Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread John Vandenberg
Antonorsi G. 0416-6852535 @antonorsi ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-31 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 March 2012 06:45, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: There is no requirement to know everything.  There is a requirement to make decisions in the best interests of the organisation, *as you see

Re: [Foundation-l] resolution on voting transparency

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
members appearing to later disclaim actions (a vote) that they were in fact responsible for taking. It's worth recalling that for the majority of 2008-2009 the board did record all votes, and often noted who moved the motion, but the practise was dropped. Its great to see it is now mandatory. -- John

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the board. If not, then the board should put in place procedures to prevent abuse of abstains. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 March 2012 02:03, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I expect that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the board.  If not, then the board should put in place procedures to prevent abuse

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
if you cant decide whether something is good or bad for the organisation, you are ill prepared for the vote (a procedural problem), or you are incompetent. On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 March 2012 05:56, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 March 2012 06:13, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: if you cant decide whether something is good or bad for the organisation, you are ill prepared for the vote (a procedural problem), or you

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-23 Thread John Vandenberg
? Is the data available? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-22 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:08 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: And the creator of Wikipedia:Short_popular_vital_articles has retired after 16 days..due to harassment/accusations of sock puppetry/etc https

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-21 Thread John Vandenberg
was closer to six years to meet the same goal. And the creator of Wikipedia:Short_popular_vital_articles has retired after 16 days..due to harassment/accusations of sock puppetry/etc https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Npmaydiff=482503236oldid=482441874 -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours with Sue Gardner

2012-03-12 Thread John Vandenberg
Philippe! Looking forward to reading it over the morning coffee) -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Author Wikimedia Foundation at BarnesNobles shop on Nook

2012-03-06 Thread John Vandenberg
. The author of the books is Wikimedia Foundation. I don't think Wikimedia Foundation is selling the e-books for 2~3 dollars, and I think it is a fraud. Many buyer commented that they want their money back. I think the Foundation needs to find out the case and alert the bookshop. Cheol -- John

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread John Vandenberg
with as alternatives. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread John Vandenberg
in their statements. You are the only board member seeking re-election, and your statement says you support rescinding [a] part of our resolution. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Candidates -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia considering declaring open-season on works from countries lacking US copyright relations

2012-02-24 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:52 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On English Wikisource, we consider these to be public domain. We tag them that as public domain and explain why. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia considering declaring open-season on works from countries lacking US copyright relations

2012-02-23 Thread John Vandenberg
. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Afghanistan -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Right to be Forgotten

2012-02-19 Thread John Vandenberg
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads It is implemented on a few WMF projects, but it is being rewritten at the moment. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread John Vandenberg
to provide feedback; that feedback is not likely to result in improvements except in rare cases. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread John Vandenberg
of errors with existing content. And what percentage of the feedback resulted in article improvements? And will that scale when feedback is being left about all articles? Even useful notes left on the talk page are unlikely to result in article improvements within a reasonable timeframe. -- John

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread John Vandenberg
that the feedback *will* be used by the community. p.s. it should be Improve this article -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread John Vandenberg
that you have existing feedback, and contributors have seen this feedback. You *can* already determine whether that feedback (already in hand) resulted in article improvements. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

2012-02-04 Thread John Vandenberg
on wikipedia seems to be replicating much of the work already being done on the OAD wiki. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Results/en 2. see members column of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters#Existing_chapters -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
waters. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
chapter boards may not be, but each board is a group of people, and each chapter has rules which ensure that their decisions are a majority of their board. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
/Journal_of_Biological_Chemistry -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread John Vandenberg
://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/3/3/european_parliament_official_in_charge_of_acta_quits_and_denounces_the_masquerade_behind_acta/ -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread John Vandenberg
discussion about engaging a lobby firm? The first mention I saw was on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pumpdiff=65523806oldid=65523798 -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Foundation-l] mobile website

2012-01-18 Thread John Vandenberg
Why is the mobile site operational for English Wikipedia? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] mobile website

2012-01-18 Thread John Vandenberg
the emergency access should be at a different location. mobile users should not be privileged. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2012-01-16 Thread John Vandenberg
. It may come back, soon, as something else, but SOPA is dead. We need to be watchful and ready to blackout the site, but we should not protest about dead bills. There is no consensus to blackout the site over a different bill. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] Intellectual property policy for open organisations

2012-01-08 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:55 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: There are an increasing number of organisations which have indicated that their output is Creative Commons by default, however there are not as many that have a public IP policy which clearly allows staff to publish

Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific

2012-01-07 Thread John Vandenberg
also this thread http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-August/004080.html -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific Partnership

2012-01-06 Thread John Vandenberg
the Wikimedia community? e.g. there was an EU submission last year, and here is a WM-AU one http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Submission_on_Australian_Digital_Future_Directions -- John Vandenberg DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE CONSULTATIONS ON POTENTIAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipecies charter

2011-12-04 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: On 12/3/11 11:33 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: ... Does anyone know where this Jimmy quote comes from?  I presume it is after the WMF board meeting on 5 September 2004 as it quotes from it http

[Foundation-l] Wikipecies charter

2011-12-03 Thread John Vandenberg
. It is linked to from the Wikispecies about page https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:About -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-01 Thread John Vandenberg
it, or be wary about the destination page. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Error message

2011-11-28 Thread John Vandenberg
Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe. +1 I like it; a good image says a thousands words in every language. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-03 Thread John Vandenberg
create a zotero plugin which allows the ref to be added to the end of paragraph. We could go even further and integrate mediawiki and a zotero server so that Wikipedia can use named refs throughout. http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20026/zotero-plugin-for-mediawiki/ -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-03 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 November 2011 09:26, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: We could create a zotero plugin which allows the ref to be added to the end of paragraph. We could go even further and integrate mediawiki and a zotero

[Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread John Vandenberg
39, 37 and 35 times respectively, and everyone else was under the 30 post soft limit. Could the mods please enforce this a bit more. I think it has been detrimental to the list to allow so few people to dominate the discussions here. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread John Vandenberg
. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-19 Thread John Vandenberg
of 'real' problems, to feed into a defined scope of said problem, and find minimalistic solutions. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-19 Thread John Vandenberg
with an expectation for 'the community' to build a dataset that they appear reluctant to build. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-10 Thread John Vandenberg
like to know the name of the software in order to verify your assertion. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
://secure.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011 -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia - What exactly does the proposed law say?

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stampati/pdf/16PDL0038530.pdf Is this public domain? If it is, we can put it on Italian Wikisource, annotate it and translate it into other languages. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
to their management. The WMF can override the local community if they want. The WMF is very unlikely to approve of this, as that would be influencing legislation. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
freedom of expression in Italy, and therefore it's entirely reasonable for the Italian Wikipedians to oppose it. The Wikimedia Foundation will support their position. Is this the first time that WMF has actively taken a stance on politics and legislation? -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
not true for the communities. Ryan Kaldari not for/against the US legislation, that means? Or world-wide? The US laws apply to lobbying internationally as well as in the US. The WMF is allowed to lobby, but additional regulations apply when they do. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
There is a petition with over 1430 signatures in 24 hours http://twitter.com/#!/jayvdb/status/121435650057707520 -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia - What exactly does the proposed law say?

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: John Vandenberg, 05/10/2011 00:16: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com  wrote: http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stampati/pdf/16PDL0038530.pdf Is this public domain

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-10-03 Thread John Vandenberg
it recognise date of first publication? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-29 Thread John Vandenberg
Facts and Opinions on the copyright can be added to the Wikipedia talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dead_Sea_Scrolls#Google_scans -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Three short films about Wikipedia

2011-09-29 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi Lennart. Thank you for these. I'll be using the Läraren video on this coming Monday at This Is Not Art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Newcastle/TINA2011 The other two are not as obviously about Wikipedia. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread John Vandenberg
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_on_religious_works And there is the crown hold copyright on KJV, in perpetuity. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-23 Thread John Vandenberg
://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2006/07/27/wikipedia-blocked-in-saudi-arabia/ Thank you. Added to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Saudi_Arabia -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 90, Issue 121

2011-09-22 Thread John Vandenberg
-contributed content goes. Wiktionary has an Appendix namespace, which is one of its most important sets of content pages, consisting of lovely word lists. Some of these Appendix would be a featured list in English Wikipedia terminology. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-22 Thread John Vandenberg
/Half_a_Million_People_Donate_to_Keep_Wikipedia_Free Someone who does have non-English language skills and non-English project experience, and they arnt in use: http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Melamrawy_%28WMF%29 -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-21 Thread John Vandenberg
for any texts which do not have their own project (yet). each text is a discrete work, and dont need an active community in order to be a useful resource. Eventualism is stronger on Wikisource, which is why texts are not forced to reside on the normal incubator. -- John Vandenberg

[Foundation-l] Extension:Babel

2011-09-21 Thread John Vandenberg
Extension Babel is now deployed. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Babel Thank you Roan. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-21 Thread John Vandenberg
has). -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread John Vandenberg
://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Old_English_works -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] On Wikinews

