Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-16 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
for their scarceness. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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

2012-03-08 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.comwrote: Whew. We as a community figured that it would be insuperable from the get go, about 9 years ago. And Jimbo duely banned the first proposers. Glat

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-07 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
the resolution and now I support rescinding it, at least in part. I don't think this is inconsistent with anything on my part, nor on Phoebe's. I have to say I agree. Perfectly consistent. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-07 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
content resolutions (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Images_of_identifiable_people and http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content), though much less controversial, are also quite important! Very true. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Presentation to the Board of Trustees

2012-03-06 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
gets wasted. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [SOPA etc.] [FSF] Fwd: Blood in the water: Brett Smith reports from the latest Trans-Pacific Partnership Stakeholder Forum

2012-03-06 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ACTA appears to be failing precisely because it was approved in smoke filled rooms and merely rubberstamped by politicians after the agreement. The real snake in the grass is still OPEN. They make believe they are crowdsourcing the law phrasing. But it smells precisely like the pathetic Britannica

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
to exclude what someone wants to make it easier for you to not find you don't want to find. And it is done by the search engine software (at least in theory), not people who are not the person browsing. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

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

2012-03-05 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
... -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
high grounds where you can find ancient seafloors, and (if you can imagine it?) high mountains with sharp edges, are turned into rounded curves by the glaciers passing over them, with time. If you are right about the direction Wikimedia should move, all you have to do is wait. -- -- Jussi-Ville

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
such terms as free votes that allow decisionmakers to let their constitutients have a genuine sense where their representatives hearts truly lie. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-27 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
about those examples without using them. Best example is blueberry wine. It got merged in with fruit wine. Truth is blueberry wine is not fruit wine, but pectine enzymatic over the 16 % limit fermentation...Much stronger. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
rate of new editors. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
that was called for with the Haymarket article. A cop pulls over a black man and and follows the usual procedures. It turns out he was a Harvard Professor. He failed to exercise good judgement. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
properly requires. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
have to stand fast. It isn't our neutrality that is at stake, it is our very existence, and our ability to stay neutral under pressure from governments. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
been tweaked, so the original intent is completely clouded and replaced by a vastly expanded ambit of applicability. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Delirium delir...@hackish.org wrote: On 2/19/12 2:29 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: The key problem here is that WP:UNDUE was expressly written to address the problem of genuine ongoing controversies, and fringe views. In this case there is no ongoing

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

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12: Do the people at MeatballWiki know? Why should they care? This is where it all started, http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/RightToLeave -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

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

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: On 19 February 2012 18:06, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12: Do the people

Re: [Foundation-l] We are the media, and so are you Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh OpEd in Washington Post

2012-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
My read on this is that we did accomplish something for all time. We established that we matter. We meaning the larger we, not wikipedia google or any player, but the real body politic. SOPA PIPA are not dead, but they are in the long grass. ACTA it appears is going the same way (hopefully)

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
suspect we all know that deep within our hearts, but loathe to go through the tedium of overhauling a policy page with such deep devotees. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
in this fashion daily if not hourly. Those (ab)uses just haven't been as glaringly obvious. I suspect we all know that deep within our hearts, but loathe to go through the tedium of overhauling a policy page with such deep devotees. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

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

2012-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Do the people at MeatballWiki know? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

2012-02-17 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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

2012-02-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
practise has shown, we really don't want thin-skinned people on the board. That leads to escalation of drama, not reduction of it. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2012-02-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Vice President?

2012-01-31 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
president is a title in some historical inalienable sense. It isn't. Grammatically it can still be used in the plain sense as denoting he who presides. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-28 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
-- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-28 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
be a supreme irony that letters of marque would be used in defense of Mickey Mouse, but not the homeland. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

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

2012-01-23 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
based versions. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2012-01-23 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
moderation limits should be lifted entirely. We really are on war footing. Not bean-bags at 50 yards footing. We need to sort things out, and more talk is a good thing, not a bad thing. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l

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

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
costing the Foundation a single backhander. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:12 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 January 2012 23:50, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: So we will put a few fallback datacenters elsewhere, just so our various communities and chapters realize we aren't going to be bullied by US

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

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
as a movement can be more effective in some political game. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Resolution:Developing Scenarios for future of fundraising

