Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

2012-06-12 Thread Strainu
2012/6/10 Mike Dupont : > Hi, > I have launched speedydeletion.wika.com , it is updated every 30 minutes > with the proposed deletions and speedy deletion articles (not notable and > hoaxes, not others). Hey Mike, Great idea, do you plan to extend it to other wikis? Also, I see that you only ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

2012-06-12 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi there, I am still waiting for some ok to install it on toolserver, the source is open, you can run it as well. I dont plan on going for other wikis until i get one down perfect. In terms of license, i am just using a template for that, I have not thought about gfdl much but I dont want to change

Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

2012-06-12 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Tarc Meridian wrote: > > This  has been tried before, i.e. wikialpha.org.  Pages are speedily deleted > for a reason, many of them quite properly so.  Moving potentially libelous > BLP attack pages and other sundry junk to a publicly viewable wiki is not a > ver

Re: [Wikimedia-l] TomTom does a Britannica

2012-06-12 Thread Strainu
2012/5/29 David Gerard : > On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wrote: >> Yes, TomTom is dying.  But it's because of Google, not because of OSM. > > > I'd actually flag smartphones as the culprit. Well, the empire strikes back: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/11/apple-tomtom-ios-6-maps/ :) Another "usab

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 24 -- 11 June 2012

2012-06-12 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Special report: Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-06-11/Special_report News and notes: Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/201

[Wikimedia-l] Office hour: Wikipedia Education Programs in Canada and U.S.

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Schnautz
In anticipation of some major changes that are coming up in the U.S. and Canada Education Programs, the Wikimedia Foundation staff for the Wikipedia Education Program (Frank Schulenburg, Annie Lin, LiAnna Davis, Jami Mathewson, and I) will be hosting a scheduled public office hour in the #wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Grant Advisory Committee is expanding!

2012-06-12 Thread Asaf Bartov
Reminder: The Grant Advisory Committee is expanding. If you'd like to help grantees and the Foundation in its grantmaking, consider submitting your candidacy here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates Cheers, Asaf On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Asaf Bartov wr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-12 Thread Kim Bruning
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:12:58PM +0200, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi all, > > We're planning to do limited production testing of IPv6 during the > Berlin Hackathon 2012 (June 2-3). Provided that the number of issues > we encounter are manageable, we may fully enable IPv6 on IPv6 day, and > keep it e

Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

2012-06-12 Thread Kim Bruning
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +, Mike Dupont wrote: > Hi, > > Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no one > is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as being > from wikipedia. You are very concientious, and normally this would inde

Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

2012-06-12 Thread Thomas Morton
This has been debated numerous times; to what extent does the attribution have to relate to the exact contribution of each author. A list of authors has been considered acceptable in the past (including on-wiki). Tom On 12 June 2012 23:48, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40A

Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

2012-06-12 Thread Kim Bruning
In theory, yes. However, if you're fetching page dumps conforming to the schema at http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.6/ http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.6.xsd to some extent you've already got all the information anyway. It *almost* takes more work to filter out just the autho

Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

2012-06-12 Thread Kim Bruning
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +, Mike Dupont wrote: > Hi, > > Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no one > is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as being > from wikipedia. ps. It occurs to me that if the full history is availabl

[Wikimedia-l] FDC Nominations are open

2012-06-12 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hi, everyone. As you probably know, we have been discussing the creation of a new Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)[1] across the movement for several months now, following the board resolution[2]. Now is a good time to start collecting potential nominees to serve on the future FDC, as we hope

Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

2012-06-12 Thread Mike Dupont
yes, good point, and while checking this I found a problem. it turns out that up to now I dont have the full history, I have modified the extractor to pull the full version. For the other articles, I dont have the full history. mike On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Mo