Re: [WikiEN-l] ZOMG Wikipedia is TERRORIST!!1!1!!!!

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 24 July 2010 01:04, David Gerard wrote: > On 24 July 2010 00:57, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> On 23 July 2010 13:53, Daniel R. Tobias wrote: > >>> rightly ridiculed by critics such as the WR crowd. > > > See, that's a sentence fragment that is intrinsically flawed. The WR > crowd in question was n

Re: [WikiEN-l] ZOMG Wikipedia is TERRORIST!!1!1!!!!

2010-07-23 Thread George Herbert
David - Please don't toss napalm on the fire. Thanks. -george On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:04 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 24 July 2010 00:57, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> On 23 July 2010 13:53, Daniel R. Tobias wrote: > >>> rightly ridiculed by critics such as the WR crowd. > > > See, that's a sent

Re: [WikiEN-l] ZOMG Wikipedia is TERRORIST!!1!1!!!!

2010-07-23 Thread David Gerard
On 24 July 2010 00:57, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 23 July 2010 13:53, Daniel R. Tobias wrote: >> rightly ridiculed by critics such as the WR crowd. See, that's a sentence fragment that is intrinsically flawed. The WR crowd in question was not "critics", the correct term is "stalkers and trolls,

Re: [WikiEN-l] ZOMG Wikipedia is TERRORIST!!1!1!!!!

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 23 July 2010 13:53, Daniel R. Tobias wrote: > Still, making any attempt to be secretive about where the office was > (which even included deleting pictures from Commons that showed what > the building looked like) was a really silly thing for an > organization based around free exchange of info

[WikiEN-l] Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser

2010-07-23 Thread Philippe Beaudette
[[Please distribute widely to various language communities, projects, and chapters]] Hi All, I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to get community involvement early and often. As you no doub

Re: [WikiEN-l] ZOMG Wikipedia is TERRORIST!!1!1!!!!

2010-07-23 Thread Casey Brown
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, George Herbert wrote: > However, from: >  https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/w/index.php?title=Contact_us&action=history > > ...This guy filed the complaint at a time (Feb 28, 2010)  after the > last update to the WMF "Contact us" page was made (Nov

Re: [WikiEN-l] ZOMG Wikipedia is TERRORIST!!1!1!!!!

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:43:03 -0700, Cary Bass wrote: > On 07/21/2010 12:07 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > Indeed. The address of the old office was kept quiet for security > > reasons, but the address of the new office has always been > > publicly available. To give him the benefit of the tiniest bi

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wanted: Wikipedia Online Ambassadors

2010-07-23 Thread Sage Ross
Yes, the Online Ambassadors program is open to people anywhere. It's about helping people online, so there's no need to limit it. The Campus Ambassadors, at this point, are limited to the handful of US universities that we've been working with so far (but that should expand in the future). I sus

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wanted: Wikipedia Online Ambassadors

2010-07-23 Thread Bejinhan
I thought that this is open to anyone, regardless of where they live, as long as they fulfill the requirements. Bejinhan On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Peter Coombe wrote: > On 22 July 2010 20:15, Sage Ross > > > wrote: > > The Wikimedia Foundation is now recruiting Online Ambassadors for the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wanted: Wikipedia Online Ambassadors

2010-07-23 Thread Peter Coombe
On 22 July 2010 20:15, Sage Ross wrote: > The Wikimedia Foundation is now recruiting Online Ambassadors for the > Public Policy Initiative.  (The Initiative is a new program in which > university students will contribute meaningful work to Wikipedia as > part of their classes -- but we need a corp