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2011-10-10 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
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Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2010-10-20 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Can you explain your statement more? Since only one or three seats are selected by the community out of nine(depending on your definition of community)? From: Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-20 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Phoebe, If concerned about equality, why not have two chapter seats and two community seats? From: phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, October 20, 2010 2:52:46 PM Subject:

Re: [Foundation-l] Your abuse of moderator status

2010-06-27 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Now if we were to get into a pissing contest over the top organizers of Wikiversity, I would say the persons most likely to be considered founders would be John Schmidt, Cormac Lawler, and Robert Horning. Ottava does have a point that he is one of the most senior active custodians, since not

Re: [Foundation-l] [Offlist] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-22 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
in cases where it has not been made aware of potential violations. Section 230 probably applies up to the point where the Foundation refuses to take appropriate action. I'm not a lawyer though, so I might be wrong here. What do you think?   Geoffrey Plourde

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening

2010-05-09 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Wouldn't regulating content mean abdicating the role of webhost, which would call Section 230 into question? From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com To: susanpgard...@gmail.com; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, May

Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: wiki-based troubleshooting

2010-05-04 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
This is a interesting proposal, but I'd suggest taking the idea to Meta. There is already a Symptom checker at WebMD, but it could potentially upon a legal can of worms for WM to get involved in medical troubleshooting. From: Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikiversity

2010-03-19 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
David and Erik, I must respectfully disagree with your belief that we need stronger global blocking. Each community should set its own behavior standards, not have them imposed from above. Just because we consider a person a troll on one project does not automatically make them a troll on

Re: [Foundation-l] How to kill a mailing list

2010-03-17 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I support the changes, its cleaned up my inbox and made the discussions I'm seeing more worthy of attention. The list is running better than ever. From: Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Building up the reserves

2010-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Veronique, what would be the maximum we'd want to go with a reserve fund. I know that with Army Emergency Relief for example, they get dinged by Charity Navigator for having massive reserves of money. What do you think the maximum would be for Wikimedia?

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
That sounds like a good idea, maybe make it a Wikiversity course? Or run training on IRC? From: Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, February 21, 2010 3:15:20 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-15 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Can we kill this thread? It appears quite clear that the Foundation staff have decided to run the Craig ad, and nothing here will affect their decision. From: Waerth wae...@asianet.co.th To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] open wikis for chapters....?

2009-12-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
There are some pages that should legally be restricted, like the bylaws. i do believe that most pages should be open to public editing because of the risk of some non member Aussie thinking of a better way to do something and being stifled. From: private

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

2009-12-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
The only reason the servers and internet access produce CO2 emissions is because of the defective and antiquated energy production systems we use across the world. As we move towards more efficient and cleaner means of energy production, the carbon footprint should decrease. Moving servers

Re: [Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

2009-12-09 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
The spirit of the one person per account policy was to prevent people from disclaiming responsibility by claiming another person did it. I feel that allowing accounts for GLAMs would not violate the intent of the policy, but suggest that the account be required to verify, maintain a valid email

Re: [Foundation-l] Housekeeping: One user on moderation today

2009-11-30 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
today On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.netwrote: Ryan Lomonaco wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com wrote: Another possibility would be imposing a throttle on replies to threads, e.g. 5 per thread per day. That's

Re: [Foundation-l] Housekeeping: One user on moderation today

2009-11-30 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Thats a great idea! The exchanges were the biggest clog previously, and this seems like a reasonable warning to use. From: William Pietri will...@scissor.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Mon, November 30, 2009

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-11-29 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
'06 wikiversity From: Jon Davis w...@konsoletek.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, November 29, 2009 12:19:34 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family Perhaps she mistook

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-29 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Foundation level issue is whether or not a community have the right to exclude a specific class or category of users from editing based upon unsubstantiated claims of potential misbehavior? From: George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Housekeeping: One user on moderation today

2009-11-29 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I really hated the idea of posting limits at first, but must commend the list mods for implementing it. Now that there is a specific cost to replies, I have scaled back on the amount of emails I have sent and prioritized based on discussion. Another possibility would be imposing a throttle on

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-28 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
So you are taking a stance based on one particular class of criminal behavior? Following your reasoning, we should be blocking all self professed hackers/crackers too. They might do something illegal for jollies to disrupt the community, so lets block em!

