The commons issue is not just a language issua. If it was it was
solvable. It is a hositility issue. Where people who upload the second
picture of the same object (like a TukTuk) get told it is not necassary
because the project already has one picture of a TukTuk . The
problem is that the
Eh, why mod fail? He apparently subscribed to the list and posted
afterwards, there is nothing we can do to prevent this or would you
like us to check all new subscription requests (how?) ?
For the record, all emails by non-members at the moment get
automatically rejected with an email saying
2008/12/9 John Reaves [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I was thinking all posts were moderated.
Self-defeating argument: If all posts were moderated, your Mod fail
would have been rejected (or silently discarded, rather).
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Michael Bimmler
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/12/7 Gerard Meijssen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hoi,
When so many people are turned off by syntax of any kind, it makes sense to
prevent them to see such syntax. It should be there however for those who do
not consider it a
Hoi,
Many organisations use MediaWiki, many organisations use all kinds of
extensions to make MediaWiki more usable. Extensions do not necessarily work
for stable releases. This is why extension testing is important for us all.
Extensions are used in many languages this is why internationalisation
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Gerard Meijssen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hoi,
When people from other projects tell me that this is one of the reasons why
they do not bother with Commons, I have to disbelieve them? Try to find
paard and you will not be served in the same way as with horse the
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Magnus Manske
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Gerard Meijssen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hoi,
When people from other projects tell me that this is one of the reasons why
they do not bother with Commons, I have to disbelieve them? Try to
Are we working on the project because we're frustrated, or because we
want to?
I think that might be a false dichotomy. We work on the projects
because we want to (we consider it a worthwhile cause), we work on
specific more tedious parts of the project out of frustration.
Hi,
I think there are people who work on the projects because the like it.
But i think there is also a group that is working because the are
fustrated.
Huib
--
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SterkeBak
Hoi,
An answer like that justifies and inforces the notion that Commons is only
for those that can read / write English. To me this is not acceptable
because it degrades Commons to less then what it should be, what it could
be.
Thanks,
GerardM
2008/12/9 Magnus Manske [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Somehow following phrase caught my eye today,
Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good
stats
on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I have
compiled
some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:
Are we working on the project because we're
He may have meant all posts from new members are moderated which is the
way it works on WikiEN-L. Avoids the random spam, generally.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Michael Bimmler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/12/9 John Reaves [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I was thinking all posts were moderated.
2008/12/9 Ziko van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
About usability: I believe that one significant barrier for new Wikimedians
is the jargon in the Wikimedia projects, mostly in discussions, but also in
help pages:
* Expressions from computer science: IP, bug, URL
* Expressions from the Open Source
2008/12/9 Ziko van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
About usability: I believe that one significant barrier for new Wikimedians
is the jargon in the Wikimedia projects, mostly in discussions, but also in
help pages:
* Expressions from computer science: IP, bug, URL
* Expressions from the Open Source
2008/12/9 Ziko van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
About usability: I believe that one significant barrier for new Wikimedians
is the jargon in the Wikimedia projects, mostly in discussions, but also in
help pages:
* Expressions from computer science: IP, bug, URL
* Expressions from the Open Source
Ziko van Dijk wrote:
About usability: I believe that one significant barrier for new Wikimedians
is the jargon in the Wikimedia projects, mostly in discussions, but also in
help pages:
* Expressions from computer science: IP, bug, URL
* Expressions from the Open Source movement: fork, stable
2008/12/9 Delirium [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ziko van Dijk wrote:
About usability: I believe that one significant barrier for new Wikimedians
is the jargon in the Wikimedia projects, mostly in discussions, but also in
help pages:
* Expressions from computer science: IP, bug, URL
* Expressions from
There have been a number of discussion on the English Wikipedia lately
(sparked, of course, by the Virgin Killer image controversy) on the
propriety of various images and the need for retaining them on Wikipedia.
This is a problem that has a long history on Wikipedia, and a number of
controls are
2008/12/8 Andrew Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/12/8 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/12/8 Rand Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
1) A quick update of the community giving stats (gifts less than
$10,000) for the first 35 days of the fundraiser:
How many donations in the name of The Scorpions?
2008/12/9 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/12/9 Delirium [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ziko van Dijk wrote:
About usability: I believe that one significant barrier for new Wikimedians
is the jargon in the Wikimedia projects, mostly in discussions, but also in
help pages:
* Expressions from
I am enormously skeptical that there is any realistic possibility of getting
anyone let alone unpaid volunteers to forego the use of abbreviations or
useful jargon.
OTOH (LOL), I believe that there are MediaWiki software extensions (which I
enjoy using at Wiktionary) that allow a window to pop up
On Tuesday 09 December 2008 08:23:07 Gerard Meijssen wrote:
When people from other projects tell me that this is one of the reasons why
they do not bother with Commons, I have to disbelieve them? Try to find
paard and you will not be served in the same way as with horse the
search result is
We're quite pleased to share this information with you. This press
release was distributed a few hours ago - we now have the news posted
on the WMF wiki and we've updated the blog.
Thanks are owed to many volunteers who spoke to the media and spread
the word about this situation, as well
Jay Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Internet ... internet ... internet ... internet ... internet ... Internet ...
Internet
Internet should be capitalized as a proper noun, but is also
commonly written lowercase (like the sky). Either way, the
capitalization should be consistent. I couldn't find
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