Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Casey Brown
of the organization and bring up issues that they want dealt with. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread Casey Brown
things are done, even if it's not officially stamped 'policy'. However, the process is described on-wiki already: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 video on Commons?

2011-08-12 Thread Casey Brown
) and mail it to the datacenter by snail mail. But RobH can tell you more about that option, should you need it. ...and just generally, if you have questions or need help while doing it, Roan's a really nice, approachable guy, so feel free to ask him offlist. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-12 Thread Casey Brown
handle this... Let's just hope we get the Interlanguage extension up and running, and it'll be a moot point. ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-08 Thread Casey Brown
at the bottom and click on it. Much fewer steps, and at least a bit clearer/more logical. (This is actually what we do with many of the languages, at least on enwiki. See French for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language#External_links.) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Question: Guidelines with regard to topics suitable for Geonotices

2011-07-30 Thread Casey Brown
by the English Wikipedia community. It's not related to CentralNotice or the Wikimedia Foundation, so they don't really determine the guidelines for its use -- enwiki's community does. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2011-07-23 Thread Casey Brown
/show_bug.cgi?id=25231 -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Question: Elmer Fudd Wikipedia?

2011-07-11 Thread Casey Brown
it and they're looking into it. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] No tail-lights. What do we do now? (was Call for referendum)

2011-07-02 Thread Casey Brown
- they want a source they can quickly look up something in that they can reasonably trust to be useful. They only go to multiple sources if that one starts sucking. As a reader, this is exactly my subconscious opinion. I'm glad you nailed our subconscious thoughts. ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] CDPedia

2011-07-02 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Please, can you add CDPedia[1] (Spanish Wikipedia) to [2]? I think these things are usually requested on Bugzilla so that the people who have the power to do it can find the request. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Casey Brown
included in that article. Hope this helps! -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Casey Brown
protected: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Cite_arxivaction=history -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Election results?

2011-06-17 Thread Casey Brown
in the current hands, but it did also point out others it likes, and we should be sure to keep engaging them at the movement-wide strategy level. Most of these people are already involved in the foundation and meta-level, which is why they ran for the board in the first place. -- Casey Brown

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-14 Thread Casey Brown
the e-mail!) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-14 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: It would be a good idea for someone to make a list of things that need to be done/were done to make your job easier in the future. Pathoschild

Re: [Foundation-l] OTRS

2011-06-02 Thread Casey Brown
all circumstances. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia at events

2011-06-02 Thread Casey Brown
the difference is, if any. Then again, maybe it's okay if the two overlap. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language (Milos Rancic)

2011-05-27 Thread Casey Brown
first, and then allow the user to slowly bootstrap their language sophistication from there? I think Wikiversity would love a English literacy course, if they don't have one already. :-) Their general discussion page is here: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium -- Casey Brown

Re: [Foundation-l] Referent list of wikis?

2011-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
and meanings. Indeed, it doesn't mean that necessarily. However, your analogy doesn't apply in this situation and Nikola was right. Many of the Chinese languages share a common writing system and only differ in the way the language is spoken. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-17 Thread Casey Brown
there in five seconds. :-) It already redirects there, though we don't want to advertise that we have a link shortener because the 404 page redirects. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] User talk page email notification

2011-05-14 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Orionist orion@gmail.com wrote: What is the default position by the way? I checked my preferences on enwiki and the box was checked, so I would assume the default is for it to be checked. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-09 Thread Casey Brown
at the WMF? I believe it's Rob Halsell. I forwarded Thomas's original e-mail to him yesterday to see if he could do anything to help; we'll see what he says. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-09 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/9 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org: I believe it's Rob Halsell.  I forwarded Thomas's original e-mail to him yesterday to see if he could do anything to help; we'll see what he says. :-) But we are still going

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-09 Thread Casey Brown
avoid because it's not part of the WMF matrix (i.e., SUL doesn't apply).  With that in mind, I wonder if there can be a place where projects discuss what has helped and not helped, located somewhere on Meta. Since when does SUL not apply on strategywiki? -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for moderation of Dan Rosenthal and Andrew Garrett

2011-04-04 Thread Casey Brown
members who responded disagreed with his comments, so there's no need to bring it up again and try to cause more problems. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] LiquidThreads redesign?

