On 23/12/11 16:30, John Du Hart wrote:
This is currently on the reddit front page
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/nnv9l/wikipediaorg_is_with_godaddy_jimmy_if_youre/
Everybody there seem to know whatever evil thoughts GoDaddy said, but
there's no reference supporting that.
Why
emijrp wrote:
Hi;
@Derrick: I don't trust Amazon.
I disagree. Note that we only need them to keep a redundant copy of a
file. If they tried to tamper the file we could detect it with the
hashes (which should be properly secured, that's no problem).
I'd like having the hashes for the xml
emijrp wrote:
I didn't mean security problems. I meant just deleted files by weird
terms of service. Commons hosts a lot of images which can be
problematic, like nudes or copyrighted materials in some jurisdictions.
They can deleted what they want and close every account they want, and
we
emijrp wrote:
Hi SJ;
You know that that is an old item in our TODO list ; )
I heard that Platonides developed a script for that task long time ago.
Platonides, are you there?
Regards,
emijrp
Yes, I am. :)
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F.-F. Duron a écrit:
Yes, but maybe you can control the partnerships you're making! Wikipedia is
one of the most visited websites in the world. Don't you think there is a
problem here??
Ça me semble malhereuse. Je ne croix pas que wikiwix a directement placé
ces pubs mais quelque annonce
Ryan Lomonaco wrote:
I think this has been brought up before, but a thought I've had: Apart from
the fact that it will require a ton of work in coding, what would keep us
from separating templates (and, for that matter, images) from the article
text? Article text would exist by itself, and
phoebe ayers wrote:
It's not news but AFAIK an actual image of the flag used is missing.
So if that turns up, that would be cool :) But I think it was already
gone by Feb. 2001.
-- phoebe
Isn't it the first piece of
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terribly_wrong.png ?
David Gerard wrote:
On 12 November 2010 14:57, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
I just cannot imagine that Larry Sanger could bear to see his beloved
Citizendium on a Wikimedia server, among all that child pornography he
is supposing there.
It's not his any more. (Part of their problem is that he
MZMcBride wrote:
John Vandenberg wrote:
The key would be to allow the mirrors to delete their mirror when they
need to use their excess storage capability. If they let us know in
advance that they are reclaiming the space, another organisation with
excess storage capability can take over.
Aaron Adrignola wrote:
I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created
to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to
eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern,
however. I've checked the SUL statuses for
geni wrote:
Well I can search wikipedia-en-l as far back as 13.09.04 and I'm not
coming up with anything. Running google searches for mentions pre 2006
doesn't turn up anything however use explodes in 2006 which is rather
fast if than jan 2006 use is the first.
I grepped for it in
Teofilo wrote:
2010/6/15, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org:
Could you provide me with the exact operating system and browser
versions you are using?
Thanks. I replied at
Wilfredo Rodriguez wrote:
Sincerely wikimedia team.
I have a simple question. I would like to make a proposal to add an
application (link) wikipedia offline here:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/dvd.html
Who should I contact?
The project that I want to add is called Kiwix and is free:
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
«You're marvellous. I've particularly appreciated the languages menu and
I think that in the future it will be even more important (Indian,
Chinese etc.).»
Funny feedback from a reader here:
Andrew Garrett wrote:
I will say to be fair that the best response to what you perceive as a
poor design choice in somebody else's code is not to revert them and
say There, I fixed it for you. Thank me later., but perhaps to
discuss it with them first and find a compromise. There's an
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Now, mind you, I don't necessary support getting rid of the
interlanguage links. I'm mostly objecting to the reasoning being
brought forward for that point, which seems to be mostly:
* Some unknown number of users might somehow end up at a wiki they
don't understand and
James Alexander wrote:
We have a couple threads on this issue but picking the most recent :). It
appears that this has now been changed (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23497 ) and so once the next
revision is pushed live the interwikis would be visible by default.
