[Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Pratham Books initiative in India

2012-10-13 Thread David Gerard
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2012/1012/Rohini-Nilekani-pours-her-wealth-into-getting-books-to-India-s-poorest-children Anyone know anything about this? Is there anything for us to participate in regarding this initiative? It does more specifically target people who haven't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-13 Thread WereSpielChequers
Thanks everyone, especially Mike and Leslie, Hopefully these sort of incidents will be so rare that we won't need to work out how to use IRC and get involved there when they happen. But when they do occur a little note from IT to mailing lists like this would be helpful. Just because we can't do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:07 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: As it is this combined with the throttling feature made for quite a bit of disruption to a session where we had ten people having an introduction to editing. By throttling feature, do you mean the account

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-13 Thread Andrew Gray
I evade account creation by always making them log in first... Periodically, with a roomful of users, we'll get told that an edit has been throttled; no further details, I think. It seems to happen with one or at most two editors at a time out of a dozen, but it can happen to different people