2011-04-01 Thread Casey Brown
I asked Brandon Harris, one of the Foundation developers working on this, and here's what he said: -- Forwarded message -- From: Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: [Foundation-l] LiquidThreads redesign? To: Casey Brown m

Re: [Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

2011-03-23 Thread Casey Brown
be a high priority. It wasn't mislabeled, why would you think that it was? The nouns in many languages have genders, and the default for that case is almost always male. It's not very fair, but females are used to it. :-) It certainly wasn't mislabeled. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] please announce translations earlier

2011-03-23 Thread Casey Brown
to give as much time as possible. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] keeping localization in mind

2011-03-23 Thread Casey Brown
for one request, a different tool for another request, etc. A major step is getting the extension reviewed first, though. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

2011-03-22 Thread Casey Brown
any way to support that type of feature. It's important to remember, though, that we don't really have any easy way of getting their gender from the wiki they're on. Even if this were enabled in LimeSurvey, it might not be easy to actually use. :-( -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki for interwiki (was: Foundation too passive)

2011-03-21 Thread Casey Brown
of the thread can be read here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/51883 -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread Casey Brown
updated version uploaded, but can't seem to remember if I actually saw it or where it was. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Job openings - Bugmeister

2011-03-15 Thread Casey Brown
it was. I'm CCing him if you have any questions. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] About the catastrophy in Japan

2011-03-11 Thread Casey Brown
fine too. It's almost 08:00 JST, so I expect most of them to be coming online and giving updates soon. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward election issues

2011-03-08 Thread Casey Brown
a global account. ;-) That would really make everything so much easier! -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-08 Thread Casey Brown
responded in our own language. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-08 Thread Casey Brown
/wiki/moderar That seems to be the translate that mailman uses too. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-08 Thread Casey Brown
Victor, speak English or stfu. :-) You use it to get a basic idea of what was said and then respond based on that. In the few times that we've tried it, it hasn't been that much of an issue. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward election issues

2011-03-07 Thread Casey Brown
the SecurePoll extension that is used for board elections and enwiki ArbCom elections. The extension would bar people who did not meet the requirements from voting at all. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward election issues

2011-03-07 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote: Can we keep the election open while using the SecurePoll? I'm not sure, but do we need to keep it open? IIRC, there was some opposition to using open voting during this last election. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

2011-03-06 Thread Casey Brown
español, te invito a subscribirse a la lista de correo de Wikipedia en español: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikies-l ¡Espero que esto ayude! Casey -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism

2011-03-05 Thread Casey Brown
, especially if we hadn't really researched how to make those priority lists? If you translate something into Hopi, Kunama, Irish, or Pirahã, it'll get published just as quickly as if you translate something into French, Spanish, German, or Chinese. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism

2011-03-05 Thread Casey Brown
priority list that they think we should use. :-) The metrics that Mark suggests are a great idea. Number of speakers, number of monolingual (or native) speakers, and size of the editing community would be great things to consider. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-23 Thread Casey Brown
how I remember it being explained many threads ago. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-02-16 Thread Casey Brown
by Thomas, is enwp.org. :-) Thomas is just offering something that's already being used actively so that the Foundation can ensure it's up for a long time. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] VPAT

2011-02-16 Thread Casey Brown
wisdom and making sure everyone learns things is good. :-) Christine probably didn't think the whole list would be interested in it and decided to respond off-list, which is fine... but based on the responses that she received, I'm sure she'll be scared to do that again. =P -- Casey Brown

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Which one was it that was sung at the party in Alexandria? If memory serves it was I will revise to the tune of I will survive. Yep: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Revise -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Again: January 15 retro?

2011-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
something like this to the wiki's Common.js: #p-logo a { background: url(path) 35% 50% no-repeat !important; } -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Again: January 15 retro?

