Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fire Drill Re: Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

2012-05-18 Thread Mike Dupont
Hello People, I have completed my first set in uploading the osm/fosm dataset (350gb unpacked) to archive.org http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.de/2012/05/upload-finished.html We can do something similar with wikipedia, the bucket size of archive.org is 10gb, we need to split up the data in a way

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fire Drill Re: Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

2012-05-18 Thread emijrp
There is no such 10GB limit, http://archive.org/details/ARCHIVETEAM-YV-6360017-6399947 (238 GB example) ArchiveTeam/WikiTeam is uploading some dumps to Internet Archive, if you want to join the effort use the mailing list https://groups.google.com/group/wikiteam-discuss to avoid wasting

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CSBS 2012 - Results

2012-05-18 Thread Béria Lima
Cross posting _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 18 May 2012 00:12, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Hello!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CSBS 2012 - Results

2012-05-18 Thread Michael Snow
On 5/18/2012 8:16 AM, Béria Lima wrote: Hello! We have a result! The polls closed a few hours ago and I've already counted the votes. The chapters have, by voting, selected the following candidates to serve on the WMF board: * Patricio Lorente * Alice Wiegand *Patricio Lorente*

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CSBS 2012 - Results

2012-05-18 Thread Samuel Klein
Thank you Béria for the speedy update; and congratulations and welcome to Alice and Patricio. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote: On 5/18/2012 8:16 AM, Béria Lima wrote: We have a result! The polls closed a few hours ago and I've already counted the

[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Seeking Chapter Finances information by Fri, May 25th

2012-05-18 Thread Narayanan, Divya
Dear Chapter Leaders, As you may have heard last week, our team at The Bridgespan Group is seeking information on the Wikimedia movement's current and future funding needs. This information will be used to develop recommendations for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees on the Funds Dissemination

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst

2012-05-18 Thread Nurunnaby Chowdhury
Congrtz James! On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Patricio Molina patriciomol...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations, James! Patricio Molina http://twitter.com/patriciomolina On 17/05/2012, at 13:52, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Everyone, It’s my pleasure to announce that James