A few nice translation extensions have become mature recently, and are
being considered for use on the Projects:
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to
have the Babel extension installed, and Siebrand notes the Translate
extension is ready for wider use, say on
2011/3/4 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net:
On 03/03/11 5:44 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
The name administrator gives the impression of some mythical
balance of power, although administrators don't actually
administrate - they (un)delete, (un)block and (un)protect, in addition
to editing
It would seem that the right to license one's own work as one chooses is
one of those rights. How does French law resolve that conflict?
By declaring that the contract where the contractant chooses to
waive a fundamental right is void.
You find the same line of thought in Jean Jacques
Moral rights is one of the core values which used to be defended at
least in the past, at least by a few community members. Things are
changing so quickly these days that I can be sure of nothing, but it
seems to be still the case today as shown on
2011/2/27 Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com:
No one wants to attack French moral rights, or the attack the idiosyncrasies
of
any particular legal jurisdiction. What we want to do is curate a large
international collection of free content that will remain free content 300
years
from now
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
In my opinion, the people who want to attack this, are on a sloppery
slope where the next step is when they request you to waive your human
rights.
Are you quite serious?
--vvv
On 4 March 2011 11:05, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
No one ? I would not say so. I would rather say that 75.8% (1) want to
attack moral rights, which are not French only (3), and, as I showed
in my previous mail, are a value taken into account in Wikimedia
projects in such documents
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to
have the Babel extension installed, and Siebrand notes the Translate
extension is ready for wider use, say on Meta or Mediawiki.org:
Babel is great and i'd love to see it enabled everywhere, but there's
a little odd bug
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:57:37 -0800, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net
wrote:
There are huge flaws in the decision making process. The process of
proposal, considered favorable response, overwhelming negative vote is
common. It repeats itself, and that too becomes a part of the problem.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:26 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
You appear to be generalising from your personal preferences to the
world here. This is a common fallacy and a really bad idea in general.
I have heard numerous complains from other volunteers who thought that
WMF is
2011/3/4 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
On 4 March 2011 11:05, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
No one ? I would not say so. I would rather say that 75.8% (1) want to
attack moral rights, which are not French only (3), and, as I showed
in my previous mail, are a value taken into account
2011/3/4 Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com:
2011/3/4 Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com:
(...)
(3) For example Spanish copyright law article 14 derechos
irrenunciables e inalienables (...) Exigir el reconocimiento de su
condición de autor de la obra
Next thing these people will shutdown wikipedia because the french law says
impre*scriptible*, and they will say that because wikipedia uses JS and so
is scriptable, it shouldn't be around. What don't you like about the licence
anyway? It is my opinion that the laws of the most influentual country
Hello! Hola!
Thanks Milos and SJ for openning the question in this e-list.
Here below I send a short e-mail (in English, Spanish and catalan version)
which inform about the Free culture forum (Fcforum) and the release of
the Declaration
and how-to manual on new models of sustainability of
This thread is at a bit too theoretical a plane for me to follow in detail.
(As it happens, I'm a lawyer, but of course not a French lawyer.) Can
someone give a specific instance (theoretical or historical) where the
assertion of droit moral as applied to wiki content beyond what is expressly
Re the numerous complains from other volunteers who thought that WMF
is spending its money irrationally. that vvv has heard.
Any charity has pretty much by definition an obligation to use the
money it is entrusted with rationally and appropriately.
In the case of the WMF there has been a lot of
On 05/03/11 01:47, WereSpielChequers wrote:
As for the big financial decisions, I tend to the view that locating
our sole data centre in a state known for its Earthquakes was a brave
decision, and creating a secondary datacentre an expensive but logical
one.
Our main data centre is in
What about hurricanes? ; )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_hurricane_%28pre-1900%29_tracks.jpg
2011/3/4 Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
On 05/03/11 01:47, WereSpielChequers wrote:
As for the big financial decisions, I tend to the view that locating
our sole data centre in a
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 07:59, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
What about hurricanes? ; )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_hurricane_%28pre-1900%29_tracks.jpg
Maybe that's why the new Datacenter is being built in Virginia [1]? The
reality is that no where is safe from natural
On 03/04/2011 03:47 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
creating a secondary datacentre an expensive but logical one.
I agree. Wikipedia's server infrastructure is crazy if you compare it to
any other major site. Any effort to professionalize it and make it more
reliable (not only in terms of
Hi,
perhaps now that most of the fundraising stress is over, we can discuss
the direction WMF should be taking in terms of raising funds. While I'm
glad that WMF and most chapters reached or exceeded their fundraising
goals, I feel qualmishly about where we're heading.
In order to meet a very
On 03/04/11 2:04 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
2011/3/4 Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net:
On 03/03/11 5:44 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
The name administrator gives the impression of some mythical
balance of power, although administrators don't actually
administrate - they (un)delete, (un)block
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Jon Davis w...@konsoletek.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 07:59, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
What about hurricanes? ; )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_hurricane_%28pre-1900%29_tracks.jpg
Maybe that's why the new Datacenter is being built in
This is not 100% off-topic, since he talks about Wikipedia off the
top. But it's worth watching regardless of that: it is a really
lovely, inspiring talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/wael_ghonim_inside_the_egyptian_revolution.html
Thanks,
Sue
Some text from his Wikipedia article below:
In January
- Original Message
From: Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 5:05:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Moral rights
2011/2/27 Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com:
No one wants to attack
POR FAVOR ESCRIBIR EN ESPAÑOL YA QUE NO COMPRENDO EL INGLES GRACIAS...
From: sgard...@wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 13:47:46 -0800
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Foundation-l] (OT) Wael Ghonim TED talk on the Egyptian Revolution
This is not 100%
POR FAVOR DE ESCRIBIR EN ESPAÑOL ,YA QUE NO COMPRENDO BIEN EL INGLES..GRACIAS
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:54:05 -0800
From: sainto...@telus.net
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege
On 03/04/11 2:04 AM, Amir E.
Samuel Klein wrote:
A few nice translation extensions have become mature recently, and are
being considered for use on the Projects:
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to
have the Babel extension installed, and Siebrand notes the Translate
extension is ready
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
A few nice translation extensions have become mature recently, and are
being considered for use on the Projects:
John Vandenberg commented recently that Wikisource has been looking to
have the Babel
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs.ml@
googlemail.com wrote:
I found that comment to be very disturbing. It makes the Wikimedia staff
look like it is mostly concerned with keeping their jobs,[4] instead of
making Wikimedia's mission succeed. Money is not
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think he'd tell you he regrets the way he put that. Our jobs don't
matter
at all if they're not significantly helping the movement. And I know he
feels that way too.
So that we're not hypothesizing, I'll say it: I
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Wikimedia movement doesn’t owe you a job; You are here to serve the
Wikimedia movement; If you want a job, start looking. I'm very serious
about that.
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