I must admit I had concerns, but they're allayed considerably by the
statement that HK is fiscally independent from the PRC. Hopefully having
such a free event in an area of the world where freedom of information is
in relatively short supply will do wonderful things for the movement and
the
On Thursday, 10 May 2012 at 22:49, Nathan wrote:
This is a similar argument to those made against Egypt or Israel etc. It's
a facile and false notion that holding Wikimania in a particular city is an
implicit political endorsement for the national government of the host
city. You could just as
On 11/05/2012 00:14, Tom Morris wrote:
In the bidding process, there rightly are some minimum standards,
specifically with regards to freedom of speech laws and whether or not
the cities in question are welcoming to religious and LGBT minorities.
If we wish to include anti-censorship as one
As has been posted here before, CC is working on version 4.0 of their
licenses--in case you haven't seen it, the public draft is up in
several different formats at
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0_Drafts
Right now their focus is on attribution, and they are asking several
specific questions
Not a problem. Many east and south-east Asian countries' citizens enjoy
visa-free access to Hong Kong (
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HK_Visa_Policy.png ).
Visa-on-demand for business or leisure travel is also available for
residents of most major cities in mainland China and all of
Sumana Harihareswara, 16/05/2012 17:23:
When you're running an event, sometimes you want to help lots of people
create accounts on Wikimedia sites. To prevent spamming/vandalism,
ordinarily there's a cap on the number of accounts that can be created
from one IP address in a single day. But
Ill run a quick benchmark and import the full history of simple.wikipedia
to my laptop wiki on a stick, and give an exact duration
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:26 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
Toolserver is a clone of the wmf servers minus files. they run a database
replication of
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:30 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
Ill run a quick benchmark and import the full history of simple.wikipedia to
my laptop wiki on a stick, and give an exact duration
Simple.wikipedia is nothing like en.wikipedia. For one thing, there's
no need to turn on
Well to be honest, I am still upset about how much data is deleted
from wikipedia because it is not notable,
there are so many articles that I might be interested in that are lost
in the same garbage as spam and other things.
We should make non notable articles and non harmful ones available in
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
Anthony the process is linear, you have a php inserting X number of rows per
Y time frame.
Amazing. I need to switch all my databases to MySQL. It can insert X
rows per Y time frame, regardless of whether the database is
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:06 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
If your willing to foot the bill for the new hardware
Ill gladly prove my point
given the millions of dollars that wikipedia has, it should not be a
problem to provide such resources for a good cause like that.
--
James
I'd like to point out that the increasingly technical nature of this
conversation probably belongs either on wikitech-l, or off-list, and that
the strident nature of the comments is fast approaching inappropriate.
Alex
Wikimedia-l list administrator
2012/5/17 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org
On
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:22 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
They are XML dumps. Why did you say they are semi-useless?
Because they are XML dumps, mainly. The data in the WMF database is
compressed in a format which can be easily randomly accessed. The
dump procedure is to uncompress it,
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
We could also consider the possibility of allowing users to use OpenID or
OAuth or whatever the web identity mechanism du jour is to allow loose
affiliation of usernames between MediaWiki installs. That way you can
On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 13:34, Anthony wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org
(mailto:t...@tommorris.org) wrote:
We could also consider the possibility of allowing users to use OpenID or
OAuth or whatever the web identity mechanism du jour is to allow
On 17 May 2012 13:32, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
Because they are XML dumps, mainly. The data in the WMF database is
compressed in a format which can be easily randomly accessed.
It's a dump. It's not supposed to be randomly accessed. We're talking
about archives, not mirrors.
On 17/05/12 12:49, Anthony wrote:
Please have someone at WMF coordinate this so that there aren't
multiple requests made. In my opinion, it should preferably be made
by a WMF employee.
Fill out the form at
https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/aws-dataset-inquiry
Tell
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:43:09AM -0400, Anthony wrote:
In fact, I think someone at WMF should contact Amazon and see if
they'll let us conduct the experiment for free, in exchange for us
creating the dump for them to host as a public data set
(http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/).
That
Just a reminder that this is happenening this morning.
