This is the statement on trademarks mentioned earlier. It both states
the approach we want the Wikimedia Foundation to take and directs the
staff to carry it out. It basically sums up what our understanding has
been for a long time, but hadn't really been formally stated anywhere.
The board
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
Scientific? Is there something scientific about neutral point of view as
a framework for Wikipedia, even? It has some similarities to the
scientific method, I suppose, but I'm not sure that's what we imagine
ourselves
Hallo Brianna,
NPOV is mainly a principle of Wikipedia, later also used by Wikibooks
and Wikinews. There is at least one project (Wikiversity) which
explicitely allow participants not to follow NPOV, but the Disclosure of
Point of Views in Wikiversity follow in principle the ideal of NPOV: It
2009/4/22 Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de:
NPOV is mainly a principle of Wikipedia, later also used by Wikibooks
and Wikinews. There is at least one project (Wikiversity) which
explicitely allow participants not to follow NPOV, but the Disclosure of
Point of Views in Wikiversity follow in
2009/4/22 Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com:
Says Michael Snow:
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees urges the global Wikimedia
community to uphold and strengthen our commitment to high-quality,
accurate information
++
So, the community is urged to do this work at the request of
2009/4/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
NPOV transformation to general neutrality will work in the most of the
cases. A clear example for such transformation is Wikinews. Even
called as NPOV, Wikinews neutrality is a different kind of approach
because it is a journalistic one.
And even
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:32 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the point is to have whatever would be the locally relevant
version of neutrality. On Wikipedia it's NPOV. On Commons or
Wikisource, I expect it would be neutrality of subject matter. Etc.
The key point would be
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:20 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
And if you want to force any kind of neutrality there, you would get
the same kind of scientific production which existed in East European
countries during 50s and 60s: A (very good) book about ancient Greek
literature
Crazy Lover wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism
Just by the way, completely inconsequentially to anarchopedia;
the foundational proponent of Agorism was a genuinely awesome
dude, and whoever got to know him in real life, was blessed.
I somehow think Konkin would have grokked
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Brianna Laugher
brianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/21 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net:
The Wikimedia Foundation takes this opportunity to reiterate some core
principles related
2009/4/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:20 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
And if you want to force any kind of neutrality there, you would get
the same kind of scientific production which existed in East European
countries during 50s and 60s: A (very
--- On Wed, 4/22/09, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote:
From: Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] NPOV as common value? (was Re: Board statement
regarding biographies of living people)
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date:
The Wikimedia Foundation takes this opportunity to reiterate some core
principles related to our shared vision, mission, and values. One of
these values which is common to all our projects is a commitment to
maintaining a neutral point of view.
I find it a bit strange to talk of
Hoi,
There is a difference between the way photo journalists work and the way
most of the illustrations come to Commons. The NPPA code of ethics are
clearly written for active press journalists. They get paid for what they
do. Also the NPPA is a USA national entity and consequently their rules do
I would love to see these adopted for Commons photographers. The issue
will become knowing when these principles are being violated. For
example, if you're going to alter audio to serve your own POV, you're
not going to make it obvious you've done so. Detection is one problem,
but even if you've
Am I on moderation?
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote:
Says Michael Snow:
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees urges the global Wikimedia
community to uphold and strengthen our commitment to high-quality,
accurate information
++
So, the
2009/4/22 Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com:
Am I on moderation?
Not that I can see. Your previous email came through OK. However, note
that even if you tell it to, Gmail will *not* show you a copy of
messages you sent to a list. This is, apparently, for your comfort and
convenience.
If you're
Are all your emails showing up at
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-April/author.html
Birgitte SB
--- On Wed, 4/22/09, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board statement regarding biographies of
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:40, Casey Brown cbrown1023...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Mark Wagner carni...@gmail.com wrote:
I just hope you guys settle down on something soon. I'm tired of
playing whack-a-mole with the sitenotices.
Hmm? This is the only time we changed
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Mark Wagner carni...@gmail.com wrote:
Since I regularly access Wikipedia from four different computers, that
would explain why I'm swatting a sitenotice every day or two.
You can disable it in your .css if you want to. Adding
#centralNotice {display:none
Michael Snow, 22/04/2009 06:52:
For example, in Wikiquote, I think an expression of neutral point of
view would be to focus on the question of what is actually quotable.
Read more here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Neutral_point_of_view_on_Wikiquote
Regrettably, en.wikiquote does not have
Nemo_bis, 22/04/2009 23:49:
this NPOV policy has been really useful on it.wikiquote.
I forgot to mention that we have also policies on original research
(http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:NRO) and notability
(http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Wikiquote#Significativit.C3.A0):
it was very
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Some of the NPOV-related problems may be solved by talking about
context. If we say that a single piece of art (or propaganda or
whatever) is not a context, then problems related to Commons are
solved.
Yes. Context is
2009/4/22 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
Science is not yet neutral. The 'scientific method' we currently use
as a meterstick is a fairly casual method, often producing biased or
context-free results, which would be improved by a bit of the same
self-reflection required to describe
Hi All,
I am spreading the news around (I just posted to the internal list)
about a new announcement going out in a couple hours. For the past few
months I have been working on a deal with Orange (France Telecom) on a
new kind of multi-platform (web, mobile, IPTV) partnership for the
2009/4/23 Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org:
I am spreading the news around (I just posted to the internal list)
about a new announcement going out in a couple hours. For the past few
months I have been working on a deal with Orange (France Telecom) on a
new kind of multi-platform
2009/4/23 Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org:
Feel free to contact me or the list if you have any questions.
--Kul
Will there be at least a rough guide to where this deal will result in
the logo turning up legitimately?
Will any of the orange products support wikipedia's video format
Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote:
Hi All,
I am spreading the news around (I just posted to the internal list)
about a new announcement going out in a couple hours. For the past few
months I have been working on a deal with Orange (France Telecom) on a
new kind of multi-platform (web, mobile,
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