Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Harris
On 22/10/11 22:56, David Gerard wrote: On 22 October 2011 22:51, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: What approaches do you have in mind, that would empower the editors and the readers, aside from an hide/show all solution? And, in detail, why is a hide/show all solution

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Harris
On 23/10/11 16:24, Andrew Garrett wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: A neutral all-or-nothing image filter would not have such side effects (and would also neatly help low bandwidth usage). It would also make the project useless. I don't want to see

Re: [Foundation-l] roadmap for WM affiliation ; a name for self-identified affiliation

2011-07-16 Thread Neil Harris
On 16/07/11 13:19, Alec Conroy wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: In reply overall-- I definitely agree that Wikipedia is, by far, our strongest brand-- and a very different brand than the one that would be served by a wider unnamed

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

2011-06-02 Thread Neil Harris
On 02/06/11 19:52, George Herbert wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:55 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 June 2011 18:48, Faefae...@gmail.com wrote: In 2016 San Francisco has a major earthquake and the servers and operational facilities for the WMF are damaged beyond repair. The

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

2011-06-02 Thread Neil Harris
On 03/06/11 00:44, Mark Wagner wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:11, Neil Harrisn...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: Tape is -- still -- your friend here. Flip the write-protect after writing, have two sets of off-site tapes, one copy of each in each of two secure and widely separated off-site

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language (Milos Rancic)

2011-05-23 Thread Neil Harris
On 22/05/11 18:29, WereSpielChequers wrote: We are likely to reach each of the following on the way to our target, and it would be great to announce them when we reach them: 1 90% of literate people have a version of wikipedia available in a language that they understand 2 95% of literate

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-11 Thread Neil Harris
On 11/05/11 11:32, HW wrote: I think the advantage is that it would allow us to generalize the concept behind enwp.org, which is that we want short urls for all languages and all projects. I'm thinking along the lines of http://en.wp.w.org . From that angle I would say that short urls of this

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-09 Thread Neil Harris
On 09/05/11 23:57, Platonides wrote: Just create your own tld ;) Sadly, .wp wouldn't pass the new gTLD process: new gTLDs must have at least three characters. -- Neil ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-09 Thread Neil Harris
On 10/05/11 00:46, Kirill Lokshin wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Brian J Mingusbrian.min...@colorado.eduwrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Neil Harrisn...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: On 09/05/11 23:57, Platonides wrote: Just create your own tld ;) Sadly, .wp wouldn't pass the

Re: [Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

2011-03-07 Thread Neil Harris
On 05/03/11 14:30, David Gerard wrote: On 5 March 2011 14:19, Neil Harrisn...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: And also, WMF should make it possible to accept continuing donations as a subscription on a monthly basis. Even better, they should do this already!

Re: [Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

2011-03-05 Thread Neil Harris
On 05/03/11 14:05, WereSpielChequers wrote: Picking up on the comment by Tobias about less intrusive fundraising, I would make sure we are pursuing the following: 1 Build up a past donors database, communicate with them effectively and then as long as they donate annually make sure they

[Foundation-l] Friendliness: a radical proposal

2011-02-24 Thread Neil Harris
Thesis: The main reason why Wikipedia seems unfriendly to beginners is the reduction in the assumption of good faith. A lot of this could be resolved simply by creating large numbers of new admins. This should be done automatically. So why not just do it? Argument and proposal: Many admins

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

2010-07-22 Thread Neil Harris
On 21/07/10 22:38, Nikola Smolenski wrote: Дана Monday 19 July 2010 22:20:15 Brian J Mingus написа: Feel free to provide your feedback on this idea, in addition to your own ideas, in this thread, or to me personally. I am especially interested in the potential benefits to the WMF projects

Re: [Foundation-l] How to reply to a mailing list thread

2010-03-30 Thread Neil Harris
On 31/03/10 00:23, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 31 March 2010 00:15, John Vandenbergjay...@gmail.com wrote: Of course I can read my email via gmail.com, which hides the crap, however that is not ideal when I want to read my email and compose responses while I am offline. Get Gmail

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-03 Thread Neil Harris
Waldir Pimenta wrote: Nikola Smolenski wrote: Magnus Manske wrote: One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling statistics rather than his portrait... And if you give me code to identify a person's image, I'll be happy to implement it, as would the NSA. As it stands, I

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-05 Thread Neil Harris
Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/6/5 Neil Harris use...@tonal.clara.co.uk: Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/6/4 Jon scr...@nonvocalscream.com: Has apache/proxy level filtering been considered? Filtering for what? Javascript is executed client-side, ie. after the page has gone

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Harris
Tim 'avatar' Bartel wrote: Hi, recently the report of the KnowPrivacy [1] study - a research project by the School of Information from University of California in Berkeley - hit the German media [2]. It came to the conclusion that All of the top 50 websites contained at least one web bug

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Harris
John at Darkstar wrote: We need tools to track user behavior inside Wikipedia. As it is now we know nearly nothing at all about user behavior and nearly all people saying anything about users at Wikipedia makes gross estimates and wild guesses. User privacy on Wikipedia is is close to a

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Harris
John at Darkstar wrote: The interesting thing is who has interest in which users identity. Lets make an example, some organization sets up a site with a honeypot and logs all visitors. Then they correlates that with RC-logs from Wikipedia and then checks out who adds external links back to