On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:06 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
If your willing to foot the bill for the new hardware
Ill gladly prove my point
given the millions of dollars that wikipedia has, it should not be a
problem to provide such resources for a good cause like that.
--
James
I'd like to point out that the increasingly technical nature of this
conversation probably belongs either on wikitech-l, or off-list, and that
the strident nature of the comments is fast approaching inappropriate.
Alex
Wikimedia-l list administrator
2012/5/17 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org
On
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:22 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
They are XML dumps. Why did you say they are semi-useless?
Because they are XML dumps, mainly. The data in the WMF database is
compressed in a format which can be easily randomly accessed. The
dump procedure is to uncompress it,
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
We could also consider the possibility of allowing users to use OpenID or
OAuth or whatever the web identity mechanism du jour is to allow loose
affiliation of usernames between MediaWiki installs. That way you can
On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 13:34, Anthony wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org
(mailto:t...@tommorris.org) wrote:
We could also consider the possibility of allowing users to use OpenID or
OAuth or whatever the web identity mechanism du jour is to allow
On 17 May 2012 13:32, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
Because they are XML dumps, mainly. The data in the WMF database is
compressed in a format which can be easily randomly accessed.
It's a dump. It's not supposed to be randomly accessed. We're talking
about archives, not mirrors.
On 17/05/12 12:49, Anthony wrote:
Please have someone at WMF coordinate this so that there aren't
multiple requests made. In my opinion, it should preferably be made
by a WMF employee.
Fill out the form at
https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/aws-dataset-inquiry
Tell
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:43:09AM -0400, Anthony wrote:
In fact, I think someone at WMF should contact Amazon and see if
they'll let us conduct the experiment for free, in exchange for us
creating the dump for them to host as a public data set
(http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/).
That
Just a reminder that this is happenening this morning.
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From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
Date: May 3, 2012 4:01 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with Kul and Amit, about Wikipedia Zero and other
mobile work
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi
It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally and
globally, both on- and off-wiki. Tanvir has been an active editor of
Bengali Wikipedia since 2009, he
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
Congratulations to the both of you, best wishes for your fellowships.
--
~Keegan
wow..congrtz Tanvir..
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally
Congratulations to Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang on the announcement of
them being award the honour of 'Community Fellow'.
In particular we wish to pass on our congratulations to Wikimedia Australia
Member, Steve Zhang, for receiving the award and wish him every success with
what promises to
Everyone,
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
member.
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
member.
Please join me in welcoming James!
Well, in our case it's more like waving good bye, but certainly
congratulations!
KTC
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Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine
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On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will
On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Everyone,
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
and will be
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the
Congrats James! I 'm looking forward to most tongue in cheek design
documents I have ever seen. :-)
Erik
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On 17 May 2012 18:25, Kat Walsh k...@mindspillage.org wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2012 18:19, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:
It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
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