Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

2013-06-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:56: James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20: Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions, please do ask. Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications so that people can start planning? Yes. Any news on the

[Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Anders Wennersten
Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a bot generated article of a butterfly http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysichton_elaborata. The bot behind this article is Lsjbot who creates articles from the database Catalogue of Life

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Patricio Lorente
Congratulations to the swedish wikipedians! 2013/6/16 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se: Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a bot generated article of a butterfly http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysichton_elaborata. The bot behind this article is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Tonmoy Khan
Congratulations!!! Tonmoy On Jun 16, 2013 6:30 PM, Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations to the swedish wikipedians! 2013/6/16 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se: Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a bot generated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Martin Rulsch
Well, precisely to the bots. But we can congratulate the Swedish Wikipedians on more than 500k manually created articles: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/BotActivityMatrixCreates.htm Best regards Martin 2013/6/16 Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com Congratulations to the swedish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Liam Wyatt
grattis mina kompisar! *Jag känner en bott, hon heter Lsjbot, Lsjbot heter hon...* It looks like Polish will be the next to hit the symbolic number: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100_000.2B_articles wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 16 June 2013 22:39, Tonmoy Khan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Nurunnaby Chowdhury
Congratulations swedish wikipedians *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Network Foundation (OKFN)http://www.okfn.org Auto-confirmed, Reviewer Roll backer Editor | Bangla Wikipediahttp://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Treasurer Coordinator (PR) |

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due to a work of bots and to a work of people. It means that this result is contrary to the WMF strategy which would have more people and more contributors. The next millions of articles will be reached by Polish Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
Impressive numbers. Congrats. Can we have those species stubs and lakes in English Wikipedia? 2013/6/16 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a bot generated article of a butterfly http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Johan Jönsson
2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due to a work of bots and to a work of people. It means that this result is contrary to the WMF strategy which would have more people and more contributors. The next millions

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Anders Wennersten
I meant we should give credit to the extremely clever PEOPLE behind the bots. And stop handling proper bot generated article as second class. Their data is actually better verified then most of the others And what we find is that the bots cannot build knowledge (which is our aim) without the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Article count milestones are nice! However, I remind those who were distracted in 2008 that article count is a largely irrelevant piece of our statistics since 2008; both stats.wikimedia.org and www.wikipedia.org (plus the other project portals) don't use it at all to rank projects, etc.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Per A.J. Andersson
Milestones are nice. They're one big reason for celebrating, once in a while. There are lots of others, but not all are this definable and publicly palatable. Quality projects of various kinds are ongoing all the time, and we need different kinds of carrots to keep up the community interest at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [wca] next phone meeting

2013-06-16 Thread Fae
Hi, I'll need the phone in details to join in tonight. Cheers, Fae On 15 June 2013 23:30, Markus Glaser markus.gla...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hi WCA and friends, we will have a phone meeting on Sunday, 16th of June @ 19:00 UTC [1]. More details and the agenda can be found here:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] prism and certificate authorities, snooping https

2013-06-16 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 06/15/2013 05:48 PM, rupert THURNER wrote: the conclusion is also interesting: when a company that uses a certificate authority located in a country different than the one in which it holds user data, it needlessly exposes users’ data to the compelled disclosure by an additional

[Wikimedia-l] UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY

2013-06-16 Thread Isaacs
I request to removed from the lists of people interested in receiving information from Wikimedia.   UNsubscribe my account Immediately.    My E-Mail Address:   dwi...@yahoo.com   I will EXPECT  to receive a confirmation that my Wikimedia Account is PERMANENTLY  CLOSED. Mary K. Isaacs

[Wikimedia-l] UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY

2013-06-16 Thread Isaacs
I request to removed from the lists of people interested in receiving information from Wikimedia.   UNsubscribe my account Immediately.    My E-Mail Address:   dwi...@yahoo.com   I will EXPECT  to receive a confirmation that my Wikimedia Account is PERMANENTLY  CLOSED. Mary K. Isaacs

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY

2013-06-16 Thread Adrian Raddatz
You do realize that every message has an unsubscribe option at the bottom, right? That's the easiest way to get off of this list. On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Isaacs dwi...@yahoo.com wrote: I request to removed from the lists of people interested in receiving information from Wikimedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY

2013-06-16 Thread Tomasz W. Kozlowski
Adrian Raddatz wrote: You do realize that every message has an unsubscribe option at the bottom, right? That's the easiest way to get off of this list. For future reference: I initiated the un-subscription process for Mary contacted her off–list, so this will hopefully be resolved soon.

[Wikimedia-l] WCA/Journal: if you report anyway, why not in the Journal, too?

2013-06-16 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, In the WCA telephone conference we talked about the Journal. We were discussing on useful content: what happened in your chapter, what events, what contacts with national authorities, did you decide to become a FDC chapter... a lot of things to report about. And we report anyway, in our

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY

2013-06-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote: For future reference: I initiated the un-subscription process for Mary contacted her off–list, so this will hopefully be resolved soon. Just to confirm - I unsubscribed her. :) ___ Philippe