Steven Walling, 06/04/2012 00:39:
These are fantastic. I don't see them on (EN) articles or Commons yet,
though it's easy to miss... do the students need help uploading etc?
All those images are hotlinked from Commons, or are we talking about
different things?
Some of them are in articles
Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40:
- a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are
as a society towards reaching that goal
We had started a stub table about this:
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free
Nemo
This is something I've hard multiple times, and it always reminds me
this unsettling graph:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surexploitation_morue_surp%C3%AAcheEn.jpg
[1]
I'm quite sure fishermen thought they had fugured out cod fishing in the
end of the 60s, but only a couple years
phoebe ayers, 01/04/2012 07:49:
In the meantime, if there are any questions for us (as a board) or for
individual trustees I encourage you simply to send those along, either
to me (if you want them to go to the whole board, as I will pass them
along) or privately. That would help make sure that
John Vandenberg, 31/03/2012 06:56:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 March 2012 02:03, John Vandenbergjay...@gmail.com wrote:
I expect that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the
board. If not, then the board should put in
Craig Franklin, 31/03/2012 23:20:
For the record, those who did not vote in favour of the resolutions, this
morning explained their reasons for doing so. I'm sure someone more
eloquent than I can summarise those reasons, but I think that they were
valid. John Vandenberg is correct that if
phoebe ayers, 30/03/2012 14:03:
During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on
Trustee voting transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency
asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees
with their
Michael Peel, 30/03/2012 23:52:
On voting transparency: this is a great step forward. However, I would
encourage the WMF to take a further step, and to explain why trustees voted
approve/abstain/against.
+1 (as on the other topic). I hope this will done, at least for this
particular
Nathan, 18/03/2012 20:47:
So a group of chapters, reacting against a perceived effort to centralize
the movement, create a brand new central body with an extensive (and
apparently, expensive) bureaucracy? Are there really a lot of people that
think this is a good idea?
Yes because it is. And
Samuel Klein, 14/03/2012 03:00:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanterpute...@mccme.ru wrote:
No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I
am confusing things.
There's
It would also be interesting to understand why everyone (for
reimbursements, grants, scholarships etc.) is required to send and
receive money to/from the USA bank or PayPal accounts although there is
an EU bank account and bank transfers within EU are mostly free, while
PayPal has very high
Michael Peel, 10/03/2012 21:54:
I'm all in favour of moving the Wikimedia domain names from GoDaddy to
MarkMonitor (and, tbh, I'm rather puzzled by why the WMF decided to use GoDaddy
in the first place), I'm just rather puzzled by your statements here.
The official blog post says that «the
John Vandenberg, 06/03/2012 10:23:
The problem isnt that they are providing ebooks, but
1. they are By Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/wikimedia-foundation
2. they are poor quality, or dont work
The second is their problem, but the first is clearly untrue and
Seems worth a forward given that it mentions the SOPA protest as one of
the main causes for a better acceptance of sensible copyright lobby
(true or not?).
Nemo
Messaggio originale
Oggetto:Blood in the water: Brett Smith reports from the latest
Trans-Pacific
Michael Peel, 03/03/2012 22:56:
If I'm wrong here, then I would really welcome corrections. But I really don't
like that the requirement of keeping the decisions made by this this process is
being put on the Wikimedia chapters rather than the Wikimedia Foundation. It
may be that this issue
Nathan, 24/02/2012 18:13:
It's really unfortunate that blacking out Wikimedia projects is becoming an
accepted method of protest. Maybe we should start keeping track of how
often different projects are blacked out, and for what purpose.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project-wide_protests
Nathan, 22/02/2012 18:38:
Thanks for the heads up, Robert. This boils down to a fairly simple
question for me - do I want to participate in the political
disenfranchisement of Iranian (and other) authors and photographers? They
have few rights of political participation in their own nations, and
Nathan, 22/02/2012 19:27:
In a moral sense, if we treat authors poorly because they live in a country
where they are treated poorly, not only are we reinforcing that poor
treatment - we are benefiting from their disadvantage. If Iranian authors
were from any other of the vast majority of Berne
Nathan, 23/02/2012 01:33:
Don't forget - while I used Iran as an example, it isn't the only country
affected.
