Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
This may be related to the deployment of the new CentralNotice banner loader. An RT ticket has been opened to investigate. If so, we may need to filter those requests from the page view stats. Ryan Kaldari On 10/18/10 6:16 PM, Erik Zachte wrote: For those of you who want to follow this

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Cool Hand Luke
This isn't why Peter was moderated, is it? Frank On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote: Peter Damian, it turns out has a blog, Beyond Necessity and has commented on our banning and moderating activities:

[Foundation-l] Chapters and more

2010-10-19 Thread Joan Goma
I would like to raise your attention on a topic related to movement roles. It seems that activities of movement roles working group has not raised high interest at meta probably because it is a one year term job. One week ago I wrote a list of comments and proposals at talk page:

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
AFAIK, president of Wikimedia Russia is Vladimir Medeyko, not Stanislav Kozlovskiy. And wikipedia.ru seems to be squatted. I have to admit that cyber-squatters have become more inventive. They are making NPOs for squatting domains of other NPOs. Stanislav Kozlovskiy is a vice-president

[Foundation-l] Another machine-assisted translation tool

2010-10-19 Thread David Gerard
This time from Microsoft Research: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/10/18/wikibhasha/ Has anyone used this one? How is it? Did Google ever commit to releasing the translation pairs? If so, we should certainly ask Microsoft for the same. - d. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread Виктория
Stanislav Kozlovskiy is a vice-president of Wikimedia Russia. It is still not clear whether this is hoax or somebody really filed a lawsuit. Cheers Yaroslav As I understand it he didn't file the lawsuit, he just complained to the police. The police was obliged to tick the box contacting

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread John Vandenberg
2010/10/19 Виктория mstisla...@gmail.com: Stanislav Kozlovskiy is a vice-president of Wikimedia Russia. It is still not clear whether this is hoax or somebody really filed a lawsuit. Cheers Yaroslav As I understand it he didn't file the lawsuit, he just complained to the police. The

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
John Vandenberg, 19/10/2010 12:43: And there is still a lot of discussion on the Russian Wikisource village pump. http://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Викитека:Форум They have created a template to put on works that are on the Russian Federal List of Extremist Materials.

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 10/19/2010 02:24 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:

[Foundation-l] Movement roles update and meeting on 21 October

2010-10-19 Thread Austin Hair
At its meeting on 9 October, the Movement Roles working group presented an update on its current work and an outline for the coming year. Thanks to everybody who participated in the preparation of the proposal. The Board approved the direction of the group, and encouraged all interested parties,

Re: [Foundation-l] Another machine-assisted translation tool

2010-10-19 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello David, See my experiences in http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/ I do not recall exactly how the GoogleTK worked, but it is more or less the same. Kind regards Ziko 2010/10/18 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: This time from Microsoft Research:

Re: [Foundation-l] Another machine-assisted translation tool

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
This time from Microsoft Research: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/10/18/wikibhasha/ Has anyone used this one? How is it? Did Google ever commit to releasing the translation pairs? If so, we should certainly ask Microsoft for the same. - d. I'm trying to make it work as a gadget.

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
This isn't why Peter was moderated, is it? Frank The folks who control the list: foundation-l list run by adhair at gmail.com, wiki.ral315 at gmail.com, alexandrdmitriromanov at gmail.com didn't say much. Kohs has a big anti campaign in progress, but all I can find about Peter Damain is bad

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
On reflection, I guess I (I, not the Foundation), envision our public mailing lists as being for all who are involved and interested, casually or intensely, as well as for observers are simply monitoring our on-going discussions, and who may, from time to time, wish to comment or initiate topics.

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Chad
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: I don't think we're in danger of outlawing sharp criticism on Foundation-l. If I had to give a guesstimate of the content breakdown of Foundation-l traffic, it would look something like: 10% news/events/media coverage

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2010-10-19 Thread Austin Hair
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: If it pleases the moderators, might we know on what basis Greg was banned and Peter indefinitely muzzled? Greg Kohs was banned for the same reason that he's been on moderation for the better part of the past year—namely, that he

[Foundation-l] Test posting

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Damian
Just a test. It seems I have been put on moderation simply for making the earlier posts about plagiarism on Wikipedia. Free culture! - Original Message - From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org To: peter.dam...@btinternet.com Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 10:17 PM Subject:

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Dupont
I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign, as illustrated at http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia against Wikipedia. Wow, this is very well written and interesting! please share more such information.

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Peel
On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote: I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign, as illustrated at http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia against Wikipedia. Wow, this is very well written and interesting! please share more

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Dupont
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote: I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign, as illustrated at http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia against

Re: [Foundation-l] Another machine-assisted translation tool

2010-10-19 Thread James Alexander
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote: It could be added as a Mediawiki extension. Not sure if anyone is thinking about that. Fred The blog post from Danese talks about it launchign a Mediawiki extension project, I'm not sure what the time table is on

Re: [Foundation-l] Another machine-assisted translation tool

2010-10-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2010/10/19 James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com: The blog post from Danese talks about it launchign a Mediawiki extension project, I'm not sure what the time table is on that however. They've committed code for an extension: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/WikiBhasha/

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Mike Godwin leaves the Wikimedia Foundation

2010-10-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is always sad to learn that someone who is appreciated as much as Mike is, is leaving. I hope he will be happy in his future activities. I want to thank Mike for the work that he has done. My contacts with Mike have always been positive so I feel it as a loss. Thanks, Gerard On 19

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Peel
On 19 Oct 2010, at 19:06, Mike Dupont wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote: I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign, as illustrated at

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
That page is so full of misinformation, it hardly warrants commentary, but just to point out some more annoying examples: The part about how Your non-profit donation will ultimately line the for-profit pockets of Jimmy Wales, Amazon, Google is absurd and very misleading. Sure, Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Chad
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: And that's just one of many sections erroneously blaming the WMF for content issues. For example, A WikiProject of topic lists has existed since November 2007, but it is still half unfinished and the 100 articles about

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: And that's just one of many sections erroneously blaming the WMF for content issues. For example, A WikiProject of topic lists has existed since November 2007, but it is still half unfinished and the 100 articles

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2010-10-19 Thread Birgitte SB
From: Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, October 19, 2010 12:35:07 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread John Vandenberg
A longer piece about this: http://www.mn.ru/society/20101019/188137566.html -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
A longer piece about this: http://www.mn.ru/society/20101019/188137566.html -- John Vandenberg And it contains the conflation of Wikipedia with WikiLeaks, to boot. Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2010-10-19 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
Brigitte, I agree with you. You raised some very good points. Sincerely, Virgilio A. P. Machado At 03:47 20-10-2010, you wrote: From: Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, October 19,

[Foundation-l] privacy and usability of user talk pages (inc. LiquidThreads)

2010-10-19 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
In the five or so years that i spent on Wikipedia it never bothered me and i never heard complaints about it until today, but come to think of it, there is something odd in the way users are notified about new messages on their user talk pages. The famous orange message in English says: You have