Re: [Wikimedia-l] UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY
Many consider a unsubscription link that requires more than two clicks (one click on the link, maybe one more on an 'are you sure' or 'confirm' button) to be bad. Could be a software limitation on the mailing list service we are using. Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] On 17 Jun, 2013, at 3:32 AM, Adrian Raddatz wrote: > You do realize that every message has an "unsubscribe" option at the > bottom, right? That's the easiest way to get off of this list. > > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Isaacs wrote: > >> I request to removed from the lists of people interested in receiving >> information from Wikimedia. >> >> UNsubscribe my account Immediately. >> >> My E-Mail Address: dwi...@yahoo.com >> >> I will EXPECT to receive a confirmation that my Wikimedia Account is >> PERMANENTLY CLOSED. >> >> Mary K. Isaacs >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > > > > -- > Adrian Raddatz > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China
On 8 Jun, 2013, at 12:24 AM, Matthew Roth wrote: > We have had contact with the authors of the blog and they have said they > will publish our response to their article, though I'm not sure when or in > what format. Great. That's really fast response. On the issue itself, we haven't seen any large scale blocks for years (around the time since last time Jimbo visited some Chinese official more than 4 or 5 years ago I think). The secure.wikimedia domain was blocked long ago, but they waited till now to block HTTPS, after 3 years? (I can't remember when it was enabled). I wonder how long it took for them to realise. It is suggested that this could be a long term block similar to how secure.wikimedia was blocked - for HTTPS they have no control over content, so they are simply blocking it all. For HTTP they are still performing deep package inspection (means content censoring), so since they can filter what the Chinese people can see, it's likely that they'll leave HTTP alone. Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China
Hi, Since 31 May, China's Great Firewall has blocked the HTTPS connection to all language versions of Wikipedia, by blocking port 443 on two of our IPs. I was also told that service to Wikimedia Commons may be affected. Other projects, such as en.wikisource are not affected by this block (but they may still be subjected to keyword censoring on HTTP). Compared to the previous short-lived half-day block, this time the block has been in place for a week and as usual no one knows if it will last for long. Here is an article that has some explanation, some comments, and (their) opinions and suggestions for the Foundation. https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jun/wikipedia-drops-ball-china-not-too-late-make-amends Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan
Don't get me wrong. CentralNotice can be used to block the entire page. It was used for the SOPA blackout. :) Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] On 29 May, 2013, at 12:45 AM, Ted Chien wrote: > > > On 2013年5月28日Tuesday at 下午11:37, Benjamin Chen wrote: > >> >> On 28 May, 2013, at 11:32 PM, Ted Chien > (mailto:hsiangtai.ch...@gmail.com)> wrote: >> >>> As I previously point out in my first question: can it be geo-targeting? >> >> With CentralNotice, yes you can make it target Taiwan users only. > But to blackout Wikipedia would gain better media reactions, and people will > know what the internet would like if the SOPA bill is been passed in Taiwan. > Also, last year the SOPA issue was in USA, why we can blackout the whole > en.wp and you think this time we don't have to blackout zh.wp just because > it's only in Taiwan? > > For the record, I just read the news that Taipei City Information Office > decided to put the block to its own free public WiFi service in a month from > now, long before the TIPO amend the Copyright Act of Taiwan. The Taipei Free > WiFi service has 200M+ users and has 300M+ visitors each month. > > News - Taipei City Government would follow TIPO to block websites within a > Month (in Chinese): > http://www.ettoday.net/news/20130528/213815.htm > > Regards, > Ted > > > > > > > > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan
On 28 May, 2013, at 11:32 PM, Ted Chien wrote: > As I previously point out in my first question: can it be geo-targeting? With CentralNotice, yes you can make it target Taiwan users only. Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan
On 28 May, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Ted Chien wrote: > (from what we have discussed on zh.wp, the Chinese > community has agreed on such blackout, but the date is still on discussion) For the record, I doubt if there is clear support/strong participation in the discussion. It is still to early to call it a consensus. > If we could implement such blackout, how soon it can be done? (Speaking as a not-very-tech-savvy person) Depends on what exactly the community want to do. If we make use of CentralNotice's geo-targeting, it is very easy to implement a Taiwan-only blackout/site-notice/redirect-to-specific page etc. This involves no server side configuration change, volunteers will be able to get this done. The time consuming part is to write the banner and it's javascript, but that shouldn't take longer than a day of there is people willing to help. Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result
Hi, I noticed that when I'm searching on Google, many Wikipedia results are in the form of lang-code.zero.wikipedia.org, perhaps just since a day or two ago. I'm not sure what items are indexed this way, but it would really be a trouble - there is no link on the page that jumps you to the standard site (even the notice links to main page of m.wikipedia.org, not the corresponding article on m.wikipedia.org) Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board candidates page: please set as a subject of translation
Hi guys, Before I saw the reply, I went ahead and tagged the page for translation, including Francis's statement. I have learnt and realised that it wasn't the best idea to translate that part just yet. Thanks Thehelpfulone, I've reverted that section. Sorry. The other parts of the two new statements are ready for translation. Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] On 15 May, 2013, at 12:26 AM, Thehelpfulone wrote: > Hi Takashi, > > Thanks for the reminder. I saw that Francis had his statement trimmed > by Philippe in his capacity as a Board Election Committee member > because it was over the character limit so decided not to mark it for > translation until he had the opportunity to rewrite it, so as to not > waste the valuable time of translators. I also waited to mark Jeromy's > candidacy for translation as he was making a couple of changes the > other day but just confirmed with him that he has finished making > tweaks to his statement. > > If the election committee don't get round to it, I'll mark Jeromy's > statement for translation later today but will follow up with Francis > before making his statement for translation - I don't think it's fair > for translators to translate a statement that could be considerably > tweaked (and would need re-translating). > > --- > Thehelpfulone > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone > > On 14 May 2013, at 16:05, Takashi OTA > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Could anybody (maybe admin on meta) set recent changes of the >> board candidates page as a subject to translation, so that we can >> translate candidacies of Francis and Jeromy-Yu with the translation tool? >> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections/2013/Candidates >> >> --Takashi >> >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed
On 30 Apr, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > Will the affected users be given a one-time offer to have their accounts > renamed, or are they stuck forever with the "~" ones? Rename is still possible, similar to what we have now, but just on a global level. So no, they are not stuck forever with it, of course. One thing to note is the technical limitation on # of edits. If account has too many edits, he may not be able to get it renamed further. How will that be managed? I guess James will address this issue, as he said he'll look through the rename list (make a one-time offer etc? ) . Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
I tested it on zh.wikipedia. Plain text are sometimes recognised as 'can't be edited with VisualEditor', Trying to insert/delete line breaks significantly messed up the page… not even sure how to file a bug because I can't properly describe the issue... Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] On 26 Apr, 2013, at 1:09 AM, James Forrester wrote: > On 18 April 2013 17:32, James Forrester wrote: >> TL;DR: VisualEditor will be deployed on 14 new Wikipedias next week as an >> opt-in alpha. Your assitance is requested to inform your wikis about this >> and help get the software translated. > > This is now done (for de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja, ar, he, hi, > ko, and zh). Grateful for feedback, bug reports and suggestions of how > we can improve the VisualEditor for you. > > Yours, > -- > James D. Forrester > Product Manager, VisualEditor > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement
On 6 Mar, 2013, at 3:11 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > It's unclear whether Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members and > Wikimedia stewards are also required to sign NDAs. Just for the purpose of information, stewards do not sign NDAs. Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] 2013 Stewards Election - candidate submission closes in a week
Dear all, I'd like to inform everyone that Steward Election 2013 [1] has now begun. Self-nominations from eligible candidates is open since 15 January. Interested candidates can check their eligibility and procedure to submit the nomination on the guidelines page [2]. We are open to accept candidate submissions till January 28, 2013, 23:59 (UTC). Questions to the candidates can also be posted. Confirmation of existing stewards [3] is scheduled to run concurrently with the election. Please remember, the voting and confirmation discussion have not yet begun and will be not until February 8, 2013, 00:00 (UTC). Voters eligibility is outlined at the guideline page as well. For those who want to help us out with translation, please see our translation portal [4]. Your contribution is really appreciated. If you have any questions or comments about the election and confirmation, feel free to post on the talk page, or the IRC channel #wikimedia-stewards-elections. Lastly, do feel free to forward this email and inform your local community. There is only slightly more than 1 week before candidate submission closes. [1] Election main page: - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2013 [2] Guidelines and information: - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2013/Guidelines [3] Confirmation: - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/confirm/2013 [4] Translation portal: - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2013/Translation Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Chinese Wikipedia inaccessible in mainland China
Hi guys, This is an update that since this morning (local time), Chinese Wikipedia is no longer accessible in mainland China from all major ISPs in all regions (that I've received reports from). zh.wikipedia.org is now a censored URL keywords on HTTP. Meaning any foreign domain that contains these strings will be blocked, such asgoogle.com/?q=zh.wikipedia.org, or even microsoft.com/zh.wikipedia.org. Also, any users who attempts to connect to Chinese Wikipedia will get their connection to *.wikipedia.org reset for several minutes. HTTPS connection is still working. All other language versions, such as English Wikipedia are also accessible for now (but there is still keyword censoring). As a bit of history, Chinese Wikipedia was blocked from 2005 to 2008. Shortly before the 2008 Beijing Olympics in July 2008, the block was lifted. Jimbo paid Cai Mingzhao, Vice Director of China's State Council Information Office a visit in September that year [1] and Cai visited the WMF office some time in 2009 (not sure of the date). Despite some keyword-specific blocks on sensitive articles, Chinese Wikipedia had been generally accessible until yesterday. As for the other projects, Chinese Wikisource has been blocked since late 2010, and Chinese Wikinews since early 2012. Hope that the block this time may as well be temporary. [1] http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2008/10/jimmy-wales-mee.html Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fw: [Stewards-l] Policy RFC
Hi all, Please feel free to express your thoughts regarding this RfC [1], and please try to make your discussions on meta. Best regards, Benjamin Chen / User:Bencmq [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Approval_of_the_rewritten_Meta-Steward_relationship_document_as_policy ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
