On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:47:45 +0200, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40:
- a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we
are
as a society towards reaching that goal
We had started a stub table about this:
If anyone wants to help work on these template-related issues,
Maryana and
I are still in the midst of work on this in a couple wikis... I
don't want
to flood the thread with a report on its status, but let me know if
you
want to join in our not-so-secret effort to make the current user
talk
This strikes me as a very oddly articulated concern about a
crowd-sourcing project. The basic premise underlying the whole model
is increasing the quantity of contributors increases the quality of
the content. Is this really disputed?
BirgitteSB
I am not sure whether I want to dispute this
Hi James,
actually, I am pretty sure we did discuss the procedure which requires
endorsement (we did not call it approval), either at the extraordinary
meeting in December (related to the survey banner story) or in the RCom
mailing list in the thread related to the same story. And this is indeed
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:54:48 +, Thomas Dalton
thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
I thought they had already stopped... I'm sure I remember an
announcement like this a year or two ago... does anyone know what it
is I'm remembering?
No, I think there were only like three big universal
I've been asked to write a short editorial about this development from
a Wikipedian's perspective and am curious about (and would love to
include) other Wikimedian experiences -- did you use print
encyclopedias as a kid? Was a love of print encyclopedias part of your
motivation or interest in
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:10:17 +, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 March 2012 07:23, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
I'm taking a hint from Clay Shirky's books here: What most people
would consider high quality published sources - in this case, by
railway companies,
Andreas: I think
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2012-March/072463.html
is
one of my favorite posts to foundation-l ever. I'll go add these
examples
to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems now.
MZMcBride
I just suggested to rename the file
Partly, as I said, wanting to represent the board consensus. Partly
because things were so very uncivil in the heat of it. I got called
(among other things) an ugly American, a prude, freedom-hating, and a
poor representative of my profession. I just didn't feel like
dignifying any of that
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:51:13 -0500, Marc Riddell
michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote:
It's really unfortunate that blacking out Wikimedia projects is
becoming
an
accepted method of protest. Maybe we should start keeping track of how
often different projects are blacked out, and for what purpose.
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:00:50 -0800, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com
wrote:
Short version:
...
I'm raising the issue here, because I know many people on foundation-l
care about issues surrounding copyright and reuse, and a change like
this could set a precedent for what we ultimately do on the
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:07:15 +0100, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com
wrote:
I wouldn't comment Jan-Bart's wish, but I have comparable position
toward usage of particular words: If email in my inbox begins with
Dear Milos (especially in Serbian) by a person not so close to me, I
would treat it
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:18:20 +0530, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:
Am I the one person feeling that the way this debate is going in a
stupid
direction that is totally irrelevant to the scope of this list ?
I thought we were to discuss Movement roles letter, Feb 2012 . Just a
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:25:56 -0700 (MST), Fred Bauder
fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
I think the biggest problems might involve users who have been trashed
for one reason or another, justified or not.
Fred
My understanding is that the legislation is not so much about users (which
we can
Florence, I think you gave a great description of the process, and I agree
that we should aim at the degree of transparency achieved in it. Actually,
if I would be in charge of setting such a review panel, this is close to
how I would do it. However, I also have similar personal experience. I am
Since I obviously think it was a good suggestion, I think it is good to
provide a link
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicouncil/Resolution
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:54:35 +0100, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
wrote:
While reading the detailed Legal and Community
As in... Michael Snow ?
Who is a fabulous guy, ran in community election, and was turned down ?
Florence
Domas?
I do not think we respect him less because of that.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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I think it makes sense to get board members selected by the community
and board members selected by chapters because the focus is different.
I'd love to see members selected by the community being active editors,
involved on a regular basis on the project with editorial and soft
*It is difficult to get involved in chapters when, like me, you live in
Africa, and the only approved chapter for the entire continent is 8,000
kilometres away.*
Create one in your country! :D That is basicaly what we are doing in
IberoCoop - help groups from all over Latin World with
My conclusion was that for even relatively big languages like Catalan it
is
impossible to get representation in community elections unless you start
writing in English Wikipedia.
Well, if I remember correctly, at some point we elected an Italian board
member in the community elections. (I
Heh, indeed. Whether the candidates are public outside the chapters or
not, if you are not ok with your real name being plastered all over
the place (fame! infamy! occasional random emails!) then being on the
board is probably not for you.
