Wasn't there a proposal a while back for a Stack Exchange [1] site
like this? It seems like the ideal software for it.
Although IMO if MediaWiki discussions are too confusing for new users,
we should be concentrating on fixing that (*cough* LiquidThreads
*cough*) rather than going to a different
On 11 January 2012 04:48, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is not a criticism of WM-DE: We used that language last year, and
I felt much of the criticism of it was unreasonable, especially yours.
I
Using a geotargeted CentralNotice would be clever, but I believe it
would be trivial to get around by disabling Javascript. Currently
it.wikipedia is using JS to redirect to their message, but beyond that
all page contents are also being hidden with CSS (yes, you can bypass
that too, but it's
On 17 September 2011 15:06, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 17 September 2011 10:16, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
We need people to try the technical basics of a fork, i.e. taking an
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-01/In_the_news
is already the 5th result when I Google that title, without any SEO
effort whatsoever :-)
Pete / the wub
On 1 August 2011 21:52, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
How about a Wikipedia: namespace
On 11 July 2011 04:26, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Most of us have agendas, and this is the only major outlet most of us
have access to.
As a sort of aside-- everyone comes with agendas, and sometimes
people act neutrally, sometimes people act like advocates for their
agenda.
On 28 June 2011 08:35, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
I have read the replies that are against social networking functionality. In
my opinion you are all missing the point. Our projects are crowd sourced
projects and we do not support collaboration, we do not support
On 3 June 2011 09:17, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote:
What does it take for a global ban?
Do you remember Poetlister? Aka Cato, aka Runcorn, aka Quillercouch, aka
British Civil servant with various anti-social problems. Multiple
sockpuppeting, manipulation, lies,
Dror, this is not about anti- or pro- whoever camps. But you have
made a serious allegation on a public and archived mailing list. It's
only fair that Supreme Deliciousness is informed and allowed a right
of reply.
Pete / the wub
On 22 May 2011 14:40, Dror Kamir dqa...@bezeqint.net wrote:
Tom,
On 16 April 2011 01:48, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
It might be easier if you look at it as a numerical scale where native
speaker is a quality level at or near the top, and someone who speaks none
of or only a handful of words in the language is at the bottom. From Jay's
On 18 February 2011 23:24, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and researcher/writer
in South Africa has written an essay, The Missing Wikipedians about
systematic bias on English Wikipedia (especially) against new users and
topics pertinent
1.17 has just been rolled out again, but there still seem to be load
issues: see http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/?r=days=descendingc=
Pete / the wub
On 8 February 2011 16:46, Bartol Flint winter...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know what you mean Stephanie. Wikipedia is still not working for me
Latest word is that 1.17 deployment is postponed until at least
tomorrow, whilst the remaining issues are tackled.
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/1-17-deployment-postponed/
Pete / the wub
On 8 February 2011 17:35, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Le mardi 08 février
On 28 January 2011 13:56, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 13:28, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
I think there's a sense of annoyance among writers whose work is being
copied that the books are so expensive -- sometimes around $50 for a
10,000-word article --
On 25 January 2011 08:50, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 January 2011 07:11, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
It is a question however if per
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/help/entry_faqs#copyright and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/#4 In certain circumstance the BBC may
That's fantastic news, and just in time for the 10th anniversary too,
when I'm sure the early days of Wikipedia will be in the limelight.
Great find Tim!
Would it be at all possible to import these into the current system? I
know someone was importing edits from the Nostalgia wiki. It would be
Gmane being one example: http://gmane.org/find.php?list=wikimedia
Lets you view as a newsgroup or an RSS feed too. Clever stuff.
Pete / the wub
On 9 December 2010 16:40, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that this list is re-posted in other newsgroup compilations
websites. Also, the
On 9 December 2010 23:50, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
KIZU Naoko wrote:
I've got an error message in trying to access Japanese Wikipedia. It
seems long, but it's not my topic.
