As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update.
The quick summary is that we are continuing with pre-rollout activities,
including UI polish, text and naming cleanup, and rollout planning.
One important milestone passed is that Tim Starling has looked over the
code and done some
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Some thoughts, not aiming at anybody in particular.
The pressure from Fox News, the childish founders' jealousies, the void
FBI threats, the patriarch complex of Mr. Wales, if they're real,
should be of no inflated importance. Our personal tastes
Hello,
On Bugzilla I reported my observations about changes in FlaggedRevs
extension: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23615
I am unhappy that you attempting to enable FlaggedRevs on en.wiki, you
forget about other projects.
Regards,
Daniel aka Leinad
On Fri, 21 May 2010 15:22:19 +0200, Daniel ~ Leinad
danny.lei...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
On Bugzilla I reported my observations about changes in FlaggedRevs
extension: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23615
I am unhappy that you attempting to enable FlaggedRevs on en.wiki, you
I thought it is up to the community how the interface is translated into
Polish.
It is not problem in translation to one language. There is problem in
source language. All translations should have the same sense as in
source language.
Leinad
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On Fri, 21 May 2010 15:50:32 +0200, Daniel ~ Leinad
danny.lei...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought it is up to the community how the interface is translated
into
Polish.
It is not problem in translation to one language. There is problem in
source language. All translations should have the same
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:02 AM, putevod pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On Fri, 21 May 2010 15:50:32 +0200, Daniel ~ Leinad
danny.lei...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought it is up to the community how the interface is translated
into
Polish.
It is not problem in translation to one language. There is
On 05/21/2010 07:16 AM, Chad wrote:
All aspects of the interface are indeed configurable, like you said.
And this is useful when projects want to tweak the wording or add
additional information. They should not be used to illustrate different
concepts across the different languages though.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:32 AM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
On the other hand, I think for FlaggedRevs the implied link between
languages is weaker than a lot of other bits of MediaWiki. The
FlaggedRevs extension is extremely configurable, and on top of the
technological model
On 05/21/2010 08:51 AM, Chad wrote:
There are two things wrong here.
The first is attempting to reuse messages for different purposes. If
the workflow and ideas behind the UI are different, then there need
to be different messages, not changing of ones that work just fine
and make plenty of
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:32 AM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
We're very aware of the power of names. For those who have been
following my updates or the status of tasks in Tracker, you may have
noticed that a text and naming task has been in progress for weeks.
That's because
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:32 AM, William Pietri will...@scissor.comwrote:
We're very aware of the power of names. For those who have been
following my updates or the status of tasks in Tracker, you may have
noticed
David Goodman wrote:
all of these problems are with other people than us. Our copyright
license permits commercial use, and does not apply to any potential
problems other than copyright. This has nothing to do with our
licensing. The reason nobody has answered this before is that it is
...we should not forget, that there are on Commons some of the most
beautiful images I've ever seen in my entire life.
Free. As in Speech.
A look at the lists for the Picture of the Year should convince you of that.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2009/Galleries
2010/5/21 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com:
...we should not forget, that there are on Commons some of the most
beautiful images I've ever seen in my entire life.
Well said.
AGK
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Hi everyone,
As William alluded to, a bunch of us have been studying the user interface
for Flagged Protections and figuring out how to make it more intuitive.
In trying to solve the user interface problems as well as generally figuring
out how we're going to talk about this feature to the world
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:34 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Might help to sum up what exactly it does or how it's used (2-4 bullet
points) so that people trying to pick a name to match its features but
haven't followed the lengthy debate, are up to date on it.
That's fair. Here's the
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
The foundation does not own and operate the site in the way that Fox
news owns and operates their site.
The foundation merely ensures that the site operates, functions, runs.
It does not edit the contents of the site. That is the
Rob Lanphier wrote:
In trying to solve the user interface problems as well as generally figuring
out how we're going to talk about this feature to the world at large, it
became clear that the name Flagged Protections doesn't adequately describe
the technology as it looks to readers and
On 22 May 2010 01:54, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Rob Lanphier wrote:
In trying to solve the user interface problems as well as generally figuring
out how we're going to talk about this feature to the world at large, it
became clear that the name Flagged Protections doesn't adequately
Here here. There is a tactical map of 18th century Boston by Lt. Page of the
British Army on commons that I really am just blown away by. I believe it is
a featured picture, if anyone is interested. Also I saw a brilliant photo of
a homeless person in Philidelphia that could have been put on a
MZMcBride wrote:
Stop, take a deep breath, and look at the big picture: nobody cares.
Most users don't edit. Most users who do edit won't care what the feature is
called. Nobody cares. And I think you're a pretty smart guy who already
realizes this, so I'm curious why there seems to be
Your over-broad reading of this law would effectively gut
that other law which states that a host company is not responsible for what
people are hosting.
Wouldn't it? Unless you're going to support what appears to be an
unsupportable platform that child porn (or whatever you want to call
On 05/21/2010 05:54 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
Stop, take a deep breath, and look at the big picture: nobody cares.
Most users don't edit. Most users who do edit won't care what the feature is
called. Nobody cares. And I think you're a pretty smart guy who already
realizes this, so I'm curious why
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
implementation, and there's no flagging in the proposed configuration.
Additionally, protection in our world implies no editing whereas this
[snip]
- Must not introduce obsolete terminology (e.g. there's no flagging in
Stillwater Rising writes:
Hosting these images without 18 USC 2257(A) records, in my opinion, is a *
no-win* situation for everyone involved.
This raises the obvious question of how you interpret 18 USC 2257A(g),
which refers back to 18 USC 2257(h) (including in particular 18 USC
On May 21, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 22 May 2010 01:54, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Rob Lanphier wrote:
In trying to solve the user interface problems as well as
generally figuring
out how we're going to talk about this feature to the
I was just about to post that same section.
From 2257(h)(2)(B)) exception to record keeping:
(v) the transmission, storage, retrieval, hosting, formatting, or
translation (or any combination thereof) of a communication, without
selection or alteration of the content of the communication,
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