[Foundation-l] Reviving and reforming the new project policy

2010-04-30 Thread Kristofer Bjornson
As an attempt to revive and reform the new project policy page on meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy), the content scope task force at strategy.wikimedia.org has written a new draft. Feedback, additions and changes to that page is very much appreciated. The draft is found

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible project

2010-04-30 Thread Ram Rachum
Samuel Klein meta...@... writes: Ram, thanks for sharing your interesting project. | | On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Platonides platoni...@... wrote: | | Librelist is a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source | projects. It is a place for FOSS communities to discuss all the

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread William Pietri
On 04/29/2010 06:32 PM, Tim Starling wrote: William Pietri wrote: As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update. We continue to work on UI display issues and on getting up a Labs version of the German Wikipedia. We're pretty close to release, and we believe only minor UI

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 29 April 2010 22:24, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update. We continue to work on UI display issues and on getting up a Labs version of the German Wikipedia. We're pretty close to release, and we believe only minor UI issues

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread William Pietri
On 04/30/2010 03:28 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 29 April 2010 22:24, William Pietriwill...@scissor.com wrote: As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update. We continue to work on UI display issues and on getting up a Labs version of the German Wikipedia. We're pretty close

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 1 May 2010 00:06, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: Hi. Thanks for the comment. Just to be clear, we didn't completely ignore that comment, or any other; we've been going through the comments on phone meetings every week. We did, however, fail to respond to that one, which I'm

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Anthony
William, You thanked Thomas three times in that e-mail. If I may say so, such courtesy is unwarranted, in light of the terseness of his most recent post. We're all volunteers, so colour me confused as to why people think head-biting will achieve anything. YMMV. Anthony

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 1 May 2010 00:50, Anthony wiki...@googlemail.com wrote: William, You thanked Thomas three times in that e-mail. If I may say so, such courtesy is unwarranted, in light of the terseness of his most recent post. We're all volunteers, so colour me confused as to why people think head-biting

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Anthony
My understanding is that William is being paid. Seriously? Well, okay then. If that's what our grants are being spent on… ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread William Pietri
On 04/30/2010 04:55 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: You thanked Thomas three times in that e-mail. If I may say so, such courtesy is unwarranted, in light of the terseness of his most recent post. We're all volunteers, so colour me confused as to why people think head-biting will achieve anything.

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Anthony wiki...@googlemail.com wrote: My understanding is that William is being paid. Seriously? Well, okay then. If that's what our grants are being spent on… Jeez, does it matter? If William's style is to deal with cranky comments by being as polite as

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 1 May 2010 01:14, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: On 04/30/2010 04:55 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: You thanked Thomas three times in that e-mail. If I may say so, such courtesy is unwarranted, in light of the terseness of his most recent post. We're all volunteers, so colour me

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread William Pietri
On 04/30/2010 05:19 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: I'm intrigued by the notion that you don't have to be nice to people that are paid to deal with you. Since I gave the foundation a 70% discount from my normal rates, perhaps you can shoot for a mix of 70% courtesy and 30% head-biting?

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 1 May 2010 01:32, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: You should keep in mind that it definitely takes me more time and more energy to deal with non-nice requests. Really? How does me adding more words to my emails save you time? ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread William Pietri
On 04/30/2010 05:37 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 1 May 2010 01:32, William Pietriwill...@scissor.com wrote: You should keep in mind that it definitely takes me more time and more energy to deal with non-nice requests. Really? How does me adding more words to my emails save you

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 1 May 2010 02:23, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: As long as we're on the topic of etiquette, I find it frustrating when people pick out one particular bit to reply to and ignore the broader point. I add that only because I'm not sure if this was part of your intentional policy

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Sue Gardner
(Sorry for top-posting: Blackberry.) I just want to add a brief note supporting what William's saying. Yes -- it definitely takes more time to respond to angry or hostile-seeming mails. Trust gets impaired, and so the respondent spends time trying to figure out whether the person's really

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Nathan
Can anyone remind me what the per day and per month post limits are, and confirm that someone is still keeping track? We've established in the past that a collegial atmosphere is desired by the people who post to and read this list. Some have never agreed, but that is why some have previously

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

2010-04-30 Thread Noein
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