[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Language committee report - January 2012

2012-02-03 Thread Robin Pepermans
See the wiki version here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2012-01 This is the language committee report for January 2012 (and also December 2011). === 2011 report === * MF-Warburg wrote a relevant report for the year 2011, see

[Foundation-l] Missing wikis now redirect to Incubator

2011-12-22 Thread Robin Pepermans
Hello all, As of yesterday, when you go to a missing wiki (the redlinks on Special:SiteMatrix) you will no longer see a static this wiki does not exist error, but it will redirect to the Wikimedia Incubator, where there is either a development wiki or an info page inviting you to start one.

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Language committee report - November 2011

2011-12-06 Thread Robin Pepermans
See the wiki version here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-11 This is the language committee report for November 2011. Previous month no e-mail was sent because there was nothing to report, other than the creation of the Northern Sotho Wikipedia. ===Committee=== *

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Language committee report - September 2011

2011-10-05 Thread Robin Pepermans
See the wiki version here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-09 This is the language committee report for September 2011. === Committee === * There will be a Hackathon in Mumbai, India (19-20 November) which focuses partially on language support. Several members will

Re: [Foundation-l] Meta main page

2011-09-29 Thread Robin Pepermans
You can go to http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page?setlang=es but that's obviously not something everyone knows. I once added a language selector but it was removed at some point. I added it back now. 2011/9/29 M. Williamson node...@gmail.com: Yes, when I went to commons I was pleased to get

Re: [Foundation-l] Meta main page

2011-09-29 Thread Robin Pepermans
And by the way, if you want to have a good translatable Meta Main Page (which is absolutely necessary), you can take a look at Incubator's http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Main_Page and its system :-) 2011/9/29 Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com: You can go to http

Re: [Foundation-l] Informing chapters about closing/opening wikis (+ useful list)

2011-09-10 Thread Robin Pepermans
Yeah, I know it is.. I didn't add it apparently. But it's a wiki, so feel free to add it :) 2011/9/10 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com: Good execpt some errors. Italian is national language in switzerland. Ilario On 10 Sep 2011 00:54, Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com wrote

[Foundation-l] Informing chapters about closing/opening wikis (+ useful list)

2011-09-09 Thread Robin Pepermans
An idea that I raised during a discussion between the language committee and Wikimedia South Africa was to inform chapters when a request for closing a wiki is made for a language that is spoken in a country which has a Wikimedia chapter. For this I made a list on

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-12 Thread Robin Pepermans
wikis, and if we add e.g. 'inh' to the langlist, [[inh:Page]] will point to incubator:Wp/inh/Page, without having any real subdomain for that language. I do wonder how the interwiki bots would handle this... 2011/8/12 Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com: Hi, @Mark: although I do not like your

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-11 Thread Robin Pepermans
Hi, @Mark: although I do not like your tone in your original post, you provide some good feedback (and started a thread with more feedback), which is more than welcome. 2. Do you have a suggestion as an alternative for the term incubating wikis? Is the more often used test wiki better? 5. I

Re: [Foundation-l] Closing projects policy now official

2011-06-26 Thread Robin Pepermans
I had put a notice on [[meta:Wikimedia Forum]] and a notice on the [[Proposals for closing projects]] page. Several users supported the policy proposal, and some gave feedback so we could improve the text. Apart from the meeting report, I think we didn't send a separate e-mail to foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Incubator improvements

2011-06-07 Thread Robin Pepermans
Hi, Milos Rancic said that I should announce this on foundation-l, so here it is: I had written a MediaWiki extension specifically for Wikimedia Incubator. It's now enabled, so users can set their test wiki preference, and there are also recent changes per test wiki. For example, changes in the

Re: [Foundation-l] Incubator improvements

2011-06-07 Thread Robin Pepermans
, Robin Pepermans wrote: Milos Rancic said that I should announce this on foundation-l, so here it is: I had written a MediaWiki extension specifically for Wikimedia Incubator. It's now enabled, so users can set their test wiki preference, and there are also recent changes per test wiki