[Foundation-l] One down, three to go

2011-05-27 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
No, of course there was no intention, stated or otherwise, to help. That was exactly my point, in case you missed it. If you have to ask about how you are expected to help, you can't afford to do it. You are out of your depth and out of your league (absolutely no offense intended). I love Eng

[Foundation-l] Identity of Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Not Protected by First Amendment

2011-05-27 Thread Fred Bauder
Identity of Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Not Protected by First Amendment http://ecommercelaw.typepad.com/ecommerce_law/2011/05/identity-of-anonymous-wikipedia-editors-not-protected-by-first-amendment.html Nothing unexpected. Fred ___ foundation-l m

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language (Milos Rancic)

2011-05-27 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Neil Harris wrote: > As part of the WMF's mission, I wonder if it could be worth considering > providing a Web-based English (or other language) literacy course that > could start with very simple video lessons to give an elementary > vocabulary first, and then al

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-27 Thread Fred Bauder
> I'm not sure any of us had the stated intention of helping you. What, > exactly, were we expected to be helping you with? I think the message is a head's up that there might be problems on some Wikimedia projects, and that the pollyannish attitude that everything will work out if one is patient

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects ...

2011-05-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > Let's just drop it :) I'm not sure where things went so south but I take > full responsibility. I've pinged Tim off-list about contributing my own > time > to work on the error page matter - which I think is only fair enough given > that I r

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-27 Thread FT2
You appear to have a different definition of "kind or nice word" than I'm used to. The words have been posted to help you. That is both kind (because it helps) and nice (because it was volunteered, taking up time from my life, for your potential benefit alone). I cannot control if you find them h

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-27 Thread M. Williamson
I'm not sure any of us had the stated intention of helping you. What, exactly, were we expected to be helping you with? 2011/5/26 Virgilio A. P. Machado : > Thank you guys. I knew you wouldn't let me down. > You outdid yourselves. On this illustrious > mailing list where from «you know who» all th