[Wikimedia-l] Only IP editing allowed on Wikipedia

2012-04-30 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi can anyone point me to a write up of the the test plan for this morning's experiment on Wikipedia? Having been logged off about ten times I've worked out that you get logged out the first two times you change page. It will be interesting to see how many editors revert to IP editing. WSC

[Wikimedia-l] Knol is closing tomorrow

2012-04-30 Thread emijrp
Dear all; First it was Encarta, then printed Britannica. Tomorrow, Knol.[1][2] It is not a good moment for Wikipedia rivals. We at Archive Team are attempting to download all the 700,000 Knols.[3] For the sake of history. Join us, #archiveteam EFNET. Regards, emijrp [1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Only IP editing allowed on Wikipedia

2012-04-30 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:33 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Hi can anyone point me to a write up of the the test plan for this morning's experiment on Wikipedia? Having been logged off about ten times I've worked out that you get logged out the first two times you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Kozuch, Others have responded to many of your other points. I just wanted to help with two things: On 04/25/2012 02:49 PM, Jan Kučera wrote: Hi, yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive. But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Only IP editing allowed on Wikipedia

2012-04-30 Thread Maryana Pinchuk
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:33 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Hi can anyone point me to a write up of the the test plan for this morning's experiment on Wikipedia? Having been logged off about ten times I've worked out that you get logged out the first two times

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Write about Wikipedia Zero!

2012-04-30 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I mentioned Wikipedia Zero in the last few talks that I gave about Wikidata, and I always got great feedback on that part. I agree with SJ that this is an amazing initiative that should be known better! 2012/4/29 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com Wikipedia Zero is starting to get more attention

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Only IP editing allowed on Wikipedia

2012-04-30 Thread Samuel Klein
Not planned perhaps, but I wish it were. It would be fantastically great for us to start serious experiments of all sorts for ten minutes here and there, to begin to understand the subtle dynamics of contribution. SJ On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Maryana Pinchuk mpinc...@wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] First IRC office hours with the editor engagement experiments team

2012-04-30 Thread Steven Walling
Hi everyone, This Friday, May 4th, at 20:30 UTC the new editor engagement experiments team will be hosting our first IRC office hours. In case you missed it, Sue announced the creation of the team as a subset of the engineering and product department back in March.[1] Though we're still in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Write about Wikipedia Zero!

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Dupont
Arianit Dobroshi has been working on getting free access in kosovo from ipko, mike On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: I mentioned Wikipedia Zero in the last few talks that I gave about Wikidata, and I always got great feedback on that part. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Only IP editing allowed on Wikipedia

2012-04-30 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:33 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Having been logged off about ten times Our memcached cluster (which handles session information) has been experiencing stability issues in the last few weeks. Over the weekend, we rebooted all memcached boxes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Only IP editing allowed on Wikipedia

2012-04-30 Thread Mateus Nobre
Hey, think positive. We can use this time of just Ip editing, for get some data and analyze. Just, like... Have you ever thought how many IPs are vandalism reversers? and other stuff :) On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:33 AM,