Will you use the Translate extension for translations or will you just ask
the translators to do it old-style? Please consider the extension - it's
far more convenient for the translators and for the managers. It's already
installed in Meta.
06.04.2012 6:42 пользователь Mono monom...@gmail.com
2012/3/14 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
On 14 March 2012 05:16, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
I will actually look for a copy of the 15th edition (for sentimental
reasons) to buy before they get too rare and too expensive :D Of course I
will miss it! If Britannica is gone we will
Or, more precisely, the English Wikipedia list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l .
This list is for movement-wide issues. An ArbCom exists only in some
language projects and is not a movement-wide issue.
2012/3/11 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
Hoi,
This would
2012/3/7 Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info
I researched recently some material related to a recent catastrophic
event in Polish railway history[1] and I found out that volunteers
who traditionally dealt with railway matters on Polish Wikipedia
have virtually disappeared.
Thought provoking,
2012/3/1 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
On 1 March 2012 10:23, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
If names are that important for you, go ahead and rename foundation-l,
but there is really no need for yet another list.
+1
Adding a new list would be largely redundant.
Another +1.
There
2012/3/1 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
Other companies doing similarly:
http://blog.nestoria.co.uk/why-and-how-weve-switched-away-from-google-ma
http://www.fubra.com/blog/2011/11/24/google-maps-free-alternatives/
... And, in case anybody missed this piece of news, so will
Wikimedia's
2012/2/18 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
Seems like a Catch-22 to me: documents about what we do at the Foundation
are sometimes not plainly understandable, and yet you can't make them
understandable unless you know what it is you're supposed to be describing.
It doesn't have to be
See below for a great presentation of problems in conducting outreach
events and wiki workshop by Nitika Tandon.
It discusses events in India, but most of it is relevant for the whole world.
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“We're living in
Apparently, in the Sakha Republic in Eastern Russia, browsing sites
connected to the republic's network is cheap or free according to the
plan's the ISPs offers, while browsing sites outside the republic
costs more. So people often choose to read local news and forums and
request information from
It is not 280+ languages, but it is more than English to Spanish and
most likely more languages can be added. I already tried using it to
study German, and i was very positively impressed with their nice
exercise system.
My guess is that at a later stage they'll want to employ crowdsourcing
I tend to agree. At times of Fundraising, public interest grows
noticeably. People have been asking me aobut the banners almost every
day for the last few weeks. (A few times they even asked me whether
they are going to see a personal appeal from Amir Aharoni soon.)
I don't think that i ever saw
2011/12/31 geni geni...@gmail.com:
We appear to have actual blinking ads. Unfortunate. Still I suppose
the occasion should be marked.
They are not blinking in a manner that is even remotely obnoxious. And
they are also used for displaying bilingual messages, which is very
useful for areas in
The popular Russian blogger Artemy Lebedev [1] is known for changing
the title of his blog every few days. Usually it is a line from spam
emails. The current title is the translation into Russian of We now
accept rubles (RUB), most likely taken from the Wikipedia fundraising
banners.
Lebedev also
2011/11/28 Dirk Franke dirkingofra...@googlemail.com:
Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale?
Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well..
Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe.
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2011/10/29 Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org:
I don't think that's accurate. WikiLove only has a single bug filed
against it, and it's just a feature request:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamednamedcmd=WikiLovelist_id=42901
Well, since you complained, here's another
Getting the dreaded community consensus for useful features and fixes
is indeed a painful experience and i'm not joking.
One way to counter it is to present the communities with results of
research that has been conducted and shown that these features
actually achieve something positive.
Was
2011/10/14 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
I love Cracked. It's Wikipedia with dick jokes.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-another-book-burning-period-in-history_p2.html
To be ha ha only serious for a moment, this touches on why we all
bother doing this.
It depressed
2011/10/4 emijrp emi...@gmail.com
Hi all;
The events regarding Italian Wikipedia blanking[1][2] of all its content are
a serious precedent IMHO. They can make a lot of noise using other
procedures, like a big blinking site notice, but giving no choice to read
the content is against the main
2011/9/13 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
I don't think that means the projects are dying: I'm an infrequent
contributor to both of those projects, and every time I go there,
they're better.
Absolutely true. In the last year or so i've been using English,
Dutch, French, Spanish,
2011/9/13 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
I am not a Wictionary contributor but I was never able to understand why
we have Wictionaries in different language, though a big part of those seem
to be translations on other languages, and they overlap. Would it not be
advantageous to have
Let me start by saying that Ziko's Tell us about your Wikipedia
project was wonderful and i really expect its second edition. If Ziko
or someone else doesn't beat me to it, i'll probably just create one
myself, with additional questions that interest me ;)
I support the idea of language contact
2011/8/2 Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru:
Any chance it would be agreed in the future? There are at least three
working versions on big projects, German, Polish, and Russian Wikipedias
(though I believe in Russian Wikipedia it was recently killed by users
trying to set records and
2011/7/11 Thomas Goldammer tho...@googlemail.com
It won't be possible to save languages going extinct. Even if two or
three people start writing a Wikipedia in such a language, it will die
out as a spoken language, eventually, not later than it would without
a Wikipedia. I think it's nice to
2011/7/11 Thomas Goldammer tho...@googlemail.com
How many people don't
understand any Wikipedia today?
Of those who can read at all, probably much less than 1%. The problem
are those people who can't read.
For persons who can't read it's far better to learn reading first in
their own
2011/7/10 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
and one in revived language (Manx).
Ahem.
The definition of a revived language is very controversial, but if
you count them, don't forget Hebrew (120,000+ articles) and Cornish
(2,000+ articles).
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2011/7/1 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
As Russia is fairly developed country, it is likely that reaching people
who speak those languages and teaching them how to use Wikimedia
projects would the task for WM RU. Besides that, I think that all
languages of Russia have writing systems and
2011/7/1 Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru:
Adyge is almost
identical to Kabardino-Circassian, and Adyge speakers probably will never
have their own Wikipedia.
From what i hear about this, Adyge and Kabardian may be two varieties
of a Circassian [[macrolanguage]]. Maybe someone who cares
The problem of content ownership hits any wiki at some point.
In the English Wikipedia it is governed by a policy called WP:OWN
[1]. There's a similar policy in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Is this policy
any different in other projects?
I am asking, because i agree with the English Wikipedia's policy
2011/6/17 Strainu strain...@gmail.com:
I think that such a policy could not be fundamentally different in
other languages, since they all have the same license. However, the
wording could be improved, for instance by explaining WHY one cannot
consider himself as the owner of an article: by
2011/6/17 Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com:
It's now the afternoon of the 17th (UTC), and this list—of which I
have the dubious distinction of being custodian—hasn't seen a single
thread about the WMF board election results.
I'm honestly not sure if I should be proud of or disappointed with you
2011/6/17 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org:
I guess that Amir was rather referring to the cultural aspect than the legal
aspect.
You guessed correctly.
Amir, is there a specific background that you are thinking of which is why
you are asking this? Maybe that helps people answering your
2011/6/17 Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 15:24, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
In such cases, as an Israeli saying goes, i am right, but i am not
clever. It hurts that person and it hurts the project, because that
person may otherwise be a very
2011/6/12 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
On 11 June 2011 00:27, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
You are third person to respond as if my email was about me personally
looking for help editing. And the second to snip my writing out of all
context. Steven seemed to actually get what my
Hallo,
I just received an email (see below) that invites me to participate in
the elections.
There are several technical issues with it:
1. I already voted. It may be a good idea to send this only to people
who didn't.
2. The subject says 2009.
3. The email is sent in English and Hebrew. I
2011/6/10 birgitte...@yahoo.com:
In setting up my iPad this is what shocked me.
It is near impossible to edit a wiki. Well that wasn't
to worrisome. I figured there's an app for that.
I hate the whole idea of apps for accessing websites through iPhone,
iPad, Android, OVI or whatever. And i
2011/5/31 Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com:
On 5/30/2011 2:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
Hello,
There's a bit of discussion about deleting old versions of fair-use
files in the Hebrew Wikipedia and it may be interesting to other
projects as well.
The main questions is: Should old
Hello,
There's a bit of discussion about deleting old versions of fair-use
files in the Hebrew Wikipedia and it may be interesting to other
projects as well.
The main questions is: Should old versions of fair-use files be
deleted? The two main points that support the deletion are that it
saves
2011/5/22 Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com:
That said, to me, I don't see any stalking whatsoever. It is common when
investigating sockpuppets to send evidence privately to other trusted users,
so that the (suspected) sockpuppeteer does not change their habits to avoid
detection. I don't
2011/5/22 Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com:
Has anyone notified SD about this discussion? Pretty much essential given
the allegations made by Dror K (which are clearly unfounded, but may be
damaging).
