[Wikimedia-l] Google Planning Wireless Networks To Connect The Next 1B People

2013-05-25 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
@ Mobile team http://readwrite.com/2013/05/24/google-planning-wireless-networks-to-connect-the-next-billion-people http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323975004578503350402434918.html Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okf

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2013-05-25 Thread ENWP Pine
Tilman, Is there a schedule for these reviews on Meta? Also, did Grants have a review recently? Thanks, Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-25 Thread ENWP Pine
> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 20:33:57 +0200 > From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Cc: Gayle Karen Young > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and > other things) > Message-ID: <519e6115@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Nemo, I think someone posted a list of good questions in this thread awhile back. I tried to find them but I gave up after ten minutes. If you can find them would you please repost them? If you can't find them either then I'd ask you to repeat the questions that you remember and think are most

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-25 Thread Craig Franklin
Wow, I'm on the road, bur suggesting that someone ought to leave after one public error? That's brutal. Hope I never come across you while doing my day job! Cheers, Craig On 26/05/2013 5:35 AM, "ENWP Pine" wrote: > > Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 20:33:57 +0200 > > From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" > > To:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-25 Thread Benjamin Lees
The way this whole affair was undertaken was unfortunate, but that can be smoothed over with apologies. The remaining issue is that the wrong decision was made, and there's no way to fix that except to reverse the decision. On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:35 PM, ENWP Pine wrote: > Do you think you s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-25 Thread MZMcBride
Benjamin Lees wrote: > The way this whole affair was undertaken was unfortunate, but that can be >smoothed over with apologies. The remaining issue is that the wrong >decision was made, and there's no way to fix that except to reverse the >decision. This. It's not about making a mistake (or even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-25 Thread Steve Zhang
On 26 May 2013 07:35, ENWP Pine wrote: > > Gayle, I am going to be frank. I think I know a little more about you and > your work than the average member of this list does. I appreciate your > explanations and apologies, but I'm continuing to have a hard time with > this situation. With your many

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I can agree with the rest but this is interesting: Steve Zhang, 26/05/2013 08:42: [...] Now, the removal of adminship of volunteer editors on the WMF wiki (among other changes) happened for a reason, [...] really? What reason? I've not yet heard an explanation other than "it's our wiki and we