Re: [Wikimedia-l] [arbcom-l] Where is WMF with pursuing companies that offer paid editing services

2017-04-13 Thread James Heilman 
With respect to Pine's request for more legal support to help deal with
undisclosed paid editing issues, to that I strongly agree.

To better address these concerns we need the WMF, communities, and
affiliate organizations to collaborate. It is a difficult problem to
address.

James

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Pine W  wrote:

> I tend to think along James' lines more than Risker's.
>
> Responding to Risker:
>
> It seems to me that the key point that you're missing is that Burger King
> altered Wikipedia content in order to execute this campaign. This wasn't a
> simple case of an organization reusing existing Wikipedia content; the
> organization appears to have altered Wikipedia content to suit their
> purposes regardless of an obvious conflict of interest with Wikipedia's
> purpose of being an educational resource rather than an advertising
> platform.
>
> It seems to me that entities of varying sizes -- from a start-up brand that
> wants to make itself look important by having a Wikipedia article, to large
> corporations and government officials -- will continue to alter Wikipedia
> content in ways that are inappropriate and do a disservice to our readers
> (including advertising, inserting "alternative facts" for medical and
> political content, and eliminating negative information that certain people
> and organizations find inconvenient) and cost editors' and administrators'
> collective time and attention, until there is a financial price that is put
> on this kind of behavior that is large enough to deter them. I don't see
> why we should stand idly by as our products' quality and trustworthiness
> are degraded and our resources are diverted. I'm hoping that WMF's
> enforcement actions in this domain would more than pay for themselves
> through financial penalties that WMF extracts from the wrongdoers.
>
> Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [arbcom-l] Where is WMF with pursuing companies that offer paid editing services

2017-04-13 Thread Pine W 
I tend to think along James' lines more than Risker's.

Responding to Risker:

It seems to me that the key point that you're missing is that Burger King
altered Wikipedia content in order to execute this campaign. This wasn't a
simple case of an organization reusing existing Wikipedia content; the
organization appears to have altered Wikipedia content to suit their
purposes regardless of an obvious conflict of interest with Wikipedia's
purpose of being an educational resource rather than an advertising
platform.

It seems to me that entities of varying sizes -- from a start-up brand that
wants to make itself look important by having a Wikipedia article, to large
corporations and government officials -- will continue to alter Wikipedia
content in ways that are inappropriate and do a disservice to our readers
(including advertising, inserting "alternative facts" for medical and
political content, and eliminating negative information that certain people
and organizations find inconvenient) and cost editors' and administrators'
collective time and attention, until there is a financial price that is put
on this kind of behavior that is large enough to deter them. I don't see
why we should stand idly by as our products' quality and trustworthiness
are degraded and our resources are diverted. I'm hoping that WMF's
enforcement actions in this domain would more than pay for themselves
through financial penalties that WMF extracts from the wrongdoers.

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's go gender neutral

2017-04-13 Thread Natacha Rault 
Dear Antoine, it is solvable in French and there are some very good practice 
manual online here is one from Switzerland 
https://www.unige.ch/rectorat/egalite/files/9414/0353/2732/charte_epicene_Chancelerie_guide_formulation_non_sexiste.pdf
 
.
 

You might all appreciate an English review of these themes from an academic 
perspective : http://www.fairlanguage.org/medias 


The form you cite underneath "Un/une adminstra-teur-trice » would never be 
used. One would rather write "un administrateur ou une administratrice » in 
this case. 

Kind regards,

Nattes à chat

> Le 6 avr. 2017 à 13:30, Antoine Musso  a écrit :
> 
> Le 05/04/2017 à 12:52, Fæ a écrit :
>> I'm taking that further by
>> proposing that we stick to a neutral gender for all our policies and
>> help pages. In practice this means that policies avoid using "he or
>> she" and stick to "they" or avoid using a pronoun at all. 
> 
> As a non native English speaker the use of a plural form definitely
> confuses me or at best.  The example takes a sentence from Commons:FAQ
> which roughly looks like:
> 
> A photographer has to be given credit when his or her picture is used.
> 
> With the proposal to instead:
> 
> A photographer has to be given credit when their picture is used.
> 
> Why isn't "picture" plural as well?  If using masculine as a neutral
> pronoum is the issue, just stop using the pronoum entirely. Eg one can
> instead write:
> 
> A photographer has to be given credit when the picture is used.
> 
> 
> That is going to be quite a challenge when ported to other languages.
> For 'A photographer', the english indefinite article is gender less.
> 
> In french that would be either 'un' (masculine) or 'une' (feminine).
> What some are advocating is using:
> 
>  Un/une photographe
> 
> If the noun varies as well, that becomes messy. Here for 'administrateur':
> 
> Un/une adminstra-teur-trice
> 
> That is not solvable in french and all other latin based languages most
> probably have the same issue (blame Rome!).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Antoine "hashar" Musso
> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's go gender neutral