-- phoebe
I would even say that for the chapter
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:35:10 +, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com
wrote:
A Wikimedian has just started a Facebook page Stop pornography on
Wikipedia
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-pornography-on-Wikipedia/307245972661745
If I read it correct, she opened a Facebook group since, as she
I opened a RFC request on Meta,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/POV_in_Chechen_Wikipedia
In my view, this is a situation similar to the one in Acehnese Wikipedia,
which we had recently - when a group of users basically hijack a WMF
project and start to promote goals
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:58:02 +0100, Thomas Goldammer
tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hoi,
Thanks for bringing this up, Yaroslav. If it turns out to be a really
solid claim, we would need someone neutral with language competence to
figure out what is going on there... Any ideas? I have a retired
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:23:22 +0100, Thomas Goldammer
tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hm, I think closing it is no option we should really consider. Maybe
we must try to share apart those who have understood the principles
and abide by them and those who don't and - well - remove sysop rights
of
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:14:40 +0800, Benjamin Chen cnchenmi...@gmail.com
wrote:
I haven't read the RFC carefully, but since it is opened, so I informed
Sasan700 and Dagger on their talk page. Also emailed Sasan700.
Best regards,
Benjamin Chen / User:Bencmq
Great, thanks, Benjamin.
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:07:42 +0200, Zugravu Gheorghe
zugravu.gheor...@gmail.com wrote:
bringing my 5 cents: think that mobile users are not the one privileged
here, since anyone can surf on m.wp. Guess that limited usability of
m.wp compensate 100% lack of normanl WP. (following my friends post
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:58:41 +, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
I think the concern will be dependent on whether Commons is covered in
the blackout (and whether the 'full' shutdown goes ahead or the
'pop-up plus banners' that seems to be getting most traction on
enwiki).
I'm seeing
I would not spend time, energy and money on a service that
can block my contents without even warning and/or asking me.
Especially if I'm a public service, which is often the case
for GLAMs.
--
Bastien
...
Temporarily disabling access in protest is not the same as blocking my
Actually, do we have somewhere a concise page with a list of say ten most
urgent needs we need money for? Smth a banner can link to?
Cheers
Yaroslav
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Yes and I'm British. The reality is that museums and libraries close
all the time for various reasons. There isn't much we can do about it.
Well, just in this case a GLAM/GLAM-like initiative could help enormously,
taking the museum expositions online. The problem is that AFAIR we do not
have
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:13:58 +0100, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
2012/1/7 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
On 7 January 2012 20:12, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina holds 400,000
artifacts.
Any National Cultural Institution closing is a
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:16:57 +0100, MF-Warburg mfwarb...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Incubator we have in this year for the first time compiled an
end-of-the-year review in order to inform people about what is going on
on
Incubator / new wikis.
Great, thanks for the interesting report and to
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:28:13 +0100, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi;
Yes, please, go global.
We can use the sitenotice (only for registered users) to ask for help in
every country. Or only those countries with a chapter are allowed?
Regards,
emijrp
All countries are eligible, but
How were those languages chosen? I can't see any (clear) criterion being
used. I've already asked the same question for the Wikimedia
highlights (and something else) and I didn't get any answer; given that
you're using the same languages for eveything, it would be nice to
explain where
May be just because they did not have anybody to translate to other
languages, as the composition of Transcom suggests?
Cheers
Yaroslav
To correct myself, it just means that nobody did the translations
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Highlights,_September_2011
The
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:04:56 -0800, Philippe Beaudette
phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Chairman Issa's office sent me this link... live streaming and markup of
the SOPA bill: http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa
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Personally, my rule of thumb is to give people 24 hours. Fair's fair:
people don't watch the wiki all day, they might live in a different time
zone, etc. Rcom have exceeded that limit and they still haven't posted
on-wiki (which is the place where the people are who actually have a
say).
With the greatest of respect.. it shouldn't need the whole of RCOM, no
statement is needed. Just for someone to go on-wiki and answer queries
(or
if nothing else say - sorry we need to look into this, bear with us).
The complaint Kim is making is that no one has done this.
Tom
Well, I
I've already done some of that for you, together with Jerome. :-)
A new subsection here would work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Harvard.2FScience_Po_Adverts
And what we really need right now is 1 (preferably 2) rcom members who
And again, that was not a on-wiki consensus: That was an action who
started with a staff of WMF, discussed privately, put on air, discussed
in
a private mailing list, and took off. When I need to do anything on
en.wiki
I follow en.wiki, until there, don't try to imposse them to me.
