Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-31 Thread MZMcBride
Teofilo wrote: The WMF has been recently backing softwares that are a breach of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (1). Recently a totally stupid pink heart was added to user talk pages, making people believe it is Valentine Day everyday, with the result that Wikipedia is now being used as a

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-31 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 31 October 2011 07:40, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Teofilo wrote: The WMF has been recently backing softwares that are a breach of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (1). Recently a totally stupid pink heart was added to user talk pages, making people believe it is Valentine Day

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-30 Thread Hubert
One problem is that the word Love is used quite differently in the German language. Even in Great Britain. Love as a term is used in English in a fully inflated notion of flooding. I have no idea what lovers say to each other in the U.S. when it comes to really love. Maybe they just grunt at

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-30 Thread Nathan
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Hubert hubert.la...@gmx.at wrote: One problem is that the word Love is used quite differently in the German language. Even in Great Britain. Love as a term is used in English in a fully inflated notion of flooding. I have no idea what lovers say to each

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Hubert, 30/10/2011 15:24: One problem is that the word Love is used quite differently in the German language. Even in Great Britain. This again means that translators have to be bold. It's true that translation can be difficult, in fact most interwikis of

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Erik Moeller, 29/10/2011 00:16: In addition to English Wikipedia, WikiLove has been enabled [...] MediaWiki.org and Commons. Perhaps we can even change the definition on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiLove , currently «extension designed to promote the spread of WikiLove within

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/10/29 Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org: I don't think that's accurate. WikiLove only has a single bug filed against it, and it's just a feature request: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamednamedcmd=WikiLovelist_id=42901 Well, since you complained, here's another

[Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Teofilo
The WMF has been recently backing softwares that are a breach of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (1). Recently a totally stupid pink heart was added to user talk pages, making people believe it is Valentine Day everyday, with the result that Wikipedia is now being used as a social network or a

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Erik Moeller
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: Now we are seeing the appearance of a feedback tool on the English Wikipedia ? How long are the non-English Wikipedias going to be free from this new stupid tool which has nothing to do with writing an encyclopaedia ? In

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I just built WikiLove to make giving barnstars easier. The WFM didn't invent giving barnstars, that tradition was created by the community. Since it's been going on for quite a few years, I think your complaint is a bit late. Ryan Kaldari On 10/28/11 3:00 PM, Teofilo wrote: The WMF has been

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Fred Bauder
No good, the Grinch already stole Christmas. A juggernaut of foolishness and play is bearing down on you... Fred The WMF has been recently backing softwares that are a breach of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (1). Recently a totally stupid pink heart was added to user talk pages, making

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Etienne Beaule
It's disabled on certain wikis because of technical problems. On 11-10-28 7:16 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: Now we are seeing the appearance of a feedback tool on the English Wikipedia ? How long are the

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Brandon Harris
On 10/28/11 3:27 PM, Etienne Beaule wrote: It's disabled on certain wikis because of technical problems. Oh? I wasn't aware that it had been disabled anywhere as yet. WikiLove was not rolled out en mass; the policy for deployment of the tool is that it is by request only,

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I don't think that's accurate. WikiLove only has a single bug filed against it, and it's just a feature request: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamednamedcmd=WikiLovelist_id=42901 If you know of any technical problems, please let me know. And for those of you who hate

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Etienne Beaule
On incubator only, and probably the WikimediaIncubator extension. All was set up. On 11-10-28 7:31 PM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 10/28/11 3:27 PM, Etienne Beaule wrote: It's disabled on certain wikis because of technical problems. Oh? I wasn't aware that it had

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
I find pink hearts depressing. Red hearts are okay, though. Mankind. It's a troubling topic. Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: “Mankind”. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words – “mank” and “ind”. What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-28 Thread Liam Wyatt
I think you deserve a barnstar (made via Wiki-love of course!) for that :-) I've never really liked Mank, but I do like a spread of some Ind with my tea in the morning. Seriously though... in Wikilove can't the logo (the heart) and all of the individual awards (barnstars, food, animals) be