2011-09-16 Thread John Vandenberg
English scanned books than we could transcribe in a hundred years, but there are many languages which have very few scanned books available online, and there are some important English works which are not available as scans yet. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-13 Thread John Vandenberg
images might suffice. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-12 Thread John Vandenberg
five contributors with 100 edits per month http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt100.htm -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-10 Thread John Vandenberg
#Release_raw_data_first.3F -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-10 Thread John Vandenberg
for it? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Hypothetical project rebranding Wikimedia

2011-09-08 Thread John Vandenberg
That is almost exactly what Fajro suggested in December 2010, with pretty mockups, and mentioned again in this thread. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fajro/5249381685 Fajro, I like it. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
should be, and can be, done by the user-agent. We have a help page describing how to do this. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
their acquisition process. Wikipedia *is* successful, and an image filter was not part of its success. I dont mind Wikimedia content being better labelled with metadata, however the actual process of filtering should be done by the user-agent. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 September 2011 17:18, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:  On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 September 2011 10:48, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: snip

[Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
got some serious statistical backing for those assertions, they are just smoke blowing our of asses to the sound of but think of the children! Are there are pages on English Wikipedia that should be classified as PG? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
would classify as PG, or M? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Phil Nash phn...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: ... [[WP:ANI]] is hardly an example to our children, is it? ANI isn't a content page. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
about real content pages on a Wikipedia project which should be rated, either by law or on a voluntary/best practice basis. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Phil Nash phn...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: John Vandenberg wrote: .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Classification_Board Rubbish, and the article you cite is very poorly-written anyway. I provided the link to Wikipedia so people unfamiliar with Australia

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
that the content is appropriate for all ages. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

2011-09-06 Thread John Vandenberg
projects .. ;-) If WMF already is doing this, it isnt being heard on the blog or other communication mechanisms. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

2011-09-06 Thread John Vandenberg
into Google News. http://www.google.com/search?aq=fhl=engl=autbm=nwsbtnmeta_news_search=1q=wikinews -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-06 Thread John Vandenberg
conducted by organisations funded by the public. The survey instruments used should be valid, and the survey results should be discard if the survey population was not satisfactory. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

2011-09-06 Thread John Vandenberg
button. add a mix of abusefilter, flagged revs, semi-protection, etc., and we can slow down changes to the categorisation system and respond quickly to attacks. It wont be much different than template vandalism. in short, game on Kim. ;-) -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikiquote-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-04 Thread John Vandenberg
the survey population obtained is suitable, etc? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-30 Thread John Vandenberg
, and from other chapters around the same time. I would like an ETA from the WMF on a public version for comment. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-30 Thread John Vandenberg
. flexibility? Arne, do you agree that all signed fundraising agreements should be honoured by the WMF? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread John Vandenberg
in the relevant sections of its annual 990 form. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-28 Thread John Vandenberg
with US regulations. There are several chapters whose existing program includes activities that are acceptable under their own laws, but will not be able to be funded by WMF because of the US regulations. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-28 Thread John Vandenberg
seen the draft Chapters Grant Agreement? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-08-13 Thread John Vandenberg
, but in a new plataform. It would be an interesting experiment. Something like this.. ? http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:PersonalWikiTool -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Alec Conroy

2011-08-11 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi, gmail email account has been terminated. ;-( -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-08 Thread John Vandenberg
complicated. Four clicks and writing the iso code. The link from the test-wiki should direct to the proper recent changes. This might help: http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Community_Portal#lang_code_pages -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Intellectual property policy for open organisations

2011-08-08 Thread John Vandenberg
-- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-08 Thread John Vandenberg
. the languages in the Wikisource incubator. http://www.wikisource.org/ -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:31 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2011 00:26, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: And in doing so, the WMF wont have the benefit of the donations that are made because the donor responds well to the fact they know in advance that the money

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-05 Thread John Vandenberg
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Chapter_Fundraising_Agreement This recent announcement from the WMF has many, albeit minor, differences to the agreement that was recently signed. -- John Vandenberg On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Nathan

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-05 Thread John Vandenberg
sought qualified opinions on the matter and signed the agreement on that basis. Now we know why. Perhaps I should post those private conversations to the wiki so we can use the wiki to discuss the real problem: how the WMF is implementing the improvement. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

2011-08-05 Thread John Vandenberg
that our actuals in USD were reported publicly somewhere at the time; we'll find them and add them to your table. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

2011-07-12 Thread John Vandenberg
of this type. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:FT -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] largest free content website

2011-07-08 Thread John Vandenberg
Project http://www.ulib.org/ -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

2011-07-08 Thread John Vandenberg
#Lycanthropus -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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