Re: [Wikimedia-l] Protecting the Encylopedia vs Destroying a human

2013-05-29 Thread MZMcBride
billinghurst wrote: >... or there is the old saying of "let sleeping dogs, lie" Heh, you seem to be in "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" territory here. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

2013-05-27 Thread MZMcBride
K. Peachey wrote: >Can you please file this in bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org>? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48856 MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscri

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-25 Thread MZMcBride
icient. It's about making things right. It's particularly frustrating that wikis make mistakes very easy to undo and yet somehow that process has completely failed us here. We encourage boldness, as the next steps (a reversion and discussion) are supposed to be easy. I suppose this principl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] making tech journalism easier to read

2013-05-21 Thread MZMcBride
the audience question. That's a bit of a rabbit hole, though. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-20 Thread MZMcBride
y and engaging. MZMcBride [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] movement blog, not WMF blog, was: Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread MZMcBride
seems willing to rectify the situation. Pages such as <https://wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sean_Whitton> are now out-of-date and there are a growing number of requests for an account (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMFACCOUNT>). But we can wait for Ga

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread MZMcBride
dy has found one yet. And many people are still searching for a rationale. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread MZMcBride
ns of his or her account. You obviously felt an obligation to act here. What remains unclear is why. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread MZMcBride
hich point I'd have to start removing egg >from my face ;-) Philippe has had time to go back and remove Phoebe's user rights and Philippe has had time to post to this mailing list about the upcoming Wikimedia elections, but he has chosen not to participate in this thread a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-11 Thread MZMcBride
Nathan wrote: >If the conflict was primarily with MZMcBride (which seems to be the >case), then it was a bit cowardly to overhaul the entire scheme on the >site in order to avoid telling him to knock it off. What'd I do? MZMcBride _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-11 Thread MZMcBride
ch. But it's long-time community members who know that this isn't right and who have chosen to not say anything that are bothering me the most. It's unsurprising that you and many others aren't very active anymore. :-/ You're so much better than they deserve. MZMcBrid

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-11 Thread MZMcBride
the long-term re-unite the wiki with Meta-Wiki at www.wikimedia.org. This is a step in the wrong direction. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-11 Thread MZMcBride
d can see that this is pure politics. Leslie, do you agree with these policies that remove all non-staff from positions of trust? Do you agree with creating tiers between staff and everyone else? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-11 Thread MZMcBride
bers, I wonder when they'll realize that it's these same volunteers that keep the projects running. When the dedicated and trusted volunteers leave, their (paid) jobs will soon follow. Wikimedia simply isn't sustainable without t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-11 Thread MZMcBride
ng based on a series of private discussions. Meanwhile, the home page of wikimediafoundation.org stresses how transparent the organization is. This is a pretty disappointing day. I'd be interested to hear what Gayle, Philippe, or the Board has to say. MZMcBride ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Accommodation best practices

2013-05-02 Thread MZMcBride
art a new one? > >The only thing I know about is >https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WH#Accommodations I've been trying to organize best practices documents here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices>. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

2013-04-30 Thread MZMcBride
a full-time staff person. A little seed money. What needs to happen in order to ensure requests like this are met if membership fees and sponsorships aren't sufficient? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

2013-04-28 Thread MZMcBride
are sustainable in the long term, and whether they are leading to the most impact possible. """ Is the FDC commenting on the Wikimedia chapters here or on the Wikimedia Foundation (or both)? The scope of both the FDC and these comments is unclear to me. MZMcBride [1] https://meta.wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The case for supporting open source machine translation

2013-04-24 Thread MZMcBride
kimedia. In light of this, it seems even more unreasonable and against good sense to pursue a new machine translation endeavor, virtuous as it may be. If an outside organization wants Wikimedia's help and support and their values align with ours, it's certainl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-04-17 Thread MZMcBride
other themes worth investigating. Thank you for working on this! MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Favicon notes

2013-04-13 Thread MZMcBride
For the curious: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Favicon>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Gadgets

