Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

This is sooo true, Russavia! Santos Dumont FTW, national hero. p.s.: Nice gags, BTW :p _ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 > From: russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:35:15 +0800 > To: founda

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 95, Issue 61

> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:12:46 +0100 > From: Sue Gardner > > > And -- in the event the OP is still here, Joan Gom?, how are you > properly addressed in person? I have heard people say things like > "When does Gom? arrive in Paris" and I have also been using that. But > you should presumably be

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

Hi Brazilball yes, indeed, you do learn new things every day on this list. For example, this has just come to my attention http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/190/348/1319406261001.png My next flight, i'll thank good ol' USA ingenuity and foresight :) On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

I always thought mother Russia the really inventor of vodka :( Hahaha, even the list of Wikimedia FOundation teach me new stuff! The next shot of Vodka I drink will be ''to Poland!'' Greetings from cachaça land, _ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 8839

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

Bah, Wikipedia is the best thing in the world, the problem in this case is between the chair and the screen ;) You looking at the wrong place, the right one is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GNI_%28nominal,_Atlas_method%29_per_capita And regarding Vodka, the only lesson is: Be

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

Beria, there are two lessons to be learnt here. 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita -- Wikipedia is obviously not to be used as a reliable source, especially for facetious comments. 2) Re: vodka - http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/429547_2604

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

Actually I believe the Poles stole your vodka, Russavia, because yor GNI per capita is only 9,900 :P _ *Béria Lima* (351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-no

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

Close enough, Beria. Everyone already saw. haha :P _ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 > From: berial...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:41:06 -0200 > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

Hi Tomasz It also wouldn't include Russia by the looks of it, given that Russians are apparently 4 bottles of vodka a year richer than Poles ;) On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > Hi, > > Wikimedia Polska (Poland) has just launched its own scholarships > programme for Wikim

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

You mean 3 thousand right? Brazil: 9,390 Poland: 12,440 Source: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD _ *Béria Lima* (351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento hu

Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Nathan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Béria Lima wrote: > > Jan-Bart and others have asked that you call him Jan-Bart. What part of > that is confusing? You can ascribe your first error to different custom; > continuing to ignore his wishes is simply a

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

They're talking about per capita, which is like two hundred dollars below the polish one. Ai ai, Beria :P _ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 > From: berial...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:33:47 -0200 > To: foun

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

You joking right? Our economy is better than UK one (or so they say), I don't even want to compare with Polish one :D _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho

Re: [Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

Don't you accept a brazilian from these hot lands of South America? hahahah ;p Greetings, _ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:29:17 +0100 > From: polime...@gmail.com > To: foundation-l@lists.wi

[Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

Hi, Wikimedia Polska (Poland) has just launched its own scholarships programme for Wikimedians willing to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C. This year, apart from up to 10 scholarships for Wikimedians from Poland, we are also going to grant up to 6 scholarships for Wikimedians from other co

Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 17:52, Béria Lima wrote: > No I will not apologize for act according with my culture. > > If Mister de Vreede has a problem with people from different cultures he > shouldn't be part of a international movement. > > (And besides if someone would complain about misspelling,

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Articles In Uzbek Blocked

My Uzbek contacts say that uz.wp was blocked since August 2011. I was in Tashkent in December (and gave a talk on Wikipedia in Tashkent), and I can confirm from first hand that uz.wp was redirecting to msn.com in December. I thought that the blocking of the Uzbek Wikipedia in Uzbekistan was comm

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Articles In Uzbek Blocked

Quite unusual, because I have just checked with two online contacts of mine who are in Uzbekistan, and both are able to access http://uz.wikipedia.org via their Uzbek ISPs without use of proxys, etc, etc. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: > http://www.rferl.org/content/uzbek_w

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Articles In Uzbek Blocked

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Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Béria Lima wrote: > No I will not apologize for act according with my culture. > > If Mister de Vreede has a problem with people from different cultures he > shouldn't be part of a international movement. > > (And besides if someone would complain about misspelli

Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

> From: berial...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:52:24 -0200 > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012 > (And besides if someone would complain about misspelling, the Russians, > Arabs, Japanese and Indians should be the ones since

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

Agreed. As one of those whose name is frequently butchered due to our medium of communications (who knows how I want it pronounced until/unless you meet me or someone who's met me?), the criteria I use in judging offense is "Has this person ever been told by me how I prefer to be addressed? If no

