[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 voting now open
Hi, I didn't see it announced yet, so here goes - voting for the 2008 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year is now open. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2008 Voting eligibility: all Wikimedians who were registered before 1 January 2009 and with at least 200 edits on any Wikimedia project (at time of voting) Voting period: Round 1 closes on Feb 26. Images: There are 501 images, which were made Featured Pictures during 2008. They are arranged into 11 categories (14 galleries). The top 10% from each category will go to Round 2, the final round. There will be category winners as well as the overall picture of the year. More coverage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-02-16/Commons_Picture_of_the_Year cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Revisions, Report on german WP
So IPs can create articles on de? Yes, I think this is switched off on en: only. That's something I've wanted to see change for a long time. In which direction? Cheers Yaroslav ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] History splitting (main namespace)
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps we simply need to establish that a link to a WP article is a GFDL reference, and let it go at that, without the complications. When the rules get into the position of hampering the writing of the encyclopedia ... As I was trying to explain, that wouldn't do any good in cases where the content we are trying to attribute was originally added to a different article. —C.W. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Upcoming break
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friends, I'm going into the field for the next three weeks. This means that I won't have internet for about four weeks. I've been particularly inactive for the past two weeks, in preparation for the field I've not had much time. I've brought everything I'm involved with on the foundation and on local projects to a orderly pause as far as my involvement goes. I expect to return sometime in late March. Very best, Jon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmZoyoACgkQ6+ro8Pm1AtXFrwCfW3EumwljQm0jzKUWsQB4obwe AgMAn2cUVICrsHa7zeinTCaebSJl9E7B =i5Za -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] .YU domain transition
I would like to draw Wikimedians' attention to the problem of expiring .yu top
level domain.
As is known, .yu top level domain ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.yu ) is
being replaced with .rs and .me TLDs. This means that all web pages under .yu
domain will stop working, including all 46102 that are linked from various
Wikimedia projects: some will stop as soon as March, while all will stop in
October. This further means that readers of Wikimedia projects will not be
able to access information that is now available to them, either if a domain
is used as an external link or if it is used as an article reference.
Especially the latter is very important since, with massive link loss, a
large number of references could no longer be evaluated by the readers and
editors.
To solve this problem, I have made a statistics of .yu domain use on Wikimedia
projects ( http://toolserver.org/~nikola/yustats.tar.bz2 ) and, with its
help, replaced at least the most common links on Serbian Wikipedia with their
appropriate equivalents.
However, given that I am not able to do the same on other projects, I would
like to attract attention of people who are willing to help and can do
necessary botwork to fix as many soon-to-be broken links as possible. Please
reply if you can help in any way or have any other advice. If you are a bot
operator, you can do it easily with the standard pywikipediabot. Here is a
sample command I used:
python
replace.py -weblink:webrzs.statserb.sr.gov.yu webrzs.statserb.sr.gov.yu
webrzs.stat.gov.rs
==The domains==
This is a list of domains that are already search/replaced on Serbian
Wikipedia. This list includes most of the most common domains and covered
perhaps a quarter of all links (even while not counting
webrzs.statserb.sr.gov.yu that was included via a few templates).
{|
!From!To
|-
||webrzs.statserb.sr.gov.yu||webrzs.stat.gov.rs
|-
||www.rastko.org.yu||www.rastko.org.rs
|-
||www.reprezentacija.co.yu||www.reprezentacija.rs
|-
||www.blic.co.yu||www.blic.co.rs
|-
||www.beograd.org.yu||www.beograd.org.rs
|-
||arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu||arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs
|-
||www.srpsko-nasledje.co.yu||www.srpsko-nasledje.co.rs
|-
||www.dnevnik.co.yu||www.dnevnik.rs
|-
||www.srbija.sr.gov.yu||www.srbija.gov.rs
|-
||www.kurir-info.co.yu/Arhiva||arhiva.kurir-info.rs/Arhiva
|-
||www.kurir-info.co.yu/arhiva||arhiva.kurir-info.rs/arhiva
|-
||www.kurir-info.co.yu||www.kurir-info.rs
|-
||arhiva.kurir-info.co.yu||arhiva.kurir-info.rs
|-
||www.prvaliga.co.yu||www.prvaliga.rs
|-
||www.mitropolija.cg.yu||www.mitropolija.me
|-
||www.spc.yu/sr||www.spc.rs/sr
|-
||www.sk.co.yu||www.sk.co.rs
|-
||www.ekoforum.org.yu||www.ekoforum.org
|-
||www.svevlad.org.yu||www.svevlad.org.rs
|-
||www.posta.co.yu||www.posta.rs
|-
||www.glas-javnosti.co.yu||www.glas-javnosti.rs
|-
||www.fscg.cg.yu||www.fscg.co.me
|-
||ww1.rts.co.yu/euro||ww1.rts.co.rs/euro
|}
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Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Revisions, Report on german WP
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: So IPs can create articles on de? Yes, I think this is switched off on en: only. That's something I've wanted to see change for a long time. In which direction? The direction of (once again) allowing anonymous page creation on English Wikipedia, I'm pretty sure he means. -Sage (User:Ragesoss) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Revisions, Report on german WP
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.comragesoss%2bwikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: So IPs can create articles on de? Yes, I think this is switched off on en: only. That's something I've wanted to see change for a long time. In which direction? The direction of (once again) allowing anonymous page creation on English Wikipedia, I'm pretty sure he means. -Sage (User:Ragesoss) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l I certainly hope that the flow is the other way. The amount of damage that IP editors and non auto-confirmed accounts are doing on en:WP definitely recommends against it. I was thinking about proposing that the move-article command (as well as replacing an article with a redirect), be disabled for IP addresses and non auto-confirmed accounts. David ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Revisions, Report on german WP
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/2/16 David Yellope sirfoz...@gmail.com: I certainly hope that the flow is the other way. The amount of damage that IP editors and non auto-confirmed accounts are doing on en:WP definitely recommends against it. I was thinking about proposing that the move-article command (as well as replacing an article with a redirect), be disabled for IP addresses and non auto-confirmed accounts. I thought it was already, did it change? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l From what I'm seeing, at least the #redirect part needs to be disabled (See the constant attacks on en-WP, ANI board for examples). As for the other part of it I'm decently sure that unless move-protect is set on a page, that anyone can move it. David ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia signpost: new issue and changes
Ha! That's user:Ragesoss, real name Sage Ross, who is taking over the 'Post. Clearly I need a good editor before my stories go to print! -- phoebe On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pleased to announce the newest issue of the The Wikipedia Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost which has several important changes: * A new editor: User:Sageross has agreed to take over as editor in chief from User:Ral315, who was editor from Sept. 2005-Dec. 2008. Ral315 did an amazing job in keeping the Signpost going for so long and we are all very grateful for all his hard work. * A new look: with a design led by User:Pretzels, the main page of the 'Post is redesigned. * New coverage: The Signpost plans to cover more community news, both from within the English Wikipedia and from the whole family of other Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects. For instance, this issue contains a story on the Commons Picture of the year contest. This issue also debuts a new feature: The Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations (DRAMA) report, which covers ongoing discussion threads that are happening on en:wp. We all know it's tough to keep up with all the interesting discussions that happen, and it's our hope that the Signpost can play a role in making these conversations more accessible to busy editors. This new feature will be refined over the coming weeks and suggestions are welcome. * As always, to keep this project going contributors are needed. If you know of something interesting going on out there in wiki-land, either on en:wp or on another Wikimedia project, or if you have an idea for a story, please leave us a note on the Tipline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions. We want to hear about milestones, events, contests and any other community news. General comments or suggestions can be left here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost. On behalf of Signpost writers, thanks for reading the Signpost! -- Phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Revisions, Report on german WP
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/16 David Yellope sirfoz...@gmail.com: As for the other part of it I'm decently sure that unless move-protect is set on a page, that anyone can move it. Oh, yeah, we have explicit semi-move-protection, so it must be possible normally. I'm sure it used to be restricted... probably several years ago now, though! No, IPs and new editors are still not allowed to move pages on enwiki. In effect, all pages are semi-move-protected (since you have to be autoconfirmed to even have the move option), which makes the semi-move-protection option entirely redundant. However, the requirements for being autoconfirmed are quite low so it doesn't stop much. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 voting now open
2009/2/17 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: Hello, I did not even realise it had not been announced and I already voted a few days ago :-) My two cents * great images. Really top stuff * but the voting system... SO unpractical :-( If you voted early, I think the voting system has been improved since then. You should take another look (while logged in!). There is just little buttons and text fields below each image to let you vote and leave a comment, and if you have already voted you get a message You have already voted for this image. I think it's really great. I have meant to ask what happened with the toolserver (or the team dealing with the toolserver) so that it could not be used this year ? Bryan I ran the comp last year, and were too busy to commit to running it this year. This year I am just a cheerleader. ;) I think it was just difficult communicating all the needed info about galleries, etc, because Bryan wasn't too involved. In future years if Bryan is involved or someone else comfortable with the toolserver that software can be used again, if they want. Alternatively, if you really want to keep voting pages separately for each image, it would have been easier to vote on a separate page rather than at the bottom of the description page (long to load + generous scrolling of numerous languages description). I think the voting actually does happen on a separate page, it just has a huge introduction in many languages. :) A good place to leave comments for the organisers (and future organisers) to see, would be http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Picture_of_the_Year/2008. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] History splitting (main namespace)
A note on the talk page or a link in the edit history could establish that. On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Charlotte Webb charlottethew...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps we simply need to establish that a link to a WP article is a GFDL reference, and let it go at that, without the complications. When the rules get into the position of hampering the writing of the encyclopedia ... As I was trying to explain, that wouldn't do any good in cases where the content we are trying to attribute was originally added to a different article. —C.W. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
