On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
as I mentioned in a response to Liam the other day, we've been working
on having org charts generated in a more automatic, scalable form.
...
Thank you for that.
On a meta-question that raises - there are a lot
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com
wrote:
Has this been an observed issue within the WMF?
In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is
self-organizing and self-managed
Very sad, I met him and he seemed to be a very good guy.
Seems to be a bad week; a friend of mine from college passed on Sunday morning.
Focus on big things and have fun while you're here.
George William Herbert
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 14, 2012, at 19:42, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com
I would almost like to simply +1 here, but...
Without delving into the specifics here, or concluding either way as
to the current case lacking actual evidence in front of me, it is a
real and quite serious problem if we don't hold senior and longtime
editors to account for abuses they may
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
Fred Bauder writes:
I think it probably seems to climate change deniers that excluding
political opinions from science-based articles on global warming is a
violation of neutral point of view, and of basic fairness. That
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:35 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
If the answer to one is yes, then These things happen is an
explanation but not an excuse, and should be a prompt to help us all
get better
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
I should add a response on this point:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:35 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
The post-facto probability of 1.0 that the researcher was in fact
professional, credible, and by all
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
As said above...it is being moved ;p
Where / on which lists were the location experiments discussed prior
to implementation? Both with regards to the locations to be tested
and to the pages to test on?
--
-george
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:18 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi George,
The push came about after the IRC office hours.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-01-12
After ongoing review of the IRC thread, on-wiki threads, mailing lists etc...
I think
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
It's worth pointing out the discussion was open from 15 December to 16
January before any close.
No, there was informal discussion going back into December. The
discussion - the concrete, date-attached specific policy and
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:02 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
It's worth pointing out the discussion was open from 15 December to 16
I would normally start by floating this on wikien-L or on-wiki at the
usual places, but the time for that has passed and thus I am going to
drop this on the Foundation, who I believe are responsible for the
particular problem here.
On the English language Wikipedia, there has been a longstanding
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote:
I see following wikis hold secred information:
http://internal.wikimedia.org
http://office.wikimedia.org
http://board.wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every single human being can NOT freely share in
the sum of all
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.com wrote:
This case has to be discussed IN THE PUBLIC. As
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Philippe_%28WMF%29#File:DPAG_2011_55_Herren_im_Bad.jpg
gives not sufficient reasons for the decisions and no sufficient
I am seeing a lot of lack of support from WMF for these smaller
projects but not being a smaller projects editor I don't know what
specific issues there are.
Can someone up on the situation send out more specifics?
Thank you.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:13 PM, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:16 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 August 2011 13:47, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 August 2011 13:37, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
My point is that making it easy to fork does not create good competitors.
Good competitors come
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 25, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
Hi
Having had the honor of being one of the first outside appointed board
member to the Wikimedia Board I do want to add that one of the main reasons
for
Actually, Facebook's losing members this year, not gaining, in the US
/ North American market.
Not that this is relevant to the WMF. The great thing about the web
writ large is that everyone can participate in the things they chose
to. Facebook's popularity is orthogonal to WMF participation /
I would like to personally thank the WMF staff and board for having
pursued this.
Good luck.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus
(friends of the court) brief in Golan v. Holder, a
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:30 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 June 2011 15:42, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I think it's a fairly dangerous precedent to have the Wikimedia Foundation
involved in
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
On 03/06/11 00:44, Mark Wagner wrote:
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:11, Neil Harrisn...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Tape is -- still -- your friend here. Flip the write-protect after
writing, have two sets of off-site tapes,
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 3, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Scott MacDonald wrote:
Imagine if poetlister now engages in identity theft and deception at
Wikiversity.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:55 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2011 18:48, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:
In 2016 San Francisco has a major earthquake and the servers and
operational facilities for the WMF are damaged beyond repair. The
emergency hot switchover to Hong Kong is
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
The privacy policy does not preclude releasing private emails, and even
writes in specific exceptions. When raised on en.wiki in relation to
releasing CheckUser information (in that case linking an IP to an
, ציטוט George Herbert:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Dror Kamirdqa...@bezeqint.net wrote:
Hello,
I found an email today from someone who still cares to keep me updated
about what happens on the English Wikipedia's corridors. Since my name
is mentioned in the discussion, he thought I'd
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I am preparing document for Wikimania. Presently, I am in process of
analyzing data (SIL [1], Ethnologue [2], Wikimedia projects). I am using
Ethnologue data for population estimates.
Before I started this task, I thought
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
(excellent long form work)
Thank you, Milos. Very informative.
Out of curiosity - I assume those are the native speakers counts for
that language. Do we have exclusive speakers counts as well?