We
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:01:45 +, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com
wrote:
There was a lengthy discussion recently on en:WP at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#FAC_spends_too_much_time_on_trivial_topics
about the fact that many featured articles –
Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe.
+1
I like it; a good image says a thousands words in every language.
To me it looks like the Earth after a nuclear attack. I assume this is not
the idea.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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This is completely understandable. I recently looked at a 13-page
article in the Bullletin of the Pan American Union for 1933 on
Hipólito Unánue. Our stub article shows him as president of Peru in
1825-6. He wasn't. I had to ask myself how much time am I prepared to
use for sorting this
Ray, does the article say he was not the President of the Government
Council? I found a link on that and added it to the article, but the
reference, how should I put it, does not look to me as an ultimately to
most authoritative source. I will search more, but if you have the
material
at hand
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:56:48 +, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Efficiency has never been a part of Wikipedia's mission
That's a slightly odd interpretation,
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement specifically
includes effective dissemination of content. Though the word
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:27:30 +0200, Nickanc Wikipedia
nickanc.w...@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO, Wikilove is something so important about wikipedia's ethics and
behaviour that shall be in every wiki. IMHO.
I absolutely disagree. Wikipedia ethics and behavior encourage thanking
the contributors, but it
So far my only experience with extension:wikilove is having a new user
prefer it to just editing my talk page, and so over the course of a
mundane conversation about sourcing I earned myself two civility
barnstars and three trophies. Hooray!
One take away from this experience of
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:15:52 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoe...@gmx.net
wrote:
Some editors just want to edit articles and regard the social and
meta dimensions of the project as annoying distractions, while other
editors see those as the main attractions. Some prefer You are nice.,
others
We're not just talking about a tool, but a revolution in the way of
communicative and collaborative Wikipedia. It is a way to make Wikipedia
a
family environment, not a court or an academy of letters. We need that.
Wikipedia really needs that at all.
_
MateusNobre
When I spoke ''family'' I wanted to say we need a more likable system of
communication. We need a real collaborative method, which not only fit
for
the editions, but for the treatment of users too. We're a big family
working for a common objective: a world in which every single human
being
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:04:23 +0100, Oliver Keyes scire.fac...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hey guys
So, on Thursday we're going to be holding an Office Hours session on IRC
to
discuss the Article Feedback Tool and what we're planning to do with it
-
namely, scrapping it and replacing it with an entirely
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:33:30 +0100, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Can we make sure that any new generation Article Feedback tool is
properly
tested, and that testing includes:
1. Implementing it on a random group of articles and comparing them
with
a
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:02:19 +0200, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com
wrote:
If so, goodbye wiki, as well. At least in US.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/26/0451240/new-version-of-protect-ip-bill-may-target-legal-sites
Well, the servers still could be moved to Europe.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:11:53 -0700, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
This is pretty damn cool.
I see that pretty much every project except nl wikipedia could now use
this
illustration...
What is the problem with the Dutch Wikipedia? From what I see, the file is
in use there.
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:40:18 +0100, Thomas Dalton
thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15360864
I'm not sure of the details of this case, but it looks like it would
be worth us keeping an eye on it since it could potentially have
repercussions for us.
I was following the discussion without ever giving my own opinion, and my
impression is that we are going nowhere.
Imagine we make another poll, properly prepared, and the poll shows, say,
that 65% support the filter and 35% oppose. So what? Concluding then then
the community rejecting the filter
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:37:05 +0200, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl
wrote:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:44:09PM +0400, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
I was following the discussion without ever giving my own opinion, and
my
impression is that we are going nowhere.
I think what should come
I must confess I completely fail to understand how the discussions in this
thread, especially the last several dozens or so posts, advance our
mission.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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It would be systemic bias rather than a NPOV problem as such.
- d.
Right, but we do have this systemic bias already in place: in ALL our
projects, the articles on localities in Sweden are longer and better
written (and better illustrated) than the articles on localities in Burkina
Faso.
@Yaroslav: the main reason to focus on Europe this year was the large
concentration, intergovernmental support (European Commission Council
of
Europe) and lack of resources (mainly man power). If there are next year
enough people to carry on the idea, I'm sure we can include more
countries,
Thanks for the clarification - I understand better what you mean now. We
indeed chose explicitely only to organize WLM in countries where there
could
be an effort to make the necessary preperations (preparing monument
lists
that are useful for non-Wikipedians, having a national jury and
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:51:33 +0900, KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com wrote:
Off topic alert:
I haven't given a closer look to your main topic, Milos, so I cannot
give a responsible statement in any way. But your reference to Wiki
Loves Monuments, while I agree it's heavily Europe-focused, I
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:45:41 -0700, R.Stuart Geiger sgei...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks for the interest, John! I put the list of the top 250 up at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles -- but I
didn't exactly publicize it. I guess this is my chance to do so now!
Also, a
While I agree this isn't a good situation to be in, I'm not sure what
Wikipedia does review In The News submissions before they go on the
homepage.
Wikinews articles get syndicated out to Google News and posted on
Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. There's something of a
Are you counting everyone? People from places with Chapters and without
chapters? Because that would be a bit strange if someone answer that
they
know there is a chapter in a country that does not have one.
But they had an option to answer that they know there is no chapter in
their country,
Let's do it! What's the best way to encourage embassies, especially on
small
projects that may have never had them before?
Obviously, to let a message in a relevant language (which is expected to
be understood by many of the users) on the village pump of the
corresponding project. The
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:05:37 +0200, Ziko van Dijk
zvand...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Hello,
The name is not so important, of course, but I think that the old
Ambassador is a little bit a big word.
Why do the ambassadors not work? Because they don't feel
responsible, if they can simply put
So you're worried about a policy change? What sort of policy change
specifically would necessitate forking the project? Is there any such
policy change which could plausibly be implemented by the Foundation
while it remains a charity?
Adding ads (for instance, Google ads) to the Wikipedia
== New entities?==
James Forrester and his group (sorry, I don't remember who was the
official primus inter pares) presented in/before Haifa a list of new
kinds of Wikimedia entities:
* Chapters not based on national boundaries, but subjects such as
railways, art, ethnic cultures,
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:43:13 +0400, Yaroslav M. Blanter
pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
== New entities?==
James Forrester and his group (sorry, I don't remember who was the
official primus inter pares) presented in/before Haifa a list of new
kinds of Wikimedia entities:
* Chapters not based
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:55:47 +0100, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
wrote:
[posted to foundation-l and wikitech-l, thread fork of a discussion
elsewhere]
THESIS: Our inadvertent monopoly is *bad*. We need to make it easy to
fork the projects, so as to preserve them.
This is the single
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:32:43 +0100, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 12 August 2011 13:07, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
I do agree that the monopoly, at least in this case, is a bad thing,
but
I
do not see why stimulating creation of the forks would be the best way
Hmm, it'd be a neat extension for Commons. I don't think like or +1
should be used, as they're not sufficiently wiki. But something that
expresses the same sentiment, that allows users to express approval of
good
photos (similar to Flickr), could be cool.
MZMcBride
Is the talk page not
Wow, this is a gross misrepresentation of the reality.
While Foundation staff has provided an invaluable support to make the
fundraiser a success, it probably wouldn't have been such a success
hadn't there been dozens of volunteers, among which _many_ chapter
board members and simple
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:11:49 -0500, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
And just to add to the argument, the projects are divided by language,
and
not by jurisdiction. Whereas in many cases it may be unimportant (for
instance, we can safely assume that most of the activbities of the
Swedish
chapter
It is true however that many chapters do important work for the local
projects, and serve their local needs in the sense of activities, press
contacts and fundraising in a more effective way (less culturally
challanging, more sensitive to what works locally and better in touch
with
other
The Wiki page:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011
The Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonuments
And the Website: http://wikilovesmonuments.eu
But as you can see, is not only the Dutch people.
_
*Béria Lima*
Nor does off-wiki collaboration require that a formal entity be in
existence. Off-wiki activities -- whether social meetups or more formal
outreach efforts to GLAM institutions and elsewhere -- are no less
effective
for being organized by loose groups of interested participants. So long
as
Meta link:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_Report,_May-June_2011
-- phoebe
Thanks for the link, Phoebe. Since none of the meta pages linked to this
page, I created
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_Reports
which I hope will be updated on a regular basis by adding new reports.
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:41:28 -0400, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes it is, and it's an important one. Several of us had already been
working on a plan for the second trial, and those of us discussing had
widely agreed that it would be much more likely to be successful if more
of
the
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:06:10 -0500, Keegan Peterzell
keegan.w...@gmail.com
wrote:
Nope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Request_for_Comment_February_2011oldid=428618051#Closure
I think I have seen this one, but I will have a closer look. Thanks for
It's the problem of the English Wikipedia not knowing what it wanted
aside
from knowing it wanted something. Some wanted stable revisions (an
approved
form of an article), others wanted protection but editable, others
wanted
enhanced review of content before publishing, etc. Pending
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:28:31 +0100, Thomas Morton
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:49:58 -0600 (MDT), Fred Bauder
fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
We should do this before some aggressive outfit like Wikinfo jumps in...
It wouldn't be an anyone can edit wiki. Only authorized student accounts
could edit. It would be a teaching tool.
Fred
To do this is
So I'd like to ask in which way we keep and assure our community as
multilingual? Honestly I have been thinking this for years seriously.
Even on meta, it was not once I was accused just because I left a note
in Japanese - when I had a hardship to express my opinion enough in
English. I
Milosh, thanks for your work. Just to correct: Moksha, Erzya, Yakut
(=Sakha), Komi-Zyrian (=Komi) and Lak all have Wikipedias (though
admittedly for Lak I am the only active contributor). Adyge is almost
identical to Kabardino-Circassian, and Adyge speakers probably will never
have their own
Of course, that could either help or hinder, with no way to
know for sure in advance; perhaps encouraging more social interaction
would exacerbate and personalize the disputes and conflicts that drive
people away.
From my perspective, this is exactly what is happening. Too many people
want
You have an expert knowledge in this topic, namely the knowledge of
Russian language. Most of English Wikipedia editors don't.
...
Most unilingual English editors are surprised by the vast quantity of
low hanging fruit. Out of curiosity at one time I looked up the fairly
common Spanish
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:06:14 +0300, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hallo,
I just received an email (see below) that invites me to participate in
the elections.
There are several technical issues with it:
I also got one, even though one of my accounts (to which is
I also got one, even though one of my accounts (to which is was sent)
is
globally blocked, and another one has an insufficient number of edits
and
both are thus ineligible to vote. I only got the e-mail in English, but
I
assume this is because I use English interface in all projects.
There
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:17:18 +0100, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
I wouldn't describe a short article as hardly useful for creation I
created http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass,_California only
three years and already the current article is five times the size
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:05:22 -0700, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
This doesn't have to be complicated. How about 3 strikes, you're out?
Get
banned from 3 projects and you automatically qualify for a global ban.
There's no sense in wasting hundreds of manhours trying to coordinate
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:28:28 -0400, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com
wrote:
I second everything that Risker has said.
I am not convinced that further public discussion of this situation is
really going to do anything other than feed Poetlister's ego, and create
exactly the bitterness and
This is an essay. May be someone can find it useful.
For a number of reasons which are not appropriate to address here, three
weeks ago I voluntarily left Russian Wikipedia, which used to be my home
wiki for four years, and decided to turn to low-key activity in the
articles in English
You are interested in this topic; many users (or most, I am afraid) are
not.
You have an expert knowledge in this topic, namely the knowledge of
Russian language. Most of English Wikipedia editors don't.
There is a plenty of low-hanging fruits in classical music articles
(especially in
I too would like to see the development of a process for global banning
of
users who have created serious problems on either the global or the
multiple-project level.
Risker/Anne
I see your reasoning, but I also see at least two serious deficiencies:
1) Some projects explicitly rejected
On Mon, 23 May 2011 16:55:49 +0200, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 16:46, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Re the idea of informing BLP subjects that we have a biography on them.
Most LPs would read such email as a request for editing,
On Sun, 22 May 2011 14:08:14 +0200, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 05/22/2011 01:22 PM, Denny Vrandecic wrote:
Can you also provide at least a rough estimate of the number of humans
who don't have Wikipedia in any language they speak reasonably well
(understanding very well that
Dear friends,
Today is Marjon Bakker's first day in the office of the Dutch chapter,
our first paid coworker in Utrecht. For the next six months she will
help us with the professionalisation and with building up the office
of Wikimedia Nederland.
The communication specialist Marjon Bakker
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