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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, James Alexander wrote:
That being said I'm not totally sure that basic info like edit counts should
be disallowed since most of them are given by the software itself (and still
is) not to mention the toolserver. Perhaps more
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, oliver keyes wrote:
Sue is the Executive Director of the fastest growing non-profit
foundation in the United States, a foundation which has just
announced a doubling of its staff, trial direct expansion to two more
nations
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Yes, it's communism that works in theory but not in practice. :-)
But isn't Wikipedia Communism?
It must be true, I saw it written so on Wikipedia! :D
- -Mike
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_to_loosen_controls_tonight.php
Wow, they used the right title! :D
So did the BBC article[1]: Wikipedia unlocks divisive pages for editing
- -Mike
[1]
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, George Herbert wrote:
The appropriate response to this might be a Quebec Wikisource project
(or, pick another French-speaking location, with a very non-French
copyright policy which is more friendly to us in this
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
I am really happy to announce two important new Wikimedia Foundation
hires. Zack Exley will be Wikimedia's new Chief Community Officer,
and Barry Newstead will be our Chief Global Development Officer.
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote:
I was rummaging for story about Samuel Johnson and people hunting for
naughty words in his dictionary, when I came across a Google Books
reproduction of an 1896 periodical titled The Homiletic Review,
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Austin Hair wrote:
I am less confident about unbalanced. The old logo could also be said
to be visually unbalanced and perhaps we're just used to it?
I'm sure that's part of it—the old one really does look a bit crowded,
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
In the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real
philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I
acted, I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Lost in the recent email flood: pediapress is fully working for
English.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/06/wikipedia-and-pediapress-now-allow-you-to-create-books-from-content-in-english/
Does anyone
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
My purpose here is for us to stop chattering about this aspect of
things - which I don't care about. People seem to want to fight me
on it, perhaps expecting me to dig in my heels. Everyone loves a
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
This isn't an ideal situation. We should have a situation in which
Jimmy's technical power derives from the authority of the board of
trustees or from a community mandate, or we should have a situation in
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
To the contrary, I have been very active in discussions both on the
wiki, in email, and in irc. Pretending that I'm not a reasonable person
open to discussion and debate is not going to be very persuasive
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
We were about to be smeared in all media as hosting hardcore pornography
and doing nothing about it. Now, the correct storyline is that we are
cleaning up. I'm proud to have made sure that storyline broke
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
I disagree with the suggestion that it would have been better for Fox to
have gone with the original story they were trying to create rather than
with the story Jimmy in effect created for them.
I assume
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And when people pointed out your errors, rather than say I'm sorry
and restore the images, you re-deleted and continued your rampage.
That sounds eerily reminiscent of what Mike Godwin said about Fox news:
when their mistakes are brought to their
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
As I'm sending this, I'm wondering: have we actually started an
announce-only list?
+1 for that! I think Cary typically handles creating mailing lists.
I'm delighted to tell you that Philippe Beaudette
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Aradhana Ravindra will support the Bookshelf project as a contractor
Glad to see that the bookshelf project is getting additional staffing -
however didn't some staff leave the project as well?
- -Mike
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, John Doe wrote:
I agree top posting tends to be the most effective method for handling
mailing lists
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
The easiest way to deal with such
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Anthony wrote:
August 2009: 1030
September 2009: 791
October 2009: 326
November 2009: 513
December 2009: 234
January 2010: 207
February 2010: 213
March 2010: ???
Does anyone know what the numbers are? Or perhaps this
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote:
we think there are some interface changes are
going to improve both the user experience and the value of the enwiki
trial.
Why did it take this request from enwiki to have the UX aspect of
flagged
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Peter Gervai wrote:
Are you aware of the fact that it's been used in non-English
wikipedias for years? And it's been quite a successful feature.
YMMV.
grin
Are you aware it's been used on enwikibooks too? And has been
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
What about c) people not editing (or not continuing to edit) because
they don't like their edits not going live immediately? Any data on
that?
I think this is one of the two main reasons flagged revs has
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Alex wrote:
Why
this wasn't done before it was deployed on dewiki or anywhere else, I
don't know
Because only enwiki matters?
