Wikipedia-l August 2010

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comment on wikipedia
by Optim 15 Aug '24

15 Aug '24

I was describing to someone how Wikipedia works: "anyone can edit" etc. He answered with this argument: "Wikipedia is the triumph of the average person! of the man in the street!)" (average meaning: not good, not bad, just OK) I asked "why?" His explanation: "Great brilliant works are built by individuals. Groups of people can only create average works. If someone writes something good in the wiki, other average persons will intervene with his/her work and turn it into an average work. If someone writes something bad in the wiki, the others will again turn it into something of average value. with your system (meaning: Wikipedia's system) you can be sure that you will never create something too bad but also never something too good. You can create only average articles." The idea behind his argument was that Wikipedia will be a good resource as long as it attracts good cotnributors. but it will soon become an average site/encyclopaedia because it allows anyone to join the project and edit, and most people are just average persons and not brilliant writers. Do you think it's true? and how can we answer this argument? --Optim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] multi-headed VANDALS
by Daniel Mayer 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

On Sunday 28 July 2002 03:00 am, The Cunctator wrote: > What are the articles this person has been changing? For 66.108.155.126: 20:08 Jul 27, 2002 Computer 20:07 Jul 27, 2002 Exploit 20:07 Jul 27, 2002 AOL 20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker 20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Leet 20:03 Jul 27, 2002 Root 20:02 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker 19:59 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker 19:58 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker 19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Principle of least astonishment 19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker 19:52 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music 19:51 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music For 208.24.115.6: 20:20 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker For 141.157.232.26: 20:19 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker Most of these were complete replacements with discoherent statements. Such as "TAP IS THE ABSOLUTE DEFINITION OF THE NOUN HACKER" for Hacker. For the specifics follow http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist and look at the contribs. --mav

