Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Magnus Manske
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/2 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: Olli wrote: Date: 2009/10/31 Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? What about a

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/11/2 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: I think a human selected calendar would be better for actually publishing, but that's certainly a fun script. Can you add an option to choose a category so we can have a calendar of Britons, or French, or mathematicians, or military people,

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/11/2 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling statistics rather than his portrait... And if you give me code to identify a person's image, I'll be happy to implement it, as would the NSA. As it stands, I chose a random article from e.g.

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Olli
suggestions: 1 =You should add option to select what country (what wikipedia (fi, en, sv...)) 2 = Calendr should be like right calendar 3 = Other languages (translation possiblity) Olli 2009/11/2 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk 2009/11/2 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com:

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/2/2009 8:31:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, effeietsand...@gmail.com writes: Why can't people learn when a discussion is irritating other people, why can't people learn which discussions are most useful to have, why can't people learn that they might frustrate the very

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/11/2 wjhon...@aol.com: In a message dated 11/2/2009 8:31:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, effeietsand...@gmail.com writes: Why can't people learn when a discussion is irritating other people, why can't people learn which discussions are most useful to have, why can't people learn that

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/2/2009 10:59:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, thomas.dal...@gmail.com writes: Why can't people use email clients that don't break threads? ;) AOL = Satan They are out to destroy all life and light. Will ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Dan Collins dcoll...@stevens.edu wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you can delete the archives on the WMF site. That does make much

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: I fail to see how this is contrary to the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Tim Starling
wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 11/2/2009 10:59:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, thomas.dal...@gmail.com writes: Why can't people use email clients that don't break threads? ;) AOL = Satan They are out to destroy all life and light. Last time I checked, you could use any

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread wjhonson
Personally, I process about two or three hundred emails per day (yes per day), so the small amount of noise the Foundation list creates is negligible to me. If someone is so annoyed by a thread, that they can't even bother to DWR (delete without reading) based merely on the subject title, I

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread wjhonson
That's a bit of an extreme remark Tim. There are millions of computer programmers in the world, who do not know or care to try to learn how to operate AOL. Not every programmers is a Windows programmer. Myopic view of understanding computers. I could just as well opine, that people who

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is not about you.. it is about US ... and some of us are not like you, do not agree with you and have a different outlook on this... Please get it that most people do not have the time to waste on so many e-mails. There is also the fact that most threads including this one do not stay on

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread wjhonson
And I never said it is about *me* stop trying to make this personal. I am not directing my remarks at *you*, so stop directing yours at *me*. There are many people on this very list who have said essentially the exact same thing. You should re-read the thread again to make that apparent, if

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Magnus Manske wrote: One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling statistics rather than his portrait... And if you give me code to identify a person's image, I'll be happy to implement it, as would the NSA. As it stands, I chose a random article Google image search has it, so it's not