Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008-12-22 Thread David Goodman
in the first place, and that includes Britannica.) - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008-12-22 Thread David Goodman
Sorry, wrong company name--I was thinking of another one --a truly competent one, Outsell, that has undoubtedly nothing to do with this nonsensical method of protection. On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:20 PM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: Upsell is the name of the leading market research

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-22 Thread David Goodman
-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-01-29 Thread David Goodman
/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-31 Thread David Goodman
I am proud of my work, not of my name being on my work. that's narcissism. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.yu wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2009 11:23:33 Ray Saintonge wrote: David Goodman wrote: My view is that any restriction of distribution

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-02-02 Thread David Goodman
: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote Anthony wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:14 AM, David Goodman wrote I am proud of my work, not of my name being on my work. that's narcissism. In any case, I find it hard to see how, in this particular context, you could be proud of your

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-02-03 Thread David Goodman
other Wikipedia editors or something similar. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility atwikinews[en] warning: contains rant

2009-02-06 Thread David Goodman
list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] History splitting (main namespace)

2009-02-16 Thread David Goodman
A note on the talk page or a link in the edit history could establish that. On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Charlotte Webb charlottethew...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps we simply need to establish that a link to a WP

Re: [Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

2009-02-19 Thread David Goodman
@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia

2009-02-19 Thread David Goodman
it to me? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-02-24 Thread David Goodman
15 people. -Dan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] Free edition of Norways national encyklopedia Store Norske Leksikon

2009-02-26 Thread David Goodman
. It is given to the extend that the amount of attention and detail is unparalleled. Thanks,     GerardM David Goodman / DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

2009-03-08 Thread David Goodman
in their first language, but just lacking the verbal skills to consider them in the second language. Ec ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David

Re: [Foundation-l] Biographies of Living People: a quick interim update

2009-03-09 Thread David Goodman
more here :-) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] Biographies of Living People: a quick interim update

2009-03-11 Thread David Goodman
more difficult for the subject. Birgitte SB ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-15 Thread David Goodman
cases we do want people to see the improved article. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Erik Moeller wrote:  a) a link (URL) to the article or articles you are re-using, As I

Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-wiki articles

2009-05-02 Thread David Goodman
On a practical note, we have sufficient difficulty in getting consensus on policies in individual encyclopedias! David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Amir Elisha Aharoni wrote: On Sat

Re: [Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

2009-05-05 Thread David Goodman
scanners that will do it much more efficiently without opening the books. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: My technology/power of community inspired opinion is that we don't need

Re: [Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

2009-05-06 Thread David Goodman
additionally, a simple lens can be ground with hand tools and no preexisting technology except glassmaking to produce several hundred power magnification David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Stategic planning : Sharing textbook knowledge

2009-05-07 Thread David Goodman
The best discussion of the entire problem that I know is in Mc Caffrey's All the Weyrs of Pern. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: 2009/5/7 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-14 Thread David Goodman
young people to safe sex, this qualifies, though I'm aware it seems odd to some people. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-15 Thread David Goodman
now can say if challenged that it appeared by accident; if a setting had to be enabled, to see them, that wouldn't be possible. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Third-party GFDL text irrevocably incompatible with Wikipedia as of August 1

2009-05-28 Thread David Goodman
the differences as insignificant. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: Samuel Klein wrote: As much as anything else it is the short time frame that will look pushy.  Wikipedia went

Re: [Foundation-l] pt:wiki policies

2009-06-06 Thread David Goodman
want accommodations made for ourselves if we needed them. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Happy-melonhappy-me...@live.com wrote: The Wikimedia wikis are, ultimately, private websites, owned and operated by the Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with human translations of Wikipedia articles

2009-06-09 Thread David Goodman
wikilinks Even in languages I cannot actually read, such as the other Romance languages , or Russian, I can generally at least add the references section and fix some of the internal links, and thus preserve the article for someone who can do better. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http