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Language policy agreement in the Norwegian Wikipedia community
by Bjarte Sørensen 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Dear all, Most of you would be aware of some of the discussions that have occurred around Wikipedia in the Norwegian languages. Since the last round of discussions on this list, there has been a lot of internal debate, as well as what seems to be a fairly widely accepted agreement following voting. This e-mail intends to, after a brief recap on Norwegian language and wikipedia issues, take those interested through the latest development and will stake out the road ahead. It is also intended to inform the international community about the current agreement on no.wikipedia, so as to prevent misunderstandings in the future. Finally, we will mention an unfortunate reaction to the vote by a small number of users at the Norwegian Bokmål/Riksmål (no:) wikipedia who want to disregard the result of the voting and are planning to create a _third_ Norwegian wikipedia with the sole mission of mixing the contents of the two current Norwegian versions. == A short language history of Norway == Spoken Norwegian ("norsk") (ISO 639-2 alpha-2 code "no") is in a fairly unique situation compared to most other languages of the world in that it has two widely accepted written standards, Bokmål (ISO 639-2 alpha-2 code "nb") and Nynorsk (ISO 639-2 alpha-2 code "nn"). By national legislation they are both regarded as official written forms of Norwegian. In addition, many people still make a distinction between Bokmål and its precursor which still is in use, Riksmål. Briefly speaking, Bokmål and Riksmål are descendants of the Danish written language. Until the 1800s, Danish was the only widely used written language in Norway as a result of four centuries of union with Denmark. With increasing independence came a wish to norwegianise the Danish standard, with Knud Knudsen at the forefront for changing parts of the vocabulary and orthographics. Thus, Riksmål, and later Bokmål, resulted. These forms together are today probably used by about 90% of Norway's population, or somewhere around 3,500,000 people. Parallel to this development, a new written standard was created by Ivar Aasen. He travelled extensively throughout Norway, and based his new language, landsmål, on the grammar and vocabulary of dialect samples from around the country. This was later renamed Nynorsk. Modern Nynorsk differs significantly from modern Bokmål, and may be linguistically looked upon as as different (or as similar if you like) as Swedish is to Danish. For English or Dutch/German speakers, the differences may be likened to those between (Lowland) Scots and English or Low German and Dutch. Today it is estimated that about 500,000-600,000 people have Nynorsk as their first written language. More information about the Norwegian language history can be found in English, German, French, Spanish or Portuguese on the website of the Norwegian Language Council: http://www.sprakrad.no/templates/Page.aspx?id=653 == A short history of Wikipedia in Norwegian == The first Norwegian wikipedia started 26 November 2001 on the subdomain no.wikipedia.org. As most wikipedias, its contributor and article count started really picking up around the end of 2003. At the time, it accepted all written standards of Norwegian, although the amount of Nynorsk was minimal. There were already several debates about the feasibilty and appropriateness of keeping the two languages united on one Wikipedia. On 31 July 2004 a Wikipedia for Nynorsk was created. The creation of nn:, however, split the community at no: wikipedia. Many felt that given that Nynorsk now had its own wikipedia, no: should become a Bokmål/Riksmål Wikipedia only. Others disapproved and claimed that there was no need to change and that it should continue its language policy of accepting all and keep its interwiki link name of "Norsk". Nynorsk Wikipedia soon proved a success, as it within the next few months gathered several people who had felt uncomfortable in the (mainly) Bokmål environment at no:. The name displayed in interwiki links became "Norsk (nynorsk)" (languages are not spelt with upper case in Norwegian). To date it continues to be one of the fastest growing wikipedias, with a steady article increase, now at over 6000 articles and >50 editors with more than 10 edits since arrival. == Votes == The issue of no:'s language policy has come up time and again, and a vote was held in March ([[:no:Wikipedia:Målform]]) as to which policy to adapt. Independent of the method of the tally (whether or not to include new contributors etc.) there was a majority for switching to a Bokmål/Riksmål only language policy (50% for Bokmål/Riksmål, 43.2% for Bokmål/Riksmål/Nynorsk/Høgnorsk, and 6.8% for the official variants Bokmål/Nynorsk only). Following this result, there is now going to be a vote on which interwiki link name will most appropriately reflect the current language policy of no:. The result of this vote will most likely be either "Norsk (bokmål)" or "Norsk (bokmål/riksmål)". Understandably, there has also been a debate as to whether the subdomain should change from "no" to "nb", as this is the correct representation of Bokmål according to ISO 639-2. However, there is some resentment towards such a move and currently a general acceptance in letting the Bokmål wikipedia stay at "no". The alternative some have suggested is a server-side redirect from "no" to "nb", in the same way that "nb" today is a server-side redirect to the equivalent page on "no". == Summary of the problem == Unfortunately, a small group of users (who all write Bokmål/Riksmål) are ignoring the results from the vote, and are claiming they want to re-establish a wikipedia for all written standards of Norwegian. They claim they have been in touch with people centrally in Wikimedia (developers? stewards?) and that they have so far received positive comments. With this email, we would like to state the fact that there have been no official decisions about creating a third Norwegian wikipedia containing both Bokmål and Nynorsk, it is merely an unofficial initiative from a small group of users which started a sign-on list at [[:no:Bruker:Norsk_Wikipedia]]. A spontaneous list with signatures against this activity was immediately created at [[:no:Wikipedia-diskusjon:Fellesnorsk]]. The process of creating a third Norwegian wikipedia has not gone through a voting process in any of the two existing Norwegian wikipedias (no: and nn:) and can not be considered as a decision by the Norwegian Wikipedia community. We believe the creation of a third wikipedia under the Wikimedia foundation would have a serious and unfortunate impact on the existing wikipedias in Norwegian, no: and nn:, and would undermine Wikipedia's reputation in Norway. This being said, we are all for extensive co- operation between the four Scandinavian language wikipedias (including Swedish and Danish), as evident by the recent creation of [[:meta:Skanwiki]], the Scandinavian meta-pages, and the use of featured articles from neighbour wikipedias. == Conclusion == Hopefully, this letter will help people better understand the complicated language situation of the Norwegian Wikipedia community, so as to give a background on which discussion can take place on this list in the future, such as the inevitable debate following a possible request for a re-establishment of the common (and third!) Norwegian Wikipedia. >From the community of no.wikipedia.org and nn.wikipedia.org, Bjarte Sørensen [[:meta:User:BjarteSorensen]] (Administrator/bureaucrat on nn:) Lars Alvik [[:no:User:Profoss]] (Administrator/bureaucrat on no:) Øyvind A. Holm [[:no:User:Sunny256]] (Administrator on no:) Onar Vikingstad [[:no:User:Vikingstad]] (Administrator on no:) Jon Harald Søby [[:no:User:Jhs]] (Administrator on no:) Chris Nyborg [[:no:User:Cnyborg]] (Administrator on no:) Guttorm Flatabø [[:no:User:Dittaeva]] (Administrator on nn:) Gunleiv Hadland [[:meta:User:Gunnernett]] (Administrator on nn:) Jarle Fagerheim [[:nn:User:Jarle]] (Administrator on nn:) Øyvind Jo Heimdal Eik [[:en:User:Pladask]] (Administrator on nn: and no:) Kristian André Gallis [[:nn:User:Kristaga]] Vegard Wærp [[:no:User:Vegardw]] Nina Aldin Thune [[:no:User:Nina]] Thor-Rune Hansen [[:no:User:ThorRune]] Claes Tande [[:no:User:Ctande]] Arnt-Erik Krokaa [[:no:User:AEK]] Rune Sattler [[:no:User:Shauni]]

