[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Hungary Report – March 2011

2012-04-08 Thread Bence Damokos
regards, Bence Damokos Wikimedia Hungary *Wikimedia Hungary Report* *Vol 5 Issue 3* *March 2012* *Prepared by: Bence Damokos* This is an update on Wikimedia Hungary's activities covering the March 2012 period. Our newest reports, originally written in English, are now translatable to any language

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Hungary Report - February 2012

2012-03-17 Thread Bence Damokos
, the February report is copied below. Best regards, Bence Damokos Wikimedia Hungary '''Wikimedia Hungary Report''' '''Vol 5 Issue 2''' '''February 2012''' ''Prepared by: Bence Damokos'' This is an update on Wikimedia Hungary's activities covering the February 2012 period. We have recently uploaded

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapters Committee update

2012-03-08 Thread Bence Damokos
are: - Galileo Vidoni - Lodewijk Gelauff (reelected) - Maria Sefidari - Bengt Oberger - Tomasz Kozłowski They are joined by: - Damian Finol, - Ray Saintonge, - Sebastian Moleski - Jeromy-Yu Chan - Bence Damokos (chair) We would like to express our gratitude to Austin Hair

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Hungary Report - January 2012

2012-02-03 Thread Bence Damokos
Dear all, The January 2012 report of Wikimedia Hungary is now available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/January_2012 . For your convenience, it is reproduced below. Best regards, Bence Damokos, Wikimedia Hungary *Wikimedia Hungary

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-01 Thread Bence Damokos
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: On 2 February 2012 00:06, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, from the results of the least chapter and community seats election my opinion is that the former are *wyyy* more

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-01 Thread Bence Damokos
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:42 AM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov alexandrdmitriroma...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/2/1 Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com that is a bit OT but... Not at all, it is a statement of fact. The continent of Africa is scarcely represented in terms of Chapters, despite being

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapters Committee Call for Candidates

2012-01-21 Thread Bence Damokos
are interested. Best regards, Bence Damokos chair, Chapters Committee [1]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about

Re: [Foundation-l] Smurfs Movie is infringing on wikipedia copyright

2011-12-17 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Well I found it disturbing, and i stlll find it disturbing. I still find that we are failing our mission if we just accept this. Someone has to stand up and say something about this, so I guess I will have to

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Bence Damokos
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: I agree entirely with Risker, and I want to applaud the WM RS Board members for responding so quickly in support of the Italian Wikimedians on this issue. Milos, I missed your board's public statement -- can you send me a

Re: [Foundation-l] Sending announcements to this list

2011-09-12 Thread Bence Damokos
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 August 2011 01:24, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Hi all, Just to check: I've been assuming of late that everyone that's

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-30 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: It does strike me as odd that, given the legendary openness of Wikimedia-related projects and activities, at least the basic provisions of the chapter agreement isn't widely accessible. It would be very demotivating for

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Hungary Report for April 2011

2011-08-26 Thread Bence Damokos
a little more about the partnership with Arcanum? Thanks, Asaf On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Bence Damokos bence.damo...@wiki.media.huwrote: Dear all, Please find below the report on Wikimedia Hungary's activities in April 2011. It is available online at: http

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter referendum

2011-08-16 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: I've just been looking at the image filter referendum. Could someone from the Foundation please explain what you hope to gain by holding it? The questions are extremely leading, so I doubt you will learn anything

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-25 Thread Bence Damokos
It might be more worthwhile to put downtime status updates on status.wikimedia.org as a logical page to display the status of the servers, and link to it from the default error messages. Given that status.wm.org is an external service, it would hopefully not be affected by any outages and the

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: A lack of newbies that stick

2011-04-03 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Certainly someone else can do more formal research and come up with actual numbers. But as for me I think it's ridiculous at worst and premature at best to say that new users are becoming less sticky when, it seems to me,

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

2011-03-20 Thread Bence Damokos
2011/3/20 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com One thing that might be worth telling Google would be to have some kind of warning when one searches from something else entirely, that would say results are also present in one of the sites you blocked or something like that, so that the hurdle

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

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2011-02-28 Thread Bence Damokos
Don�t be frigid, my sweet!. http://naaldendraadborduuratelier.nl/links.php?omaSID=404 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Again: January 15 retro?

