[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2011

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
[FYI] -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: 2011/3/19 Subject: Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2011 To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org As always, you can find the formatted version on Meta:

[Foundation-l] New projects

2011-03-19 Thread Milos Rancic
I am glad that I am the first woke up member of LangCom today, so I am able announce that our family is richer for six new projects. Of those, we've got two new Wikipedias, which means that we have two languages. Presently, there are 269 active editions (281 in total) of Wikipedia, which should

[Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread KIZU Naoko
Hi, I noticed Wikimedia privacy policy on wmf site replaced with pdf version and have no link to other (informal) language versions. There is no suggestion users may consult informal translations, if any, now dead links on the wmf site without links from the original or on meta as translating

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com: Hi, I noticed Wikimedia privacy policy on wmf site replaced with pdf version and have no link to other (informal) language versions. I'm not seeing either a PDF or a link to one. Can you give me steps to find it? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm not seeing either a PDF or a link to one. Can you give me steps to find it? I think she's referring to the link on here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies. I thought I remembered seeing another similar pdf

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org: I think she's referring to the link on here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies. I thought I remembered seeing another similar pdf updated version uploaded, but can't seem to remember if I actually saw it or where it was. I see no reason

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search results. Sometimes this option comes up and sometimes is doesn't. Has anyone else seen

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org: Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search results. Sometimes this option

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just wikipedia.org or other/all sites. Bence pointed to this explanation:

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just wikipedia.org or other/all sites. Bence pointed to this explanation:

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Theo10011
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread KIZU Naoko
Thank you, guys :) On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2011/3/19 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org: I think she's referring to the link on here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies. I thought I remembered seeing another similar pdf updated version

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to be a personalized search feature, not directly related to Wikipedia visibility in search results. Two things: 1) before you actually come to this feature, you'd have to go to the Wikipedia page, and then back to

Re: [Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

2011-03-19 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 03/15/11 5:41 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: --- On Tue, 15/3/11, Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net wrote: From: Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net On 03/14/11 5:41 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: So that would mean exporting all BLPs to a completely separate project, like Commons, which hosts and