Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
On 2 Mar 2010, at 01:18, MZMcBride wrote: You know what sounds toxic? The claim that a man is a new resident in the area and a known child molester. That's been in one of our articles for months and months; the only provided source is a dead link that's part of an advocacy site. Reverted last night by Wjhonson, for anyone wondering: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=West_Memphis_3action=historysubmitdiff=347211677oldid=346894057 Mike ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Extension of user experience work
Dear Delphine, Aphaia, Mike and those who congratulated us off the list, Thank you for your kind words and encouragements. We, the user experience programs team, are very excited and grateful to be able to continue improving the usability and user experience of Wikimedia projects. The Stanton usability project is in the final phase, but we are still developing one of the most complicated features we worked so far,collapsing and form-based templates. We are faced with a lot of challenges, but we hope to be able to share the prototype in coming weeks. The success of the usability initiative so far could not have been possible without the strong support and constructive critiques from the community members who constantly participated in design discussion, prototype testing, provided feedback through the beta survey. I also want to acknowledge various community members who not only raised the usability to be address as high priority task, but actually took actions in improving the usability since 2005. To name a few, Openusability.org conducted usability study with Ellen Reitmayr in Germany in 2006 and published the result. Robert Stojnic implemented the proposed search result page in a matter of weeks after the mock-up was uploaded to the usability wiki. Kozuch and Mephiles602 constantly helped maintain the usability wiki in addition to participating the discussion of new features and designs. Nihiltres, who was the member of 2005 WikiProject Usability, reminded us when our beta stopped working on iPhone. Cbrown tested RTL display and files a bug. Aphia found a bug in Japanese prototype. Cary and Mike jumped in when there were severe incidents of vandalism on the usability wiki. They all contributed more than my simple list here, but what I want to say is they all made a difference in our project. The list goes on and on, and I am only naming a few folks here, who came to my mind while I type this email. (Forgive me for the names I have omitted here in advance.) Multimedia usability project continues while the Stanton usability team shifts the focus from simplifying the editing interface to rich text editor and a research of social interactive component of the user experience. Strategy Planning Team published rich contents under Community Health, which we will be studying carefully and determine which area we should focus first. Thanks again for your encouragements. It is great to be part of the permanent member of the Wikimedia community. :-) Cheers, - Naoko -- Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Extension of user experience work
On 2 March 2010 09:19, Naoko Komura nkom...@wikimedia.org wrote: The Stanton usability project is in the final phase, but we are still developing one of the most complicated features we worked so far, collapsing and form-based templates. We are faced with a lot of challenges, but we hope to be able to share the prototype in coming weeks. Usable WYSIWYG for templates will do *wonders* for contributions to en:wp. Wikitext has pretty much turned into impenetrable computer guacamole for non-technical prospective contributors. Even I find it daunting. (I look forward to Greg Maxwell's bug reports, he's been doing rather well at breaking the Wikia WYSIWYG ;-) - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:18 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: You know what sounds toxic? The claim that a man is a new resident in the area and a known child molester. That's been in one of our articles for months and months; the only provided source is a dead link that's part of an advocacy site. You think people are going to actually fact check links before flagging an edit. Ha! ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Will iam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
Hoi, Some will, the ones that don't do a reasonable job may lose their flagging capability or get flagged as an appreciation for the quality of their work. Thanks, GerardM PS Please be a bit more considerate, a bit more positive ... On 2 March 2010 17:20, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:18 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: You know what sounds toxic? The claim that a man is a new resident in the area and a known child molester. That's been in one of our articles for months and months; the only provided source is a dead link that's part of an advocacy site. You think people are going to actually fact check links before flagging an edit. Ha! ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Building up the reserves
The recent 6-month financial report indicates at the end of 2008, there was $6.67 million sitting in a savings account. At the end of 2009, it's $12.56 million. Do individual contributors and organizations who are donating to the Wikimedia Foundation realize that nearly $6 million of last year's funds were simply put into the bank? Do you think donors think this is an important mission, to build up the savings account? -- Gregory Kohs ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Building up the reserves
On 2 March 2010 04:37, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think donors think this is an important mission, to build up the savings account? Yes. Getting out of living hand-to-mouth and building an actual ongoing reserve has been an express goal over the past few years. - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, Some will, the ones that don't do a reasonable job may lose their flagging capability or get flagged as an appreciation for the quality of their work. Thanks, GerardM PS Please be a bit more considerate, a bit more positive ... C'mon Gerard, I'm not going to pretend that flagged revisions, as currently proposed to be implemented, is going to be a magical silver bullet, just so I can be positive and upbeat (and considerate???). The fact of the matter is that I am quite convinced that the current proposed implementation of flagged revisions is going to help very little, and in some instances may actually make things worse. Yes, I realize the decision has already been made to go ahead and implement this feature. And I'm hoping along with the rest of you that it gets implemented as soon as possible. But I'm not going to pretend it's a particularly good idea. I hope it gets implemented as soon as possible because once it does maybe people can see its failure and start thinking about some real solutions. The ones that don't do a reasonable job may lose their flagging capability? What's a reasonable job? Are people *supposed* to fact-check everything before they flag an edit? Are they *supposed* to verify all references? What if those references aren't available online? Would the person who flagged the edit about What are we currently doing when people edit about JM Sr. lose her flagging capability? Would she even be admonished? The source most likely was not broken at the time it was added. It wasn't a particularly good source, but can you imagine the Wikipedia community taking away flagging privileges over a dispute over the reliability of a source? Is [[User:W guice]] going to be admonished for this edit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Memphis_3diff=336279698oldid=334567668). S/he made a typographical fix to the paragraph in question. Has anyone even found the person who added the paragraph in the first place? Is that person going to lose their editing capability for not doing a reasonable job? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Building up the reserves
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: Yeah, IIRC it was one of the suggestions of the auditors a few years ago. How much would you say needs to be saved up before WMF is no longer living hand-to-mouth? Very interesting question. Presumably it can be expressed as a percentage of yearly running costs? I would be curious to know of an answer to this. Anybody familiar with other non-profits in this regard? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 18:37, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: I hope it gets implemented as soon as possible because once it does maybe people can see its failure and start thinking about some real solutions. Are you aware of the fact that it's been used in non-English wikipedias for years? And it's been quite a successful feature. YMMV. grin ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Will iam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
On 2 March 2010 12:28, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 18:37, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: I hope it gets implemented as soon as possible because once it does maybe people can see its failure and start thinking about some real solutions. Are you aware of the fact that it's been used in non-English wikipedias for years? And it's been quite a successful feature. Years is a bit of an exaggeration. German Wikipedia was first and that was May 6, 2008. That's a little under 2 years. I don't think anyone has actually done any objective review of its success. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] There is a Malayalam mobile Wikipedia homepage
Hoi, Last week Thursday there was no localisation for the Malayalam wikipedi, it did not have a mobile main page.. Today it is the first language of India that has the best support we can offer to mobile telephones. According to many, the mobile phone will generate much of our future traffic.. I hope and expect that India will amaze us and grow a vibrant and rich community for all its languages. Thanks, GerardM http://ml.m.wikipedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 21:36, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Are you aware of the fact that it's been used in non-English wikipedias for years? And it's been quite a successful feature. Years is a bit of an exaggeration. German Wikipedia was first and that was May 6, 2008. That's a little under 2 years. I stand corrected. It's been used for more than a year now, ... Much better, you're right. ;-) I don't think anyone has actually done any objective review of its success. Which does not imply it's been a failure. But generally my measure would be a) bad mood/stress level of the editors doing patrolling (which by my educated guess went down), and b) the incidents of indecent/unwanted content appearing for the wide public (which by my observation definitely went down, my guess is close to zero). There are people who thought it's a miracle and now disappointed that it wasn't. It doesn't solve world peace, hunger, and article quality problems, among other things. But what it does is basically make usual vandalism pointless. At least on my home wiki, huwp. Still it's okay for me to have it implemented and let people to see _whether_ it's a failure. -- byte-byte, grin ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Will iam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