Of course, but Iran is the case which worries more, I think; and the
first paragraph of my set of questions still applies. ;-)
Nemo
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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12:
Do the people at MeatballWiki know?
Why should they care?
I don't know if this has already been mentioned somewhere:
http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-thoughts-on-right-to-be-forgotten.html
It's a very cautious comment I think.
Nemo
Risker, 11/02/2012 18:45:
The greatest challenge with the entire notion of vanishing is that it is
intended to be permanent. That is, the person who wants to vanish should
not return in the future, under any guise. [...]
I don't think it's useful to discuss this. It's certainly not to the
Thomas Dalton, 04/02/2012 15:05:
On 4 February 2012 13:57, Teofiloteofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal
information through edit links. I won't edit articles with
Theo10011, 02/02/2012 00:36:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Risker wrote:
The appointed members of the Board are chosen for their specific expertise
and skill-set. The Board does publicly identify the slots it is trying to
fill when looking for appointees, and the qualifications that they
Tomasz Ganicz, 25/01/2012 09:22:
I don't know if there is manpower for this - but it would be great if
the analysis covers also impact of ACTA on EU law and EU related
Wikipedias (those which have majority of editors from EU countries).
In case of EU - there is slightly more time -than for US.
Klaus Graf, 25/01/2012 13:11:
I think there is a much more important issue we should discuss.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/All_files_copyrighted_in_the_US_under_the_URAA
The US-centric WS may neglect it because there is widespread opinion
that human beeings can
Klaus Graf, 25/01/2012 14:00:
The law counsel recommandation of 2007 wasn't communicated to the
other WS and WE SHOULD IGNORE IT. It's clear that WMF has NOW to say
what is possible in the light of the Supreme Court Decision -
regarding Commons and the other WMF projects.
This is a clear issue
Steven Walling, 25/01/2012 19:33:
We want this to be very different than past staff meetups or interviews
that have happened in Brazil. We are not interested in the university
program, the chapter, the Brazil office, or the fundraiser. That is not
what Maryana and I do in the movement.
We only
MZMcBride, 21/01/2012 01:19:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies#Policies lists policies of the
Wikimedia Foundation.
Would it make sense to sub-divide these policies into sub-lists? It seems
very strange to place all of these policies next to each other in a single
list.
I thought
MZMcBride, 21/01/2012 23:32:
Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the
policy and it now lives at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy
I don't think the Volunteer Development Coordinator (or any Wikimedia
Mr. Gregory Varnum, 22/01/2012 00:33:
MZMcBride - I guess I'm unclear what the purpose of this thread is. Just a FYI
or are you asking for something specific to be done? I'm not sure how you got
confused about its scope given the listserv you forwarded this from which
outlined all this in
emijrp, 17/01/2012 22:11:
The Italian bill was not removed, the vote was just delayed. So, if any, I
see a poor effect here after compromising our goals.
What do you mean? There's no way to remove a proposed law, here. And
it will surely not be approved, like tons of other proposed laws
Jay Walsh, 19/01/2012 07:05:
The protest drew worldwide attention to SOPA and PIPA, legislation that
had previously been cast as a battle between powerful corporate interests
I don't know elsewhere, but here in Italy this doesn't seem to have
changed, Wikipedia and Google are put in the same
Bastien Guerry, 18/01/2012 10:23:
Zugravu Gheorghezugravu.gheor...@gmail.com writes:
apparently if you disable java in your browser - you have normal access
to en:wp!
Or if you click on the stop loading button of your browser
soon enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-Rf-VKHY8
John Vandenberg, 08/01/2012 04:50:
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:47 AM, James Heilmanjmh...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey John. Not sure we why at WMC should be interested? Can you explain
further...
Why wouldnt WMC be interested in changes to laws in Canada that reduce
free cultural exchange?