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From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
Date: May 3, 2012 4:01 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with Kul and Amit, about Wikipedia Zero and other
mobile work
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi
It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally and
globally, both on- and off-wiki. Tanvir has been an active editor of
Bengali Wikipedia since 2009, he
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
Congratulations to the both of you, best wishes for your fellowships.
--
~Keegan
wow..congrtz Tanvir..
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally
Congratulations to Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang on the announcement of
them being award the honour of 'Community Fellow'.
In particular we wish to pass on our congratulations to Wikimedia Australia
Member, Steve Zhang, for receiving the award and wish him every success with
what promises to
Everyone,
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
member.
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
member.
Please join me in welcoming James!
Well, in our case it's more like waving good bye, but certainly
congratulations!
KTC
--
Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
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On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will
On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Everyone,
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will be
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the
Congrats James! I 'm looking forward to most tongue in cheek design
documents I have ever seen. :-)
Erik
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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:52 PM
To:
On 17 May 2012 18:25, Kat Walsh k...@mindspillage.org wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Hello People,
I have completed my first set in uploading the osm/fosm dataset (350gb
unpacked) to archive.org
http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.de/2012/05/upload-finished.html
We can do something similar with wikipedia, the bucket size of
archive.org is 10gb, we need to split up the data in a way
There is no such 10GB limit,
http://archive.org/details/ARCHIVETEAM-YV-6360017-6399947 (238 GB example)
ArchiveTeam/WikiTeam is uploading some dumps to Internet Archive, if you
want to join the effort use the mailing list
https://groups.google.com/group/wikiteam-discuss to avoid wasting
Cross posting
_
*Béria Lima*
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos*
On 18 May 2012 00:12, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello!
On 5/18/2012 8:16 AM, Béria Lima wrote:
Hello!
We have a result! The polls closed a few hours ago and I've already
counted the votes. The chapters have, by voting, selected the following
candidates to serve on the WMF board:
* Patricio Lorente
* Alice Wiegand
*Patricio Lorente*
Thank you Béria for the speedy update; and congratulations and welcome
to Alice and Patricio.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
On 5/18/2012 8:16 AM, Béria Lima wrote:
We have a result! The polls closed a few hours ago and I've already
counted the
Dear Chapter Leaders,
As you may have heard last week, our team at The Bridgespan Group is seeking
information on the Wikimedia movement's current and future funding needs. This
information will be used to develop recommendations for the Wikimedia Board of
Trustees on the Funds Dissemination
Congrtz James!
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Patricio Molina
patriciomol...@gmail.comwrote:
Congratulations, James!
Patricio Molina
http://twitter.com/patriciomolina
On 17/05/2012, at 13:52, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Everyone,
It’s my pleasure to announce that James
Hi everyone,
I am pleased to announce that Tilman Bayer has officially joined the Wikimedia
Foundation's Global Development team as Senior Operations Analyst focused on
movement communications starting this week. He has just relocated to SF after
receiving his work visa.
As most of you will
Resending with subject line more descriptive.
Sydney
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
Cross posting
_
*Béria Lima*
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.
Congrats HaeB !!!
Really a good news for movement communications.
--
Thanks,
naveenpf
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Barry Newstead (WMF)
bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am pleased to announce that Tilman Bayer has officially joined the
Wikimedia Foundation's Global
Hurray for even more Britishness in the SF office! Congrats!
On 19 May 2012 06:59, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote:
Congrtz James!
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Patricio Molina
patriciomol...@gmail.comwrote:
Congratulations, James!
Patricio Molina
I can not help (I am optimistic with lot's of faith :))
Does the fellowship status implies that the WMF pays for health or
retirement benefits (as it would for a staff member) or does the fellow
receive a lump sum and manages by himself to pay for taxes and benefits
depending on the country
Tobias, 21/05/2012 01:32:
On 05/17/2012 07:22 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
You forgot one biggie: he has run the London Wikipedia meetup which
first started in June 2004 has now met 57 times.
