Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

2011-08-20 Thread Lodewijk
Maybe we could catch this discussion on wiki - it is an ever returning issue, and the lessons could be valuable for other campaigns too. Lodewijk 2011/8/20 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com (It seems that mail server is not functioning properly. I've got local delivery failed. Trying again or

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

2011-08-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Lodewijk, 20/08/2011 12:16: Maybe we could catch this discussion on wiki - it is an ever returning issue, and the lessons could be valuable for other campaigns too. Andrew has already produced a very useful summary on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/SecurePoll#Email_spam Nemo

[Foundation-l] Fwd: EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 34 Number: 124

2011-08-20 Thread Milos Rancic
Wikizine is alive :) -- Forwarded message -- From: EN Wikizine info...@wikizine.org Date: Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 22:47 Subject: EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 34 Number: 124 To: announc...@lists.wikimedia.org **   __    __ _ _    _    

[Foundation-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library

2011-08-20 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most familiar with) has many very usefull templates, especially the {{citeFoo}} templates, but

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
I would like to make tiny procedural point before things go any further, if I may, please don't let this stop the philosphical distractions going in any way (though perhaps better suited in their own thread). Since there is going to be such a short interval between the vote concluding, and the

Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library

2011-08-20 Thread Fred Bauder
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most familiar with) has many very usefull templates, especially the {{citeFoo}} templates, but

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Risker
On 20 August 2011 14:31, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to make tiny procedural point before things go any further, if I may, please don't let this stop the philosphical distractions going in any way (though perhaps better suited in their own thread). Since

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 August 2011 14:31, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to make tiny procedural point before things go any further, if I may, please don't let this stop the philosphical distractions going in

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: So why announce ridiculously unrealistic timeframe between the vote concluding and the results being announced? First, I disagree that it's ridiculously unrealistic. Vote checking has already started and

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: So why announce ridiculously unrealistic timeframe between the vote concluding and the results being announced? First, I

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Risker
On 20 August 2011 22:48, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: So why announce ridiculously unrealistic

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

2011-08-20 Thread Risker
On 20 August 2011 23:38, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: I hold 7 votes, at the end: one real account, five bots and one of my auxiliary accounts -- not used for years -- have got right to vote. I have one more account, but I don't think that I made 10 edits with that one. The rules