Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-13 Thread Andrew Gray
I evade account creation by always making them log in first... Periodically, with a roomful of users, we'll get told that an edit has been "throttled"; no further details, I think. It seems to happen with one or at most two editors at a time out of a dozen, but it can happen to different people la

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:07 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > As it is this combined with the "throttling feature" made for > quite a bit of disruption to a session where we had ten people having an > introduction to editing. By "throttling feature", do you mean the account creation restrictions?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-13 Thread WereSpielChequers
ng an introduction to editing. WSC Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:56:06 +0100 > From: Michael Peel > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > From #w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread Newyorkbrad
I think WSC was trying to log onto Wikipedia Review by mistake. :) Newyorkbrad On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > They're up for me... > ___ > Philippe Beaudette > Director, Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > 415-839-6885, x 6643 > > p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread Leslie Carr
FYI - When you notice an outage, jumping on #wikimedia-tech on freenode (IRC) is the best way of getting a hold of the people who are (probably) already working on fixing this. If you do not have irc access, wikitech-l is a better second notification. If you are curious, this was limited to the e

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread Richard Symonds
My 3G in East London has also gone down. Connected? Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On Oct 12, 2012 4:45 PM, "WereSpielChequers" wrote: > Does anyone know why Wikipedia and Commons have both gone down? > > WSC > > Writing from a slightly modified editing workshop in London > __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Peel
>From #wikimedia-tech: "paravoid: bits was giving us trouble in Europe, we've redirected it to the US for the moment" at 4:56pm. Thanks, Mike On 12 Oct 2012, at 17:42, "Yaroslav M. Blanter" wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:33:28 -0400, Alhen wrote: >> All normal in Bolivia. >> >> Alhen >> >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:33:28 -0400, Alhen wrote: All normal in Bolivia. Alhen @alhen_ alhen at wikipedia, wikihow, wikispaces, and most places. Promotor de Wikimedia Bolivia 00-591-79592235 For me it is intermittent: sometimes it works today, sometimes it does not. Right now it is ok. Ch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread Alhen
All normal in Bolivia. Alhen @alhen_ alhen at wikipedia, wikihow, wikispaces, and most places. Promotor de Wikimedia Bolivia 00-591-79592235 2012/10/12 Thomas Morton > And up here in Lincoln. > > Tom Morton > > On 12 Oct 2012, at 17:23, John Vandenberg wrote: > > > Also working for me. > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread Thomas Morton
And up here in Lincoln. Tom Morton On 12 Oct 2012, at 17:23, John Vandenberg wrote: > Also working for me. > > John Vandenberg. > sent from Galaxy Note > On Oct 12, 2012 11:21 PM, "Jim Redmond" wrote: > >> No trouble here either. >> >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette < >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread John Vandenberg
Also working for me. John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Oct 12, 2012 11:21 PM, "Jim Redmond" wrote: > No trouble here either. > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette < > phili...@wikimedia.org > > wrote: > > > They're up for me... > > ___ > > Philippe Beau

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread Jim Redmond
No trouble here either. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > They're up for me... > ___ > Philippe Beaudette > Director, Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > 415-839-6885, x 6643 > > phili...@wikimedia.org > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:44

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
They're up for me... ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:44 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Does anyone know why Wikipedia and Commons have both gone down? > > WSC >

[Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

2012-10-12 Thread WereSpielChequers
Does anyone know why Wikipedia and Commons have both gone down? WSC Writing from a slightly modified editing workshop in London ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikime