[Foundation-l] The imminent Usability improvements

2010-03-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, After a long time of development, the software that brings much improved usability is scheduled to go live around the end of April, the beginning of May. This will mark a big change in the MediaWiki software. I expect that as a consequence the composition of the most used messages will

[Foundation-l] Moving be-x-old.wiki to be-tarask.wiki

2010-03-24 Thread PavaƂ
There is a bugzilla ticket[1] being discussed during last three years having no result and minimal attraction from Wikimedia. On March 27, 2007 be.wiki was moved to be-x-old.wiki in a hurry, and there were no ideas why 'be-x-old' while the subtag 'be-tarask' proposed and applied by IANA had

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Williamson
I think there are two options: Meta and pt.wp itself. My personal opinion is that it does not need to be bilingual, but that is of course up to you. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado v...@fct.unl.ptwrote: Thanks Chad. I know that, but what kind of page (what title)? Where?

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-03-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, To poor some cold water on this discussion. The language policy is quite clear. There is no room for two Portuguese Wikipedias. When you are able to convince the ISO 639-3 standard to make Portuguese a macro language it will become different. There have been languages that made that claim

[Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-24 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 https://wm10schols.wikimedia.org/in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel,

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-03-24 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
Mark, A page in the Portuguese Wikipedia could shut out the community at large. A bilingual page would be very hard to pull off. As far as I can tell, non-Portuguese discussions are not welcomed there. I looked at Meta and saw no place for a page like that. Could you be more specific?

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-03-24 Thread Chad
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado v...@fct.unl.pt wrote: Mark, A page in the Portuguese Wikipedia could shut out the community at large. A bilingual page would be very hard to pull off. As far as I can tell, non-Portuguese discussions are not welcomed there. I looked

[Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-24 Thread Gregory Kohs
Point of clarification... does Jimmy Wales have the authority to impose a global ban on a user? http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversity:Community_Review/Wikimedia_Ethics:Ethical_Breaching_Experimentscurid=92825diff=548143oldid=548142 Sincerely, Gregory Kohs

Re: [Foundation-l] Closure of Wikiversity / Behaviour of Jimmy Wales

2010-03-24 Thread Aaron Adrignola
I feel it relevant to this thread to point out a new page created by the thread's original poster and closely related to the previous link provided: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founder/Proposal_to_the_rights_removal Sincerely, Adrignola Admin/Bureaucrat/CU @ en.wikibooks On Sun, Mar 21,

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-03-24 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
Began! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language_issues If you have any further suggestions or comments, they are very welcome. Please use either the http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Portuguese_language_issues#EnglishEnglish or

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-24 Thread private musings
sometimes things with broad community support don't really bear examination ;-) http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/stories/internet-filter-survey-results On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Gregory Kohs wrote: Point of clarification... does Jimmy Wales have