Re: [Wikimedia-l] evaluation of electronics articles

2013-05-29 Thread Jane Darnell
I know you are all assuming while reading this thread that the situation is much better in humanities subjects such as biographies of 17th-century artists, but strangely, you could say that it's about the same, because the emphasis (through the centuries) there is often based on opinions formed

[Wikimedia-l] Hacking Brussels: 1st EU Policy Monitoring Report (May)

2013-05-29 Thread Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
Hello, everybody! Sorry for crossposting if you are on advocacy-advisors (if you aren't, join the party!), but we'd like to encourage comments or questions on this on a wider scale, so I believe it makes good sense if we also post it here the first few times. Dimi The portal for this group is:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hacking Brussels: 1st EU Policy Monitoring Report (May)

2013-05-29 Thread Jane Darnell
Why does this thread start with Hacking Brussels instead of Keep Wikipedia free to read and re-use for all IPs in EU countries? Also you might want to link out to a page explaining zero access, because that sounds like no access 2013/5/29, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hacking Brussels: 1st EU Policy Monitoring Report (May)

2013-05-29 Thread Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
Hi Jane, Fair points! It says Hacking Brussels, because that will be the title of the presentation in Hong Kong [1] and I wanted to brand it a little already. I realise now that it is out-of-context and misleading and I should have just left it at the Monitoring Report part as to not confuse

[Wikimedia-l] Protecting the Encylopedia vs Destroying a human

2013-05-29 Thread Eddy Paine
Hello, First of all I was asked to take a look at the following case. I found it very strange how people behave against other people and I would like to write about it and ask opinions. I'm sure this is not only for this user but there are more users like this. I understand that its needed

[Wikimedia-l] FDC IRC office hours on the LOI in three minutes!

2013-05-29 Thread Katy Love
Good morning or afternoon, wherever this finds you, Apologies for the acronym overuse in the subject line. :) This is a reminder that our second IRC office hour focused on the letter of intent as part of the Funds Dissemination Committee process is starting in three minutes! We look forward to

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

2013-05-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I don't know if there's a general bug report about canonical URLs co. indexing, but there's one about Google messing up with 301/302 redirects which is spreading quite a bit lately. Erik wrote them to no avail some time ago. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26115 Nemo

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

2013-05-29 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if there's a general bug report about canonical URLs co. indexing, but there's one about Google messing up with 301/302 redirects which is spreading quite a bit lately. Erik wrote them to no avail some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Proposed prohibition of local uploads and deletion of non-free-licence working documents of Wikimedia events

2013-05-29 Thread Nathan
Crossed to Wikimedia-l, see Deryck's e-mail below. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimania community, There are currently two discussions on Meta which will have a fundamental impact on the technical logistics of all future Wikimania bids. As

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New designs for account creation and login rolling out gradually to all projects

2013-05-29 Thread Sue Gardner
Hi Steven, Just wanted to tell you (because I haven't run into you to say it, and because people here may be interested) that last Saturday I helped some new people at the San Francisco editathon register on the enWP, and the new registration process was much easier for them than it was the last

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Protecting the Encylopedia vs Destroying a human

2013-05-29 Thread Eddy Paine
Martijn, I think the main source of the problems here is that we have a users that wants to share the knowledge, share his edits and got locked out and will start doing or trying things so he can edit again. This can be strange behavior. Sure, people will not like it.I am sure that every user

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Protecting the Encylopedia vs Destroying a human

2013-05-29 Thread billinghurst
[I am purposefully leaving out the previous content.] There are times and spaces where the most honourable of people fail to get along, and while it is unfortunate and/or as inconvenient as it may be, it is what it is. There are some communities where people are unable to or fail to identify

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New designs for account creation and login rolling out gradually to all projects

2013-05-29 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: - Wikipedia in 21 languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Czech, Swedish, and others. - In English: Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikispecies,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Protecting the Encylopedia vs Destroying a human

2013-05-29 Thread MZMcBride
billinghurst wrote: ... or there is the old saying of let sleeping dogs, lie Heh, you seem to be in Eats, Shoots Leaves territory here. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Wikimedia-l] Simple English hits 100k this week

2013-05-29 Thread Sarah Stierch
And...urm...I wrote the article that hit 100k. That's not the point, but, just felt the need to preface... http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements#May_29.2C_2013 Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how to speak English. :) #justsayin