Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread George Herbert
I would like to request that Dror be moderated on Foundation-L. This is not an appropriate use of Foundation-L, Dror has one of the more extensive sockpuppetry histories of any Wikipedia abuse case ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Drork/Archive

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Leave off. Foundation-l is a place where relevant subjects can be raised. It is a place that has a bad reputation among some because of the aggressive tone. When Dror complains about stalking, it is a valid point of concern. It is the reason why some people I admire left our community. When

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Ryan Lomonaco
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:07 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: I would like to request that Dror be moderated on Foundation-L. This is not an appropriate use of Foundation-L, Dror has one of the more extensive sockpuppetry histories of any Wikipedia abuse case (

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread ????
On 21/05/2011 23:09, Sarah wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 16:01, Riskerrisker...@gmail.com wrote: As to the comments from MZMcBride and Sarah, I would like to see a significantly higher minimal level of notability for BLPs. In the past few years of working with the Arbitration Committee, I

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/5/22 Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com: That said, to me, I don't see any stalking whatsoever. It is common when investigating sockpuppets to send evidence privately to other trusted users, so that the (suspected) sockpuppeteer does not change their habits to avoid detection. I don't

[Foundation-l] Referent list of wikis?

2011-05-22 Thread Milos Rancic
Do we have a referent list of wikis? Although it would be good to have the list of *all* Wikimedia wikis, just the list of content projects wikis would be fine. The page Complete list of Wikimedia projects [1] is not referent at all. It's not about the fact that it is on wiki, but exactly because

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

2011-05-22 Thread church.of.emacs.ml
On 05/21/2011 02:12 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: It's clear that there's a need for community broadcasting tools that allow for a degree of personal flexibility, whether it's by means of subscription or otherwise. I agree, this would fix almost all problem instantly. Although it does not replace

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Chris Keating
Well, the CTB Superinjunction is now broken in a number of places on en.wikipedia. So there we go. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Agreed. Thanks, GerardM On 22 May 2011 10:38, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2011/5/22 Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com: That said, to me, I don't see any stalking whatsoever. It is common when investigating sockpuppets to send evidence privately to other

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
Has anyone notified SD about this discussion? Pretty much essential given the allegations made by Dror K (which are clearly unfounded, but may be damaging). Tom ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Chris Keating
Also rather interestingly, it appears that a Scottish newspaper has revealed the identity of the footballer in question, on the grounds that English superinjunctions don't apply in Scotland. Perhaps the WMF should open an office in Edinburgh, if London is too risky ;-) Chris

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/5/22 Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com: Has anyone notified SD about this discussion? Pretty much essential given the allegations made by Dror K (which are clearly unfounded, but may be damaging). Notified whom? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
Supreme Deliciousness, whose actions are being discussed... I noted that he hadn't been told so dropped him a note as common courtesy. Tom On 22 May 2011 11:58, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2011/5/22 Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com: Has anyone notified SD

[Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Milos Rancic
I am preparing document for Wikimania. Presently, I am in process of analyzing data (SIL [1], Ethnologue [2], Wikimedia projects). I am using Ethnologue data for population estimates. Before I started this task, I thought that the situation is not so bad (or good, if it is about possibility for

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Denny Vrandecic
Can you also provide at least a rough estimate of the number of humans who don't have Wikipedia in any language they speak reasonably well (understanding very well that this is a hard problem of definition)? Curious. On May 22, 2011, at 14:15, Milos Rancic wrote: I am preparing document for

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/5/22 Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com: Supreme Deliciousness, whose actions are being discussed... I noted that he hadn't been told so dropped him a note as common courtesy. Oh. This initialism may be well-known to some English Wikipedia editors, but not to all of them, and

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread George Herbert
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: I am preparing document for Wikimania. Presently, I am in process of analyzing data (SIL [1], Ethnologue [2], Wikimedia projects). I am using Ethnologue data for population estimates. Before I started this task, I thought

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
Yeh :-) sorry about that Tom On 22 May 2011, at 12:26, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2011/5/22 Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com: Supreme Deliciousness, whose actions are being discussed... I noted that he hadn't been told so dropped him a note as common

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 13:15 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: * Jin Chinese, 45M, China * Xiang Chinese, 36, China, incubator * Min Bei Chinese, 10.3M, China, incubator Aren't these languages written with Chinese characters and thus their speakers can read and write the Chinese Wikipedia?

