Re: [WikiEN-l] "Permission required" on copyright expired images...

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Durova wrote: > > Actually this isn't a copyright discussion. > > > > http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=581 > > > > "To ensure that publication of material from its collections receives due > > ackno

Re: [WikiEN-l] Age fabrication and original research

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:13 PM, FT2 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Ken Arromdee wrote: > > "Write about what is verifiable, rather than what you or someone happens to > believe is true" is a soundbite, a way to express that approach. We don't > know 100.000% about reality, or history

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Downtime this morning

Hehe. Yeah, I'm with Carcharoth. Not sure what any of that meant Andrew, but it sounds important. Glad it's back up. Thanks for keeping us informed. Just like there's a certain amount of (anti)prestige associated with being one of the admins who've managed to delete the mainpage http://en.wikipedi

Re: [WikiEN-l] Usability Study Round Two!

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > (Can't wait until the TOC in edit mode is live: > http://prototype.wikimedia.org/s-5/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit > ) > > Steve > > It already is. Go to "Enable navigable table of contents" in the "editing" tab of your user-prefere

Re: [WikiEN-l] My most reused piece of free content

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Ryan Delaney wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Judson Dunn >wrote: > > > Those are great for long policy pages, especially for new users. It's > > probably one of my favorite templates in terms of usability. They > > might be a little too useful though, pe

Re: [WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 77, Issue 22

Strategy and outreach wikis are both in the SUL system. As far as I am aware all of the Wikimedia Foundation run MediaWiki wikis are (say that three times fast!). Just hit "log in". Bugzilla is a different kind of software. wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:22

Re: [WikiEN-l] Free data (UK government)

I think we should also note that one of "Wikimedia's own" was involved in this project from the beginning. In his professional capacity (not as a volunteer Wikimedian) former en.wp Arb - James Forrester ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jdforrester) has played an important roll in achieving the l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:37 PM, SlimVirgin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 20:24, Carcharoth > wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:05 AM, SlimVirgin wrote: > >> What kind of reusers do we have in mind? The reason I ask is that the > >> image policies are crippling, or the way they're being appl

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Public Policy Initiative

Yes, it is both a US centric and English Wikipedia Centric project. Have a look at the FAQ "which universities will be involved" section. Not really the WMF's fault given that the money is coming

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged protection and patrolled revisions

On 7 May 2010 01:13, William Pietri wrote: > On 05/06/2010 04:38 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, William Pietri > wrote: > > > >> We discussed this at some length today, and I wanted to update > everybody. > >> > > Who is the we in your message? (I'm just asking b

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

On 14 May 2010 21:19, Casey Brown wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, AGK wrote: > > Ooh, that's nifty. I didn't know it existed either. Will they be > > testing FlaggedRevs on the site, > > > > Most new extensions are tested on their own "labs" site or on > testwiki, the Usability initiat

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 14 May 2010 23:40, William Pietri wrote: > On 05/14/2010 03:34 PM, Ian Woollard wrote: > > On 14/05/2010, William Pietri wrote: > > > >> No worries! If I had thought somebody were suggesting wheel warring on > >> enwiki, I'd ask 'em about it too. >

[WikiEN-l] Feature Article Prizes - British Museum

e_collaborations Again, the full and place to ask questions is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Featured_Article_prize Good luck! Liam Wyatt [[Witty Lama]] Volunteer Wikipedian in Residence, British Museum wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata [1]

Re: [WikiEN-l] Feature Article Prizes - British Museum

On 17 June 2010 03:28, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > > Dear en.wiki-l, > > > > As some of you may have seen in this week's Wikipedia Signpost[1] or on > the > > Wikimedia UK Blog[2] the British Museum is offerin

Re: [WikiEN-l] "Wikipedia’s Foundation Plans Exp ansion"

and the staffing changes reflect that > some > > with a larger focus on development outside en. > > > > > Having discussed certain things with Liam Wyatt face-to-face after the > British Museum workshop, I'm prepared to say that I disagree somewhat > with him as a pund

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:WikiProject >> Project

I would presume for ease of use - it's shorter to write and is more immediately clear (to the non-wikipedian) what is meant. I guess that the underlying idea is that Wikiprojects (and indeed any form of collaboration that is more complex than what can be handled in an individual article's talkpage)

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

On 18/11/2010, at 7:14, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Deniz Gultekin > wrote: >> MuZemike, >> >> Bad feelings? We're learning more about our donors to maximize the >> fundraising potential of our messages during the two month campaign. We >> have a lofty goal - and a s

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups

Pikachu Coughed!! Tony - that is the funniest thing I've read on this list, or any Wikimedia list, for a very long time. I nominate you in the Wikipedia 10th anniversary awards that-I-just-made-up in the category of "best inside joke" :-) -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 20 D

[WikiEN-l] Two stories from Lorcan Dempsey

Interesting post in Lorcan Dempsey's blog (influential librarian-blogger) relates two interesting stories (neither of which are unique/new to us, but interesting nevertheless): "Using Wikipedia" February 13: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002155.html Story one. "Edward Glaeser includes a refe