[Wikimedia-l] Office Hours with Gayle Karen Young Thursday (March 13th) 19:00 UTC (noon PDT)

2014-03-11 Thread James Alexander
/www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=03&year=2014 Webchat - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office Office hours James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Fo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations

2014-03-10 Thread James Alexander
I'm confused about what you mean? The Wikivoyage logo for example is certainly marked as free https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-logo.svg can you clarify? James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, Mar 10, 2014

Re: [Wikimedia-l] the big red notice on the top of http://strategy.wikimedia.org - done

2014-03-09 Thread James Alexander
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk wrote: > Is it *just *can't edit? I believe at least we can't create a new acc in > there. Closing is more then setting read only. We should use proper therms > instead of those that more understandable by noobs. --Base > Well, then we can disagre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] the big red notice on the top of http://strategy.wikimedia.org - done

2014-03-09 Thread James Alexander
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk wrote: > But we close wiki. We not set wiki read only. Why should we use another > therm than the procedure is called? Because what we DO (no matter what we call it) is set it as Read Only, it is still 100% accessible you just can't edit it. I th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l archives

2014-02-24 Thread James Alexander
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61792 James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Cornelius Kibelka wrote: > Hi, > > I can't access the supposed-to-be-public archive of wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine -- is everyone safe?

2014-02-23 Thread James Alexander
my iPhone James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 x6716 > On Feb 23, 2014, at 17:01, Maryana Pinchuk wrote: > > For those of you who don't read Ukrainian, a quick ad-hoc translation of > the blog post. So sorry for the loss of a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-31 Thread James Alexander
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:55 PM, James Salsman wrote: > We should be discussing the merits of individual candidates in the open. > No... we should not. That would greatly hamper the board's ability to get good candidates. Most people who are already in a current job are not going to be willing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Visually impaired

2014-01-15 Thread James Alexander
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > How is dyslexia anything BUT a visual impairment ? > Thanks, > GerardM > Dyslexia can also has some serious auditory symptoms (processing speed, auditory memory, verbal comprehension, voice recognition.. etc). The stereotype

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Porn blocking in the UK: en:wp blocks on O2

2013-12-22 Thread James Alexander
viewing the parental control opt-in service as soon as possible." Of course has shown "change" isn't impossible but isn't horribly likely. https://mobile.twitter.com/O2 Sent from my iPhone James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-11 Thread James Alexander
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:10 AM, David Levy wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: > > > It's funny, I just had a look at the wikimedia-l archive around January > > 2012... you know, that time when Wikipedia literally shut itself down as > a > > political statement. The following month, the Wikimedia Foundat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-11 Thread James Alexander
[completely personal opinion] To be totally, completely, honest I don't really want us to collect it... and at this point it's mostly for personal reasons. First off this isn't really a huge new push to get us to accept bitcoin, they have been doing this ever 5-6 months in an organized fashion (fr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-12-07 Thread James Alexander
http://tinyurl.com/psjd6oy Appears to be the correct tinyurl now (it appears when you get to the error screen from the original one but... it's very hidden underneath a single linked period) James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur O

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Where to redirect m.wikipedia.org?

2013-12-05 Thread James Alexander
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > http://m.wikipedia.org used to be a hard-coded redirect to English > en.m.wikipedia.org, except for the users in the Zero program. We now have > an ability to have complex redirection for that domain. How do you think > m.wikipedia.org should

[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Office hours to discuss Visual Editor coming up

2013-11-02 Thread James Alexander
nding this) . For local time conversions, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_hours and click on the starting time. As always, logs will be posted on Meta after each hour completes. Thanks! James (Alexander) James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New access to non-public information policy, re-ID requirements and data retention

2013-10-28 Thread James Alexander
be included in the policy (currently only OTRS admins are). That conversation is ongoing at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy#OTRS_volunteers and could, again, use more comments whether you’re a member of OTRS or not. James James Alexander Legal and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo

2013-10-08 Thread James Alexander
The legal team have provided some background on the hiring on Jones Day in this action. Here is their comment: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Logo/Request_for_consultation#Legal_representation James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Welcome to Nathalie, our new ED

2013-10-01 Thread James Alexander
Welcome to the movement Nathalie! James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Osmar Valdebenito wrote: > Bienvenue! Welcome on board, Nathalie! :) > > *Osmar Valdebenito G.* > Director Ejec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Google interface to Wikipedia

2013-09-29 Thread James Alexander
wikidata (and Lydia) first for the interlanguage links but it would be great to have some community members helping to shepherd them and find good uses for their data. Oliver's your man! James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, S

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation on trademark practices and Community logo

2013-09-26 Thread James Alexander
ommunity mark based on the results of the community consultation.* * James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Geoff Brigham wrote: > Hi all, We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Planned school curriculum by MPAA