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-28 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Thats baloney. It is a slippery slope. You are making a distinction based on what might happen, and prejudging a class of individuals. This doesn't help wiki, but sends a message that some people are less worthy than others.I don't like it is not a valid reason to disenfranchise people on

Re: [Foundation-l] Can you tell us about ... - An Idea to encourage more edits

2009-11-24 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
We also might want to look into policy overhauls to reduce barriers to contribution. From: David Moran fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 5:53:35 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

2009-11-22 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I see a lot of well meaning people responding here, but maybe its time to go back to the basics. No non free pictures, period. No more bureaucracy plus cost savings on not having to run the permissions systems. From: Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-11-18 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
At first glance, my inclination would be recycle bin the proposal, but after reading comments, I think there is some merit to the proposal. I would support bringing this in and expanding it to cover group dynamics (Wikitribes). This project could be valuable to sociology and psychology as it

Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing scam

2009-10-14 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Is 19.95 your cost? I'ver mentioned before that this is the best way to effectively put them out of business.   From: Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, October 14, 2009 10:10:32 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l]

Re: [Foundation-l] The $1.7 million question

2009-09-15 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
While I like the idea of bounties, this idea actually has merit. To make him work, I would give him the amount of money for childcare as a down payment, with the wages payable on delivery. Can someone from the Foundation look into this? We have quite a few talented mooks, who might be able to

Re: [Foundation-l] Head of Communications position open?

2009-09-07 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
We'll know tomorrow whats up. From: Sfmammamia sfmamma...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, September 7, 2009 10:27:57 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Head of Communications position open? No, the

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

2009-09-07 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I agree, vigilantism is not necessary and counter productive. The Commons Force proposal represents a clear and present danger, both for whoever hosts it and participates in it. It is not for a third party to intervene in a contract between two people and only two people. If the Commons Force

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

2009-09-07 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
A CC violation is not everyone's business. If A infringes on B's CC copyright, and party C pokes A about it, A can tell C to bugger off. It's like filing a DMCA notice when you don't own the work. Licensing is an agreement between two entities, not the community.

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

2009-09-07 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
It still isn't the place of a third party to police someone else's copyrights. From: Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, September 7, 2009 3:32:09 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space?

2009-09-06 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Why not the Signposts, Wikizine, and the SF mailing list? No need for exclusives. From: geni geni...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2009 1:43:41 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WMF

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space?

2009-09-05 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Its a serious charge that is difficult to prove. The publicly released financial statements are too general in nature to be useful. The only way to prove/disprove this allegation and head off others is for the Foundation to become more transparent. It is natural for people to come to

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space?

2009-09-05 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
The best way to end this in the future is to give the community a brief heads up along the line of Hey y'all, we will be moving to NEW ADDRESS effective DATE This lets us know beforehand that the business address is going to change, and allows the Foundation to leverage moving support from SF

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space?

2009-09-05 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2009 4:43:57 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space? 2009/9/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/9/6 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com: The plan may have been

Re: [Foundation-l] Opt-out global sysop proposal

2009-08-30 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I think that swearing in a battalion of global sysops is both necessary and a better idea than electing more stewards. Vandalism looks bad and deters people from contributing. Lets face it, who wants to visit a library with all the books defaced in various shades of Crayons. Also, does anyone

Re: [Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

2009-08-27 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Well, I have never understood why the board is so involved. Generally in business, the Board hires and fires the CEO and that's it. I also consider expert seats a waste of space as that is why we have department heads. Then again, I suspect I am and always will be in the minority.

Re: [Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

2009-08-27 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
- a suggestion 2009/8/27 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com: Well, I have never understood why the board is so involved. Generally in business, the Board hires and fires the CEO and that's it. I don't think that is the case. The board has a duty of oversight and is generally responsible for high level

Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copypasted books from Wikipedia

2009-08-17 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
The single best way to kill them is to reprint the exact same books, then sell them at the low low price of cost + 10%. When people start snapping them up like fruitcakes, Alphascript will be finished. From: Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com To:

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-09 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
High Priest of Mediawiki? From: Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2009 5:59:14 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split Somehow I'm

Re: [Foundation-l] Board election spamming

2009-08-08 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Although I had already voted, I was not bothered by one tiny email reminding me that I was eligible to vote. Thanks guys, hopefully this will get people to the polls. From: Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Correct, we have built a system that does not value new users, but rather seeks to get rid of them. Its a pattern I have observed in some businesses as well. Subconsciously, people hate change. While they consciously want new users or wonder why the flow has stopped, their subconscious is busy

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Well, if the list is for general dispute resolution technique, it could be valuable to all projects. From: Mike.lifeguard mikelifegu...@fastmail.fm To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:06:10 PM

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Nothing prevents you from starting your own mailing list if Cary won't. As I am not a member of the wikien cesspool, what purpose are you thinking of? Geoffrey From: stevertigo stv...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 64, Issue 51

2009-07-18 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Digitizing isn't really that hard. You take a scanner, upload an image, label it, repeat. From: Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:28:28 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

2009-07-15 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
This is pictures right? I fail to see how pictures aren't useable to everyone, as they are universal. From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
What an insult, Derrick only rates a solicitor From: Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 3:17:50 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the National Portrait Gallery ...

2009-07-11 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Lets finish up the press releases and drop this thread. NPG can read it too. Has a US press release been sent out? From: John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the National Portrait Gallery ...

2009-07-10 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
First, I doubt that the FBI would investigate a barratry complaint (Counselors, does such a provision exist in the US Code?) If they did, the courts would be reluctant to actually hear such a case because the person being prosecuted would actually have to be present to answer to the charges. I

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the National Portrait Gallery ...

2009-07-10 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Dcoetzee cannot comply, as the deletions would result in the loss of his admin bit. From: Nathan nawr...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 7:32:39 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] About

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: A chapters-related question]

2009-07-06 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Do we really need so much stuff for these groups? I agree with a basic charter for each group, but all the regulation (yearly renewal, regular reporting) seems bureaucratic and pointless. It is not the wikimedian way to control but rather to nurture an organic community. Also, we should let

Re: [Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

2009-06-20 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
For some reason, I am reminded of a Supreme Court case about the information in telephone directories. Maybe because of the insanity of trying to put public domain material under copyright. From: Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu To: Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

2009-06-20 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
For Supreme Court cases, would it be possible to have a bot pull the audio decisions from Oyez, and convert them into text? From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, June 20,

Re: [Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

2009-06-20 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
If a bot has a meaningful effect on server load (i.e. page requests), it falls under the category of malicious software, which is highly illegal. From: Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

2009-06-20 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Access Repository for Legal Scholarship Geoffrey Plourde wrote: If a bot has a meaningful effect on server load (i.e. page requests), it falls under the category of malicious software, which is highly illegal. Malicious software or overloading servers goes well beyond ignoring a ToS. Why

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

2009-06-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Commons is an oddball project. Other projects produce work, but Commons stores it. Wikisource could be considered another oddball for the same reason. At this point in time, I would class Commons as a service project (and wikisource as well) because it provides a service to other projects and

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

2009-06-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
themselves are repositories. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.comwrote: Commons is an oddball project. Other projects produce work, but Commons stores it. Wikisource could be considered another oddball for the same reason. At this point in time, I would class

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

2009-06-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:13:55 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not? On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.comwrote: Commons is an oddball project. Other projects produce work

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

2009-06-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Just because several projects have decided to disable local uploads does not mean that Commons is ready to accept them. From: Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposals re : sexual content on wikimedia

