[WikiEN-l] Coming soon to a wiki near you: Meet a Wikipedian or staff!

2012-07-27 Thread Rob Schnautz
://www.massmirror.com/50136cb944818 If you do plan on responding to this email, please make sure you include my permanent email address bobthewikiped...@gmail.com —thanks! Adios, y’all! Rob Schnautz Online Communications Contractor Global Development Wikimedia Foundation Evansville, Indiana, U.S. P.S. I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Office hour: Wikipedia Education Program

2012-06-21 Thread Rob Schnautz
Just a reminder that this will be happening in a few minutes. Rob From: Rob Schnautz Subject: Office hour: Wikipedia Education Program The Wikimedia Foundation staff for the Wikipedia Education Program (Frank Schulenburg, Annie Lin, LiAnna Davis, Jami Mathewson, and I) will be hosting

Re: [WikiEN-l] Office hour: Wikipedia Education Program

2012-06-18 Thread Rob Schnautz
be happy to answer general questions you have about the program as well. Please refer to the information at the bottom of this email for instructions on how to join. Thank you, Rob Schnautz Online Communications Contractor Global Development Wikimedia Foundation From: Rob Schnautz Sent: Tuesday, 12

Re: [WikiEN-l] How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-05-16 Thread Rob Schnautz
This discussion has flowed onto Wikipedia's Administrator's Noticeboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AN#False_articles_created_for_the_good_of_education Rob -Original Message- From: Charles Matthews Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2012 1:34 PM To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re:

[WikiEN-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program

2012-03-06 Thread Rob Schnautz
/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_testers! Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however you wish; the more testing you do, the better! Thanks, Rob Schnautz Online Communications Contractor

Re: [WikiEN-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program

2012-03-06 Thread Rob Schnautz
:30 AM, Rob Schnautz rschna...@wikimedia.orgwrote: The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and paste) the link below to get

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Schnautz
If you're into mythology/cryptozoology, I did some translation from Old Norse and Old Icelandic this summer to put together what is probably the most complete syntheses (in any language) of [[Hafgufa]] and [[Lyngbakr]], two legendary sea monsters. Bob On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Fred

Re: [WikiEN-l] Italian Wikipedia - probably best discussed on Foundation

2011-10-05 Thread Rob Schnautz
on Foundation then I suspect a fair amount will be repetition and explanation of what has been said on Foundation. WereSpielChequers On 5 October 2011 18:48, Rob Schnautz bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote: Woah. I just checked it.wikipedia.org because it sounded like a hoax...it's real

Re: [WikiEN-l] Facepalm?

2011-10-04 Thread Rob Schnautz
If ArbCom would be damaged by people opening [[WP:DICK]] labeling cases, it certainly wouldn't be helped by people opening facepalming cases. Be it namecalling or implication of rude gestures, these are both civil issues and both need attention. At the same time, I feel the {{facepalm}} template

Re: [WikiEN-l] Facepalm?

2011-10-03 Thread Rob Schnautz
Usually when I facepalm it's because I have a moment, not someone else... I believe [[WP:DICK]] is a bigger issue than {{facepalm}} at the moment Bob On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Scott MacDonald