Hong Kong has met more often, but London is, I believe, the Original
and Best (in all 57 varieties).*
Heya folks,
I just wanted to let you know that the next Wikidata office hours will
be on Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Denny and I will be around on
IRC in #wikimedia-wikidata to answer any question you might have and
discuss. I assume there will be a few more questions than usual now
that we
From Rick Falkvinge, an English-language writeup of a Swedish study:
http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/21/study-despite-tougher-copyright-monopoly-laws-sharing-remains-pervasive/
http://svt.se/nyheter/fortsatt-fildelning-trots-skarpt-lag (Swedish news report)
61% of 15-25-year-olds in Sweden
2012/5/21 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
From Rick Falkvinge, an English-language writeup of a Swedish study:
http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/21/study-despite-tougher-copyright-monopoly-laws-sharing-remains-pervasive/
http://svt.se/nyheter/fortsatt-fildelning-trots-skarpt-lag (Swedish news
On 21 May 2012 13:09, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
From Rick Falkvinge, an English-language writeup of a Swedish study:
http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/21/study-despite-tougher-copyright-monopoly-laws-sharing-remains-pervasive/
http://svt.se/nyheter/fortsatt-fildelning-trots-skarpt-lag
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:31 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 May 2012 13:09, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
So, is the time ripe yet for us to start pushing for a 14-year term,
or do we wait a bit? I suggest we start contemplating it, however.
The most pirated bit of content at
FWIW, I'd like to see things being released more freely internationally,
irrespective of copyright. At present, I can either pirate the Colbert
Report, or watch it through a proxy using a US netflix account which I pay
for using a US bank account. It isn't shown anywhere in the UK.
Richard
On 21 May 2012 18:59, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think the right term here is 0 years. It is also not life
+ 70. Perhaps 7 + 7.
I suggested 14 as a likely figure because that figure is already in
common currency - as it was the term in the UK (Statute of Anne) and
in the
Thank you Siko for answering.
That's a mix of curiosity (for the benefits, pensions and so on) and
of concern (on the responsibility side of things).
Wikimedia France received several legal complaints in the past few years
and the frequency is increasing. The inventivity and the boldness of
14 years is a fine place to start. Are there any existing campaigns
pushing for it? S.
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:22 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 May 2012 18:59, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think the right term here is 0 years. It is also not life
+ 70.
What I really find upsetting is that PBS produces videos that cannot
be watched out side of the states, it really upsets me.
Also in germany, it is just unbearable, these copyright trolls called
GEMA take away all the fun of youtube.
mike
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Richard Symonds
Lol, 14 years term. Good luck. That is a lost battle.
I think that the useful approach is to spread the word about free licenses,
that allow to use content NOW.
2012/5/21 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com
14 years is a fine place to start. Are there any existing campaigns
pushing for it? S.
On 21 May 2012 20:30, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
14 years is a fine place to start. Are there any existing campaigns
pushing for it? S.
Now that I'm looking, I can't find any campaigns as such!
I thought the Pirate Parties asked for 14 years, but I'm wrong: the
Swedish party
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
FWIW, I'd like to see things being released more freely internationally,
irrespective of copyright. At present, I can either pirate the Colbert
Report, or watch it through a proxy using a US netflix account
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:42 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 May 2012 20:30, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
14 years is a fine place to start. Are there any existing campaigns
pushing for it? S.
Now that I'm looking, I can't find any campaigns as such!
I thought
I like the cc-licenses list thread you linked, Mike; thank you. I
take it that thread didn't continue past December?
I agree generally with the points Greg London was making there:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2011-December/006472.html
For me the central value in choosing a
* David Gerard wrote:
So, is the time ripe yet for us to start pushing for a 14-year term,
or do we wait a bit? I suggest we start contemplating it, however.
You don't say who we are, but in case some people think the Wikimedia
Foundation should position itself on copyright matters much beyond
Forwarding to Wikimedia-l
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From: Matt Halprin matt.halp...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Internal-l] CSBS 2012 - Results
To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Mike Linksvayer m...@gondwanaland.com wrote:
Maximising artistic production is a terrible goal for policy.
Why?
The whole idea of copyright - as the US started seeing it, in our
constitution and thence onwards, is properly rewarding creative people
for their
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:33 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote:
Nobody's made a big public case for any shorter term.
