[Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

2010-08-25 Thread Mardetanha
Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K articles . Mardetanha ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

2010-08-25 Thread Ting Chen
Yes, indeed, congratulations and keep the good work. Am 25.08.2010 09:31, wrote Mardetanha: Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K articles . Mardetanha ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

2010-08-25 Thread Henning Schlottmann
On 25.08.2010 02:45, Ray Saintonge wrote: Are people who clean up dead links taking the time to check Internet Archive to se if the page in question is there? No one should even touch a presumed dead link unless he or she has the expertise to check the link for a simple restructuring on the

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

2010-08-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Congratulations.. It is also an auspicious moment as the localisation for the Persian language is now complete. This completes the localisation requirement for the requested Wikinews. At the language committee we are considering if it is ready to move on... I hope and expect a Wikinews in

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 77, Issue 59

2010-08-25 Thread Mardetanha
Thanks Gerard :) we are waiting for our wikinews Mardetanha On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:30 PM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: Send foundation-l mailing list submissions to foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

2010-08-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The study was commissioned by the WMF itself. Therefore there is an interest in the results of the study. As far as I am concerned, this is discussion has been very much an echo chamber. The same points of view repeated by the same people. With very few people actually listening and willing

Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

2010-08-25 Thread emijrp
Thanks SJ. 2010/8/25 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com I've asked Gordon Mohr @ IA about how to work with archive-it. I will cc: this thread on any response. SJ On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:56 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Samuel Klein

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

2010-08-25 Thread David Goodman
It is possible that there is a difference between what the WMF is interested in and what the community is interested in, something which makes itself evident when there is no responses from people in the various projects. . I'm aware there are various portions of the community, but I can only

[Foundation-l] Page eliminators at ptwiki

2010-08-25 Thread GoEthe.wiki
Hi. At ptwiki, we recently implemented a usergroup to help with the backlog of requests for speedy deletions, articles for deletion, and others (see http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Eliminadores). This was done to try to dismistify the admin role, and increase community participation in

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

2010-08-25 Thread Muhammad Yahia
Congratulations! On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Mardetanha mardetanha.w...@gmail.comwrote: Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K articles . Mardetanha ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

2010-08-25 Thread aude
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Mardetanha mardetanha.w...@gmail.comwrote: Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K articles . تبريك (congratulations!) - aude Mardetanha ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

2010-08-25 Thread Mariano Cecowski
Congratulations! So did the Slovene Wikipedia just one week ago. We're right behind you! Though we have half the edits. :| Cheers, MarianoC.- --- El mié 25-ago-10, Mardetanha mardetanha.w...@gmail.com escribió: De: Mardetanha mardetanha.w...@gmail.com Asunto: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

2010-08-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Given that this is the FOUNDATION-L it is quite relevant what the WMF is interested in. If I were particularly interested in the English language communities opinion I would be elsewhere. As I argued before, I find this a subject that has been talked to death with hardly a person interested

Re: [Foundation-l] Page eliminators at ptwiki

2010-08-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Yaroslav M. Blanter, 25/08/2010 18:19: A similar group has been active in Russian Wikipedia for about a year (only deletion reviews, no speedy deletions). It has been generally regarded as a success. They used botsa to delete articles, didn't they? At least this is what I understood at

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Williamson
I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of experts, mostly from similar linguistic backgrounds, handing down judgements about the rest of the world's

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Muhammad Yahia
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of experts, mostly from similar

Re: [Foundation-l] Page eliminators at ptwiki

2010-08-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:26:39 +0200, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Yaroslav M. Blanter, 25/08/2010 18:19: A similar group has been active in Russian Wikipedia for about a year (only deletion reviews, no speedy deletions). It has been generally regarded as a success. They

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:48:25 -0700, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of experts, mostly from

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Mohamed Ibrahim
On 25 August 2010 23:01, Muhammad Yahia shipmas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community oversight or

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Peel
Erm ... huh? 1) If you're interested in helping, and have experience/knowledge of languages, then get involved with the committee. 2) They're getting things achieved - they're fostering the development of new language projects, making decisions, getting the projects started, and doing this in

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Muhammad Yahia
resulting in such projects that really make Wikimedia looks like a host for childish projects that's written in a funny language never seen written before in any respectable scientific book, website, etc.. I do not necessarily agree with that. I think the majority of the projects approved

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of experts, mostly from similar

