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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 &lt;joanchan222(a)googlemail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Office Hour for Friday, June 11, featuring Mike Godwin To: Wikipedia mailing list &lt;wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;AANLkTikih3QS2rGjYpmpuM-YcYJYzQwCqbX4yoIxNc9o(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; 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 &lt;joanchan222(a)googlemail.com&gt;om>: ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:37:26 -0700 From: Cary Bass &lt;cary(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: [Wikipedia-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 15, featuring Frank Schulenburg & Pete Forsyth To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Cc: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List &lt;commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, Wikinews mailing list &lt;wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, wikimediameta-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia &lt;wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;4C3F2B36.7090901(a)wikimedia.org&gt; 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 &lt;cary(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: [Wikipedia-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Cc: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List &lt;commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, Wikinews mailing list &lt;wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, wikimediameta-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia &lt;wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;4C45EB8E.6000808(a)wikimedia.org&gt; 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 &lt;sterkebak(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] [Foundation-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Cc: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List &lt;commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, Wikinews mailing list &lt;wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, wikimediameta-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia &lt;wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;AANLkTilw3JKJ1xiN1mpX6Wh9udZTlk9EpcFDJSFNfnF2(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; 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 &lt;cary(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Cc: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List &lt;commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, Wikinews mailing list &lt;wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, wikimediameta-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia &lt;wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;4C45EF59.6050107(a)wikimedia.org&gt; 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: - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:04:05 +0100 From: Joan Chan &lt;joanchan222(a)googlemail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner To: Wikipedia mailing list &lt;wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;AANLkTikAZhSANaeJTnxp_JiOcMtaElvzrVJI4rgp-da0(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; 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 &lt;cary(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:15:50 +0100 From: Thomas Dalton &lt;thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner To: Wikipedia mailing list &lt;wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;AANLkTinQ1QSSITbU8xOZWn881kIeTXc_CJsn5_3Pzvcc(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 20 July 2010 21:04, Joan Chan &lt;joanchan222(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: 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 &lt;j.prager(a)yahoo.com&gt; Subject: [Wikipedia-l] List posting To: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: &lt;879593.86003.qm(a)web38105.mail.mud.yahoo.com&gt; 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#!/MortgageDe… And there's a photo album of pages he's altered here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4758695&id=680962281#!/album.php?… 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 &lt;sterkebak(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers To: Foundation &lt;foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, Commons &lt;commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, Wikipedia &lt;wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, incubator(a)lists.wikimedia.org, "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" &lt;wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;AANLkTi=fDwWtPNx-4=5p7R7WZFi7pMGJEES4ZvGW=Q+F(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 forwarding because this hits more people than just wikitech-l ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Stojnic &lt;rainmansr(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: 2010/8/12 Subject: [Wikitech-l] relocating search servers To: Wikimedia developers &lt;wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; 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 ******************************************