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

2009-02-19 Thread Angela
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM, basedrop based...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have a particular need to have the art history portion of the wiki editable for my users at my domain. I have the specialized users at my site, I'd like to take advantage of that aggregation of specialized users to

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and public sector involvement, connections

2009-02-19 Thread RYU Cheol
The local government of Seoul, Korea, is preparing to donate some of her contents. For the donation they approached to the bureaucrats of ko.wp, because we don't have a local chapter in Korea. Finally they decided to publish them in a major web portal in Korea in condition of free license. The

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: Davos

2009-02-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/2/19 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net: I'm likely going to put the general issue of biographies on the board's next agenda, for what that's worth. Though as I say, there's no simple blanket solution, and I don't know if we can promise anything beyond more discussion and more awareness

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: Davos

2009-02-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/2/19 Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com: I think a deeper point is that there are a lot of very problematic BLP's on Wikipedia, and this is an ongoing problem that we all have to be very serious about. In my anecdotal experience (as a UK phone contact), BLPs are our biggest public

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and public sector involvement, connections

2009-02-19 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 21:28, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,Thank you for your replies. Are there any notable examples you could mention, or point me to?You might be interested in the German initiative of working with a state-funded Institute to write articles in Wikipedia about

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

2009-02-19 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: That aside: the two situations are entirely different. This proposal is effectively outsourcing a section of Wikipedia to some experts in the field. That's entirely unlike the Foundation deciding to add an additional

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

2009-02-19 Thread Hay (Husky)
I totally agree that we should know in advance on how attribution should take place when people are going to reuse our content. A good example on how to handle this might be how the Blender Foundation did that with its 'Elephant's Dream' and 'Big Buck Bunny' projects (even though the license there

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and public sector involvement, connections

2009-02-19 Thread Hay (Husky)
Wikimedia Nederland has: * Participated in the greenbook about copyright reform in the European Union * Written a letter to the government which resulted in the release of portrait photographs of all members of the current cabinet under GFDL * Talked to members of the parliament about copyright

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

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/19 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, Thomas OTHER people can see this benefit.. It is not that hard.. even I can. Then would you care to explain it to me? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/19 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com: In my opinion, it is incumbent upon us to give examples of how we believe third parties can legally and practically reuse WMF content by exercising rights under CC-BY-SA. If we can't, in our collective wisdom, agree on how third parties ought to be

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

2009-02-19 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Rohde wrote: If someone comes to us and says: I want to print a copy of [[France]] in my book. What is a reasonable way to comply with the license?, then we really ought to be able to answer that

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

2009-02-19 Thread David Goodman
I have never understood why any substantial contributor to Wikipedia here would feel that attributing the specific text the contributed to an article to them individually if an article is reprinted is to their benefit--given that the text will have been almost entirely replaced, modified, and

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

2009-02-19 Thread David Goodman
The benefit is in getting users who would not be comfortable on Wikipedia because of the perceived and real behavior problems on that site--even if this is no worse ultimately than in the academic world, the mode of interaction is certainly very different. Why do we assume the present editing

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: Davos

2009-02-19 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.netwrote: Sage Ross wrote: From my experience talking with people (mostly academics) who have Wikipedia articles, they are often unhappy with their articles but also either don't want to interfere in a community they aren't

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

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/19 David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com: David Goodman wrote: The benefit is in getting users who would not be comfortable on Wikipedia because of the perceived and real behavior problems on that site--even if this is no worse ultimately than in the academic world, the mode of

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

2009-02-19 Thread David Levy
Gerard Meijssen wrote: If articles can be shared, surely talk pages can be shared too ? Yes, but this eliminates the avoidance of interaction that David Goodman cited as a benefit. And if that's the case, what *is* the benefit? Why dedicate effort and resources toward duplicating the normal

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

2009-02-19 Thread David Levy
Nathan wrote: This sounds like a very interesting idea to me. None of the potential problems are obvious dealbreakers to me. It isn't outsourcing, the talkpage can be shared as easily as anything else, we would really like to take advantage of concentrated groups of expert users, and the more

[Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan
Sometime in the past year I stopped posting the top posters list because it was seen as not useful and perhaps encouraging the type of behavior it was, in fact, meant to discourage. Even so, I thought I might post this special edition of top posters. The numbers come from Erik Zachte's list page,

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

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:30 PM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote: But what's the point of duplicating the entire structure (including talk pages) instead of simply referring these experts to Wikipedia? Even if everything could be made seamless, what would be the advantage? It's

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/19 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: Sometime in the past year I stopped posting the top posters list because it was seen as not useful and perhaps encouraging the type of behavior it was, in fact, meant to discourage. Even so, I thought I might post this special edition of top posters. The

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

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/19 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: So the question really should be, what of this would be to our disadvantage? It's very difficult to set up technically, for a start. Live mirroring of existing content isn't too hard, but sorting out editing would be a nightmare. We presumably wouldn't want

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: That's the result of having to write a master's thesis! Actually, I think that list is very positive - we have 25 people all posting at least an average of 5 posts a day. That's a large, active community. 753

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

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: The GFDL has problems which need to be fixed. If the relicensing under CC-BY-SA occurs, that's much less likely to happen. I spent 3 years trying to get the GFDL fixed. Would you like me to forward you all of the We'll get back

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/19 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: That's the result of having to write a master's thesis! Actually, I think that list is very positive - we have 25 people all posting at least an average of 5 posts a day.

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am glad that you did not count the number of times that I blogged on one of my blogs. Have a read and tell me where you think I make most sense ... http://ulltmategerardm.blogspot.com http://omegawiki.blogspot.com http://extensiontesting.blogspot.com/ Thanks, GerardM 2009/2/19

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

2009-02-19 Thread Mark Williamson
I hope you realize that doesn't make any sense. If the WMF didn't exist, how could it host anything at all? skype: node.ue 2009/2/19 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, The French Wikipedia may pre-date the WMF but the hosting of the French Wikipedia has always been done by the

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

2009-02-19 Thread Mark Williamson
Isn't that what outsourcing is... skype: node.ue 2009/2/19 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, It is not outsourcing at all. Quite the contrary, it would be people from elsewhere, people who are likely to be trusted from elsewhere editing our content from somewhere else as

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-19 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Thomas Dalton 753 GerardM 738 David Gerard 450 Ray Saintonge 405 Anthony 403 Milos Rancic 381 geni 359 Anthere 323 Dan Rosenthal 316 Chad 311 Nathan 283 Mark Williamson 276 Andrew Whitworth 273 Geoffrey Plourde 253 Erik Moeller 229 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 224 effe iets anders

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-19 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: I still hold the crown on Wikipedia-l. Whatever happened to that list, anyways? Pretty much no decisions are made at the Wikipedia level. They're either made at the foundation level or the individual project one.

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

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/19 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com: I think you are significantly overestimating the difficulty. We already have an API [1] and similar tools that allow one to accomplish many similar tasks. For example, calling ?action=render will give you a llive HTML version of any current page that

Re: [Foundation-l] A funny coincidence

2009-02-19 Thread Platonides
Michael Snow escribió: I suppose I should bring it with me whether I spend it or not. Anyway, I'm looking forward to Wikimania, and seeing any of you that are able to make it. --Michael Snow You should bring it and not spend it. I foresee you will be asked about them there :-)

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

2009-02-19 Thread Platonides
Robert Rohde wrote: True, though under the current system a middle man in position of a user authentication token could do exactly the same things to Wikimedia as someone with the plaintext password. Which is a short way of saying our system has never been built with much security in mind.

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-19 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wikipedia-l is still a good place to discuss Wikipedia related issues regardless of language. I've seen some interesting discussions take place there over the last couple of months. It's still quite useful. Cary Mark Williamson wrote: I still hold