Re: [Foundation-l] "wikipedia" Domain acquisition

2010-09-07 Thread Aphaia
I usually give no reply to trolls, so it's just for your information as other subscribers on good faith. It's too bad English to understand what it means, so I just give you details instead. I don't know when wikipedia.jp was first acquired exactly but the first acquisition might be in 2003, when

[Foundation-l] "wikipedia" Domain acquisition

2010-09-07 Thread kigen2700...@gmail.com
The "wikipedia.jp" domain acquisition was requested from User:Aphaia by the Wikimedia Foundation staff. The individual User:Tietew was owned. On earth, who requested it? 山吹色の御菓子 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] LocalWiki project needs your support

2010-09-07 Thread phoebe ayers
This is spammy and OT -- but still may be of interest to people on this list. I can vouch for the awesomeness of the localwiki project, which is trying to make local and city wikis (like the amazing Davis Wiki, which serves my hometown) for the world. Free, local, open and nonprofit -- and they're

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Gray
On 7 September 2010 11:01, Teofilo wrote: > No and there won't be (at least from me). Because I don't know if it > is a bug or a feature. Show me the specification of the pdf tool > first. I will see if the specification says that pictures' > photographers should be credited. If the specification

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread George Herbert
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Teofilo wrote: > 2010/9/7, Tim Starling : > >> Presumably this conspiracy would have to extend beyond the WMF to >> PediaPress and Purodha Blissenbach, the developers of Collection and >> mobile.wikipedia.org respectively. > > The absence of a history tab in the mob

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Bod Notbod
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Teofilo wrote: > (1) [His] theory seeks to show that social agents develop strategies > which are adapted to the needs of the social worlds that they inhabit. Strikes me that having a strategy that is adapted to your world is probably quite useful. For example, Wi

[Foundation-l] Open IRC meeting with Wikimedia Trustees: Saturday, 1600 UTC

2010-09-07 Thread Samuel J Klein
Hello, In an annual effort to welcome new Board members with an informal chat, the newest Wikimedia Trustees (Phoebe and Bishakha) are taking part in an open meeting on IRC this Saturday. This is a forum to discuss Wikimedia issues and anything else that's on your mind. Where : #wikimedia on

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread David Gerard
On 7 September 2010 13:03, Teofilo wrote: > Let's not call this a conspiracy. You already did: "I think it is partly thoughtlessness, partly an agenda to remove contributor's names from wherever is possible, so that the WMF can dominate the contents and do whatever it wants with them without t

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Teofilo
2010/9/7, Tim Starling : > Presumably this conspiracy would have to extend beyond the WMF to > PediaPress and Purodha Blissenbach, the developers of Collection and > mobile.wikipedia.org respectively. The absence of a history tab in the mobile format is in my view an exact measurement of the temp

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Chad
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Teofilo wrote: > 2010/9/7, Kropotkine_113 : >> There is absolutely nothing wrong with it on french Wikipedia. > > My interpretation : French admins are happy to see their powers > increased, and to mimic oversighters with it. You don't seem to understand how the fe

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Teofilo
2010/9/7, Kropotkine_113 : > There is absolutely nothing wrong with it on french Wikipedia. My interpretation : French admins are happy to see their powers increased, and to mimic oversighters with it. Non-admins, especially newly-registered ones might be too shy or not aware that they are allowed

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Tim Starling
On 07/09/10 20:01, Teofilo wrote: > 2010/9/7, Tim Starling : >> >> If you don't like it, you can request that it be switched off, using >> Bugzilla. You will need to demonstrate that the community is in favour >> of such an action. > > This is not proactive. Giving more power to the admins is a >

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Rodan Bury
2010/9/7 K. Peachey > > RevDel replaced Oversight (a extension), and little changed overall > between then, it features two deletion levels, one that hides it from > standard users (admins and higher still have access to it) and one > that hides it from everyone except oversight which leaves no vi

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Kropotkine_113
Le mardi 07 septembre 2010 à 20:18 +1000, K. Peachey a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Teofilo wrote: > Is there something wrong with this on the french wikipedia? then you > should submit a bug request so people actually know and can work on > getting it set correctly There is absolut

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Teofilo wrote: > This is not proactive. Giving more power to the admins is a > constitutional change. Usually a constitutional change requires a > referendum beforehand (An amendment to the United States Constitution > must be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatur

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Teofilo
2010/9/7, Tim Starling : > > If you don't like it, you can request that it be switched off, using > Bugzilla. You will need to demonstrate that the community is in favour > of such an action. This is not proactive. Giving more power to the admins is a constitutional change. Usually a constitutiona