WMIT is
David Gerard, 16/01/2012 15:15:
On 16 January 2012 14:08, Federico Leva (Nemo)nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
WMIT is interested, too, because the board has decided to move the
semi-free and PD-Italy content hosted on biblioteca.wikimedia.it to
wikilivres and we'd like Canada to be still able
James Heilman, 12/01/2012 21:36:
We seem to be missing the states from Dec of 2011 here
http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/view.php and not sure why
Also Mr.Z-man seems to have gone inactive for more than a month now. Not
sure if there is anyone to take over this tool? Hopefully he shall
Bod Notbod, 10/01/2012 21:57:
If I say that this sounds like a hugely important role the rest of the
office will fold their arms and rightly harumph at me for the implied
negation of their value, so I won't say that. But you can't keep up
with Wikipedia news without being made constantly
Bod Notbod, 10/01/2012 22:59:
Maybe forget the blog and Signpost. If we go here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors
We see that some staff don't yet have pictures. I would respect the
choice of anyone who didn't want a pic up but they do go a long way in
helping
emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59:
With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can block
any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that
_links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or whatever.
Without a judge.
That's entirely different!
For
Keegan Peterzell, 03/01/2012 08:41:
Big cities usually work a lot better than small towns or medium sized
cities, where inclusion of local places are often reverted due to lack
of assertions of notability.
English Wikipeidia user Chzz inspired an essay that I host, for new users
strictly
James Heilman, 03/01/2012 17:36:
I am not suggesting that we use just a simple banner. We need to
create something with a picture of a Wikipedian with text like join
us in improving the world leading encyclopedia, click here to learn
how.
Than when people click it will ask them what sort of
Bastien Guerry, 02/01/2012 13:04:
Erik Moeller writes:
Years ago, we used to worry that people wouldn't/didn't understand
that Wikimedia is a non-profit, that it's created by volunteers, that
it's international/multilingual. Many misconceptions still exist, but
for anyone paying attention,
geni, 31/12/2011 10:22:
And
they are also used for displaying bilingual messages, which is very
useful for areas in which you can't be sure whether people prefer
English or the local language, like India.
Except both versions I was getting were in English.
I guess you mean the set of
Thomas Dalton, 31/12/2011 15:58:
On 31 December 2011 14:42, Zack Exleyzex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone -
It's a trade off between doing things that might annoy some people in the
banners vs. reducing the number of days we need to run banners at all. It's
hard to find the right
Erik Moeller, 30/11/2011 07:03:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Nathan wrote:
[...]
* The budget includes a whopping $14 million on staffing costs (at the
planned 117 number of staff, that is nearly $120k per staff member)
The 2010-11 staffing budget is $13.3M. [5] Staffing costs
Thank you for the answers.
Jay Walsh, 17/12/2011 19:29:
The languages chosen were a balance between our geographic priorities
(Brazil, Middle East, India) and our widest base of donors and contributors
from other countries. It's imperfect, as always - we want to do more in
the future, but we
Jan Kučera, 31/12/2011 01:52:
I see following wikis hold secred information:
http://internal.wikimedia.org
http://office.wikimedia.org
http://board.wikimedia.org
Try harder: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_wikis#Private_wikis
Nemo
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John Du Hart, 23/12/2011 16:30:
This is currently on the reddit front page
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/nnv9l/wikipediaorg_is_with_godaddy_jimmy_if_youre/
Why we're using GoDaddy in the first place is beyond me, surely there's
better options available (Like ones that don't
David Gerard, 23/12/2011 20:25:
Until a few moments ago,
http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/go-daddys-position-on-sopa/
contained a strong statement of support for SOPA. I don't have a
screen capture, but I quite definitely read it.
Also, Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA (the title of their
Thank you! Now reading it. :-)
In the meanwhile:
Jay Walsh, 17/12/2011 00:34:
This year we considerably expanded our multi-lingual effort by adding 6
translated 'summary' reports in Arabic, Japanese, French, German,
Portugese, and Spanish.
How were those languages chosen? I can't see any
Yaroslav M. Blanter, 17/12/2011 09:29:
May be just because they did not have anybody to translate to other
languages, as the composition of Transcom suggests?
Cheers
Yaroslav
To correct myself, it just means that nobody did the translations
No. In the highlights case, it was about the
David Richfield, 17/12/2011 10:40:
It's disgusting that a megacorporation which has a predatory,
legalistic attitude towards intellectual property doesn't play by
its own rules.