Notified whom?
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2011/5/22 Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com:
Supreme Deliciousness, whose actions are being discussed...
I noted that he hadn't been told so dropped him a note as common courtesy.
Oh.
This initialism may be well-known to some English Wikipedia editors,
but not to all of them, and
2011/5/19 church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com
Hi all,
Do we have any guidelines limiting the use of CentralNotices? I noticed
there are a lot lately (fundraising, wikimania and most recently board
elections and commons POTY), some of which are not of much interest to
the
I asked this in another thread, but didn't get a response. The POTY
banner appears on English-language projects. Why wasn't there a
request to translate it as it usually happens with such banners?
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We're living in
I unofficially appointed myself to be the Editor Survey ambassador
to the Hebrew Wikipedia. For a few days i helped people fill it and
gathered some feedback.
Now people are complaining that they can't see the banner. I tried
telling them to clean the cookies and it didn't help; i tried it
2011/4/27 Daniel ~ Leinad danny.lei...@gmail.com:
Is it disabled? I don't remember any notice about it.
Yes, survey campaign is inactive:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNotice
Thank you... is there any way i could know it? I volunteered to help
with it and it would be nice to
Being a linguist i am often asked how many languages do i speak. I
don't like that question, because that's not exactly what Linguistics
is about.
Being a Wikipedian i am often asked how many articles did i write. I
don't like that question either, because most work on Wikipedia is
about
2011/4/8 Dror Kamir dqa...@bezeqint.net:
Had someone
followed the administrators' decisions on the biggest projects, and
publish a monthly newsletter with copies of the most prominent decisions
about bans and sanctions, it would increase transparency and make
administrators much more careful
2011/4/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
A lot of the projects that Wikimedia is investing in today are small and
focused on particular needs of the Wikimedia Foundation, not the Wikimedia
community. One example might be an article
2011/4/4 Rodan Bury bury.ro...@gmail.com:
As for the quantitative analysis, the one made during the beta testing of
Vector was detailed. It clearly showed that most users - and especially
newbies - preferred Vector over Monobook (retention rates of 70 - 80 % and
more).
It means that for most
2011/4/2 Rodan Bury bury.ro...@gmail.com:
The analysis of the qualitative and quantitative results of the Usability
Initiative is not a question anybody can answer. Comments like I personally
prefer monobook (fictional example) does not help to make an analysis based
on facts.
Erik Möller's
2011/4/4 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
On 4 April 2011 16:20, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I understand that WMF's resources are limited, but the development and
the deployment of Vector did cost some money and also forced a lot of
volunteers in English and in all
2011/4/2 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org:
It's not getting the resource push it would need to reach major
milestones quickly -- just because we don't have the resources (see
[1] for where most resources are going and why). But the work is
continuing and we'll be able to ramp up resourcing
The Vector skin, the main product of the Usability Initiative, was
deployed on Wikimedia projects in April 2010.
Quoting usability.wikimedia.org: The goal of this initiative is to
measurably increase the usability of Wikipedia for new contributors by
improving the underlying software on the basis
Arthur, thank you so much for this reply!
The Hebrew translation of the survey is practically complete. It would
take us just a few minutes to create a version for women, who will,
without doubt, appreciate it. (There are women among the translators,
too.) If there's a chance that it will be
In the last few months i was deeply involved with several big
translation projects for Wikimedia: The Fundraising, Sue's March
Update letter, and the Editor's survey.
What's common to all of them is that the original English texts were
written without keeping localization in mind, or maybe not
2011/3/23 WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com:
But how would this process handle situations such as the EN wiki
article [[David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley]] having an interwiki
link to the DE article on his late mother? Currently this comes up as
a death anomaly because one is
What i say here about Hebrew may be useful for many other languages, too.
I am translating the Editors survey into Hebrew. The survey is written
as a long series of questions in the second person (you). In Hebrew
the second person is very gender-dependent - the wording is
significantly different
gender? For example,
he/she.
Thanks
Mani
Mani Pande, PhD
Head of Global Development Research
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: manipande
Skype: manipande
On 3/22/11 4:17 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
What i say here about Hebrew may be useful for many other languages, too.
