Re: [Foundation-l] relocating search servers

2010-08-13 Thread Robert Stojnic
Hi all, The relocation process took more than we anticipated, so it now looks like the situation is going to continue throughout the day today. Towards the afternoon/evening various wikis are going to be gradually restored to normal. Cheers, Robert On 12/08/10 22:27, Robert Stojnic wrote:

[Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

2010-08-13 Thread David Gerard
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/humane-reader-wikipedia-console,news-7706.html Just a tiny gadget that hooks to your TV to display stuff and holds a copy of en:wp. Nice reuse :-) - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Foundation-l] [Language committee] New member

2010-08-13 Thread Milos Rancic
Our new member is Huib Laurens (meta:User:Huib). His main role is to help us in keeping up to date archives of our mailing list [1] and other technical things. However, LangCom doesn't have strictly divided roles, which means that Huib is a also a full member of LangCom, which includes decision

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] New member

2010-08-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Milos Rancic, 13/08/2010 13:20: Our new member is Huib Laurens (meta:User:Huib). His main role is to help us in keeping up to date archives of our mailing list [1] and other technical things. However, LangCom doesn't have strictly divided roles, which means that Huib is a also a full member of

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] New member

2010-08-13 Thread Mark Williamson
Interesting to note the geographic distribution of members of the committee... hmm... -m. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Our new member is Huib Laurens (meta:User:Huib). His main role is to help us in keeping up to date archives of our mailing list [1]

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-13 Thread Aphaia
Slightly OT, in some parts, sorry in advance, On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Mariano Cecowski marianocecow...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: Osama, I'm afraid your view is very self-centric. We Southamericans have a really hard time getting into USA; and I'm sure many couldn't go to that Wikimania

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] New member

2010-08-13 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 16:19, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting to note the geographic distribution of members of the committee... hmm... If I counted well: 9 native Germanic speakers, 2 Romance and 2 Slavic. Or 10 centum and 2 satem or 10 Northern Indo-European and two

Re: [Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

2010-08-13 Thread Pharos
This is a pretty great embodiment of our copyleftism, that's for sure. BTW, here's the guy's website: http://humaneinfo.com/ Thanks, Pharos On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:07 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/humane-reader-wikipedia-console,news-7706.html Just

Re: [Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

2010-08-13 Thread Steven Walling
It was also covered by Wired fairly well: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/humane-wikipedia-reader/ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/humane-wikipedia-reader/Steven Walling On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.comwrote: This is a pretty great embodiment

Re: [Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Moskowitz
it would be cool to get these guys out for the open video conference! On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Steven Walling wrote: It was also covered by Wired fairly well: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/humane-wikipedia-reader/

Re: [Foundation-l] $20 TV-based en:wp reader

2010-08-13 Thread theo10011
The Tom's hardware article does link to the Wired article mentioning it as the source, that where I first read about it. Theo On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: It was also covered by Wired fairly well:

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Galvez
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote: Michael Galvez wrote: 2. Once the articles exist in multiple languages, the articles take on a life of their own and become out of sync. If Wikipedians want to keep those articles in sync, we would like to help

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Galvez
Hi Amir, Apologies for the late reply. Replies inline below. Mike On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Dear Michael, I also thank you for joining the discussion. See my question below. 2010/8/6 Michael Galvez michae...@gmail.com: Also, as

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Galvez
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:56 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2010 18:47, Michael Galvez michae...@gmail.com wrote: 3. We acquire dictionaries on limited licenses from other parties. In general, while we can surface this content on our own sites (e.g., Google

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Galvez
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Implement spelling and punctuation check automatically within GTTK before posting of the articles. There is spell check in

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Galvez
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Michael Galvez, 05/08/2010 15:12: Sorry for coming into this discussion a bit late. I'm one of the members of Google's translation team, and I wanted to make myself available for feedback/questions. Thank

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Galvez
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Galvez michae...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for coming into this discussion a bit late. I'm one of the members of Google's translation team, and I wanted to make myself available for feedback/questions. Thanks for

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Galvez
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: On 08/06/2010 07:47 PM, Michael Galvez wrote: 3. We acquire dictionaries on limited licenses from other parties. In general, while we can surface this content on our own sites (e.g., Google Translate, Google

[Foundation-l] Wiki-Conference NYC August 28-29

2010-08-13 Thread Pharos
Our 2nd annual Wiki-Conference NYC will be held over the weekend of August 28-29 2010, hosted by ITP at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and also supported by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City. Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner will be giving a keynote, and we will

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Harel Cain, 12/08/2010 07:13: Tim, I don't know how this has any direct bearing on the conference. The conditions in the West Bank are not what anyone would wish them to be, including, of course, us. I could try to argue here that still, the average income there is higher than in most Arab