ce.
Not that I'm casting aspersions, but you may be indisposed, and a
future "keyholder" may turn out to be rogue.
> It was an unfortunate error that I did not give the password to
> other trusted Signposters, but as Pine says, that is no longer the case.
That, at least, is re
to wait until this issue had shipped, and Ed has returned to an
> Internet enabled location, before giving into the broader questions.
I didn't set a deadline for a reply to my question.
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publication but there are still parts that I can't work out.
Why does such as an important service have a critical "single point of
failure"? What changes will be made, as a result of the lessons
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> The wording regarding the quorum to hold an exceptional general assembly has
> been changed from “members” to “active members”.
How is "active members" defined?
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but actively harmful. There are definitely cases
> where this style isn't a good idea. I should try to keep that in mind more
> often.
Thanks for the demonstration.
> That said
Sorry, tl;dr
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wrote:
> "How to compose a successful critical commentary [...]"
That strikes me as very long winded, and so not conducive to a
succinct email exchange.
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While it's nice go see GLAM recognised (the "A" stands for "Archives",
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> Rakija is the right Serbian product. Do you remember drinking it
> in Pristina? Or not? :P
Unfortunately, I remember both drinking the lovely Rakija, and the
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which hit me quite hard.
Hope all is well with you now.
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On Mar 30, 2014 6:59 PM, "Ziko van Dijk" wrote:
> After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
> yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.
More time for taking pictures!
Hope to see you again soon, perhaps at Wi
On 13 February 2014 06:30, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
> Rather than just answer your concerns
But you haven't done. Will anyone?
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Education North America
Foundation,", or suchlike?
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Your link has "gone very wrong". I would wait the suggested half hour
before telling you this, but by then I hope to be asleep.
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On Feb 7, 2014 4:42 PM, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote:
> Hoi,
>
> We have often had
could concentrate on one very narrow subject, and its
single corresponding infobox, as a pilot?
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the complexity of this task, we could pilot it for one type
of subject (say, buildings, or people, or even a subset of one of
those) in one or two languages.
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n which they've released clips of broadcast material under open
licence, for the first time.
Assisting mobile users to play our media more easily will lend weight
to future requests to them and other archive holders, to release
audio-visual resources under open licences.
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On 18 January 2014 11:29, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> The "Speakerthon" event is in progress at New Broadcasting House in London
Everything is gong well. If people want to help from home (or the
pub), then the files in:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:BBC_voice_sample
d Adrian Lester,
with many more uploaded and awaiting templating:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:BBC_voice_samples
Volunteers are beavering away, finding more sound clips to upload.
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protest.
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s to maintain a non trading status for Cultural
> Outreach which keeps legal fees to a minimum.
>
> QRpedia is and will remain free for use by anyone, without any need for an
> agreement or approval from WMUK.
>
> Michael
>
>> On 21 Dec 2013, at 14:25, Andy Mabbett w
old logo.
>>
>> I think the article(s) in question might be key to this, and not what
>> the file names are.
>
>
> Does unlinking them reduce their pagerank?
I would be against degrading the usefulness of our articles in an
attempt to influence Google
dia will no longer be freely and openly
available for anyone to use, as it has been from inception. I hope
that's not the case, but would be grateful for assurances.
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Here's an interesting article:
Rapunzel and the Ivory Tower: How Open Access Will
Save the Humanities (from Themselves)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1302.2013.865977
in which Wikipedia is discussed.
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On 20 December 2013 18:45, Nathan wrote:
> 2) Who are the officers / trustees of Cultural Outreach Ltd and how are
> they chosen?
See https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_Outreach_Limited
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ns; at
least, I would have liked the opportunity to debate whether to accept
it. I hope that the next tome such an release is being considered, we
will be in a better position to facilitate the former.
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On 14 December 2013 15:55, MZMcBride wrote:
> Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>until a widely-advertised consultation is held
>>(advertised in the manner of the recent discussion on logos and
>>branding), we wont know the views of the community at large, rather
>>than tho
-advertised consultation is held
(advertised in the manner of the recent discussion on logos and
branding), we wont know the views of the community at large, rather
than those who have an axe to grind. We won't know, for instance,
whether the amendment goes too far, or not far enoug
ed it."
Oddly, I seem to have missed the response, also.
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the community, before making this change. I seem to have missed it.
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works, especially
outside the existing Wikimedia community
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this
project:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons/
We currently have none for Australian paralympic athletes (though
contributions from anyone who is the subject of a Wikipedia article
are invited).
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* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
* Oxford English Dictionary
* Oxford Reference Online
* Times Digital Archive - complete from 1785 - 1985
and more besides. But not JSTOR.
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If I "watch" a category in Wikipedia or anther project, I'm notified
when the category page changes, but not when an item is added to or
removed from a category.
Is there a tool which performs this function?
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On 30 August 2013 12:48, Richard Nevell wrote:
> Andy, about 230 flyers are in the post and on their way to you.
Thank you. The organisers have kindly agreed to include them in the
delegate packs (which I'll be stuffing on Thursday).
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On Aug 28, 2013 12:29 PM, "Richard Symonds" <
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> I will get some in the post to you today Andy.
pedia &
WMF, but probably not the chapter).
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On 25 August 2013 18:39, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> Considering this for finding a Wikipedia layer on maps, I do not know any.
>> But I do know there is an open source alternative, just like Wikipedia, but
>> then for maps, OpenStreetMap.
>
> OSM won't do something
On 25 August 2013 23:33, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> this is one point where WMF _may_ be able to help,
>
> We already have Special:Nearby
I've started a discussion on en.Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Nearby_.26_repl
f geocoded articles, after all) and pass them to Google., or
indeed another KML-compatible service.
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e of choice.
Incidentally, when mapping on OSM, it's always a good idea to include
a Wikipedia (or Wikidata) link for eligible objects.
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> PRISM
From @ShammaBoyarin on Twitter: "Its not as if the NSA were mass
downloading articles from JSTOR."
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We'd should ask the NSA if they'd like a Wikipedian-in-Residence.
Think of the citations we could add to BLPs!
On Jun 10, 2013 2:17 AM, "Liam Wyatt" wrote:
> This is a simple question with a potentially very complicated answer.
>
> What, if any, are the implications of the PRISM scandal for
On 30 May 2013 03:36, Sarah Stierch wrote:
> Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how
> to speak English.
And for people with a learning disability.
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Yes, use the tag in HTML.
(Apologies for top-posting, on mobile at airport)
On May 22, 2013 8:07 AM, "Lodewijk" wrote:
> I think what is even more helpful to people, is to avoid abbreviations as
> much as possible, or explain them. For example:
> * Up-Goer 5 (but there was a link next to it - w
nd track all data of lakes in all Europe.
>
> The articles are generated by AWB and with some manual effort to take care
> of text in existing articles and a major effort taking care of all with the
> same name (Little lake, Black lake etc)
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On 13 May 2013 18:01, Oliver Keyes wrote:
>.You bring
> up Echo; yes, we didn't bring the Orange Bar back. But we spent a lot of
> cycles coming up with alternatives, running them past people, with many
> editors and many staffers actively engaged in the process. We had
> designers, developers, p
On 11 May 2013 15:36, MZMcBride wrote:
> Yeah, I think you're right. It seems to be part of a larger pattern.
+ Withdrawal of the ability to use WMF logos/ wordmarks in community
projects, such as QRpedia.
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that
they have a talk page message, and then to reject the overwhelming
consensus (to return the familiar orange bar, at least while other
options are discussed) of that consultation.
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On 19 April 2013 09:14, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:
> And it's seems that even on the legal ground they may be issues regarding
> the Term Of Use of most popular social media (see Matthew Roth message in
> this thread).
Matthew discusses the reposting of images, not URLs.
