Re: [Foundation-l] Dumb survey about Commons

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/10/26 Guillaume Paumier : >>> One thing I realized, though, was that two questions had an ambiguous >>> wording: people wonder why they have to give reasons for not using >>> Commons, or not participat

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Olli wrote: >> Date: 2009/10/31 >> Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? >> >> What about a wikipedia christmas calendar? It can maybe preview some >> articles or something similar. Then it can be multilingual. >> >> > Not necessarily just C

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/11/2 Magnus Manske : >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >>> Olli wrote: >>>> Date: 2009/10/31 >>>> Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? >>>> >>>&g

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/11/2 Magnus Manske : >>> I think a human selected calendar would be better for actually >>> publishing, but that's certainly a fun script. Can you add an option >>> to choose a category so we can ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Anthony wrote: > Are you talking about face detection or facial recognition?  The > former is implemented in some cell phones.  It's "not that complex". > The latter is more cutting edge, though surely the NSA has a good > implementation of it (as do many casinos).

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > 2009/11/2 Nikola Smolenski : >> Дана Monday 02 November 2009 18:31:50 Andrew Gray написа: >>> First image is probably your best bet - the odds are reasonably high >>> it'll be a picture, or something else "representative", in the >>> conventiona

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:22 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/12/13 Teofilo : > >> But the best is to use no energy at all : see the OLPC project in >> Afghanistan (A computer with pedals, like the sewing machines of our >> great-great-great-grand-mothers) (1) >> (1) >> http://www.olpcnews.com/coun

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Danese Cooper joins Wikimedia as CTO

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm delighted to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation's new Chief > Technical Officer is Danese Cooper, an experienced technology manager > and open-source evangelist. Danese will start with Wikimedia on > February 4, 2010. Tha

Re: [Foundation-l] At school

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:32 PM, William Pietri wrote: > On 02/16/2010 02:12 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: >> In general: "Never before people knew so little about something they >> use so often", as a German journalist said about Wikipedia. > > In a strange way, that pleases me; as Danny Hillis says,

Re: [Foundation-l] I'm here to request a new Wikimedia project

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Tyler wrote: > Dear folks at Wikimedia, > Thank you for existing! You are responsible for the encyclopedia I use every > time I need an encyclopedia! So, you publish an encyclopedia (Wikipedia), a > dictionary (Wiktionary), an archive of news articles (Wikinews),

[Foundation-l] Mind-boggling (was: Wikipedia e-mail)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Genuinelyawikiquizzling <> Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:46 PM Subject: Wikipedia e-mail To: Magnus Manske <> Dear active administrator, As an advanced user here at wikipedia, I am sure you are familiar with the corruption and bureaucracy

Re: [Foundation-l] Mind-boggling (was: Wikipedia e-mail)

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:14 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Magnus Manske wrote: >> Subject: Wikipedia e-mail >> To: Magnus Manske >> >> Dear active administrator, >> >> [nonsense] > > Why are you forwarding this? To alert people of this. I see others

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

H... > The vast majority of that material is entirely uncontroversial, but the > projects do contain material that may be inappropriate or offensive to > some audiences, such as children or people with religious or cultural > sensitivities. Time to delete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_

Re: [Foundation-l] Funny news from Poland

2010/5/13 Tomasz Ganicz : > Journalist from Poland just started commenting if we really need a > president who's main source of  knowledge about national security > comes form Wikipedia :-). Better than Fox news, I'd wager :-) ___ foundation-l mailing l

Re: [Foundation-l] drive-by site updates

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 15:11, Svip wrote: >> On 16 May 2010 14:06, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >> >>> But the introduction of the new search box that practically can't >>> search, was not part of the beta and it was a complete surprise. Am i

Re: [Foundation-l] drive-by site updates

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Svip wrote: > On 16 May 2010 17:14, Svip wrote: >> On 16 May 2010 17:12, Magnus Manske wrote: >>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Amir E. Aharoni >>> wrote: >>>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 15:11, Svip wrote: >

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: page weight

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Ryan Lomonaco wrote: > Forwarded. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Yann Forget > Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:57 AM > Subject: Usability: page weight > To: foundation-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Hello, > > While we are talking about usabil

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:42 PM, geni wrote: > >> >> >> In practice pulling up the wikipedia article on "horse" in your >> language will cover most cases. There is a fairly good argument to be >> made that wikipedia is common's best search e

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On 06/22/2010 08:07 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: >>>> I would consider this state as a poor reflection on Commons' accessibility. >>> Especially as Google image search (imho, the likeliest avenue of searching

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Tisza Gergo wrote: > Samuel Klein writes: > >> I'd like to see such translation tools used to enhance the tags used >> to identify an image, so that all internet searches can find images by >> those tags. > > I think this stuff should be left for Google. A clever

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Tisza Gergo wrote: > Magnus Manske writes: > >> Basically, this will (on the search page only!) look at the last query >> run (the one currently in the edit box), check several language >> editions of Wikipedia for articles from the i

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:42 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 27 July 2010 09:36, Shiju Alex wrote: > >> Wiki communities like the biological growth of the wikipedia articles in >> their wiki. Why English Wikipedia did not start building wikipedia articles >> using *Encyclopedia Britannica 1911* edi

Re: [Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:13 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buck wrote: > >> Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki >> like they did on Commons. E.g. German speakers meet at the Forum >> ()

Re: [Foundation-l] wikipedia.de shut down

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Bryan Tong Minh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently the German portal on wikipedia.de has been shut down after > a legal case. Is there any more information on this? > http://www.wikipedia.de/ Apparently, some German communist politician was angry about somethi

Re: [Foundation-l] Moving towards a more usable MediaWiki

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoi, > They failed their task. Their task was to create a new article. There are > many people who fail at this. >From our internal lab/project wiki, I can confirm that people (including PhDs and professors) keep looking

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoi, > When people from other projects tell me that this is one of the reasons why > they do not bother with Commons, I have to disbelieve them? Try to find > "paard" and you will not be served in the same way as with "hor

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

. To me this is not acceptable > because it degrades Commons to less then what it should be, what it could > be. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2008/12/9 Magnus Manske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Gerard Meijssen >> <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > David Gerard wrote: >> The other useful thing that can be done with templates is to >> standardise the field names in them as much as possible per wiki. >> >> The reason? To enhance machine readability of data in them. People are >> SERIOU

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Should WMF opt out of Phorm?

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM, geni wrote: > 2009/4/1 Ryan Kaldari : >> Yes, but how many of them let you opt out? If we could opt out of the >> Great Firewall of China, I imagine we would :) > > Most of these national firewalls limit the number of ISPs people can > access through. Blocking them

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Parul Vora wrote: > Hi all! > > The Wikipedia Usability Initiative conducted a user research study with > SF based Bolt Peters in late March to uncover barriers new editors face. > We are in the process of completing a full report on our methodology, > process and

Re: [Foundation-l] Murdoch newspaper websites to go paywall -opportunity for citizen journalism!

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > At this point in time, the project should act just like any other news > organization, and never assume that readers are going to flock to them. How about getting Amazon to offer free Wikinews subscriptions on their Kindle Newspaper channe

Re: [Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Fajro wrote: > And why partner with Google? There are Free alternatives in development: > > http://www.apertium.org/ > > http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page I tried this with a "first paragraph" from en.wikipedia, translating to Spanish and back. Worked surpri

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

Hi, I think the questions to ask are: * How many Indonesians speak Dutch, compared to those that speak English? * When you try to translate to Indonesian (a laudable goal), will you have more chances to find translators with Dutch and English, rather than with just Dutch? The (obvious) answers

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > OK, there are *many* pictures of a marc'h on Commons... Now pretend that you > cannot find what this is in English. Try to find it on Commons. Noone disputes that this is a problem. And if we had an unlimited number of volunteers fl

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: > High Priest of Mediawiki? I propose robes as his official outfit, similar to this: http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/index.shtml Magnus ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@list

Re: [Foundation-l] [ol-discuss] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:32 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >>... >> Let's take a practical example.  A classics professor I know (Greg >> Crane, copied here) has scans of primary source materials, some with >> approximate or hand-polished OCR, wai

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:37 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Liam Wyatt wrote: >> I suspect that the issue lies not with the fact that you are only a couple >> of clicks away from the PediaPress bookprinting service from every Wikipedia >> article, but more the fact that the PediaPress system is the *only

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:56 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 12 November 2010 07:56, geni wrote: > >> We should offer to host citizendium on our servers at no cost for a >> period of 1 (one) year offering a level of support equivalent to our >> smaller projects. After one year the citizendium commun

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Joe Corneli wrote: > What people seem to have been stepping around in this thread so far is > the fact that Pediapress's software chain includes some components > that they have NOT released as open source.  There seems to be ongoing > confusion about this.  If the

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Robert S. Horning wrote: > On 11/12/2010 10:05 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: >> Wikimedia policy is to use only free software, at least on the >> "customer-facing" side. That includes the PDF-generation process, >> which runs on our serv

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:18 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 11/13/2010 6:44:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, > magnusman...@googlemail.com writes: > > >> And if you can find some other publishing entity (printing, DVDs, >> etc.) that could be used interchangeably for the PediaPress button, >> and th

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:16 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 11/13/2010 9:53:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, > magnusman...@googlemail.com writes: > > >> I'm all for that. But, did anyone actually ask the Foundation to have >> his button included there (besides spammers et al.)? It's not like an >>

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 11/13/2010 11:08:33 AM Pacific Standard Time, > magnusman...@googlemail.com writes: > > >> 1. Given the limited of number services (one, plus Robert's which I >> missed in the thread, if it still exists), it probably seemed >> pointles

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

Great news indeed! Now I can finally figure out when my first edit was :-) Magnus On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I > opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete > backups of the text

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > On 14.12.2010 16:54, Tim Starling wrote: >> I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I >> opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete >> backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Hi Magnus, > > On 14.12.2010 22:35, Magnus Manske wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Henning Schlottmann >> wrote: >>> On 14.12.2010 16:54, Tim Starling wrote: >>>> I was looking

Re: [Foundation-l] Happy Birthday Wikipedia, from Jimmy Wales

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Jay Walsh wrote: > Birthday wishes from Jimmy on our blog, with embedded video greetings. Implemented as Flash. Oh the irony ;-) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.

[Foundation-l] H2G2 "to be disposed of"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12265173 Anything worth salvaging? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th wiki-birthdays?

excuse  for a party :-) >> First recorded edit : July 28, 2001 (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&dir=prev&target=Magnus+Manske) Now get off my lawn ;-) ___ foundation-l mailing list foun

Re: [Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:49 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 2 November 2011 21:41, Nathan wrote: > >> I knew it looked so obvious someone must've already tried to do it. >> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ProveIt.jpg and >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ProveIt_GT. This is a GUI reference

[Foundation-l] iBooks vs. wBooks?

(This mail is focused on books, but the topic is of more general interest IMHO, thus foundation-l) Hi all, I just saw the "iBooks Author" news: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/19/a-closer-look-at-ibooks-author-textbooks-and-exclusivity/ Of course, all these pretty books will be only available i

Re: [Foundation-l] iBooks vs. wBooks?

what we do is freely licensed or public domain you can do >> > whatever as long as the license requirements are maintained. I am sure >> that >> > as a consequence you cannot legally publish in Apple's walled garden. I >> > hate to see anything done in