Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-09 Thread George Herbert
The CIA version added ACLs. Never say never... George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Dec 9, 2012, at 10:29 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 10 December 2012 05:17, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: > >> Wordpress' strong card is its rather stable PHP-based >> platform, and when you think of it,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-09 Thread David Gerard
On 10 December 2012 05:17, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Wordpress' strong card is its rather stable PHP-based > platform, and when you think of it, that platform is not much more > technically advanced than MediaWiki is, but it has a much more vibrant > community of users. And when I say "vibrant", I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-09 Thread Brandon Harris
On Dec 9, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > First of all, FreeBSD is a part of our broader movement and Wikimedia > Foundation and Wikimedia chapters should find a way how to help them. > I suppose that Mozilla Foundation could be also interested in this > venture. Thus, I'd ask WMF and re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FreeBSD fate and the lesson for Wikimedia movement

2012-12-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/12/10 Milos Rancic : > And our competition are not various online encyclopedias -- not one as > large and as relevant as Wikipedia. Our competition are top Internet > sites, which are taking away the attention of our users. > > Fortunately, no top Internet site has enough of imagination to cre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Minutes of WMF Board: October 26-27, 2012, meeting

2012-12-09 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Geoff, Thanks for sharing these minutes (and on a Saturday, at that!) This is probably an error in the minutes, but was Arne present at the October meeting as a trustee? Best regards, Bence On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Geoff Brigham wrote: > Hi all, > > The minutes of the WMF board meet

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev & Engineering)

2012-12-09 Thread ENWP Pine
This reorg sounds reasonable to me as Sue has presented it. Since I've spent a number of hours studying WMF's org chart, financials, and related documents, I'd be bold here and answer some questions that have been asked on this list. Let me make an important disclaimer: I am not a mem