Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-19 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 06/18/11 3:28 PM, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis wrote: The fact that the truth is determined by consensus between experts and unknowledgeable or between people with contrary ideas is a problem. It is not a process that derives the truth since the truth is defined by the many,

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-19 Thread David Gerard
On 17 June 2011 16:08, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest, when you release your work under cc-by-sa you grant a third party the right to reuse a (small or large) part of your work to make a derivative work. The license in itself is not what determines that the live

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Chris Lee theornamental...@gmail.com wrote: Ha, to clarify, the entire background on any visited page was replaced with swastikas and porn; along the top read brought to you by meepsheep, who I've since learned is a blocked user. Yeah, that does happen

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Sage Ross
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: Yeah, that does happen sometimes.  The cause is usually template vandalism, where a vandal adds some content to an unprotected template that's used in a few pages.  This makes it difficult for new users to find out what

[Foundation-l] Board Elections: post mortem

2011-06-19 Thread Jon Harald Søby
Hello all, I hope you have all heard the news of the election results. (If not, they can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Results/en ) Since the election is over I have started a post mortem page on Meta to evaluate the election: what was good, what was bad (and

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Elections: post mortem

2011-06-19 Thread MZMcBride
Béria Lima wrote: 2011/6/19 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com Since the election is over I have started a post mortem page on Meta to evaluate the election: what was good, what was bad (and how can it be approved), etc. As always, all input is appreciated, just add it to the page. :-) What

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Elections: post mortem

2011-06-19 Thread Esteban Zarate
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Post_mortem I think that is 2011/6/19 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com Béria Lima wrote: 2011/6/19 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com Since the election is over I have started a post mortem page on Meta to evaluate the election: what was good,

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Risker
On 19 June 2011 09:41, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: Yeah, that does happen sometimes. The cause is usually template vandalism, where a vandal adds some content to an unprotected template that's used

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Elections: post mortem

2011-06-19 Thread Béria Lima
What page? ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* 2011/6/19 Jon

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread MZMcBride
Sage Ross wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: Yeah, that does happen sometimes.  The cause is usually template vandalism, where a vandal adds some content to an unprotected template that's used in a few pages.  This makes it difficult for new users

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Ryan Lomonaco
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure what kind of on-wiki discussions you might expect to see, Sage. I think he might have been going with Chris' assertation that every page was affected, which doesn't appear to be true - the template's transcluded

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Lee
I don't know if that was the template. I first saw it on the page 0.999... and then on the main page. This was after I had noticed Wikipedia's loading speed drop significantly. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Chris Lee theornamental...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if that was the template. I first saw it on the page 0.999... and then on the main page. This was after I had noticed Wikipedia's loading speed drop significantly. It was this template then, which is now

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-19 Thread Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis
Ray, I agree with you. The trust metric is not meant to substitute critical thinking. What I try to do seems to me quite interesting.Google uses links between pages to rank them. This metric uses links between people to rank pages. It is intended as a search engine. What is more, links between

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-19 Thread Samuel Klein
Forwarding the update to foundation-l. Amazing news -- congratulations to the Malayalam Wikisourcerors for this work and its success. As far as I know, this is the first offline Wikisource compilation to be released as a CD. It would be interesting to see something similar with translations of

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Sage Ross
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure what kind of on-wiki discussions you might expect to see, Sage. I think he might have been going with Chris' assertation that every

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 06/19/2011 07:37 PM, Ryan Lomonaco wrote: I recognize that this is probably a touchy issue given the controversy on the English Wikipedia over flagged revisions (which I thankfully wasn't a part of), but maybe flipping flagged revisions on for everything in the template namespace would help