2013-09-25 Thread James Alexander
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Andrew Lih wrote: > You are right, that the lack of a national US chapter holds us back. > > The obvious solution is to create a new group: Committee of Wikipedian > Parents Interested in Education, aka COWPIE > > I feel like I'm obligated to make some kind of COW

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exemption to registrations on Xhosa Wikipedia

2013-09-09 Thread James Alexander
Yeah, sounds like they aren't on enWiki so will probably need to get it from stewards or request an IP exemption. If they are doing it in a computer lap an IP exemption is probably going to be the best bet. You can see directions on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and the politics of encryption

2013-09-03 Thread James Alexander
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Peter Gervai wrote: > illegally collect personal data about them and *monetize it *or use to > pressure or > threaten selected individuals, companies or agencies. Monetize it? I am in no way going to defend my government on most of this given that I think they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Questions about the login

2013-08-31 Thread James Alexander
t help the 'see if you have other sessions' problem but if you are ever concerned could work well. It still means you can log IN to multiple sites just once you click log out it ends all sessions. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library

2013-08-26 Thread James Alexander
For everyones ease :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Recipients James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Lionel Allorge < lionel.allo...@lunerouge.org> wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] NSA

2013-07-31 Thread James Alexander
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Risker wrote: > I believe the concern derives from one of the subpages of the article: > > https://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2013/7/31/1375269604628/KS8-001.jpg > > (Credit to David Gerard for digging that out; this same issue is under

Re: [Wikimedia-l] NSA

2013-07-31 Thread James Alexander
s/362626509648834560 There is an ongoing thread on wikitech about https again stemming from this. James James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Huib Laurens wrote: > Hmmm, the word "wiki" i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of YouTube videos in fundraising banners

2013-07-16 Thread James Alexander
us move to eventually (and would offer us more then we are getting now to be honest) but they will require some investments of time/money/staff resources that we need to decide are worth it and that question is not easy. James James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] PRISM, government surveillance, and Wikimedia: Request for community feedback

2013-06-15 Thread James Alexander
more complicated. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:PRISM James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:16 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >>* Geoff Brigham wrote: >>>https://blog.wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

2013-06-13 Thread James Alexander
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > I would like to raise the option of a more "Wikipedia-like" protest. How > about, on the English Wikipedia, picking one day to make the Main Page > topic-specific, similar to the traditional April 1 selection? > > Candidates, off the top of m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Children and Simple English

2013-05-30 Thread James Alexander
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:10 PM, James Salsman wrote: > Mathias Damour wrote: > > > The only sad thing is that it won't be launched in other languages > > There is a longstanding proposal to create simple language Wikipedias > in languages other than English and France, but it remains to be seen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

2013-05-28 Thread James Alexander
Sorry for the double post: For what it's worth It does not appear that we have a canonical url appearing on most pages. Mobile has canonical pointing to the main site but neither zero or the main site have a canonical expressly stated. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

2013-05-28 Thread James Alexander
l and I assume the others). At some level we're probably going to want to figure out what's happening because at some point down the road 'something' changed just not sure on what side. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @j

Re: [Wikimedia-l] movement blog, not WMF blog, was: Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread James Alexander
Huib: Was that the blog mailing list? I'm not actually sure that's in use at all anymore (I was never on it, I just assumed the discussions basically just moved to comcom). James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, May 13, 2013

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread James Alexander
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > Lets get a few things in perspective: > 1. How many community members were abusive/unreasonable/whatever beyond > what might be considered a startle reaction to an apparent attack without > warning? > 2 How

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread James Alexander
* I'm just going to top post here because responding to you in line won't be helpful to anybody.The staff ARE held to a higher standard, they are held to a higher standard day in and day out. If you don't think they are then you're blind. They get attacked at a level that is NOTHING compared to wh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

2013-04-30 Thread James Alexander
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:08 AM, David Gerard wrote: > (Remember that we've had an entire project, > Wikiversity, pretty much taken over by disgruntled Wikipedia trolls.) Very side note: I'm not sure if you're talking in the past sense or not here but I did want to stick up for Wikiversity a b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

2013-04-28 Thread James Alexander
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Risker wrote: > I'd actually suggest the opposite: That the only people eligible to vote > for the three elected seats be active participants within the Wikimedia > projects. That would drop the staff/contractor and advisory board > eligibility. Alternately, le

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Tweet this page" from some or all sites???

2013-04-18 Thread James Alexander
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Mathieu Stumpf < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Le 2013-04-18 05:00, James Alexander a écrit : > > I tend to think that they can be incredibly useful and reader >> friendly. I've always found it a bit disappointing we do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Tweet this page" from some or all sites???

