[Foundation-l] IRC office hours with the WMF legal team, Friday Feb. 10th

2012-02-06 Thread Steven Walling
Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that this Friday at 17:00 UTC, our General Counsel Geoff Brigham and his team will be in #wikimedia-office to talk about work in the legal department. If you haven't checked the log from the first legal office hours where he discussed legal strategy in

[Foundation-l] New York Times op-ed about Wikipedia and copyright

2012-02-06 Thread MZMcBride
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/opinion/steal-this-column.html Some readers may find this interesting; it doesn't seem to have hit this list. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-06 Thread MZMcBride
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article is pretty good reading. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Facebook Group re pornography on Wikipedia

2012-02-06 Thread M. Williamson
Yes, and some people don't like the fact that we tell the truth about, say, the Taiwan situation (or at least we try our very best to), or the Tienanmen Square protests of 1989. I think it's very stupid to equate people don't like this to this is a problem. So yes, the situation is still

Re: [Foundation-l] Facebook Group re pornography on Wikipedia

2012-02-06 Thread M. Williamson
Perhaps a better example is the article on Santa Claus. If you look at the talkpage, you'll find a couple of people protesting that it isn't a child-friendly article, by which they really mean that we don't play along with the Santa charade like NORAD, Google and countless other prominent