2013-04-07 Thread MZMcBride
ension: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets>. It sounds like maybe you want "merchandise"? Or something similar to that. Just a thought. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2013-04-05 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: >On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:49 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Sue or Erik: is there any update on this e-mail from November 2012? (Or >> some place interested folks should be watching for news?) > >In addition to the original note from November, please also

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2013-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
date on this e-mail from November 2012? (Or some place interested folks should be watching for news?) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] open positions at WMF

2013-03-19 Thread MZMcBride
hen OTRS is struggling to stay functional. I don't do much OTRS-related work, but I find it easy to imagine some OTRS volunteers reading this and wondering what's going on. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-18 Thread MZMcBride
y I think an investigative or exploratory committee would make a lot of sense here and now. Thoughts? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-16 Thread MZMcBride
Is this a reasonable (or tenable) path forward? After having seen the volume of past discussion about this idea, I'd really prefer not to look back at this mailing list discussion in two or three years and still not have made forward real forward progress. ;-) If you have o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> It costs about $2.5 million to keep the sites operational for a year. > >How did you come up with that number? I used to say $2 million, but Roan recently told me that it had probably gone up since that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread MZMcBride
Philippe Beaudette wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> (Particularly looking at you, Philippe, given your work on >> both the strategic plan and the licensing vote. Gerard's Law and all. >>;-) > >For the record, I didn't do the l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread MZMcBride
a-wide requests for comment? Just a Board resolution (assuming a majority of members support this, of course)? Thoughts on how to figure out what the next step here is would be really appreciated. (Particularly looking at you, Philippe, given your work on both the strategic p

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-13 Thread MZMcBride
ailing list. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Grants Program Retrospective 2009-2012 published

2013-03-13 Thread MZMcBride
tive_2009-2012 Hi. I haven't had a chance to read the report yet, but I just want to say thank you for the transparency here. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] fiction: WMF policy of paying less than market

2013-03-09 Thread MZMcBride
factor :) :D These photos were adorable. Thank you for sharing them. (Though I did feel a slight pang in my heart when I remembered that S.F. had stolen Kat and Greg from us.) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-03-06 Thread MZMcBride
the "Identification noticeboard" in some ways, which is almost equally entirely arbitrary about who is and isn't required to identify themselves to the Wikimedia Foundation. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-03-06 Thread MZMcBride
for protecting people's privacy. > >That's my understanding as well. I have a NDA with the WMF as a volunteer >from a couple years ago to help with fundraising after I no longer >contracted for the foundation in order to access the donations CRM

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-03-06 Thread MZMcBride
Benjamin Chen wrote: >On 6 Mar, 2013, at 3:11 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> It's unclear whether Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members and >> Wikimedia stewards are also required to sign NDAs. > >Just for the purpose of information, stewards do not sign NDAs. T

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-03-05 Thread MZMcBride
nsparency is exactly needed, per se, but it was an interesting read and it may serve as a reference point for other non-profits and similar organizations. It'd be nice to see it re-posted at some point. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-03-05 Thread MZMcBride
er user volunteer groups (people with access to rt.wikimedia.org, shell users, et al.). I suppose we should begin to expand the page on Meta-Wiki. Cunningham's Law will kick in, as necessary. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@li

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-03-05 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: >As I understand it, many Wikimedia Foundation employees are required to >sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Is there a copy of the current >version of this non-disclosure agreement anywhere? I briefly checked >Meta-Wiki and wikimediafoundation.org, but didn't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's support of OTRS

2013-02-21 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: >On 21 February 2013 12:07, Sumana Harihareswara >wrote: > >[Sumana does ALL THE THINGS] > >This is a wonderful response. Thank you! Completely agreed. Thank you, Sumana! It seems like we're headed in a goo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's support of OTRS

2013-02-21 Thread MZMcBride
s on it, or a >replacement, more. I would think the Wikimedia Foundation would want to remain pretty distant from unfiltered volunteer replies to e-mails, from a legal standpoint, but maybe someone from the Wikimedia Foundation legal team can chime in on this point. Thanks again for your