On 2 March 2010 13:04, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: Which does not imply it's been a failure. But generally my measure would be a) bad mood/stress level of the editors doing patrolling (which by my educated guess went down), and b) the incidents of indecent/unwanted content appearing for the wide public (which by my observation definitely went down, my guess is close to zero). What about c) people not editing (or not continuing to edit) because they don't like their edits not going live immediately? Any data on that? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] �lliam Pietri: Where is Flagge dRevisions?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Peter Gervai wrote: Are you aware of the fact that it's been used in non-English wikipedias for years? And it's been quite a successful feature. YMMV. grin Are you aware it's been used on enwikibooks too? And has been quite a failure there? YMMV. - -Mike -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuNnGoACgkQst0AR/DaKHuyrwCfb4Y6NCUTs8/bkZaQEIsbkMHo 5HEAn3x8hjl/aq42SyQU20QP6hghTEuH =H03g -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik M�ller , W illiam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: What about c) people not editing (or not continuing to edit) because they don't like their edits not going live immediately? Any data on that? I think this is one of the two main reasons flagged revs has failed on enwikibooks. The other being that we lack sufficient manpower to get enough reviewing done to make it worthwhile. I hope the usability work being done (I assume, I've not seen the commits) on the extension will make what manpower we *do* have stretch further. I don't know if there is even a theoretical solution to the first problem. - -Mike -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuNnTQACgkQst0AR/DaKHu09gCeKKGMSPMEs31gMAysIl2mgNoN wOcAn1MUWUn6wKABSljMN7YHzro6XV0R =GsfH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 18:37, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: I hope it gets implemented as soon as possible because once it does maybe people can see its failure and start thinking about some real solutions. Are you aware of the fact that it's been used in non-English wikipedias for years? And it's been quite a successful feature. I'm aware of the fact that a different form of it than the one proposed for the English Wikipedia, has been used for quite a while on the German Wikipedia (apparently May 6, 2008). I assume other language Wikipedias have followed suit. I'm not aware of how successful it was on the German Wikipedia, and I'm also not aware of how closely the problems and cultures of the German Wikipedia are to the English Wikipedia. I'd love to hear any insights you have on this. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 21:36, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think anyone has actually done any objective review of its success. Which does not imply it's been a failure. No, of course not. What it implies is that a claim that it's been quite a successful feature should be disregarded unless and until some actually objective review is presented. But generally my measure would be a) bad mood/stress level of the editors doing patrolling (which by my educated guess went down), and b) the incidents of indecent/unwanted content appearing for the wide public (which by my observation definitely went down, my guess is close to zero). There are people who thought it's a miracle and now disappointed that it wasn't. It doesn't solve world peace, hunger, and article quality problems, among other things. But what it does is basically make usual vandalism pointless. At least on my home wiki, huwp. Still it's okay for me to have it implemented and let people to see _whether_ it's a failure. Okay, good point, you're right. I've been known to be wrong from time to time, so I should leave room for the possibility that this is one of those times. Maybe it will be a success. Maybe it'll cut down drastically on the stupid obvious vandalism, thereby freeing people up to concentrate on the tricky subtle vandalism. Or maybe the culture of the English Wikipedia is just drastically different from the Hungarian Wikipedia, and the total amount of vandalism won't go down much at all - it'll just get trickier and more subtle, and the vandal-fighters will wind up spending more time and not less. Unfortunately, if I had to bet, I'd bet on the latter. In any case, the kind of problem which Mr. McBride (?) was complaining about doesn't fall under usual vandalism anyway. Anthony ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy
It has come to my attention that the Wikimedia Foundation through its Office actions policy removed and oversighted the signing keys for Texas Instruments calculators under a DMCA takedown notice on October 7, 2009. Cary Bass then oversighted all revisions that had the signing keys. Let me just say it might not be necessary to continue to block the signing keys. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has reported that they warned Texas Instruments about the DMCA notices as noted, the DMCA explicitly allows reverse engineering to create interoperable custom software like the programs the hobbyists are using. [1]. Further Texas Instruments failed to respond to the letter and the deadline, so the bloggers who put up the codes put them back up. [2] Also a student at a university who posted the keys to his own personal page at the university filed a DMCA 512 counternotice. With all of this is mind, as since the keys are still up today, could we please remove the Office action and allow the keys to be posted, and un-oversight all the revisions so we could end all this vandalism and controversy on-wiki? It would be a good step to tell Texas Instruments that this is just a Baseless Legal Threat. Also, if it's not lifted, could the Foundation explain why isn't removing the Office action? If we do allow the keys on Wikipedia, I pretty much think the EFF would support us all the way. Thanks, Techman224 Links: [1] http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/13 [2] http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/texas-instruments-stop-digging-holes ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy
Re-sending message, the mail server doesn't like html :( It has come to my attention that the Wikimedia Foundation through its Office actions policy removed and oversighted the signing keys for Texas Instruments calculators under a DMCA takedown notice on October 7, 2009. Cary Bass then oversighted all revisions that had the signing keys. Let me just say it might not be necessary to continue to block the signing keys. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has reported that they warned Texas Instruments about the DMCA notices as noted, the DMCA explicitly allows reverse engineering to create interoperable custom software like the programs the hobbyists are using. [1]. Further Texas Instruments failed to respond to the letter and the deadline, so the bloggers who put up the codes put them back up. [2] Also a student at a university who posted the keys to his own personal page at the university filed a DMCA 512 counternotice. With all of this is mind, as since the keys are still up today, could we please remove the Office action and allow the keys to be posted, and un-oversight all the revisions so we could end all this vandalism and controversy on-wiki? It would be a good step to tell Texas Instruments that this is just a Baseless Legal Threat. Also, if it's not lifted, could the Foundation explain why isn't removing the Office action? If we do allow the keys on Wikipedia, I pretty much think the EFF would support us all the way. Thanks, Techman224 Links: [1] http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/13 [2] http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/texas-instruments-stop-digging-holes ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy
I think you're misconstruing who is doing what here. The Foundation is not the person required to send the counter notice, nor do they have the freedom or the obligation to involve themselves in a copyright dispute between TI and another user. It's not their determination to make whether the action is necessary or not. -Dan On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Techman224 wrote: It has come to my attention that the Wikimedia Foundation through its Office actions policy removed and oversighted the signing keys for Texas Instruments calculators under a DMCA takedown notice on October 7, 2009. Cary Bass then oversighted all revisions that had the signing keys. Let me just say it might not be necessary to continue to block the signing keys. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has reported that they warned Texas Instruments about the DMCA notices as noted, the DMCA explicitly allows reverse engineering to create interoperable custom software like the programs the hobbyists are using. [1]. Further Texas Instruments failed to respond to the letter and the deadline, so the bloggers who put up the codes put them back up. [2] Also a student at a university who posted the keys to his own personal page at the university filed a DMCA 512 counternotice. With all of this is mind, as since the keys are still up today, could we please remove the Office action and allow the keys to be posted, and un-oversight all the revisions so we could end all this vandalism and controversy on-wiki? It would be a good step to tell Texas Instruments that this is just a Baseless Legal Threat. Also, if it's not lifted, could the Foundation explain why isn't removing the Office action? If we do allow the keys on Wikipedia, I pretty much think the EFF would support us all the way. Thanks, Techman224 Links: [1] http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/13 [2] http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/texas-instruments-stop-digging-holes ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion about proposal for multilingual Wikibooks
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they need wider discussion for concluding them. One of such requests is for multilingual Wikibooks [2]. Please, discuss here (at foundation-l; I am sending this message to textbook-l to poke those who are not at foundation-l) or on wiki at the page [2]. [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikibooks_Multilingual The request has been rejected as invalid. The explanation for rejection is below: According to the Language proposal policy, Language committee may approve just a project which intends to be written in one language. Thus, this proposal is invalid. If you want to create multilingual Wikibooks, please create a page Multilingual Wikibooks and start discussion about the idea at textbook-l. --Millosh 06:15, 3 March 2010 (UTC) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion about proposal for multilingual Wiktionary
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they need wider discussion for concluding them. One of such requests is for multilingual Wiktionary [2]. Please, discuss here (at foundation-l; I am sending this message to wiktionary-l to poke those who are not at foundation-l) or on wiki at the page [2]. [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktionary_multilingual The request has been rejected as invalid. The explanation for rejection is below: According to the Language proposal policy, Language committee may approve just a project which intends to be written in one language. Thus, this proposal is invalid. If you want to create multilingual Wiktionary, please create a page Multilingual Wiktionary and start discussion about the idea at wiktionary-l. Note, also, that there is a free content project OmegaWiki, which is in fact multilingual Wiktionary. --Millosh 06:18, 3 March 2010 (UTC) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion about proposal for multilingual Wikinews
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they need wider discussion for concluding them. One of such requests is for multilingual Wikinews [2]. Please, discuss here (at foundation-l; I am sending this message to wikinews-l to poke those who are not at foundation-l) or on wiki at the page [2]. [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_multilingual The request has been rejected as invalid. The explanation for rejection is below: According to the Language proposal policy, Language committee may approve just a project which intends to be written in one language. Thus, this proposal is invalid. If you want to create multilingual Wikinews, please create a page Multilingual Wikinews and start discussion about the idea at wikinews-l. --Millosh 06:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