2012-01-21 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
that comes up trumps should we confidently tell the donors that is the way it is going to be for ever, and that our view of our mission is going to define what is appropriate, not theirs. Or is there some other way to speak to them confidently? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-10 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. You are their servants. Get it? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-10 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
, and there need never have been any [[Anjala conspiracy]]. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-25 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
representing that I am the source of rudeness. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/12/2011, at 17:38, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you will forgive me for being a bit terse and blunt. It is the season for unpalatable truths, and not just in Scotland. To an impartial

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/12/2011, at 17:38, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Trying to do something and not succeeding is not a failure - so long as we learn from the mistakes. As it says on the door as you leave the WMF

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
timewaster and failure, namely Nupedia. Just because you are fiddling the bits doesn't mean you are improving things. Usually you are just making them fail less badly. Not a way to design winning mechanisms. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
that, everything else flows from that. If you worry about whether you are fulfilling all the conflicting requirements coming at you from various sides, you are in for a hiding to nothing. You won't win, you may not lose, but your position will be ever vulnerable and ineffective. -- -- Jussi-Ville

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
or whatever) an edit is the nucleus of the issue. It has failed, it will fail and no amount of trying to push on a string will make it succeed. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
aggressive about the way things are allowed as valid contributions to the encyclopaedia, is worse than being up front about it. Is that succint enough for you? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
be happy to take this into private e-mail. I don't think any intelligent readers are much impressed by your logic... -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
with consensus. The former is what people inside your own mind think, the latter is what a group of people think (and usually act upon). -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. That is the hard shoulder. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:28 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 December 2011 17:10, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: I do not think the aims of the mechanism are wrong. But I *do* think the mechanism itself and any attempts to fashion such in a universe of human

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:57 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 December 2011 17:45, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: I'm quite keen on the idea of a free-form comment box accessible to those wanting to edit. It's much more accessible article feedback than

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
COI'ng the shit out of our processes? You will find that we are pretty inured against such approaches. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
to. Read the words. Think for youself. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-23 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
and arm waving and say It is alive! It is alive! ... And then see it just fall on its face like the corpse it is. Cue even more bubbling vials with smoke and sparks. Let's try again! This time it will work! -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 14/12/2011 2:04 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: I am genuinely not anti-american. The logic here does escape me though.  From a lawmaker's point of view, this is clear enough: US-based websites are reachable

Re: [Foundation-l] Terms of use : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-14 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
and merely acknowledge the right of countries to not adhere to the onerous and WMF-centric attribution praxis. It would be very useful for the foundation to admit, that absolutely nobody needs to attribute WMF if they just mention a few chief authors of the content. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

Re: [Foundation-l] Terms of use : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-14 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: I don't claim to have made a special study of the issue, but have had it pretty much forced down my throat by circumstances. While our

Re: [Foundation-l] Terms of use : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
in the legal text, but it would be extremely useful in the human readable version. (By this I do not exclude lawyers from the class of humans; but merely imply that the humans are a more inclusive class.) -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] Terms of use : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
we actually advise people to do when they reuse content... ? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Terms of use : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 12/13/11 12:14 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: Using an URL does allow the semblance of attribution, but does not fulfil the legal requirements of moral rights. I find it mildly distasteful, that other

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
version now exempts U.S. sites like ours. I am genuinely not anti-american. The logic here does escape me though. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

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

2011-12-07 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 01/12/2011 7:58 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: [...] yes, we may be building up a list of categories that could be reused by censorware sellers, but that’s not our primary intention. I'm sorry, but who the fsck

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

2011-12-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
that was then on the table or a rejection of filtering in principle. Am I being dense, or are you being silly? Blocking advocacy from a site with a NPOV policy is a bajillion miles from being censorship. What? I am wrong? How so? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

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

2011-12-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Am I being dense, or are you being silly? Blocking advocacy from a site with a NPOV policy is a bajillion miles from being censorship

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

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: While I don't find that line of argument to be a fully fledged straw-horse argument, it does appear to me to be a cherry-picked argument

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

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: While I don't find that line of argument to be a fully fledged straw-horse argument, it does appear to me to be a cherry-picked argument

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

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: While I don't find that line of argument to be a fully fledged straw-horse argument, it does appear to me to be a cherry-picked argument

