Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

2009-09-10 Thread Bryan Derksen
Fred Bauder wrote: wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Investigative Journalism should go to WikiNews. Something I'd like to know before considering this as a potential compromise is whether the Foundation would simply censor WikiNews in exactly the same way. Any responsible journalist will. That

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

2009-09-10 Thread Bryan Derksen
Fred Bauder wrote: Fred Bauder wrote: We are supposed to be community-driven. Where is the community consensus on media blackouts? Link please. Interesting, as there is a consensus. It just isn't written down. Do no harm; any problem with that? At the very least consensus can't be said to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

2009-09-10 Thread Bryan Derksen
Surreptitiousness wrote: wjhon...@aol.com wrote: We are supposed to be community-driven. Where is the community consensus on media blackouts? Link please. I'm amused by the idea that you can link to community consensus. We need a picture of thousands of Wikipedians sitting at their

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

2009-09-10 Thread Bryan Derksen
Fred Bauder wrote: I seem to have missed the detailed plans and blueprints on how to make an A-Bomb. Care to link me? Or do you really think that the press won't sensationalise the minute it is realised someone learnt something bad from Wikipedia? I'd rather send Mr Gerard out there if it

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

2009-09-09 Thread Bryan Derksen
wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Investigative Journalism should go to WikiNews. Something I'd like to know before considering this as a potential compromise is whether the Foundation would simply censor WikiNews in exactly the same way. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Media and Wikipedia blackout on NYT reporter in Afghanistan

2009-09-09 Thread Bryan Derksen
Fred Bauder wrote: We are supposed to be community-driven. Where is the community consensus on media blackouts? Link please. Interesting, as there is a consensus. It just isn't written down. Do no harm; any problem with that? At the very least consensus can't be said to be obvious on this,

Re: [WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

2009-08-08 Thread Bryan Derksen
David Gerard wrote: 2009/7/30 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: sob http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Animal_births_by_year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Animal_deaths_by_year That is ridiculous category use. Hey, someone thought it was useful ... Once upon a time I

Re: [WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

2009-08-08 Thread Bryan Derksen
wjhon...@aol.com wrote: About Women on Wikipedia, I think famous is probably problematic, like list of short women, is too much based on a judgement call. Heck, in a few cases the Women classification might prove to be based on a judgement call. The panoply of transgender classifications and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Bans Scientology From Site - Huffington Post

2009-05-31 Thread Bryan Derksen
Joe Anderson wrote: The Register enjoyed calling ArbCom 'Wikicourt'. The Register article was written by Cade Metz, who has written extensively about Wikipedia before and for some reason goes out of his way to insult and misrepresent how things work here. This article contained a particularly

Re: [WikiEN-l] xkcd

2009-02-20 Thread Bryan Derksen
- Original Message - From: Judson Dunn cohes...@sleepyhead.org For your comedy pleasure :) http://xkcd.com/545/ What does he do if the article gets deleted? Burn the money? :) ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To

Re: [WikiEN-l] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

2008-12-04 Thread Bryan Derksen
Ting Chen wrote: I believe sometime we will go in this direction. But at the moment this would mean that the edit would be more complicated. The problem is if I edit a section, I put in ref id=smith /. But at the same time I cannot add reference id=smith.../reference into the References and