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* https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?oldid=79658action=edit
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interest appears to be
destruction rather than improvement in their ambitions to make a name for
themselves by tilting at the WMF or, far worse, the open movement itself.
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sponsored air rifles. Do I win the
cuddly toy?
I think this thread is officially off-topic, or at least as likely to
reach a new destination as a carousel.
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Thanks for the clarification Greg. I'm delighted to see positive use
of Wikipedia content in this way.
I look forward to seeing a bit of synergy between the projects on gay
related topics.
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2. http://www.wikiqueer.org/w/WikiQueer:Milestones
3. http://www.wikiqueer.org/w/WikiQueer:The_Aequalitas_Project
4. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/01/gay-online-encyclopaedia-debuts-today/
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As Facebook already takes our articles for the same general chitchat
reasons, it sounds like we could add a Facebook link to every article to
get the same result.
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to spell it out in detailed
guidelines.
I am less sure about the animated graphic, probably not specifically
against the house style. However if this were a vote, I personally would
be against animated graphics in banners, they are an unsettling distraction.
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retrospectively and arbitrarily misused as a
statement of consensus for something else.
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of the !votes were for a carte blanche to proceed with action. A
consensus would have to be gained for any particular proposal.
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Is swearing acceptable on this email list? If so, I will unsubscribe
as I would prefer not to to be surprised by offensive language in my
mail box.
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On 12 December 2011 18:59, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Speaking off the record and in my personal capacity - fuckin' A. Thank you
assessment has been completed to ensure no possible conflict of interest
has compromised article neutrality.
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and you
have to go back to admin school (not necessarily the pillory of RFA)
this might be a way of making some overly bullish admins think twice
about their language and impression they give newbies.
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Oops, sorry Fred,
On Wikipedia I have a nice acronym expanding script to make sure I
don't get locked into jargon, particularly useful when explaining
things to newer editors.
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Hi Philippe,
I use an iMacro script, which is probably pretty geeky. Someone with a
bit of JavaScript knowledge could probably find a way of getting it
turned into a more maintable wiki user script.
Source code link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Geek/fullNameOfShortcut
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template or ref tag.
By the way, many of us old hands routinely give simple advice on footnotes,
I have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/help/refs which explains the
ref tag in a very simple way, and points to other help including a
demonstration video I prepared some time ago.
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not an obvious solution for new users, having a standard tool for
Google books/news, WorldCat, leading newspapers etc. and possibly working
with partners such as Zotero might be a useful alternative path to consider
rather than limiting our thinking to the Wikipedia edit box interface.
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/DER and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unreferenced_BLP_Rescue are
examples that attracted many new editors
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to imagine operational processes or practices being judged as an
effective use of donated funds if at the same time they blatantly
failed to be efficient.
I may be missing the point, perhaps someone can provide a practical
counter-example?
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would seem the most relevant and
essential if we are to credibly judge the value of such improvements
for the community and impact on content.
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Hi Erik,
Thanks for explaining WMF's position with respect to not needing
community consensus, that is much clearer to me now. I am glad to see
mutual trust mentioned.
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and this would also help
to keep the interface as simple as possible for the first few edits
made and targeted more on article content rather than user page fluff.
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enough to avoid
misinterpretation in unexpected ways.
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Requests for help are probably better handled by something other than
a heart icon at the top of every user talk page. I would say that the
appropriately named Help link at the left of every page is more likely
to be used for this.
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of
requirements gathering and analysis. Does your email represent the
position of the WMF or the outreach team?
Personally, I find arguments that we should do away with community
consensus because it is too hard disturbing and run counter to our
agreed mission.
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it in as a controversial default and take legal responsibility when it
fails.
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On 23 October 2011 12:02, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 October 2011 11:50, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
The Foundation considers de:wp's careful and thoughtful decision to
put [[:de:vulva]] on the front page of de:wp with a picture was a
clear failure of community judgement
On 23 October 2011 12:38, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 October 2011 12:30, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
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PS clear failure looks like an opinion, not a statement of fact.
Presumably this relates to an official position of the WMF?
An opinion held by several staff
#IMDb.
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at them.
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Did I miss anything?
Yes, could you clarify who were you trying to launch a personal attack
on, or were you trying to offend everyone from a certain culture by
showing how much you disrespect them?
