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 social network or a game.
 
 [...]
 
 (1) 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_blog.2C_webspace
 _provider.2C_social_network.2C_or_memorial_site

I think the term you're looking for is wikiafication. Maybe
Wikiafication? I suppose it's not quite genericized yet, so capitalizing
it probably makes sense.

I've had a draft e-mail sitting around for months now that I've been meaning
to send on the subject. MoodBar, WikiLove, etc. are all forms of
Wikiafication. This is dangerous, as Wikia largely sucks, so any attempted
emulation of it is a risky proposition. That isn't to say that Wikia gets
nothing right, but for the most part, it's a pretty bad user experience at a
social and technical level.

There is also the tangential issue that mingling Wikia
development/engineering projects with Wikimedia development/engineering
projects further erodes the already tenuous divide between the two
organizations. There's been talk (more than talk, really) of Wikimedia
working with Wikia on projects such as the parser rewrite, as it serves both
organizations' interests. That's true, to be sure, but the costs of further
close collaboration may outweigh any benefit.

MZMcBride



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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 everyday, with the result that Wikipedia is now being
  used as a social network or a game.
 
  [...]
 
  (1)
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_blog.2C_webspace
  _provider.2C_social_network.2C_or_memorial_site

 I think the term you're looking for is wikiafication. Maybe
 Wikiafication? I suppose it's not quite genericized yet, so capitalizing
 it probably makes sense.

 I've had a draft e-mail sitting around for months now that I've been
 meaning
 to send on the subject. MoodBar, WikiLove, etc. are all forms of
 Wikiafication. This is dangerous, as Wikia largely sucks, so any attempted
 emulation of it is a risky proposition. That isn't to say that Wikia gets
 nothing right, but for the most part, it's a pretty bad user experience at
 a
 social and technical level.

 There is also the tangential issue that mingling Wikia
 development/engineering projects with Wikimedia development/engineering
 projects further erodes the already tenuous divide between the two
 organizations. There's been talk (more than talk, really) of Wikimedia
 working with Wikia on projects such as the parser rewrite, as it serves
 both
 organizations' interests. That's true, to be sure, but the costs of further
 close collaboration may outweigh any benefit.

 MZMcBride

 I'm not going to disagree with the complaints about MoodBar, WikiLove etc.
for being a diversion from our core purpose, but equally there are very
good reasons for these things that have been mentioned too. The primary nub
of contention being that they are of greatest benefit to new users (who are
not really able to defend themselves on foundation-l) whilst being largely
irrelevant additions to experienced users. Because the WMF is (rightly,
IMO) focused on reversing the decline in editor numbers, much of their
developments will suffer from this tension. There are valid arguments on
both sides but I believe that's where the tension derives from. Also as I'm
not familiar with Wikia-wikis I won't comment on the quality/usefullness of
their software.
I'm not trying to write this email to point out problems, but to point to
positive things instead...

I would like to point to a new kind of WMF development work that's underway
as a particularly useful, interesting and positive development. The New
Page Triage concept and associated zoom interface which is designed to
improve Recent Changes Patrol: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Page_Triage
 Now, I'm not a regular new page patroller so the feature will not affect
me directly, and there are certainly lots of features/design
issues/workflows/interfaces that will be wrong and will need dramatic
changes before going from the concept stage to the in-production use stage.

Why I'm particularly excited with this page is that it represents a WMF
development project that addresses the issue of new user retention (by
improving the quality of their first interaction with the community) by
assisting the EXISTING users to do their work better. By looking at this
kind of thing the WMF software team is loudly saying we're all in this
together which needs to be applauded. The existing community, especially
the hard-core who do a disproportionately large amount of the work, need to
feel like they're not part of the problem but part of the solution in
reversing the editor-numbers decline - and features like New Page Triage
(and/or others like it) are a brilliant way of doing this, IMHO.

-Liam

wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love  metadata
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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 each other only.

Please teach me U.S.-american social behavior.

The expression Wikilove will trigger only incomprehension and headshaking.

h.

Am 29.10.2011 00:16, schrieb 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 addition to English Wikipedia, WikiLove has been enabled on Arabic
 Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia,
 Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Norwegian Wikipedia,
 Portuguese Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Chinese
 Wikipedia, MediaWiki.org and Commons.
 