2013-04-17 Thread James Alexander
27;m looking at you). That said they all have options that can work for us they are just a bit more hidden. James Sent from my iPhone James Alexander Manager - Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 x6716 On Apr 17, 2013, at 19:28, billinghurst wrote: > I am wondering why ther

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] open positions at WMF

2013-03-20 Thread James Alexander
unlikely to be workable with that complicated of a template system in any near future. It would create an enormous amount of complication for something that doesn't need it. Dogfooding our product is great but shouldnt' be done "just because" it should be done where the product make

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation

2013-03-19 Thread James Alexander
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Nathan wrote: > I won't argue the fact that there is value in protecting the > iconography of the Wikimedia movement from abuse. What I argue with is > the approach of the legal department - to unilaterally, and without > notice, contradict the purpose of a set of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation

2013-03-19 Thread James Alexander
I somewhat agree here with the statements on the tool-server thread. I'm a big confused by the big anger about the registration to be honest... I understand that we want things to be as free as possible but when it's representative of the movement or the community having some kind of protection see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-17 Thread James Alexander
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Balázs Viczián < balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu> wrote: > the favorit social media site in Brazil is Orkut. Far far more popular than > facebook. If you wish to have a strong social media presence there, you'll > have to be present on that. > > cheers, Balázs Tom

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread James Alexander
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013, James Alexander wrote: > > > > Aye, I know for example that our page views have more then doubled in the > > last 5 years (since 2008) and I believe grew even more dramatically in >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread James Alexander
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > On 3/14/2013 10:26 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013, Erik Moeller wrote: >> >>> Only data-center usage (facilities, bandwidth, power). It does not >>> include capital expenditures (servers, storage, network gear, etc.; >>> budg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Legal Blog Post: "WMF trademark practices for QR codes and wikitowns"

2013-03-08 Thread James Alexander
ally when making truthful statements like "scanning this QRcode will > take you to Wikipedia". > > -Liam > > Hey Liam, you may be interested in Geoff's response on the blog about this ( http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/08/wmf-trademark-practices-for-qr-codes-and-wikitow

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] FOP in Europe: does this include WWII monuments with art?

2013-03-02 Thread James Alexander
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Tobias Oelgarte < tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com> wrote: > The problem are not the European laws. It are the US laws that don't > recognize the European FOP. That means it would be perfectly legal to host > such images on an European server (in a country that recogn

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Provisional Wikimedia Kenya no longer a chapter

2013-03-01 Thread James Alexander
2013/3/1 Everton Zanella Alvarenga > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-February/124118.html > > -- > > Hey Tom, I'm very confused, could you explain a bit more about what you were trying to say with this link? James

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Election for WCA Chairperson

2013-02-25 Thread James Alexander
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Fae wrote: > @Jan-Bart > One of the early discussions before agreeing the WCA charter was the > possibility of automatically counting all legally recognized chapters > as members. It was felt that this would not result in a credible > democratic process, indeed t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014 calendar of POTY 2012 top twelve

2013-02-24 Thread James Alexander
heh, Yes :) this is in the works. The current plan is that it would likely launch around Wikimania with 2014 + a couple months of 2013 (perhaps October - December). James James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:20 PM

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's support of OTRS

2013-02-20 Thread James Alexander
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Rjd0060 wrote: > > > > > > To clarify, the Foundation support that would be appreciated here is from > > the tech/ops group. We've had good response from other staff on related > > issues, and that is mu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Luis Villa joins WMF as Deputy General Counsel

2013-02-19 Thread James Alexander
7;s on here yet or not :) James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Geoff Brigham wrote: > *Hi everyone, * > * * > *I’m simply thrilled to welcome Luis Villa to the Foundation as our new > Deputy Genera

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking back at the London Conference

2013-02-19 Thread James Alexander
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Hello, > Just to keep in mind: it has been no secret, from the beginning, that the > WCA planned to hire somebody. The WMF board is supported by employees too, > and I guess that the WMF has a number of regulations. Enough room for views > to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Your support is wanted: The WMF Board of Trustees is looking for a new Board member

2013-02-18 Thread James Alexander
Snipping a bunch for simplicities sake On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede < jdevre...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > I simply don't agree. > a) Chapters are part of the community > b) Whenever a vote comes up for an appointed seat that seat obviously does > not vote, therefore the (s)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread James Alexander
u could just drop by without an appointment an chat. James James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Rui Correia, 26/01/2013 14:36: > > I am a langugage person - speak a numbe

[Wikimedia-l] Legal and Community Advocacy Office Hours Tuesday 18:00 UTC

2013-01-21 Thread James Alexander
imedia.org/wiki/Office_Hours#How_to_participate James James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop

2013-01-14 Thread James Alexander
all of the margin for the logged in sale. I try to support a bunch of different window sizes and resolutions and in the end it just didn't seem to work well any smaller then this (but didn't have to be any bigger). We still have some issues with the smaller side of windows/resolutions

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop

2013-01-14 Thread James Alexander
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:46 AM, James Alexander wrote: > >> > The survey today is worldwide > And by survey I obviously mean banner...clearly time for sleep James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop

2013-01-14 Thread James Alexander
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > James Alexander, 14/01/2013 10:44: > > The test planned for tomorrow (for Anonymous users in North America, >> without a discount) is mostly to see the potential for this to fund the >> Giveaway program we'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop

2013-01-14 Thread James Alexander
playing with them to see which is best. Sadly those other options aren't plug and play like this was however, the require much more customization and backend server support that we don't have yet (because we have to prove it's worth it). James James Alexander Manager,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop

2013-01-14 Thread James Alexander
_giveaways ) that is a run away success. We see both of these as very much a test and even if it succeeds something that should only be done incredibly rarely and with community input, but I think it's a good thing to test. James James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fw: Domain dispute and protection - wikimedia

2012-12-23 Thread James Alexander
I sent it to legal just in case but it appears to be a possible scam ( http://blog.eset.com/2012/07/24/asia-domain-name-scams-still-going-strong / http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-58331.html a couple other places). James James Alexander Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request: Location proposals for the Wikimedia Chapters Association

2012-11-09 Thread James Alexander
Thanks Fae I'm glad to see this being announced. More time for feedback after doing so would have been nice but I'm sure that's not possible all of the time. On an incredibly picky Wikipedian side note: What are you meaning by the ':meta' notation? It seems "like" interwiki links but the colon is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Bon voyage, Jay

2012-10-31 Thread James Alexander
___ > >> WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > >> wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Jay Wa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Question for Board

2012-10-24 Thread James Alexander
are optional and individual responses will be kept strictly confidential.) and then gives a 1-5 scale from"'Impovrished[sic] to Wealthy" You can't get anything like that stat from there and it doesn't even begin to get into the idea of inactive admins not equalling adm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Question for Board

2012-10-24 Thread James Alexander
ally for something that broad. James --- James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF core and non core expenses

2012-10-09 Thread James Alexander
be sending out the link to the meta tracking page as it gets fleshed out.* -- James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://l

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

2012-09-05 Thread James Alexander
Forwarding to Wikimedia-l since it does not appear to have come over naturally. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kelly Kay Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:46 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Bra

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fund-raising goal questions

2012-08-20 Thread James Alexander
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:44 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > > P.S. I happened to notice at > that the "Chapter Fundraising Agreement" is not public (looks like it's > hosted on internal.wikimedia.org). Do you know who I'd talk to about why > this is and how t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-13 Thread James Alexander
t; > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l< > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

2012-08-09 Thread James Alexander
> convinced to) to defaulting closed? That's nice. Who did this and > when? > > > - d. > > > hmm, I'm still seeing it as defaulting open (Tested in new private session on firefox and incognito window on chrome). -- James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is there an agreement between GoldenMap and the Wikipedia for the use of Wikipedia content?

2012-08-03 Thread James Alexander
___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > > > -- > _____ > Rui Correia > Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant > Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CheckUser openness

2012-06-13 Thread James Alexander
dards), It seems you are complaining about a specific case, > and > > > > > instead of talking things out about this specific case, you've > > decided > > > to > > > > > propose an entirely different checkusering standard. I'll point > out > > > in > > > > > passing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst

2012-05-17 Thread James Alexander
ort Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- James Alexander Manager, Mer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst

2012-05-17 Thread James Alexander
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

2012-05-16 Thread James Alexander
If both are accessible I've seen an extension that allowed you to claim your username. Saw it in action when Wowpedia forked from the Wikia Wowwiki and they let people claim their old usernames with an edit (and code in edit summary iirc) on the other wiki. James On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:03 PM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] No internet censorship in Hong Kong

2012-05-10 Thread James Alexander
It does, at least at some level, seem to be an argument (usually from different people) every Wikimania. There just isn't a way to have it in a place that everyone is happy with (especially if you want to rotate around the world. I'd also point remind people that among all of the places Wikimania h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Google Calendar for IRC office hours

2012-05-04 Thread James Alexander
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > Open source calendar software is trivially available. Or there's wikis and > microformats. Or even hand-crafted calendar files. Google calendars may be > a popular solution, but they're a recent one and are hardly the only > solution out there.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Google Calendar for IRC office hours

2012-05-04 Thread James Alexander
It's already on one, the wiki itself ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours ) , but this is another option that people requested. I don't see that as bad at all, to the contrary it should be applauded. James On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Michael Peel wrote: >

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