Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Your video is only viewable in Australia.. Aparantly filtering / censoring works in two directions; not only to keep things out but also to keep things in. Thanks, GerardM On 25 March 2010 06:16, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: sometimes things with broad community

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Gregory Kohs wrote: Point of clarification... does Jimmy Wales have the authority to impose a global ban on a user? http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversity:Community_Review/Wikimedia_Ethics:Ethical_Breaching_Experimentscurid=92825diff=548143oldid=548142 Until such time as

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Isabell Long
On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 https://wm10schols.wikimedia.org/in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals'

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isabell Long wrote: On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 https://wm10schols.wikimedia.org/in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Isabell Long
On 25 March 2010 18:51, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isabell Long wrote: On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly familiar with EU law. I guess you will not be able to fly without a certified permission of your parents/guardians. The same applies to crossing the borders (I assume you do not need visa to visit Poland). Cheers Yaroslav

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly familiar with EU law. I guess you will not be able to fly without a certified permission of your parents/guardians. The same applies to crossing the borders (I assume you do not need visa to visit Poland). Cheers Yaroslav

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread geni
On 25 March 2010 02:51, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Gregory Kohs wrote: Point of clarification... does Jimmy Wales have the authority to impose a global ban on a user? Yes, Jimmy has always had such rights, and he continues to enjoy broad community support. -- Tim Starling

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly familiar with EU law. I think you will not be able to fly unaccompanied without a certified permission from your parents / guardians. The same applies to crossing borders. I assume you do not need visa to visit Poland. Cheers

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Isabell Long
On 25 March 2010 19:48, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly familiar with EU law. I guess you will not be able to fly without a certified permission of your parents/guardians. The same applies to crossing the borders (I

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 March 2010 02:51, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Gregory Kohs wrote: Point of clarification... does Jimmy Wales have the authority to impose a global ban on a user? Yes, Jimmy has always had such rights, and

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread geni
On 25 March 2010 20:33, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Both the yes he does and no he doesn't sides are asserting and assuming rather than reporting a known quantity. There has been no organized or widespread attempt to either ask Jimmy to give it up or to take it away.  I can

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: There has been no organized or widespread attempt to either ask Jimmy to give it up or to take it away. I can name a number of individuals who assert that should happen, but there's no poll, no project, no policy

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread George Herbert
I qualified it with organized or widespread, and did so for a reason... There is currently one upset individual, and perhaps a few mild supporters of the effort, but there is no evidence of widespread support. Putting up a page on a wiki for an idea does not equal organization or widespread

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread David Gerard
On 25 March 2010 21:33, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: There is now: *

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2010/3/25 Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 https://wm10schols.wikimedia.org/in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Ray Saintonge
Cary Bass wrote: Ultimately, there are no restrictions on /applying/ for scholarship so you should feel free to apply. However, the application was designed to allow only for years that start with 19, so people born 2000 or later will have to contact us separately to apply. Wow! The Y2K

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010-03-25 Thread Svip
On 25 March 2010 20:50, Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 March 2010 19:48, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly familiar with EU law. I guess you will not be able to fly without a certified permission of

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread Ray Saintonge
George Herbert wrote: Both the yes he does and no he doesn't sides are asserting and assuming rather than reporting a known quantity. There has been no organized or widespread attempt to either ask Jimmy to give it up or to take it away. I can name a number of individuals who assert that

[Foundation-l] Weekly Flagged Protection update

2010-03-25 Thread William Pietri
As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update. This week we've seen a lot of helpful testing from at least 15 people, and we'd love to see more before launch. To participate, start here: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page To see what we've changed this week,

[Foundation-l] Annulment declaration of Wikipedia's principles and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines in Japanese edition.

2010-03-25 Thread kigen2700...@gmail.com
Wikipedia's principles and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines resolved to refuse in Japanese edition. The Wikipedia Japanese edition community voted for refusing authority of Jimbo Wales. the formal objection to page.

Re: [Foundation-l] Annulment declaration of Wikipedia's principles and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines in Japanese edition.

2010-03-25 Thread Aphaia
Briefly, the page pointed out couldn't read as described, at least in my view. There is no such vote but rather just to confirm policies and guidelines said to be applied for the project currently are really such as, and this corner picking seems to be an answer to this poster who raised this as

Re: [Foundation-l] Annulment declaration of Wikipedia's principles and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines in Japanese edition.

2010-03-25 Thread kigen2700...@gmail.com
Discussion about refusal of authority of Jimbo Wikipedia‐ノート:合意形成 http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%E2%80%90%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%3A%E5%90%88%E6%84%8F%E5%BD%A2%E6%88%90action=historysubmitdiff=26574550oldid=26185091 Wikipedia:Ignore all rules is not policy in Japanese

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

2010-03-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi. It is important that there is a method to puncture boils. It has already been remarked that Jimmy does not use his powers often. Given that there are ALWAYS people who have the opposite view, it is hardly relevant that there will be drama. There always is. Thanks, GerardM On 26 March