Re: [Wikitech-l] zh-tw still gives simplified Chinese in link titles on Facebook and Google

2011-10-17 Thread M. Williamson
Umm what the link actually says is this: "This is recommended in the following scenarios: - You translate only the template of your page, such as the navigation and footer, and keep the bulk of your content in a single language. This is common on pages that feature user-generated content. - Your p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email notification sender

2012-01-01 Thread M. Williamson
Correction: Wikipedia is the largest part of the projects. Why do people always want to pretend otherwise, or lament that fact? 2011/12/31 Huib Laurens > That we need to change in Wikimedia. Wikipedia is just a small part of > the projects. > > > 2011/12/31, Thomas Dalton : > > Why do email not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Font at dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary

2013-02-12 Thread M. Williamson
Doesn't MOSS stand for Maldives Open Source Society? I can't find a lot of info on them as they don't seem to be active online at the moment, but I did find this: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-core-marketing/2009-June/00.html Maybe someone could e-mail the author of that message a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread M. Williamson
> As automatic script conversion is possible, there's really no reason to > keep mo.wp at all. You can just remove it completely. That requires just > one small edit to the subdomain mapping. Should be much easier than a > rename to 'mo-cyrl' which still uses the deprecated code. Since there is cu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread M. Williamson
2010/10/3 Marcus Buck : >  An'n 04.10.2010 00:02, hett M. Williamson schreven: >>> As automatic script conversion is possible, there's really no reason to >>> keep mo.wp at all. You can just remove it completely. That requires just >>> one small edit to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-09 Thread M. Williamson
Would it be possible to get this information for es.wp and sv.wp? Thanks 2011/2/9 DaB. : > Hello, > Am Mittwoch 09 Februar 2011, 23:36:12 schrieb Gerard Meijssen: >> Hoi, >> I would be interested in learning sr and ru. > > sr.wikipedia: > Male:  1666 > Femaile: 414 > All user: 78180 > > ru.wikipe

Re: [Wikitech-l] search=steven+tyler gets Steven_tyler

2011-05-13 Thread M. Williamson
I still don't think page titles should be case sensitive. Last time I asked how useful this really was, back in 2005 or so, I got a tersely-worded response that we need it to disambiguate certain pages. OK, but how many cases does that actually apply to? I would think that the increased usability f

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-16 Thread M. Williamson
I would say broaden the span and lower the number of contribs required just a little (maybe 300?). 2011/6/16 Platonides : > Jelle Zijlstra wrote: >> You might also get better results when you don't limit yourself to recent >> contributions. For example, I contributed heavily to the Dutch Wikipedi