Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-04 Thread WereSpielChequers
Message: 2 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:02:51 -0700 From: Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation Message-ID:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

2012-08-04 Thread ???
On 04/08/2012 00:44, Mike Linksvayer wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM, ??? wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: On 03/08/2012 16:24, Mike Linksvayer wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:14 AM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: The proposal was floated by Jimmy Wales on the 10th of december, 1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects

2012-08-04 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, I repeat my proposal that every wiki-website (project) should install a (international) contact person, and these contact persons should be following a mailing list with specified information for them. They inform the wiki-website-community about important issues on the village pump or via

Re: [Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects

2012-08-04 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Thank you for the links, Tilman! 2012/8/4 Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org: On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, In the 2012-13 WMF plan document I saw an interesting thing: We’ve hosted key community stakeholders such as English

[Wikimedia-l] Trent Franks quotes Wikipedia in the house of representatives

2012-08-04 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi there, It looks like Trent Franks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks) is a fan of wikipedia, but needs some information about how it works. He quotes Wikipedia, ``One year after the Fort Hood shooting, the motivations of the perpetrator were not yet established.'', maybe he needs to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: Of course, here the term high quality does not necessarily mean, say, featured content (e.g. on the English Wikipedia, featured articles currently make up less than 0.1% of the total articles), but instead refers to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects

2012-08-04 Thread Michael Peel
There's a very strong selection bias on this list towards those that can read English, and those that have the time to follow very long, convoluted discussions. ;-) I think Ziko's talking more about a low-traffic list with key issues/points concisely described, which is completely different