2017-04-13 Thread Natacha Rault 
Hi Florence
Just a small remark : actually the message that was used in the end on the site 
notice is gender neutral, and was acceptable for all. There is sometimes a way 
out of the binary gendering in French, « nous" for example has no attributed 
gender. Using wikimedien·ne·s does not include people who do not want to be 
affiliated to any gender at all (we say a-genre in French, but I dont know the 
word in english). 
I take an example: instead of saying « lecteurs et lectrices », one can say « 
le lectorat » and nobody would even notice (even the persons opposed to the 
feminization of titles). Now here there was a big debate on Theresa May’s 
 page, and in the end one can read 
now « première ministre » which is probably one of the first time the community 
voted in this direction (with lots and lots go heated debates).
The French community is not as irrational about neutral gender as it used to 
be, that’s for sure. 
So I would not be as pessimist as you are actually, the French community is not 
used to using gender neutral language but there are examples of it. See for 
example there for the next Wikiconvention  
where the 
term « participant·e·s » shows up in the first page…
Kind regards, 
Nattes à chat



> Le 7 avr. 2017 à 21:58, Florence Devouard  a écrit :
> 
> A couple of weeks ago, I was asked - in my capacity of meta admin - to change 
> the phrasing of a site notice on meta, meant to call for participation to the 
> month of Francophonie.
> 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-WikiFranca_MC17&diff=prev&oldid=16482259
> 
> The sentence of the call in the site notice was in language neutral 
> terminology.
> 
> "les Wikimédien.nes" instead of the more traditionnal but non neutral "les 
> Wikimédiens".
> 
> That phrasing raised an uproar on the French pump. So I replaced the term by 
> "nous" (we). Seems to settle things.
> 
> Clearly the French speaking community is not ready to adopt the gender 
> neutral specific language accross the francophones projects. Alternatives 
> (such as the "we") are possible but not always.
> 
> Florence
> 
> 
> 
> Le 06/04/2017 14:58, Fæ a écrit :
>> Thanks for the examples from French and I'm sure that our experienced
>> translators will have in mind specific best practice guides to turn
>> to. I like your illustration of "un/une adminstra-teur-trice" to show
>> the challenges. The use of "singular they" remains uncomfortable for
>> many English readers, but it has become a recommended standard for
>> journalists writing in English.[1]
>> 
>> Once the principle of gender neutrality is agreed, I just don't know
>> what our next steps will turn out to be for non-English versions.
>> However I am much encouraged by the positive views on Commons, and I'm
>> hopeful we can, and should, find a way to set a better example for our
>> fellow projects in our aim to feel welcoming for all contributors. :-)
>> 
>> Links
>> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Fae
>> Wikimedia LGBT+
>> 
>> On 6 April 2017 at 12:30, Antoine Musso  wrote:
>>> Le 05/04/2017 à 12:52, Fæ a écrit :
  I'm taking that further by
 proposing that we stick to a neutral gender for all our policies and
 help pages. In practice this means that policies avoid using "he or
 she" and stick to "they" or avoid using a pronoun at all.
>>> 
>>> As a non native English speaker the use of a plural form definitely
>>> confuses me or at best.  The example takes a sentence from Commons:FAQ
>>> which roughly looks like:
>>> 
>>> A photographer has to be given credit when his or her picture is used.
>>> 
>>> With the proposal to instead:
>>> 
>>> A photographer has to be given credit when their picture is used.
>>> 
>>> Why isn't "picture" plural as well?  If using masculine as a neutral
>>> pronoum is the issue, just stop using the pronoum entirely. Eg one can
>>> instead write:
>>> 
>>> A photographer has to be given credit when the picture is used.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> That is going to be quite a challenge when ported to other languages.
>>> For 'A photographer', the english indefinite article is gender less.
>>> 
>>> In french that would be either 'un' (masculine) or 'une' (feminine).
>>> What some are advocating is using:
>>> 
>>>   Un/une photographe
>>> 
>>> If the noun varies as well, that becomes messy. Here for 'administrateur':
>>> 
>>>  Un/une adminstra-teur-trice
>>> 
>>> That is not solvable in french and all other latin based languages most
>>> probably have the same issue (blame Rome!).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Antoine "hashar" Musso
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Are you a chairperson of a Wikimedia chapter?

2017-04-13 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel 
Hey,

Just a reminder - shortly before Wikimania 2014 we created the
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Thank you,



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