Discussing something as a general social concern is one thing, claiming
that it is a wmf legal issue is something different.
John
Michael Snow skrev:
John at Darkstar wrote:
Are the developers lawyers? A developer claiming something has an
unwanted privacy issue is very different from making
Yes, that's definitely true. But our ultimate guiding principle is the
greater good of the project. Anyone can edit should apply to, as you say,
anyone who is prepared to work constructively with the project, regardless
of any disability (we take great pains, for instance, to make pages
It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that
allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them
as Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis. It would greatly add to how much stuff we
get, as it would save the user the trouble of re-encoding, or
installing Firefogg, or
It is a WMF legal issue, in addition to being a social issue. No claim is
being made that its a legal issue, it's just a fact.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 2:43 AM, John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no wrote:
Discussing something as a general social concern is one thing, claiming
that it is a wmf legal
David Gerard wrote:
It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that
allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them
as Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis. It would greatly add to how much stuff we
get, as it would save the user the trouble of re-encoding, or
2009/6/7 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com:
David Gerard wrote:
Isn't Firefogg good enough? That's the solution being developed.
Installing software is an extra step for the user, therefore bad.
** though I fully expect people will now do so anyway
IANAL but
See, told you!
Does anyone
Just to be clear, it has been claimed in this thread that the CheckUser
right also gives those admins the right to collect additional data on users
and analyze it. I've just read the privacy policy and that is not true.
You'll also find [[Privacy policy]] interesting, although you might decide
to
How many people at WMF consider their opinion's to be official ? :)
I think there are two issues for a proprietary - non-proprietary converter:
1. The conversion software itself must be FLOSS.
2. The format being converted must have an open specification (Flash being a
good example of one that
This might be going off topic, and not really helpful in finding a solution
(along the lines of wamping up WMF stats capabilities in the near future or
reinstating the huwiki solution in a way accpetable to the WMF and the hu.wp
community and possibly benefitting other communities, as well):
On
I'm going off of statements like this:
I happen to be the one who have created the Hungarian checkuser policy,
which is, as far as I know, the strictest one in WMF projects, and it's no
joke, and I intend to follow it.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
Are the developers lawyers?
IANAL.
A developer claiming something has an
unwanted privacy issue is very different from making claims about
something being a legal issue on the behalf of Foundation. Simply
don't
do it.
I failed to phrase what I wanted to write you in a way, that I
Hi!
I believe there was no such claim, if anything, it was pointed out
that
setting up the stats engine didn't give access to information that
was not
accessible before by the Checkusers (even if logged), and that most
fears of
data being handled by the wrong hands are mitigated by
2009/6/7 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu:
I think there are two issues for a proprietary - non-proprietary converter:
1. The conversion software itself must be FLOSS.
2. The format being converted must have an open specification (Flash being a
good example of one that might be allowed to be
Hello,
If I were to compile a wishlist of stats things:
1. stats.grok.se data for non-Wikipedia projects
the raw data is available, anyone can build anything like that, as
long as they have resources. I've suggested Henrik to opensource his
software, but probably it suffers from not nice
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote:
And, Brian,
Volunteer admins cannot take user privacy into their own hands,
under their
own interpretation. That's just not how it works!
You don't seen to have sufficient understanding how it works. :(
Hi!
Assuming you're not taking this out of context, please explain the
difference between how it works and my conception of how it works.
Sorry, I misread your statement. I took Volunteer admins as
Volunteer sysadmins - my greatest apology.
BR,
Domas
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:26 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that
allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them
as Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis. It would greatly add to how much stuff we
get, as it would
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Robert Rohderaro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:26 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that
allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them
as Ogg Theora or
2009/6/7 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com:
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Robert Rohderaro...@gmail.com wrote:
Patent encumbered formats often have licensing fees when you perform
encoding / decoding at commercial scale. For example, the MPEG
licensing association expects a fee from anyone
Hello,
Am Saturday 06 June 2009 09:31:58 schrieb Tisza Gergő:
The (WM-DE-owned) toolserver ran a statistics script called WikiCharts for
a few years, which worked with data relayed by Common.js from several
wikipedias, including de and en. While that is not exactly the same
situation (as the
Archive.org do this and I know the tech team at least have previously had
meetings/discussions with them.
Regards
Mark
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
We should do this (reencode all major formats to ogg). It would
absolutely make more educational
2009/6/7 Mark (Markie) newsmar...@googlemail.com:
Archive.org do this and I know the tech team at least have previously had
meetings/discussions with them.
Archive.org is of course a charity too. Does anyone know the
arrangement allowing them to do this?
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that
allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them
as Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis. It would greatly add to how much stuff we
get, as it would save the user the trouble of re-encoding, or
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