- -Mike
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This is great news! I'm thrilled that this important work can become a
permanent priority for the Foundation. The usability work has already
been a success, and continuing that work will be a major asset towards
achieving Wikimedia's goals. I'm also
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote:
The thing we're working on right now is moving flaggedrevs.labs to
different hardware.
OK, but hasn't it been *months*?! Isn't there a dedicated team for this
rollout?! What work are they actually doing?
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote:
I've reported when I thought I had something to report
I think the problem here is that you haven't reported any
accomplishments because there haven't been any.
Perhaps you're actually saying that the
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
As CTO, Danese will be responsible for ensuring Wikipedia and the
other Wikimedia projects run reliably and perform well from a
technical standpoint. She will also be responsible for supporting the
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, David Gerard wrote:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/5104
Michael Geist on how excessive copyright and ACTA-like treaties will
directly affect the process of sharing and education, i.e. what we do.
- d.
Actually,
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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, David Gerard wrote:
2010/1/14 David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com:
As for the link, showing these in greatly enlarged versions, without
the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a
strong bias. We've
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Sorry to be blunt but, Why is this question so Wikipedia-centric? Other
projects have proved ideal testing grounds for usability and such.
Because Wikipedia is the cash cow.
I was going to rant, but it became too depressing because it wouldn't
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Here are two:
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_video_tutorial-1-Editing-en.ogv
*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_video_tutorial-2-Reliability-en.ogv
Plus a making-of video:
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Could someone let me know why we need a bureaucratic process (I mean
bureaucratic without the connotative value) to approve new projects
when there has been exactly zero proposals since 2006 that actually
needed to be approved? (And in fact, there is
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Issue 1: The official and public description of CheckUser lays out a
transparent process for justifying when and how it may be used. In practice,
it is often used in secret and quick back door process. First issue is
the misrepresentation to the
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wrote:
on 9/21/09 7:00 PM, Philippe Beaudette at pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Just to follow up - I just sent a test submit, and it acted correctly,
and sent me to application submission successful.
Philippe,
Did you receive my
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Hello,
I wanted to let folks know that WMF is decommissioning some 35 servers,
and is willing to accept requests from users interested in using them
for Wikimedia-related purposes. If you can ship a server from Tampa to
where you are, and if you can
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Brion Vibber wrote:
IMO we need to do that for the projects we already have before we take
on new obligations!
We still have very poor software support for:...
Thanks Brion, it is good to know that the tech team is aware of these
issues and will
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David Gerard wrote:
Proposals I recall seeing for new projects either fit into a current
project (e.g. Wikibooks - really, Wikipedia is a book, too)
Sorry, Wikibooks is for *textbooks* and Wikipedia is not a textbook. (We
also have a cookbook,
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Erik Moeller wrote:
Certainly the process for getting a new project underway is so complex
and exhausting that it's not something that many people will be likely
to engage in
Another issue is that all our projects use the MediaWiki platform (and
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Another possible explanation for what's happening at the WMF HQ is
that the whole operation is preparing to move to new digs, and rather
than break their lease, they're seeking to find a subtenant to avoid
some financial penalty for early exit. I
No, really, you need to discuss this on wikien-l instead of here. This
has been explained to you by multiple people on multiple occasions. I'd
suggest someone enforce that if need be.
Thanks,
-Mike
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:24 -0700, stevertigo wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM,
I'm sorry, this is really not something that needs discussion on
foundation-l. This concerns English Wikipedia, and not the wider
Wikimedia community or the Foundation itself. Please consider moving
this discussion back to the project-specific mailing list or the project
itself so to the community
Sue, thanks so much for compiling and sharing these reports, it is
always great to see how much the Foundation is doing as time progresses.
I notice that in each report there has been a list of media with which
the Foundation has had contact - is that generally interviews requested
by the media,
Thanks for this reminder. I've been putting together a submission myself
and I'd urge others to do the same. If you're not sure where to begin,
michaelgeist.ca has some excellent discussion of where Canadian
copyright law should be headed.
In addition to individual submissions, what are the
Good eyes, Sj. I have to agree - opening a new wiki for every single
project is a terrible idea, as we've learned from quality.wikimedia.org.
