Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009-04-14 Thread Dan Rosenthal
A pet peeve of mine; I don't think telling anyone what THEY know or don't know over the internet is worthwhile in most cases. -Dan On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Brian wrote: the archives are mostly useless as a knowledge base. This is false and you know it. Several of these questions *have*

Re: [Foundation-l] Interview: Wikipedia usability and test results

2009-03-31 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Just a point of information: Her name is Naoko Komura, not Naoki Kimura. -Dan On Mar 31, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: Hello, A couple of days ago I have contacted our project manager in San Francisco who is dealing with the improvement of the usability of Wikipedia. I have

Re: [Foundation-l] Interview: Wikipedia usability and test results

2009-03-31 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Fail reading comprehension is fail. I submit myself to lose. -Dan On Mar 31, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Casey Brown wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote: Just a point of information: Her name is Naoko Komura, not Naoki Kimura. *cough* It's not real

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-02-24 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Al Tally wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://xkcd.com/547/ - d. Eh I'm sure this was discussed somewhere already... anyway, it brought a ton of new editors in, which was both good and bad (we

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

2009-02-10 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Which is more likely to happen in some countries than others. Though, I do agree that it is a silly reason to oppose in light of his quite reasonable concessions. -Dan On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Muhammad Alsebaey wrote: I would say the likelihood of him being the target of the Iranian

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Dan Rosenthal
This indeed. Good for them for dealing with these issues in advance rather than waiting until the need for a crat is critical. -Dan On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Muhammad Alsebaey wrote: +1 on them having their own crat and admins since they were approved, what possible harm could that

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

2009-01-20 Thread Dan Rosenthal
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Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

2009-01-20 Thread Dan Rosenthal
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Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser update

2009-01-07 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Anecdotally, I thought it was about the same, but I did notice a LOT more questioning of what the money was going to. Like you, just impressions, no facts to back it up. -Dan On Jan 7, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Mathias Schindler wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Brian

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-04 Thread Dan Rosenthal
I don't think this is entirely accurate. For instance, there was the annual report several months ago noting that we had shared some office space with them. That was relevant to this list. -Dan On Jan 4, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Tim Starling wrote: Brock Weller wrote: Don't know how linked we

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-26 Thread Dan Rosenthal
I think perhaps the intent was to get English and Irish editors involved. This has been on and off of the noticeboards at en.wikipedia.org multiple times, through Arbcom at least once, etc. -Dan On Nov 26, 2008, at 9:25 AM, effe iets anders wrote: As Michael Bimmler suggested, I think too

Re: [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

2008-11-26 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Outside of those involved, I don't think many harbor those same illusions here either. -Dan On Nov 26, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Christiano Moreschi wrote: Amusing. I am strongly reminded of the fights over Macedonia and Liancourt Rocks. Except on those occasions nobody had any illusions that

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