Re: [Wikimedia-l] FAQ - Board Resolution on Personal Image Hiding Feature

2012-07-17 Thread stevertigo
> On 7/16/12 6:57 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> What community? Jimbo often declares that en.wiki community should rule >> Commons, for instance;[1] will an en.wiki community plan be considered >> enough to impose something on everyone? On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > I

[Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours "The future of e-mail usage in Wikimedia projects" 2012-07-18 16:30 UTC

2012-07-17 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Hello everyone. This office hours will be in a little under 11 hours from now. On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) < smazel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Date: 2012-07-18 > Time: 16.30 UTC > Venue: #wikimedia-office > > You are invited to a Wikimedia Foundation IRC Offfice Hour

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia goes on strike

2012-07-17 Thread MZMcBride
Fred Bauder wrote: > It remains possible, due to the nature of the Russian government and the > pressures of the opposition on it, that reading between the lines and > coming to the conclusion they did was justified. What the Russian > government might consider extremist and necessary to suppress i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia goes on strike

2012-07-17 Thread Fred Bauder
It remains possible, due to the nature of the Russian government and the pressures of the opposition on it, that reading between the lines and coming to the conclusion they did was justified. What the Russian government might consider extremist and necessary to suppress is sui generis. Fred > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia goes on strike

2012-07-17 Thread Tim Starling
On 14/07/12 01:07, abi yoyo wrote: > Greetings to all and thanks for the support of our initiative. I am > one of the three ru-wikipedia users, who signed the decision under > the poll to blackout ru-wiki. We have a really nasty bill, that is > already passed by the Russian parliament. The bill con

[Wikimedia-l] Geolocalization improvement proposal

2012-07-17 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi all, I have written a proposal for the improvement of the current geolocalization system used for the geonotice, being the current one really poor and of no use in some areas. This proposal is based on the use of the geolocalization capabilities of modern browsers. Having a more accurate geolo

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 29 -- 16 July 2012

2012-07-17 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FAQ - Board Resolution on Personal Image Hiding Feature

2012-07-17 Thread Jimmy Wales
On 7/16/12 6:57 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: What community? Jimbo often declares that en.wiki community should rule Commons, for instance;[1] will an en.wiki community plan be considered enough to impose something on everyone? I have not said any such thing, and indeed in the very text you q