2009-05-21 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
PM, while I respect your opinions, I must express my strong disagreement with most of them. Your first idea is restricting sexual content from userspace. This would encroach on personal freedom, because why shouldn't people be able to post whatever they want in their personal space? The

Re: [Foundation-l] The EFF appears to be somewhat upset by the foundation

2009-04-23 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Did you consider starting off with asking for a simple disclaimer? If they don't have it uploaded and one was sent, disregard previous statement. From: Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com To: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

2009-04-09 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I think that the general principles are a perfectly acceptable policy and creating a compulsory policy is a bad idea. Each project needs the independence provided by the general principles. Due to the vast diversity of the Wikimedia family, we cannot make hard and fast rules and expect each

Re: [Foundation-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

2009-03-26 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I agree with Austin. We cannot just force communities to adopt this new thing. Lets try for a clean start. From: Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:30:08 PM

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
attribution language On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.comwrote: You are wrong my friend. When you hit that little button, you agreed to license your contributions under 1.2 or any later version. Any later version published by the FSF. Therefore

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I have refrained from commenting in the interests of letting this play out but find myself in disagreement with our worthy colleague from Wikisource. The locus of this complaint, as I see it, is that he was unfairly removed from his position. I see no merit in his claims for the following

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
at 12:14 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.comwrote: I have refrained from commenting in the interests of letting this play out but find myself in disagreement with our worthy colleague from Wikisource. The locus of this complaint, as I see it, is that he was unfairly removed from his position. I

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
off at en:Wikisource Geoffrey Plourde wrote: We have traditionally allowed each community to set up its own principles. Meta level intervention in a project, barring blatant illegality, is unprecedented and would indicate a significant departure from our bottom up ideology. As administrators

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-05 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
This line of reasoning will end now. I am sick of seeing rants, tirades, and personal attacks in my inbox. We have to improve our BLP policies, your sniping is not helping that. From: Anthony wikim...@inbox.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
They wrote the damned thing, so they are most likely to understand it. From: geni geni...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 7:41:32 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey,

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-02 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
They have no recourse. We are not subject to Polish law. From: Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, March 2, 2009 6:24:09 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input:

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-02 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
: Monday, March 2, 2009 8:46:53 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com wrote: They have no recourse. We are not subject to Polish law. Individual Polish editors are, however, likely

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-02 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I have some experience with customer service and was willing to serve as OTRS volunteer, but was rejected. The number of rejections I have witnessed is really shooting OTRS in the foot. From: Aude audeviv...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-02 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
: Guillaume Paumier guillom@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, March 2, 2009 9:05:58 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people Hello, On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-02 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com wrote: I care not about my application being killed. I am pointing out that it appears that you kill most of the applications, which may be the reason for a lack

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

2009-02-25 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I didn't know the language committee was empowered to decide on whether or not Simples were made. I thought your job was to determine valid languages. I absolutely cannot support the continued existence of this body due to these unknown powers and will make my voice known the next time someone

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

2009-02-02 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Everything takes time. The techs will handle it when they get around to it. From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:

Re: [Foundation-l] Are model releases required for 'Free' content? (was: Sexual Content on Wikimedia)

2009-01-30 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Sam; I think that this is more of a Commons discussion. While I disagree with much of what you say, I agree that this class of image, by its very nature, requires more scrutiny. Serious thought should be given to a Nude Model Policy of requiring uploaders to answer about five questions under

Re: [Foundation-l] Help-book made available in en Wikipedia against Licensing Policy

2009-01-28 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I don't think that either the Foundation or Mr. Broughton will be complaining. Drop it. From: Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:59:15 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Help-book made

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

2009-01-28 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
While I advised that a similar matter be dropped earlier, this has some fundamental differences that I believe may have merit. Whereas the Missing Manual is uploaded by a known mutual agreement, these photos are not necessarily uploaded by mutual agreement. In theory, we are supposed to have

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

2009-01-28 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
What he is pointing out is that the chapter set up the whole process, thus making them culpable. From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:14:45

