Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone

2012-07-13 Thread Kirill Lokshin
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.comwrote: Just a note, today, English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone. Stay up forever old buddy! :-D \\o o// \o/ /o\ And today is the second day of Wikimania! Surely they have something new to celebrate and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone

2012-07-13 Thread Tanvir Rahman
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@wikimediadc.org wrote: Indeed we do -- we even had a live countdown to the 4 million mark at Wikimania! That is so awesome Krill, very glad to hear that! Thanks to all. Happy cheering! Regards, Tanvir -- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir

[Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia goes on strike

2012-07-13 Thread abi yoyo
Greetings to all and thanks for the support of our initiative. I am one of the three ru-wikipedia users, who signed the decision under the poll to blackout ru-wiki. We have a really nasty bill, that is already passed by the Russian parliament. The bill contains a real and an unequivocal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mexican government signs ACTA

2012-07-13 Thread geni
On 12 July 2012 17:31, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, The agency that regulates in Mexico the Industrial Property (IMPI) signed the ACTA agreement in Japan yesterday. Here's the official press release[1]. What exact issues is ACTA meant to cause us. Remember stronger

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mexican government signs ACTA

2012-07-13 Thread Salvador A
In fact, it is not a copyright issue. Wimedia and Wikipedia is not against copyright. It is a issue about legal control. The current redaction of ACTA would bind to a signing country to create jurisdictional tools for closing and censoring pages only with presumption of copyright violation. For

[Wikimedia-l] Information from the Board about the creation of a travel guide project

2012-07-13 Thread Alice Wiegand
Hi all, the Board of Trustees held a discussion at its Board meeting this week regarding the creation of a travel guide project. Based upon those discussions and the current state of the RFC, we would like the community to continue its discussions for at least 6 more weeks to ensure all