Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?
Hey guys, http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found The House decided they're going to stop bothering with this bill for a while, so while we should continue to think about what we will do when the time comes to protest this, that time is not right now. The bill can be reconsidered just as it was left off any time before the end of this congressional session, and the Senate still has a live bill, but the fact that HR 3261 is not being considered at the moment means that even if the Senate passes their bill, the House may refuse to consider that one too. -- Dan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] c6e7b72d1e1d565603d3d7b0a77e00ba17a7d306
The sum total of human knowledge, and we can't find a decent spam filter. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:37 AM, ??? wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: So how many times is the button pressed each day? If it gets pressed 4 million times a day, and there is only one porn page, then at least one person will have recieved porn. If there are 100 porn pages then 100 people will receive porn each day. So how many porn pages and how many button presses per day? There are no porn pages. There are articles in an encyclopedia. What's the problem here? --Dan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Also; hard to see anyone suing you for communicating the info for the purposes of supressing it :-) Tom Morton A few years ago, I would have said the same about communicating the info for the purposes of free press. --Dan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)
On Apr 19, 2011 8:20 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote: MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted emails with some more information (for example, I would like to see diff inside of my email when I get notification about changing my talk page). The main problem is that they are plain text instead of HTML. This is most certainly /not/ a problem. What would be a problem would be if MediaWiki chose to jump on the bandwagon of embedding huge external images in emails to users. Bandwidth? Tracking? Smaller screens (mobile)? Text interfaces? --Dan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Casey Brown cbrown1023...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:12 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: 2008/12/23 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com: Looks like the new appeal is working well. We seem to be on pace to have the best single day of this fund drive. -Robert Rohde Not sure. Still getting complaints among others that donating doesn't make the banner go away: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1017711highlight=wikipedia -- geni Seems to be more a debating of Why do they always ask for donations along with a bit of good old wiki-scandal-accusations thrown in for good measure. Some pretty nice comments mixed in there. ;-) They also do a good job explaining why we need money. [Jay: interesting to look at, might be nice to use some like their comments in the future] -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l Wait. Is donating supposed to make the banner go away? Because it didn't... -- DCollins/ST47 Administrator, en.wikipedia.org Channel Operator, irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia Maintainer, Perlwikipedia module ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] and what if...
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Well, the story with IWF have shown that the current system of blocking vandals by their IP has to be changed ASAP. In fact it is causing a lot of problems even without action of IWF and other similar wachdogs. There are more and more ISPs which uses single IP for all their customers. Do you rember the story of blocking Quatar? Actually, vast majority of ISPs use dynamic IP numbers, which also causes serious problems with effective blocking vandals.My current ISP is using dynamic IP. In my office there are around 200 people using single IP. I guess all OTRS volunteers and checkusers knows the issue very well. The IP blocking is terribly old fashioned - it has been implemented at the time where most of the IP's represented single PC's. Actually very few IP numbers are personal. Do you have a suggestion? Not everyone uses XFF, certainly not ISPs with dynamic IPs, how would you suggest we block anonymous users? -- DCollins/ST47 Administrator, en.wikipedia.org Channel Operator, irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia Maintainer, Perlwikipedia module ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
