I have to chime in to echo that the size of the USA and the fact that it is
populated throughout is an issue for a general USA chapter. I attended a
meetup in Nashville, Tennessee, which had people from five states and it was
a seven hour drive for me, and I was in a state next to it. Going to
I do agree with some of what Mr. Meijssen said in the last email but not all
of it. Yes, there might be a bias with some of the new projects being
undertaken in the US specifically, but outside of Europe there are very few
chapters who would be in a position to take on university collaborated
I can see how people may be concerned that the development of a U.S. chapter
may be impeded because the WMF is already involved in projects like the
universities project. But, it is important to consider that the WMF is
scheduled to finish the project in about a year. What may actually be a
Robert Harris here again, the consultant looking at the
issues surrounding controversial content on Wikimedia projects. I wanted first
of all to thank all of you who have taken the trouble to once again weigh in on
a subject I know has been debated many times within the Wikimedia
When the Wikimedia Foundation runs a project, it should be obvious that such
a project can be easily understood from its perspective. For me the WMF is a
worldwide organisation and consequently its actions should be acceptable
from that perspective. When the WMF runs a pilot project like the
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:32:17 -0700, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
When the Wikimedia Foundation runs a project, it should be obvious that
such
a project can be easily understood from its perspective. For me the WMF
is
a
worldwide organisation and consequently its actions
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If I understand correctly the situation, the USA community currently
interact with Wikipedia through the Foundation or the en. chapter, which
are not necessarily representative of their interests. The point of view
that a chapter should represent the
Several wikis have used bots to increase their article count in the
past. Examples are the Volapük Wikipedia (vo) with 118,000 articles of
which about 117,000 are bot-created stubs or the Aromanian Wikipedia
(roa-rup) with 61,000 articles at the moment and less than 10,000 before
the bot
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
...
In view of the potential usefulness I cannot think of any argument that
speaks against this in general. The prospect of providing at least basic
information about millions of objects in all the different languages
Am 23.08.2010 18:20, schrieb Ole Palnatoke Andersen:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Marcus Buckm...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
...
In view of the potential usefulness I cannot think of any argument that
speaks against this in general. The prospect of providing at least basic
information about
On 23 August 2010 17:23, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
Am 23.08.2010 18:20, schrieb Ole Palnatoke Andersen:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Marcus Buckm...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
In view of the potential usefulness I cannot think of any argument that
speaks against this in general.
An'n 23.08.2010 18:31, hett David Gerard schreven:
It'll be multilingual in the same way as Meta or Commons or our other
cross-language-border projects.
So, English then? ;-p
Yep, de facto English ;-) I don't like it and I spend much time to
improve the usefulness of Commons for
On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki
like they did on Commons. E.g. German speakers meet at the Forum
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum) instead of the
Village pump. That will
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:13 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki
like they did on Commons. E.g. German speakers meet at the Forum
An'n 23.08.2010 19:20, hett Magnus Manske schreven:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:13 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buckm...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki
like they did on Commons. E.g.
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