On 6/9/2010 2:01 AM, Austin Hair wrote:
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,
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
«You're marvellous. I've particularly appreciated the languages menu and
I think that in the future it will be even more important (Indian,
Chinese etc.).»
Funny feedback from a reader here:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
... if for example I was qualified to review a
staff member's patch (which I'm not), I might want to think twice about
what audience gets that feedback.
Ugh.
You are implicitly expecting that the patch submitter and
reaction to what to me was actually a rather funny comment. However,
Mariano's following reaction as well as Yaroslav's came across to me
as unecessarily aggressive and actually shocked me in what I perceived
as a lack of consideration and altogether rather nasty answers.
Strange.
It was
Recently I had a discussion with one of my fellow Malayalam wikipedian (
http://ml.wikipedia.org) about the creation of new articles in small
wikipedias like ours. He is one the few users who is keen on creating new
articles *based on the requirement of our readers*. (Of course we have many
people
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
...if for example I was qualified to review a
staff member's patch (which I'm not), I might want to think twice about
what audience gets that feedback.
--Michael Snow
Why? If they're contributing a patch to
Chad wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
...if for example I was qualified to review a
staff member's patch (which I'm not), I might want to think twice about
what audience gets that feedback.
--Michael Snow
Why? If they're
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
The replies to my comment are missing the point. Sure, the developers
themselves need to be able to handle public criticism of their work,
just like wiki editors. But I was responding to Austin's comment in
particular
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
The replies to my comment are missing the point. Sure, the developers
themselves need to be able to handle public criticism of their work,
just like wiki editors. But I was responding to
Chad, I'm hesitant to reply to your note, because I feel like defending the
staff against the community is a bad role for me: it tends to polarize and
divide, rather than helping us all work together well. And I think I do, for
the most part, agree with you.
(As someone pointed out here the
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
Some feature is required in the MediaWiki software that enable us to see a
list of keywords used most frequently by the users to search for non-exist
articles. If we get such a list then some users like him
Such a tool should, from my inexpert view, not be to difficult to implement
as most of the required information is already publicly available trough
Squid logs. For example, http://stats.grok.se is a tool which shows the
amount of page requests that were made for a specific page (Currently used
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, susanpgard...@gmail.com wrote:
Chad, I'm hesitant to reply to your note, because I feel like defending the
staff against the community is a bad role for me: it tends to polarize and
divide, rather than helping us all work together well. And I think I do, for
+1. This would be a SUPER useful tool for all Wikis.
-m.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
Recently I had a discussion with one of my fellow Malayalam wikipedian (
http://ml.wikipedia.org) about the creation of new articles in small
wikipedias like
This topic came up while we were discussing about Google's translation
effort. Google/Google employees are using Google tool kit to translate
English Wikipedia articles to many of the Indic language Wikipedias.
We are definitely more interested if Google translates these user required
articles
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