Re: [Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

2009-07-18 Thread David Goodman
]]. This is analogous to the principle that it is easy to finance a library of best-sellers--any town can do it, but only the very richest organizations can afford a library that includes everything that might be needed. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Jul 18

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation Button Enhancement : Part 2

2009-07-21 Thread David Goodman
I agree with this, and said so at the original discussion--where I think the consensus was not to use that phrase. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Marc Riddellmichaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote: on 7/21/09 10:33 AM

Re: [Foundation-l] The end of donations

2009-08-03 Thread David Goodman
support censorship are obviously not going to be our sources of funding. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:20 PM, stevertigostv...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Matthew Brownmor...@gmail.com wrote: As opposed to you

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-12 Thread David Goodman
the advantage that more of the people there understand the problems. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:15 PM, cy...@forget-me.net wrote: Hello, This discussion is very interesting. I would like to make a summary, so that we can go further

Re: [Foundation-l] Question to post...

2009-08-13 Thread David Goodman
Perhaps we should try using the titles for things that other people use--not for g-rank, but as signs that we recognize that an encyclopedia is made for the readers. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Brion Vibberbr

Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copypasted books from Wikipedia

2009-08-13 Thread David Goodman
a review, just pointing out that it is entirely a copy of a Wikipedia article, and available free in an updated version from our website--and in updated form. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Joshua Gayjoshua...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-14 Thread David Goodman
is a wonderful place to do many things, but not all. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Pavlo Shevelopavlo.shev...@gmail.com wrote: The training is typically an apprenticeship under the senior... To my regret training/apprenticeship does

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-15 Thread David Goodman
Yes, i think they are quite capable of doing it, should take the primary responsibility. What I think they are not capable of is extending it to every published book in the world. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:21 PM, John

Re: [Foundation-l] Projekt: OpenCritics (let's free subjective content, too!!)

2009-08-29 Thread David Goodman
far away from that. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Joshua Gayjoshua...@gmail.com wrote: So, I think that such a project works well with the concept of NPOV. I think you can break the site into two distinct parts. Part 1

Re: [Foundation-l] Universal Library

2009-09-02 Thread David Goodman
is particularly unproductive when the other project is doing it better than we are ever going to be able to. Yes, there are people here who could do it or learn to do it--but I think everyone here with that degree of bibliographic knowledge would be much better occupied in sourcing articles. David

Re: [Foundation-l] Universal Library

2009-09-02 Thread David Goodman
. Perhaps that could be assumed in Wiksource also? David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Yann Forgety...@forget-me.net wrote: Hello, I have already answered some of these arguments earlier. David Goodman wrote: Not only can

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

2009-09-11 Thread David Goodman
on, except that there are already too many projects to keep track of. Could we do it within Wikipedia, perhaps as a namespace? David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: If we are just throwing out

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

2009-09-29 Thread David Goodman
this is more valuable than the images themselves. As the free part is only factual information, anyone could use it to write an equivalent description. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Foundation-l] RFC: A Wikipedia/etc.-like Web Directory (e.g: dmoz.org, the old dir.yahoo.com , etc)

2009-10-27 Thread David Goodman
it themselves, for it would benefit greatly from their sponsorship, their established procedures, and their commitment to both free copyright and freedom from advertising. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand

Re: [Foundation-l] RFC: A Wikipedia/etc.-like Web Directory (e.g: dmoz.org, the old dir.yahoo.com , etc)

2009-10-28 Thread David Goodman
of verifiability. I agree it will take some planning: one basic question which you allude to is whether it is meant as Wikipedia Local, or to include hobbyist material as well. And perhaps it will be more used than some of the other splits. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Growth vs. maintenance

2009-11-07 Thread David Goodman
in making the decision. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:33 PM,  wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 11/7/2009 10:56:27 AM Pacific Standard Time

