Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

Thirded. Waerth Or you could simply restore the one-line code modification that provided the default behavior requested by the community (pending evidence that an alternative setup is beneficial). Seconded. Just bring them back already. This is an imaginary problem you've come up

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

at least partially. And this is the part of the population with the best education. This would mean that unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't reach the part of the population it is meant for. The part whom have less access to education. Waerth/Walter

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

If I were a rich and famous person that wanted to help out the WMF I would get shitscared by this list and wouldn't touch the foundation with a 10 foot pole W ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Foundation-l] Bookshelf project

, and evangelists.* The materials also provide models, such as lessen plans, for how teachers, professors, and journalists can use Wikipedia in their professional capacity. I never new the goal of the wikimedia foundation was to evangelize the world. As an agnost I take offence to this. Waerth

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours

There are people living in Asia and Australia as well actually ... you know! Oh wait they aren't Western people so why bother .. W Best option would be to have two sets, one for Europe and one for the Americas. From: Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours ... the concept of time zones

Basically if there is room for two sets of office hours it should still be possible to please most of the world. There are times when Europe/Africa and the Americas overlap. And there are times when East Asia/Australia and the Americas overlap There are no hours that all 3 of these rough

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours ... the concept of time zones

Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/9/30 Waerth wae...@asianet.co.th: Basically if there is room for two sets of office hours it should still be possible to please most of the world. There are times when Europe/Africa and the Americas overlap. And there are times when East Asia/Australia

[Foundation-l] Board elections email adding insult to injury

is blocking other people who do the same and have the honesty to admit it. And is also aggressively pursuing this stance on the deletion lists. Thus this mod is a hypocrite, doing what he haunts others for. But me telling this to the community was a blockable offence it seems. Waerth

Re: [Foundation-l] Board elections email adding insult to injury

Chen Minqi wrote: On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Waerth wae...@asianet.co.th wrote: According to the wikimedia foundations rules someone whom is blocked is not allowed to vote. You are not eligible to vote on nlwp, but on other wikis you may be eligible, so that is why you

[Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be deleted. As Soon As Possible. And do not suggest Commons. That project is even worse. I would need a week just to study all of their idiocies. Waerth/Walter van Kalken ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

put something up for deletion. Another wikipedian, Jojan asked me politely first so I did what he asked. Ciell put up for deletion first and only after I got angry she asked ... wrong order! Waerth And no I will not add the license myself, I am waiting for Ciell to do it. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

And as a thank you for the pictures I am being blocked. Waerth The 13th I took 70 pictures of the fight between the red shirts and the army. I was in the first lines when the soldiers were shot at and molotov cocktails were thrown. The 14th I took pictures of the situation around

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

. Waerth In response to my own email, Google Translate gives me the impression that you were blocked for flipping out [1] and becoming horrendously uncivil [2] with your colleagues, in response to the deletion issue. *1: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hphl=enjs=nu=http%3A%2F

Re: [Foundation-l] Encarta is dead

Tomorrow is April 1st ... On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote: The Encarta people were very unprecise about what they are going to do in future... So, this means that there remains no big encyclopedia but ours? Except Britannica? And what

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual images of questionable provenance

Oh boy in comes the political correctness brigade . Hi, I believe that we have a lot of images from flickr with sexual content. And there is no way to make sure that the (Fe)male on the photo agrees with the photo on commons or the licence it is under. I have tryed to nominate images

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

at commons? Waerth Hoi, 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 find paard and you will not be served in the same way as with horse the search result is inferior. Dutch is not the worst option