Wikimedia-l August 2006

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by Jean-Denis Vauguet 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hi, I've been working on the foundation wiki for three days now, and I wrote two comments on the local Babel : http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Babel#Miscellaneous Summing it up, it's about cleaning up the wiki using an inventory I built (I need comments on its entries) and about changes in the look 'n feel. I think one can answer on my talk page on Meta[1], or on any Meta page that would be convenient for such a discussion[2]. I noticed this would-be discussion to several people, but got a few feedback only (both Wikimania and "the lost page on the lost wiki" can't help :)), so Angela advised me to send an email to foundation-l. Thank you! jd / Meanos [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Meanos [2] say, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_site_feedback or a brand new subpage of it

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] GFW upgrade block level for Wikipedia
by roc 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

According to several Wikipedians living in Mainland China (excluding Hong Kong and Macao), the GFW block on Wikimedia has been upgraded to a new a level, it seems that: * Official Wikimedia proxies are blocked; * "zh.wikipedia.org" becomes a URL-level keyword for GFW. The upgrade was noticed and reported as early as August 7, 2006 9:30 UTC. This upgrade coincided with a Beijing News (新京報) report on Wikipedia. Sources cited: the forwarded message below (in English), and a discussion at zh_wikipedia@googlegroups (in Chinese). More information should be available. Please feel free to post messages in Chinese on this discussion thread, they will be translated into English. (本討論線中的中文信件會被翻譯為英文.) If it is not appropriate to discuss this matter in public here, we may continue the discussion in private methods, please advise. Best regards and wishes. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: mingli yuan <mingli.yuan(a)gmail.com> Date: 2006/8/8 上午 12:52 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] GFW upgrade block level for Wikipedia To: wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org After a report from Xinjingbao(The Beijing News, http://www.thebeijingnews.com/ ) on Wikipedia, yesterday afternoon the Great firewall of Chinese government upgrades its block level for Wikipedia. Today many Wikipedia users in China report that they can not access Wikipedia via the official proxy provides by MediaWiki Fundation. This is a another bad news for Mainland Chinese Wikipedians again. Seems hopeless for them. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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[Foundation-l] enwiki database dumps still busted and hung
by Jeff V. Merkey 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Back on topic since I have wiki work to do, the enwiki dumps are busted and frozen for the enwiki. Is the dump going to be skipped for enwiki for this period? If so, I will perform the updated translation runs on the previos build and post them. Thanks Jeff

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[Foundation-l] Wikimania Media
by Luiz Augusto 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Sorry for my English. To prevent loss of data, is possible to upload all video and audio files from Wikimania 2006 in Wikimedia servers? Keeping this only in freehosting services isn't a good idea.

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[Foundation-l] enwiki dumps are busted/ISP Response to Fred
by Jeffrey V. Merkey 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Does anyone know when the enwiki dump will get fixed? In response to Fred, I doubt you will ever get any of the ISP's on anyone's side but their own. They have no incentive to listen and Wikipedia has a serious credibility problem with many of them due to the fact that any of the 600+ admins can file these reports, and many of them are malicious and spoofed. Your suggestion they should only come from the ARBCOM is a good one. Last time an administrator sent an ISP complaint in on me last year, the email was thrown in the trash -- and after they reviewed the article on me and the press issues with the JFK story, they told me they won't ever accept them again from Wikipedia. There's also the problem with the Asian ISP's -- they could care less and won't respond, esspecially the ones in Taiwan -- I've tried. Jeff

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[Foundation-l] complaining to ISPs
by geni 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

