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

2013-05-13 Thread Peter Southwood
, 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 many people constitute

Re: [Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of aWikipedia article

2013-04-05 Thread Peter Southwood
Well that's one way of drawing attention to the site... - Original Message - From: Tomasz W. Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 7:41 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article

2013-04-05 Thread Peter Southwood
Quite so, any information that can not be referenced can be challenged and deleted in the usual way - without attracting much attention, and entirely within the accepted procedures of Wikipedia. - Original Message - From: Alex Peek alexpe...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Southwood
Quite agree about the lack of benefits for most of the population. The Cape Town stadium is now a large burden on the ratepayers as they built it in one of the most inappropriate places for functionality. It is now a virtually unused and unusable monument to corruption, greed and stupidity, but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Southwood
Why would anyone want to sponsor a page? What would they get out of it? Cheers, Peter - Original Message - From: Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com To: cfrank...@halonetwork.net; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 11:46 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adopt a page

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Southwood
How would sponsorship money for a page be spent to make the sponsorship meaningful? Cheers, Peter - Original Message - From: Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 9:51 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Beback, Arbcom and Community oversight

2013-03-24 Thread Peter Southwood
Is there a policy that requires that he do so? - Original Message - From: Risker risker...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Beback, Arbcom and Community oversight On 23

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours

2013-01-26 Thread Peter Southwood
The English have been known to be at home for similar purposes. - Original Message - From: Rui Correia correia@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours That makes more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or pressrelease?

2013-01-15 Thread Peter Southwood
There are two immediately obvious possibilities for this. 1GMT/Universal time, which would be relatively unsurprising to most, as it is traditionally the zero offset timezone. 2+12 so that New Zealand and other extreme east timezone users would see something when the time arrives. A

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