James
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
The creation of a wiki for SignWriting is a* very* exciting development. In
the language committee we have indicated that technical issues are what
prevents a Wikipedia for sign languages at this time. The SignWriting wiki
is effectively an incubator for the
Jay Walsh wrote:
Right now volunteers are working with the new localization guide to create
the hundreds of new identities needed for each language variation of
Wikipedia. You can see the Commons gallery filling up here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0
This should the
Mike.lifeguard wrote:
The globe isn't actually too small, I think it just _looks_ that way
because:
1) the new logo has more space in it, in particular at the top
2) the new logo is typically viewed with Vector, which has more space
around the logo than monobook did. Take a look at the
Brian S wrote:
I think you mean
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/b/bc/20100513062230!Wiki.png.
Oh, right.
I have still cached the nohat version on
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Wiki.png
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Mikemoral wrote:
But Muhammad's image is not illegal in the US, so why remove them? That has
no point. Why do we have to remove content perfectly legal under US law?
Please educate me why.
Who said that the images Jimmy deleted (and which started all this
debate) were illegal in the US?
If
Chad wrote:
I'm curious to know, how does one start a new project in Wikimedia
anymore?
-Chad
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects
Creating a new language for an existing project is easier:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
Before getting its
cool-RR wrote:
Hello Samuel,
I'm glad I got the right list.
According to your definition, the project fits Wikimedia's goal. I will now
introduce it.
The project is called Librelist. The official website introduces it quite
well, so I'll just quote it:
Librelist is a free as in
Crossposting to wikitech.
Welcome Danese!
Sue Gardner wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm delighted to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation's new Chief
Technical Officer is Danese Cooper, an experienced technology manager
and open-source evangelist. Danese will start with Wikimedia on
February 4, 2010.
Cetateanu Moldovanu wrote:
(and you still link it from
the first page of wikipedia..how ignorant can you be..).
Be polite. I would otherwise sympathise with your situation, but
DON'T-BE-RUDE.
Moreover, the first page of wikipedia is managed by wikipedians, not by
the developers...
private musings wrote:
Hi all,
As a tangent to the national portrait gallery thing, I though I'd raise
something which I've chatted about previously (possibly here, but certainly
with various community members) which seems unresolved.
My understanding of the status quo is that when a
Anthony wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Whether Google is good or evil is off-topic, and irrelevant to boot.
Whether or not they have a right to exclude bots isn't.
Also worth noting, Project Gutenberg has digitised less than 30,000
books
Anthony wrote:
(although I still haven't seen the WMF step up
to the plate and make it easy for people to make a full history fork, or
even to download all the images)
You'll find full history dumps of almost all wikis at
http://download.wikimedia.org/
Although not trivial, downloading all
Brian wrote:
Unfortunately the only way I've found to download the full text of a public
domain book from Google is to flip through the book a page at a time,
copying the text to your clipboard.
There are roughly 2-3 million public domain books in Google Books.
That's easy to fix :)
Michael Dale wrote:
hmm.. it will be a one-two click install directly from the upload page.
(if the user is using Firefox). Then it works exactly the same as the
existing upload interface only it transcodes the video as it uploads
Yea it would be good to support both; and yes we should
David Gerard wrote:
It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that
allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them
as Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis. It would greatly add to how much stuff we
get, as it would save the user the trouble of re-encoding, or
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Actually, there are more assumptions: you have to assume that humanity
*ever* recovers, and within a period of time when people will still
understand written English. You'd have to calibrate the magnitude of
a catastrophe *very* carefully to get a situation where
jidanni wrote:
Imagine there was a message so important that you show it at the top of
the page, on every page on the whole site, and in every language; no
matter if you are logged in or not, and no matter how many times you
have seen it before.
Then imagine all you ever hear about these
I generally agree with your points, but I'll reply your points even if
it's just slightly more secure.