I've been putting together a complaint to send to Tiscali about one of their subscribers breaching their TOS on wikipedia (may not work but worth a try). The problem is that the person caused most of the trouble they did while logged in. Thus checkuser is required to get hold of the IPs. Releasing these IPs would require foundation permission. Tiscali would also likely need to be able to contact the foundation to confirm any claims. I believe this gives us three options. I send Tiscali the email without IPs and with the foundation's contact information. This is likely to archive nothing since Tiscali would have to contact the foundation before starting an investigation The foundation gives me the IPs. This would allow Tiscali to begin an investigation but they would probably still have to contact the foundation. This has the disadvantage that the foundation has to release the IPs to me (even though I already know the range and Tiscali IPs don't tell you much I can understand the foundation not wanting to do this). The foundation co opts my email and sends it itself. This allows it to keep the IP data private and removes possible barriers. On the other hand this could result in more work for the foundation. I assume this situation will arise in future thus I am trying to start a general discussion as well as seeking answers for this specific case. -- geni

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[Foundation-l] The Atlantic & Colbert - two great tastes that taste great together
by Brad Patrick 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

So not one but two must-read/sees in the same news cycle... http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia by Marshall Poe and "Wikiality" on "The Word" on the Colbert Report. http://www.powerpage.org/archives/2006/08/stephen_colbert_v_wikipedia.html Did you know the number of elephants in Africa has tripled in the past 10 years? 8-D Enjoy! -- Brad Patrick General Counsel & Interim Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. bradp.wmf(a)gmail.com 727-231-0101

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Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed WikiMedia Project
by Jerome Baum 05 Aug '06

05 Aug '06

Sorry for the post under the wrong subject - I receive digest and forgot to change it. Anyway: I have created a site at http://speedwiki.elwiki.com/ which I am now setting up. I will start it there, and hope to move to WikiMedia soon. I will now update the links in the Meta, and then go to sleep (02:09, germany). Maybe somebody already feels like contributing... Anyways, good night / gute nacht! -- Yours, Jerome Baum -- pegwit v8 public key =b04220a315671b9351f71b6db4870ead7234316727d2c2f14b276e8575a5b3bd -- e-gold Account Number: 3400024 Create an Account / Commit Payment: http://3400024.e-gold.com

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[Foundation-l] Native Cherokee Translations Posted 20060804/20060805 Wikisource/Wikibooks/Wiktionary
by Jeffrey V. Merkey 05 Aug '06

05 Aug '06

Native Cherokee Machine Translations posted to: ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml phwikibooks-20060804-pages-articles.xml.bz2 08/05/2006 05:40:00 AM phwikisource-20060804-pages-articles.xml.bz2 08/05/2006 06:02:00 AM phwiktionary-20060805-pages-articles.xml.bz2 08/05/2006 05:52:00 AM sylwikibooks-20060804-pages-articles.xml.bz2 08/05/2006 05:50:00 AM sylwikisource-20060804-pages-articles.xml.bz2 08/05/2006 06:14:00 AM sylwiktionary-20060805-pages-articles.xml.bz2 08/05/2006 05:59:00 AM www.wikigadugi.org The Native Cherokee Translation project is a work in progress. Jeff

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Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5
by Jerome Baum 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

The idea behind the project is not to provide simple how-to's - it is to provide people with ready-to-use code snippets, or quick-guides on how to achieve certain (usually computer-related) things very fast, sometimes by doing a simple copy-and-paste. I personally am actually more interested in the computer side (i.e. copy-paste, etc.), but I am more than sure that wiki users will be able to make a lot from it. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "James Hare" <messedrocker(a)gmail.com> > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:56:11 -0700 > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] New Proposed WikiMedia Project > Hello Mr. Baum, > > Seems like a good idea, but Wikibooks seems to cover your idea at their > How-To bookshelf. > > --James > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Nathan Carter" <cartmanau(a)gmail.com> > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:42:40 +1000 > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] New Proposed WikiMedia Project > > > Hi mate, > Is there anything in your proposal which could not be done on one of the > existing projects? > Cheers, > Nathan > > > -- Yours, Jerome Baum -- pegwit v8 public key =b04220a315671b9351f71b6db4870ead7234316727d2c2f14b276e8575a5b3bd -- e-gold Account Number: 3400024 Create an Account / Commit Payment: http://3400024.e-gold.com

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