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> and I think as Wikimedia movement we should support this somehow.
Seems like a duplicate of Mutopia, except funded via Kickstarter. You
give them money on Kickstarter and they download the score from IMSLP
and transcribe it for you. This doesn't appear to be a business model
that would benefit from
PN.
Its privacy protection is not perfect, but it is probably better than
any other existing solution (except of course [1] ;-). It is a small
technical project, which provides a small benefit to
security-conscious users.
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[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_S
; I see your point, Gergo, but in reality Phabricator is an even worse
> channel to discuss projects that are, essentially, social issues.
I'd rather you didn't discuss social issues on Phabricator. I filed
the task for the technical part of the project.
ll due seriousness.
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> In fact, employees disagreed with Lila's decision to pursue large
> restricted grants for a stupid pet project, in secret, supported by
> almost nobody, without Board knowledge let alone approval. This has
> nothing to do with education versu
ven be said to exist).
Damon merely suggested the project in question, he did not "run amok".
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most-supported nominee in staff discussions on the office wiki. (I
mean the tally on <https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/ED
005 had a big
impact, especially initial batch of 9 Tampa servers in February 2004.
There must be a scale effect: going from 20s to 10s is much more
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https://www.freetsa.org/
http://truetimestamp.org/
https://www.btproof.com/
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California has by far the cleanest power in the US, and could easily
afford to desalinate its way out of a drought if it chose to do so.
Although it may be more efficient to use groundwater recharge as a
multi-year reservoir instead of allowing farmers to make unrestricted
withdrawals as
their minds.
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? How can we tell if AdminUser was interested in
11.22.33.44 for some other reason? Linked log entries should probably
be explicitly annotated by the software.
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gets bumped to
make way for cack-handed jokes. Yes, DYK and OTD still do this
(although ITN doesn't), but the standards of DYK is not something
that TFA should set as its ambition. – iridescent 21:36, 15 February
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and prompt removal (revision deletion etc.),
and an ops team with a desire for independence.
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. If ISPs sold services on a cost-plus basis, you
would expect websites delivered via CDN to be cheaper than websites
that are located at a single site, geographically distant from their
users.
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sent directly, and havent actioned these moderated emails (deny or
approve, doesnt matter) for almost a day.
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interferes with WMF's favoured features.
Erik was very clear about this policy change in his first email to
this thread.
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NNTP with a web frontend would be better in pretty much every way.
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to reuse an H.264 file
without a patent license, you can just download the Theora transcode
from the server.
I am having trouble thinking of a scenario where the current situation
would be better for reuse than the proposed situation. If you can
think of one, please tell me.
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On 14/01/14 00:18, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 01/13/2014 12:19 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
Not as fast as revisions, and we seem to cope with those.
Fair enough.
So you'd implicitly create the user, track it by cookie? With some well
designed UX this'd work well and hide IPs entirely
On 14/01/14 15:38, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 01/13/2014 11:20 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
The English
Wikipedia edit rate has been declining since about January 2007, and
is now only 67% of the rate at that time. A linear regression on the
edit rate from that time predicts death of the project
On 14/01/14 16:08, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 01/13/2014 11:56 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
Reversing the decline in editor population has been a major strategic
priority of WMF for many years.
My own opinion about how that decline isn't nearly as bad as some claim
is well known. But also
exclude anons due to
the need to link to a user ID.
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, and we seem to cope with those. On the
English Wikipedia, there were only ~27k anonymous edits per day over
the last month, so it would take 10 years to add 100M rows at that
rate, and the revision table has ~550M rows and we still haven't
bothered to shard it.
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is
embarrassingly high. Calxeda only tells us that their server is
cheaper and slower than the Intel one, they don't claim to have a
lower capital cost for a given processing throughput.
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that the companies whose products are mentioned in the catalog
provided any support to the NSA or even had any knowledge of the
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Google and Facebook are apparently taking that route. Maybe some day,
this technology will be available for anyone to buy.
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23:59:59 in more recent elections, thus stealing a whole second of
potential voting time from our poor voters.
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is too vague, it needs to be compared to
something. Also, if you are concerned that 100 year GWP underestimates
the impact of beef production, and want to use the 20 year GWP, then
the obvious solution is to quote both. NPOV policy favours expansion
over replacement.
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the primary
sources directly?
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a test wiki. We give all sorts of people access to labs, so a proper
certificate for *.wmflabs.org shouldn't give you much additional
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Despite that, note that Leslie Carr did work on fixing it on the weekend.
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deployed the change just now.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49860#c75
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afterwards ok, it's all done now, you can revert it. That doesn't
work if temporary is said with a wink.
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So there is a separation of responsibilities, but there is no reason
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privileges
from a volunteer is upsetting, and undermines their core motivation
for contributing.
So I can appreciate that the conflict needed to be resolved, but I
have to wonder whether this was the best way to go about it.
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So imagine what he (and his supporters) would think of the idea of
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maybe they'll get back to you a few weeks later with some relevant
case law.
That is to say, there are plenty of people who could do it more easily
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For example, requiring phone number verification for new users from
developed countries would be less damaging.
I don't see how is this supposed to help (and I don't think most new
users would want to do
if it became popular. At least the current
situation provides a way to work around keyword filtering for people
who are sufficiently motivated -- if HTTPS was blocked, it would be
much less useful.
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and engage with the editor.
But we can always do new user phone number verification if enforcing
the revert policy turns out to be too hard, right?
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don't know if there is anyone with the power to save Wikipedia who
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It should be obvious that what is missing is discipline. An
arbitration committee with expanded scope, with full-time members
funded by the WMF (at arm's length for legal
of thing. You know, scalable P2P in the cloud,
mining big data on a NoSQL platform etc. etc.
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your place. That could be annoying, especially on long articles.
It happens because the collapsed banner has position: fixed, whereas
the expanded banner has position: absolute.
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On 10 July 2012 15:29, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
SOPA didn't threaten the existence of Wikipedia,
Geoff Brigham opined otherwise, IIRC.
Yes, on the basis that Wikipedia arguably falls under the definition
of an 'Internet search
improving the current poor-quality 3D rendering and
contributing the results back to the project.
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attack that'll take weeks to clean up.
We could just allow blocking of arbitrarily large IPv6 ranges. Then if
there is some emergency, you can just block everyone who is using IPv6
from editing. The collateral damage would be smaller than the IPv4 /16
blocks which admins apply routinely.
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