On 11/12/2010 10:02 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:47 AM, MZMcBridez...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I also don't understand who would want a printed copy of a Wikipedia
article. It seems antithetical to the point of the Internet and the creation
of an online encyclopedia.
On 11/12/2010 10:05 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
Wikimedia policy is to use only free software, at least on the
customer-facing side. That includes the PDF-generation process,
which runs on our servers AFAIK.
Requiring this from sites we (in essence) link to seems excessive. We
link to Google
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:55 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The problem I have with statements like these is that they feel
disingenuous. The mission statement is as vague or as specific as the person
arguing deems it to be. There are thousands of potential projects that
Wikimedia
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:16 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 November 2010 19:30, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
Geni mentioned offering a level of support equivalent to our
smaller projects, which is most definitely *not* just providing ISP
services.
err beyond ISP services what
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Robert S. Horning
robert_horn...@netzero.net wrote:
On 11/12/2010 10:05 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
Wikimedia policy is to use only free software, at least on the
customer-facing side. That includes the PDF-generation process,
which runs on our servers AFAIK.
Almost 22 hours ago, we turned on the 2010-11 contribution campaign for a
weekend of functional testing prior to launch.
We launched cleanly, I'm pleased to say - there were a few initial hiccups
(around the size of the graphic used in the banner, and our ability to pull
numbers out of the
In a message dated 11/13/2010 6:44:18 AM Pacific Standard Time,
magnusman...@googlemail.com writes:
And if you can find some other publishing entity (printing, DVDs,
etc.) that could be used interchangeably for the PediaPress button,
and this entity is denied a button next to the PediaPress
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:18 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/13/2010 6:44:18 AM Pacific Standard Time,
magnusman...@googlemail.com writes:
And if you can find some other publishing entity (printing, DVDs,
etc.) that could be used interchangeably for the PediaPress button,
On 13 November 2010 17:53, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm all for that. But, did anyone actually ask the Foundation to have
his button included there (besides spammers et al.)? It's not like an
email is hard to write...
Robert Horning has noted in this very thread:
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Our family has got new projects:
* Wikipedia in Gagauz: http://gag.wikipedia.org/
* Wikisource in Venetian: http://vec.wikisource.org
* Wikisource in Breton: http://br.wikisource.org/
* Wikibooks in Limburgish: http://li.wikibooks.org/
* Wikinews in Esperanto: http://eo.wikinews.org/
Fantastic. :-) Semantic issue: these aren't new projects, they're new language
versions of existing projects. We haven't had a new project since 2007.
Mike
On 13 Nov 2010, at 18:51, Milos Rancic wrote:
Our family has got new projects:
* Wikipedia in Gagauz: http://gag.wikipedia.org/
*
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 19:56, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Fantastic. :-) Semantic issue: these aren't new projects, they're new
language versions of existing projects. We haven't had a new project since
2007.
Hm. In my perception, term project has two meanings: separate
project,
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:16 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/13/2010 9:53:41 AM Pacific Standard Time,
magnusman...@googlemail.com writes:
I'm all for that. But, did anyone actually ask the Foundation to have
his button included there (besides spammers et al.)? It's not
Hello Sarah,
I searched a little on meta and the oldest thing I found related to this
is from the Foundation Report of January 2008 [1]. So I cannot tell you
how the contract came into being. As you know, the Foundation moved in
the spring of 2008 from Florida to San Francisco and rebuilt
On 11/13/2010 11:08 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
What's the URL for Robert's service? I would love to try it out. If the
service isn't mature yet, is there a code repository somewhere?
Ryan Kaldari
Much of what I was trying to get started was covered on this very
mailing list. If you go
On 11/13/2010 12:06 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 19:56, Michael Peelem...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Fantastic. :-) Semantic issue: these aren't new projects, they're new
language versions of existing projects. We haven't had a new project since
2007.
Hm. In my
meanwhile in the foundation mailing list...
2010/11/13 Robert S. Horning robert_horn...@netzero.net
On 11/13/2010 12:06 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 19:56, Michael Peelem...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Fantastic. :-) Semantic issue: these aren't new projects, they're new
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 13:59, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote:
I know that also this example is not without flaw, as comparisons always
are. What I want to say is, if a company can provide us a service that
we really desperately need and we cannot get elsewhere, and it shares
the same
Let me ask this question. Suppose the Wikimedia Foundation were to buy
PediaPress from Brainbot, including whatever intellectual property is
associated with its service such as the LaTeX export. If Wikimedia did
this and brought the service in-house, assuming the LaTeX export is
released as
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 15:10, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
Let me ask this question. Suppose the Wikimedia Foundation were to buy
PediaPress from Brainbot, including whatever intellectual property is
associated with its service such as the LaTeX export. If Wikimedia did
this and
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Our family has got new projects:
* Wikipedia in Gagauz: http://gag.wikipedia.org/
* Wikisource in Venetian: http://vec.wikisource.org
* Wikisource in Breton: http://br.wikisource.org/
* Wikibooks in Limburgish:
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On 13/11/2010 16:59, Ting Chen wrote:
I searched a little on meta and the oldest thing I found related to this
is from the Foundation Report of January 2008 [1]. So I cannot tell you
how the contract came into being. As you know, the Foundation
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On 13/11/2010 17:25, Robert S. Horning wrote:
Much of what I was trying to get started was covered on this very
mailing list. If you go into the archives and look up Wikijunior to see
some of the efforts that were made, including some initial
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Our family has got new projects:
snip
* Wikinews in Esperanto: http://eo.wikinews.org/
This project is a joke, are there really people who are going to read
news in Esperanto?
user:alnokta
Me points people towards:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/newprojects (archives:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/newprojects/).
-Peachey
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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 00:03, Mohamed Magdy mohamed@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Our family has got new projects:
snip
* Wikinews in Esperanto: http://eo.wikinews.org/
This project is a joke, are there really people who
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 13:59, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote:
I know that also this example is not without flaw, as comparisons always
are. What I want to say is, if a company can provide us a service that
we really
On 11/13/10 12:25 PM, Robert S. Horning wrote:
Much of what I was trying to get started was covered on this very
mailing list. If you go into the archives and look up Wikijunior to see
some of the efforts that were made, including some initial publications
that were made through Lulu (that
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
Let me ask this question. Suppose the Wikimedia Foundation were to buy
PediaPress from Brainbot, including whatever intellectual property is
associated with its service such as the LaTeX export. If Wikimedia did
this
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On 13/11/2010 18:10, Michael Snow wrote:
Let me ask this question. Suppose the Wikimedia Foundation were to buy
PediaPress from Brainbot, including whatever intellectual property is
associated with its service such as the LaTeX export. If
It's pretty obvious that there are some back-justifications being made for a
blatantly imperfect decision. There are both real strengths and benefits to
the decision (making print copies easily accessible) as well as deep flaws
(promoting an exclusive relationship with a for-profit company).
It
In a message dated 11/13/2010 11:08:33 AM Pacific Standard Time,
magnusman...@googlemail.com writes:
1. Given the limited of number services (one, plus Robert's which I
missed in the thread, if it still exists), it probably seemed
pointless
2. Any service would have to develop the
Ryan Kaldari wrote:
On 11/13/10 12:25 PM, Robert S. Horning wrote:
Much of what I was trying to get started was covered on this very
mailing list. If you go into the archives and look up Wikijunior to see
some of the efforts that were made, including some initial publications
that were made
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On 13/11/2010 19:14, phoebe ayers wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 13:59, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote:
I know that also this example is not without flaw, as comparisons
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/13/2010 11:08:33 AM Pacific Standard Time,
magnusman...@googlemail.com writes:
1. Given the limited of number services (one, plus Robert's which I
missed in the thread, if it still exists), it probably seemed
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Philippe Beaudette
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote:
In the last 22 hours, we've accepted about $510,000 directly to the
Foundation. I don't yet have numbers from the chapters to report. The
Foundation's donors alone represent nearly 19,000 individual donors.
On 11/13/10, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:05 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 November 2010 17:34, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
These are all questions which would have to be answered before WMF
should even consider getting involved.
Let me jump in since I was the one who moved it.
At the end of the 2009 Fundraiser we were getting hit by a significant amount
of fraudulent transactions. It got so bad that the WMF had to dedicate full
time staff members to respond to the massive amount of email and phone calls we
were
From: SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com
If PediaPress's software is open-source the Foundation
surely wouldn't
need to buy it. This is what I'm finding confusing, and
that's partly
because of my lack of technical knowledge. But as I see it
Wikimedia
has developers, paid and unpaid, lots of
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