Re: [Wikimedia-l] Technical issues of Wikimedia [was: Particular interests and common ground]

2016-02-20 Thread Sam Klein
Amir, this email is so quotable it hurts. > "There is a cool project called Knowledge Engine but we don't have money for it, > We can just give you a space to put your source code and test it, and running it." Please to launch all future projects this way. > I asked my life partner and he said

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Technical issues of Wikimedia [was: Particular interests and common ground]

2016-02-20 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:02 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > You talked about things that I'm in no place to comment but I want to > emphasize on this part of your email: > "For the last 8 years, just two things have been working without > problems in WMF: Money and tech

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Technical issues of Wikimedia [was: Particular interests and common ground]

2016-02-19 Thread Szymon Grabarczuk
+1 for "saying 'technical parts of Wikipedia sucks' is as the same as 'Wikipedia sucks' ". +1 for "the biggest problem is the user interface design of Wikipedia" and your Winter-related thoughts (I may be also wrong). Thanks for all the message. On 20 February 2016 at 03:02, Amir Ladsgroup

[Wikimedia-l] Technical issues of Wikimedia [was: Particular interests and common ground]

2016-02-19 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hey Milos, You talked about things that I'm in no place to comment but I want to emphasize on this part of your email: "For the last 8 years, just two things have been working without problems in WMF: Money and tech infrastructure (servers, "plain" MediaWiki, optimizations etc.)." We hear about