 09:13, hett emijrp schreven: >> User contributions are also aggregated and publicly available. User >> contributions are aggregated according to their registration and login >> status. Data on

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

or organizations seems a bit overinflated looking at the advanced methods of censorship they've already developed. And the selection process the community has to do feels not to be much different than what the community already does now. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

the former vernaculars. Allowing the Arab dialects to go this way is a highly political decision. Forbidding it would be too. So there is no way Wikimedia could avoid making a political stance. But from the POV of 'Freedom' we should allow. If we forbid that's a definite s

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

elisabeth bauer hett schreven: > 2009/1/11 Marcus Buck : > > >> In the Arabic world there's a prevalent POV, that Arabs form one nation >> united by the use of the Arabic language. But in reality Standard Arabic >> is something like Latin. With the difference,

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

Muhammad Alsebaey hett schreven: >> The mission of the foundation is an educational one. So it would be >> better to ask the uneducated masses of Egypt, whether they feel a gain >> from a Wikipedia in their language or whether they stick with the >> "Latin&

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

Tim Starling hett schreven: > Marcus Buck wrote: > >> In the Arabic world there's a prevalent POV, that Arabs form one nation >> united by the use of the Arabic language. But in reality Standard Arabic >> is something like Latin. With the difference, that Lati

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

l and thus lead to embittered enmities. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

also share with Germany, France, Britain, > Switzerland, Norway, Sweden etc.? > > Michael I didn't state they have any particular shared mindset that sets them off from the countries you named. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list found

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

Geoffrey Plourde hett schreven: > I am sure he will handle the rename as soon as he can, but patience is key. > cough, please be patient! It's only been three years since mo.wikipedia was closed. The case will be handled as soon as one of our service team members becomes availab

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

. It will never come up again after that... Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

ere was almost no support for the Interlanguage extension, although it would fundamentally improve the interwiki process. We would do much better, if the tech people had more time to care about things. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing

[Foundation-l] Domains

dia.xx domains). Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?

Brian hett schreven: > There is only one thing stopping it from going live in my opinion - developer > enthusiasm. What about community consensus? Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] vro

uage just in the same way as 'vro' fits under the roof of an 'et' macrolanguage. But they are handled differently nonetheless. I oppose to move et.wikipedia to ekk.wikipedia and I think this would be a really bad service to the et.wikipedia community. Marcus Buck Gerard Meijssen

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] vro

do not agree when asked "Do you speak Estonian?" They'd say "No, I speak Voro." So, both Nynorsk and Bokmal are contesters to the code 'no', but Voro has few interest to be covered by 'et'. That shouldn't surprise, since Nynorsk and Bokmal are two dif

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] vro

ome a portal linking to all Norwegian projects. It won't be an abrupt or disruptive change. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The Ruth and Frank Stanton Fund

ame and not abbreviated. The Stanton Fund has spent 1,2 million $ in 2007, which is the fitting magnitude. But the profile of their spendings is not obviously related to the Wikimedia donation. (That's all no support of the idea, the WMF got wrong the name, just information witho

Re: [Foundation-l] Help-book made available in en Wikipedia against Licensing Policy

Gerard Meijssen hett schreven: > Hoi > What is IUP ? > Thanks, > GerardM [[en:WP:IUP]] Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

ebody you know. This image is indeed harmless, it's just a little flick of slip. Embarassing, but not the "humiliating" kind of embarassing, but more the "oops" kind. But we have other ones on our projects, that are more harmful. Marcus Buck ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

fear to experience some kind of "harm" if that would be done. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

ve > articles on means that we should have several hundred thousand images > of faces. > > In addition most parts of the human anatomy don't have the same > providence issues. The issue is pictures of genitalia, isn't it? So &q

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

least _anything_. At the moment we assume good faith even if the probability for good faith is marginal. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

y didn't came around to it since April 2008 would proove my "accusation" that the "little projects" are indeed regarded second-class. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http

Re: [Foundation-l] Creation of Pontic Wikipedia

;s the common name for Macedonia in the Pontic community, the article should be under that name. If it's not, well, then find references supporting that and argue on the wiki. But dragging the issue on the "international stage" won't be helpful in any way. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] depth

-> <http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?user=ReDirBot>) Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] depth

he depth higher). Comparing depths for different projects is almost futile, if you don't know about the specifics of the project that influence the depth. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsu

Re: [Foundation-l] Interview: Wikipedia usability and test results

I would appreciate, if we do not put cultural non-universal April 1 jokes on an international list. Perhaps you had fun, I have none. Marcus Buck User:Slomox Ziko van Dijk hett schreven: > Hello, > A couple of days ago I have contacted our project manager in San Francisco > who is dea

Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons

how to behave in an intercultural environment, but only if we tell them that they are idiots, awareness can arise for the idioticy of this behaviour. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Interview: Wikipedia usability and test results

, isn't it? There are two interpretations possible now: a) All those critics are dicks. b) You did something that is indeed critizable. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://l