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Sorry to take a tangential point from Tom's email, but is the random
article tool truly random or does it direct to only stable articles or
some other sub-set of article space?
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actually have an easy to use
complaints button on the page so it's not that surprising.
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in comparison to all the other problems
they complain about, such as my article was unfairly deleted or
everyone is so unfriendly or someone put cookies on my page, why do
you support cannabis use (yeah, that's a real one).
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the feedback tool to
complain about NSFW articles? As much as 2% of all feedback or less
because the feedback tool does not give you that as an option?
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charitable purpose.
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in staying subscribed to it.
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worded deletion requests on Commons on
the basis of a potentially useable image being orphaned rather than
it being unrealistic to expect it to ever be used for an educational
purpose.
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suspect that any proposal for change will be strongly resisted and
continue to divide our community until well understood and well
communicated facts underpin the board's resolution rather than
personal belief.
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to the most
challenging images without context.
If the WMF were to recommend such a solution for schools or
religious groups, we might run into some immediate complaints.
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charitable monies without budgets or accounts concern me greatly.
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On 23 September 2011 21:44, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 16:27, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Such school and safesearch variations already exist. Why waste
donor's money creating more?
Note that more than 50% of money comes from US and that it could
involvement none, thus avoiding the obvious pitfall of setting itself
against 50%+ of open movement supporters.
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not want
to start hiding paragraphs that include difficult words such as
paedophile, particularly when they are likely to be accurate and
verifiable even for articles likely to be accessed by young readers.
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community from that point on.
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imagine images of many 18th century paintings or depictions
of gods being excluded due to nude female breasts and one would have
to exclude all photographs of ancient Egyptian mummies as they were
all mutilated as part of the process for embalming.
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/Category:Mummies
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anyone who has common sense can take Wikipedia for
free and hack it about in their own time and cash in by selling it to
schools that would like to benefit from a *guaranteed* child friendly
and religiously tolerant (out of date) version.
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children.
* http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/m/Mummy.htm
* http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/150/15070.png.htm
* http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/893/89336.jpg.htm
* http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/925/92551.jpg.htm
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What a strange assumption from Peter. I don't believe for one minute
that WMF would commission a global referendum and then ignore the
results. If there has been an official statement along these lines I
would love to be pointed to it.
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in question?
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through another round.
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Is there a link somewhere to the total budget and actual staff costs
of the referendum?
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Fae wrote:
Is there a link somewhere to the total budget and actual staff costs
of the referendum?
This was asked very early on:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/Archive1#Cost
Sorry, not the same question as expected costs of implementation. I am
asking
to commission several more on an improved basis if they can run so
cheaply.
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any
potential restriction as a direct challenge to the open movement.
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and for children to ask about). The piece of stale bread has never
been interpreted as anything else but an artistic depiction of sexual
intercourse, should one introduce PG certificate style protection
for children (or schools), it would doubtless include this object too.
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the named accounts for the original Wikipedia
article then release to PD is no problem, in practice few articles
only have a history of contributors who are using accounts associated
with their legal identities.
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on how it can be used or expectations for how it should
be used and who ought to have final responsibility for the nature of
the content of such geographically related notices.
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On 14 June 2011 02:53, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Scott, the director of rights and reproductions a the NPG kindly wrote
directly back to me very quickly and said
how this is planned for in operation practice
if it has yet to be detailed (i.e. not just a backup procedure but
strategically planning for perpetuity).
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can point to that includes, say, a 10 year or 100
commitment?
If it exists, this would be a key factor for researchers choosing
where to share their images with the public.
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Wikimedia Commons is not
the right place for a full donation and a more specialized database
host is needed.
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remaining cache
snapshots and independent global archive sites run to over 2 years of
work.
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On 2 June 2011 18:27, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
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that there
might be something in existence. It sounds like an area of the mission
that would be reasonable to translate into direct operational targets
(say, a pragmatic 10 or 20 year plan).
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On 2 June 2011 19:28, phoebe
and that
were so easy to maintain that no country would want to go off on a tangent
to use their own system to coordinate what events they were involved with.
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I had in mind something like an independent site or open source tool
that uses some easy way of updating an iCal format page per Chapter.
This can then be actively pulled into many types of application that
handle such feeds including Google Calendar.
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