[Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi all, as promised, foundation-l is now wikimedia-l. Hopefully all the list settings should have survived without any difference whatsoever except for the list names. Archives should exist in both places, and only at the wikimedia-l location going forward. foundation-l delivery should be disabled

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Nathan
Does the announce list forward correctly? ~Nathan On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi all, > > as promised, foundation-l is now wikimedia-l. Hopefully all the list > settings should have survived without any difference whatsoever except > for the list names. Archives should

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Nathan wrote: > Does the announce list forward correctly? I updated it earlier, so the reply-to should be correct. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 April 2012 21:57, Nathan wrote: > Does the announce list forward correctly? And should its name also be changed? - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 April 2012 21:55, Erik Moeller wrote: > as promised, foundation-l is now wikimedia-l. Hopefully all the list Good one! The "from" line still calls it the "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" :-) - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@li

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:01 PM, David Gerard wrote: > The "from" line still calls it the "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" :-) Just fixed that. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread phoebe ayers
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:01 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> The "from" line still calls it the "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" :-) > > Just fixed that. Excellent, thanks Erik for getting this done! This will be a positive change, I hope (archi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Thehelpfulone
Great job on the archive surgery. -- Thehelpfulone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone English Wikipedia Administrator ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Juergen Fenn
One more point: Your announcement has not yet appeared in the lists archive at . Thanks for changing the list's name. Regards, Jürgen. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@li

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Erik Moeller
Archives were broken for a few minutes. To avoid additional complex surgery that would require list downtime, I'm just re-sending the first few messages that got sent to the new list. Apologies for the spam, this is only for posterity. ;-) Erik - - - foundation-l is now wikimedia-l Erik Moeller

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Does the old adress redirect to the new one? Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 9 April 2012 22:59, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Does the old adress redirect to the new one? > > Nemo > > > __**_ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Does the old adress redirect to the new one? Currently the old list email address will bounce, and the old list URL will give you a "foundation-l does not exist" message (whereas old archive URLs will continue working). Daniel's looki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Samuel Klein
Nicely done. Thanks to Erik and al. SJ On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > wrote: >> Does the old adress redirect to the new one? > > Currently the old list email address will bounce, and the old list URL > will give you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Currently the old list email address will bounce, and the old list URL > will give you a "foundation-l does not exist" message (whereas old > archive URLs will continue working). The list URL should now redirect. [1] Erik [1] See https://ge

[Wikimedia-l] Tilman Bayer has invited you to use Google Talk

2012-04-09 Thread Tilman Bayer
Tilman Bayer has invited you to sign up for Google Talk so you can talk to each other for free over your computers. To sign-up, go to: http://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=talk&sendvemail=true&skipvpage=true

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > The list URL should now redirect. And, Daniel just implemented an alias as well [1], which I'm testing by responding using the foundation-l address. (I promise this'll be the last meta note for a while if all's working!) Erik [1] See https:

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-09 Thread James Heilman
First of all yes travel content is educational. Some of the best education I have received in fact. Travel content however is in a form distinct from an encyclopedia and thus needs its own project. The editors from Wikitravel already have the content in a form that can be easily uploaded into a wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tilman Bayer has invited you to use Google Talk

2012-04-09 Thread Tilman Bayer
My sincere apologies. While of course everyone on this list is cordially invited to chat with me at any time - also on IRC -, it was not my intention to spam the entire list with this. In my defense it seems to have been a Gmail web interface bug involving the Reply-To field (I had clicked "invite

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-09 Thread James Heilman
Typically policies and guidelines are decided by the community of editors that make up a specific site. With respect to referencing and research these will be somewhat different from an encyclopdia which is why attempting to combine this content into Wikipedia is not really appropriate. Also travel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tilman Bayer has invited you to use Google Talk

2012-04-09 Thread Nathan
You can forever claim to have baptised the list with its very first spam message :-P On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Tilman Bayer wrote: > My sincere apologies. While of course everyone on this list is > cordially invited to chat with me at any time - also on IRC -, it was > not my intention to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tilman Bayer has invited you to use Google Talk

2012-04-09 Thread Mike Dupont
Well good to see that I am subscribed, i was wondering if it worked. mike On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Nathan wrote: > You can forever claim to have baptised the list with its very first spam > message :-P > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Tilman Bayer wrote: > > > My sincere apologies. W

[Wikimedia-l] New list description - draft

2012-04-09 Thread Erik Moeller
As promised, a separate note about slightly revising the list description to make it more inclusive and up-to-date: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l I've included a sentence at the bottom which is a summary of the moderation principles that were previously posted here: http://lists.wik

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 15 -- 09 April 2012

2012-04-09 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Wikidata: The next big thing? An interview with Wikidata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-09/Wikidata Interview: Funds, fiduciaries, and the Foundation: the complex dynamics of scaling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-09/Interview

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-09 Thread Strainu
În data de 9 aprilie 2012, 21:17, Ziko van Dijk a scris: > One might get problems with policies such as NOR and NPOV. I suppose > that they should be applied on Wiki Travel Guide, as on Wikipedia, > Wikibooks and other Wikimedia sites. If using these as they are now would be a precondition for ho

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia mobile application development

2012-04-09 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. I've been having difficulty wrapping my head around Wikimedia's (relatively) recent efforts in mobile application development. I understand that reaching users on mobile platforms is important to the Wikimedia Foundation and I've read