2011-01-11 Thread Bence Damokos
I think the banners are already enabled in most non-cat1-chapter geographies. I think they should also be enabled in other places as/once the FR thank-you messages have run their course. I support the logo change, btw. Bence -- Sent from my phone On 2011.01.11. 14:10, emijrp emi...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikipedia videos being released this week

2010-09-24 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, For localisation purposes can we somehow enable the YouTube captions system which would allow human-checked and translated subtitles to be uploaded next to the videos? (For that to work, the account owner has to do some magic I think under YouTube's settings panels and then an actually

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia movement roles project

2010-09-22 Thread Bence Damokos
, 2010 at 2:07 AM, who this whoth...@gmail.com wrote: Lets see.. Austin- chapcom member/chair Arne Klempert-chapcom member Bence Damokos-chapcom member Samuel klein-chapcom member + many others Morgan Chan- communication committee(status unknown) bishkha datta- board

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Board meetings, minutes and motions

2010-09-08 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, Thanks for this update, On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Samuel J Klein s...@wikimedia.org wrote: At the same time, we also approved the formation of Wikimedia Eesti. Welcome to the Estonian chapter! This chapter has the distinction of having received approval without translating any

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-26 Thread Bence Damokos
-Original Message- From: Jesse (Pathoschild) Date: 2010. augusztus 26. 21:29 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:14 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone else from the language

Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

2010-08-24 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:47 PM, teun spaans teun.spa...@gmail.com wrote: I took a look at the example in the french wiki, and didnt spot a date in the archive reference. If the source changes its content, this may pose a problem. If you click on an archive link the top frame will

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-12 Thread Bence Damokos
-Original Message- From: Osama Khalid Date: 2010. augusztus 12. 14:02 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011 I can't believe people complaining about getting the visa in their passports that will later prevent them to visit

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-24 Thread Bence Damokos
As far as push translation goes, there are languages where it could almost work and where it couldn't. (Consider the experience of the Google team with the Bengali Wikipedia - http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2010/07/translating-wikipedia.html ) Bence

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-22 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: When you think that Commons is bad in supporting other languages, try to find pictures of a horse on the internet in other languages like

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-22 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.comwrote: I would consider this state as a poor reflection on Commons' accessibility. Especially as Google image search (imho, the likeliest avenue of searching for images) gives 130 000 pictures of horses on Commons

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-22 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: Don't most Internet users know enough English to be able to search for pictures

Re: [Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

2010-06-16 Thread Bence Damokos
There is http://www.google.com/insights/search/#geo=MYcmpt=q where you have to play with the parameters (time interval, subcategories, regions) but you can probably get useful data out of it. Best, Bence On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Excirial wp.excir...@gmail.com wrote: *STOP* Two-third

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posting

2010-06-14 Thread Bence Damokos
Sorry for going off-topic again in an off-topic thread of a really interesting on-topic thread.. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kthx Time: 1 s? If you don't count the probability that one gets stuck on Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-06 Thread Bence Damokos
of our readers to offer them a chance to start the article in their native WP - possibly through Google Translator Toolkit, without sacrificing general usability and annoying our casual readers? Best regards, Bence Damokos ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-04 Thread Bence Damokos
a representative sample of our visitors. In that case, I would also be interested to know whether the behaviour was any different on projects other than the English Wikipedia... (and whether there was any variation in the click rates based on country of origin or browser language). -- Bence Damokos

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-04 Thread Bence Damokos
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com wrote: Why would anyone link me to an article on ka.wikipedia? That's not a reasonable thing to imagine. I don't think I know anyone who speaks Georgian, and if I do, they wouldn't have

Re: [Foundation-l] drive-by site updates

2010-05-16 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 May 2010 17:14, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 May 2010 17:12, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: On Sun, May 16,

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-16 Thread Bence Damokos
. (It is an unsubstantiated hypotheses of mine, that probably the donor comments would also have worked with a picture of a real person as a background). Best, Bence Damokos ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Can you tell us about ... - An Idea to encourage more edits

2009-11-28 Thread Bence Damokos
effecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gordon-Haus_effectaction=editredlink=1- Yong-Sik Jinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yong-Sik_Jinaction=editredlink=1) would bring in a very wide audience with diverse expertise. -- Bence Damokos

Re: [Foundation-l] 31 august, 20 years of our national holiday Our romanian language in Moldova, mo.wikipedia still in cyrillic !