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

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 09:11, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: This is not a theoretical risk. This has happened. Most famously in the case of Virgin using pictures of persons that were licenced under a free

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

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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

2011-11-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
attempts to subvert the use of such a knowledge-base. Which, I do assure you, might not prove to be a trivial task. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

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

2011-11-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] board meeting minutes, Oct. 78

2011-11-29 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
frigging priniple of the thing. Wake up and smell the coffee. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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

2011-11-29 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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

2011-11-29 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
it when google was prejudicially priviledging other results above ones from wikipedia (a practise they no longer adhere to). I don't see much of a difference here. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filtering without undermining the category system

2011-11-27 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. But it is just your personal opinion. Do you have references to any pages or other sources that support there is *any* significant portion of wikipedians or wikipedia readers who feel even close to the way you feel? Or are you just a voice crying out in the wilderness? -- -- Jussi-Ville

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

2011-11-27 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
, but a huge and strong entrenched core group. Pretending otherwise is just pure madness. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Finnish MP FAIL!!!

2011-11-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:57 AM, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: Which article was it? Something on immigration. Moron is of the party who doesn't realize we *need* immigrants. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

[Foundation-l] Finnish MP FAIL!!!

2011-11-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Not sure if this is appropriate for this list, but just for lulz. A finnish member of parliament just got caught for his speech being a word for word piece of snippets from a Finnish Wikipedia article. No intervening binding lines, just the Wikipedia text. Way to go!!! -- -- Jussi-Ville

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-11-17 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 21:03, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; Could I humbly suggest the image in the campaign notice bar be moved to the other edge of the page. In the default skins, the article

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-11-16 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-04 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
can back me up on this, if he is still reading this list, but the creator of Albedo Anthropomorphics is a genuinely notable figure in the furry movement; if not its father or atleast god-father. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
, this might well bankrupt me. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. Welll there is an obverse side to that coin. Tear it down, and they won't come anymore. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

2011-10-31 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
of the elements of such are already in the code. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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?

2011-10-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
about. Sorrry again if my tone isn't to your liking. But be realistic and face the facts. There would be no wikipedia without the people whose traditions you are shitting down on from a great height. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
, This is the rhetorical bottom of the barrel. Claiming you can read the other persons mind through telepathy. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] New Version of PROTECT IP Bill May Target Legal Sites

2011-10-26 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
- may-target-legal-sites Well, the servers still could be moved to Europe. This one is never going to score. Going against a team of 900 pound gorillas on the intarwebs? Get serious. I mean, lost for words... -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
personally think my level of civility on the issue is pretty much consistent on the height of feeling on this issue from the community side. You are free to disagree. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: This is very very meta. But in my own defence, I haven't posted anything for over a year. Mourning my dearly departed mother. I have

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
the dead horse. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
genitals being inserted with electrical appliance cable stashing piping, why can't wikipedia? I know this sounds totally offensive on the face of it, but surely that is the whole point. Being against censorship only matters when there is a potential outrage there... -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

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

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
there... On Wikipedia this is called vandalism and trolling; and we *do* censor it :) No we don't and that is the whole point. We edit. We don't censor, -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

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

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
be. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: As a person from a more nordic and perhaps even ruder than brazilian culture, We did confront a teacher who was in her retirement age

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

2011-10-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: The English Wikipedia community, like any other, has always

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

2011-10-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
be served to me and to everyone else on wikipedia. Because we don't hide huge bosoms on wikipedia. Period. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

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

2011-10-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but that is not proof of what we as a community understand the principle to mean, it means the board is on crack. That's

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

2011-10-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
don't people quite grasp? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ 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

2011-10-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
in the slightest. Period. We don't say you can read an article about X and not see pictures of X. That is ridiculous. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filtering without undermining the category system

2011-10-12 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
categories. As your the second person to raise this I'll add an explanation to the proposal as to how this can be countered. Do you actually have any idea what a Big Mama is, or how much brute computing power one of those has? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

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

2011-10-11 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
standards the image is more comical than titillating *by our Finnish standards* --- but would be highly suspect in the US, atleast if the deletion debate for that image at commons is to be given credence to... -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro

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

2011-10-11 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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