[Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

2011-02-11 Thread Mingli Yuan
Hi, folks, About four months ago, I post a message about a url shortening service for Wikipedias, esp. the non-latin language version. Yesterday, I moved the service to a new domain http://defn.me , and also updated related user-scripts in en, ml, ru, ta, he, zh. *

[Foundation-l] How should we greet newcomers?

2011-02-11 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, I know that some of you who are reading this have problems editing any other wiki than your home wiki. It feels foreign. I myself have that problem sometimes. But now you have the chance to do something remarkable. You just have to go to the Outreach wiki to do it. During the next 10

Re: [Foundation-l] How should we greet newcomers?

2011-02-11 Thread Theo10011
Hi Lennart Would this be related to merely modifying the welcome template or something a little more encompassing? One idea that I had was to somehow refer new visitors to WikiProjects or articles in need of expansion, based on some selection option where they can select their field of expertise

Re: [Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

2011-02-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 February 2011 11:30, Mingli Yuan mingli.y...@gmail.com wrote: So I just want to know the possibility that foundation can support it or not? And how should I improve the work to make foundation accept this service? A URL shortener is a very good idea. Even for English, there's

Re: [Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

2011-02-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Even better then URL shorteners is the presentation of the URL in Unicode. This will make the URL readable, memorable and guessable. It may be that this has everything to do with the browser that is used.. It is certainly a good reason to select one browser over an other.

[Foundation-l] Happening now Re: IRC office hours this week

2011-02-11 Thread Steven Walling
Just reminder this is going on now for the next 45 minutes or so. On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Steven Walling wrote: Hi everyone, This week Chief Global Development Officer Barry Newstead will be joined by Asaf Bartov (Head of Global South Relationships) and Moushira Elamrawy (Chapters

Re: [Foundation-l] How should we greet newcomers?

2011-02-11 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Great! Thanks for your input. First off, you can change anything you want. We'll test it and see what works best. So if you want to point new users to the WikiProjects, that perfectly fine. Just start another page, like a subpage to the page I linked to, and create something that you think will

[Foundation-l] I: [Wikiit-admins-l] Identificazione utenti presso WMF

2011-02-11 Thread Riccardo Burdisso
-Messaggio originale- Da: Riccardo Burdisso [mailto:ricca...@abisys.it] Inviato: venerdì 11 febbraio 2011 22:19 A: 'Mailing list degli amministratori di it.wiki' Oggetto: R: [Wikiit-admins-l] Identificazione utenti presso WMF Chiudo per quanto mi riguarda precisando che ho aperto la

Re: [Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?

2011-02-11 Thread Mohamed Ibrahim
Hello all, Of course it's all over the news, Mubarak has stepped down and rebuilding Egypt has just started :) Wikimedians I'm a aware of is safe and were part of this great revolution, and we all thank you for your support. Another note, on Wael Ghonim who was widely credited as one of the main

Re: [Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?

2011-02-11 Thread aude
Wael was also instrumental in organising the first openstreetmap mapping party in cairo in 2008 Glad he is safe and all wikimedians Congrats, Katie (@aude) Ps- Sorry for top post Sent from my iPhone On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Mohamed Ibrahim mido.archit...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all,

Re: [Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

2011-02-11 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: On 11 February 2011 11:30, Mingli Yuan mingli.y...@gmail.com wrote: So I just want to know the possibility that foundation can support it or not? And how should I improve the work to make foundation accept this service? A URL shortener is a very good idea. In general,

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Report, January 2011

2011-02-11 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi folks, please find below the Wikimedia Foundation report for January. As always, you'll find a wikified version on Meta (this one includes a selection of 10th anniversary photos, so do take a look): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_January_2011 Edits and feedback

Re: [Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

2011-02-11 Thread FT2
Shorteners are one way that a large part of the net is going. Twitter and other microblogging drives that - a full WMF url won't easily fit so people probably don't include them in many media where they otherwise might well do so. Making it clear these are WMF related, and also hosting them