gt; and I think as Wikimedia movement we should support this somehow.
Seems like a duplicate of Mutopia, except funded via Kickstarter. You
give them money on Kickstarter and they download the score from IMSLP
and transcribe it for you. This doesn't appear to be a business model
that would benefit
istant than a VPN.
Its privacy protection is not perfect, but it is probably better than
any other existing solution (except of course [1] ;-). It is a small
technical project, which provides a small benefit to
security-conscious users.
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe
; I see your point, Gergo, but in reality Phabricator is an even worse
> channel to discuss projects that are, essentially, social issues.
I'd rather you didn't discuss social issues on Phabricator. I filed
the task for the technical part of the
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> In fact, employees disagreed with Lila's decision to pursue large
> restricted grants for a stupid pet project, in secret, supported by
> almost nobody, without Board knowledge let alone approval. This has
> nothing to do with education
hotomy
can even be said to exist).
Damon merely suggested the project in question, he did not "run amok".
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agitators, I think it's worth mentioning that Katherine Maher was the
most-supported nominee in staff discussions on the office wiki. (I
mean the tally on <https://office.wikimedia.org/wi
ovements we did in 2004-2005 had a big
impact, especially initial batch of 9 Tampa servers in February 2004.
There must be a scale effect: going from 20s to 10s is much more
important than going from 2s to 1s.
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http://truetimestamp.org/
https://www.btproof.com/
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only 10% through to
the late 21st century.
California has by far the cleanest power in the US, and could easily
afford to desalinate its way out of a drought if it chose to do so.
Although it may be more efficient to use groundwater recharge as a
multi-year reservoir instead of allowing farmers to mak
the fact that the Bay
Area does not "poison their minds".
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on. The total was 88 to 73.
I think we do benefit from proximity to technology. There is a lot of
staff turnover in the tech industry, people tend to spend 2-3 years at
one tech company and then move on to another one. It gives the Bay
Area a kind of shared tech culture. Innovations introdu
make
sure that 11.22.33.44 really was an IP address used by
Spambot10255787? How can we tell if AdminUser was interested in
11.22.33.44 for some other reason? Linked log entries should probably
be explicitly annotated by the software.
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anything that has genuine date significance for April 1 gets bumped to
make way for cack-handed jokes. Yes, DYK and OTD still do this
(although ITN doesn't), but "the standards of DYK" is not something
that TFA should set as its ambition. – iridescent 21:36, 15 February
2015 (UTC
Feel free to narrow it down for me.
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repository wiki, explicitly for fair use images. So maybe that is a
solution.
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echnical requirements
for freshness of content and prompt removal (revision deletion etc.),
and an ops team with a desire for independence.
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a is naturally slow and expensive for many ISPs, because we
don't use a big CDN. If ISPs sold services on a cost-plus basis, you
would expect websites delivered via CDN to be cheaper than websites
that are located at a single site, geographically distant from their
users.
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ration, and the moderators havent responded to queries
> sent directly, and havent actioned these moderated emails (deny or
> approve, doesnt matter) for almost a day.
Yes, according to the mailman admin interface, he's on moderation.
There are no pending moderator reque
t new policy. The policy written says "Sysops are not
>> allowed to inject JavaScript into the reader's user-agent which
>> interferes with WMF's favoured features."
Erik was very clear about this policy change in his first email to
this thread.
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The way to have a better mailing list is to not use a mailing list.
NNTP with a web frontend would be better in pretty much every way.
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ted it. With this proposal, if you want to reuse an H.264 file
without a patent license, you can just download the Theora transcode
from the server.
I am having trouble thinking of a scenario where the current situation
would be better for reuse than the proposed situation. If you can
think of one
On 14/01/14 16:08, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 11:56 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
>> Reversing the decline in editor population has been a major strategic
>> priority of WMF for many years.
