Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Strainu
2015-01-14 17:04 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, When Wikipedia does not have articles on a subject, what do you do... Same for Wikidata.. So again, how is Wikidata not there yet ? It just doesn't have the information required, apparently. It also might not have the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When Wikipedia does not have articles on a subject, what do you do... Same for Wikidata.. So again, how is Wikidata not there yet ? Thanks, GerardM On 14 January 2015 at 15:12, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 January 2015 at 12:33, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Liam Wyatt
By the way Q5869386 is really rather funny. For some reason your bots think that [[History of the English penny (1066–1154)]] is equivalent to [[History of the English penny]]. -- geni I am now slightly more educated than I was this morning on the topic of the history of English

[Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 14 January 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC

2015-01-14 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, A reminder that the Language Engineering office hour will be happening later today at 1600UTC on #wikimedia-office. The original announcement can be found in the section below. We will be posting the logs at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs Thanks Runa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-14 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org wrote: We will share an update on this analysis when it is complete, which will be a part of future discussions around fundraising practices. Can we have a date please by which you will share this update? I am sorry

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Oliver Keyes
Well, yes. Was your clue the bit where it said English-language wikipedia? Wikiproject-based things are incredibly difficult to generalize because they're so dependent on project-specific nuances and setups. Wikidata will change that, I hope, but it's not there yet. On Tuesday, 13 January 2015,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, How is Wikidata not here yet ? Thanks, GerardM On 14 January 2015 at 02:01, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote: Well, yes. Was your clue the bit where it said English-language wikipedia? Wikiproject-based things are incredibly difficult to generalize because they're so

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

2015-01-14 Thread geni
On 14 January 2015 at 12:33, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, How is Wikidata not here yet ? Thanks, GerardM Well at the london meetup we tried poking at it with regards to coins. It tends not to be aware when things are currency units (pounds crown florin) hasn't