phoebe ayers writes:
>
> ** Despite the election's importance, turnout is so far pretty
> pathetic, esp. from smaller wikis.
Which begs the question: why was the central notice taken down when there is
still a day left?
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Remind me, please, why we are still talking about this.
skype: node.ue
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:13 PM, stevertigo wrote:
>> 2009/8/8 Stevertjgo :
>
>> I think those high level discussion can take place either on-wiki or
>> on existing mailing lists without a problem.
>
> I generally agree. But
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> With the increase in administrative and organizational duties, I've been
> less and less able to devote time to the part of the job that's nearest
> and dearest to me: working with our volunteer developer community and
> end users -- Wikimedia
On 8/7/09 5:43 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> I suspect you're going to have to be prepared to do a lot of internal
> discovery and discovery with potential hires to show them the web ops
> side - it's not well documented now (I keep meaning to find out more
> about the ops team and finding I have no
2009/8/10 stevertigo :
>> 2009/8/8 Stevertjgo :
>
>> I think those high level discussion can take place either on-wiki or
>> on existing mailing lists without a problem.
>
> I generally agree. But "existing mailing lists" generally means wikien-l -
> once highly purposed toward resolving on-wiki di
> 2009/8/8 Stevertjgo :
> I think those high level discussion can take place either on-wiki or
> on existing mailing lists without a problem.
I generally agree. But "existing mailing lists" generally means wikien-l -
once highly purposed toward resolving on-wiki disputes - is now
notoriously dism
PS.
at the bottom of the page of Wikipedia:Five pillars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Wikipedia's principles
Five pillars as ''Overview of our foundation''
--wp99
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Hi,
The last time, I asked a question how to share WP:NOT idea among WP
local projects.
I really appreciate lots of informative feed backs.
According to your replies, I confirmed that basically, officially,
only requirement is that they follow the founding principles
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wik
On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:15 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On a general note, I for one greatly appreciate the Election
> Committee's efforts to get wide community participation in the Board
> elections**, even if the mailing could have gone more smoothly.
>
> On an even more general note, the constructiv
> Thomas,
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> I have just received an email telling me I am eligible to vote in the
>> board elections when I have already voted. Please don't send
>> untargetted mass emails - they are spam.
on 8/9/09 5:15 PM, phoebe ayers at phoebe.w...@g
> A high turnover rate would indicate a lot of people joining and
> leaving,
> instead of long-term volunteers.
ah! that! no, site is operated by same people as five years ago (with
brilliant exception of search), few people left during that time,
because of various reasons.
some volunteers
On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Things started going wrong when the election committee didn't organize
> itself in time.
I should point out, though, that the committee does not "organize
itself". It responds to a call from the Board of Trustees.
_
On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Al Tally wrote:
>> I don't want to seem rude, as I'm sure it's difficult and I
>> understand the
>> election committee are volunteers, but why is it that things seem
>> to be
>> going wrong this year?
>>
>>
> Things started going wrong when t
Al Tally wrote:
> I don't want to seem rude, as I'm sure it's difficult and I understand the
> election committee are volunteers, but why is it that things seem to be
> going wrong this year?
>
>
Things started going wrong when the election committee didn't organize
itself in time. It knew mor
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I have a question on this for the tech team: as a rule, do you have a
> > high turnover of volunteers on the sysadmin ...
>
> turn-what?
> Jens is building a house or something, if that was your question.
>
> Domas
>
A high turnove
Hi!
> I have a question on this for the tech team: as a rule, do you have a
> high turnover of volunteers on the sysadmin ...
turn-what?
Jens is building a house or something, if that was your question.
Domas
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Thomas,
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I have just received an email telling me I am eligible to vote in the
> board elections when I have already voted. Please don't send
> untargetted mass emails - they are spam.
You think nothing of routinely filling up all of the list
Hoi,
The things that go wrong are not necessarily the same things that go wrong.
Yes things go wrong.. There are more things that could and should have gone
differently... Nobody heard the Wikivoices interviews with many of the
candidates for instance. Sadly it did not materialise but it could have
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> High Priest of Mediawiki?