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Milos Rancic
On 05/22/2011 01:22 PM, Denny Vrandecic wrote: Can you also provide at least a rough estimate of the number of humans who don't have Wikipedia in any language they speak reasonably well (understanding very well that this is a hard problem of definition)? I would say that the number humans

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Milos Rancic
On 05/22/2011 01:28 PM, George Herbert wrote: Good work generally, but regarding this last list... Afghanistan has many languages in use (Pashto, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek); Algeria uses Arabic, Berber, and French; Jordan's official language is Arabic (though the spoken one is a dialect); and

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Milos Rancic
On 05/22/2011 01:37 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 13:15 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: * Jin Chinese, 45M, China * Xiang Chinese, 36, China, incubator * Min Bei Chinese, 10.3M, China, incubator Aren't these languages written with Chinese characters and thus their speakers

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 14:47 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: On 05/22/2011 01:37 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 13:15 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: * Jin Chinese, 45M, China * Xiang Chinese, 36, China, incubator * Min Bei Chinese, 10.3M, China, incubator Aren't these

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 14:32 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: On 05/22/2011 01:28 PM, George Herbert wrote: Can you break this out by which languages we are missing, not just by country, as country isn't specific enough? Waiting for list admins to allow ~250k mail :) If only someone would make

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Milos Rancic
On 05/22/2011 03:22 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 14:32 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: On 05/22/2011 01:28 PM, George Herbert wrote: Can you break this out by which languages we are missing, not just by country, as country isn't specific enough? Waiting for list admins to

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Milos Rancic
On 05/22/2011 03:20 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: Yea, but how much is any of these different? They may be practically the same or possible to be added as a variant of Chinese. I don't know, but the known fact is that even the languages in the closest families, like Slavic languages are, have

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Dror Kamir
Tom, since you did not respect my last message here, you force me to react. There seem to be anti-Dror and pro-Dror camps here, and I don't like this idea at all. The issue is not entirely personal, even though I am personally attacked here by certain people based on their mere speculations.

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread church.of.emacs.ml
Hi Milos, thanks for those interesting facts! On 05/22/2011 01:15 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: Those are preliminary results. We have two chapters (and strategic focus) in countries of the list above. Inside of the longer list, which should be verified, we have more chapters. I noted that there

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Those are preliminary results. We have two chapters (and strategic focus) in countries of the list above. Inside of the longer list, which should be verified, we have more chapters. I noted that there are even two

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Peter Coombe
Dror, this is not about anti- or pro- whoever camps. But you have made a serious allegation on a public and archived mailing list. It's only fair that Supreme Deliciousness is informed and allowed a right of reply. Pete / the wub On 22 May 2011 14:40, Dror Kamir dqa...@bezeqint.net wrote: Tom,

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Dror Kamir
Apparently, this has already been done by others. SD preferred to erase this head-up along with some other notifications about complaints against him. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Supreme_Deliciousnessdiff=nextoldid=430329545 Dror K בתאריך 22/05/11 14:00, ציטוט Thomas

Re: [Foundation-l] Stalking on Wikipedia

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
Yes. That was me, I notified him after asking on the list if anyone else had. Tom On 22 May 2011 15:01, Dror Kamir dqa...@bezeqint.net wrote: Apparently, this has already been done by others. SD preferred to erase this head-up along with some other notifications about complaints against him.

Re: [Foundation-l] Referent list of wikis?

2011-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Just because of three letters code conflict between Swiss German and Albanian (als), I've realized that somebody listed Swiss German to have Wikinews edition (it is, actually, news portal at Wikipedia) and nobody bothered

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Sun, 22 May 2011 14:08:14 +0200, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/22/2011 01:22 PM, Denny Vrandecic wrote: Can you also provide at least a rough estimate of the number of humans who don't have Wikipedia in any language they speak reasonably well (understanding very well that

[Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Pronoein
Le 22/05/2011 10:54, Thomas Morton a écrit : we have no rights to participate in Wikipedia. Regardless of the debate from where it comes, is this an accurate decription of the rules and policies of Wikipedia? ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Milos Rancic
On 05/22/2011 04:57 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 14:08:14 +0200, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/22/2011 01:22 PM, Denny Vrandecic wrote: Can you also provide at least a rough estimate of the number of humans who don't have Wikipedia in any language they

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
Yes. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FREESPEECH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FREESPEECHObviously you have your normal legal rights (i.e. if someone does something illegal, then it is a courts matter). But the idea that I have a right to edit Wikipedia or You have no right to

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread FT2
Dead wood has been suggested, but I strongly disagree with it. While there are issues and it needs careful work (nobody's denying that) I'm not seeing hard evidence that so many BLPs - even minor BLPs - are the train wreck that some represent nor as hard to manage as some portray. What I wouldn't

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 1:35:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk writes: There are many core problems that affect this issue. One of which is 'Verifiability not truth' which seems a laudable concept when applied to hearsay, and to allow articles on the paranormal

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Bauder
Le 22/05/2011 10:54, Thomas Morton a écrit : we have no rights to participate in Wikipedia. Regardless of the debate from where it comes, is this an accurate decription of the rules and policies of Wikipedia? Anyone who is willing and able to edit constructively and more or less follow our

