Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing the Fellowship News

2012-07-06 Thread Richard Symonds
Thanks Siko! Could you explain what exactly this covers? Teahouse, translations, small Wikis and dispute resolution is a very wide net - and presumably it will change according to which fellows are 'employed' at the time it's written. Is there an overarching theme? Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK O

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the editor engagement experiments team

2012-07-06 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > Hi all, > > The second IRC office hours with the Foundation's editor engagement > experiments team will be on Saturday July 7th at 18:00 UTC. We've just > completed our first feature experiment on English Wikipedia, and others are > set for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for comment on global bans

2012-07-06 Thread Steven Walling
On Jul 6, 2012 2:48 AM, "Deryck Chan" wrote: > > Short answer as I understand it: > Global blocks are the technical feature and refer to the accounts, the IPs > and the software capability; global bans are the policy and refer to the > people who are unwelcome. Deryck has got it right here. The s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for comment on global bans policy

2012-07-06 Thread Steven Walling
On Jul 6, 2012 2:38 AM, "Dan Rosenthal" wrote: > > The way I read it, Steven correct me if I am wrong, he is writing in a > staff role, but not necessarily within his Engineering responsibilities. > > Dan Rosenthal > Dan is correct. Apologies for any confusion. Steven > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for comment on global bans policy

2012-07-06 Thread Theo10011
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > > Theo, > > Could you please expand on this a bit? I'm not sure that I understand. Is > it your proposition that WMF staff shouldn't weigh in on this? Or are you > surprised at the number? or what? Hi Philippe No, that is not my pr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for comment on global bans policy

2012-07-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Theo10011 wrote: > It also doesn't help > that 4 of the 12 supporters for implementing the policy in its current form > are WMF staff. > Theo, Could you please expand on this a bit? I'm not sure that I understand. Is it your proposition that WMF staff shouldn

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for comment on global bans

2012-07-06 Thread Deryck Chan
Short answer as I understand it: Global blocks are the technical feature and refer to the accounts, the IPs and the software capability; global bans are the policy and refer to the people who are unwelcome. On 6 July 2012 10:44, ENWP Pine wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Could you explain the distinction

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for comment on global bans

2012-07-06 Thread ENWP Pine
Hi Steven, Could you explain the distinctions between https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_locks, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocks, and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_bans? These look to me like they have some redundancy and some areas where they diverge. A chart which

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for comment on global bans policy

2012-07-06 Thread Dan Rosenthal
The way I read it, Steven correct me if I am wrong, he is writing in a staff role, but not necessarily within his Engineering responsibilities. Dan Rosenthal On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Steven Walling >wrote: > > > P.S. On a personal not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] crazy deletionists!

2012-07-06 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 03/07/12 17:09, Delirium wrote: The biggest angst producer in my view is actually the opposite case: something that seems like it "should" be covered, since it's notable, but for which the extant sources are really lacking, making it hard/impossible to write a well-sourced article. People get

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for comment on global bans policy

2012-07-06 Thread Theo10011
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Steven Walling wrote: > P.S. On a personal note, I wanted to say that though I'm writing this > with my staff accout during working hours, this is not really a part > of my core job description now that I've joined Engineering and > Product Development. I've spent m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Site notice on meta

2012-07-06 Thread Theo10011
Sure James, I can add that. Just in case, you should leave a note with the exact site notice you want, here - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel since it's a meta-only issue. Regards Theo On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:15 PM, James Heilman wrote: > Wondering if anyone here can put up a site