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-24 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF I wrote: To clarify, did Wikia match the lowest bid? Geoffrey Plourde replied: Mr. Levy; I respectfully believe that you are asking the wrong question. Rent is only a small part of cost. The whole cost should have been

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-24 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 12:53:51 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF Geoffrey Plourde said: Why should a taco stand use a dry cleaning shop when it can get another taco shop? Gregory Kohs responds: I might be able to give

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
these allegations without access to Board and staff documents. You therefore do not have the whole picture and have no standing to criticize those who do. This attempt to create division has no place and distracts us from the Foundation's goal. Sincerely; Geoffrey Plourde

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Wikia is a way to utilize MediaWiki for profit. The United States is a capitalist society, and this should be encouraged. Also Wikia hosts many fansites and I don't hear them complaining about people playing ball. From: Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu To:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Mr Kohs; You are beating on a dead horse. Mr. Vibber has brought forth a list of perfectly valid reasons why this space was taken. LET ME REITERATE THE COST OF REWIRING/RECONFIGURING SPACE IN CALIFORNIA. Why should a taco stand use a dry cleaning shop when it can get another taco shop?

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Mr. Levy; I respectfully believe that you are asking the wrong question. Rent is only a small part of cost. The whole cost should have been the arbiter in this matter, and I suspect it was from the posts by personnel. From: David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Beating on a dead horse is not a valid point. From: George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 1:47:54 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

2009-01-21 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
It is extraordinarily difficult to found a US chapter, because we are in essence a federation of 50 little nations. Every state has their own unique characteristics and their own unique laws. Also, we do not have interest for a national chapter. By empowering these state/city chapters, we

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-21 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
The CC wrote this license and are likely to be considered authorities if there was ever a court case. If their lawyer says this is acceptable, its probably acceptable. From: geni geni...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

2009-01-21 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
:36:24 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters) 2009/1/21 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com: It is extraordinarily difficult to found a US chapter, because we are in essence a federation of 50 little nations. Every state has their own unique characteristics and their own

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

2009-01-20 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
How about we just close this thread. We do not need to rehash the debate, it is a dead horse. From: Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:59:39 AM Subject:

Re: [Foundation-l] Domains

2009-01-17 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
domain: WIKIPEDIA.RU type: CORPORATE nserver:ns1.sedoparking.com. nserver:ns2.sedoparking.com. state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED org:MADVOL Ltd. phone: +7 095 1234567 e-mail: mad...@gmail.com registrar: RUCENTER-REG-RIPN created:2004.12.15 paid-till:

Re: [Foundation-l] Domains

2009-01-17 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Its probably an oversight with regards to Bomis I suspect Mr/Ms brooking is a wikipedian, if not its a simple changeover process. From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:

Re: [Foundation-l] Domains

2009-01-17 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
It appears that Madvol, Ltd is a scam company that registers domain names for extortion. They have been used to register 3251 names. The email is identified with 120something domains. From: Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Cetateanu; Brion and his staff are extremely busy individuals. Also, renaming a wiki takes quite a bit of time and if not done at the correct pace would be messy. I am sure he will handle the rename as soon as he can, but patience is key. Peace; Geoffrey Plourde

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:45:31 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename Geoffrey Plourde hett schreven: I am sure he will handle the rename as soon as he can, but patience is key.   cough, please be patient! It's only been

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:45:24 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename Geoffrey Plourde hett schreven: Well if we want to decrease the backlog, we could suggest that people put up money for desired extensions I know

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
will agree with me that we first of all need to strengthen the fundamentals before we put another floor on the existing building. Thanks,       GerardM 2009/1/16 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com Well if we want to decrease the backlog, we could suggest that people put up money for desired

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-16 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
/1/16 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com Well what I proposed encouraged people to prioritize. For example, if 100 people donate 5 dollars each for semantic mediawiki, it might encourage an outside developer to work on it, freeing up staff and saving money

Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

2008-12-24 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a memorial project for all disasters. I echo Mr. Bimmler in his concerns about the motives behind this proposal. From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

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