I don't know for sure what
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Dror Kamir dqa...@bezeqint.net wrote:
Hello,
I found an email today from someone who still cares to keep me updated
about what happens on the English Wikipedia's corridors. Since my name
is mentioned in the discussion, he thought I'd be interested in this.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:22 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Another example might be an UploadWizard that is focused on
ensuring that Wikimedia fulfills its Multimedia grant requirements rather
than
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear all,
it is my pleasure to announce that Dario Taraborelli (User:DarTar) is
joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Senior Research Analyst, Strategy,
reporting to me. As of this week, Dario is based in San Francisco,
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:45 PM, The Mono m...@mono.x10.bz wrote:
The problem is simple. Our top contributors leave. Because the way things
work makes it simply intolerable.
*25%* of all respondents [in a survey of contributors] said they stopped
contributing because
*Some editors made
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Keegan Peterzell
keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 3/28/11 5:20 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
There's a theory that doing something like editing a free online
encyclopedia is a niche activity,
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
I doubt there is any way the court in question can enforce its ruling,
which is probably why the WMF didn't bother responding.
subscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
I am sort of curious
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:18 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
2011/3/15 SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com:
Speaking of the CREDO accounts, several people have asked that their
accounts be reassigned, but they
not opening it up to the world in general, which is a
matter of some concern to most of them.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:10 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:18 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Erik Moeller e
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 March 2011 09:53, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
David, I strongly object to your continued twisting of my words, and your
personal crusade to turn the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee into a
personal
This is getting kind of stuck on the specifics of BLPs being separated (or not).
Can we step back and address the generic idea again. A restatement of
the intended benefits and advantages of splitting the project would be
appreciated.
--
-george william herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 March 2011 00:23, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Lead Architect for the next generation MediaWiki platform
I'd really like to hear more about that. Did I miss something or is this
a new
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:32 PM, THURNER rupert
rupert.thur...@wikimedia.ch wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 21:50, Juergen Fenn juergen.f...@gmx.de wrote:
Am 08.03.11 21:36, schrieb Andrea Zanni:
AFAIK, these publishers make the pricing upon the number of
scholars/researchers/students of a
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Jon Davis w...@konsoletek.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 07:59, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
What about hurricanes? ; )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_hurricane_%28pre-1900%29_tracks.jpg
Maybe that's why the new Datacenter is being built in
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:00 PM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:17 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 February 2011 23:24, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and
researcher/writer
in South Africa has
Thank you for this.
Will ops staff be monitoring wikitech-l for email reports of observed
problems from those of us who are IRC-impaired? Is there an another
preferred non-IRC channel for reports?
Thanks.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:51 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 January 2011 12:47, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
2011/1/28 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
The idea of getting samizdat copies of Wikipedia into Egypt appeals.
Airlift in current-article
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Stephanie Daugherty
sdaughe...@gmail.com wrote:
Split permissions have been a perennial issue for en.wikipedia for a while.
It's proposed every couple months, has vocal support and a handful of even
more vocal opponents, and fillibustered into oblivion to
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2011/1/16 Joseph Seddon seddonw...@gmail.com
I am going to be quite frank and say that it is pointless to have this
discussion on this list. Only a fraction of the english wikipedia community
are on it. If
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado v...@fct.unl.pt wrote:
Is this supposed to be funny?
Time to address this matter to the list moderators.
Sincerely,
Virgilio A. P. Machado
Neither of these was funny; both were backhanded insults to you.
That said - I am not sure
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:43 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 December 2010 16:54, Stephanie Daugherty sdaughe...@gmail.com wrote:
Not only is the current markup a barrier to participation, it's a barrier to
development. As I argued on Wikien-l, starting over with a markup that
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:26 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
For added self-referentiality, you can't read this article unless you
identify yourself to the NYT.
I was able to read the article without
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/11/17 wjhon...@aol.com:
Obama is exactly half-black and half-white.
Funny how he is African American but of course he is equally Caucasian
American
Which shows only hot dangerous political correctness can get. I
Ah, bueno. I was unaware of the Kartika version; excellent that the
Foundation's already figured it out and was working on it.
Thanks, Philippe and MzMcBride. Good job to whoever thought it up
earlier and did the test run.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Philippe Beaudette
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:38 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a place for applied engineer hubris[1]. With due caution.
- d.
