Re: [Foundation-l] transparency or translucency?

2009-01-12 Thread Lars Aronsson
James Rigg wrote: does seem to be referring to not just content, but also the running of Wikipedia. But the 'private' mailing lists which now exist seem to be a departure from this. Departure from what? From your original imagination, or from some policy that was posted (where? when?

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2009/1/11 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/1/11 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.com: 2009/1/11 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: Also, I'd like to know what's the progress of renaming the subdomain mo to mo-cyrl mo.wikipedia.org - mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org, as was stated in november last year,

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

2009-01-12 Thread Ray Saintonge
Marcus Buck wrote: 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 Latin fell out of

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

2009-01-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2009/1/12 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: We only accept one Wikipedia for one language. The fact that we still have what is called the be-tarask.wikipedia.org is only because people were of the opinion that we should retain the work that was done. Now I wonder what more experts

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

2009-01-12 Thread Marcus Buck
Ray Saintonge hett schreven: That's an outrageous assumption. Canadians who attend an international sporting event between Americans and any other country will most often cheer for the other country. Since 1959 Canada has never broken diplomatic relations with Cuba, and has not

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

2009-01-12 Thread Michael Bimmler
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote: Ray Saintonge hett schreven: That's an outrageous assumption. Canadians who attend an international sporting event between Americans and any other country will most often cheer for the other country. Since 1959 Canada

Re: [Foundation-l] Chinese wikinews in China Blocked

2009-01-12 Thread Chen Minqi
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Charlotte Webb charlottethew...@gmail.comwrote: what i meant to say is. at least the english site is still accessible, which is odd (i mis-read the subject line) because the latter site has quite a bit more anti-PRC content. weird... Indeed there is a bit more

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

2009-01-12 Thread Aphaia
As another historical note from Wikimania 2008 ... In our session (of mine and Arria Belli) which focused on translation, a girl who seemed to be Arabic but not known to me from where she came asked me if there would be a possibility of āmmiyya Wikipedias. I don't know which āmmiyya she cared for

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL QA update and question

2009-01-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/1/12 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: If, by terms of service of Wikipedia, we ask contributors to give permission to be attributed by URL under certain circumstances, this is consistent with the language of CC-BY-SA, and

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL QA update and question

2009-01-12 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/1/12 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: If, by terms of service of Wikipedia, we ask contributors to give permission to be attributed by URL under certain circumstances, this is consistent with the language of CC-BY-SA, and

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL QA update and question

2009-01-12 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/1/12 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: It most certainly is a requirement of the GFDL (not sure what your weasel-word of direct is supposed to mean). The GFDL requires crediting principal authors, and it requires change tracking. Given the obvious intent of the principal authors clause to limit