IIRC the message from server was multilingualized years ago and we
have offered the message with links to
This seems limited to messages on individuals' user pages, saying that
they personally will be donating to Amical rather than WMF. I don't
think the Foundation should step in on this unless the site notice or
a community page is being messed with, though some form of
clarification from Amical's
I believe that the plan is to bring in the thermometer showing how
close we are to our target in the later stages of the fundraiser. As
you say, hopefully that will boost donations again.
At the moment we seem to be doing fine. The personal appeal has proved
itself extremely powerful, I think the
* Wikimedia Commons becomes first production site to adopt MediaWiki's
new look and feel
...
Wikimedia Commons was the first Wikimedia Foundation production wiki
to adopt the user experience improvements that resulted from the
Wikimedia Usability Initiative. This first deployment helped
On 6 November 2010 03:43, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 00:53, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
An'n 05.11.2010 23:44, hett Fred Bauder schreven:
How many billions in potential advertising revenue do we leave on the
table each year?
Fred
According to
On 6 November 2010 10:56, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Anyway, here's some analysis of this very question done back in 2006.
Estimates for annual revenue from adverts ranged from $42 billion to
$100 billion, and that's without accounting for our growth since then.
On 20 October 2010 07:07, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
This is obvious to someone who has been using Wikipedia for some time,
but not so for newbies. I propose changing the new messages notice
to something like: You have new messages on your public talk page
On 28 September 2010 23:37, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
Decisions at Wikipedia are not based a vote. The majority support
Pending Changes and insufficient reasons have been put forwards by
those who wish to see it quashed. I would like to thank Erik Moeller
for the difficult
On 6 September 2010 11:33, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
* The developpers have enabled for every Admin of the French
Wikipedia, the possibility to mask (and exert acts of censorship)
without needing to be an oversighter (1) Which means that the policy
page at [[:fr:Wikipédia:Masqueur
On 6 September 2010 11:33, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
* We are never shown specifications defining the goals of the planned
softwares, which makes me doubt such specifications are ever written.
With specifications being written and published, problems could be
talked in a proactive
On 24 August 2010 12:21, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Amir E. Aharoni, 24/08/2010 12:22:
This is done using Jmol, an
LGPL-licensed Java applet, so maybe it can be used in Wikipedia in the
future.
There's been some discussion here:
On 9 May 2010 09:50, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote:
On 5/8/10 5:38 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, MZMcBridez...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Most of the egregiously bad deletions were quickly overturned, and Jimmy
was
the one re-deleting the images. Now that he has
On 9 May 2010 21:29, marcos tal_t...@yahoo.es wrote:
I want to write here a couple of reflections:
First: Not everything what can be known is worth being known
Second: there have to be a few limits in the free knowledge. These limits
are the Law and the common sense. Though the common
We already remove images of children which are considered to be
illegal under US law, and I see no one arguing that we do otherwise.
The recent kerfuffle has been over the broader category of sexual
images. But if we are take account of all religious and moral
sensitivities, where will it end?
On 3 March 2010 13:26, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:49 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 March 2010 12:28, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia is not a dumping ground for your copyfight. There is plenty
of reason to exclude
2009/8/6 Jade Harold jadehar...@gmail.com
Trying to press a en.wp policy(especially one as broad and controversial
as WP:NOT) on anyone else is foolish and likely to be resisted.
Pete, I disagree with you especially in a case that a local project
try to omit key concepts such as Consensus
2009/7/10 geni geni...@gmail.com
2009/7/10 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2009/7/9 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2009/7/9 geni geni...@gmail.com:
Mention VLC plugin perhaps?
Again, you're making suggestions to create an image of
pseudo-neutrality. The VLC plugin is notoriously
2009/5/30 Judson Dunn cohes...@sleepyhead.org:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:58 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/5/30 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
I don't get it... this is just MSN Messenger on steroids. It's a great
idea and if it works it should be really useful, but
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