Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-08-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The language committee is not tasked with indicating the projects that are dormant. If anything it is our task to help those projects to gain new activities. When Wikidata is used to bring information in templates and in information in a similar way to the Cebuano Wikipedia (but more

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-08-07 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi Yongmin, בתאריך יום ג׳, 7 באוג׳ 2018, 16:25, מאת Yongmin H. ‏: > Please inform Stewards' Noticeboard (and possibly CVN people), at least. > This sounds like a lot more work for us. > Yes, there will be more consultations. It's just the beginning. > Just a side note: I sometimes think

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-08-07 Thread Yongmin H.
Please inform Stewards' Noticeboard (and possibly CVN people), at least. This sounds like a lot more work for us. Just a side note: I sometimes think langcom is just creating more work for stewards and SWMT members without taking a look at the inactive projects that can be closed, but I don't

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-30 Thread Steven White
ncubator (Amir E. Aharoni) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:39:25 +0300 From: "Amir E. Aharoni" To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee Subject: Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator Message-ID:

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2018-07-27 18:29 GMT+03:00 Steven White : > OWTB makes some good points. > > > >- There needs to be a consultation with the Incubator admins, and

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
anything known about > the status of this? Has a solution already been found? > > > Greetings, > > Owtb > > > -- > *Från:* Langcom för Amir E. Aharoni > > *Skickat:* den 26 juli 2018 07:42 > *Till:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee > *Äm

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-27 Thread Steven White
OWTB makes some good points. * There needs to be a consultation with the Incubator admins, and then there needs to be at least one general community discussion. Concerning Incubator admins, three are here (MF-Warburg, Robin and me). Three others are at least reasonably active on Incubator

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
ill:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee *Ämne:* Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator 2018-07-25 20:04 GMT+03:00 Steven White : >... I really don't want this >discussion to go in the direction of arguing about historical languages >policy. ... Me, either. But for the moment I

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-27 Thread Arjan Verheijden
n Language Committee Ämne: Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator 2018-07-25 20:04 GMT+03:00 Steven White mailto:koala19...@hotmail.com>>: >... I really don't want this >discussion to go in the direction of arguing about historical languages >policy. ... Me, either. But for t

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-26 Thread Steven White
>I do envision that the incubator wiki creation will be a mostly automatic >process. There is no good reason for it to require any manual intervention >from Ops engineer, as it happens now. There should be a simple form >somewhere on one of our other wikis, probably Meta or

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-25 Thread Steven White
My comments also inline, with unnecessary portions redacted. Steven >>- As of the last major evaluation of Incubator (last winter), there >>were 1,020 tests on Incubator with at least one valid page of content. One >>was the most recently exported project, which we generally keep

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-25 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
‬ 2018-07-25 17:58 GMT+03:00 Steven White : > As I wrote at the phabricator task, I agree in principle. But the devil is > in the details, of course, and as one of the couple of people who are *de > facto* running Incubator right now, I need to be involved in all of this. > Thank you very much.

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-25 Thread Steven White
As I wrote at the phabricator task, I agree in principle. But the devil is in the details, of course, and as one of the couple of people who are de facto running Incubator right now, I need to be involved in all of this. One of the things that this discussion has me thinking about, though, is

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-24 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
I support the idea in general. Do you have any proposal about the existing incubator and migrating the whole content and related data to new wikis? It does not sound an easy task. -- Santhosh Thottingal | സന്തോഷ് തോട്ടിങ്ങൽ Typeface designer and Language computing professional, Senior Software

Re: [Langcom] Please read: Fixing Incubator

2018-07-24 Thread James Heilman
Sounds like a good move to me. J On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:09 PM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Hi, > > The way in which the Incubator works is extremely outdated. It is > considerably more difficult to write there than to write in a usual > Wikipedia domain. This is