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

2012-06-19 Thread David Richfield
I'm actually really shocked that the speedy deletion wiki doesn't have a copy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Juclandia - there's an excellent version of the article on http://microwiki.org.uk/index.php?title=Juclandia , though, so all is not lost. [it seems to be a monstrously

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] media tarballs announcement

2012-06-19 Thread Benjamin Lees
This is great! Forwarding to wikimedia-l. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Folks who are interested in downloading tarballs of media for their particular project can now do so from: http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/ In

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

2012-06-19 Thread Mike Dupont
Well, lets see the speedy deletion wiki was just launched, 15 December 2010  it was deleted. I will have to make a plan for getting older articles, they would be possible to get, but it is outside of our time window right now. mike On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:48 AM, David Richfield

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who invoked principle of least surprise for the image filter?

2012-06-19 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 18.06.2012 15:06, schrieb Thomas Morton: I don't think that we need this argument since the filter can't replace parents anyway. But it is a constant part of the discussions with various exaggerated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who invoked principle of least surprise for the image filter?

2012-06-19 Thread Todd Allen
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 18.06.2012 15:06, schrieb Thomas Morton: I don't think that we need this argument since the filter can't replace parents

[Wikimedia-l] Purpose-driven motivation

2012-06-19 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9p4o050EY Someone sent this to me earlier this week. It's a ten-minute cartoon video that discusses purpose and motivation. The video lightly touches on technical projects such as Wikipedia, Apache, and Linux and focuses on the research into why people spend

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who invoked principle of least surprise for the image filter?

2012-06-19 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote: My middle one can very briefly go online alone to a few sites I've already agreed to, and I check up on her a lot. Is Wikipedia one of those few sites? But the whole point is, that's -my- job, not anyone else's, just

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Purpose-driven motivation

2012-06-19 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:05 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Hi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9p4o050EY Someone sent this to me earlier this week. It's a ten-minute cartoon video that discusses purpose and motivation. The video lightly touches on technical projects such as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who invoked principle of least surprise for the image filter?

2012-06-19 Thread Todd Allen
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote: My middle one can very briefly go online alone to a few sites I've already agreed to, and I check up on her a lot. Is Wikipedia one of those few sites?