I propose robes as his official outfit, similar to this:
http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/index.shtml
Magnus
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 01:43, George Herbert wrote:
> I suspect you're going to have to be prepared to do a lot of internal
> discovery and discovery with potential hires to show them the web ops
> side - it's not well documented now (I keep meaning to find out more
> about the ops team and finding
2009/8/9 Peter Jacobi :
> The issue is still unresolved.
>
> de:User:Mautpreller, who filed the original complaint, just affirmed
> that there is still no answer.
>
> See
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Checkuser/Anfragen#Ombudskommission
>
> So, just doing nothing may be a way
Maybe this is related?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Unable_to_vote_in_trustees_election
I don't want to seem rude, as I'm sure it's difficult and I understand the
election committee are volunteers, but why is it that things seem to be
going wrong this year?
--
Alex
(User:Major
The issue is still unresolved.
de:User:Mautpreller, who filed the original complaint, just affirmed
that there is still no answer.
See
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Checkuser/Anfragen#Ombudskommission
So, just doing nothing may be a way of telling de:User:Mautpreller
that hi
High Priest of Mediawiki?
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To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2009 5:59:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split
Somehow I'm not disappointed that we're having a problem trying
2009/8/9 Ray Saintonge :
> Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
>> Although I had already voted, I was not bothered by one tiny email reminding
>> me that I was eligible to vote. Thanks guys, hopefully this will get people
>> to the polls.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> It didn't bother me either even though it came after I v
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> Although I had already voted, I was not bothered by one tiny email reminding
> me that I was eligible to vote. Thanks guys, hopefully this will get people
> to the polls.
>
>
>
>
It didn't bother me either even though it came after I voted. As far as
spam goes this
Hoi,
Siebrand send this e-mail to the contributors to translatewiki.net. As
localisation is an integral part to our success, I forward this to you.
Those who already contribute to our localisation I thank and those who are
capable of supporting MediaWiki by helping in the localisation effort I urge
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
> OK, *ideally* an email wouldn't be sent to those who have already
> voted. But it's really not as if Wikimedia is a persistent spammer.
> I'd let it slide.
Yeah, that's about where I sit on it. :) I wouldn't have said anything, if
it weren't a
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Luna wrote:
> Indeed. I had already voted, and got an email, but I'm not going to do any
> complaining. It's one email, for Pete's sake.
The irony is that those who dislike having received an email about the
election have now received about 30 more due to reportin
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
> I already voted when I got my email, and I didn't think it was spam. I
> smiled at the fact that Wikimedia is making sure everyone who can vote has
> the opportunity.
>
Indeed. I had already voted, and got an email, but I'm not going to do
Milos Rancic wrote:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
Just out of interest, how many such email did you get last year because I'm
sure I only (try to) send one email to each email address (that hadn't voted
already).
* One email to myself (mill...@gmail.com). I voted first
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
> Just out of interest, how many such email did you get last year because I'm
> sure I only (try to) send one email to each email address (that hadn't voted
> already).
* One email to myself (mill...@gmail.com). I voted first day and a
couple
Milos Rancic wrote:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Casey Brown wrote:
Bot accounts will probably be excluded in the future, since they are
explicitly not allowed to vote.
I think that it shouldn't be so complicated to do one "sort -u" over
emails. As I said, some of my bots don't have bot fla
Chen Minqi wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Waerth wrote:
>
>
>> According to the wikimedia foundations rules someone whom is blocked is
>> not allowed to vote.
>>
>>
>
> You are not eligible to vote on nlwp, but on other wikis you may be
> eligible, so that is why you received the
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Waerth wrote:
> According to the wikimedia foundations rules someone whom is blocked is
> not allowed to vote.
>
You are not eligible to vote on nlwp, but on other wikis you may be
eligible, so that is why you received the email I guess?
[[User:Bencmq]]
I have just received an email that I am elligable to vote in the board
elections.
While I am inelligeble as I am blocked on the nl.wikipedia since 3
months already.
This ads insult to injury.
As I was blocked on request of a sockpupeteer whom is now blocked
himself together with multiple othe
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