[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/engineers%20and%20woo
(grump)
While generally true, there's a lack of regard there for
engineering-oriented
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Robert S. Horning
robert_horn...@netzero.net wrote:
On 10/23/2010 03:42 PM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
If at any moment it can be stood on its head then the information
contained in the articles can never be authoritative. Suppose I have a
calculator
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 16:26, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 15:59, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
And where there is a body of scholarly research, the peer-reviewed
scholarly
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Marc Riddell
michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote:
Has either of these persons, Greg or Peter, been destructive of the
substance of the Project: the body of the Encyclopedia?
Yes, in my opinion.
Both were banned from English language Wikipedia and (I believe) other
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Peter Damian
peter.dam...@btinternet.com wrote:
...
In summary, Wikipedia is hardly making a dent. Where it is making a dent,
it is by cheapening the product. No win all round.
Broadening, not cheapening.
--
-george william herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com
NPOV is good as far as it goes, but the issues of wiki naming and
language are necessarily one where positions need to be taken on some
very touchy real-world issues.
The naming of mo.wikipedia and its use of Cyrillic were particularly
unfortunate, as the Moldovan standard alphabet is Roman, the
October 2010 04:11, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
NPOV is good as far as it goes, but the issues of wiki naming and
language are necessarily one where positions need to be taken on some
very touchy real-world issues.
The naming of mo.wikipedia and its use of Cyrillic were
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Risker risker...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:58 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
John Vandenberg, 16/09/2010 03:00:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portugeuse, Swedish and
Chinese Wikipedia all appear to have
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Peter Damian
peter.dam...@btinternet.com wrote:
Risker In 2005, the English Wikipedia had less than half the number of
articles it has now.
Hs anyone made a serious study of what these articles actually contain?
Yes. But not across all articles. Anyone can
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/9/7, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org:
Presumably this conspiracy would have to extend beyond the WMF to
PediaPress and Purodha Blissenbach, the developers of Collection and
mobile.wikipedia.org respectively.
The
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's the Archive's on-demand service:
http://archive-it.org
That would be the most reliable way to set up the partnership emijrp
proposes. And it's certainly a good idea. Figuring out how to make
it work for almost
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It is with deep regret that I tell you I will be leaving the staff of
the Wikimedia Foundation at the end of December.
I'm leaving the staff, but I will continue to be involved with the
Wikimedia movement as a volunteer, both
Meta-question -
Is there in fact sufficient evidence that this is a topic that the
Foundation must, or should, engage in actively at this time?
I know why the Foundation has an inclination to get involved - people
ask about it, and some very uncomfortable stuff finds its way into
Commons and the
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:37 AM, susanpgard...@gmail.com wrote:
Terrified. For that reason, I actually did not unveil my country-of-origin to
the Board until a few weeks ago. That is one of Canadians' special skills: we
can walk amongst Americans, and they are completely unaware :-)
That's
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
Gerard writes:
Hoi,
When I read: Wikisource content in the French language targets the French
public, and therefore, under French conflict of laws principles, the
copyright law of France applies to this content. I do read
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.com wrote:
For me there is no reason to believe that Mr. Godwin is a good lawyer.
If he receives a formal (blah-blah) correct take-down-notice he will
take OFFICE ACTION.
It was clearly un-lawful to take down the TU Munich logo
2010/5/13 geni geni...@gmail.com:
2010/5/13 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com:
As you maybe now, after the sudden death of Lech Kaczynski (jn airjet
crash in Smolens) we have now fast presidential election. One of the
most serious candidates Bronisław Komorowski was cached with printed
copy
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
However, I also see the issue from another frame that is not part of
Tim's spectrum. Sexual photographs, especially those of easily
recognized people, have the potential to exploit or embarrass the
people in them. I
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:36 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 May 2010 22:32, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:31 PM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you point me to major media entities that have accepted the notion
that
Fox News
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM, robert_horn...@netzero.net
robert_horn...@netzero.net wrote:
-- Original Message --
From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
No, it won't. People have been saying that for years and the fact
remains that a screen full of a text with a few
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Your email is a bit too black and white: There are important articles in
Humanities, not just in exact sciences, and a Bob Dylan album is arguably a
touch more important than a South Park episode.
But in
There's been an unusually aggressive set of these this spring; one of
my accounts got hijacked for a week before I noticed it, and a
friends' gmail account as well.
Sigh.
-george
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Alex Mr.Z-man wrote:
http://www
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Mike Godwin mgod...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[...]
And therefore if the Wikimedia logos are used with permission on
Wikimedia-hosted projects, the earth
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/3/30 Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com:
That is the website UI, which is not content. They could say that the
UI should also be completely free of copyrighted works. IMO that
would be going overboard.
If that
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Mike Godwin mgod...@wikimedia.org wrote:
[...]
And therefore if the Wikimedia logos are used with permission on
Wikimedia-hosted projects, the earth will crack open, and dogs and cats will
start living together openly.
