Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with "criminal defamation:" a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-21 Thread Puzzlet Chung
I'm afraid not. (And I forgot to introduce myself - I'm [[ko:User:PuzzletChung]], a bureaucrat from kowiki.) 2010/12/22 Samuel Klein : > Puzzlet - How unfortunate.  Is there a lawyer available to advise the > Wikipedians?   - SJ > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Puzzlet Chung wrote: >> At mo

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with "criminal defamation:" a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-21 Thread Samuel Klein
Puzzlet - How unfortunate. Is there a lawyer available to advise the Wikipedians? - SJ On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Puzzlet Chung wrote: > At most four Korean Wikipedians are charged with defamation of Song > Young-gil, the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. > > According to the contribu

[Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with "criminal defamation:" a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-21 Thread Puzzlet Chung
At most four Korean Wikipedians are charged with defamation of Song Young-gil, the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. According to the contributors, the prosecution is upon the Song's own request, and is going to be over publicizing a fabricated sex scandal in the article about him and (semi-)pro

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-21 Thread MZMcBride
Mike Dupont wrote: > Can I make a humble suggestion about the banners, and some other things. > on my slow computer, the banner takes a while to load, and when i click on > the page the click lands on the banner. > I dont mind looking at the banner, but I do mind that i click on it all the > time b

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-21 Thread MZMcBride
Philippe Beaudette wrote: > We're actually still figuring out the right way to use the centralnotice for > advertising events. We're concerned about not overwhelming particular events, > but also with making sure that the word gets out - it's a bit of a balancing > act. > > Once we've figured ou

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Dupont
Can I make a humble suggestion about the banners, and some other things. on my slow computer, the banner takes a while to load, and when i click on the page the click lands on the banner. I dont mind looking at the banner, but I do mind that i click on it all the time by accident, maybe a simple tr

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-21 Thread KIZU Naoko
2010/12/21 Philippe Beaudette : > Naoko, > > We're actually still figuring out the right way to use the centralnotice for > advertising events. We're concerned about not overwhelming particular > events, but also with making sure that the word gets out - it's a bit of a > balancing act. Point

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-21 Thread The Cunctator
Larry didn't have an exaggerated role, he really did run the project in the early days. On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 15/12/10 11:17, Brian J Mingus wrote: > > Browsing through the earliest revisions in the revision index ( > > http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/r

Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

2010-12-21 Thread Arlen Beiler
So for every article we have 960 active editors? I assume you wrote that wrong. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Risker wrote: > On 18 November 2010 18:33, David Gerard wrote: > > > On 18 November 2010 23:09, John Vandenberg wrote: > > > > > Am I 'paid editing' when I write articles during 9-5

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Naoko, We're actually still figuring out the right way to use the centralnotice for advertising events. We're concerned about not overwhelming particular events, but also with making sure that the word gets out - it's a bit of a balancing act. Once we've figured out the best way to go about