Re: [Foundation-l] New projects

2010-11-13 Thread Mohamed Magdy
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Our family has got new projects: snip * Wikinews in Esperanto: http://eo.wikinews.org/ This project is a joke, are there really people who are going to read news in Esperanto? user:alnokta

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

2010-11-13 Thread Mohamed Magdy
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote: Let me ask this question. Suppose the Wikimedia Foundation were to buy PediaPress from Brainbot, including whatever intellectual property is associated with its service such as the LaTeX export. If Wikimedia did this

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for new project

2010-10-20 Thread Mohamed Magdy
Why not just use Wikibooks for this project? if it works out, you can easily migrate the content to its own domain. alnokta ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] [OT] Am I the only one...

2010-05-09 Thread Mohamed Magdy
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: ...who hopes posting limits will be enforced this month? -Chad Yes. I received a ridiculous amount of messages about the same silly topic. move along people.. user:alnokta ___

Re: [Foundation-l] RFC: A Wikipedia/etc.-like Web Directory (e.g: dmoz.org, the old dir.yahoo.com , etc)

2009-10-30 Thread Mohamed Magdy
Morning * I was thinking of something similar to make myself but didn't get to it. I'm glad to see this RFC and I think it will be worthwhile project to have, I don't know though how to convince them to create it. I was going to use Semantic forms (which means you also use Semantic MediaWiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

2009-09-28 Thread Mohamed Magdy
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:33 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/28 Mohamed Magdy mohamed@gmail.com: This really sucks. Hey, we'll all live, and he's alive and well :-) Yes. But I find it difficult to understand that he leaves wm for some social networking venture, I hope

Re: [Foundation-l] $500, 000 operational support from Hewlett Foundation

2009-08-21 Thread Mohamed Magdy
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has decided to generously support us with $500,000 in operational funding. More information in the press release:

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

2009-08-13 Thread Mohamed Magdy
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, Actually according to the standard Panjabi is the correct spelling. It is the same moronic standard which says that the Egyptian dialect is a language. Congrats to the new projects, I just hope that they are

Re: [Foundation-l] CC attribution with cut'n'pasted text - Tynt's Tracer Tool

2009-07-24 Thread Mohamed Magdy
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/7/24 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16060 Basically, if you cut'n'paste text, it appends a CC credit line to the pasted text. Obviously the paster can remove it, but

Re: [Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

2009-03-13 Thread Mohamed Magdy
2009/3/13 Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com Should someone handle this? http://www.blackwikipedia.org/ BlackWikipedia is a nonprofit private organization to support WMF, the Foundation working to maintain and develop the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Wikipedia is constantly looking

[Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

2009-01-10 Thread Mohamed Magdy
Hi all, I would like to propose the dismantling of the language committee and creating a new one (not including Gerard, of course). Why? Because it is chronically malfunctioning. Manifested in: # Gerard is forcing all his opinion, anything else is going nowhere. # Other members don't really care