Mailing List Archive

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <kwadhwa@wikimedia.org>wrote:

> McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month
> Wikipedia: 275 million
>
> 'nuff said.
>
>
That we're more addictive than fast food?

-Chad
_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

make it a random selection of 2 items from everything that has been
suggested

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Chad <innocentkiller@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <kwadhwa@wikimedia.org
> >wrote:
>
> > McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month
> > Wikipedia: 275 million
> >
> > 'nuff said.
> >
> >
> That we're more addictive than fast food?
>
> -Chad
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>
_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Pharos wrote:
> "14 articles on famous cows"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Famous_cattle
>
> That's still gotta be way more than Britannica.
>
Highlighting something like that isn't as outrageous as would at first
appear. Adding a "Moo" sound to that would do even more. If it's
changed frequently, it leaves people wondering what will appear next.
When Google departs from its usual logo for some occasion it at least
gets a smile from me.

Ec

_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge@telus.net> wrote:
> Pharos wrote:
>> "14 articles on famous cows"
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Famous_cattle
>>
>> That's still gotta be way more than Britannica.
>>
> Highlighting something like that isn't as outrageous as would at first
> appear. Adding a "Moo" sound to that would do even more. If it's
> changed frequently, it leaves people wondering what will appear next.
> When Google departs from its usual logo for some occasion it at least
> gets a smile from me.

In recognition of recent events* may I suggest:

---
Wikipedia — Educating the World* (*Except persons in the UK or China
about materials which are subject to censorship by secret block-lists)
---



If you haven't heard:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16569

I tried using proxies behind the great UK firewall to scan Wikipedia
to determine what is and isn't blocked, but it seems that the
firewalls are already overloaded and are failing a couple percent of
requests at random, so it's hard to say. Doesn't bode well if it's
already failing on a low traffic day.
_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

2008/12/6 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge@telus.net> wrote:
>> Pharos wrote:
>>> "14 articles on famous cows"
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Famous_cattle
>>>
>>> That's still gotta be way more than Britannica.
>>>
>> Highlighting something like that isn't as outrageous as would at first
>> appear. Adding a "Moo" sound to that would do even more. If it's
>> changed frequently, it leaves people wondering what will appear next.
>> When Google departs from its usual logo for some occasion it at least
>> gets a smile from me.
>
> In recognition of recent events* may I suggest:
>
> ---
> Wikipedia — Educating the World* (*Except persons in the UK or China
> about materials which are subject to censorship by secret block-lists)

I don't think we want to bring attention to current events. In terms
of finding what is blocked trying likely images rather than searching
the entire wiki is probably the most useful method (found the current
know issue after 3 attempts).


--
geni

_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:53 PM, geni <geniice@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think we want to bring attention to current events. In terms
> of finding what is blocked trying likely images rather than searching
> the entire wiki is probably the most useful method (found the current
> know issue after 3 attempts).

I've tried the obvious possibilities to the best of my ability.
Unfortunately without constantly scanning it's pretty much unknowable.
The system is capable of replacing text too (it's a full
man-in-the-middle)... so we either have to take it on faith that
nothing else is being done, or find a way to scan.

I've been told by that the lists used are rife with obvious example of
technical incompetence (i.e. including session IDs in URLs, or
outright invalid syntax). With that in mind we probably can't expect
reasonable application even if we have faith that the intentions are
good. For instance, the rule might be change to avoid the currently
successful evasion of using the /w/ URL but in the process of doing
that every article title with "virgin" as a substring might end up
blocked. Our only option is to constantly scan if we don't want
Wikipedia to be mysteriously missing content.

_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l