[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedian in residence in Cape Town, South Africa / WikiAfrica

2011-10-27 Thread Marco Chiesa
Forwarding from Wikimedia Italy, mailing list (we have an ongoing project called WikiAfrica with an association called Lettera27 Dear all, I'm forwarding a call for applications for a Wikipedian in residence in Cape Town. It is a one year position, offering expenses refund and implies living in

[Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever Domas

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:43, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia?

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Andre Engels
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote: we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia?

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread emijrp
Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when politicians speak about closing sites. Damn. 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com Hi!

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-10-27 Thread Robin McCain
On 10/27/2011 6:43 AM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: On 26 October 2011 14:15, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: And apparently that's fine, if you are making a faithful reproduction of the image in its original context. ?But tagging an image PD does not imply you may

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Fred Bauder
Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever Domas Maybe when Occupy Wall Street calls a

[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool office hours

2011-10-27 Thread Oliver Keyes
Hey guys So, Office Hours for the AFT is now over; thanks to all who attended. The logs can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2011-10-27 for those who missed it - we're talking about trying to hold a second session at a more North America-friendly time. Is

[Foundation-l] Feedback Dashboard launched today

2011-10-27 Thread Howie Fung
Hey Everyone, I wanted to let everyone know that earlier today, we launched the Feedback Dashboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedbackDashboard This dashboard is a running list of comments that new editors submitted via Moodbar (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoodBar). The idea

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Tim Starling
On 28/10/11 01:43, emijrp wrote: Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when politicians speak about closing sites. About 90% of