Re: [Foundation-l] Interview: Wikipedia usability and test results

Aryeh Gregor hett schreven: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Marcus Buck wrote: > >> Harsh critic, isn't it? There are two interpretations possible now: a) >> All those critics are dicks. b) You did something that is indeed critizable. >> > > "Al

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was promised !

say, you should urgently hire some more people, who help you do the tasks that need to be done, or alternatively make access to administrative tools easier, so that voluntary helpers can help you do the tasks that need to be done. Marcus Buck User:Slomox

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

f measure. Instead of getting a warning the user would be blocked from looking at the content. Although this would be on the border to real censorship and could be abused. I think, a system like that would provide the highest amount of flexibility without imposing any restrictions on anyb

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

David Gerard hett schreven: > (c.f. the earlier proposal for a Victims of Soviet Repression wiki - > nice idea, but utterly unsuited to WMF through utter lack of > neutrality.) > <http://sep11.wikipedia.org/> does still work by the way. Marcu

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with humantranslations of Wikipedia articles

at not enough, they have the chutzpa to _reject_ adding any further languages [no additions since at least 2007, although they still support Elmer Fudd, bork bork bork, Klingon and pirate speak...]. At the moment Google supports the languages of roundabout 85 to 90% of the world's popula

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with humantranslations of Wikipedia articles

o too. > One of the most important things that is needed for adding languages to a > technology like this is having a sufficiently sized corpus. Yes, that was basically my main question: What is sufficiently? How much pages or MB of text? At least the order of magnitude. Marcus Buc

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with humantranslations of Wikipedia articles

de at least for several years). And most importantly I think, that the question of ISO codes is not related to Google's operations. If Google wants to use Wikipedia content to improve their tools it should be really easy for them to do the code mapping (e.g. 'no'

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Some reflections about the governance of Commons

e, that is intended to show how some arguments of the other party feel. Sometimes this can lead to a catharsis where suddenly the own arguments seem less general and valid and suddenly you can appreciate and understand the worries of the other. Sometimes. Marcus Buck

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Some reflections about the governance of Commons

David Gerard hett schreven: > 2009/6/15 Marcus Buck : > >> David Gerard schrieb: >> >>> I'd hope this isn't a summary of the views of other Commons admins. >>> Anyone else? Or is the Commons admin community this insular and derisive? >>&

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with humantranslations of Wikipedia articles

time they answered not at all and the other time they said nothing had changed. Pirate of course is an important addition... And Montenegrin surely was a good measure to endear oneself to the Montenegrin government. Marcus Buck ___ foundation-l mai

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

y meaningless, whether Michael Jackson attracts 12 or 20 page views per 1000 speakers. If 988 people had no interest in looking up Michael Jackson, then that's okay. We still served the 12 who had. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mai

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

course a native Rundi project manager would be needed to ensure the quality of the contributions). Wouldn't it be great if the Wikimedia Foundation could go to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and say "Hey, with 100,000 $ you can help us to create a 100,000 entry encyclopedia

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

speakers to be part of the community and to add even more articles. Unlike the 38-article wiki we have now at which contributing is _not_ fun. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

cannot do things like buying servers, signing treaties etc. The foundation is an avatar. This is the sole reason why a foundation exists. To enable the community to act outside cyperspace. Therefore ideally there should be no decision without knowledge and acceptance of th

Re: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevs on Hungarian Wikipedia still not working

tion (the cheaper one) would be to create an interface, that allows local bureaucrats to switch on or off a set of approved extensions on their project. The interface would then run the needed scripts automatically. This interface needs to be written, but that's only one time and it will s

Re: [Foundation-l] 31 august, 20 years of our national holiday "Our romanian language" in Moldova, mo.wikipedia still in cyrillic !

Known problems since half a decade (when I joined Wiki(p/m)edia) and even before. Five years ago I understood that these dreams were impossible, but today we have the money to actually do it. We earned 2 million recently, so please spend some bucks on hiring people to improve the response time to

[Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

an unsuccessful search on the local wiki (as you will get it as of now) is a dead end. It certainly is worth putting some resources into it. What do you think? Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

Am 23.08.2010 18:20, schrieb Ole Palnatoke Andersen: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Marcus Buck wrote: > ... >> In view of the potential usefulness I cannot think of any argument that >> speaks against this in general. The prospect of providing at least basic >> in

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

he town data for places in Germany, Austria, Switzerland etc. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

An'n 23.08.2010 19:20, hett Magnus Manske schreven: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:13 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buck wrote: >> >>> Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki >>> like they did o

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

, not producing any articles in years). That claim is correct, but it also came with a significant decline in approval numbers. When the language approval policy was created in 2006 we had about 250 wikipedias (that's 50 per year since 2001). Now we have 270 wikipedias. 20 new wikipedias in a

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

u realize there are two different ppl in that quote above (it's > mis-attributing it to me, and it seems like I am agreeing with myself :) ). > I personally dont have any current issues with arz.wp and I hope the > discussion does not go into that d

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

An'n 26.08.2010 00:41, hett David Gerard schreven: > On 25 August 2010 23:34, Marcus Buck wrote: >> Gerard Meijssen keeps his contributions to >> the discussions secret > Is this true? If so, what is the rationale? Described like that, that > sounds ridiculous and unac

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

be done in public (e.g. for legal reasons). I hope and assume internal-l sticks to this purpose and all topics that don't require privacy are discussed on public lists. I don't know the reasons why the chapter and cultural lists are internal, I have not even ever heard abou

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

Gerard, would you be so kind and post a message on your mailing list informing your co-members about this discussion and inviting them to join in with their opinions? Would be especially nice to hear from Karen! Is that okay? Marcus Buck User:Slomox

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

while Gerard often tends to evade questions and spin them into something different. If external experts indeed personally fear repercussions for their comments in individual cases I would accept that as a reason to not archive their comments. But this certai

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

expert. If Karen is in a situation like this: Well, delete the history of her userpage and let her contribute pseudonymously. The employer won't know. Just use pseudonyms! Even the experts from conflict regions will be safe with pseudonyms. Better than publishing the names without the conten

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

pears to be when expertise is offered on the basis that > it is confidential, due to fear of attacks on the expert in question > from aggrieved nationalists. It's not clear how to work around that > one. Not that tricky. Instead of publishing their name and censoring their message, t

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] Transparency

gt; to talk about confidential (mostly personal) issues. Previous emails > will stay as they are, according to the old rules. Thanks for this change from me too! Thumbs up! Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco on small languages/dialects Wikipedias (Aristotle article)

es Eco is talking about (Piedmontese has 2 million, Sicilian even 8 million). But the Estonian-speaking society is in no way inferior to other societies. If Siclian or Piedmontese were not suppressed by the Italian standard language and were allowed to establish their own education systems there

Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

Javascript. The error can be fixed and the upload form should work as expected. If anybody knows where in the code the form blanking happens please report it so it can be fixed. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

An'n 25.09.2010 18:32, hett Milos Rancic schreven: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 18:28, Marcus Buck wrote: >> An'n 25.09.2010 17:53, hett Milos Rancic schreven: >>> Today I am working from my netbook. It is not so easy to find the >>> right button and the sc

[Foundation-l] subtitles for Wikimedia videos

titles natively. That would make it much easier for non-English Wikimedians to direct the interested public to the subtitled video in the respective language. Thanks. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsub

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Kosovo Chapter?

>> the dispute entirely, but it isn't easy to do. > Well, we already have four (or is it five?) Wikipedias for the one > language in the area. We've already dived right in. Please keep that out of the discussion. These two disputes have nothing in common except that th

Re: [Foundation-l] subtitles for Wikimedia videos

just an on/off switch that gives me random language subtitles) with HTML5, but I guess that's a problem of either my browser or YouTube and cannot be fixed on Wikimedia's side. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

-Peachey > > [1]. http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/closed.dblist We don't do this if the project is valid, just inactive and can restart at a later date. But we usually remove projects entirely if they are closed forever. See tokipona.wikipedia.org or tlh.wikipedia.org. Marcus Buck U

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

ode 'mo' by the way is deprecated because ISO recognized it as being identical with Romanian. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

n in Cyrillic. So if Wikimedia wanted to support a read-only Romanian in Cyrillic wiki at ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org it could easily go live in one day. From a technical point of view it's not hard. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mai

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

k, well, I can testify that implementing a full wiki with converted content is not much work. Much more work was spent in writing mailing list posts insulting Cetateanu Moldovanu calling him a "nationalist" than would have been necessary to create a solution to the problem.

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

eak the ro.wp community. If just 2% of all active ro.wp Wikipedians leave the project in disagreement about the issue that's twice as worse as if the 1% Romanian speakers of Transnistria are unable to participate. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

all for users of Cyrillic. My solution is not ideologically pure, but it at least provides access to the full content of ro.wp to the Cyrillic users. Your solution is ideologically pure, but will be devastating to ro.wp and damage that wiki severely. Therefore I ask everyone to prevent tha

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

it's unlikely that there's a big number of possible contributors in a population small like that (the language proposal policy speaks of 5 users as a the minimum to approve a new Wikipedia edition). Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

to be > shown in Cyrillic. > > The language policy allows for one project per project. It does explicitly > not allow for the exclusion of people who use another script. I demand that you give the exact quote from the policy that defines t

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

ark's self-assessment is mo-2 and he was one of the main contributors before the wiki got closed down: <http://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilizator:Node_ue>. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

ased on the old unregulated Cyrillic script but was newly designed from scratch to replace the Latin script. Marcus Buck User:Slomox ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

ge of a naked underage girl in your cache illegal or would lead to a lifetime employment barring is plain moronic. The internet is full of this stuff. Nota bene: not full of "child abuse", but full of material of biologically mature, but underage individuals ("amateur" porn)

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

t it opts for "status quo". So what's the Foundation's rationale for not serving the Cyrillic users? (Oh, and please don't answer with "limited resources, other important stuff to do". That would be a weak response. Any of the above options should be

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia: Coherent proposal

proposal because it allows full participation as requested by Mark and Gerard and yet not being intrusive and combined with the same level of perceived "recognition" that upsets the Latin users. And it's even implementable without action from the Foundation! Marcu

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