Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Kat Walsh
FWIW, I set IP block exempt on Jake's account a few years ago, but to my frustration it looks like someone removed it because of inactivity. (Editorializing a bit, I don't see much value in the removal; while it is true that an inactive user's account could be broken into, the permission extends

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-02 Thread Kat Walsh
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, June 6, 2012 is IPv6 Day ( http://www.worldipv6day.org/ ). The goal of this global event is to move more ISPs, equipment manufacturers and web services to permanent adoption of IPv6. We're planning to do limited

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst

2012-05-17 Thread Kat Walsh
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome David Schoonover - Systems Engineer - Data Analytics

2012-02-13 Thread Kat Walsh
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: [2] Dinosaur samples: http://art.less.ly/dinosaurs/ This is the most delightful thing I have seen all day. (Welcome, David!) -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate Web:

Re: [Wikitech-l] w...@home Extension

2009-08-01 Thread Kat Walsh
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/1 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu: I think you vastly underestimate the amount of video that will be uploaded. Michael is right in thinking big and thinking distributed. CPU cycles are not *that* cheap. There is a lot