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Okay, great. So if someone shows up with an index finger like yours,
there are two possibilities:
1) Someone forged this e-mail from you that I was relying on, and the
There's another way to do a key-signing, faster than 1-to-1. You have
everyone have a list and each one presents itself, giving their fingerprint.
I guess you'll have a brief introduction at the beginning where everyone
presents himself? If you were to say I'm Daniel (aka as DaB), the evil
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Sue Gardner wrote:
Report to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees [...]
From December 9-15, Jimmy Wales and Sue Gardner visited India.
It is great to read this report. But the archived version has been
cut (by a software bug) at the line starting with From,
Brian wrote:
Yep a typo, here is the right link:
http://grey.colorado.edu/enwiki-20080103-pages-meta-history.xml.7z
People downloading it would like to verify they downloaded it correctly.
md5(enwiki-20080103-pages-meta-history.xml.7z) is
20a201afc05a4e5f2f6c3b9b7afa225c
Michael Snow escribió:
I suppose I should bring it with me whether I spend it or not. Anyway, I'm
looking forward to Wikimania, and seeing any of you that are able to
make it.
--Michael Snow
You should bring it and not spend it. I foresee you will be asked about
them there :-)
Robert Rohde wrote:
True, though under the current system a middle man in position of a
user authentication token could do exactly the same things to
Wikimedia as someone with the plaintext password. Which is a short
way of saying our system has never been built with much security in
mind.
Erik Moeller wrote:
If you haven't seen it yet, Ubuntu is running an interesting
brainstorming software called IdeaTorrent to think collectively about
common problems and solutions:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
The software:
http://www.ideatorrent.org/
I wonder - would people
Brian wrote:
That means I can clarify why my much hated factual correction was
appropriate. Here was the original statement:
If the CIA were to hand you a improved-mediawiki binary, sure
Let's briefly suppose that there are binaries for mediawiki (which is false
- but suppose they only
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Given that we know that NSA conducts massive illegal spying operations, there
is possibility that selinux is altered in a fashion that will make it easier
for NSA to spy on selinux' users. I don't know what are CIA's contributions
to MediaWiki, but unless it is
feumar...@infomed.sld.cu escribió:
HI, I AM NEW IN ALL THIS THING, PLEASE I NEED ALL OF YOU HELP ME.I AM CUBAN,
AND MY
ENGLISH, IS NOT VERY GOOD,SO PLEASE SEND ME THE MESSAGES IN SPANISH, SO I CAN
UNDERSTAND
YOU.
En tal caso probablemente esta lista de correo no sea adecuada para ti.
Andrew Gray wrote:
2009/1/22 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org:
A vast number of pseudonyms below have no meaning except for
their context in Wikipedia.
Apropos of which, a thought. We have spilled a good bit of ink over
whether or not it is appropriate for the reuser to attribute
Sam Johnston wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
Das Wikipedia Lexikon in einem Band[1] is another stunning example of
attribution gone mad
A few pages of names in a 1000 page book doesn't seem that mad to me.
I think it makes an excellent
Erik Moeller wrote:
Because I don't think it's good to discuss attribution as an abstract
principle, just as an example, the author attribution for the article
[[France]] is below, excluding IP addresses. According to the view
that attribution needs to be given to each pseudonym, this entire
Erik Moeller wrote:
2009/1/21 Thomas Dalton:
A lot of the problems you are having there are because you are trying
to group things into print and online. The correct dichotomy is
online and offline. Of course you are going to have problems
classifying DVDs if your classifaction systems
teun spaans wrote:
Many times it works well.
But the procedures also irregularly goes amiss.
I also received deletion messages of a pic i had uploaded with a correct
license. Some wikimedian had accidently removed the license, making a bot
come along and warn me. By pure coincidence i
Pharos wrote:
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.yu wrote:
On Tuesday 09 December 2008 08:23:07 Gerard Meijssen wrote:
When people from other projects tell me that this is one of the reasons why
they do not bother with Commons, I have to disbelieve them? Try to
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