[Foundation-l] Fwd: retire the administrator privilege

2011-01-15 Thread The Mono
Good luck. The only thing harder than running for adminship is trying to change the process. Mono -- *Mono* http://enwp.org/m:User:Mono ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

2011-02-12 Thread The Mono
Of course, this is not possible. Very nice url would be for example: http://en.wp.wmf.org/Az09Q . This would make possible to see which project the link leads to. Wmf.org is already registered, but in the future, a .Wmf TLD might be possible. -- *Mono* http://enwp.org/m:User:Mono

Re: [Foundation-l] Showing the difference between the sexes

2011-02-13 Thread The Mono
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Re: [Foundation-l] VPAT

2011-02-17 Thread The Mono
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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Storyteller job opening

2011-03-01 Thread The Mono
about our community that we have to hire someone to figure out how to explain it. -- *Mono* http://enwp.org/m:User:Mono ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Storyteller job opening

2011-03-01 Thread The Mono
I'm not with the WMF, to clarify. Your point stands, however, as the WMF team rarely contributes to content on the wikis they know so much about. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:45 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 March 2011 23:41, The Mono m...@mono.x10.bz wrote: We think so little

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011-03-18 Thread The Mono
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Re: [Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

2011-03-30 Thread The Mono
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Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion duration and the SOPA shutdown

2012-01-18 Thread Mono
I do agree that this kind of action must be severely limited. We cannot go on like this; we've used up our shutdown for about five years. The shutdown makes waves, but its effect will diminish with overuse. This is the kind of thing we should not repeat for a long while. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mono
Actually, they're pretty similar. Don't forget that Google and Sergey Brin's foundation are major income sources. On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: You trust GOOGLE's interests to align sufficiently with ours, to the extent that you're willing to

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-09 Thread Mono
I say the design needs improvement; I suggest taking a look at Usernoisehttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/usernoise/screenshots/ for a bit of refinement. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: A couple quick comments: For folks that are interested in this

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Mono
I think the better question is what will this department actually do? On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I'm not really sure where you get that, MZ. Politics and lobbying were not mentioned at all. What was mentioned was advocacy... advocacy for

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC office hours in 30 mins. with the new Legal Community Advocacy team

2012-02-10 Thread Mono
Looks like I missed this. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hey folks, Just a reminder that in about 30 minutes, we'll be in #wikimedia-office with Geoff, Philippe and the rest of the newly-minted Legal and Community Advocacy department [1] to

[Foundation-l] Call for POTY Helpers and Translators

2012-04-05 Thread Mono
Hello Wikimedians, On behalf of the 2011 POTY committee, I'd like to invite you to join the Commons Picture of the Year (POTY) Committee. A volunteer-led contest, Picture of the Year is run by an organizing committee of Wikimedians. Since its inception in 2006, thousands of photos from people all

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-06 Thread Mono
Take a look at toolserver.org/~mono/qua On Friday, April 6, 2012, Gregory Varnum wrote: Some modifications and requested info has been added to: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site) -greg aka varnent On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-06 Thread Mono
necessary to avoid the WMF from getting their asses sued off for bad answers is probably a multi-year endeavor, and a money sink. How would such a system function without degrading into a crap pit? And how would that further the goals of the WMF? On Friday, April 6, 2012, Mono wrote: Take

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-06 Thread Mono
PM, Mono monom...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Take a look at toolserver.org/~mono/qua On Friday, April 6, 2012, Gregory Varnum wrote: Some modifications and requested info has been added to: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site) -greg aka varnent

Re: [Foundation-l] No, even a couple of Google ads on each page would be a fatally bad idea

2010-11-08 Thread Mono mium
C'mon - we've been promising no ads for as long as anyone can remember. People have given their money because of it... On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: An interesting idea would be a standalone static copy of wikipedia that really tried their utmost

Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

2010-11-18 Thread Mono mium
I've signed up, for the heck of it - I wonder how big of a scam it is. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:01 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:53 AM, masti mast...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/18/2010 12:30 PM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: Any one signed up yet?

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser statistics

2010-12-01 Thread Mono mium
We certainly do need a holiday push, though - there are plenty of great suggestions that would really bring things in. How about trying something different? Mono On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.eduwrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Przykuta przyk

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser statistics

2010-12-01 Thread Mono mium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emFZa6ghijkfeature=player_embedded On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Fajro fai...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Robert Stojnic rainma...@gmail.com wrote: Don't know if anyone posted it before, but the current banner made it into popular

Re: [Foundation-l] some worries about fundraiser and editor appeals boycotting it

2010-12-07 Thread Mono mium
Seriously...just get rid of it - it's pure spam. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Arlen Beiler arlen...@gmail.com wrote: After all, a person probably isn't going to donate ten times just because ten different people appealed for funds. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Peter Coombe

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki[p/m]edia

2010-12-10 Thread Mono mium
See, we need to increase the visibility and role of the foundation. Instead of calling it a Wikipedia account, call it a Wikimedia ID Promotion is key mono On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: wjhon...@aol.com wjhon

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia, Mono mium has invited you to open a Gmail account

2010-12-10 Thread Mono mium
I've been using Gmail and thought you might like to try it out. Here's an invitation to create an account. You're Invited to Gmail! Mono mium has invited you to open a Gmail account. Gmail is Google's free email service, built on the idea that email can be intuitive, efficient, and fun

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Big problem to solve: good WYSIWYG on WMF wikis

2010-12-28 Thread Mono mium
How about attacking the problem by using something that already exists... - The Wikimedia Foundation gets a lot of support from Google, financially. How about we ask for some technology support as well? Google has a completely plugin-independant JS-based editor in Google Docs, as well