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread geni
On 22 May 2011 11:58, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Also rather interestingly, it appears that a Scottish newspaper has revealed the identity of the footballer in question, on the grounds that English superinjunctions don't apply in Scotland. I rather doubt that is their

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Bauder
If the consensus of the community is to ban you from the project, even under spurious grounds, there is nothing to stop them from doing so. Tom Community consensus will not permit that. Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 8:23:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, morton.tho...@googlemail.com writes: But the idea that I have a right to edit Wikipedia or You have no right to do that is incorrect, because WP is a private website. You make the word private have no meaning. What would be a

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Bauder
On 22 May 2011 11:58, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Also rather interestingly, it appears that a Scottish newspaper has revealed the identity of the footballer in question, on the grounds that English superinjunctions don't apply in Scotland. I rather doubt that is their

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Pronoein
Thank you for your answer. I discovered that Wikipedia was not a bureaucracy[1] in the link you gave, that's encouraging. :) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_bureaucracy Le 22/05/2011 12:23, Thomas Morton a écrit : Yes. See:

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Bauder
In a message dated 5/22/2011 8:23:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, morton.tho...@googlemail.com writes: But the idea that I have a right to edit Wikipedia or You have no right to do that is incorrect, because WP is a private website. You make the word private have no meaning. What would be

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
I'm note sure I understand... Wikipedia is privately owned by the foundation. There is no real definition of public website, but I suppose a government website would be publicly owned (although that raises an interesting question as to your rights to access/contribute to such a website). The

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Dan Collins
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Also; hard to see anyone suing you for communicating the info for the purposes of supressing it :-) Tom Morton A few years ago, I would have said the same about communicating the info for the purposes of free

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
As it is the community does regulate it in that way. No. People are banned or restricted all the time. The point of WP:FREESPEECH is to point out that those bannings can't be contested under the premise that the banned party has a right to edit. Yes, the community does regulate it this way.

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Bauder
I'm note sure I understand... Wikipedia is privately owned by the foundation. There is no real definition of public website, but I suppose a government website would be publicly owned (although that raises an interesting question as to your rights to access/contribute to such a website).

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
An interesting aside on this would be... What is the quality of the foreign-language Wiki's that currently exist. For example; the articles in my specific technical topic area have a few foreign language equivalents. Most are two or three lines. It would be interesting to see this question

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 4:38:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, smole...@eunet.rs writes: Aren't these languages written with Chinese characters and thus their speakers can read and write the Chinese Wikipedia? All the Latin languages: Italian, French, Spanish, English, and so on are

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 9:31:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fredb...@fairpoint.net writes: Legally, Wikipedia is private property belonging to a nonprofit corporation. If the United States government, or some other government, owned it and regulated it in such a way as to guarantee public

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:42 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Aren't these languages written with Chinese characters and thus their speakers can read and write the Chinese Wikipedia? All the Latin languages: Italian, French, Spanish, English, and so on are written with Latin characters: a, b,

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 May 2011 17:22, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 May 2011 11:58, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Also rather interestingly, it appears that a Scottish newspaper has revealed the identity of the footballer in question, on the grounds that English superinjunctions don't

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread ????
On 22/05/2011 11:58, Chris Keating wrote: Also rather interestingly, it appears that a Scottish newspaper has revealed the identity of the footballer in question, on the grounds that English superinjunctions don't apply in Scotland. Perhaps the WMF should open an office in Edinburgh, if

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 9:53:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time, li...@caseybrown.org writes: Indeed, it doesn't mean that necessarily. However, your analogy doesn't apply in this situation and Nikola was right. Many of the Chinese languages share a common writing system and only differ in

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Please read about the Chinese language and writing system. It helps you to understand. Thanks, GerardM On 22 May 2011 18:42, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 5/22/2011 4:38:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, smole...@eunet.rs writes: Aren't these languages written with

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language (Milos Rancic)

2011-05-22 Thread WereSpielChequers
I agree Meta would be the right place for such a table. But a few other columns would be helpful: 1 Technical barriers. Do we need to make changes to Media Wiki Software, and are we dependent on changes to Lynux etc in order to enable people to edit in that language? 2 Literate population. This

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:13 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: You're missing my point. All the Latin languages share a common writing system and only differ in the way the language is spoken. Address the point that the words within the system have the same semantic *meaning* and are formed with

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Bauder
In a message dated 5/22/2011 9:31:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fredb...@fairpoint.net writes: Legally, Wikipedia is private property belonging to a nonprofit corporation. If the United States government, or some other government, owned it and regulated it in such a way as to guarantee

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 10:39:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, andreeng...@gmail.com writes: In Chinese writing a character shows a word, irrespective of how the word is pronounced. So if we would use a Chinese style writing system, you could write [your] [dog] [is] [dead], and a Frenchman

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Sarah
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:00, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: On 22/05/2011 11:58, Chris Keating wrote: Also rather interestingly, it appears that a Scottish newspaper has revealed the identity of the footballer in question, on the grounds that English superinjunctions don't apply in

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Sarah
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 21:22, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote: I asked Christine to do a quick scan, what follows is her response: *There isn't an exact BLP queue in OTRS; there is one for overall quality (called, what else, Quality) which is where a lot of the BLP concerns

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Дана Sunday 22 May 2011 19:53:20 wjhon...@aol.com написа: So if you are claiming that the sole differences are pronunciation, then this language should be removed from the list of ones lacking a project. I'm not certain however that that claim can be supported. Given that no one of us is

[Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia now has 150000 articles

2011-05-22 Thread Mardetanha
Dear all fellow wikipedian and wikimedians I am so pleased to announce some minutes ago Farsi wikipedia has reached 15 articles. Mardetanha ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread ????
On 22/05/2011 19:32, Sarah wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:00, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: On 22/05/2011 11:58, Chris Keating wrote: Also rather interestingly, it appears that a Scottish newspaper has revealed the identity of the footballer in question, on the grounds that

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Sarah
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 13:33, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: On 22/05/2011 19:32, Sarah wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:00, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk  wrote: On 22/05/2011 11:58, Chris Keating wrote: Also rather interestingly, it appears that a Scottish newspaper has

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia now has 150000 articles

2011-05-22 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On May 22, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Mardetanha wrote: Dear all fellow wikipedian and wikimedians I am so pleased to announce some minutes ago Farsi wikipedia has reached 15 articles. Mardetanha Congratulations! -Dan ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 May 2011 20:39, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 13:33, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: On 22/05/2011 19:32, Sarah wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:00, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk  wrote: On 22/05/2011 11:58, Chris Keating wrote: Also rather

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Bauder
Well, whatever he meant, it isn't his decision. The WMF's legal dept has recently published their draft policies, which includes one on subpoenas [1]. It basically says that, unless lives are at stake, they will only comply with US subpoenas. For US subpoenas, they'll decide whether to

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Milos Rancic
On 05/22/2011 06:41 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: An interesting aside on this would be... What is the quality of the foreign-language Wiki's that currently exist. For example; the articles in my specific technical topic area have a few foreign language equivalents. Most are two or three lines.

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Andrew Gray
On 22 May 2011 19:58, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: The BLP problem is a very divisive one on the English Wikipedia, but it's not entirely clear how grounded it is in fact. Sometimes we're told OTRS is overwhelmed by the number of BLP complaints, but no figures are given. Some hard

Re: [Foundation-l] Referent list of wikis?

2011-05-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Milos Rancic, 22/05/2011 11:29: Do we have a referent list of wikis? Although it would be good to have the list of *all* Wikimedia wikis, just the list of content projects wikis would be fine. Do you mean something like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix ? Nemo

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread David Gerard
On 22 May 2011 23:03, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Writing to someone involved with the issue personally is always more complicated, especially if they're - justifiably - angry or worried about the situation. The problems are often quite complex, so can sit longer while people

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/22/2011 06:41 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: An interesting aside on this would be... What is the quality of the foreign-language Wiki's that currently exist. For example; the articles in my specific technical topic area

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread George Herbert
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: (excellent long form work) Thank you, Milos. Very informative. Out of curiosity - I assume those are the native speakers counts for that language. Do we have exclusive speakers counts as well? I don't know for sure what

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
my personal interpretation is that BLP failings were more likely to be seen and more likely to cause some kind of real or perceived harm, leading to a greater response rate. I suppose that if your a notable figure... you probably take a look to see if a Wikipedia article exists... and even

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Morton
Sorry Milos, systematic bias at work there :) I mean... English Wikipedia has the largest collection of content, and on average I would guess that the content is of a higher, or at least a more complete, quality than most other language wiki's. Computer forensics... is relatively decent on en-wp;

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 23 May 2011 00:03, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote: Out of interest, when a BLP is created and not speedy deleted, could we not write a standard email to the subject stating that a biographical article has been created on them on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, inviting them to review it,

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia intheir native language

2011-05-22 Thread jokarwilis2005
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Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia intheir native language

2011-05-22 Thread jokarwilis2005
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Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia intheir native language

2011-05-22 Thread jokarwilis2005
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Re: [Foundation-l] Referent list of wikis?

2011-05-22 Thread jokarwilis2005
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Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia now has 150000 articles

2011-05-22 Thread jokarwilis2005
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Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread jokarwilis2005
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Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread jokarwilis2005
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Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

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Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

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[Foundation-l] Please Block This Guy

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Bauder
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Re: [Foundation-l] Please Block This Guy

2011-05-22 Thread Ryan Lomonaco
Done. -- [[User:Ral315]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l