2011-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't replacing File:Wiki.png work on every wiki? I don't think so, I think most of the logo paths are pointing to the v2 logo on Commons right now. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Central Notice is still not up?

2011-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
, but the banners aren't live yet. They should go live soon after they're done being built. Since the translations are all loaded in the system, the only thing we're waiting on is the banners themselves. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] How to contact the foundation's legal department?

2010-12-18 Thread Casey Brown
. However, I wanted to make it clear that neither of them is really wrong or calling each other a liar. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-12 Thread Casey Brown
, it probably went through (or it could've been silently automatically discarded...). The best way to see if your message made it through to the list is to ask the list owner or someone on the list (e.g. Stu, stu at wikimedia dot org). -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] cross posted emails

2010-10-05 Thread Casey Brown
first, or maybe gmail just randomly picks one. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-04 Thread Casey Brown
waiting on a sysadmin to sit down and do them all. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-27 Thread Casey Brown
of it, it would be a great idea for the Language committee to reach out to Wikimedian experts from Asia/India, Africa, and South America and get them included. Membership drive, maybe? :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

[Foundation-l] New mailing list: newprojects

2010-08-22 Thread Casey Brown
interested in knowing about new wikis are welcomed to subscribe too. :-) [1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/newprojects [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix [3]http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Add_a_wiki -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikinews created

2010-08-20 Thread Casey Brown
it be because the language code is three letters (frr) and not two like all of the other projects that have been created recently? Or can you think of any other reason that it wouldn't work? Was this project created differently at all? -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Casey Brown
://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Passport_stamping -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Casey Brown
and other wikis to selected IPs? (Does GeoIP work?) Not at the moment, but Tomasz and Ryan at the Foundation are working on getting this working. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Why should Wikimedians meet?

2010-07-31 Thread Casey Brown
/wiki/Hacking_days * http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_days * http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Days -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice

2010-07-29 Thread Casey Brown
can be translated into whatever language anyone wants, because it's not really nice to have a big notice at the top of your wiki in a different language... it's rude and sticks out like a sore thumb. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-27 Thread Casey Brown
because they've been reviewed and corrected by a human. But if the program were being used by a human who speaks the language, wouldn't it be *pull* translation and not *push* translation? -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-25 Thread Casey Brown
. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-24 Thread Casey Brown
translation will be almost the disaster... ...and we need to remember that most articles are *not* translations of the English article, but are home-grown on the wiki and use their own sources in their own language. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Adopting OmegaWiki as Wikimedia project

2010-07-19 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: (Just poking foundation-l, please continue with discussion at wiktionary-l, or, better, at Meta [1]) Can you make sure that you leave a note on most Wiktionaries notifying them of this discussion too? -- Casey Brown

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

2010-07-14 Thread Casey Brown
was mentioning it in spirit -- basically you can see we're interested in whistleblowers and have this protection/policy already in place for our employees; anyone else should feel free to report any issues they think exist as well. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

2010-07-14 Thread Casey Brown
on, but if you missed that, the presentations should be imported to Commons by either Rob or Roan within the next few weeks. (It's a ton of content. Last I heard, they were mailing Rob a DVD with all the content and he'd be importing it when he got it.) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Country portals

2010-06-18 Thread Casey Brown
them down. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Floating a notion: permanent Wikimania committee?

2010-06-17 Thread Casey Brown
actively reaching out to previous organizers so that they could meet them in Gdansk and get feedback/tips. (They've also been setting up planning information on the existing wikimaniateamwiki.) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Serbia billboard campaign

2010-06-17 Thread Casey Brown
of Serbia. They wanted to incorporate their art project into Wikimedia Serbia projects and we've found that it is a great idea. The project's site is likilink.org [2][3][4]. Just want to say that this is very cool and awesome. :-) The simplistic site is also very cool. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

[Foundation-l] Country portals

2010-06-17 Thread Casey Brown
/Country_portals and I'd appreciate it if you made sure that your local portal is on there. If you know anything about portals, please add to the page. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

2010-06-14 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: Actually, I think Jussi-Ville's comment was very useful For the record, I was talking about the point behind Jussi-Ville's post and not about his colorful characterization of top-posters, which was really not helpful

Re: [Foundation-l] Are Wikimedia websites a proper venue for an artistic contest ?

2010-06-12 Thread Casey Brown
. There are also other things, like quality images http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:QI, which look more at how valuable the image subject is, rather than how good the picture itself is. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Fwd: Are Wikimedia websites a proper venue for an artistic contest ?

2010-06-12 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:51 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: see: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Valued_images Oops, *this* is what I meant when I was talking about Quality Images. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation Extended

2010-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
. (Pacific Time) See the Call for Participation for more details: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/CFP Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-) See you in Gdansk, July 9-11! With best regards, Wikimania Team -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Updating strings for FlaggedRevs for the Flagged Protection/Pending Revisions/Double Check launch

2010-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
it now. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] On Wikimania locations

2010-05-12 Thread Casey Brown
/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Time to reset the 'founder' flag-- Jimbo is no longer a viable king.

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
of godking, he can just ask a local user or steward to carry out the decision instead of doing it himself with a founder flag. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
people the choice to self-censor things that they don't want to see? =/ -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Time to reset the 'founder' flag-- Jimbo is no longer a viable king.

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
could make decisions on tough issues and ask others to do, but those others would be able to review and confirm things for themselves before taking sudden, unilateral actions. You also wouldn't have to worry about Jimmy desyopping you if blocked him for wheel-warring, for instance. -- Casey Brown

Re: [Foundation-l] Threading

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
that as the subject for the new e-mail you create. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] What the board is responsible of (was Re: Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions)

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
/Board_member -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
be technically simple. I definitely agree that this would be the best solution. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] 2011 delay

2010-04-25 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: someone asked me about wikimania 2011 and I realized I only sent this to wikimania-l -- sorry. a.k.a. Sign up for Wikimania-l, foundation-lers! :P -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Hello world. Update from Berlin.

2010-04-21 Thread Casey Brown
;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] list o' image donations?

2010-03-16 Thread Casey Brown
://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Commons_partnerships (That's the category, also see the first page in it.) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Werner Icking Music Archive may be closing

2010-02-28 Thread Casey Brown
of music there. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Sheet_music -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Brion Vibber delete mo. as promised ! Please wake up

2010-02-27 Thread Casey Brown
gather all of the information now and then they can all be done at once. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] I'm here to request a new Wikimedia project

2010-02-27 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tyler programmer...@comcast.net wrote:  I was just wondering, how would you like to start an almanac, guys? That would be neat, a wiki almanac. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-26 Thread Casey Brown
to?), so now there's a help page devoted to it on OTRS-wiki (Help:Foundation). -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Right to left support for Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-25 Thread Casey Brown
, I'll work on expanding that. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010-02-25 Thread Casey Brown
://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies#Related_documents [2] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Category:Job_openings -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

2010-02-08 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote: (On the other hand, some people could consider that a kind of environment unfriendly spamming.) Decomposable stickers! ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed

2010-02-08 Thread Casey Brown
Hey Eli, On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, elipo...@gmail.com wrote: Hey! What? You guys don't want my money? As this has to do with private information about you, I suggest you e-mail donate [at] wikimedia.org about this, instead of the public mailing lists. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Fw: Subscription Payment Failed

2010-02-08 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Elias Friedman elipo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the advice, but I made sure that there wasn't any confidential information in the message before I forwarded it. Well, either way, donate [at] wikimedia.org are the people who can help you. :-) -- Casey Brown

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

2010-02-03 Thread Casey Brown
, and let this thread die? :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising banners

2010-01-08 Thread Casey Brown
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Re: [Foundation-l] (no subject)

2010-01-03 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:56 PM, C F shma...@gmail.com wrote: wtf? Sometimes people send blank e-mails by accident, it's best to just ignore them. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

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