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2010-12-31 Thread Mono mium
Awesome! How about we add popups? Seriously, if you're going to do this, just add AdSense...it's a heck of a lot prettier. On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:10 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: now that

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2010-12-31 Thread Mono mium
popups, lightboxes, talking jimbos: Fundraising 2011 Happy New Year everyone! On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:56 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Brian J Mingus wrote: I guess nobody cares if you top post or bottom post here, but it does get confusing when the two are mixed in the same

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2011-01-01 Thread Mono mium
Perhaps you should work on establishing the Wikimedia brand... On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2011/1/1 Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: But to suggest that the choice of

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Mono mium
or the wikix logo On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: Hi, wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back for one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to see enwiki go back to the american flag,

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Mono mium
There's always CSS. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:24 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Lodewijk wrote: wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back for one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to see enwiki go back to the

Re: [Foundation-l] Picture of the Year 2010 global notice and translation

2011-04-22 Thread Mono mium
. Mono In reply to I'm not sure a semi-final round is necessarily the best use for the Centralnotice tool. Even the Board of Trustees only gets one round advertised... the stewards election had a global notice for nominations. Additionally, judging from 2009, Round 2 voters either voted

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

2011-05-01 Thread Mono mium
I looked into this once...the domain price was quite steep or I would have gotten it. However, a donation might be possible. On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Waldir Pimenta wal...@email.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: I preffer wp.org (if is

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

2011-05-19 Thread Mono mium
The POTY banner was announced on this list with no objections. On Thursday, May 19, 2011, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, Do we have any guidelines limiting the use of CentralNotices? I noticed there are a lot lately (fundraising, wikimania and most

Re: [Foundation-l] OTRS

2011-06-02 Thread Mono mium
for OTRS agents. You can ask for this thread to be removed from the mailing list history by a list admin. I've also forwarded this to the Wikimedia Foundation legal department as they will probably be interested in this. Mono *My response follows your message below:* On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:01 PM

Re: [Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
No, we don't. Our video support is laughable. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:09 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 June 2011 15:45, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote: We have uploaded images from Flickr, and Commons supports image formates like, jpg, png, svg, and others, but

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Editor and Google Chrome

2011-06-07 Thread Mono mium
Really? That's never happened for me. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:29 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: We need to make sure that people using Google Chrome are able to edit seamlessly. Currently this is not the case. Extra spaces are added. And when the Cite tool built into the browser

Re: [Foundation-l] EFF Bitcoins

2011-06-21 Thread Mono mium
Supposedly the Bitcoins system was just hacked. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: As a follow up to the discussion about Bitcoins (during the board elections) accepting them as donations... I thought this article by the EFF explaining why they

Re: [Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-06-23 Thread Mono mium
Please don't spam the list. Kthxbai. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:44 PM, James Heilman via LinkedIn mem...@linkedin.com wrote: LinkedIn    James Heilman requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Srikant, I'd like to add you

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

2011-07-03 Thread Mono mium
A bot could do it, but that's not completely relevent. On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:34 PM, . Courcelles courcellesw...@gmail.com wrote: I couldn't agree more, now that the date has passed, so should ten.wikipedia.

Re: [Foundation-l] SEOs :((((

2011-08-01 Thread Mono mium
One moment please... I'm writing a how-to guide for sinking that website to the bottom. It involves many of their own techniques. I'll post it soon. On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote: The responses so far are encouraging! ;-) 2011/8/1 Chris Keating

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Mono mium
Look, Pending Changes was and still is doomed. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: Did the idea of the second trial get any momentum in the end of the day? As a en.wp

Re: [Foundation-l] Abigor Account

2011-08-07 Thread Mono mium
I'm sure someone would be willing to post a message on your behalf if you reply here. On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On WikiMania it was brought to my attention by a user that there is a account Abigor langcom. He asked me why I created that

Re: [Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 37 – 12 September 2011

2011-09-12 Thread Mono mium
Email me. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine Opinion - Year: 2011 Week: 38 Number: 128 BIS

2011-09-16 Thread Mono mium
May I suggest using MailChimp? On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:41 PM, EN Wikizine info...@wikizine.org wrote: ** Wikizine.org's ___ _ _ /___\ _ __ (_) _ __ (_) ___ _ __ // //| '_ \ | || '_ \ | | / _ \ | '_ \ / \_// | |_) || ||

Re: [Foundation-l] Meta main page

2011-09-26 Thread Mono mium
Might make sense. 2011/9/26 とある白い猫 to.aru.shiroi.n...@gmail.com Meta main page seems to be not very multi-lingual because it appears to be difficult to update. Each translation is more or less outdated and often with an outdated/older style. I propose a template structure where style info is

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF is planning to install a video player that harms creator attribution and ties between Wikipedia and Commons

2011-10-11 Thread Mono mium
If the video player actually worked for anything, it would be a problem. But it doesn't and therefore it isn't. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: I assume that you, before sending this email to a mailing list that is not exactly technical in nature,

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

2011-11-03 Thread Mono mium
I don't think simple text or link changes will really do the trick. I think popup bubbles could be more successful. On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: David Gerard, 31/10/2011 12:29: I’ve been into Wikipedia for several years, and all my friends

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

2011-12-31 Thread Mono mium
Seriously, get over it. On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: On 31 December 2011 15:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Thomas Dalton, 31/12/2011 15:58: On 31 December 2011 14:42, Zack Exleyzex...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone -

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-08 Thread Mono mium
Unfortunately, the kind of political action editors wished to promote in situations like Italy or the USA wouldn't have the same effect in more restrictive countries like China or Iran. On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.comwrote: Given the conversations about