According to whai I've heard of the film, it's because smurfs didn't
like Wikipedia's article on them.
Nemo
MZMcBride, 11/12/2011 19:02:
Hi.
The Terms of use rewrite is starting to wind down. The current draft is
here:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use.
All users are encouraged to edit and improve the draft before January 1,
2012. In particular, the document could use a thorough
It's a matter of perspective, as always: the universities see the
addition of their logos as added value for Wikipedia/WMF. For instance,
such a usage of logos is strictly prohibited by my university (unimi.it)
and is authorised only if there's a partnership framework about some
research and a
Dario Taraborelli, 10/12/2011 04:51:
• Is the Foundation running ads?
No, this banner is a recruitment campaign for a research project that has
been thoroughly reviewed by the Research Committee. We have a long tradition
of supporting recruitment for research about our communities via
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/11/2011 09:39:
Not sure if this is appropriate for this list, but just for lulz. A
finnish member of
parliament just got caught for his speech being a word for word piece of
snippets from a Finnish Wikipedia article. No intervening binding lines, just
the Wikipedia
Kim Bruning, 02/11/2011 21:52:
So qua editor retention, 2 things are needed:
* Make editing more obvious and easy, and bring the fun back. :-)
* Work on The Cure For Adminitis (tm). O:-)
The only known cure is abstention: either wikibreak or editing on a wiki
where you're not sysop or on the
Jay Walsh, 08/11/2011 00:51:
In short, I think the chapters should build the marks that make the
most sense in their own cultures, and more importantly that they
should very easily communicate the name and idea of the chapter as
well as 'wikimedia' in some way. I don't know if any of those
Dominic McDevitt-Parks, 02/11/2011 16:30:
But the Foundation often fails to act as if the other projects
are actually essential in fulfilling its mission, and is notoriously bad at
ever characterizing them as essential or trying to make them feel that way.
Unless that as if is a variation of
David Gerard, 31/10/2011 12:29:
I’ve been into Wikipedia for several years, and all my friends know
this. I *still* find myself having to explain to them in small words
that that “edit” link really does include them fixing typos when they
see one.
So my suggestion: tiny tiny steps like this:
David Gerard, 31/10/2011 12:59:
On 31 October 2011 11:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
What's the impact of changes like
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Taglinediff=20130615oldid=17050524
?
(Probably minimal, readers don't actually read our invitations to edit
anyway
Robin McCain, 31/10/2011 17:20:
We must also remember that the wiki edit interface and markup can be a
little intimidating to a newbie, so opening an edit window and making no
changes may be more common than we think. Are there any stats on this?
Yes, it was something like 70 % of edit clicks
Hubert, 30/10/2011 15:24:
One problem is that the word Love is used quite differently in the
German language. Even in Great Britain.
This again means that translators have to be bold. It's true that
translation can be difficult, in fact most interwikis of
Erik Moeller, 29/10/2011 00:16:
In addition to English Wikipedia, WikiLove has been enabled [...]
MediaWiki.org and Commons.
Perhaps we can even change the definition on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiLove , currently «extension
designed to promote the spread of WikiLove within
emijrp, 25/10/2011 12:30:
Looks like we have a big ally in the digitisation of public domain content
issue[1]:
The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public
Domain Charter, to highlight the value of public domain content in the
knowledge economy. It alerts Europe's
Tim Starling, 21/10/2011 02:29:
There's no bias towards or away from porn, however. The distributions
of page_random gaps are independent of any variable you might want to
study, like quality or age.
If you try to get a lot of random pages from Special:Random,
eventually you will notice that
Lodewijk, 18/10/2011 16:02:
I would guess that the odds of arriving at such article are so low, that it
would not be worth the huge discussion it would definitely result into, to
make this change because there is barely any improvement.
I agree. Just to say, I'm more worried by this problem:
Fae, 18/10/2011 17:02:
Perhaps it may be a practical response to lobby for a nice big
feedback button (rather than the link to a complex contact us page)
before we have another great image filter debate/train wreck?
