Hello,
Tonight, Egypt has ordered all operators to shut down their BGP
adjacencies with out of countries providers. This mean Egypt is
disconnected from the rest of the internet.
I am wondering, should we just close our site in support? That would
surely have a huge impact and show how much
Hello,
When we close our site in support.. Than we don't support free information
for everyone.. Than we close the information down...
Best,
Huib
2011/1/28 Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr hashar%2b...@free.fr
Hello,
Tonight, Egypt has ordered all operators to shut down their BGP
On 28 January 2011 08:25, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
Hello,
Tonight, Egypt has ordered all operators to shut down their BGP
adjacencies with out of countries providers. This mean Egypt is
disconnected from the rest of the internet.
I am wondering, should we just close our
[To WMUK-l for local interest, and foundation-l as the issue's been
discussed there at length.]
Just spoke to a researcher, Charlotte something, for BBC 5 Live
Investigates, Sunday 9pm, this item likely to go out 9:45pm or so.
This was just for her research, it wasn't a recorded piece.
The
On 28 January 2011 12:24, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
The Wikimedia movement does not have and should not have a position on
the current situation in Egypt. While you view your suggestion as us
taking the side of free information, it would be perceived as taking
sides in the
2011/1/28 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
The idea of getting samizdat copies of Wikipedia into Egypt appeals.
Airlift in current-article dumps of ar:wp and en:wp on SD cards by the
thousand?
Don't forget arz.wikipedia. It's small, but shouldn't be ignored.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר
On 28 January 2011 12:47, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2011/1/28 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
The idea of getting samizdat copies of Wikipedia into Egypt appeals.
Airlift in current-article dumps of ar:wp and en:wp on SD cards by the
thousand?
Don't forget
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 06:40, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Just spoke to a researcher, Charlotte something, for BBC 5 Live
Investigates, Sunday 9pm, this item likely to go out 9:45pm or so.
This was just for her research, it wasn't a recorded piece.
The piece is on Books LLC and
On 28 January 2011 13:28, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
I think there's a sense of annoyance among writers whose work is being
copied that the books are so expensive -- sometimes around $50 for a
10,000-word article -- and that the ads for them on Amazon don't make clear
enough that
2011/1/27 Jesse (Pathoschild) pathosch...@gmail.com:
These messages are available to all wikis
(including non-Wikimedia wikis), instead of just one wiki.
That means contributing as a volunteer to a variety of websites with
different principles. Wikimedia is a non profit and it is dedicated to
On 28 January 2011 14:12, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/1/27 Jesse (Pathoschild) pathosch...@gmail.com:
These messages are available to all wikis
(including non-Wikimedia wikis), instead of just one wiki.
That means contributing as a volunteer to a variety of websites with
I agree that the edit restrictions on the WMF wiki are very
unfortunate and there's still much more that can be done (perhaps one
day leading toward www.wikimedia.org as a single information,
collaboration and discussion hub, subsuming both WMF and Meta, and
possibly other backstage wikis).
Hoi,
When you contribute at translatewiki.net, you contribute to the localisation
of Open Source / Free software. When YOU only want to contribute to
Wikipedia, please do not localise MediaWiki because it does not give us all
the best solution.
Your notion of Wikimedia and its contributions are
2011/1/27 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
One very powerful reason why you should not localise locally is because
there is no way that you will know locally when a message gets changed. The
consequence is that the quality of locally localised messages do not get the
same quality
2011/1/28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
When the CIA uses MediaWiki and it does, we are
happy because as a result we do and did get feedback on the use of our
project. When the CIA wants to use LocalisationUpdate and its people help
localise at translatewiki.net we could not be
Hoi,
When messages get changed in the code repository system by people who
contribute to the development of MediaWiki, it is done in a Wikimedia
Foundation project. When messages change, it is detected at
translatewiki.net and consequently action is taken to signal the need for
action. This is
Or boycott their translations and start a WMF transwiki.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/1/28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
When the CIA uses MediaWiki and it does, we are
happy because as a result we do and did get feedback on the
Hoi,
Sorry but there are a few people who have the power and who do the work.
When an organisation does contribute at translatewiki.net, that is exactly
what they do. When you want to contribute you are welcome, not because you
are a Wikipedian but because you contribute to the localisation of
An'n 28.01.2011 16:11, hett Arlen Beiler schreven:
Or boycott their translations and start a WMF transwiki.
That seems sensible! *eyeroll*
If you look in the archives of this mailing list, you'll notice that the
Translatewiki guys asked Wikimedia to host the wiki more than once. They
would
On 28 January 2011 15:08, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's imagine a group with non-democratic values provides translators
to Translatewiki.
You really don't understand that for any purpose bit, do you?
If you don't want to contribute to a project (Wikimedia,) whose works
On 28 January 2011 15:49, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 15:08, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's imagine a group with non-democratic values provides translators
to Translatewiki.
You really don't understand that for any purpose bit, do you?
If you don't
To verify from the Foundation: these numbers are approximately correct
but indeed careful; we are hoping to have ~75 full scholarships.
On 1/25/2011 12:31 PM, Harel Cain wrote:
The exact number is to be decided by the Foundation based on flight costs,
the geographies of the best candidates
To verify from the Foundation: these numbers are approximately correct
but indeed careful; we are hoping to have ~75 full scholarships.
On 1/25/2011 12:31 PM, Harel Cain wrote:
The exact number is to be decided by the Foundation based on flight costs,
the geographies of the best candidates
On 28 January 2011 13:56, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah. The problem is there's no direct action we can really take
without hampering the good reasons for reuse of our material. Or just
scaring people off. I think the best we can do is raise awareness.
This will do that, slightly.
On 28 January 2011 18:44, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 13:56, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah. The problem is there's no direct action we can really take
without hampering the good reasons for reuse of our material. Or just
scaring people off. I think the best
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:48, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 18:44, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect that all we have to do is wait. Someone has effectively
worked out how to spam Amazon. What one person can do so can others.
Eventually the level of spam
2011/1/28 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com:
Strainu wrote:
These messages can be improved by introducing internal links and references
to
wiki* policies.
Why do you hate Wiktionary? ;-)
MZMcBride
Nice one :) Actually I could go on for ages on why wiktionary is bad
, but that would be
On 28 January 2011 13:56, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 13:28, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
I think there's a sense of annoyance among writers whose work is being
copied that the books are so expensive -- sometimes around $50 for a
10,000-word article --
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:51 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 12:47, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
2011/1/28 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
The idea of getting samizdat copies of Wikipedia into Egypt appeals.
Airlift in current-article
We have fellow Wikimedians in Egypt. Any news about them?
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Adrignola
aaron.adrign...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that the edit restrictions on the WMF wiki are very
unfortunate and there's still much more that can be done (perhaps one
day leading toward www.wikimedia.org as a single information,
collaboration and
On 28 January 2011 19:04, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
From March 1st it might be worth contacting the UK Advertising
Standards Authority, as their remit is being extended then:
http://asa.org.uk/Regulation-Explained/Online-remit.aspx
Oh, I *like* that one. That and some
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Adrignola
aaron.adrign...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that the edit restrictions on the WMF wiki are very
unfortunate and there's still much more that can be done (perhaps one
day
Unfortunately all communications are down till now, I hope they are all
fine.
I'm currently out of the country and following only through TV and twitter.
We're all waiting for the internet or at lease cell networks to be back.
Thank you all for your comments, and yes I do not support shutting
down
Thank you for the update Mido. I certainly hope all our Wikimedian
colleagues are ok and would welcome any news if anyone has any. I know
we are all thinking about our friends as the situation in Egypt
progresses.
best,
phoebe
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Mohamed Ibrahim
Typosquatting: Not Just a For-Profit Problem
http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=e8d044c9-e2d6-4587-8ba1-a5bc15647fea
But how many variations would just be wasting money? And, now, buying
them requires serious money.
Fred
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Relevant to Egypt and WMF, it is important that Al-Jazeera has
released a pile of photos and video as CC by-nd and CC-by-nc-nd:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/al_jazeera_releases_egypt_coverage_under_creative.php
Hi all,
As the month draws to a close, I wanted to announce this year's ombudsman
commission, and offer my thanks to those who have served on the commission for
the past year.
Outgoing commission members are:
Carkuni, of jawiki
DR, of ruwiki
Elian, of dewiki
Lar, of enwiki and commonswiki
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:32 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 23:28, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Relevant to Egypt and WMF, it is important that Al-Jazeera has
released a pile of photos
A wonderful precedent for other approaches to press agencies--it will
perhaps work best for those agencies that have an appropriate
special concern for the area or subject.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:16 PM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:32 PM, David Gerard
On 29 January 2011 00:16, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote:
They have posted one video now, and working on putting more up.
http://cc.aljazeera.net/asset/language/arabic/footage-egyptian-protests-al-jazeera-office
It's CC-BY licensed.
I'm pretty technical, but if someone better with video
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:39 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Relevant to Egypt and WMF, it is important that Al-Jazeera has
released a pile of photos and video as CC by-nd and CC-by-nc-nd:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/al_jazeera_releases_egypt_coverage_under_creative.php
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I think it would do us a lot of good to be able to recombine all of
these topics so when we are looking for a calendar or a presentation
bank or a list of media or whatever there is ONE place to go, not
five. Such a
Дана Saturday 29 January 2011 01:39:26 David Goodman написа:
A wonderful precedent for other approaches to press agencies--it will
perhaps work best for those agencies that have an appropriate
special concern for the area or subject.
This seems like a good place to mention that the
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