Re: [Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-12 Thread M. Williamson
Doesn't MOSS stand for Maldives Open Source Society? I can't find a lot of info on them as they don't seem to be active online at the moment, but I did find this: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-core-marketing/2009-June/00.html Maybe someone could e-mail the author of that message

Re: [Wikitech-l] zh-tw still gives simplified Chinese in link titles on Facebook and Google

2011-10-18 Thread M. Williamson
Umm what the link actually says is this: This is recommended in the following scenarios: - You translate only the template of your page, such as the navigation and footer, and keep the bulk of your content in a single language. This is common on pages that feature user-generated content. - Your

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-16 Thread M. Williamson
I would say broaden the span and lower the number of contribs required just a little (maybe 300?). 2011/6/16 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Jelle Zijlstra wrote: You might also get better results when you don't limit yourself to recent contributions. For example, I contributed heavily to

Re: [Wikitech-l] search=steven+tyler gets Steven_tyler

2011-05-13 Thread M. Williamson
I still don't think page titles should be case sensitive. Last time I asked how useful this really was, back in 2005 or so, I got a tersely-worded response that we need it to disambiguate certain pages. OK, but how many cases does that actually apply to? I would think that the increased usability

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-09 Thread M. Williamson
Would it be possible to get this information for es.wp and sv.wp? Thanks 2011/2/9 DaB. w...@daniel.baur4.info: Hello, Am Mittwoch 09 Februar 2011, 23:36:12 schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, I would be interested in learning sr and ru. sr.wikipedia: Male:  1666 Femaile: 414 All user: 78180

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread M. Williamson
As automatic script conversion is possible, there's really no reason to keep mo.wp at all. You can just remove it completely. That requires just one small edit to the subdomain mapping. Should be much easier than a rename to 'mo-cyrl' which still uses the deprecated code. Since there is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread M. Williamson
2010/10/3 Marcus Buck w...@marcusbuck.org:  An'n 04.10.2010 00:02, hett M. Williamson schreven: As automatic script conversion is possible, there's really no reason to keep mo.wp at all. You can just remove it completely. That requires just one small edit to the subdomain mapping. Should