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

2010-08-27 Thread Lars Aronsson
wasting my time on foundation-l? Unbelievable! Bye! -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-07 Thread Lars Aronsson
interwiki links and suggesting parent categories is a bit of work and unlikely to be implemented soon. We can disable category translation if that helps - can you confirm if that's OK? I think you should keep it as it is, until you get around to do that bit of work. -- Lars Aronsson (l

Re: [Foundation-l] Parallel text alignment (was: Push translation)

2010-08-07 Thread Lars Aronsson
ends to our country and our people. Is there any good free software for aligning parallel texts and extracting translations? Looking around, I found NAtools, TagAligner, and Bitextor, but they require texts to be marked up already. Are these the best and most modern tools available? -- Lars

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-05 Thread Lars Aronsson
could bring up both articles side by side and suggest which sections are in most dire need of improvement? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

2009-09-09 Thread Lars Aronsson
to the Wikimedia Foundation. There is no real risk for censorship. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

2009-09-07 Thread Lars Aronsson
. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikisource-l] Universal Library

2009-09-04 Thread Lars Aronsson
in OpenLibrary to Wikipedia biographies is just one way where we can do a lot, without needing to start a new project. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Universal Library

2009-09-02 Thread Lars Aronsson
. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Frequency of Seeing Bad Versions - now with traffic data

2009-08-28 Thread Lars Aronsson
money for servers. Very real. Now, we only need to insert real numbers into this equation. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

2009-08-20 Thread Lars Aronsson
on the number of articles, but on the overall usefulness. Day 1: Create article Apple is a fruit. Day 2: Create article Pear is a fruit. Day 3: Extend article about apples. Add photos. Cite sources. Day 3: Zero growth in the number of articles. Panic!!! -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

2009-08-20 Thread Lars Aronsson
don't know what it is. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikisource-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-20 Thread Lars Aronsson
of their catalogs has been a bottleneck for OpenLibrary. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

2009-08-19 Thread Lars Aronsson
. The German article on Michael Jackson got 2.1 M page views during July, or .020 per speaker of the language, similar to the Swedish and Finnish Wikipedia articles. Why did the Danish and Norwegian articles get only 12 page views per thousand speakers? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-17 Thread Lars Aronsson
used too Mediawiki. ;oD And therefore, you would not try to improve OpenLibrary, but rather start an entirely new project based on MediaWiki? I'm afraid that this (not invented here) is a common sentiment, and a major reason that we will get nowhere. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikisource-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
that material? On Wikisource. What's stopping them? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Voluntary self-regulation of multimedia service providers

2009-08-07 Thread Lars Aronsson
Wikipedia unless we voluntarily agree? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] How was the only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote rule decided?

2009-08-03 Thread Lars Aronsson
into the English Wikisource and not the German or French one.) -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-24 Thread Lars Aronsson
revenue from the printed editions. We could be entering a period of scarcity of good reference information, as counterintuitive as that might seem. There is a huge gap for Wikipedia to fill. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

2009-07-18 Thread Lars Aronsson
should be a good starting point. Our allies could be individual experienced museum people, archivists and librarians, who disagree with current policy. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

2009-07-17 Thread Lars Aronsson
decades should have articles that can be cited as sources. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia: A quantity analysis

2009-07-10 Thread Lars Aronsson
. That is, the early newcomers on sv.wp already had some wiki experience. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with human translations of Wikipedia articles

2009-06-10 Thread Lars Aronsson
they be interested in providing open content output in exchange for open content input? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-06-02 Thread Lars Aronsson
necessarily infringed by implementation of this specification). Oh, how very generous. But what if we want to implement some of their features in MediaWiki without following their protocol? That is where we should be worried. What exactly is it that they have patented? -- Lars Aronsson (l

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-06-01 Thread Lars Aronsson
Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/5/31 Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se: The idea of showing diffs since the user last viewed the same wave, is very similar to Flagged revisions. How is it in any way like Flagged revisions? From the video, the user interface color marked the differences

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-05-30 Thread Lars Aronsson
compatible servers, and that could take a long time. Google can of course let GMail and Blogger run this protocol, but that doesn't mean all existing users will start to understand wave conversations. Instead, old-school e-mail conversations might take place over this new protocol. -- Lars

Re: [Foundation-l] Murdoch newspaper websites to go paywall -opportunity for citizen journalism!

