[Wikimedia-l] Iraqi 2014 elections

2014-06-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Where can I find a list of the results of the Iraqi elections of 2014 for the Council of Representatives? I am looking in the list for the names in English, preferably with Arabic and Kurdish as well. The names of the parties represented, When it is known that they are incumbent, it would be

[Wikimedia-l] Moderation of messages sent to this list

2014-06-21 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
Earlier today, I used the Gmane.org gateway to send a message to this mailing list in response to the Iraqi 2014 elections thread started by GerardM. Here is the content of my message (typed from memory): Have you tried Google yet? It is a search engine that lets you search for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation of messages sent to this list

2014-06-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Most of the time.. I cannot find it and I did use Google among other ways. Thanks, GerardM On 21 June 2014 17:48, Tomasz W. Kozłowski twkozlow...@gmail.com wrote: Earlier today, I used the Gmane.org gateway to send a message to this mailing list in response to the Iraqi 2014

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation of messages sent to this list

2014-06-21 Thread Thomas Morton
At a guess; unpleasant snark. Tom On 21 Jun 2014 16:49, Tomasz W. Kozłowski twkozlow...@gmail.com wrote: Earlier today, I used the Gmane.org gateway to send a message to this mailing list in response to the Iraqi 2014 elections thread started by GerardM. Here is the content of my message

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Iraqi 2014 elections

2014-06-21 Thread MZMcBride
Gerard Meijssen wrote: Where can I find a list of the results of the Iraqi elections of 2014 for the Council of Representatives? Hi. Have you tried https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_parliamentary_election,_2014? It took me a few tries to find it, so I created a few redirects just now. Tomasz

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia

2014-06-21 Thread MZMcBride
David Cuenca wrote: Perhaps also relevant: http://wapo.st/1vXz9nb --- Washington Post, New York Times and Mozilla team up for new Web site comment system --- I read about this earlier this week. I thought it was a bit strange for these companies to be seemingly fixed on building their own tool.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia

2014-06-21 Thread rupert THURNER
interesting. there might be other applications as well which could benefit from references to paragraphs. like wikidata, book creation, especially for education. educational material often needs to be for a region and does not want to have information for multiple countries in it. rupert Am

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia

2014-06-21 Thread David Cuenca
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:19 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: This isn't to say that this new endeavor is focusing on an easy problem or a problem that doesn't need additional attention. Global communication is a very tough nut to crack, without a doubt. But it feels like some of these

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation of messages sent to this list

2014-06-21 Thread Dan Rosenthal
I might point out that I've perhaps needled GerardM more than most people on this list (and even been moderated for it once years ago), but I find his posts about WikiData interesting and I read them when I can. I think Thomas Morton has a very good point though -- so if I may make a request:

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 23 -- 18 June 2014

2014-06-21 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-18/News_and_notes Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation of messages sent to this list

2014-06-21 Thread Craig Franklin
On 22 June 2014 09:53, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote: I might point out that I've perhaps needled GerardM more than most people on this list (and even been moderated for it once years ago), but I find his posts about WikiData interesting and I read them when I can. I think Thomas

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 23 -- 18 June 2014

2014-06-21 Thread Richard Ames
I would like to publicly thank the contributors to the Signpost; most are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom Thanks, Richard. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: