Re: [Foundation-l] Opt-out global sysop proposal

2009-08-30 Thread Andrew Leung
I doubt it will generate enough interest this time around. Many of us are just tired of seeing this proposal (and its variants) dragging on and on, to the point that we just don't bother to show up and say no. Andrew Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Leung
Wikispecies will have a niche if it can prove to be regularly on the leading edge. Has there been any discussions about putting newly described species onto the front page? If the information is made accessible, Wikinews editors could write up stories about new discoveries. Too many new

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew Leung
We always wanted to collaborate with scientific journals and projects, regardless of its size. But remember that we can't use EOL images unless they're from Flickr or Wikipedia, which means we probably have uploaded them to Commons already. Perhaps we should give the Main Page a facelift,

Re: [Foundation-l] Raw data of 2009 Board election ballots

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Leung
Full disclaimer: I contribute in Wikispecies. First, calling a project as zero quality project, whether it belongs to WMF or Wikia or somewhere else, is downright assuming bad faith. Second, all of the discussion links in your boycott section took place in 2005 and 2006, clearly unable to

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikispecies

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Leung
Opps, used wrong subject line. So here's what I said about Wikispecies. From: andrewcle...@hotmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:49:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Raw data of 2009 Board election ballots Full disclaimer: I contribute in

Re: [Foundation-l] Why can't we have $12.5 million for Wikispecies?

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Leung
I don't mind repeating again. EOL boasts to have large amount of images, but do you know that according to some of EOL's partner projects, EOL has not handled any data submitted by its partners for over a year ago? Yes, they do have lots and lots of images but many are simply sitting in a hard