Please stop using this example. You're
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson
wikihanni...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
After a long and tiring discussion on the Swedish Wikipedia Village Pump (
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bybrunnen#Wikimedialoggor_i_artiklar),
the logos of the Wikimedia Foundation projects
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
Marcus Buck wrote:
The Swedish Wikipedia decision is consequent and logical. Logos are
copyrighted. Copyrighted material cannot be included. So no logos. It's
plain and simple. The problem is not the reasonable decision
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:03 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
If this was the English Wikipedia, the response would be somewhere
between please do not be silly and Stop this or we will block you
for disrupting Wikipedia to prove a point ( [[WP:DISRUPT]] ).
Read
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 March 2010 02:51, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Gregory Kohs wrote:
Point of clarification... does Jimmy Wales have the authority to
impose a global ban on a user?
Yes, Jimmy has always had such rights, and
support...
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.comwrote:
There has been no organized or widespread attempt to either ask Jimmy
to give it up or to take it away. I can name a number
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Dan Rosenthal wrote:
You've identified one of the criticisms of OCILLA/DMCA -- that it can be
easily abused by copyright holder to keep stuff offline. (This is what the
EFF is
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Some books are very productive in that way, if you have time to add each
interesting fact to the encyclopedia. TV is a bit awkward to reference,
at least routinely.
Fred
Does anyone else suffer from this problem,
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
The hand in hand with children wording seems to conflate physical
space with cyberspace. Please see my relevant reply to George William
Herbert.
There's a known and ancedotally (but not known to be statistically)
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:25 PM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
The hand in hand with children wording seems to conflate physical
space with cyberspace.
How about collaborating with children?
That's accurate, but I'm not quibbling over terminology. As I
explained to George, my
Without picking on anyone in particular, I urge everyone to go back
and reread Brad's comment earlier.
This conversation is following the path that public discussions on
this have repeatedly before.
It is not clear that anyone has raised any issues which are
appropriate or necessary for the
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Jake Wartenberg
j...@jakewartenberg.com wrote:
I am not talking about pedophilia activism, but instances where the
individual in question is not disruptively editing.
There are a wide variety of reasons to permanently block people who
were elsewhere identified
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:57 PM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
This is the risk that we run when we begin banning editors because we
dislike beliefs and behaviors unrelated to their participation in the
wikis. We might avoid some negative attention that would accompany
their
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:54 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/26/2009 3:39:23 AM Pacific Standard Time,
valde...@gmail.com writes:
The final solution is that only people who are already expert in the
processes can impose their point of view and in fact en.wikipedia
don't
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
As is often stated WMF is an ISP, and not a publisher.
Stating it often doesn't make it true. The WMF is quite clearly a
publisher. It even has
There are a number of problems with these statements.
One - the Foundation exists to host and legally protect the
encyclopedia, not direct it in all matters. Most policy flows up
rather than down. Things which would grossly embarrass or endanger
the encyclopedia are an exception, but no good
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
[...] Few to no Wikipedia articles
point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article.
I believe that there's a policy determination that Wikinews is not a
Wikipedia Reliable Source as defined in [[WP:RS]], so not having
pointers
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/8 Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com:
Despite an overall three-star rating (out of four), WMF was only rated two
stars for Organization Efficency. This is described by Charity Navigator as
Meets or nearly
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/8 George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com:
Red Cross volunteers do a little bit of prep work, typically, and a
little training each year. And then a disaster hits and they drop
everything and respond
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/9/16 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
Putting aside the unnecessary bad faith and challenges to the
foundation's integrity: I find this all exciting - planning for
significant tech budget support, possible major
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote:
I was sort of surprised to learn today that Mediawiki software has had 37
security holes identified:
http://akahele.org/2009/09/false-sense-of-security/
Are most of these patched now, or are they still open? If still
My two cents -
The Board telegraphed this ahead of time, not the particulars
(who/when) but the generalities.
The process is not unusual for other charitable organizations.
There are more community members (active or ex) on the Board than any
other category. There still will be even if all the
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Gregory Kohsthekoh...@gmail.com wrote:
*Jan-Bart de Vreede said:
*
the next year will be crucial for us as an
organization in determining our long term strategy. But that process
is shaped by YOU. The tremendous strategy project (details at
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 8/7/09 5:43 PM, George Herbert wrote:
I suspect you're going to have to be prepared to do a lot of internal
discovery and discovery with potential hires to show them the web ops
side - it's not well documented now (I
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 8/7/09 3:39 PM, James Forrester wrote:
2009/8/7 Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org:
On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously
when communicating with others.
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