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

On 16 February 2012 17:04, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012 3:47 PM, "Thomas Morton" > Wikimedians often call me Thomas because that's what I have gmail set to > call me and they know me mostly from emails. While I don't mind at all, it > sounds (or looks) strange to me every time. LOL, I

Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

No I will not apologize for act according with my culture. If Mister de Vreede has a problem with people from different cultures he shouldn't be part of a international movement. (And besides if someone would complain about misspelling, the Russians, Arabs, Japanese and Indians should be the ones

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > If we're discussing this; my name is correctly pronounced "Oliver Keyes, > God of Delphi, Sol, and all Ethereal Planes Known and As-Yet Undiscovered" Olly olly oxen free! (with a silent G) Theo _

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

Oliver Keyes wrote: If we're discussing this; my name is correctly pronounced "Oliver Keyes, God of Delphi, Sol, and all Ethereal Planes Known and As-Yet Undiscovered" OLLIE! OLLIE! OLLIE! Carmen Yarrusso ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

Moller, Moeller, Möller Why is it that Горбачёв is Gorbachev, but Семён is always Semyon. Spare some thought for all the Semyons out there who may have their name mispelled. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > I used to be really antsy over my name; to the point where,

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

On Feb 16, 2012 3:47 PM, "Thomas Morton" wrote: > > I used to be really antsy over my name; to the point where, at school, I > refused to be taught by one teach for a time because she kept calling me > "Tom". Nowadays even I call myself that. > > Surely normal social convention applies; if someone

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

> Surely normal social convention applies; if someone raises the issue then > "Don't be a dick" and take extra care. Otherwise slip > ups/confusion/mistakes shouldn't be the end of the world... > > If we're discussing this; my name is correctly pronounced "Oliver Keyes, God of Delphi, Sol, and all

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

I used to be really antsy over my name; to the point where, at school, I refused to be taught by one teach for a time because she kept calling me "Tom". Nowadays even I call myself that. Surely normal social convention applies; if someone raises the issue then "Don't be a dick" and take extra care

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

On Feb 16, 2012 3:22 PM, "Theo10011" wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > > > While we're on the topic, here's a public service announcement. It's > > Bishakha Datta, not Bishaka Datta. The single most-frequently > > misspelled name on our lists, AFAICT. Also, Erik Moe

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > While we're on the topic, here's a public service announcement. It's > Bishakha Datta, not Bishaka Datta. The single most-frequently > misspelled name on our lists, AFAICT. Also, Erik Moeller or Erik > Möller with umlaut. Never Erik Moller wit

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

I find "oi, you" works pretty well! ;) On Feb 16, 2012 3:09 PM, "Sue Gardner" wrote: > On 16 February 2012 12:32, David Gerard wrote: > > On 16 February 2012 11:27, John Du Hart wrote: > > > >> Is this really something to get upset over? It's not as if he was > calling > >> you stupid, he simpl

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

On 16 February 2012 12:32, David Gerard wrote: > On 16 February 2012 11:27, John Du Hart wrote: > >> Is this really something to get upset over? It's not as if he was calling >> you stupid, he simply misspelled your name (shortened it, really). > > > People's own names are extremely important to

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 95, Issue 58

Béria, I was not calling you out as the only person doing this, you just happened to be the most recent. Certainly we have a tradition in my country of shortening names as well (or just adding the suffix -o or -za to them, so that "John" becomes "Johnno" or "Barry" becomes "Bazza"), but I would n

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

On 16 February 2012 11:27, John Du Hart wrote: > Is this really something to get upset over? It's not as if he was calling > you stupid, he simply misspelled your name (shortened it, really). People's own names are extremely important to them. - d. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

Is this really something to get upset over? It's not as if he was calling you stupid, he simply misspelled your name (shortened it, really). On Feb 16, 2012 6:10 AM, "Joan Goma" wrote: > Jan-Bart, > > I am sorry. I didn’t know this is your name and present you publicly my > more sincere apologies

[Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

Jan-Bart, I am sorry. I didn’t know this is your name and present you publicly my more sincere apologies for misstyping it. I personally know the sensitivity about this kind of issues. My name in Catalan sounds completely different with accent than without. “Gomà” is a quite extended and ancient