I am translating
2011/3/21 Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org
An'n 21.03.2011 09:27, hett Andre Engels schreven:
I guess I'm awfully inadequate at that then... Moving interwikis to a
separate site is something that I first proposed back in 2002
(although then saying it was 'something for the (far?) future'),
2011/3/21 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
Hoi,
One technical resource lacking is time. The 1.17 code is not stable enough
for a full release. There is a lot of code that wants to go into 1.18 and
until new releases are going to appear regularly a lot of stuff will
continue to wait
2011/3/21 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
On 21 March 2011 20:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Milos Rancic, 19/03/2011 10:45:
And there are three new Wikisource editions:
* Wikisource in Sakha language [9]: http://sah.wikisource.org/
* Wikisource in Sanskrit
2011/3/11 Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org:
The simple answer: Maybe, but how could i know that?
The smartass answer: Maybe, but how could i know that after clicking
'Next' i wouldn't be presented with a stupid JavaScript error message,
punishing me for clicking 'Next' before
2011/3/11 Mani Pande mpa...@wikimedia.org:
MzMcBride wrote:
After having looked at the survey content, the survey software, and the
survey format (particularly the length), I have very, very low confidence
that anything of value will come from this (beyond lessons of what not to do
next
2011/3/11 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs:
On 03/11/2011 10:52 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
I noticed the Take a WMF-sponsored survey on barriers to expert
participation in Wikipedia. banner on the top of English Wiktionary
the other day. I clicked it and answered a whole page of questions
2011/3/5 Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com:
The fact that
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Trans#Core_set_of_languages
is now marked as obsolete disappoints me. It seems to mean that
multilingualism has been rejected.
This is an interesting idea that should be revived.
2011/3/5 Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org:
All translation work is done by volunteers, and who were we to say
your language isn't as important, we'd rather you translate into X,
especially if we hadn't really researched how to make those priority
lists? If you translate something into Hopi,
2011/3/4 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net:
On 03/03/11 5:44 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
The name administrator gives the impression of some mythical
balance of power, although administrators don't actually
administrate - they (un)delete, (un)block and (un)protect, in addition
to editing
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to
have the Babel extension installed, and Siebrand notes the Translate
extension is ready for wider use, say on Meta or Mediawiki.org:
Babel is great and i'd love to see it enabled everywhere, but there's
a little odd bug
2011/3/3 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
Amir writes:
Now i, in general, think that these permissions should be given
liberally to as many reasonable Wikimedians as possible.
snip
In fact it's quite likely that communities will want to give as little
permissions as possible to users.
Can
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1422
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2011/2/18 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
On 18 February 2011 15:15, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
While it is likely that they will achieve $50.000 somehow [1], it
would be good that WMF (1) donate them some sum of money and (2) to
cover the remainder, if they would have any.
It's
2011/2/12 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
Given that we want to be more welcoming to women, I think it is awesome that
we will be able to address women as women. The fact that we gain some
statistical insight is a fringe benefit.
The only question left is, when can this be
2011/2/10 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com:
On 09/02/2011, at 4:35, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Le mardi 08 février 2011 à 22:48 +0530, Bartol Flint a écrit :
Is there someplace I can follow what the status is - like on twitter??
A public status dashboard is available at
User:HalanTul from the Sakha Wikipedia asked me to ask about this here.
The writers of the Sakha Wikipedia want to add icons to share in
Facebook/Twitter/etc to some articles to promote the project, but
they are concerned about the legal and ideological implications of
such a move: Doesn't
The main page of the Usability wiki ( http://usability.wikimedia.org ) says
that it's discontinued and the whole wiki appears to be locked for editing.
I don't remember this being discussed, although i may have missed it.
I understand that after completing the Vector rollout and the using up of
2011/1/28 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
The idea of getting samizdat copies of Wikipedia into Egypt appeals.
Airlift in current-article dumps of ar:wp and en:wp on SD cards by the
thousand?
Don't forget arz.wikipedia. It's small, but shouldn't be ignored.
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2011/1/27 Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com:
Before Translatewiki existed it was possible for Wikimedia/Wikipedia
users to improve the translation of the Mediawiki software's message
used on their project into their own language.
It is no longer possible now,
As Chad said, it's still possible
2011/1/18 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com:
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
That's the point - i do think that it's a Foundation-level issue, or
more precisely, movement-level issue. That's because RFA is broken
discussion
1/16 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
On 16 January 2011 07:45, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
What they do in the Portuguese Wikipedia is not what i propose; it's
only close to it. What's listed at [[en:Wikipedia:Perennial
proposals]] is very different from what i
2011/1/16 Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru:
Nope, it doesn't have to be this way. There should be no full admins
and partial admins; there should be no admins at all. There should
be people who protect pages and people who block vandals. Some people
may have both permissions.
The
2011/1/16 Joseph Seddon seddonw...@gmail.com
I am going to be quite frank and say that it is pointless to have this
discussion on this list. Only a fraction of the english wikipedia community
are on it. If you are genuinely serious about this then propose it on the
english wikipedia. This is
In his 10th anniversary address Jimmy Wales says: Today is a great
moment to reflect on where we've been.
What my reflection brings up is that the single thing that probably
raised more controversy among the widest range of Wikimedians is not
the content of articles about sex, celebrities or
2011/1/15 geni geni...@gmail.com:
On 15 January 2011 15:26, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
Now, fight.
First review the discussion that has already taken place at WT:RFA
I suppose that you refer to the English Wikipedia. This list is about
more than just the English
2011/1/15 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com:
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Birthday wishes from Jimmy on our blog, with embedded video greetings.
Implemented as Flash. Oh the irony ;-)
A web video without patent restrictions:
2011/1/16 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
On 15 January 2011 21:55, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
Before writing that proposal i reviewed many, many pages of RFA is
broken discussions not just in the English Wikipedia, but in Hebrew,
Russian and Catalan ones, too
2010/12/11 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com:
Say the projects were all renamed. Great. What's changed? Only the name
on each page and likely the logo in the upper left. Will the smaller
projects magically get more readers and editors and Google page rank? No.
In fact the proposers
I also think that it is worth considering and that it's not a suicide,
although other opinions are welcome.
I am mostly active in Wikipedia, but i am also quite active in
Wikisource and Commons. I wouldn't be offended if Wikisource's name
would change. When i talk about my biggest Wikisource
Quite a lot of people know that Wikipedia is one of the 10 most popular
sites in the world.
Much less people notice that among the most popular Wikipedia is the only
one that doesn't sell them anything: Google has Adwords, Microsoft sells its
products and all the other websites have advertising
The Google test used to be a tool for checking the notability of a subject
or to find sources about it. For some languages it may be also used for
other purposes - for example in Hebrew, the spelling of which is not
established so well, it is very frequently used for finding the most common
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 15:42, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
If the copyright license has been followed -wikipedia should exclude all
clones. However, often, material is copied without crediting it to
Wikipedia.
Yes, but that may also exclude sites that are useful and original, but
://www.wikipediaexperts.com/codeofethics.html
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 17:42, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 14:09, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 November 2010 11:30, Â wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Any one signed up yet?
it.
/my_theory
How to solve it? Sorry, no idea. I love textbooks for all ages, so i
would love to see Wikibooks flourish. I made a few corrections to
existing Wikibooks, but i find it strange to start a Wikibook from
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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 17:17, luke lenny lennybodom...@gmail.com wrote:
why can't wikimedia publish advertisements and generate revenue and
become self-reliant,self-sustainable , instead of asking for funds
from user every year again and again...
See
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 00:03, Mohamed Magdy mohamed@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Our family has got new projects:
snip
* Wikinews in Esperanto: http://eo.wikinews.org/
This project is a joke, are there really people who
Are there statistics about users' preferences on Wikimedia sites?
For example, a statistic that would say things like how many users use every
skin and how many users have Show preview before edit box disabled.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but the defaults for new users never seem to change
(except
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 14:26, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
On 01/11/10 08:47, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
Are there statistics about users' preferences on Wikimedia sites?
For example, a statistic that would say things like how many users use every
skin and how many users have
In the five or so years that i spent on Wikipedia it never bothered me
and i never heard complaints about it until today, but come to think
of it, there is something odd in the way users are notified about new
messages on their user talk pages.
The famous orange message in English says: You have
2010/9/22 Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org:
Link to the original article:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/
As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're
launching an experimental new tool today to capture article feedback
Some good news: The Sakha Wiki community keeps being surprisingly
active. I don't know this language, but i read the mailing list of
that community, which is mostly written in Russian, and often
contribute to it (i also asked to migrate that list to Wikimedia
servers and it will probably happen
Thought that some of you may find this interesting:
In the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, there's a
MediaWiki-based project called Proteopedia: http://proteopedia.org/ .
It is a Wikipedia-inspired database of proteins and other molecules.
The project is supervised by
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