That's a mistake. The whole CC and free content movement needs to
step up. We need Cory and other luminaries advocating for a sane
term, and 14 is a good
(Appologies for cross posting)
From 29 June until 1 July 2012 the Wikipedia Academy (#wpac2012) [1]
will take place in Berlin, under the theme “Research and Free
Knowledge”. For the first time, Wikimedia Deutschland organises this
conference in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin [2] and
Dear Chapter Leaders,
A quick reminder that we ask you to complete the Chapter Finances Survey
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Chapter_Finances_Survey)
by Friday, May 25th (that's tomorrow).
This information is absolutely crucial to the recommendation for the
Hi everybody,
I wanted to give you the heads up that the Wikimedia Foundation is planning to
endorse a petition to the White House to mandate open access to taxpayer-funded
research. The petition is in line with previous open access declarations that
we endorsed and is supported by a large
So, I often find myself doing outreach related to enwiki before large
groups, and while I have no interest in becoming a sysop, could really use
the Account Creator permission. Is there really no page to publicly
request this? The instructions cited below, taken from here[1], suggest
so, but
Hello all.
I would like to report on some initiatives and ongoing projects that we
have been conducting this academic year in Spain, from our local Wikimedia
Chapter, regarding the use of Wikipedia in higher education. Several
members of Wikimedia-España have delivered courses, seminars and
(Pardon the crosspost)
Hi everyone!
Our second Smithsonian edit-a-thon is going to start in about an hour (1
PM EST) and we'll be utilizing an Etherpad compliments of Wikimedia DC
http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/SIEdit2
Feel free to join in! We'll also be utilizing the #glamwiki hashtag.
Just a quick reminder that this is happening in less than an hour.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:08 PM
Subject: Office hours about the new mobile site and other mobile work at
the WMF
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
On Monday, 21 May 2012, Samuel Klein wrote:
O'Reilly is offering works under 14 years (c), thence CC-by
Campaign idea: set up a named class of license for friendly groups
like O'Reilly that are committing to 14 years, which are defined by
terming out in no more than 14 years to CC0 or
On 28 May 2012 22:37, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd love to see -NC and -ND dropped from the CC catalog, but I doubt
its going to happen.
It would be nice if -NC and -ND had a time limit on them, after which
the work becomes CC-BY or CC-BY-SA.
Although NC and ND cause pain
2012/5/29 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
Thoughts? Do people from non-English outreach programs to academics have
any similar experiences?
Depends on the particular project and the people involved.
In a project about Tort law we got several dozens of Hebrew articles
about the subject
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:30 AM Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
wrote:
But I was left with a nagging annoyance: these articles are almost all
incomprehensible to someone without a advanced college education and a
high
degree of proficiency in English. Topics as basic as [[job
Original-Nachricht
Betreff:Report to Board: Chinese Internet Research Conference
Datum: Sun, 27 May 2012 18:07:54 +0200
Von:Ting Chen tc...@wikimedia.org
An: Board list boar...@lists.wikimedia.org
Hello dear all,
at Mai 21st and 22nd I attended the 10.
On 29 May 2012 05:41, Ms. Anne Frazer fraz...@bigpond.com wrote:
However, when I read your words, the essence of your comments is clear in
that part of your message is couched in attacking good prose because it is
too difficult to read and understand. I remind myself that you don't mean to
TomTom press release:
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/
OpenStreetMap volunteer response:
http://www.systemed.net/blog/index.php?post=23 Flags TomTom
quote-mining.
- d.
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I was skeptical with parent-like satnavs when they were first
introduced back then; I still am skeptical today. What's inadequate
about Read map*, pay attention to the road, use brain?
Deryck
*I'm a big fan of using the automatic route-planning features of map
systems like Google Maps or even
On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world, whereas
OSM, for the most part, is not.
Yes, TomTom is dying. But it's because of Google, not because of OSM.
I'd say OSM is beginning to be pretty usable in the real world.
On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world, whereas
OSM, for the most part, is not.
Yes, TomTom is dying. But it's because of Google, not because of OSM.
I'd actually flag smartphones as the culprit. They're the
On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:23:25 +0100, Tom Morris wrote:
On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world,
whereas
OSM, for the most part, is not.
Yes, TomTom is dying. But it's because of Google, not because of
OSM.
I'd
Tom: Is there a way to find out where OSM isn't very accurate/complete?
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On 29 May 2012 13:29, Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Tom: Is there a way to find out where OSM isn't very accurate/complete?
Sure, but they all require comparison to something (a data source,
memory, the real world) which is accurate/complete.
On 29 May 2012 13:38, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Tom: Is there a way to find out where OSM isn't very accurate/complete?
Well, there's OSM bugs. Basically, there is a way you can file a bug
on the map, sort of like how you might leave a note on a talk page
(only
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
2012/5/29 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world, whereas
OSM, for the most part, is not.
I see it the other way around: OSM, for the most part, IS usable in
the real world.
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
I then tried navfree usa.
Looking more closely at the directions it did give me, it is having me
get off the toll highway at basically every exit and then getting back
on it. And the destination is off by 13 blocks (about a
2012/5/29 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
I just tried osmand. I can't even figure out how to put in an
address. I then tried navfree usa.
You're limiting yourself to Android, which isn't very fair. Try to get
hold of a Garmin device with OSM maps and see if that makes a
difference. I suspect it
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
2012/5/29 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
I just tried osmand. I can't even figure out how to put in an
address. I then tried navfree usa.
You're limiting yourself to Android, which isn't very fair. Try to get
hold of a Garmin
2012/5/29 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
...if you wanna go this way, I wonder if you go to en.wikipedia.org
and just use it if you want to plant tomatoes in your garden. I know
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't use Britannica either. The context of the article is GPS
navigation for automobiles.
I'm
Hey :)
just a quick reminder that this is in 45 minutes.
Cheers
Lydia
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Lydia Pintscher
lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Heya folks,
I just wanted to let you know that the next Wikidata office hours will
be on Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Denny and I
2012/5/29 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
No, I think it's incorrect to assume readable is a euphemism for
dumbed down. Frankly, many academics are terrible writers. Because
most people are terrible writers.
Indeed. As Wikipedia is a general reference work I think that
readability is part of
Dear all:
Here are two announcements and one request from the Participation Support
Program Committee (formerly the Participation Grants Committee) and the WMF
regarding the Participation Support Program (formerly the Participation
Grants Program).
==A note from the Participation Support Program
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year
competition is now open at last. We're interested in your opinion as to
which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2011 (not for 2012).
Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki
News and notes: Wikimedia endorses open-access petition to the White House;
pending changes RfC ends
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-28/News_and_notes
Recent research: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts;
Wikipedia's discourse, semantic
Thank you! I look forward to this every year. :) Our community really
creates and curates some stunning photography and browsing through them is
just breathtaking.
Maggie
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Srikant Kedia wikiodis...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy
(This release is also posted at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimania_comes_to_Washington_DC
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*Wikimania, the global Wikimedia/Wikipedia conference, comes to Washington,
DC, July 12-14, 2012*
WASHINGTON, DC -- May 30, 2012 -- Wikimania 2012 is coming to Washington,
DC,
Hi Wikimedians,
If you're anywhere in the United States around June 23, we would like
to invite you to join the 2nd annual Great American Wiknic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
Now in 17 cities (add yours today!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic#2012_Wiknic
All,
This is notice to the community that the WMF Board has two meetings
planned in the near future:
* June 6, online meeting to discuss the WMF annual plan
* July 11 (before Wikimania), our regularly scheduled in-person meeting
Agendas will be posted at:
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
In our case here we give away /48 IPV6 to users by default. So I'm
wondering, when a IP vandalize Wikipedia or any other project and a block
will be placed, how is this done?
Will the block just hit the IP or will it
On 1 June 2012 17:12, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
June 6, 2012 is IPv6 Day ( http://www.worldipv6day.org/ ). The goal of
this global event is to move more ISPs, equipment manufacturers and
web services to permanent adoption of IPv6.
We're planning to do limited
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