On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:58 AM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with the point you make, but still think it's the right thing.
Essentially the counter argument boils down to if they don't know there's
a
BLP they can't make work for us about it. Whatever is in the BLP will be
there
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:58 AM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with the point you make, but still think it's the right thing.
Essentially the counter argument boils down to if they don't know there's
a
So, just a quick thought for future reference - during maintenance is it
possible in future to update the error message to explain that maintenance
is ongoing?
Seeing as how widely WMF projects are used by a non-technical project the
current MySQL connection error I am seeing on Commons is just
On 05/24/2011 03:03 PM, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I am preparing document for Wikimania. Presently, I am in process of
analyzing data (SIL [1], Ethnologue [2], Wikimedia projects). I am using
Ethnologue data for population
Zitat von Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I am preparing document for Wikimania. Presently, I am in process of
analyzing data (SIL [1], Ethnologue [2], Wikimedia projects). I am using
Ethnologue data for population
Zitat von m...@marcusbuck.org:
A supply of content is a prerequisite to stimulate demand in content.
After
all one of the biggest problems of a fledgling Wikipedia is that few
people have the dedication to work on a project that will probably not
take off for years to come. It's easier to
Hello All,
We are in the process of fielding a survey of Wikipedia readers to
understand the needs of Wikipedia readers. The survey will get their
opinion on Wikipedia content, understand what are the barriers to
editing Wikipedia, understand how they use Internet, and get some
quantitative
Mani Pande, 24/05/2011 18:53:
The draft of the survey, and a FAQ section is available on meta, if you
are interested. Here is the link to meta space that I have set up for
the survey. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Readership_survey
It would also be interesting to have some answers to the
Mani Pande, 24/05/2011 18:53:
The draft of the survey, and a FAQ section is available on meta, if you
are interested. Here is the link to meta space that I have set up for
the survey. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Readership_survey
It would also be interesting to have some answers to the
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:47 PM, m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
A single dedicated person could be enough to put a project in motion.
A dean of a Nigerian college who integrates Wikipedia article creation
in the instruction plan (if you create 200 Nigerian pidgin Wikipedia
articles this semester
An'n 24.05.2011 19:13, hett Ilario Valdelli schreven:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:47 PM,m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
A single dedicated person could be enough to put a project in motion.
A dean of a Nigerian college who integrates Wikipedia article creation
in the instruction plan (if you create
I totally agree with Thomas.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com
wrote:
So, just a quick thought for future reference - during maintenance is it
possible in future to update the error message to explain that maintenance
is ongoing?
Seeing as how
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_speechYes
it is. Editing Wikipedia is a privilege granted
to you by the permission of the Wikimedia
Foundation, and can be revoked at any time for
whatever reason that organization sees fit to do
so. As a private website, Wikipedia has the
legal
What is called community consensus WILL permit you to be banned
from any project or mailing list. Even if there is no community
consensus, anyone with the right buttons can do it without any need
to justify, explain or write anything that remotely resembles
something objective.
Furthermore,
Oh dear. This just lost a lot of respect (whatever respect is remaining).
So if someone (anyone?) can cause another person problems, they will? I must
remember that as the default expectation of society, or Wikipedia
communities at least.
Documented as being that extreme by reliable sources no
Speaking of WP downtime, you might be particularly interested in today's
XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/903/
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love metadata
On 24 May 2011 21:35, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote:
I totally agree with Thomas.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Thomas Morton
Oh my! That's news for you? Let's see. Just a
sample from firsthand experiences.
1) From Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Vapmachado#Updated_request_for_assistance
The work on Meta was being done in an orderly
manner until the disruption provoked and caused
by those same people
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