2009-09-01 Thread Bence Damokos
out from this page). Best regards, Bence Damokos ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Hungarian Wikinews licence

2009-07-21 Thread Bence Damokos
but I hope that some dev might be reading this list and updates the necessary server settings to reflect these results faster than I learn to navigate Bugzilla. :) Thank you, Bence Damokos [1] http://hu.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikih%C3%ADrek:Kocsmafal_(javaslatok)#D.C3.B6nt.C3.A9s_a_Wikih.C3

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?

2009-06-29 Thread Bence Damokos
It's a magnificent idea in my opinion, as well. Just make sure, please, that you include a prominent unsubscribe link in the first couple of issues, so those who are subscribers of this list as well as Wikizine can unsubscribe the duplicate copy. Best, Bence 2009/6/29 Rjd0060

Re: [Foundation-l] antisocial production

2009-06-28 Thread Bence Damokos
Inventory; the closest article in Wikipedia on the subject might be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits) Best regards, Bence Damokos 2009/6/28 geni geni...@gmail.com 2009/6/27 Phil Nash pn007a2...@blueyonder.co.uk: 1. Small sample, making statistical significance difficult

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with humantranslations of Wikipedia articles

2009-06-10 Thread Bence Damokos
]], I think you would get some very useful suggestions for translating [[Bird species 4]]. Best, Bence Damokos On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Bennó benn...@freemail.hu wrote: and totally alien texts to a certain [at least minimal?] extent. This whole thing has absolutely nothing to do

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with humantranslations of Wikipedia articles

2009-06-10 Thread Bence Damokos
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 14:46, Bence Damokosbdamo...@gmail.com wrote: What I see as a great feature in the toolkit is the translation memory: in practice (after you switch of the machine translation), common

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with human translations of Wikipedia articles

2009-06-09 Thread Bence Damokos
it as translation suggestions, for one). Best regards, Bence Damokos On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 00:54, genigeni...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/9 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu: We should take the ToS to make sure

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Bence Damokos
was handled by a CheckUser (and thus a) a person already with access to said data and b) a person identified to the WMF and trusted by the community*). (*Not that I would want to introduce community trust into the argument, just pointing out the inherent properties of being a CU.) Best regards, Bence

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Bence Damokos
of implementing a stats engine in light of a privacy policy that has been adopted later than the action was performed nor might it be fruitful to shift blame for not discussing something three years ago (which could even have been discussed in some way). Best regards, Bence Damokos On Fri, Jun 5

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-15 Thread Bence Damokos
followed through). Thank you, Bence Damokos 2009/4/14 Tisza Gergő gti...@gmail.com I found a few apparent legal problems while translating the license update documents. Apologies if these have already been discussed to death - I didn't follow earlier debates, and the archives are mostly

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Hungary picture competiton

2009-03-14 Thread Bence Damokos
to the Picture of the Year competition, the authors of the best pictures will be awarded a Wikimedia gift package. For more information, please visit the competition's homepage on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimedia_Hungary_picture_competition Thank you, Bence Damokos Wikimédia

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-11 Thread Bence Damokos
small contributions the articles would be unpublishable. Best regards, Bence Damokos ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-04 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Sam Johnston s...@samj.net wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:43 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/3 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, The economics

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

2009-02-03 Thread Bence Damokos
Wikiposters is mindful of attribution requirements. I guess, we would need someone, who has actually seen a Wikiposters poster, to tell us how they handle this -- and other licences -- in practice. Bence Damokos ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs status/news?

2008-11-16 Thread Bence Damokos
on the UI they do get translated quite quickly, with the added knowledge of the context where they appear. Best regards, Bence Damokos http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Luiz Augusto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to http