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Mohamed Ibrahim
On 25 August 2010 23:42, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Erm ... huh? 1) If you're interested in helping, and have experience/knowledge of languages, then get involved with the committee. 2) They're getting things achieved - they're fostering the development of new language

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Muhammad Yahia
Hello, Nearly every email posted to the private list is copied to the public archives, unless the poster asks to be excluded. Discussions are summarized, to ensure that censored messages don't reduce transparency. To illustrate my point: I did try to follow the discussions for some time when

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Nathan
It's true that the work of the Language Community stands out as one of the few areas of community participation (in that the LangCom members are not employees of the WMF) closed to public or community observation. Certain other groups do this (the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee comes to

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: It's true that the work of the Language Community That should be Language Committee, of course. ~Nathan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Marcus Buck
An'n 25.08.2010 22:42, hett Michael Peel schreven: On 25 August 2010 23:01, Muhammad Yahiashipmas...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with what Muhammad and Mark has said it's a pity that such resolutions that affect the whole community is controlled like this.. resulting in such projects that

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread David Gerard
On 25 August 2010 23:34, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote: Gerard Meijssen keeps his contributions to the discussions secret Is this true? If so, what is the rationale? Described like that, that sounds ridiculous and unacceptable. - d. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

2010-08-25 Thread Gregory Kohs
emijrp says: I want to make a proposal about external links preservation. Many times, when you check an external link or a link reference, the website is dead or offline. This websites are important, because they are the sources for the facts showed in the articles. Internet Archive searches for

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Muhammad Yahia
On 25 August 2010 23:01, Muhammad Yahiashipmas...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with what Muhammad and Mark has said it's a pity that such resolutions that affect the whole community is controlled like this.. resulting in such projects that really make Wikimedia looks like a host for

Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

2010-08-25 Thread David Gerard
On 25 August 2010 17:49, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote: I would want to see the Internet Archive behave in a more ethically accountable manner before any strong alliance is built with them on any Wikimedia function.  Namely, for the past 3 months, I have been working with an attorney

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Marcus Buck
An'n 26.08.2010 00:41, hett David Gerard schreven: On 25 August 2010 23:34, Marcus Buckm...@marcusbuck.org wrote: Gerard Meijssen keeps his contributions to the discussions secret Is this true? If so, what is the rationale? Described like that, that sounds ridiculous and unacceptable.

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread David Gerard
On 26 August 2010 00:39, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:  An'n 26.08.2010 00:41, hett David Gerard schreven: On 25 August 2010 23:34, Marcus Buckm...@marcusbuck.org  wrote: Gerard Meijssen keeps his contributions to the discussions secret Is this true? If so, what is the rationale?

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:46 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Gerard, do you have anything to say about this? I really don't see how this is considered acceptable. Perhaps you can explain. Rather than focusing on one specific person who didn't opt in, it would be more helpful

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

2010-08-25 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:17 AM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible that there is a difference between what the WMF is interested in and what the community is interested in, something which makes itself evident when there is no responses from people in the various

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

2010-08-25 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:49 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:17 AM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible that there is a difference between what the WMF is interested in and what the community is interested in, something which makes

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

2010-08-25 Thread phoebe ayers
Congratulations to Farsi and Slovene! For those who don't know, there's a milestones page here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News Which I've always found fascinating to watch (for instance, this month Ewe Wikipedia doubled in size, due entirely to football related articles by

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Williamson
Take a look at some of the new football-related articles on the Ewe Wikipedia. I don't think this is cause for celebration at all: http://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham http://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naohiro_Takahara http://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_van_Nistelrooy I don't see a single word

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

2010-08-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:52, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: or winter! I vowed some time ago to not be northern-hemisphere-ist, but I still slip up. Hard to think about it being winter elsewhere when it's 39C outside here But, you are using C instead of F, which is quite good

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Ray Saintonge
Muhammad Yahia wrote: Exactly what I thought first. But he's from ar.wp, so I guess he's referring to arz.wp, I hope you realize there are two different ppl in that quote above (it's mis-attributing it to me, and it seems like I am agreeing with myself :) ). I personally dont have any

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am not the only one that keep my contributions confidential. There is another member of the LC who has good personal reasons to have the contributions not publicly available. The reason is that there may be repercussions in the professional sphere. When this was discussed in the past, I was

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

2010-08-25 Thread Ray Saintonge
Milos Rancic wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 02:52, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: or winter! I vowed some time ago to not be northern-hemisphere-ist, but I still slip up. Hard to think about it being winter elsewhere when it's 39C outside here But, you are using C