2009-05-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
better? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
Wikipedia has many anonymous and pseudonymous users. So how would the Korean authorities know which ones are Koreans and need to identify? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Considerations for museums and archives

2009-03-30 Thread Lars Aronsson
to release? I asked this question on wikipedia-l on March 2, 2004. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014745.html And Richard Stallman answered that this was not the case. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014758.html -- Lars Aronsson (l

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-16 Thread Lars Aronsson
.html -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: January 2009 (fwd)

2009-03-12 Thread Lars Aronsson
Resending Sue Gardner's report for January, for the list archive. I really like to be able to link to it. (Sue, you have a habit of starting paragraphs with From and this bug is still there.) -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: December 2008

2009-03-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-March/050792.html Since the report was distributed just fine, I think that Mailman is fine, but the bug hides somewhere in Pipermail 0.09. It is perhaps related to ^From being a message separator in the mbox format. Is there a fix for this bug? -- Lars

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution by URL reasoning?

2009-03-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se Wikimedia Sverige - stöd fri kunskap - http://wikimedia.se/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-02 Thread Lars Aronsson
was censored in this way. Perhaps they should write a newspaper article about how this musical artist tries to hide her real age. This doesn't necessarily bring an answer to the question, but establishing a good link with journalists is always useful. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se

Re: [Foundation-l] History splitting (main namespace)

2009-02-13 Thread Lars Aronsson
, in order to follow the wiki spirit, GFDL was ignored. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility atwikinews [en] warning: contains rant

2009-02-05 Thread Lars Aronsson
, see if you can recruit them to Wikisource. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

2009-01-21 Thread Lars Aronsson
a population (18 million) twice as big as Sweden's (9 million) and almost four times that of Norway (4.8 million). The distance from New York City to Chicago, where the next sub-national chapter might be, is 1000 km, or roughly that from Paris to Warsaw. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

2009-01-21 Thread Lars Aronsson
, such as the NYC chapter. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

2009-01-21 Thread Lars Aronsson
wouldn't like that. And I will protest against any plan to formalize the bond between European chapters. I want each chapter to communicate directly with the Foundation, instead of going through some EU level intermediary. Again, this is my personal view. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] vro

2009-01-21 Thread Lars Aronsson
new Wikipedias, but it's not OK to suddenly change a well-known address. We're here to spread free knowledge. That is not helped by renaming all of our URLs just because of some random ISO standard change. The no and et Wikipedias should be kept as they are. -- Lars Aronsson (l

Re: [Foundation-l] transparency or translucency?

2009-01-12 Thread Lars Aronsson
, you need to provide real examples of types of information that you want access to, that you fail to find today. You will never be able to get everything. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL QA update and question

2009-01-09 Thread Lars Aronsson
wikis have always worked, namely that we sometimes cut-and-paste text between articles without fully attributing the original author. This is how wikis work, and if you don't like it, you better not contribute your text. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http

Re: [Foundation-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

2008-12-06 Thread Lars Aronsson
in 2004. It was a great idea and has served its purpose well. But as we recruit new users, less experienced users who we have to actively recruit, this is not a vehicle for the best possible user experience and productivity. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http

Re: [Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

2008-12-05 Thread Lars Aronsson
by a donation of 2 cents, we'd have the 5.36 million dollars that we need. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

2008-12-03 Thread Lars Aronsson
of the greatest values of Wikipedia Academy is when the attendees get to see each other's reactions to Wikipedia. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Site Notices Phase 2 - Annual Fundraiser 2008

2008-11-27 Thread Lars Aronsson
could have an open pool of phrases (a wiki page), and the system would automatically pick untested phrases at random, and continue to use those which are successful in the marketplace. This simple principle should scale to every language. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson