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[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]
by Guillaume Paumier 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Concerns have been raised that this needed wider distribution. Please note that it will happen in about 10 hours from now. -------- Message transféré -------- De: Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-to: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> À: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sujet: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:45:30 -0800 Hi everyone, Just repeating something I just posted to http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/planned-1-17-deployment/ The engineering team is busy working on the deployment of the 1.17 branch of MediaWiki[1]. We plan to roll this out next week to all languages and projects, Tuesday, February 8, with work starting at 07:00 UTC (which is 11pm on Monday, February 7 for San Francisco). If all goes well, you should only notice the improvement. If it doesn’t go well, that’s because there’s something we missed, and that’s where we’d love your help. Please help us test this release! We have a test instance of the software we plan to deploy available at http://prototype.wikimedia.org/. If you find issues, please report them in Bugzilla: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla There are many, many little fixes and improvements that have gone into 1.17 (see the draft release notes[2] for an exhaustive list) . There isn’t much that’s visible to users of the site, but one under the hood improvement that should result in some speed improvements: Resource Loader[3]. Resource Loader optimizes the use of JavaScript in MediaWiki, speeding up delivery of JavaScript by compressing it sometimes, and cutting down on the amount of unused JavaScript that gets delivered to the browser in the first place. Much of the work in this development cycle has been centered on ensuring compatibility with the new system. Since it makes such a large shift in the way that JavaScript is delivered to the browser, it’s also an operational aspect we’ll be keeping a close eye on, as load shifts between servers in our infrastructure. Note that this isn’t a release for download, yet. On and after February 8, the “latest” version of MediaWiki will still be 1.16 as listed on mediawiki.org. We plan to update this to 1.17 sometime after the deployment of the 1.17 branch, after we’ve had time to run it in production for a while and fix the issues we’re likely to find. So please, help us test this release, and if you find bugs, please report them in Bugzilla. Thanks! Rob [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap/1.17 [2] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_17/phase3/RELEASE-N… [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Guillaume Paumier Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation Support free knowledge: http://donate.wikimedia.org

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[Foundation-l] The Ada initiative
by Gerard Meijssen 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hoi, The Ada initiative is something you may want to learn about ... PS you know what Ada they are referring to I am sure ... Thanks, GerardM http://adainitiative.org/<http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3923936_1/Ada-Initi…>

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[Foundation-l] Reasoning behind identification policy
by Lodewijk 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi, taking this as a follow up on the irc meeting today, one of the questions that came up was "what is the reason that WMF is collecting/storing this data". To be clear, with that we did not mean "because the board told us to" but rather what the purpose is: is it because you are legally required to store it for the US Govt, do you want to be able to sue the volunteers if they misbehave, do you want to confirm they are real people etc. Based on that, people can probably increase their understanding of the recent changes. The Foundation people on IRC were unfortunately unable to answer. Christine promised to find it out and report back here soon, so this is just a reminder - no need to have big discussions until then. Thanks, Lodewijk

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: Deletionist wanted for hire
by CherianTinu Abraham 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Cross posting to Foundation list.... Regards Tinu Cherian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:30 AM Subject: Deletionist wanted for hire To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Some company wants to delete their competition's Wikipedia articles ? Delete its own article to clear controversies ? :) Somebody wants to try a sting operation , to find what kind of articles they want to delete ? Will be very interesting! Regards Tinu Cherian -----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com Sent: 06 February 2011 14:25 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Deletionist wanted for hire It would be instructive to know what articles they are worried about and why. I find that most people wanting articles deleted have a good reason and, while deletion may not be justified by Wikipedia's "rules", there are often problems with the articles that we ought to address. People wanting articles created are a different matter - it is inevitably vanity or promotion. Scott PS> Can anyone tell me how to stop the system attributing my posts to "Wiki"? Or how to stop it top-posting? (Technical ignorance.) -----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: 06 February 2011 14:25 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Deletionist wanted for hire On 6 February 2011 14:19, wiki <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote: >> http://www.i-freelancer.org/php/wikipedia-expert-wanted-to-delete-article/ (spotted by Tinu Cherian) > I'm quite willing to contact them, afd each article on their list, and if > consensus is that any merit deletion, I will donate the proceeds to the WMF. Don't forget all the corresponding "create an article for hire" posts. For added entertainment, post that the article was a paid-for creation or deletion, and invite critique of your technique. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 6 – 7 February 2011
by Wikipedia Signpost 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

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[Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon
by Amir E. Aharoni 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

User:HalanTul from the Sakha Wikipedia asked me to ask about this here. The writers of the Sakha Wikipedia want to add icons to "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" to some articles to promote the project, but they are concerned about the legal and ideological implications of such a move: Doesn't putting the logo of a commercial company right in the article violate the no-advertising principle? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore

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Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 14
by HW 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

See also for zhwp gadget. http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-shareTool.js HW ________________________________ 寄件人﹕ "foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 收件人﹕ foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org 傳送日期﹕ 2011/2/7 (一) 8:00:04 PM 主題： foundation-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 14 Send foundation-l mailing list submissions to foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at foundation-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of foundation-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon (Liam Wyatt) 2. Re: "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon (Przykuta) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 21:31:27 +1100 From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <DFFDFDB9-06B2-41D1-9D51-C2343255E3B4(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 On 07/02/2011, at 20:21, "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > User:HalanTul from the Sakha Wikipedia asked me to ask about this here. > > The writers of the Sakha Wikipedia want to add icons to "share in > Facebook/Twitter/etc" to some articles to promote the project, but > they are concerned about the legal and ideological implications of > such a move: Doesn't putting the logo of a commercial company right in > the article violate the no-advertising principle? > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni ? ?????? ????????? ?????????? > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > Wikinews has used these kinds of buttons for quite a while. They are placed in a "share this" box at the bottom of every article. See, for example, http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egyptian_president_will_not_seek_re-election_in… For a while equivalent buttons were also active on Commons but they were turned off as it was unclear they had community support. I'm not aware of any Wikipedia edition that has used them though. -Liam Sent from my phone. Wittylama.com/blog ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:46:10 +0100 From: Przykuta <przykuta(a)o2.pl> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <7b1bdfe4.43be780d.4d4fcd72.15738(a)o2.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Wikinews has used these kinds of buttons for quite a while. They are placed in >a "share this" box at the bottom of every article. See, for example, >http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egyptian_president_will_not_seek_re-election_in… > > > For a while equivalent buttons were also active on Commons but they were turned >off as it was unclear they had community support. I'm not aware of any Wikipedia >edition that has used them though. > > -Liam But not every lang versions of Wikinews I think, like church of emacs, that identi.ca will be better + other cc-by (not nc not nd) media. przykuta ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l End of foundation-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 14 ********************************************

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[Foundation-l] IRC general meetings
by phoebe ayers 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Reminder that an open community meeting is proposed for this Saturday, Feb. 5. on IRC: freednode#wikimedia Please add your agenda items! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings based on feedback I'd like to move the time down to 1800-1900 UTC (that's 10 am PST). Let me know if you can help moderate. Looking forward to it, Phoebe On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Back in September we had an open community IRC meeting, where we > introduced the new Trustees and talked about various issues. It was > pretty successful and we discussed afterwards making such "community > meetings" a regular event. > > I'd like to revive this idea :) I've made a proposal for having > community meetings on the first Saturday of the month: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings > > Which would make the first upcoming meeting on February 5. > > I proposed 17:00UTC as a time, but please discuss good days/times on > the talk page if you are interested in attending; we'll need to rotate > times. > > I envision this as not really a Q&A session like the staff office > hours, but rather as a chance for community members to get together > and talk about important issues in a structured way. To that end, > please add your proposed agenda items to the wiki. It would also be > great to have some volunteers to take notes/moderate. > > Of course this is just an experiment -- but there seemed to be a lot > of interest in having such meetings, so I'd like to try it out. Let me > know what you think and if you'd be interested. > > best, > Phoebe > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > <at> gmail.com * >

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[Foundation-l] OTRS identification policy
by Philippe Beaudette 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Hi everyone, Several people have raised important questions on this list about the identification policy as it applies to OTRS volunteers. Together with interim counsel and other members of the community department, I have been reviewing our compliance with, and interpretation of, Wikimedia Foundation policies including the access to nonpublic data policy. Based on a risk assessment, we decided that we needed more consistent identification of OTRS volunteers, and retention of identification data.. Both on the OTRS mailing list and here, people have rightly pointed out the complexity of this issue. More discussion is clearly needed, and we will therefore table the issue and review it in more detail with our new General Counsel, Geoff, and with the community, once Geoff has had an opportunity to be brought in and get acquainted with the community. For those who have not sent identification yet, feel free to defer doing so. For those who have provided ID, we will destroy it on request (we may have to again obtain it if we finally conclude that retention is necessary). pb _______________________ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://donate.wikimedia.org

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[Foundation-l] Future of Wikimedia
by Aaron Adrignola 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

I found the following recently-created essay by Yair rand to be thought-provoking and wanted to bring it to the attention of others: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yair_rand/Future_of_Wikimedia Its main theme is that "a Wikipedia surrounded by successful projects will have a far better future than without". Too often outreach efforts, strategic planning, and development of MediaWiki focus solely on Wikipedia. The essay provides arguments as to why that tunnel-vision would be ill-advised and advice on ways the other projects can be improved. -- Adrignola

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