[Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Dear all, I have checked in my in box but it seems that this mailing list has not received this news. The Italian project w...@home supported by Italian chapter and the Wikinotizie has organized an interview some months ago with Mr.Umberto Eco who is a philosopher and literary critic known outside

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Przykuta
> Dear all, > I have checked in my in box but it seems that this mailing list has > not received this news. > > The Italian project w...@home supported by Italian chapter and the > Wikinotizie has organized an interview some months ago with Mr.Umberto > Eco who is a philosopher and literary critic

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing new "Signpost" issues on this list

2010-08-04 Thread Jon Harald Søby
http://www.wikipediasignpost.com/blog/?feed=rss2 There are other ways to subscribe here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Subscribe 2010/8/4 Mariano Cecowski : > A RSS/Atom feed would be great. > > Thanks, > MarianoC.- > > > PS: I know, the page's history's RSS would do,

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Volunteers: Wikimedia Research Committee

2010-08-04 Thread David Gerard
On 3 August 2010 18:52, Gregory Kohs wrote: > Will critics of less-than-best-practices within the Wikimedia Foundation be > considered for invitation to the Wikimedia Research Committee, or is there > some sort of loyalty "litmus test" going to be applied? > I've sent my self-nomination by privat

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Volunteers: Wikimedia Research Committee

2010-08-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Dear Greg, This is not about criticism but about research. With respect I have not seen your research papers, I am not aware of your credentials that would make you a choice to be considered for being part of a research committee. Given that the work of the committee includes work on policies that

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ilario Valdelli, 04/08/2010 10:37: > A translation can be found here: > http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione Yes, could someone publish it on en.news? Przykuta, 04/08/2010 11:04: > Eco is known in science world as semiologist. Next time ask him about "disambig system"

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Pharos
This is just wonderful. Bravo, Italian Wikinews! Thanks, Pharos On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Ilario Valdelli, 04/08/2010 10:37: >> A translation can be found here: >> http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione > > Yes, could someone publish

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Congratulations also from me, and thank you also for the translation to English! It's a lot of work. The interview provides a lot of useful thoughts and phrases. Kind regards Ziko 2010/8/4 Pharos > This is just wonderful. > > Bravo, Italian Wikinews! > > Thanks, > Pharos > > On Wed, Aug 4, 20

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi, I'm the coordinator of w...@home in Wikimedia Italia. With this project we have already managed to interview a few notable[1] people. The questions are written collaboratively, opening a page on the italian Wikinews[2]. Then Wikimedia Italia takes contact with the potential interviewee and fin

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Pharos
I presume the interview with Jimbo was in English? This would probably be a good opportunity for collaboration with English Wikinews... Thanks, Pharos On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the coordinator of w...@home in Wikimedia Italia. > With this project we

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

2010-08-04 Thread wiki-list
David Gerard wrote: > On 3 August 2010 23:23, wrote: >> David Gerard wrote: >>> On 3 August 2010 22:05, wrote: > No ethics here then. > >>> Tell me, have you ever contributed *anything* to this list, or to a >>> Wikimedia project, that wasn't trolling? > >> How is it trolling to simply

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

2010-08-04 Thread wiki-list
Shane Simmons wrote: >> The issue is the aggregation and collation of the data and making it >> available to others. Why would you consider that some one's edit history >> is any less personal than what they borrow from the library? > > ... > >> Why so? Editing history reveals your interests, may

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Wednesday 04 August 2010 17:22:37 Cristian Consonni написа: > I am really sorry about that and, in my opinion, this is a major > problem with volunteer-driven interviews. Usually there are a lot of > questions to ask and even if the interviewer make some (arbitrary) > selection in my experienc

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Aphaia, 27/07/2010 21:33: > I've noticed many of English Wikipedia articles cite only English > written articles even if the topics are of non-English world. And > normally, specially in the developing world, the most comprehend > sources are found in their own languages - how can those articles be

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Aphaia
Great work, thanks and kudos to Italian Wikinews team! And also thank you very much for giving us English translation kindly. It helps spread this great interview ... many passages I have found stimulating. Keep up doing this, Italian Wikinewsies :) On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Ilario Valdell

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Kropotkine_113
Le mercredi 04 août 2010 à 10:37 +0200, Ilario Valdelli a écrit : > The Italian project w...@home supported by Italian chapter and the > Wikinotizie has organized an interview some months ago with Mr.Umberto > Eco who is a philosopher and literary critic known outside Italy for > the novel "The Nam

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

2010-08-04 Thread David Gerard
On 4 August 2010 19:11, wrote: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-July/060076.html No detectable project participation. Thanks for your detailed response. - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Un

[Foundation-l] Privacy policy

2010-08-04 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
All of you that have such a keen interest, deep knowledge and great insights in matters of privacy, what is public and non-public, are cordially invited to lend some of your expertise to my humble request for comment: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Public_or_non-public_pers

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

2010-08-04 Thread wiki-list
David Gerard wrote: > On 4 August 2010 19:11, wrote: > >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-July/060076.html > > > No detectable project participation. Thanks for your detailed response. > Make note - Gerard clueless. ___ foun

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Sue Gardner
On 4 August 2010 01:37, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > The Italian project w...@home supported by Italian chapter and the > Wikinotizie has organized an interview some months ago with Mr.Umberto > Eco who is a philosopher and literary critic known outside Italy for > the novel "The Name of the Rose". >

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Sue Gardner wrote: > > > > > A translation can be found here: > > http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione > > It's a lovely interview, Ilario. Congratulations :-) > > It's very interesting - and very useful. Just forwarded it to some of my l

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Ilario Valdelli wrote: >.. > A translation can be found here: > http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione Should the English translation be on English Wikinews? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Ting Chen
Hello dear italian team, that's fantastic. I read three books from Eco and everytime I am astonished by the plentiness of his imaginations and thoughts. Reading his thoughts about our project and about internet in total is really interesting. Thank you very much Am 04.08.2010 10:37, wrote

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Aphaia, 04/08/2010 23:26: > And also thank you very much for giving us English translation kindly. > It helps spread this great interview ... many passages I have found > stimulating. Thanks to .mau. and Paginazero (in addition to Aubrey) for that. John Vandenberg, 05/08/2010 05:32: > On Wed, Au

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

2010-08-04 Thread Przykuta
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > >.. > > A translation can be found here: > > http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione > > Should the English translation be on English Wikinews? > > -- > John Vandenberg Ah, the license http://en.wikinews.org/wik