Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout notice errors (English Wikipedia)

2012-01-18 Thread Bastien Guerry
Zugravu Gheorghe zugravu.gheor...@gmail.com writes: apparently if you disable java in your browser - you have normal access to en:wp! Or if you click on the stop loading button of your browser soon enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-Rf-VKHY8 Funny darwinian selection: only the

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-14 Thread Bastien Guerry
Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org writes: I think Liam and Dominic are correct on this. Most cultural institutions, especially libraries, are very much on our side on copyright issues. I have no doubt on this. But see my concrete real-world example, where the Archives of Toulouse uses

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-13 Thread Bastien Guerry
A nice side-effect of such a black-out will be to send GLAM institutions this message: Don't use Wikipedia as a storage service, use your own websites and free licenses instead. I would not spend time, energy and money on a service that can block my contents without even warning and/or asking

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-13 Thread Bastien Guerry
Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com writes: We have never proposed Wikimedia Commons as a storage service for GLAMs. We have always said they should have their own catalogue and share copies of their multimedia with us (and everyone else) under a free license. That gives provenance and

Re: [Foundation-l] Celebrating the 2011 campaign

2012-01-02 Thread Bastien Guerry
Hi Erik, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org writes: Years ago, we used to worry that people wouldn't/didn't understand that Wikimedia is a non-profit, that it's created by volunteers, that it's international/multilingual. Many misconceptions still exist, but for anyone paying attention, we've

Re: [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-13 Thread Bastien Guerry
+1 for the need to make it easy to fork (I suggested this back in 2010 in Gdansk during the barcamp session.) Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru writes: I do agree that the monopoly, at least in this case, is a bad thing, but I do not see why stimulating creation of the forks would be the

Re: [Foundation-l] Start questions and answers site within Wikimedia

2011-07-22 Thread Bastien Guerry
Oliver Moran oliver.mo...@gmail.com writes: There's no need to re-invent the wheel. Note that wikipedia and mediawiki already appears in StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wikipedia?sort=votespagesize=15

Re: [Foundation-l] Start questions and answers site within Wikimedia

2011-07-22 Thread Bastien Guerry
aude aude.w...@gmail.com writes: I would like to see it located at help.wikimedia.org or help.en.wikimedia.org or something... I would suggest ask.wikimedia.org IMHO help.wikimedia.org is a bit ambiguous as it can mean Please help Wikimedia. -- Bastien

Re: [Foundation-l] Dynamics of Online Interactions and Behavior

2011-04-14 Thread Bastien Guerry
Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com writes: I'll make sure either someone from the Foundation or from their research group sends out mailing list messages when there is new plans to get feedback on. Apologies if it was confusing so far. 1.

[Foundation-l] Not working as an WMFR employee anymore

2011-03-17 Thread Bastien Guerry
Dear all, it's now official: I'm no longer working as an employee of Wikimédia France. Please don't use bastien.gue...@wikimedia.fr anymore, use b...@gnu.org or b...@altern.org instead. This year has been hectic: I coordinated the WMFR/Toulouse partnership, organized the GLAMWIKI:Fr conference

[Foundation-l] GLAMWIKI:Fr registration is now open by email -- check the website!

2010-10-06 Thread Bastien Guerry
Dear all, The GLAMWIKI:Fr website is now out: http://rencontres.wikimedia.fr/ Don't miss the list of speakers: http://rencontres.wikimedia.fr/index.php?title=Who .. and the detailed program: http://rencontres.wikimedia.fr/index.php?title=Programme/en The event takes place on the 3rd and

[Foundation-l] Announcing the GLAMWIKI:FR - december 3rd and 4th in Paris

2010-09-23 Thread Bastien Guerry
Dear all, on behalf of Wikimedia France I am please to announce the GLAMWIKI:FR conference! This event will take place on the 3rd-4th of december at the 101 rue de l'Université, Paris (in the new victor Hugo space.) We published the save your date announcement on our blog: