[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open letter of support for Les sans pagEs

Long-time lurker stepping in for a little. “Stay in your lane”—no, just no. Communities and our organizations are deeply intertwined and their relationship with each other is crucial to their success. If that means swaying hiring decisions, then so be it. I have not fully read the details either

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

Gbfv, this would be good in theory except it's not scalable, and furthermore the English Wikipedia community has not been a fan of pending changes as implemented by https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs . The thing with open proxy blocks in general is that many are made in direct re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

Hello all, Speaking as an admin of Wikidata, someone having an item on the project should never be a criterion for a scholarship. That would not be fair to those who weren't lucky enough to get an item (I would probably delete any item made on any of you (in this thread) unless you meet one of our

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please rename this list to shitfight-l, and give us a list where civil discussion about wikimedia can take place

I would support increased moderation too, except that sockpuppetry on email lists is trivial (do we really want to go into the mess of implementing CheckUser for email headers?). On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton < rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com> wrote: > But this behaviour th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Venture Beyond

If only you made this an actual verbal speech! That's how inspiring I find this statement :). On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Vishnu wrote: > +1 Lila. Best wishes. > > Vishnu > > > On Tuesday 03 June 2014 10:52 AM, Lila Tretikov wrote: > >> A month ago, I met some of you for the first time at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is Wikipedia Really 90% Wrong

I am pretty sure that a "90% wrong" figure would fail an elementary statistical test of significance... On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:55 PM, James Heilman wrote: > The journal article by Hasty et al published on May 1st 2014 basically took > ten Wikipedia articles and ten “researchers” (either medi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

ld post it now. I may have a log in my own > client, if you don't mind my posting it. > > I think it's becoming abundantly clear why I think it's best if I > don't interact with WMF employees in private. > > ,Wil > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Jasper D

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

Wil, we talked about this on IRC, so I won't repeat what I said. But what I did *not* say is that the foundation tends to let the community do what it wants, and it would be against that long-standing tradition for staff to try to force a change in the community. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:18 PM, W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] extend mediawiki software to allow append a "group", and "COI" to an edit

I think this doesn't really address the core issues that surround this hotly debated topic of paid editing. No further comment. On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Why ? > Thanks. > GerardM > > > On 22 February 2014 21:13, Gryllida wrote: > > > I do mind 5 and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

"I imagine that once IPv6 is widely in use, this problem will go away and we'll be able to turn on all notifications (including Thanks) for anonymous editors." Not completely correct when it comes to public computers and mobile IPs. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > For 1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Data privacy, encrypted links and recent change captures

SSL makes it more difficult; some private wikis are already restricted to SSL. We also have to consider that irc.wikimedia.org has a recent changes feed. At minimum, the transit links should be encrypted if feasible. A good reason not to encrypt is that it's extra performance overhead. On Sun, D

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

"How does that tie us to x86?" We don't use Xen, nor is that guaranteed to give us acceptable performance. "closer to $70" Please justify that claim (that would be the cost of the CPU or hard disk alone). You haven't even given us a compelling reason to spend any money at all on this. On Sun,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

"It's not like we have anything special (or x86-specific, Jasper!) other than very high bandwidth." Wikimedia Labs uses x86 hardware virtualization (just one example). We already have transit linkages that include fiber, and new fiber is far from cheap. You persist in ignoring the costs of buying

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

"but the fact is it doesn't cost more money to switch to ARM, and you jettison a bunch of legacy x86 crap that nobody uses but take millions of transistors which need to be powered." ARM is not compatible with a lot of our software, and besides if we really wanted power efficiency we could instead

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

The WMF's servers have nothing to do with Microsoft. There do exist alternative processor architectures, not even just ARM (Itanium (probably too expensive), Tilera (massively parallel)), but I don't think migrating our software (particularly Labs' virtualization-related software) to them is trivi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and Internet2

see a benefit in possibly peering with them > at Equinix Ashburn, since according to their looking glass they have a > more direct connection to several AS'es than we do. > > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Jasper Deng > wrote: > > Sneakernets are not particularl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and Internet2

th much more to come. On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 4:41 PM, geni wrote: > On 12 October 2013 21:41, Jasper Deng wrote: > > > We could change that. Suppose a university wants to request the entire > > knowledgebase of Wikidata or another project, or if we need to do a mass >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and Internet2

We could change that. Suppose a university wants to request the entire knowledgebase of Wikidata or another project, or if we need to do a mass transfer of data from them. On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Jasper Deng, 12/10/2013 21:34: > > Instead o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and Internet2

they need. They can always use their normal connection to access us, but having a direct connection could improve this access. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Jasper Deng, 12/10/2013 01:53: > > I then read the >> website and found that Wikimedia'

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia and Internet2

I'm wondering whether Wikimedia has ever considered participating in the Internet2 research network (Wikipedia article; official website ). I had found out about it after reading a news article about how Missouri University changin