Re: [Foundation-l] Growth vs. maintenance

2009-11-07 Thread David Goodman
details of procedure or using the correct Board to post on, or not first asking humbly someone who gives every sign of being gruff and unaccommodating. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-11-19 Thread David Goodman
Even if the license change applied only to material started after the present, it would make future collaboration possible David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Laura, Thanks for your

Re: [Foundation-l] LiquidThreads almost ready for deployment

2009-12-19 Thread David Goodman
about the same thing at the same time. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:24 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: On 12/19/2009 10:54 AM, David Goodman wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:17 PM, William Pietriwill

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

2010-01-13 Thread David Goodman
in which they are used, is setting up a strong bias. We've never engaged in that use of the material, nor would we. If people want to take our material out of our encyclopedic content and turn it into sexually-focused presentations, that is their look-out. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http

Re: [Foundation-l] I'm here to request a new Wikimedia project

2010-02-27 Thread David Goodman
only one point that would need actual removal: NOT INDISCRIMINATE point 3, Excessive listing of statistics. The basic change could be accomplished by doing just that one deletion--there is not need for another project, or even another space for data. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http

Re: [Foundation-l] Living Person Task Force update: Policy writing

2010-03-18 Thread David Goodman
___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-03-22 Thread David Goodman
it? It certainly simplifies things in the enWP, at least for those who can easily switch between the forms. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt wikimedia.lest...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Milos

Re: [Foundation-l] Essay

2010-04-21 Thread David Goodman
, or added categories and internal links, but none of them have ever challenged or even tagged the fundamental problems with the article. Is this sort of meticulous detail correction of what should not be in Wikipedia in the first place a worthwhile activity? David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-07 Thread David Goodman
descriptive titles--which remains incomplete in Commons more generally than just these images-- would seem to me quite adequate information about their likely nature. ) David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Jayen466 jayen...@yahoo.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-08 Thread David Goodman
True, some people read news sources for titillation by tabloid contents, but most read to learn about current events, which is certainly one important role of education David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Victor Vasiliev

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo Wales acting outside his remit

2010-05-08 Thread David Goodman
And we are about to be presented in all responsible free culture media as having acted as if such false accusations were true. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Note however, We were

Re: [Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

2010-05-08 Thread David Goodman
the project. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: Florence writes: Besides the fact Mike is using a language far too convoluted for many speakers on this list, Ouch! If I do say something too

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread David Goodman
I agree that this ends the need for any immediate action by the community in this aspect of things. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2010 10:46, Jimmy Wales jwa

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread David Goodman
might for example work by viewing WP through a site that contains the desired filters, or by using a browser that incorporates them. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread David Goodman
. A project to minutely categorize pages on sexuality would concentrate much of the volunteer effort on this portion of the contents. We need some editors who want to work on this field primarily, but we do not need everybody. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread David Goodman
separation of the various types of breast images, and I do not see why distinguishing between such things as the different degrees of nudity is all that important in an encyclopedic sense. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Jussi

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread David Goodman
that preferentially is to facilitate censorship. (or to facilitate access by those who want sexually charged material over those who want access to other kinds of material). Neither is an appropriate function for a free encyclopedia. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening

2010-05-10 Thread David Goodman
, or to not have censorship at all. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Censorship#Some_reflexions_following_the_censorship_polemic_of_May_2010

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening

2010-05-10 Thread David Goodman
to initially display the lead paragraph only, of articles in certain categories. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 May 2010 19:14, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening

2010-05-10 Thread David Goodman
suggestion above would be a very flexible extension of this. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/2010 07:56, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons: An initial notice to reduce surprises

2010-05-11 Thread David Goodman
From my favorite author (paraphrased): Young admirers to Samuel Johnson: We congratulate you on not including any indelicate words in your dictionary. SJ to young admirers: what, my dears! Have you been searching for them? David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] What Wikipedia owes to Jimbo (was Re: Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions)