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] [WikiEN-l] Kafkaesque story on the English Wikipedia
by K. Peachey 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:56 AM, John Doe <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ive double checked with multiple sources and cross referenced both > unblock-en and OTRS (in case you mixed up your emails) and can find no > record of a request or email from you to either group. So Unless your using > even more sockpuppets than your claiming, (or used an unknown email address, > failed to state your IP address, user account or blocking admin. Which is > very unlikely) You are full of bullshit. Please stop lying, or admit to all > your sock puppets, because with the information that you have provided, the > logs for both unblock-en-l and OTRS prove that you did not send or get a > message from either group. > > John As a OTRS member, do you really believe the language you just used in that email as appropriate?

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help
by wajahat abbasi 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

sir how can i make my own page in wikipedia.so people search me and get evry info. > From: wikipedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Wikipedia-l Digest, Vol 82, Issue 1 > To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:31:29 +0000 > > Send Wikipedia-l mailing list submissions to > wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikipedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikipedia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikipedia-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Office Hour for Friday, June 11, featuring Mike Godwin > (Joan Chan) > 2. [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 15, featuring Frank > Schulenburg & Pete Forsyth (Cary Bass) > 3. [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue > Gardner (Cary Bass) > 4. Re: [Foundation-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, > featuring Sue Gardner (Huib Laurens) > 5. Re: Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner > (Cary Bass) > 6. Re: Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner > (Joan Chan) > 7. Re: Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner > (Thomas Dalton) > 8. List posting (jeff prager) > 9. Fwd: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers (Huib Laurens) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:22:25 +0000 > From: Joan Chan <joanchan222(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Office Hour for Friday, June 11, featuring > Mike Godwin > To: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikih3QS2rGjYpmpuM-YcYJYzQwCqbX4yoIxNc9o(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear Mr. Cary Bass, > > Since you find the attachment is too long, I send you this letter > only. OK? Many thanks for your help. > > This is the email that I sent to you a few hours ago. > *********************** > Dear Mr. Cary Bass, > > Thank you very much for your help. It is very > kind of you. I hope you can get me through to Mr. > Jimmy Wales again.. > > Now I have a rather grave problem. My book East > Meets West has been published more than 6 month. > After many requests, Authorhouse sent me a cheque > of (Royalty)ten pounds. > > I shall be very grateful if you can help me to check > the accuracy of my account. > > I am a pensioner. I devote all my time, my energy > and every penny of my pension to promote my book . > I aim for a global success and 80% of the profit would go for charity. > I know there is still a long long way to > go but my determination will bring me there one day. > > I am still using the beautiful images and very helpful > resources from Wikipedia. My bilingual Version of Volume One and Two > will be published shortly.I feel > bad and sorry for the poor return of the sale. There is nothing I can > do about it, not yet. > > In the meantime, I have to spend every ounce of my energy to finish > Volume 3 and 4. Once I have finished the book ( in another 3-4 months) > , I will concentrate > my work to do the marketing, to promote and to investigate the > Faulty Sale of my East Meets West. > > I am sending you a cheque of $100.00( One hundreds > dollars). I shall be very grateful I f you can show me how to send it > by post. My donation is from my pension > fund. I feel bad and sorry for the poor return of the sale. There is > nothing I can do about it, not yet. I am sure you understand. > > Sincerely , j.chan 16-06-2010 > > 2010/6/16 Joan Chan <joanchan222(a)googlemail.com>: > > iDear Mr. Cary Bass, > > > > Thank you very much for your help. It is very > > kind of you if you can get me through to Mr. > > Jimmy Wales again.. > > > > Now I have a rather grave problem. My book East > > Meets West has been published more than 6 month. > > After many requests, Authorhouse sent me a cheque > > of ?(Royalty)ten pounds. > > > > I shall be very grateful if you can help ?me to check > > the accuracy of my account. > > > > I am a pensioner. I devote all my time, my energy > > and every penny of my pension to promote my book . > > I aim for a global success and 80% of the profit would go for charity. > > I know there is still a long long way to > > go but my determination will bring me there one day. > > > > I am still using the beautiful images and very helpful > > resources from Wikipedia. ?My bilingual Version of Volume One and Two > > will be published shortly.I feel > > bad and sorry for the poor return of the sale. There is nothing I can > > do about it, not yet. > > > > In the meantime, I have to spend ?every ounce of my energy to finish > > Volume 3 and 4. Once I have finished the book ( in another 3-4 months) > > , I will concentrate > > my work to do the marketing, ?to promote and ?to investigate the > > Faulty Sale of my East Meets West. > > > > I am sending you a cheque of $100.00( One hundreds > > dollars). I shall be very grateful I f you can show me how to send it > > by post. My donation is from my pension > > fund. I feel bad and sorry for the poor return of the sale. There is > > nothing I can do about it, not yet. I am sure you understand. > > > > Sincerely , ? j.chan ?16-06-2010 > > > > P.S. ?These are the attachments to remind you about my book and also > > to show you the nice and helpful images I obtain from Wikipedia. > > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hey everyone! > >> > >> On Friday, June 11, the Office Hour will once again be hosted by Mike > >> Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read > >> about at <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin> > >> > >> Office hours are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 PM PST). > >> > >> If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat > >> using a web browser: ?First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at > >> <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. ?Type a > >> nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and > >> #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. > >> > >> Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, > >> typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as > >> the channel. ? You may be prompted to click through a security warning. > >> It should be all right. > >> > >> Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other > >> relevant email lists you happen to be on. > >> > >> -- > >> Cary Bass > >> Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation > >> > >> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikipedia-l mailing list > >> Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:37:26 -0700 > From: Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 15, > featuring Frank Schulenburg & Pete Forsyth > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, > Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, > Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, > wikimediameta-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia > <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <4C3F2B36.7090901(a)wikimedia.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hey everyone, and my sincerest apologies for the late notice, I've been > recovering from Wikimania this week and only now got a chance to notify > you. > > Today, on Thursday, July 15, the Wikimedia Office Hours will be hosted > by Frank Schulenburg, Head of Public Outreach and Pete Forsyth, Public > Outreach Officer. > > Office hours are from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PST). > > If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat > using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at > <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a > nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and > #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. > > Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, > typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as > the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, > which you can click to accept. > > Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other > relevant email lists you happen to be on. > > -- > Cary Bass > Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:31:42 -0700 > From: Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, > featuring Sue Gardner > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, > Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, > Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, > wikimediameta-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia > <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <4C45EB8E.6000808(a)wikimedia.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > (Note: This announcement is also an update to James Owen's prior email > announcing Sue would be doing office hours this Friday. The date has > been moved up to Thursday. The time remains the same.) > > On Thursday, July 22, the Wikimedia Office Hour will be hosted > by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. The > Office Hour is from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 AM PDT). > > If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat > using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at > <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a > nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and > #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. > > Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, > typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as > the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, > which you can click to accept. > > Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other > relevant email lists you happen to be on. > > -- > Cary Bass > Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:41:53 +0200 > From: Huib Laurens <sterkebak(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] [Foundation-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for > Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, > Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, > Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, > wikimediameta-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia > <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTilw3JKJ1xiN1mpX6Wh9udZTlk9EpcFDJSFNfnF2(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, > > The [TODAY] in the topic is kind of wrong I guess, you made me wonder > if I was wrong about the date today :P > > > -- > Huib "Abigor" Laurens > > Tech team > > www.wikiweet.nl - www.llamadawiki.nl - www.forgotten-beauty.com - > www.wickedway.nl - www.huiblaurens.nl - www.wikiweet.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:47:53 -0700 > From: Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, > featuring Sue Gardner > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, > Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, > Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, > wikimediameta-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia > <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <4C45EF59.6050107(a)wikimedia.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sorry, [TODAY] was a relic of the email I copied this from :/ > > On 07/20/2010 11:31 AM, Cary Bass wrote: > > (Note: This announcement is also an update to James Owen's prior email > > announcing Sue would be doing office hours this Friday. The date has > > been moved up to Thursday. The time remains the same.) > > > > On Thursday, July 22, the Wikimedia Office Hour will be hosted > > by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. The > > Office Hour is from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 AM PDT). > > > > If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat > > using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at > > <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a > > nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and > > #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. > > > > Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, > > typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as > > the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, > > which you can click to accept. > > > > Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other > > relevant email lists you happen to be on. > > > > > - -- > Cary Bass > Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxF71kACgkQyQg4JSymDYnIpgCeK48sr0VSkDPV0r+jAYjaB+h7 > mBwAnjF0woO12AiXl7iMSDAm8bZnB11f > =P0ku > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:04:05 +0100 > From: Joan Chan <joanchan222(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, > featuring Sue Gardner > To: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikAZhSANaeJTnxp_JiOcMtaElvzrVJI4rgp-da0(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear Mr. Cary Bass, > > Your (this) email sounds very strange and makes no sense to > me at.all. I am simple slow and sincere. Please acknowledge > my donations (cheques) and advise me about GNU free Documentation License etc. > > Many thanks! > Sincerely, j.chan 20-07-2010 > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Sorry, [TODAY] was a relic of the email I copied this from :/ > > > > On 07/20/2010 11:31 AM, Cary Bass wrote: > >> (Note: This announcement is also an update to James Owen's prior email > >> announcing Sue would be doing office hours this Friday. ?The date has > >> been moved up to Thursday. ?The time remains the same.) > >> > >> On Thursday, July 22, the Wikimedia Office Hour will be hosted > >> by Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. ?The > >> Office Hour is from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30 PM to 4:30 AM PDT). > >> > >> If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat > >> using a web browser: ?First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at > >> <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. ?Type a > >> nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and > >> #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. > >> > >> Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, > >> typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as > >> the channel. ? You may be prompted to click through a security warning, > >> which you can click to accept. > >> > >> Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other > >> relevant email lists you happen to be on. > >> > > > > > > - -- > > Cary Bass > > Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation > > > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxF71kACgkQyQg4JSymDYnIpgCeK48sr0VSkDPV0r+jAYjaB+h7 > > mBwAnjF0woO12AiXl7iMSDAm8bZnB11f > > =P0ku > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikipedia-l mailing list > > Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:15:50 +0100 > From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, > featuring Sue Gardner > To: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinQ1QSSITbU8xOZWn881kIeTXc_CJsn5_3Pzvcc(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 20 July 2010 21:04, Joan Chan <joanchan222(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > > Dear Mr. Cary Bass, > > > > Your (this) email sounds very strange and makes no sense to > > me at.all. I am simple slow and sincere. Please acknowledge > > my donations (cheques) and advise me about GNU free ?Documentation License etc. > > > > Many thanks! > > You have emailed the Wikipedia mailing list in reply to an email to > that list by Cary. You can email Cary at cary(a)wikimedia.org. I expect > he'll need some context to your email, though... > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:37:38 -0700 (PDT) > From: jeff prager <j.prager(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] List posting > To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <879593.86003.qm(a)web38105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I joined this email list because I don't know who to contact about fraud > other then you and supposed that you might be able to forward this > message to someone that can handle this. > > I believe Caleb Reuting, a 15 year-old kid on Facebook, has been altering pages on Wikipedia. They're often funny but it seems like it's wrong to me. > > I'm not sure if you can see these links. The page on Facebook with the thread where Caleb admitted to altering the Wikipedia "Paul Lafond" page is here: > > http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4758695&id=680962281#!/MortgageDefaul… > > And there's a photo album of > pages he's altered here: > > http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4758695&id=680962281#!/album.php?aid=… > > He had altered the Paul Lafond page > this evening but when I just checked it was back to normal. It seems > like he might be altering the pages, getting a screen grab and putting > them back the way they were so maybe there's no harm done. > > Thanks > > Jeff Prager > Founder & Publisher - Retired > Senior Magazine > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:31:26 +0200 > From: Huib Laurens <sterkebak(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers > To: Foundation <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Commons > <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikipedia > <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, incubator(a)lists.wikimedia.org, > "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" > <wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=fDwWtPNx-4=5p7R7WZFi7pMGJEES4ZvGW=Q+F(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > forwarding because this hits more people than just wikitech-l > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Robert Stojnic <rainmansr(a)gmail.com> > Date: 2010/8/12 > Subject: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > > Hi all, > > We are currently relocating some servers internally in the datacenter. > As a consequence, search snippets, "did you mean..." and interwiki > search are going to be turned off during this time, and only bare > results shown. This will affect all WMF wikis. I expect, if everything > goes well, that in around 4-5h things are going to go back to normal. > > Cheers, Robert > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Huib "Abigor" Laurens > > > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > > > End of Wikipedia-l Digest, Vol 82, Issue 1 > ******************************************

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers
by Huib Laurens 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

forwarding because this hits more people than just wikitech-l ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Stojnic <rainmansr(a)gmail.com> Date: 2010/8/12 Subject: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, We are currently relocating some servers internally in the datacenter. As a consequence, search snippets, "did you mean..." and interwiki search are going to be turned off during this time, and only bare results shown. This will affect all WMF wikis. I expect, if everything goes well, that in around 4-5h things are going to go back to normal. Cheers, Robert _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Huib "Abigor" Laurens Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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