Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-11-01 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 10/30/11 3:21 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 30 October 2011 10:15, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >> Along the same line of reasoning, I see >> that 99% of admins use template warnings which I hate and I never used any >> template warning except for copyright violation when I was still an admin. >

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-11-01 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 10/30/11 9:52 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 30 October 2011 17:44, Brandon Harris wrote: >> (One of my favorite things about talk pages is that, for most people, >> *there is no talk page button*. There's a "Discussion" tab. So when >> someone says "Hey, just leave me a message on my

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-11-01 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 10/30/11 5:57 PM, Mateus Nobre wrote: > Do you really think a traditional (you know, traditional in Wikipedia > equivalent to bureaucratic) communication and social system, friendship-free, > at wikis reduces the efficiency? Why the friendship and camaraderie in > editions and talk should red

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-11-01 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 10/30/11 6:56 PM, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > PS: As i wrote some month ago: "Damn. More kittens smashed at ground of > the talk page, buried by the annoyed user. Great and important feature > we haz now!" > Please refer to the Eric Bogle song, "He's nobody's moggy now." Ray _

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-11-01 Thread Fae
> Efficiency has never been a part of Wikipedia's mission That's a slightly odd interpretation, specifically includes effective dissemination of content. Though the word "effective" is quite different in meaning to "efficient", it would be ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-11-01 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:56:48 +, Fae wrote: >> Efficiency has never been a part of Wikipedia's mission > > That's a slightly odd interpretation, > specifically > includes effective dissemination of content. Though the word > "effective" is

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-11-01 Thread Orionist
> > (just today I came across a nice example > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jcb&oldid=59812254#A_barnstar_for_you.21 > - though I have no idea of the background of this message) That was between two established Commons users, both of which are administrators, and com

[Foundation-l] Office Hours

2011-11-01 Thread Oliver Keyes
Hey guys Brandon, Howie, Fabrice and I will be holding a second Office Hours session on the new Article Feedback Tool on Thursday 3 November. This will be at 24:00 UTC, which works out at 4pm PST and 11pm GMT. This timing is designed to allow east coast editors, who would be at work during the nor

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-11-01 Thread Mateus Nobre
Wikipedia just can make protests when we're talking things which could affect the integrity of website. If we take down for political reasons, will not be long to take down for religious reasons and others opinionated reasons. Neutrality is a pillar of Wiki. My opinion is to only manifest ours

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours

2011-11-01 Thread Mateus Nobre
Lost the first one, 'll attend now o/ _ MateusNobre Wikimedia Brasil - MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 19:15:52 + > From: oke...@wikimedia.org > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours

2011-11-01 Thread Bod Notbod
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Hey guys > > Brandon, Howie, Fabrice and I will be holding a second Office Hours session > on the new Article Feedback Tool on Thursday 3 November. This will be at > 24:00 UTC, which works out at 4pm PST and 11pm GMT. This timing is designed >

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours

2011-11-01 Thread Mateus Nobre
#wikimedia-office I think :P _ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 > From: bodnot...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:06:18 + > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours > > On

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours

2011-11-01 Thread Tom Morris
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 19:15, Oliver Keyes wrote: > This will be at 24:00 UTC, which works out at 4pm PST and 11pm GMT. Excuse the pedantry. >From Wikipedia... "Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is argua

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-11-01 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:04, David Gerard wrote: > > Holy shit. > Procedural note: the second deletion request at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:%22Appreciate_America._Come_On_Gang._All_Out_for_Uncle_Sam%22_%28Mickey_Mouse%29%22_-_NARA_-_513869.tif has been cl

[Foundation-l] New IRC Group Contact

2011-11-01 Thread Filip Maljkovic
Hello, I am pleased to announce that Casey and I have chosen Barras as a new IRC Group Contact. He is an experienced and trusted user and we think he is going to fit in the team nicely. He will join our team effective immediately. On behalf of the Group Contacts, Filip Maljković _

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

2011-11-01 Thread Mateus Nobre
Agree with David. We ask for sources everywhere, every place of Wikipedia have ''Cite your Sources''. How could a newbie know how to quote a reference in: {{cite web |url= |title= |author= |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate= }} ? And then a newbie get out of the 70% who doesn't saves (funny

Re: [Foundation-l] New IRC Group Contact

2011-11-01 Thread Mateus Nobre
a new IRC group? like #wikimedia-something ? what's the theme of the group and its name? _ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 23:32:49 +0100 > From: dungod...@gmail.com > To: foundation-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

2011-11-01 Thread Béria Lima
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cite4wiki/ (in wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite4Wiki ) right click and paste in the article. Easier than that can't be ;) _ *Béria Lima* (351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a po

Re: [Foundation-l] New IRC Group Contact

2011-11-01 Thread Béria Lima
Group contact. Someone to help everyone in any #wikimedia- "something" channel in IRC See more here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts _ *Béria Lima* (351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao

Re: [Foundation-l] New IRC Group Contact

2011-11-01 Thread Theo10011
2011/11/2 Mateus Nobre > > a new IRC group? like #wikimedia-something ? > > what's the theme of the group and its name? > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts Theo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscri

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

2011-11-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 November 2011 23:39, Mateus Nobre wrote: > If the sources are so important to Wikipedia, this has to be easier to > newbies. The essential problem is that the Wikipedia community is newbie-hostile. Not actively - mostly - but passively. They view newbies as trouble and work. Hence all t

Re: [Foundation-l] New IRC Group Contact

2011-11-01 Thread Filip Maljkovic
> a new IRC group? like #wikimedia-something ? > > what's the theme of the group and its name? > > No, no, I'm talking about a new *Group Contact*. See [1] for more details. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts Cheers, Filip ___ founda

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-11-01 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 11/01/11 5:18 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:56:48 +, Fae wrote: >>> Efficiency has never been a part of Wikipedia's mission >> That's a slightly odd interpretation, >> specifically >> includes effective dissem

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

2011-11-01 Thread Mateus Nobre
This hostility is being reflected in the drop at the number of the editors.I agree with the ''automatic-message theory''. None likes automatic messages. In my view, it should be reserved for vandals. Newbies needs a special priority. Something like: ''Hi, thanks for your edition! We hope you be

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours

2011-11-01 Thread MZMcBride
Oliver Keyes wrote: > Brandon, Howie, Fabrice and I will be holding a second Office Hours session > on the new Article Feedback Tool on Thursday 3 November. This will be at > 24:00 UTC, which works out at 4pm PST and 11pm GMT. This timing is designed > to allow east coast editors, who would be at w

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours

2011-11-01 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Hey guys > > Brandon, Howie, Fabrice and I will be holding a second Office Hours session > on the new Article Feedback Tool on Thursday 3 November. This will be at > 24:00 UTC, which works out at 4pm PST and 11pm GMT. This timing is designed

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-11-01 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, 2011/10/24 Dominic McDevitt-Parks : > Hi all, > > Since it hasn't really been mentioned, I just wanted to point out that this > image, never before available to the public in high resolution, was uploaded > to Commons as a result of our ongoing cooperative efforts with the US > National Arc

[Foundation-l] Latest fundraising test update

2011-11-01 Thread Megan Hernandez
Hey all, Just posted the lastest results from last Friday's test on meta. We got in some new editor appeals and different banners, take a look: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011 -- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation ___