Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-07 Thread Jan Kučera
FD seem to collect lots of crappy feedback... Why WMF promis always think a wiki interface will save the world? It definitely will not, because newbies will never touch this interface... and this is a BIG BIG problem nobody wants to acknowledge. We do need services that are easier to use than a

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-07 Thread Pharos
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Some modifications and requested info has been added to:   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site) -greg aka varnent There have also been a couple of other proposals on meta along these same

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-07 Thread Pharos
Indeed, I would expect for the 'Sister Projects Committee' to have both the options of project fission and project fusion within its toolbag. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tarc Meridian t...@hotmail.com wrote: In some respects, that change would be quite good.

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

2012-04-07 Thread David Richfield
Can we please also have information on how to update them, and source files?  It's good to have brilliant graphics, but also very important to be able to recreate them. I guess not all students followed the best practice (and more will next time): some of those images are SVG. That's a good

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for POTY Helpers and Translators

2012-04-07 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Will you use the Translate extension for translations or will you just ask the translators to do it old-style? Please consider the extension - it's far more convenient for the translators and for the managers. It's already installed in Meta. 06.04.2012 6:42 пользователь Mono monom...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ for fundraising resolutions

2012-04-07 Thread Michael Peel
Hi Phoebe, Thanks for posting this. I've asked a question (OK, three related questions) at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Board_FAQ#Why_just_the_four_chapters.3F Thanks, Mike On 5 Apr 2012, at 19:29, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 5 April 2012 19:14, phoebe

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-07 Thread Samuel Klein
There have been some good suggestions in this thread! I've summarized some of them on meta here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sister_Projects_Committee Please help improve that page, and indicate if you would be interested in this work. SJ On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Pharos

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for POTY Helpers and Translators

2012-04-07 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 7 April 2012 22:00, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Will you use the Translate extension for translations or will you just ask the translators to do it old-style? Please consider the extension - it's far more convenient for the translators and for the managers. It's

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not Foundation) matters

2012-04-07 Thread Erik Moeller
Looking a bit further into the best way to do this - since mailman doesn't have any sensible export/import features that retain list member settings, we'll probably need to make a full copy of the list on the server, and then remove the members of the old one. I'll ask Daniel to look into that