Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)
Is this really something to get upset over? It's not as if he was calling you stupid, he simply misspelled your name (shortened it, really). On Feb 16, 2012 6:10 AM, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote: Jan-Bart, I am sorry. I didn’t know this is your name and present you publicly my more sincere apologies for misstyping it. I personally know the sensitivity about this kind of issues. My name in Catalan sounds completely different with accent than without. “Gomà” is a quite extended and ancient Catalan surname while “goma” in Catalan means rubber. I had to get used with this many years ago because in Spanish they don’t have accents for capital letters that’s how many official documents are written and more recently because in many computer keywords there is no way to write à. I assure you that this mistake has been because I didn’t know and that this won’t happen never again. Béria Lima berialima at gmail.com Thu Feb 16 04:09:27 UTC 2012 Gomà called him Jan at least 3 times today and no one complained. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:31 AM, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:50 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. I had thought about one option - a separate website entirely, purely for people to chat about Wikimedia articles. But at a first glance that dead ends for so many reasons. Maybe implement a subreddit schema and some way to create a subreddit for each article? I don't know what Conde Nast's nastiness level is, though. Or maybe a slashdot portal? Just throwing ideas around here... -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l I doubt relying on a third party service is going to fly. -- John ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Still wikipediocentric
If you would like a wiki to be created on the beta, request it. I don't know why peter thought it was a good idea to create Wikipedias in every language, that wasn't the initial plan. It even says right on the front page: The list of all projects now available can be listed below, in case you want to set up another wmf wiki, please request it here Instead of complaining, ask first. Is it that hard? On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I was the [[:m:User:555]], mainly active on the last years of my volunteers actions on Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. I've left the Wikimedia projects mainly because the lack of energy from my side to keep trying to get free time to work in projects fully neglected by the Wikimedia staff, developers team and some volunteers in the core of the Foundaction acts. A friend told me about the http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ . I've checked http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrixand. .. surprise! no Wikisource wikis with blue color links! I asked myself random things about the [[bug:21653]] lasted for 26 months until gets PARTIALLY fixed and decided to check some 'Recent changes' pages and found this: http://pt.wikisource.org/w/index.php?diff=prevoldid=233269 Come on guys! What is the point to run a bot spamming on all wikis if the tests are only to the Wikipedias? Attempt of a 'politically correct' action to these worse guys from others projects get's 'socially included'? Like in the real life, those worse guys aren't in need of assistencialism [1] actions... Well, I don't expect any change on the Wikipediocentric actions in short, medium or long time (in fact the Foundation and some local chapters are trying to make things for the Wikimedia Commons project, but only because that project is the central media source for Wikipedias), this was only a mutter. Despite my apparently hatred on this message, I really hope that the 3-4 extensions only enabled on Wikisources wikis don't get's any aditional bugs than the current ones in the new version of MediaWiki in the same intensity that your guys hopes that focusing in a project that only describes the knowledge in an encyclopedic way fully meets the http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement [1] - wow, a concept from social sciences yet not defined neither on en.wikpedia or en.wiktionary? O_O As on all of my previous messages, sorry for my limited English skills. Best regards, [[:m:User:555|Lugusto]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- John ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Software idea: a Wikipedia Explorer that lets you browse Wikipedia and more
I personally would prefer to see such new features added directly to Wikipedia instead of focusing on another product. Remember, this is 2012, we don't need dedicated software for most things anymore. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: Remember there was MSN Explorer (desktop software) that let you browse MSN and use MSN services such as Hotmail? Remember Google Earth (desktop software) that lets you browse the Earth and provides additional services based on the Earth? We can also make a Wikipedia Explorer (desktop software) that lets you browse Wikipedia AND provides an added layer that enables users to: * Chat/discuss with other users interested in the same topic (Wikipedia article). * Announce/find resources related to a topic (products, books, jobs, anything). * More. I intend to see such a Wikipedia Explorer developed, or personally develop it. Any comments? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- John ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Wikimedia domains at GoDaddy
This is currently on the reddit front page http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/nnv9l/wikipediaorg_is_with_godaddy_jimmy_if_youre/ Why we're using GoDaddy in the first place is beyond me, surely there's better options available (Like ones that don't support SOPA or have CEOs that shoot elephants). -- John ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
