News and notes: Editor retention; Malayalam loves Wikimedia; Wikimedia
reports; brief news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-04-11/News_and_notes
In the news: What if experts just want to get their links into
Wikipedia?; brief news
MZMcBride, 12/04/2011 02:32:
If WMF websites happened to be overtaken by Ask.com or some other
website, it would be good to be forced to change the habit of how we
describe them.
If you use more generic language, the likelihood of needing to update that
language later decreases.
Yes, and my
Hello.
http://toolserver.org/~kalan is redirected to Russian Wikipedia article «Хуй
(значения)». This is very incorrect redirect («Хуй» («Khuy») in Russian mean
obscene word, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_(Russian_profanity) ) and in
fact a vandalism: this toolserver account contains
On 04/12/2011 02:51 PM, Shadow His wrote:
http://toolserver.org/~kalan is redirected to Russian Wikipedia article «Хуй
(значения)». This is very incorrect redirect («Хуй» («Khuy») in Russian mean
obscene word, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_(Russian_profanity) ) and
in fact a
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
You can stop using http://toolserver.org/~kalan/arb10/ if you have
problems with profanity on user's main personal page.
Server admins usually prefer not to do anything in relation to personal
files if it is not a security
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 15:53, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
You're mistaken. The toolserver has strict rules:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Rules
Using toolserver access in a manner that does not further the
toolserver's goals (or, indeed, hinders them) is a
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 15:53, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
You're mistaken. The toolserver has strict rules:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Rules
Using toolserver access in a manner that
Re the argument that we should trumpet ourselves as, or even be be
concerned as to whether we are the 5th largest site on the Internet.
Our remit is to make the world's knowledge freely available to all,
and the Internet is by far the most important medium we use to do
that. If fewer people were
On 04/12/2011 04:45 PM, Jason donovan wrote:
I'm sorry but I don't see the wisdom in antagonizing someone for bringing a
legitimate concern to this list. It might not be the right place and he did
copy the message to toolserver-l but telling him to stop using
toolserver...if you have problem
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
As admin (but not Toolserver admin), the sense of rules similar to
excuses such as 'the rules didn't say I can't do this' will be
ignored. is obvious to me and it means don't make troubles. Having
a redirect to a
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 18:29, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
As admin (but not Toolserver admin), the sense of rules similar to
excuses such as 'the rules didn't say I can't do this' will be
ignored.
On 9 April 2011 20:21, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't mean to minimise the importance of keeping our established
users happy and free from harassment, but I want to caution against
the biases that we will undoubtedly have in considering our focus.
Anecdotally, we tend
You can see it in this Google spreadsheet here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aq_nhKkb7L-OdG5uWlJLT25TZkZ3MzdSeUNqZnZqY2chl=enauthkey=CP3O_PgO
-- it's publicly viewable but not editable.
Brilliant! One point though, every item on that list has a meta solution
of better information
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 10:36 -0700, ext Sue Gardner wrote:
We do all see the world from where we sit, and we interact with the
people we already know ... so, experienced editors will be more
exposed to the kinds of concerns shared by other experienced editors,
and those concerns will
On 12 April 2011 19:46, Quim Gil quim@nokia.com wrote:
In fact Wikimedia content is also popular among mobile users (directly
or through apps), but what about mobile contributions?
I just tried editing an article on en:wp on my shiny new BlackBerry
9300. (Which can browse Wikipedia just
I tried it about half a dozen times on my HTC desire. The user experience is
truly dreadful, and I'm not trying it again.
Op 12 apr. 2011 21:02 schreef David Gerard dger...@gmail.com het
volgende:
On 12 April 2011 19:46, Quim Gil quim@nokia.com wrote:
In fact Wikimedia content is also
I just tried editing an article on en:wp on my shiny new BlackBerry
9300. (Which can browse Wikipedia just fine.) It was ridiculously
annoying and I'm not sure I'd bother fixing typos I spotted in casual
reading.
(At least Vector worked in that version of the BlackBerry browser ...)
Does
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:02 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 April 2011 19:46, Quim Gil quim@nokia.com wrote:
In fact Wikimedia content is also popular among mobile users (directly
or through apps), but what about mobile contributions?
I just tried editing an article
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 20:02 +0100, ext David Gerard wrote:
On 12 April 2011 19:46, Quim Gil quim@nokia.com wrote:
In fact Wikimedia content is also popular among mobile users (directly
or through apps), but what about mobile contributions?
I just tried editing an article on en:wp
On 12 April 2011 12:02, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I just tried editing an article on en:wp on my shiny new BlackBerry
9300. (Which can browse Wikipedia just fine.) It was ridiculously
annoying and I'm not sure I'd bother fixing typos I spotted in casual
reading.
(At least Vector
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