 So, WikiLove is spreading. Maybe one day it will even come to German
 Wikipedia. I'm guessing 2020. ;-)
 

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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 other in the U.S. when it comes
 to really love.

 Maybe they just grunt at each other only.

 Please teach me U.S.-american social behavior.

 The expression Wikilove will trigger only incomprehension and headshaking.

 h.



Perhaps we should start with manners, specifically how to post to a
public list without being childishly insulting?

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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 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiLove loan the English word 
or are calques; the word has broader exposure with the extension so 
should be translated carefully.

Nemo

P.s.: 31st post for me this month. :-/

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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 Wikipedia».

Liam Wyatt, 29/10/2011 04:38:
 Seriously though... in Wikilove can't the logo (the heart) and all of the
 individual awards (barnstars, food, animals) be changed on a per-wiki basis?

I don't know the icon (I think not), but the rest is obviously 
configurable. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove#How_to_customize

 So if there's an icon that's more culturally appropriate in a different
 language then it can be changed to that instead. If I recall correctly, the
 Burmese Wikipedia uses lotuses (rather than barnstars) and the French
 Wikipedia uses laurel wreaths. In those cases, for example, not only can
 those awards be used instead of barnstars but a little icon of a lotus or a
 laurel wreath could easily be used instead of a pink heart icon.

 The point being that leaving friendly messages with cute invented awards on
 talkpages is not an en.wp or American specific activity - most (all?) of
 the different language wikis have something equivalent. All the WikiLove
 tool does is make it easier to do and if the local community wants to use it
 but wants to change the way the tool looks/feels then I don't think there's
 any problem with that.

Basically yes, although I didn't check whether local implementations 
actually localised the extension; sometimes we have blind 
implementations of en.wiki concepts (which are often the default even in 
MediaWiki) because localisers are not bold/industrious enough. I don't 
think the extension's aim is to export kittens, beer (!) and other 
unknown amenities to all communities. ;-)

Nemo

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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 one:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32033

(Is it really not a dupe?)

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[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 game. For example see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Alleahruiz .

This sort of software enhances shallow relationships between people.
That might be fine for American people or americanized people but
everybody in the world is not American or Americanized or belonging to
a culture close to that one. I believe that in this world some people
value something else than shallow relationships based on US-centered
cultural codes such as a pink heart, for example trusting
relationships based on working together in the long term, using true
words really felt rather than just picking an icon on a game
interface.

Do you know that the pink heart tool was imposed on Wikimedia COmmons
by the English speaking community without consulting other language
communities ?

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 ?

Where is the usability when adding new features at a confusing hurried rythm ?

(1) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_blog.2C_webspace_provider.2C_social_network.2C_or_memorial_site

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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 addition to English Wikipedia, WikiLove has been enabled on Arabic
Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia,
Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Norwegian Wikipedia,
Portuguese Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Chinese
Wikipedia, MediaWiki.org and Commons.

So, WikiLove is spreading. Maybe one day it will even come to German
Wikipedia. I'm guessing 2020. ;-)

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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 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 game. For example see
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Alleahruiz .

 This sort of software enhances shallow relationships between people.
 That might be fine for American people or americanized people but
 everybody in the world is not American or Americanized or belonging to
 a culture close to that one. I believe that in this world some people
 value something else than shallow relationships based on US-centered
 cultural codes such as a pink heart, for example trusting
 relationships based on working together in the long term, using true
 words really felt rather than just picking an icon on a game
 interface.

 Do you know that the pink heart tool was imposed on Wikimedia COmmons
 by the English speaking community without consulting other language
 communities ?

 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 ?

 Where is the usability when adding new features at a confusing hurried rythm ?

 (1) 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_blog.2C_webspace_provider.2C_social_network.2C_or_memorial_site

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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 people believe it is
 Valentine Day everyday, with the result that Wikipedia is now being
 used as a social network or a game. For example see
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Alleahruiz .

 This sort of software enhances shallow relationships between people.
 That might be fine for American people or americanized people but
 everybody in the world is not American or Americanized or belonging to
 a culture close to that one. I believe that in this world some people
 value something else than shallow relationships based on US-centered
 cultural codes such as a pink heart, for example trusting
 relationships based on working together in the long term, using true
 words really felt rather than just picking an icon on a game
 interface.

 Do you know that the pink heart tool was imposed on Wikimedia COmmons
 by the English speaking community without consulting other language
 communities ?

 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 ?

