Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Personality rights

2012-04-08 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:42 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2012 13:39, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: I've sent you and Ryan an e-mail with a link to the deletion discussion. In a discussion like this, secret evidence is approximately worthless. Indeed. This

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-07 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-06 Thread Samuel Klein
, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, new projects suck, because there are (close to) none asked some time ago already with few positive replies bug was already filled at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi

[Foundation-l] Do you use MediaWiki as a conference website?

2012-04-06 Thread Samuel Klein
Forwarding to f-l/ -- Forwarded message -- From: Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Do you use MediaWiki as a conference website? Related to this idea, OpenMeetings is a site established to capture meetings and video/audio/text of talks at them, under

[Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-02 Thread Samuel Klein
are as a society towards reaching that goal SJ -- Forwarded message -- From: Samuel Klein s...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org I

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiktionary App, beta release (Android v1.0.1b)

2012-03-27 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-25 Thread Samuel Klein
Birgitte, I have greatly enjoyed all of your replies in this thread; this one in particular. Thank you for sharing. On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:37 AM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: I simply see the bigger concern to be: What if we don't add 1,000 new curators who care to learn how to

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-24 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:06 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Experiments are acceptable... sometimes. MZM, I didn't expect you to become the voice of conservatism! I cannot agree with your premise that experiments are somehow 'optional' or new. Experimentation is the lifeblood of any

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-24 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Oh come on people - this is yet another Foundation-l discussion that has gone off the rails..the elusiveness of Samuel Klein?  sounds like a thriller novel..  I'm not sure we need to be attacking other volunteers

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-23 Thread Samuel Klein
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[Foundation-l] Participation and content, quantity and quality (was re: new editor engagement experiments)

2012-03-21 Thread Samuel Klein
This seems like it deserves its own thread. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:53 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The vision of the Wikimedia movement is to create a free and accessible repository of (high-quality) educational content; the vision is not about trying to get as many people

Re: [Foundation-l] sad news

2012-03-16 Thread Samuel Klein
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:12 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: I realize in my first note that I forgot to link Ben's meta page... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tlogmer a quick look at his contributions will remind some of us about the old fundcom, Wikimania 2006 designs,

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-15 Thread Samuel Klein
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Robin McCain ro...@slmr.com wrote: I find it bizarre that inclusion of information of local importance is encouraged in the internationalized local language wikipediae but discouraged in the U.S. English wikipedia.  So events of local interest in a town in

[Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-13 Thread Samuel Klein
2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to replace my old set!) Future versions will be digital only. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/?smid=tw-nytimesseid=auto

Re: [Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-13 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I am confusing things. There's also World Book in English, the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Presentation to the Board of Trustees

2012-03-03 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not Foundation) matters

2012-03-02 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: The full proposal is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l_proposal I think there's another way we could slice the cake: (a) a mailing list for discussing Foundation, chapter and management ... Maybe just

Re: [Foundation-l] Foursquare ditches Google Maps for OpenStreetMap

2012-03-02 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

2012-03-02 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/3/2 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org: On 1 March 2012 18:27, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Hello people, So after receive authorization from all candidates, the list of candidates + statements are in

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia's ebook and PDF creation feature doesn't support Chinese and Japanese

2012-03-02 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not Foundation) matters

2012-03-01 Thread Samuel Klein
rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: If names are that important for you, go ahead and rename foundation-l, but there is really no need for yet another list. +1

Re: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia

2012-02-19 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

2012-02-14 Thread Samuel Klein
On 2/13/12 8:45 AM, Mathias Damour wrote: Why would both Associations and Affiliates both need to use Wikimedia marks ? Does OpenStreetMap need it if it gets some grants from the WMF ? As Andre says, Affiliates need permission to use the WMF marks on their own sites / banners, or to run

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Right to be Forgotten

2012-02-10 Thread Samuel Klein
Forwarding from internal. The right to vanish... or a part of it... proposed as law. -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM Subject: [Internal-l] Right to be Forgotten To: interna...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-05 Thread Samuel Klein
On 2/2/12, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: We're getting very off topic, but you are right that there is a problem with dormant chapters. I know nothing about the Russian chapter, but I do know how difficult it was to to get the first Wikimedia UK out of the way. Perhaps the WMF

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Howie Fung as Director of Product Development

2012-01-30 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-21 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:32 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this.  We've now finalized the policy and it now lives at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy Thank you for working on this,

Re: [Foundation-l] Policies on wikimediafoundation.org

2012-01-21 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild) pathosch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 19:38, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: I think it makes sense to better delineate what applies to different groups. Agreed. A good starting point is the navigation

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread Samuel Klein
2012/1/17 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this announcement Jay, and everyone involved in the planning of this unprecedented action. For what it's worth, I want to particularly thank the Italian

[Foundation-l] Fwd: board meeting agenda

2011-10-06 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote: On 10/5/11 1:50 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: The WMF isn't allowed to lobby for or against legislation, per our 501c3 non-profit status in the US. This is not necessarily true for chapters though, and definitely not true for the

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-18 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:57 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: From Wikimedia's perspective, I think this is one down, several hundred to go. Wikimedia has made it clear that its singular focus is the

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-17 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello Andrew, These are very fine ideas indeed. I have always found the 'breaking news' stories on Wikinews to be among its least interesting content, for all of the reasons you note. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, reading this thread with

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-12 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Tempodivalse r2d2.stra...@verizon.net wrote: I thought the Wikimedia community should know that a large portion of WIkinews' contributor base has forked into its own project (http://theopenglobe.org) after becoming deeply dissatisfied with Wikinews. The new

Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

2011-09-05 Thread Samuel Klein
Yikes. I think the actual issue here is that we need to drive more editors and contributors to Wikinews (or find an appropriate similar project to merge with). I am a fan of the Project -- I've had two people in the community-news business in the last two weeks chat me up about wikinews because

Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

2011-09-05 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

2011-09-04 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-10 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:13 PM, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but again as I said, most people will be looking for their languages on http://www.wikipedia.org/ or in places where interwiki links are usually found. Mark, Could you please propose a specific solution that would make

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Chapters and some of their coolest activities

2011-08-09 Thread Samuel Klein
Thank you, Lodewijk -- this is awesome. On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Chapters_-_Wikimania_2011.pdf - unfortunately Wikimedia Commons still doesn't accept any presentation format (.ppt, .pptx,

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello Birgitte, Thank you for these comments and edits/suggestions. [all: please also post suggestions on Meta. most people are not subscribed to this list.] This Board letter was published on short notice. Once it was clear that the issue should be raised and discussed this year, we wanted to

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-06 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello MZM, thanks for taking a start at new pages to illustrate the discussion on Meta. MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com writes: I fail to see how violating the community's principles of transparency and accountability by keeping everything on a non-public list is any better. I just hope nobody's

Re: [Foundation-l] Start questions and answers site within Wikimedia

2011-07-21 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Start questions and answers site within Wikimedia

2011-07-21 Thread Samuel Klein
a stackexchange site relating to Wikipedia a few months back. It's currently in the commitment phase - needing people to commit to seeding it. SE is a proven QA platform; so worth considering. Tom Morton On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:00, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: This is a good idea

Re: [Foundation-l] Start questions and answers site within Wikimedia

2011-07-21 Thread Samuel Klein
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Oliver Moran oliver.mo...@gmail.com wrote: It is a disappointment in some respects that Stack Overflow uses proprietary software (not least because it is so wonderful) but in all other respects, as a community, they do a great job. I have had wonderful

Re: [Foundation-l] roadmap for WM affiliation ; a name for self-identified affiliation

2011-07-13 Thread Samuel Klein
to become the new Wikimedia project. I know that in the past this question has lived for example with OmegaWiki/WiktionaryZ . SJ, would you consider this to be similar to Wikimedian groups who want to have a slightly more formal relationship with the Movement? Lodewijk 2011/7/13 Samuel Klein meta

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

2011-07-12 Thread Samuel Klein
Andrea, I hear you suggesting that we need a different upload process for pdfs and other documents, wherein when you upload them there is a digital document to paged wikitext script that runs and generates an appropriate result, which can then be imported elsewhere on the projects as needed. My

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

2011-07-12 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote: My point (working in an academic digital library and just seeing the amount of thesis, dissertation, articles passing by) is that if for people is a difficult, overcomplicated burden to upload a PDF in an institutional

Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

2011-07-12 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Something better than Wikipedia ? I can think of something right off the bat. allow us to link to YouTube videos for example (not host them, just link to them). That makes sense. Can you point to a problematic debate against

Re: [Foundation-l] roadmap for WM affiliation ; a name for self-identified affiliation

2011-07-12 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

2011-07-11 Thread Samuel Klein
I would love to see the new project process on Meta come back online. (much of this email is posted to [[m:talk:new project proposals]]) I could use some help in making this happen - we need to start an incubator process for ideas with support, and a separate process for proposing existing

[Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister (RFC)

2011-07-08 Thread Samuel Klein
Following the recent discussions here and on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_ban_for_Poetlister SJ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

2011-07-08 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

2011-07-08 Thread Samuel Klein
Dominic - this is from the Archivist's speech today. Is there a handy cite? S On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Right.  NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned this morning

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

2011-07-08 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks mcdev...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com  wrote: Right.  NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned this morning.  Is it 'a website'? Do you have a cite for that? Could probably be

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

2011-07-07 Thread Samuel Klein
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[Foundation-l] Fwd: Open Access Call for brainstorming

2011-07-07 Thread Samuel Klein
Andrea Zanni started a lovely thread elsewhere asking about how to help the Open Access movement in Italy, with some good replies (below). Forwarding to foundation-l as it is relevant to this list, and linked to recent discussions here about how to fix the sad state of closed journals. [also

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Estonia report April-June 2011

2011-07-06 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

2011-07-06 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Within the general concept of Merging Wikis I agree, it would be good in principle to have one uber-wiki that is the central hub of all community things +1 I wonder - would it be possible in MediaWiki to make it possible

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

2011-07-06 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Juergen Fenn juergen.f...@gmx.de wrote: Am 02.07.11 14:17 schrieb Alec Conroy: There's an even bigger opportunity here-- Make a brand new brand name that captures the ideology better than

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-27 Thread Samuel Klein
[2] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/source/browse/trunk/wikipediadownloader.py ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Samuel Klein

Re: [Foundation-l] Closing projects policy now official

2011-06-26 Thread Samuel Klein
Also, I do not understand why the *language* committee has a role in this in the first place. Is closing projects often about whether or not it actually is a language (the expertise field of langcom)? Most close requests are for projects that would not have been created under the current

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-21 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:26 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 June 2011 16:08, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest, when you release your work under cc-by-sa you grant a third party the right to reuse a (small or large) part of your work to make a derivative

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

2011-06-20 Thread Samuel Klein
be immediately visible, however very few new users start by editing templates. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-19 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-18 Thread Samuel Klein
There are some technology changes that could make this much easier. 1) make it easy to see *your last version* of an article when you visit it. 2) provide a link to 'diffs since your last edit' 2.1) provide a way to comment directly on that diff, without having to laboriously cut and paste 3)

Re: [Foundation-l] Election results?

2011-06-17 Thread Samuel Klein
will continue to push for your suggestions. Regards, SJ -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Inviting some 'outsider candidates' into the movement in the way they wanted

2011-06-12 Thread Samuel Klein
This is a great point, Alec - something on my mind as well. It is great that we had such a diversity of candidates, and we need more ways to invite people to participate in the future of the movement. To me, this question was prompted by the skills of Jane S. Richardson (Dcrjsr) and William

Re: [Foundation-l] About the low-hanging fruit

2011-06-11 Thread Samuel Klein
There is certainly a lot of low hanging fruit. I don't think we've covered more than a few percent of the topics currently considered notable. We still have a factor of 10 or more to grow covering things that others have already included in existing summaries and references. But the parallel to

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

2011-06-11 Thread Samuel Klein
James - Wiki Edit is pretty nice. Is this a one-man project by Don Kosak? On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes I eventually found that app.  And it is much superior to editing from the browser. But it doesn't support ProofreadPage extension. Still between the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

2011-06-11 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:55 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: This is the actual problem. What would happen to a Bugzilla entry flagging systemic problems of the sort Birgitte flags? It would get marked INVALID in short order. I'm not sure this is true. What about a Bugzilla tag

[Foundation-l] Fwd: DPLA Beta Sprint: Calling all Submitters!

2011-06-08 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia at events

2011-06-01 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

2011-06-01 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: An interesting technique: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/30/c8623.html This is so true! My highschool sweetheart is a science prof, and recently pointed me to this essay that one of her students

Re: [Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

2011-06-01 Thread Samuel Klein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:04 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 June 2011 10:42, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 02:46, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Those who toil away in the depths of style guide subpages and cite templates should be reminded

[Foundation-l] [OT: OSM] State of the Map, Sep 9-11 - discount for early birds, scholarships

2011-06-01 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] readership draft for feedback

2011-05-29 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Mani Pande, 24/05/2011 18:53: The draft of the survey, and a FAQ section is available on meta, if you are interested. Here is the link to meta space that I have set up for the survey.

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

2011-05-14 Thread Samuel Klein
Thank you, that is just great! On 5/14/11, Orionist orion@gmail.com wrote: I suggest to make it on by default for all new users. That will hopefully help us bring back some of those editors lost before their fifth edit. And for registered users, we can spread the news through a site

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome Wikimedia Macau

2011-05-11 Thread Samuel Klein
Congratulations and welcome! On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: May you create and share much knowledge! Now that's a lovely general-purpose cheer :-) SJ ___ foundation-l mailing list

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

2011-05-10 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: A while back, I think the WMF got offered the enwp.org domain for free, which is a fairly oft used shortener. Does anyone remember what ever happened to that offer? I love this service, btw. Thanks for the

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread Samuel Klein
it's just not enabled on larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5220. This is definitely needed. (I remember the debates about implementing this at all when it was first under development; I am quite glad that it

Re: [Foundation-l] How many articles have you created?

2011-04-10 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:37 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 April 2011 13:14, David Moran fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com wrote: For that matter, the contents of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads might be nice for the site notice. Yes, we should start doing this.

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

2011-04-10 Thread Samuel Klein
use a single TLD but they aren't single 'sites'. [for SEO purposes, we would probably do better if every project shared the same TLD the way Google's do, but that's another thread.] SJ -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy wiki

2011-04-10 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:34 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: project within meta.  In fact if we are serious about the simplification agenda then migrating the contents of Strategy to meta would be a logical step to take, perhaps also with a rename to new ideas as

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Wikimedia Education List

2011-04-08 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-08 Thread Samuel Klein
far outside the realm of financial risk. Declining participation was the top risk in late 2009, and helped drive related strategic research and discussion. Thanks to that group for helping to focus attention on this. (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_risks_2009) -- Samuel Klein

[Foundation-l] Movement roles notes on Meta

2011-03-25 Thread Samuel Klein
The movement roles working group met again yesterday, and the main meta pages are being updated as a result. One point of note -- Sue recently shared her long-form answers to some questions about the process (thank you!), which are worth reading:

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011-03-08 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011-03-08 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: We certainly have many individual contacts with the OA community, including Melissa Hagemann, who is on our advisory board :)  This is also an area of professional work for me. What kinds of lobbying did you have in

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

2011-03-08 Thread Samuel Klein
in other major language families. However, Maria's emails haven't indicated that she knows anything about this list, nor has she posted to wikies-l... not the best test case. SJ -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

2011-03-08 Thread Samuel Klein
years from now we'll all appreciate it. Brion's blog post about the parser bits was great. I hope it's indicative of a series. -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-08 Thread Samuel Klein
foundation list where the expectation is inverted -- that most people won't use English unless it is their best language, or they find it necessary to communicate. -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266

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

2011-03-07 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 3:54:11 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011:

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

2011-03-06 Thread Samuel Klein
Hi Teofilo, Thanks for raising all of these points. I agree that we should have our important essays and communication in multiple languages. And I was wishing myself that we had a multilingual blog planet that combined all of the monolingual ones... sometimes we segment ourselves by language

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

2011-03-06 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] (OT) Wael Ghonim TED talk on the Egyptian Revolution

2011-03-06 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

2011-03-06 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikisource's translation efforts, Babel and Translate extensions

2011-03-04 Thread Samuel Klein
, primary sources, c), check out the kde example above. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:01 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: John, if you don't mind, can we move this thread to foundation-l? sure. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:16

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

2011-03-03 Thread Samuel Klein
Amir: your original idea is lovely. Reviving it for a moment: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: Now, I found it. Indeed, I exaggerated (not several hundreds, just a hundred, and not overnight, but over two or three days, but the idea is The poll:

Re: [Foundation-l] FCForum Declaration: Sustainable Models for Creativity

2011-03-03 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-23 Thread Samuel Klein
To be clear about what I meant: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:33 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Samuel Klein wrote: tl;dr:  we can attract thousands of new contributors with almost any combination of skills and availability, if we ask nicely. Hmm, prove it. :-)  You talk a good game

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