2010-05-11 Thread David Goodman
thousands, yes. Even conservapedia has thousands. But millions? I have no objection to working for a profit making enterprise. But when I do, I want my share of the money. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Tim Starling

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-11 Thread David Goodman
the basic values of free culture. It's as if we added a capacity to the software to charge for viewing an article--and that's not even intrinsically wrong, but it's not a suitable purpose for free software. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Mon, May 10

Re: [Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

2010-05-11 Thread David Goodman
containing many images. Personally, I sometimes disable image loading in my browser selectively in looking at certain sites where the images interfere with use of the material I actually want. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:48 PM

Re: [Foundation-l] A Board member's perspective

2010-05-11 Thread David Goodman
to specific discussions on improvements in how we handle challenges, on possible software improvements , and on deletion and undeletion of particular images. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening

2010-05-12 Thread David Goodman
. I'm glad Larry did what he did in founding it--had it achieved more ,so would we have also. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: Milos Rancic wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:35 PM

Re: [Foundation-l] FYI: Wikipedia, Open Access and Cognitive Virology

2010-05-15 Thread David Goodman
. As phoebe says, the current wording is reasonable. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-19 Thread David Goodman
our defense that we are not a producer? David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Stillwater Rising stillwateris...@gmail.com wrote: I contacted Drew Sabol; professor, attorney, and owner of a 2257 record-keeping service called

Re: [Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

2010-05-19 Thread David Goodman
may be fools. We are not. (at least not as often). David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:39 PM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: Samuel Klein wrote: To Robert's point below, I would appreciate a serious discussion on Commons

Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-20 Thread David Goodman
mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Renaming Flagged Protections

2010-05-27 Thread David Goodman
. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

2010-05-28 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-03 Thread David Goodman
that decision further and submit proposals to change this design please contact Howie Fung hfung at wikimedia.org or visit http://usability.wikimedia.org -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-03 Thread David Goodman
into something that's more descriptive of what the links actually do. I've created the following page for more discussion/proposals on the topic: http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Opinion:_Language_Links Howie On 6/3/10 4:41 PM, David Goodman wrote: It would be nice to actually have a place

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-05 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-22 Thread David Goodman
they search by. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board resolution commissioning study and recommendations

2010-06-24 Thread David Goodman
educational value is? I feel very confused about its meaning. --vvv ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

2010-06-30 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

2010-07-01 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

2010-07-21 Thread David Goodman
the images with no evidence of being free). ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions forPotentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread David Goodman
, I didn't sincerely believe it then, I still don't. Thanks again for reply :) Alec ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-26 Thread David Goodman
to adult accounts. Child responds by logging out. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

2010-08-24 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

2010-08-25 Thread David Goodman
not get the input from other Wikipedias in a more extreme fashion. Its consensus is so big in numbers that it does not seem to care about what is consensus elsewhere. On 25 August 2010 05:58, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: If nobody is interested in discussing the study, the apparent

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-27 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread David Goodman
. Anything more than that belongs in other media. -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread David Goodman
was eventually supported, though it took several rounds at arb com. In the other direction, disputes between experts was one of the factors that killed (or almost-killed) Citizendium. -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] xkcd's map of the internet

2010-10-06 Thread David Goodman
://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hHa_9L1Rwp6lLcVg8mJzB-PBroXg (Agence France Press) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-16 Thread David Goodman
will stay. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing, was Re: Ban and moderate

2010-10-22 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing, was Re: Ban and moderate

2010-10-22 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing, was Re: Ban and moderate

2010-10-23 Thread David Goodman
those articles into something the manufacturers and their PR people would be very happy with. Sarah ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and ...

2010-10-24 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-10-31 Thread David Goodman
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)#Funding_of_cited_research A. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-11-02 Thread David Goodman
simply in order to POV push. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG

Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

2010-11-06 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

2010-11-08 Thread David Goodman
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Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

2010-11-18 Thread David Goodman
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