Re: [Foundation-l] How to improve quality of Wikipedia?

2010-10-11 Thread Przykuta
The Russian Wikipedia has copied your Mistakes report script but we often transfer the reports to the discussion pages for correction of wikipedians looking after their articles. Victoria In pl wiki reports are moved too, but only if problem is not solved on the Zgłoś błąd site.

Re: [Foundation-l] How to improve quality of Wikipedia?

2010-10-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Przykuta, 11/10/2010 08:37: BTW - I've seen, that in some (smaller) Wikipedias newbies are welcome by bots. We try welcome only users with any activity and newbies are welcome by [[MediaWiki:Welcomecreation]] page with links to help pages. [[MediaWiki:Welcomecreation]] is almost useless,

Re: [Foundation-l] How to improve quality of Wikipedia?

2010-10-11 Thread Przykuta
Przykuta, 11/10/2010 08:37: BTW - I've seen, that in some (smaller) Wikipedias newbies are welcome by bots. We try welcome only users with any activity and newbies are welcome by [[MediaWiki:Welcomecreation]] page with links to help pages. [[MediaWiki:Welcomecreation]] is almost

Re: [Foundation-l] Liu Xiaobo

2010-10-11 Thread Florence Devouard
Censorship ! :) On 10/9/10 12:35 AM, Austin Hair wrote: Peter has been placed on moderation as a preventive measure. If future posts are still civil, irrespective of sanity considerations, we'll let them through. Austin On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Peter Damian

Re: [Foundation-l] How to improve quality of Wikipedia?

2010-10-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Przykuta, 11/10/2010 09:27: Huh. Yes, but when bot welcome newbie, he can't help this user. Bots usually add a random signature from a list of experienced users willing to help. Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread private musings
Hi Robert / all, I wonder if perhaps folk on the foundation-l mailing list may be able to help with this issue I'm hoping to clarify as tangetial, but related to the Controversial Content study; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Robertmharris#Tangential.2C_but_important In short, I've

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread private musings
failed at copy / paste - with apologies, here is the link to the image I would think it best to remove permanently; http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Closeup_of_female_masturbation_pastel.jpgaction=editredlink=1 cheers, Peter, PM. On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:59 PM, private

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Discussions of single images is not productive. There are probably other pictures that are best removed. They are the exception not the rule. Thanks, GerardM On 11 October 2010 11:02, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: failed at copy / paste - with apologies, here is the

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread wiki-list
thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: failed at copy / paste - with apologies, here is the link to the image I would think it best to remove permanently; http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Closeup_of_female_masturbation_pastel.jpgaction=editredlink=1 You are aware that, if it is

Re: [Foundation-l] Liu Xiaobo

2010-10-11 Thread teun spaans
That word had occured to me, but I didnt dare to mention it in this discussion as i had been warned here in the past about my usage of that word here, and didnt want to be put on moderation list myself. On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: Censorship !

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread Marcus Buck
An'n 11.10.2010 13:15, hett wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk schreven: thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: failed at copy / paste - with apologies, here is the link to the image I would think it best to remove permanently;

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:15 AM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: failed at copy / paste - with apologies, here is the link to the image I would think it best to remove permanently;

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11 October 2010 15:56, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: As for GerardM's comment - I think PM brought it up to illustrate the problem, not because he thought this was the only example. It isn't a purely theoretical issue, there are actual cases that make policy development an important

Re: [Foundation-l] External links to PHP scripts

2010-10-11 Thread WJhonson
I stumbled upon a link on the Talk Page of Henry Fonda (which I removed) which directs the reader to a page that contains a PHP script. That idea disturbs me, I think it should be, but I'm not sure it is, against policy. Do we have a policy that forbids or at least discourages the use of links

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread wiki-list
On 11/10/2010 15:56, Nathan wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:15 AM,wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: failed at copy / paste - with apologies, here is the link to the image I would think it best to remove permanently;

Re: [Foundation-l] How to improve quality of Wikipedia?

2010-10-11 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Hello, This whole thread is interesting. You can work side by side with someone for several years and not know that the Wikipedia next door delete talk pages where the question is resolved. Anyway, I published an essay about raising quality on the Swedish Wikipedia a couple of years ago, which

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Documentation of consent has been discussed several times on the COM:Sexual content talk page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content One interesting idea raised a few days ago was that we could have a drop-down menu on the upload page for self-made images. This would

Re: [Foundation-l] External links to PHP scripts

2010-10-11 Thread Alex
On 10/11/2010 12:48 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: I stumbled upon a link on the Talk Page of Henry Fonda (which I removed) which directs the reader to a page that contains a PHP script. That idea disturbs me, I think it should be, but I'm not sure it is, against policy. Do we have a

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-11 Thread John Vandenberg
The following message was rejected by moderators, but I think it is worth noting on this list. Whether 'we' like it or not, Gregory Kohs is asking probing questions and ignoring him is not making him go away; quite the contrary actually.

Re: [Foundation-l] External links to PHP scripts

2010-10-11 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:48 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: I stumbled upon a link on the Talk Page of Henry Fonda (which I removed) which directs the reader to a page that contains a PHP script. Here is the diff

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-11 Thread geni
On 12 October 2010 00:00, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: The following message was rejected by moderators, but I think it is worth noting on this list. Whether 'we' like it or not, Gregory Kohs is asking probing questions and ignoring him is not making him go away; quite the contrary

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-11 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 October 2010 00:00, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: The following message was rejected by moderators, but I think it is worth noting on this list. Whether 'we' like it or not, Gregory Kohs is asking probing

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-11 Thread Milos Rancic
This issue has to be solved. And it couldn't be solved without general agreement on how it should be. I suggest that interested parties make a deal and I'll argue inside of the LangCom that it suggests to the Board to accept the agreement. As Transnitria has poor Internet access and we don't