[Foundation-l] Update on April board meeting

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Snow
This is my report on the April board meeting, which was held in Berlin on April 3-5, in conjunction with a meeting/conference of the Wikimedia chapters. But first, let me say that it was wonderful to be able to coordinate so these could happen in the same place. I really appreciated the

Re: [Foundation-l] Anarchopedia changed its license

2009-04-20 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, things are moving forward, this is true. And I will be happy to see free culture movement based on Tolstoy's, Kropotkin's and Goldman's ideas. At

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:19 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: On a tangential note, I've also been looking at various governmental, and NGO 'codes of conduct', some of which recommend things like accurate record keeping on model information, ensuring users confirm that they

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread private musings
heh - as I say in the essay (and the noticeboard) - oh the irony! My hands are indeed filthy - although I never went blind ;-) - and yes, we still need to talk about this stuff. cheers, Peter, PM. How about 'unclean hands'. In the recent en.wp discussion that you mention, you added an

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread Samuel Klein
Hi, As has been mentioned elsewhere in comments on your writings, you have good ideas which aren't directly related to nudity or sexual content. 1) respect human subjects of photos and other media 1a) get explicit model consent, both for models who are 'many meters away' and for significant

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread Birgitte SB
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Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/20 Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com: I second this. Does anyone really believe it is even possible to set one standard of what it means to be 'collegial' and 'collaborative' for all cultures? These things are not absolute values and each community needs to work out what standards

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread Marc Riddell
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[Foundation-l] Licence

2009-04-20 Thread Florence Devouard
Someone asked me a question on the French wikipedia and to be fair, I am not sure what to answer. The CURRENT text of the licencing proposition gives a link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Whilst the text of the resolution adopted in december 2007

Re: [Foundation-l] Licence

2009-04-20 Thread Florence Devouard
Florence Devouard wrote: Someone asked me a question on the French wikipedia and to be fair, I am not sure what to answer. The CURRENT text of the licencing proposition gives a link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Whilst the text of the resolution adopted in december

Re: [Foundation-l] Licence

2009-04-20 Thread Robert Rohde
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: By the way, is that completely normal that the site notice on the english wikipedia is occupied by Wikimania scholarship rather than by the change of licence ? With all due respect to Wikimania, it seems to me the

Re: [Foundation-l] Licence

2009-04-20 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/4/20 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: Whilst the text of the resolution adopted in december 2007 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update Refers to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ To my knowledge, the jurisdictional variant URL wasn't

Re: [Foundation-l] Licence

2009-04-20 Thread Jim Redmond
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:11, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: By the way, is that completely normal that the site notice on the english wikipedia is occupied by Wikimania scholarship rather than by the change of licence ? With all due respect to Wikimania, it seems to me the

Re: [Foundation-l] Licence

2009-04-20 Thread Florence Devouard
Jim Redmond wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:11, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: By the way, is that completely normal that the site notice on the english wikipedia is occupied by Wikimania scholarship rather than by the change of licence ? With all due respect to Wikimania,

[Foundation-l] Volunteer Appreciation

2009-04-20 Thread Jennifer Riggs
This being Volunteer Appreciation week in the US, I thought it was a great chance for me to post to this list and post a Wikimedia blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/20/volunteer-appreciation/. I want to thank everyone for being so welcoming. I am very excited about this organization and

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:18 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/20 Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com: I second this. Does anyone really believe it is even possible to set one standard of what it means to be 'collegial' and 'collaborative' for all cultures? These things are

Re: [Foundation-l] First data from Wikipedia survey published

2009-04-20 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/4/17 Thomas de Souza Buckup thomasdesouzabuc...@gmail.com: Erik, Congratulations! The results of this survey will be very useful for all of us. Could you please answer a couple of questions: - Can they/you/we wiki the results on Meta? - When will the data become available for the

Re: [Foundation-l] First data from Wikipedia survey published

2009-04-20 Thread jokarwilis2005
http://www.komisigratis.net/?id=jokarwilis Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT -Original Message- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:35:19 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing Listfoundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Ruediger