something that remains always underrepresented in articles about wikipedia:
we are WORLD CHAMPION in [[side tracking]]!
2010/6/8 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
Okay, okay. Didn't mean to start a discussion about the nature of the
Catholic Church. Just meant that it's not what most
Michael Snow wrote:
There have been a lot of red herrings brought up on all sides of that
issue. Use of images in a context that is on-topic and educational is
clearly one of those, although I would suggest that we can do better at
supporting reader choice, because it's really the reader we
Hoi,
The WMF has as its strategy to invest in what has the highest impact. Given
limited resources that makes sense. It also means that while philosophically
as volunteers we do not have to make such choices, the WMF will and does.
It is obvious that depending on your point of view, the choices
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On 09/06/2010 03:28, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
I recall reading that IBM improved its
participation in the Linux kernel community by getting rid of all
internal communications among its kernel developers, meaning they had
to use the public project
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
2) Make sure that every paid developer spends time dealing with the
community. This can include giving support to end users, discussing
things with volunteers, reviewing patches, etc. They should be doing
this
On 6/9/2010 12:12 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
There have been a lot of red herrings brought up on all sides of that
issue. Use of images in a context that is on-topic and educational is
clearly one of those, although I would suggest that we can do better at
Me too -- I'll look forward to seeing you. And congratulations again to
Wikimedia Serbia -- we'll do whatever we can to support your work :-)
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From: Juliana da Costa José juli...@vikimedija.org
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 20:53:00
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing
I think the idea that Aryeh Gregor brought up is incredible. We should
follow the strategy use by IBM in helping develop Linux. Open all
discussion to the Wikimedia community will bring the power of Wikipedia's
collaborative process to the operations of of Wikimedia. Volunteers would
get
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not specific to Wikimedia, it's practically universal in
open-source development. To get it to happen, you need pushing from
the top: formally stating it as part of people's job duties (so they
don't feel
IBMs decision to get rid of all internal communication sounds to me as a
very good practice for us.
It also fits in well with the wikipedia culture of consensus in decision
making.
Following this comm. strategy involves the large volunteer community, and
taps on the vast knowledge of our
Hey everyone!
On Friday, June 11, the Office Hour will once again be hosted by Mike
Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read
about at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin
Office hours are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 PM PST).
If you do not
subject was: Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default
is a Bad Idea, part 2
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
The WMF has as its strategy to invest in what has the highest impact.
Where is this stated?
Who decides what has the
On 10 June 2010 01:13, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey everyone!
On Friday, June 11, the Office Hour will once again be hosted by Mike
Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read
about at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin
As interesting as
Thanks Thomas. I'm happy to do office hours -- Cary can schedule me in any
time I'm free, via James. (I can probably do it pre-Wikimania, I think.)
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From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:26:31
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing
phoebe ayers wrote:
I adore the word pellucid. But Gerard is right: simply put we can't
and don't do everything. We don't make every piece of information
available to every single person in the world -- yet.
I do admit that many actors in the wikimedia universe have
been forced to retreat
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com
wrote:
It's not specific to Wikimedia, it's practically universal in
open-source development. To get it to happen, you need pushing from
the top: formally stating it as part of people's
Hi John,
Yes, the 2010-11 plan is rooted in the strategy. We're wrapping it up in the
office today -- it goes to the Board tonight, and, post-approval, will be
published within a few weeks. Maybe I can do IRC office hours once it's
published -- it'd be a good meaty topic :-)
Thanks,
Sue
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:49 AM, susanpgard...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi John,
Yes, the 2010-11 plan is rooted in the strategy. We're wrapping it up in the
office today -- it goes to the Board tonight, and, post-approval, will be
published within a few weeks. Maybe I can do IRC office hours
Rob Lanphier wrote:
So, I'll start chipping in my work at the page Erik has started:
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_Development_Process_Ideas
You all really just don't get it, do you? Part of the problem is that the
usability wiki is viewed as a walled garden. Your solution is to
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:08 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Rob Lanphier wrote:
So, I'll start chipping in my work at the page Erik has started:
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_Development_Process_Ideas
You all really just don't get it, do you? Part of the problem is
Yeah, I hear you, John. I wouldn't characterize it myself as a systemic
problem, but I think I get the gist of what you're saying.
I have my own opinions, but I don't think I'll post them here (at least, not
tonight, and not while walking down the street). They'd be easier to talk
through in
Forwarded on behalf of a non-list-member.
The question pertains to translation of trademarks within articles; to my
knowledge, there's nothing wrong with us doing so, and I think this is done
in many Wikipedias. But I'll defer to the list on this question.
-- Forwarded message
I think the immediate question would be this: Ignoring the question of
trademark infringement for the moment, what way would the Persian Wikipedia
WANT to do it? Is there a standard that is used for non-trademarked things when
there is no Persian word in existence to describe the title? For
The best option according to us (Malayalam Wikipedians -
http://ml.wikipedia.org) is to use the second option for the article titles
. That is, transliterate the keyword to your language.
There is no copyright issue attached with that, I suppose. We do that
throughout our daily life. For example,
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