http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/13/news/sfcc/wikipedia.txt
Brion, got a copy of the presentation?
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David Gerard wrote:
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/13/news/sfcc/wikipedia.txt
Ah, the student press. :)
I'll also be presenting at OrlandoJUG on Thursday, September 27. Nothing new for most people in this channel I'm sure, just going into some basics on our architecture.
Brion, got a copy of the presentation?
Just added it at: http://leuksman.com/pages/presentations
I'll have to dig up some of my other slide sets...
- -- brion
On 13/09/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/13/news/sfcc/wikipedia.txt
Brion, got a copy of the presentation?
"He gradually got more involved over the years and said Wikipedia decided that he was indispensable and hired him as a full-time employee."
Probably the only time Wikimedia's actually decided anything that turned out to be true...
Rob Church
On 9/13/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/09/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/13/news/sfcc/wikipedia.txt
Brion, got a copy of the presentation?
"He gradually got more involved over the years and said Wikipedia decided that he was indispensable and hired him as a full-time employee."
Probably the only time Wikimedia's actually decided anything that turned out to be true...
Heh, I thought you were going to say "Probably the only time Wikimedia's actually decided anything."
On 14/09/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 9/13/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/09/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/13/news/sfcc/wikipedia.txt
Brion, got a copy of the presentation?
"He gradually got more involved over the years and said Wikipedia decided that he was indispensable and hired him as a full-time employee."
Probably the only time Wikimedia's actually decided anything that turned out to be true...
Heh, I thought you were going to say "Probably the only time Wikimedia's actually decided anything."
Either comment is fine with me - both accurately portray my feelings towards the current management at Foundation level.
Rob Church
On 14/09/2007, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Either comment is fine with me - both accurately portray my feelings towards the current management at Foundation level.
Someone I rather admire and respect has expressed a firm dislike towards this post, and I must admit that, of late, I've been posting increasing numbers of snide, unsupported remarks which provide hollow attacks against the Foundation, and I appreciate that this isn't fair.
There are indeed a great number of things I perceive to be going wrong at a management level, and a great number of things that need to be improved, but there are also a great number of things that, on the whole, I agree with - a rigid principle of providing free information for all, for example.
I'll freely state here and now that I don't agree with the management of many side-projects, particularly those which concern the development/operations teams as a whole - to provide a concrete example; I don't think that the implementation of single-user login has been managed correctly (as in, I feel adding workload to an already overloaded CTO is not the way to implement a special project) - and I've discussed my feelings on this point with other operations staff from time to time.
Nevertheless, individual, snide posts without any constructive or otherwise detailed criticism are completely worthless, and I will refrain from making them, especially on this list, which after all, is not the place to be doing it.
With apologies to all,
Rob Church
David Gerard wrote:
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/09/13/news/sfcc/wikipedia.txt
Nice article. I wonder why they have text/html content with txt extension, at least the Content-Type is right...
"It is very easy for anyone to get into the site and edit because there we have *a big button on the bottom* that says edit," Vibber said.
I have never seen it ;-)
On 9/13/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
"It is very easy for anyone to get into the site and edit because there we have *a big button on the bottom* that says edit," Vibber said.
I have never seen it ;-)
Brion is old sk00l: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&useskin=nostalgia
Hehehe. :-D But I must say, I like the current skin better. ;-)
On 9/13/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 9/13/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
"It is very easy for anyone to get into the site and edit because
there
we have *a big button on the bottom* that says edit," Vibber said.
I have never seen it ;-)
Brion is old sk00l: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&useskin=nostalgia
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On 14/09/2007, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
Hehehe. :-D But I must say, I like the current skin better. ;-)
Thank god for that, eh? I say this because so much cruft doesn't get ported to the other skins...our skin code is quite horrendous, really.
Unfortunately, ditching SkinTemplate and creating a clean, new Skin class would constitute a pretty major breaking change and make upgrading about as fun as being a Bolshevik in a Conservative party conference.
Rob Church
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