 Where is the usability when adding new features at a confusing hurried
 rythm ?

 (1)
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_blog.2C_webspace_provider.2C_social_network.2C_or_memorial_site

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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 non-English Wikipedias going to be free
 from this new stupid tool which has nothing to do with writing an
 encyclopaedia ?
 
 In addition to English Wikipedia, WikiLove has been enabled on Arabic
 Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia,
 Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Norwegian Wikipedia,
 Portuguese Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Chinese
 Wikipedia, MediaWiki.org and Commons.
 
 So, WikiLove is spreading. Maybe one day it will even come to German
 Wikipedia. I'm guessing 2020. ;-)



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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, and the requesting wiki must:

a) Make sure the tool is localized (via TranslateWiki);
b) Make sure they have a local configuration; and
c) Show community consensus.

So if it was enabled and then *disabled*, I have not heard of this.  Is 
there a bug report I can look to?  Or if you know of a wiki where this 
is the case, I can do a search.

Thanks!

-b.


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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 pink hearts, just add the following to 
your vector.css:
#ca-wikilove.icon  a{
  background-image:  
url(/w/extensions/WikiLove/modules/ext.wikiLove/images/heart-icons-black.png);
}
(or turn WikiLove off in your user prefs).

Cheers,
Ryan Kaldari

On 10/28/11 3:27 PM, Etienne Beaule wrote:
 It's disabled on certain wikis because of technical problems.


 On 11-10-28 7:16 PM, Erik Moellere...@wikimedia.org  wrote:

 On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Teofiloteofilow...@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 addition to English Wikipedia, WikiLove has been enabled on Arabic
 Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia,
 Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Norwegian Wikipedia,
 Portuguese Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Chinese
 Wikipedia, MediaWiki.org and Commons.

 So, WikiLove is spreading. Maybe one day it will even come to German
 Wikipedia. I'm guessing 2020. ;-)


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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 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, and the requesting wiki must:
 
 a) Make sure the tool is localized (via TranslateWiki);
 b) Make sure they have a local configuration; and
 c) Show community consensus.
 
 So if it was enabled and then *disabled*, I have not heard of this.  Is
 there a bug report I can look to?  Or if you know of a wiki where this
 is the case, I can do a search.
 
 Thanks!
 
 -b.
 



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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 why
so is mankind. (I haven't been able to figure out the hearts thing yet, but
I'm working on it.)

Hey! Rather than a heart, can I get a four-leaf clover?



On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Etienne Beaule betie...@bellaliant.netwrote:

 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 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, and the requesting wiki must:
 
  a) Make sure the tool is localized (via TranslateWiki);
  b) Make sure they have a local configuration; and
  c) Show community consensus.
 
  So if it was enabled and then *disabled*, I have not heard of this.  Is
  there a bug report I can look to?  Or if you know of a wiki where this
  is the case, I can do a search.
 
  Thanks!
 
  -b.
 



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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 changed on a per-wiki basis?
So if there's an icon that's more culturally appropriate in a different
language then it can be changed to that instead. If I recall correctly, the
Burmese Wikipedia uses lotuses (rather than barnstars) and the French
Wikipedia uses laurel wreaths. In those cases, for example, not only can
those awards be used instead of barnstars but a little icon of a lotus or a
laurel wreath could easily be used instead of a pink heart icon.

The point being that leaving friendly messages with cute invented awards on
talkpages is not an en.wp or American specific activity - most (all?) of
the different language wikis have something equivalent. All the WikiLove
tool does is make it easier to do and if the local community wants to use it
but wants to change the way the tool looks/feels then I don't think there's
any problem with that.

-Liam

On 29 October 2011 02:15, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson cindam...@gmail.com wrote:

 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 why
 so is mankind. (I haven't been able to figure out the hearts thing yet, but
 I'm working on it.)

 Hey! Rather than a heart, can I get a four-leaf clover?



 On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Etienne Beaule betie...@bellaliant.net
 wrote:

  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 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, and the requesting wiki must:
  
   a) Make sure the tool is localized (via TranslateWiki);
   b) Make sure they have a local configuration; and
   c) Show community consensus.
  
   So if it was enabled and then *disabled*, I have not heard of this.  Is
   there a bug report I can look to?  Or if you know of a wiki where this
   is the case, I can do a search.
  
   Thanks!
  
   -b.
  
 
 
 
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