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[Foundation-l] New User privileges
by Denni 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

While there is little we can do to stop out-and-out vandalism by experienced users, I believe we could ease the load on those dealing with new submissions if we could deal with the problems new users cause. Some of these are deliberate - joke pages or edits without knowing what they are doing, but many are just the result of that bumbling about in the dark I'm sure we all felt when we first arrived. I'm also firmly of the opinion that problem pages are created for the most part by newbies. I would propose something a little less stringent than what Corey Burger offers, contingent on the assumption that it is possible to track and sequester articles. New users and anons would be allowed to edit and create articles immediately. These would be flagged and moved into an anon/new user list similar to New Articles. After one week, new users would be de-flagged and would be allowed to move pages. I also feel anons can be accommodated - if an IP address remains consistent and no bad behavior is evidenced from it, I think we should assume the best. Encourage them to become registered users, yes, but don't penalize them for not doing so. Denni Visit my Wikipedia user page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3ADwindrim Do you ICQ? I do - 276534369 Magpie

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[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] What the heck is going on with Wikipedia?
by Angela 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

Rick wrote on wikien-l: > What the heck is going on with Wikipedia? The site is using a three-day old read-only back up at the moment. This is expected to last until at least 2am (UTC). Please see OpenFacts for the latest updates on this. http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_Status According to Tim Starling, when the data transfer finishes, the developers will make sure suda is properly set up to be a master. Then the wiki will be restarted using that. A second copy of the entire data directory will be made on ariel. Then they will try to start ariel as a slave. After that, a third DB machine may be set up. Angela

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[Foundation-l] Mobile. subdomain
by Corey Burger 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

If this is a double/triple post, I apoligize. I was getting error messages back. On #wikipedia DavidGerard posted this link: http://www.kwickee.com/. They are going to provide content to mobile users. These people are going to fail. We can provide better and for free. My idea is thus: Have a mobile.wikipedia.org domain that is designed for small browsers. It would draw it's contents off the main name space, but would initally just download the first paragraph of the article. It would be readonly. Ideas/Thoughts? Corey Burger aka Burgundavia

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[Foundation-l] wikipedia.cz
by Jan Kulveit 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Hi, I want to register domain wikipedia.cz to Wikipedia foundation, and wondering who to ask for permission (permission to use Wikipedia foundation as registrant). I'm willing to to do all the technical stuff and pay for registration, and set wikipedia.cz as forward to cs.wikipedia.org, just dont like idea of registering domain without registrants consent or using me as registrant. Issue is quite urgent, as Czech wikipedia get some attention in media, and if it wont be registred for Wikipedia, I'm sure it will be soon registered by some speculant (as e.g. google.cz), which would certianly damage Czech project. Jan Kulveit

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[Foundation-l] Membership fees
by Anthere 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Hello all; I started a little brainstorming page about membership fees here : http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membership_fees Please, criticize, add, comment, have answers... ant

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Re: [Foundation-l] Re: Erik as backup trustee
by sannse 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

(Appologies if this comes through twice - I have concerns about my e-mail service) I feel very strongly that we should not change the rules after the election. We voted for two board members and we have two. If it's decided that we need another then we should vote again. There is every possibility that the results will change with the changed situation - for example, it's been pointed out that many people felt that there should be a non-en. board member. As Anthere is a member already this may influence votes. I for one think that a U.S. user representative would be a balance in the current board. Regards sannse

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[Foundation-l] announcement: german wikimedia association (verein) founded
by Elisabeth Bauer 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Hello all, I'm sure the news is already around, but here is something like a official announcement: On sunday 13th of June German wikipedians founded a local wikimedia association in Berlin: the ''Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens'' (''Wikimedia Germany - society for the promotion of free knowledge''). We had 34 founding members - among them friends of wikipedia and of course a lot of people of the german wikipedia. A board of trustees with ten members was elected, among them Kurt Jansson as chairman. The whole board consists of: * Kurt Jansson (1. chairman) * Arne Klempert - akl (2. chairman) * Elisabeth Bauer - elian (secretary) * Henriette Fiebig (treasurer) * Daniel Baur (assessor) * André Darmochwal (assessor) * Joachim Kerschbaumer (assessor) * Achim Raschka (assessor) * Mathias Schindler (assessor) * Jakob Voß (assessor) The first (and only) decision of the assembly after the founding act was to declare Jimmy Wales a member of honour. The list vereinde-l(a)wikimedia.org (http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/vereinde-l) serves for communications. If someone wants to become a member (we have already international members, this is possible), membership forms are available at http://de.wikipedia.org/upload/3/3e/Aufnahmeantrag3.pdf A lot of other things happened in Berlin, too: Jimbo, Erik and Sunir Shah held impressive presentations on the panel "wikipedia and friends" at the conference wizards of os, the wikireaders ''sweden'' and ''internet'' were sold at the improvised wikipedia boot at the conference and all evenings ended up in great parties until dawn, on friday many wikipedians met for the first time in real life, on saturday we celebrated the 100,000th article of the german wikipedia. pictures and information (in german) on: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verein http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kurier http://wikimedia.de http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-Wochenende_in_Berlin more pictures on: http://jeluf.mormo.org/bilderbuch/20040612-WikiMedia/ http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Elian/Bilder greetings, elian, akl, sansculotte

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[Foundation-l] Election results?
by Brion Vibber 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

When can we expect to see a formal announcement of the board election results on the election page, etc? -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Re: [Foundation-l] Election results?
by daniwo59＠aol.com 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Given all the comments, I have emailed the results to all of the candidates first. I want them to know their standing before (and if) the results are made public. That is only fair. I want to add that all of the candidates were excellent. I hope that they continue to share their ideas and advocate for them. I am confident that our two representatives will take particular notice of what they have to say. Danny

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[Foundation-l] New info about China's blockage
by yuanml 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

We, administrators of Chinese Wikipedia, had contacted our ISP today, and they confirmed the block is responsible for the Chinese government, and one of them can help us to send an application to the officials who are in charge of the blockage. We had sent the application, and now we are waiting for the result. If this attempt is failed, we'll try another way. We make efforts to change the situation at present. I had see Mav's comment at foundation-l ( http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2004-June/000365.html ), I think mav's approach is thoughtful.

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