Please try to use Meta for this purpose.
-Mike
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 02:19 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
A related question - I see there was a request to
Is it time to close the advisory board wiki like we just closed
quality.wikimedia.org? Considering the state you describe, I rather
think so (even qualitywiki wasn't so bad). Content could be moved to
foundationwiki or Meta (or both) depending on what it is.
-Mike
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 17:08
This is totally off-topic and also a low blow. Please join #ubuntu on
irc.freenode.net and ask about FF3.5 (or search google; no shortage of
information) - I think you'll find the answers more satisfying than this
email misleadingly suggests.
-Mike
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 17:53 +0200, Gerard
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 21:54 -0700, Michael Snow wrote:
One example is interest groups
that aren't tied to geography, the way the chapters are. I always cite
the idea of an Association of Blind Wikipedians, who might wish to
organize to promote work on accessibility issues.
Actually, that
, Mike.lifeguard
mikelifegu...@fastmail.fmwrote:
Purely out of ignorance, why do we like ogg, but not H264? Or is it not
that we don't /like/ it, but rather we simply don't support it as a
format for whatever reason?
Thanks,
-Mike
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Purely out of ignorance, why do we like ogg, but not H264? Or is it not
that we don't /like/ it, but rather we simply don't support it as a
format for whatever reason?
Thanks,
-Mike
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Actually, what Commons does is store media files. Whether it does that
for other projects or not is the open question we're considering at
present. You shouldn't define your premises to meet your conclusions if
you want to participate in a constructive dialogue.
Thanks,
-Mike
On Tue, 2009-06-16
The Ombudsman Commission would likely be that group. Although their
focus has traditionally been CheckUser, their purview actually covers
any and all violations of the privacy policy. Here is one such case. At
this moment, I agree: this sysop shouldn't be.
-Mike
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 06:21
I have been keeping an eye on what content got imported on English
Wikibooks. If there has been anything imported from offsite GFDL-only
sources I'm not aware of it. To be honest though, that's not saying much
- we often have contributors bring us whole books they wrote elsewhere -
but that's not
Wikibooks uses GFDL. We do have some revisions which may be
multi-licensed, but it's probably not safe to assume that any books are
entirely multi-licensed (though some do make that claim).
-Mike
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 02:12 +0100, David Gerard wrote:
2009/5/23 Mike.lifeguard mikelifegu
Obviously not; here we are discussing it. One wonders if we actually did
learn any lessons during the Enlightenment...
-Mike
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 10:04 -0400, The Cunctator wrote:
I can't believe Fred is litigating this again. He's been around long enough
to know that censorship is a dead
Actually, I would argue that we shouldn't censor for principled reasons.
Supposing it were the case that we could safely censor only sexual
content with no slippery slope, we still shouldn't do so because it is
wrong regardless what the practical consequences may or may not be. That
said, a more
While this may be true for Wikipedia (English Wikipedia?), it is
certainly not true of Wikimedia project generally. For example,
Wikibooks has a subproject Wikijunior which is an attempt to create
high-quality children's books. Part of the defined scope here is that
the books are appropriate for
I would love to see these adopted for Commons photographers. The issue
will become knowing when these principles are being violated. For
example, if you're going to alter audio to serve your own POV, you're
not going to make it obvious you've done so. Detection is one problem,
but even if you've
So far as I know, this is solved by givine each centralnotice a
different id (which is how they're identified to be hidden - or at least
that was the case in the past). Should be easy to do.
-Mike
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:56 -0700, Robert Rohde wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Erik
, 2009-04-14 at 10:49 -0700, Robert Rohde wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Mike.lifeguard
mikelifegu...@fastmail.fm wrote:
So far as I know, this is solved by givine each centralnotice a
different id (which is how they're identified to be hidden - or at least
that was the case
Welcome, Jennifer!
Congratulations to the hiring committee as well for carrying out a
successful hiring process. While the Foundation is expanding, I think
this and other recent hirings show there's no loss of focus on the power
behind the projects, which is the massive base of volunteer
come -
listen, participate, whatever!
See you there
-Mike
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