>
> My own opinion about how that decline isn't nearly as bad as some c
On 14/01/14 15:38, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 11:20 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
>> The English
>> Wikipedia edit rate has been declining since about January 2007, and
>> is now only 67% of the rate at that time. A linear regression on the
>> edit rate from that
A linear regression on the
edit rate from that time predicts death of the project at around 2030.
Meanwhile, WMF revenue has gone from 2.4M (2006/2007) to 50.4M
(2012/2013).
I don't think backend scaling is really a problem we have anymore.
--
On 14/01/14 00:18, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 12:19 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
>> Not as fast as revisions, and we seem to cope with those.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> So you'd implicitly create the user, track it by cookie? With some well
> designed UX
eason.
Not as fast as revisions, and we seem to cope with those. On the
English Wikipedia, there were only ~27k anonymous edits per day over
the last month, so it would take 10 years to add 100M rows at that
rate, and the revision table has ~550M rows and we still haven't
bothered to
ich would
be beneficial for various features that currently exclude anons due to
the need to link to a user ID.
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hat information. The obvious conclusion is that the cost is
embarrassingly high. Calxeda only tells us that their server is
cheaper and slower than the Intel one, they don't claim to have a
lower capital cost for a given processing throughput.
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redesign those boards
> which are incapable of doing these things, so we'll need a team of
> hardware engineers, plus a deal with a manufacturing plant.
Google and Facebook are apparently taking that route. Maybe some day,
this technology will be available for anyone to buy.
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no information in the documents seen by SPIEGEL to suggest
that the companies whose products are mentioned in the catalog
provided any support to the NSA or even had any knowledge of the
intelligence solutions."
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cash. Many charities do accept cash donations. Cash could be donated
to the local chapter by dropping it into a donation box, then it could
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On 21/11/13 11:38, MZMcBride wrote:
> Tim Starling wrote:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sep11wiki
>>
>> I think it's disrespectful to solicit contributions towards a memorial
>> website, and then to fail to maintain that memorial website in a
>> searchabl
On 21/11/13 12:23, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> On 11/20/2013 07:09 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
>> In 2007, the September 11 wiki was moved to a non-Wikimedia site,
>> evidently hosted by an individual without the capacity to preserve
>> that content for posterity. It was offli
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after that. However, I have been browbeaten into using
23:59:59 in more recent elections, thus stealing a whole second of
potential voting time from our poor voters.
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ncerned that 100 year GWP underestimates
the impact of beef production, and want to use the 20 year GWP, then
the obvious solution is to quote both. NPOV policy favours expansion
over replacement.
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en you cite yourself as a secondary
source, which seems fair enough -- why not just cite the primary
sources directly?
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good enough for most people for connecting to
a test wiki. We give all sorts of people access to labs, so a proper
certificate for *.wmflabs.org shouldn't give you much additional
confidence.
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fully aware of the risks we are
encouraging our users to take, and also to understand the benefits
which are likely to come from successful activism, so that we can
decide whether the action we are inciting is rational and prudent.
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policy, because our staff would be in direct contact with their staff.
We would be able to deliver clear error messages in place of censored
content, instead of a connection reset.
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ed to clone the repository, but they're hardly a
human right.
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As have now been re-enabled on the Portuguese
Wikipedia. Erik made the decision, in response to on-wiki consensus. I
deployed the change just now.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49860#c75>
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changes. In the past we have relied on the requester saying to us
afterwards "ok, it's all done now, you can revert it." That doesn't
work if "temporary" is said with a wink.
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blog.wikimedia.org) store access logs.
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So there is a separation of responsibilities, but there is no reason
to think that US citizens are b
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the server side).
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a symbol of trust, and are
one of the few rewards we give to volunteers. Stripping privileges
from a volunteer is upsetting, and undermines their core motivation
for contributing.
So I can appreciate that the conflict needed to be resolved, but I
have t
in their search for an owner.
So imagine what he (and his supporters) would think of the idea of
giving orphan works away for free, irrevocably, as would be required
for Wikimedia use.
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uld host it on GitHub, so that
if it turns out to be popular, we could let it gradually evolve away
from WMF control.
Once the frontend tool is done, the next job would be to develop a
corpus sharing site, hosting any available freely-licensed output of
don't know, let me get back to
you on that." Then depending on how busy they are with other stuff,
maybe they'll get back to you a few weeks later with some relevant
case law.
That is to say, there are plenty of people who could do it more easily
than the legal departmen
es matters.
As far as I can tell, there's nothing in the volunteer confidentiality
and copyright agreement that prevents volunteers from disclosing the
text of the agreement. So anyone who's signed it could just post it to
meta, assuming they kept a cop
nation" is another way to say "stability", except that it also
implies rot. I don't think we can take it for granted that a wiki will
rot if it has a stable editor population.
If the English Wikipedia could achieve a stable editor population, I
would be very happy.
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On 08/01/13 20:30, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> On 05/01/13 04:47, Tim Starling wrote:
>> For example, requiring phone number verification for new users from
>> developed countries would be less damaging.
>
> I don't see how is this supposed to help (and I don't think
government would happily block
*.wikipedia.org port 443 if it became popular. At least the current
situation provides a way to work around keyword filtering for people
who are sufficiently motivated -- if HTTPS was blocked, it would be
much less useful.
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discussion.
Presumably the proportion of bad edits has increased, but it should be
quicker to deal with simple vandalism than to review a good faith edit
and engage with the editor.
But we can always do new user phone number verification if enforcing
the revert policy turns out to be too hard, r
On 04/01/13 16:01, Steven Walling wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
>
>> It should be obvious that what is missing is discipline. An
>> arbitration committee with expanded scope, with full-time members
>> funded by the WMF (at arm's length f
ill probably be reduced
in the short term, and it's hard to know if it will ever recover. I
don't know if there is anyone with the power to save Wikipedia who
also has the required courage.
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On 03/01/13 17:38, Tim Starling wrote:
> The number of active (>5 edits/mo) contributors has declined
> from 13000 in January 2007 to 5900 in October 2012.
Correction: that was the number of new editors per month. The number
of active editors has actually declined from 49,000 to 33,000
g to Wikipedia or refuse
to start. The number of active (>5 edits/mo) contributors has declined
from 13000 in January 2007 to 5900 in October 2012.
You don't need "big data" to see what needs to be done.
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riorities that they have".
Maybe Wikimedia should have some sort of Buzzword Compliance Officer
to manage this sort of thing. You know, scalable P2P in the cloud,
mining big data on a NoSQL platform etc. etc.
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ason. To me, that
seems like a lot of people. Maybe it's occasionally good for people to
leave, but so many?
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up to the top, losing
your place. That could be annoying, especially on long articles.
It happens because the collapsed banner has position: fixed, whereas
the expanded banner has position: absolute.
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or fee at all. That would be bad for investors, but the company
would survive. So maybe it's not quite time to dance on Elselvier's grave.
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its planned
> time.
According to Levg in his Arbcom application, again via Google
Translate, "It should be noted that there are no objective reasons for
such a 'sprint survey' did not exist, to discuss the bill on second
reading has been known since at least last Friday."
Fr
On 11/07/12 00:32, David Gerard wrote:
> On 10 July 2012 15:29, Tim Starling wrote:
>
>> SOPA didn't threaten the existence of Wikipedia,
>
>
> Geoff Brigham opined otherwise, IIRC.
Yes, on the basis that "Wikipedia arguably falls under the definition
of an &#
d Italy are lucky that they can protest against
such proposed laws without fear of reprisals from the state. That's a
luxury that the brave protesters in China did not have.
I don't know enough about the situation in Russia to comment on it.
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people from improving the current poor-quality 3D rendering and
contributing the results back to the project.
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staff.
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<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralNoticeLogs&offset=2012011805&limit=100>
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