-
hould not/
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On 10 March 2013 18:18, Bence Damokos wrote:
>
> You can see the proposal at:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage_Association
That and its talk page do not seem very current (last updated 12
January and, apart form a single post, 17 December last year,
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On 5 March 2013 17:21, Nathan wrote:
> I can't see the deleted article, but I bet it was basically orphaned
What were its page view stats? (I'm mobile. So can't easily check)
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> it yet. And I hate my recorded voice. O_o
Who doesn't ;-) I'm sure your recording will be worth waiting for.
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If you don't want to do it, then of course, don't.
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> whatever) to your computer, and then figure out how to make it into an open
> license.
People could use AudioBoo, for example, if it had a Flickr-like way
for uploaders to open-license a recoding. I'ive reached out to them
suggesting that, with no luck yet.
I'm also looking
;ve just had our first recording in French - but we need many more.
Do you know anyone who has an article about them? Do you know of tools
that would simplify the process of making ogg files, open licensing
them, and uploading them to Commons? How can we include more speakers
of other languages?
a_languages#Million_plus
(needs an admin *hint*) and other-language Wikipedias.
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>
> Your thoughts much appreciated!
Considering mixing my elephant (in corner) and worm (can of) metaphors...
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> There's a timezone other than UTC?
Only in summer. HTH.
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essentially complete coverage of all fungi and birds.
For bird species, you may wish to replicate and deploy this
en.Wikipedia template:
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Splendidly done. I'm mobile all day; could someone add a link to that, from
the relevant section of [[WP: RIP]], please?
On Jan 13, 2013 6:45 AM, "Tilman Bayer" wrote:
> The blog post it out now:
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 201
I started something on [[WP:RIP]].
On Jan 13, 2013 12:45 AM, "Jay Walsh" wrote:
> > > Official statement from the family:
> > >
> > > http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-**
> > > statement-from-the-family-and-**partner-of<
> >
> http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/40373383323/offic
On Jan 5, 2013 7:51 PM, "David Gerard" wrote:
> Anyone in IT knows that there's such a thing as "charity scale", where
> you get paid less because you're working for a nonprofit in exchange
> for less stress and/or doing actual good in the world.`
&quo
Hopefully he will enforce the patent.
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y exist for that purpose.
The English guidance for people translating from other language
Wikipedias /into/ English is at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translation>.
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On Nov 30, 2012 5:00 PM, "Tom Morris" wrote:
>
> On Friday, 30 November 2012 at 11:41, Richard Symonds wrote:
> > I think WMUK might be able to host something, (possibly) - especially if
> > Tom Morris is around to help!
>
>
> Seriously though, London would be a good place to have a Wikimedia
map
I would suggest piggy-backing this on OSM's annual State of the Map' event.
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On Nov 28, 2012 2:49 AM, "Erik Moeller" wrote:
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Erik Moeller
> Date: Tue, Nov
On 28 November 2012 19:50, ENWP Pine wrote:
> "Based on an analysis of a sample of 1390 editors with known political
> affiliation – either US Democrat or Republican..."
I detect a systematic bias...
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On 28 November 2012 15:58, Victor Grigas wrote:
> Ps Andy, you are in it :)
... briefly.
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On 28 November 2012 14:27, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> I'm pretty sure we have an OTRS template about it. :)
I haven't been able to find one in English, that responds to the question above.
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I'm seeing a significant number of OTRS tickets along the lines of:
I was looking at Wikipedia and a big orange banner popped up
asking for donation> Is this for real, or is it a scam?
Can anything be done about this?
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On 20 November 2012 22:09, Filip Maljkovic wrote:
> I'm writing to inform you that Wikimedia Serbia has opened an office in
> Belgrade
Congratulations!
> Our employee is Mile Kiš, our General Secretary
You're in safe hands, then.
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(such as administrators), certain additional fields (such
> as the number of page watchers) will be displayed.
Why is this for admins only?
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On 28 September 2012 23:00, Michael Peel wrote:
> Please note that I have been requesting an urgent correction to this
> statement since 21:17 today (it is now 23:00), without receiving any response
> from the WMF.
Correcting what, exactly?
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