Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-12-02 Thread Anthony
Also, please address my point that banning self-identified pedophiles from editing merely entourages pedophile editors to *not* identify themselves as such (thereby increasing the likelihood that problematic activities will be overlooked). I believe that a natural consequence of

[Foundation-l] Whither, video tutorials?

2009-12-02 Thread Bod Notbod
I've just remembered seeing these 'making of' vids for video tutorials: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/12/18/wikimedia-to-produce-online-video-tutorials/ The post is a year old. And a comment links to a post in this mailing list, also nearly a year old:

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-12-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, For your information an article from Wired that I think may be relevant... http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/thousands-of-sex-offenders-booted-from-facebook-myspace/?utm_source=feedburner Thanks, GerardM ___ foundation-l mailing list

[Foundation-l] Question of the week on strategy-wiki

2009-12-02 Thread Philippe Beaudette
There's a new question of the week at Strategy wiki - http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week This week's question is: The Wall Street Journal published an article last week detailing the research of Felipe Ortega, indicating that the number of editors has declined in recent

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-12-02 Thread David Levy
Anthony wrote: Then my response is quite simple. Blocking some pedophiles before they can cause trouble is better than blocking none of them before they can cause trouble. And what do you believe is likely to occur when these pedophiles are blocked before they can cause trouble? We have no

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-12-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:38 PM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote: Anthony wrote: Then my response is quite simple.  Blocking some pedophiles before they can cause trouble is better than blocking none of them before they can cause trouble. And what do you believe is likely to occur