If nothing else this would give us hard data on how many readers
complain
Nickanc Wikipedia, 12/10/2011 14:21:
Yes, there are these groups, but in most wikipedias they have few
persons inside it and they have almost no policy;
That's because few people need it.
In it wiki basta una riga in [[WP:RA]], secondo me.
moreover if you look
for global ipblock exempt you
Nickanc Wikipedia, 10/10/2011 22:59:
Why dont allow Ip block exemptions for TOR when
wikipedians are strongly biased by local laws?
This is already possible on all wikis with ipblock-exempt group and
is/was used mainly for Chinese wikipedians AFAIK.
Everybody happily editing on clandestinity
Risker, 09/10/2011 18:40:
Two board members are selected by chaptersl however, the board has certain
rights to refuse the selected candidates. Chapter-selected candidates will
be appointed in 2012.
The WMF-wide community holds an election in odd-numbered years to nominate
three candidates.
Ray Saintonge, 08/10/2011 11:11:
I'm happy that the Italian language Wikipedia is back in business, and I
hope that in the future projects will find better ways to protest than
suicide strategies. The key point is that Wikipedias are based on
languages, not countries. For Italian there is a
Tempo D. Valse, 07/10/2011 18:07:
MZMcBride wrote:
It's just a standard sidebar link, really. You can change it to whatever you
want on a per-project basis (or not have a donate link at all). There are
about a million donation landing pages to choose from.
Thanks for the reply. I'm aware
Theo10011, 07/10/2011 20:30:
I would say a local VP on a project would be the ideal place to start for
new feature requests, and then filing a bug at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
Actually it's already been discussed a number of times, I think, like
global user pages and global preferences,
MZMcBride, 06/10/2011 05:13:
Is the grant restricted or unrestricted? (Is there a copy of the agreement
somewhere?)
The WMF said very clearly that they're not accepting restricted grants
any longer, so I assumed it's unrestricted.
Nemo
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Andreas Kolbe, 06/10/2011 02:11:
Well, that *is* nuts. Moreover, the 48-hour time period and potential €12,000
fine in the
proposed law are nuts (pity the blogger who has gone on a 2-week holiday).
Yet that
€12,000 fine is not mentioned in the it:WP statement. Being forced to include
a
Thomas Morton, 05/10/2011 00:23:
I'm still a little bit confused how this will impact Wikipedia, though.
The law seems to be clear in identifying the website owner as the person to
contact; which is a US not-for-profit.
Which law? And which law speaks of website owner? Anyone can be asked to
Bod Notbod, 06/10/2011 11:45:
Does this mean we can now finally have categorised watchlists? It's an
idea that people have generally been supportive of when I have
mentioned it on wiki but never gets any actual action. I'd program it
myself if I could. Put simply, imagine you are interested in
Ray Saintonge, 05/10/2011 10:46:
If they are so fearful they can use pseudonyms. They would then need to
get a legal order from a US court to identify the users.
But all users would need to do so, because a random user or sysop could
be asked to publish the correction/statement. On wiki there
Andreas Kolbe, 05/10/2011 12:49:
Even this corrected version does not seem to be right. As I understand the
proposed law,
the subject would have the right for a statement to be shown, unaltered, on
the page (which
actually would be possible for Wikipedia to do, via a transcluded and
Lodewijk, 06/10/2011 14:24:
No dia 6 de Outubro de 2011 14:01, Federico Leva (Nemo)
escreveu:
This doesn't mean that we've misinformed users: prominent jurists agree
that the proposed law is absolutely crazy for Wikipedia and other
websites; and the community had discussed and assessed
Thomas Goldammer, 05/10/2011 09:21:
2011/10/5 Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com:
CLPI has a good practical summary of the law in this area:
http://www.clpi.org/the-law/faq
interesting:
Q. If a charity incorporated in this country has an Australian (for
example) affiliate that lobbies
Thomas Morton, 05/10/2011 12:31:
On 5 October 2011 11:20, church.of.emacs.ml
Are you seriously comparing that italien law to the proposed image filter?
Are you aware of the principle of proportionality? What might be okay to
do against a law that would kill Wikipedia is different from what is
emijrp, 05/10/2011 17:23:
When people reuse content in other websites/blogs/etc, they have to copy the
article text and link to Italian Wikipedia where you can check the entire
history and authors. That is how attribution is given. It is explained here
WereSpielChequers, 05/10/2011 13:51:
Webpages are only permanent if someone keeps hosting them. I can see that
if the Italian Wikipedia was back up someone in Italy might send a note to
the WMF asking them to comply with this Italian law. But if an editor is no
longer active on the site it
Thomas Morton, 04/10/2011 15:23:
In the modern world countries love to try it on and apply their internet
laws across the world. Fortunately courts tend to give that short shrift.
48 h deadline for correction and fines don't need a court; nor does the
police to summon and interrogate a sysop
A couple of English articles on the new law:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/240840/italian_internet_activists_protest_proposed_law.html
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=852doc_id=234086
Also, I'm not involved in the strike, but the WMF has been somehow
informed by the
Jalo, 04/10/2011 18:04:
Not at all! In the italian laws, if you bring lawsuit against me for
defamation, you must prove I'm not saying the truth.
Not really: freedom of press/expression is not so broad in Italy,
there's no exceptio veritatis (in short truth is not important) for
diffamazione,
Thomas Morton, 04/10/2011 22:25:
Lengthy and critical email on why this is a flabbergasting response...
Just replying to some bits.
- Have they had legal advice? From my semi-legal reading of the material
this is not something that will bite them, but that certainly needs to be
clarified.
Andreas Kolbe, 04/10/2011 23:40:
Is it that disputed content will have to be *removed* if a request is
received, and *replaced* with the BLP subject's statement?
Or is it that BLP subjects have the right to ask for a correction to be
posted on the page, *in addition* to the disputed content?
WereSpielChequers, 04/10/2011 23:46:
If someone tried to use this law
to
force an editor to publish a rebuttal of something posted before the
freeze, then surely that would be retrospective legislation?
I don't see why. Web pages are permanent, they ask the
correction/declaration to be
John Vandenberg, 05/10/2011 00:16:
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stampati/pdf/16PDL0038530.pdf
Is this public domain?
If it is, we can put it on Italian Wikisource, annotate it and
translate it
M. Williamson, 29/09/2011 22:45:
...and Nikerabbit removed it giving only the explanation: not here, per
Nikerabbit (would have already fixed the real issues if only somebody had
told me)
It seems like he's saying that someone should've let him know about the
autoselection issue, but he
emijrp, 22/09/2011 16:43:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_a_deadline
So this combined with
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Digital_Archaeology means
that those 4560AD excavations will provide material for philologists who
will study interpolations to
David Gerard, 21/09/2011 14:00:
The board resolution specifies a magical flying unicorn pony that
shits rainbows. A wide-ranging survey has been conducted on the
precise flight patterns and the importance of which way round the
rainbow spectrum goes. These tiresome people who keep calling this
John Vandenberg, 21/09/2011 16:18:
Extension Babel is now deployed.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Babel
Thank you Roan.
And thanks to the new Internationalization/Localization team (in case
you missed it:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-September/055078.html
Erik Moeller, 13/09/2011 03:55:
That's of course a risky project and it may not live up to our
expectations. But it's IMO a smarter bet to make than just picking
(with an unavoidable element of arbitrariness) one of the many
specialized areas in which we currently aren't succeeding and
M. Williamson, 13/09/2011 00:13:
English Wikiquote, which I've always considered to be one of our most
pointless and least useful projects, has a total of 5 users who make more
than 100 edits a month. This is a project in English, our highest-traffic
language, that has been open since 2003.
MZMcBride, 13/09/2011 00:24:
Wikimedia has made its decision and the community has largely sat quiet on
the issue.
Rectius: the Wikimedia Foundation (as you say below). Other Wikimedia
people, groups and organizations don't think so and are even accused not
to have the legitimacy (!) to
Florence Devouard, 02/09/2011 21:11:
You seek to remove perceived conflicts of interest, even if that means
creating real conflicts of interest ?
Because there would be conflict of interest and rather BIG ONES.
We are facing rather severe challenges right now. Let's say it straight,
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