Hoi,
That is not how things are. Against the protest of some the mo.wikipedia was
locked. The request was not for locking but for complete removal.
The notion that just because some people want to edit a wiki in any
linguistic entity they can have their project is flatly wrong. There are
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
No what is wrong with wikipedia brand dog food (provided that we receive a
cut?)?
We just need to hope it's not a cut with melamine.
Ec
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Dear all,
We are working for a new version of Kiwix, the offline reader wich used for
http://wikipediaondvd.com/ .
This new version don't use a selection of article , is available from the
project : wikibooks, wikipedia, wikiquote, wikisource, wiktionary for all
the languages.
To try :
2008/11/27 Geoffrey Plourde [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If we could get something that reads the searches and tabulates the most
frequently not found articles, we could better target our account creation
efforts.
Hence my suggestion on wikitech-l :-)
Logging referers as well as the name of the
2008/11/27 Geoffrey Plourde [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Preserve History, Donate Now!
Preserve History, Buy Us A Better Backup Infrastructure!
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Gerard Meijssen
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The same arguments that apply to people who speak languages like Yoruba and
Sango apply to any of the sign languages.. People who are deaf and sign are
better served when equal information is available in their sign
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Gerard Meijssen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hoi,
That is not how things are. Against the protest of some the mo.wikipedia was
locked. The request was not for locking but for complete removal.
The notion that just because some people want to edit a wiki in any
Hoi,
The same arguments that apply to people who speak languages like Yoruba and
Sango apply to any of the sign languages.. People who are deaf and sign are
better served when equal information is available in their sign language.
When people are motivated to work on their wikipedia, they do this
But melamine adds texture. Plus then who else can say bringing the sum of all
low grade dog food to dogs everywhere
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From: dee dee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Subject: Have you dealt with this yet? If so,how?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think the overall project ( Wikimedia Foundation) may have substantial
responsibility and negative exposure in
Reregarding the list
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/11/25/wikimedias-fundraiser-which-banners-click/
So the phrase
Wikipedia is a non-profit
projecthttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Edu_Notice_2008_1.pnghad
rather poor results. Maybe because it contains two words that sound negative
to many
Here are foundation-l list statistics for the end of November. (Sorry for
HTML email, it was the only way known to me to format stats well for all.)
Statistics are at the bottom.
== Good news ==
* If we get one more new participant at foundation-l, we will at the highest
level of new
Geoffrey,
Here are some answers to your questions:
*1. why the chapter is still not legally organized?*
Since October, a legal entity could have already been created with the
approved bylaws, but I personally didn't push this forward because a
discussion about another version of the bylaws
* At last, we are communicating and the most of discussions are
constructive. Lower amount of emails for 10-20% is reasonable if quality of
discussion is higher.
That's not a statistic, that's an opinion...
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* At last, we are communicating and the most of discussions are
constructive. Lower amount of emails for 10-20% is reasonable if quality of
discussion is higher.
That's not a statistic, that's an opinion...
Yes. I
Thomas;
Thank you for your answers to my questions. I was under the impression that the
chapter had been approved in February, but I must have been wrong. Since a
Brazilian lawyer has cleared the bylaws, I have no further legal concerns. Am I
correct in assuming now that we have a big
Andre Engels hett schreven:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Marcus Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andre Engels hett schreven:
nd this configuration does make sense, in my opinion. If we
have a hypothetical language with one million oral speakers, but only a
handful of people able to
2008/11/27 Ziko van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So the phrase
Wikipedia is a non-profit
projecthttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Edu_Notice_2008_1.pnghad
rather poor results. Maybe because it contains two words that sound negative
to many people, non and profit, and maybe many people do not
Wikipedia is a charity ?
People always say non-profit when describing WMF, is it a charity?
The two terms are different. (In the UK, the WMF would probably be
considered charitable, I don't know what the requirements are in the
US.)
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2008/11/27 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Wikipedia is a charity ?
People always say non-profit when describing WMF, is it a charity?
The two terms are different. (In the UK, the WMF would probably be
considered charitable, I don't know what the requirements are in the
US.)
The bottom
2008/11/27 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/11/27 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Wikipedia is a charity ?
People always say non-profit when describing WMF, is it a charity?
The two terms are different. (In the UK, the WMF would probably be
considered charitable, I don't know what the
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/27 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/11/27 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Wikipedia is a charity ?
People always say non-profit when describing WMF, is it a charity?
The two terms are different. (In the UK,
Robert Rohde wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Thomas Dalton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/27 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/11/27 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Wikipedia is a charity ?
People always say non-profit when describing WMF, is it a
charity? The two terms are
It's not about a legal definition for WMF, but what words use in front of
the greater public. To Germans I would not translate charity to karitativ,
because that sounds like feeding orphans.:-)
The point is to make people do to something, play on their emotions, trigger
their helpfulness. Explain
2008/11/27 Robert Rohde [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, in fact, wikimediafoundation.org says nonprofit charitable
organization. I don't know why people generally say non-profit
instead of charity, then - charity would be more
Thomas Dalton wrote:
Wikipedia is a charity ?
People always say non-profit when describing WMF, is it a charity?
Instead of these endless discussions on which phrases to use, I
think we should rely on the recently posted statistics on which
amounts of donations each phrase generated. We
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/27 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/11/27 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Wikipedia is a charity ?
People always say non-profit when describing WMF, is it a charity?
The two terms are different. (In the UK,
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