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's support of OTRS

2013-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
his is workable. It's just a matter of pointing where the e-mail is sent, as I understand it. And then maintaining whatever solution you pick/build that manages the e-mail. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's support of OTRS

2013-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
valuating and implementing better/different response software, and/or moving the response system elsewhere. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
gets/how it's been working for you all. Do people submit interesting stories? I assume it's funneled through OTRS or something, but I'm not actually sure. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Loading remote resources on Wikimedia wikis

2013-02-10 Thread MZMcBride
es such as <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy> that fill a somewhat similar explanatory role. Perhaps a similar page would be best here? It's fairly long-standing policy to ban outside tools such as Google Analytics due to user privacy concerns, but it

[Wikimedia-l] Loading remote resources on Wikimedia wikis

2013-02-08 Thread MZMcBride
erhaps there's a page on Meta-Wiki somewhere? Does anyone know? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] OTRS summaries and statistics report, 2012

2013-01-22 Thread MZMcBride
Keegan Peterzell wrote: >1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012 >2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS Nice. Thanks for putting this together. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsub

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia ED Sue Gardner named to Global Voices Board of Directors

2013-01-16 Thread MZMcBride
ying to wrap my head around what Global Voices exactly is, but a collaboration between the two seemed like it might have promise. If I'm off-base, ignore me.) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop

2013-01-14 Thread MZMcBride
much as the place to which it leads. These are solvable problems. We can do better. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rationale for fundraising record?

2013-01-13 Thread MZMcBride
Zack Exley wrote: >On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >>In previous discussions, there were questions about trade-offs and I >>think you mentioned that the Wikimedia community would have to make some >>choices about certain implementation details (e.g., &quo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-01-10 Thread MZMcBride
dex page at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreements>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-01-10 Thread MZMcBride
I did come across other interesting and somewhat related pages such as <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statement>, though.) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rationale for fundraising record?

2013-01-06 Thread MZMcBride
ng banner time, etc.). I realize it's January and that the next annual fundraiser is many months away, but do you have any idea when this year you'll be having a discussion about these trade-offs and where? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-29 Thread MZMcBride
ediaWiki Foundation, we can start work on the > MikiWedia Foundation and the WediaMiki Foundation. ;-) [/snip] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-August/062843.html MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

2012-12-05 Thread MZMcBride
annual fundraiser in Wikimedia's history. And not that money is the only thing that matters, but in terms of comparison to other years, this year has apparently just blown them away: <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics>. It's very impre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

2012-12-04 Thread MZMcBride
nated money to you. Just how many complaints were you expecting and what might they look like? I'm fascinated to know. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

2012-12-04 Thread MZMcBride
." You're annoying readers and editors alike with these banners. MZMcBride [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Experiments ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AFT5: what practical benefits has it had?

2012-11-10 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > Dario Taraborelli wrote: >> A full roll out of AFT5 on the entire English Wikipedia is scheduled for Q4 >> 2012. > > Do you have a link to on-wiki consensus for this idea? I was under the > impression that the ArticleFeedback tool was developed as an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
Samuel Klein wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 3:07 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> In the past, Sam has said that private solicitation of Board members to >> introduce a resolution was the best approach. > > *Public* solicitation, actually. I can't think of any reason to priv

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
issue tracking, as a request that ultimately needs a (Board) resolution. Perhaps a page at Meta-Wiki could track such requests? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog contributions; make participation invitation more obvious

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
uot;Guidelines" link in the sidebar, but it's painfully buried in the left-hand sidebar's list of links and its target (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines>) is a wall of text. I'm not sure who could resolve this issue or how it's best tracke

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board vote on narrowing focus

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
Bishakha Datta wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:30 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> It would be nice if someone could export the linked presentation from Google >> Docs and upload it to wikimediafoundation.org (or Wikimedia Commons) as a PDF >> or ODP (or both). I don't think

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board vote on narrowing focus

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
It would be nice if someone could export the linked presentation from Google Docs and upload it to wikimediafoundation.org (or Wikimedia Commons) as a PDF or ODP (or both). I don't think we should rely on external resources in the context of historical Board archives unless absolutel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Romney and copyright

2012-10-29 Thread MZMcBride
the curve on this issue. ;-) Regarding Mr. Romney in particular, he seems to be very pro-corporation/pro-business, so I don't expect any major changes to copyright law should he be elected President. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info action

2012-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
info action" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41329 Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 22 October 2012 22:41, MZMcBride wrote: >> for some users (such as administrators), certain additional fields (such >> as the number of page watchers) will be displayed. > &

[Wikimedia-l] Info action

2012-10-22 Thread MZMcBride
needs a little design love), please feel free to e-mail this list or file a bug at <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-18 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > Theo10011 wrote: >> Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks ago >> - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus > > Well, there's your problem. You're reading the talk page! You want the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-18 Thread MZMcBride
h parts you're upset with and why. If your intent is to rabble-rouse, you're doing it wrong. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AFT5: what practical benefits has it had?

2012-09-22 Thread MZMcBride
n-wiki consensus before being widely deployed, right? Has that happened? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] the hidden toolbox

2012-09-19 Thread MZMcBride
to move a page. Yes, boy and girls, hiding things makes them more difficult to find; film at 11. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fund-raising goal questions

2012-08-20 Thread MZMcBride
James Alexander wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:44 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> P.S. I happened to notice at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising> >> that the "Chapter Fundraising Agreement" is not public (looks like it's >> hosted on internal.w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fund-raising goal questions

2012-08-20 Thread MZMcBride
Megan Hernandez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:19 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> How is the fund-raising goal determined each year? >> > > The fund-raising goal is determined by the amount of money needed to fund > the budget with consultation with the payment processin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread MZMcBride
that people fragment what are otherwise sensible critical-mass communities or projects into multiple beautiful-but-subcritical communities which fade over time." MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread MZMcBride
helpful to Meta-Wiki generally. I thought there was some planning about this on Meta-Wiki already somewhere. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

2012-08-07 Thread MZMcBride
le to upload the images to Wikimedia Commons so that they can be annotated on Meta-Wiki and/or mediawiki.org. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

2012-08-03 Thread MZMcBride
Stephen LaPorte wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:07 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> My question, more directly, is: if the SOPA action from January 2012 >> were held in August 2012 (following the implementation of this new statement >> from the General Counsel's office)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

2012-08-02 Thread MZMcBride
Brandon Harris wrote: > On Aug 2, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:11 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >>> What type of action was the SOPA blackout in January? >> >> You mean, given the $500,000 Google donation Wikimedia received in Novembe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

2012-08-02 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: > On 2 August 2012 05:13, MZMcBride wrote: >> This appears to be an unprecedented power-grab by the office of the General >> Counsel. > > Um ... that's a bizarre perception. Is it? I read through the page at Meta-Wiki and couldn't help bu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

2012-08-01 Thread MZMcBride
ifferent > types of affiliations and examines when review is appropriate by the > community, WMF staff, and the Board of Trustees. This appears to be an unprecedented power-grab by the office of the General Counsel. Was there any Board or community support for placing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A task list for a beginning project

2012-07-31 Thread MZMcBride
d templates on a small Wikipedia that only has 400 articles is terrible, but it's not as though the English Wikipedia or any other established Wikipedia with millions of articles wants 10,000 unused templates either. MZMcBride [1] Wikis have been previously compared to children. "Creati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-30 Thread MZMcBride
nterested, there's discussion on the talk page about how to best implement this idea. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-28 Thread MZMcBride
Thomas Dalton wrote: > On Jul 29, 2012 7:01 AM, "MZMcBride" wrote: >> Risker wrote: >>> This is a very good point, Thomas. Why exactly is there no place on a >>> community wiki where this is being discussed? Instead it is being >>> discussed on a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-28 Thread MZMcBride
ow to join and use this mailing list. It's not as though this is list is some new and foreign forum. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Fund-raising goal questions

2012-07-26 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. How is the fund-raising goal determined each year? Is there a fund-raising goal set for the upcoming fund-raiser (the one beginning in November 2012)? Is there a guideline or policy regarding what happens once the fund-raising goal is met? MZMcBride

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia goes on strike

2012-07-17 Thread MZMcBride
e disruption (like the bans in China), working around those disruptions to further Wikimedia's aim of spreading free educational content is a worthwhile endeavor. Purposefully disrupting access to Wikimedia wikis through blackouts is contrary to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "User:Jimbo Wales/Personal Image Filter"

2012-07-16 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > List participants may be interested. Jimmy's approach seems to somewhat > ignore previous discussions about ways to implement such a filter (e.g., > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki//Brainstorming>), but perhaps that isn't > such a bad thin

[Wikimedia-l] "User:Jimbo Wales/Personal Image Filter"

2012-07-16 Thread MZMcBride
to somewhat ignore previous discussions about ways to implement such a filter (e.g., <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki//Brainstorming>), but perhaps that isn't such a bad thing. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's use of Mingle

2012-07-16 Thread MZMcBride
Steven Walling wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Someone recently asked me about the Wikimedia Foundation's installation of >> Mingle (<https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/>) and when I went to find >> documentation about it, I came up dry

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's use of Mingle

2012-07-16 Thread MZMcBride
/Mingle>. It's a very barebones page at the moment. If anyone who's familiar with Mingle (particularly the Wikimedia Foundation's use of it) could glance at or improve the page, that would be great! MZMcBride ___ Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolution on personal image hiding feature

2012-07-14 Thread MZMcBride
rrible at. It'd be good if there were a way to address this. > We are working on a Q&A document that will be published after Wikimania. I hope you all include "What has been learned from this?" :-) Lots of good lessons for all three sides here, I think (staff, Board, and comm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions from 11 July 2012 meeting

2012-07-12 Thread MZMcBride
tps://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/History_of_the_Board_of_Trustees However, I don't see any posted resolutions or votes regarding the new Board appointments (yet). Will those be forthcoming? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Uns

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia goes on strike

2012-07-09 Thread MZMcBride
fellow Wikimedians. They need wider promotion on Meta etc. > > Party is on #wikipedia-ru@freenode You've successfully disrupted an educational resource in the name of political advocacy. Stooping to the level of vandals... that'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under advertising pressure.

2012-06-26 Thread MZMcBride
ka BSD vs GPL; aka "do what you want", vs "do unto > others"; etc. (incidentally, is there a general term for this 100% freedom vs > -except not allowed to take away freedom- rule?)) Libertarianism. Also, the SOPA strike wasn't necessary; it was disruptive and fooli

[Wikimedia-l] Purpose-driven motivation

2012-06-19 Thread MZMcBride
spend their free time on such projects. I imagine some people on this list have already seen this, but it's new to me and I thought I'd send it along in case others found it interesting. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-01 Thread MZMcBride
information do you think is contained in an IPv6 address? I wondered what Risker was referring to as well, so I looked up IPv6 + privacy: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy>. After reading that section, it's still unclear to me wheth

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

2012-05-16 Thread MZMcBride
s already written, even, it just needs to be pushed out to a Hacks extension or something: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/72959#c9219>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Google Calendar for IRC office hours

2012-05-04 Thread MZMcBride
until the wiki can support XML and iCal output, the benefit of using Google outweighs the cost. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] "Contribute" box on wikimediafoundation.org

2012-04-29 Thread MZMcBride
ure, so I've now implemented a "namespace notice" via a MediaWiki gadget. When viewing any page in the Talk namespace, you'll now see the contents of "Template:Contribute" below the page title. The relevant code can be found here.[2] MZMcBride [1] https:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia mobile application development

2012-04-11 Thread MZMcBride
Thank you very much for the detailed and insightful reply. Tomasz Finc wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Mobile seems to have two branches these days: (1) the mobile versions of the >> sites; and more recently (2) specific mobile applications. Branch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-10 Thread MZMcBride
ational value of such a project. It instead derails advertising and makes a few generic statements that would be true of any project addition ("increase the number of Wikimedians," etc.). If you're serious about seeing it become the next Wikimedia sister project, I'd focus on mak

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