User talk:Harel

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Contents 1 Welcome to Meta! 2 Your comments at my talk page 3 Candidacy & English Wikipedia Dumps. 4 G'day Candidate! 5 Translation 6 Plannning the 'real world' conversation 7 Image licensing 8 You're very welcome 9 small question 10 board election - question regarding Wikiversity 11 Questions, part three 12 מזל טוב!

[edit] Welcome to Meta!

Cbrown1023 22:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your comments at my talk page

Thanks for being the first to bring that to my attention; I read "1200 words". Is literacy a requirement for a Trustee? Anyway, best of luck to you. Sarcasticidealist 18:56, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure (though I hesitated, for fear of looking like a tattle-tale). Best of luck to you too, and good luck in trying to squeeze something meaningful into 1200 characters (it ain't easy) Harel 19:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Candidacy & English Wikipedia Dumps.

Hi there. Congratulations for having the courage to run for the board. (having run myself on three occasions, I know just how much it takes) Now, would you like to comment on the chronic lack of database dumps from the English Wikipedia? -- Cimon Avaro 18:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! The issue of recurring problems with DB dumps of en.wp (and, I think, other big WPs) has come to my attention in the past, especially in talking to Eric Zachte and in using many of the applications on the toolserver. I understand there are objective technical difficulties behind this issue, though I'll admit to not having investigated it further at this point. This problem seems of great enough importance to warrant special discussion by the board, including, if viable and necessary, allocating resources so that this is handled professionally by paid staff (some technical problems might just be 'too much' for any good-willed volunteers to tackle, I guess). I need to better understand the roots of this, though, before I can make more informed decisions. Harel 18:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] G'day Candidate!

First I thought I'd offer a thank you for being brave / foolish enough to put your hat in the ring as a candidate for election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! - I wonder if you might have any time, interest, and enthusiasm to record a brief 10 / 15 minute audio interview about yourself / the reasons for your candidature / your wiki philosophy etc. etc. ? - I've been promoting a project on the english wikipedia called NotTheWikipediaWeekly - which is a grassroots effort to promote good communications through (semi) regular 'podcasts'.

If you have a couple of moments free, would you mind taking a look at this page and signing up if you're interested! It'd be great to chat with each and every one of you, and I hope you'll be amenable to this idea! Let me know if you've any questions at all, thought perhaps my english wikipedia talk page is the best spot.

The best of luck, and kind regards,

Privatemusings 03:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Translation

Oops, sorry... I guess I'm glad I did just one and left my desk. Thanks for setting me right and sorry for the havoc. Wojciech Pędzich Talk 18:08, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plannning the 'real world' conversation

Thanks for both your interest and patience in setting up an audio conversation - I'm afraid I've found myself both 'real world' busy, and it took me a moment to figure out what the best way forward in organising these conversations could be.

I've created a 'sign up' sheet over at User:Privatemusings/ElectionDiscussions - which it would be great if you could peruse, and sign up at a suitable time. The times are in 'UTC' (which I gather is the official 'wiki' time) - but if you have any problems converting, there's a seperate section for you to simply drop the appropriate information in. I already have many of you as Skype contacts - but if you haven't forwarded this information so far, you can submit that at this time also.

I'm aiming to publish this podcast on 6th June - and believe (and hope!) that it might raise the profile of the election a little bit, as well as humanising the people behind the screen names a little. Thanks for your willingness to engage with this - head over here as soon as possible, and let's get chatting! cheers, Privatemusings 05:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image licensing

I have clarified my question on Image licensing. Please check to see if you are now in a position to answer the question. Thanks, Anonymous101 20:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] You're very welcome

I pored over those responses for a long time, and I just kept coming back to you as the candidate who best epitomized the traits I was looking for - carefully substantiated and well thought out answers, an obvious commitment to the Foundation's projects, the political courage to endorse the Board restructuring in an environment in which that's not the popular position, etc. I also liked several of your positions, including on ads, and your modest and sometimes self-deprecating approach top this whole exercise. Anyway, best of luck in the election! Sarcasticidealist 09:23, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] small question

Dear candidate,

Although I am active in Wikimedia projects under the same username, I just created a wikimedia user account. I was frankly taken aback by the notice when I was about to start my user page. The text is as follows:

Attention visitors! THIS MEANS YOU! READ THIS! This site is for documentation and discussion on Wikimedia projects. If you are trying to add a page to your company's internal wiki site, you're in the wrong place. Just hit "back" in your browser until you find yourself back home. This is not the place for information pertaining to the MediaWiki software. The software has its own wiki at http://www.mediawiki.org. OFF TOPIC PAGES WILL BE DELETED. THIS IS NOT YOUR TEST WIKI.

What is your position on the balance between not biting the newcomers vs stamping out vandalism? How will you forward your position [if and] when you get elected to the board? Kushal one 01:27, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

While this is a project-level matter (the project being in this case the meta wiki) in which I don't think board intervention is needed, I agree with you that this notice sounds way too aggressive compared to what it tries to achieve. The message could say the same things without sounding so obnoxious. Harel 08:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your answer, and congratulations! As far as I am concerned, your answer trumps my expectations. Kushal one 13:52, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] board election - question regarding Wikiversity

Hello Harel, since there are only a few days left until end of election I personally hope I still can see your response about this question regarding Wikiversity. Thank you very much in advance, ----Erkan Yilmaz (Wikiversity:Chat, talk) 15:01, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Questions, part three

Hello Harel,

I just want to remind to that there is a Third part of questions for the board election. Probably you didn't see it.--Wing 12:43, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks (to you and to Erkan above). I'm aware that some questions haven't been answered by me yet; I've been terribly busy the last week or two and couldn't find the proper time and peace of mind to work them through. I hope to get to it later today. Harel 10:11, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] מזל טוב!

ובהצלחה (: ליאור 04:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

תסלח לי; אבל על מה? -- Avi 07:13, 29 June 2008 (UTC)