On 6 March 2011 09:48, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 March 2011 09:12, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed. That claim's a definite citation needed.
I know you follow the media with regards to wikipedia to at least some
extent. You must have noticed the WMF is a tiny little
On 6 March 2011 23:54, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
So... that's a no? There's no record of who wrote what? I think people in
the community are interested to know how much of the strategic plan came
from various stakeholders, both the ideas and the actual pieces of the
report. If you
On 5 March 2011 14:05, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Picking up on the comment by Tobias about less intrusive fundraising,
I would make sure we are pursuing the following:
1 Build up a past donors database, communicate with them effectively
and then as long as they
On 5 March 2011 16:12, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
I appreciate that we may only be able to exclude donors who are logged
in readers from banner ads. But it is better in my view to say Yes we
can do that, but you would have to tell us your username and be
logged in to
On 30 January 2011 18:02, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote:
On 30/01/2011 13:10, koteche mcintosh wrote:
People choose to donate just like before. But on a regular basis. everyone
can see the fund. Everyone is part of the story. this GALVANIZES
support. Shoes governments the POWER of public
On 28 January 2011 20:33, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Such a solution would make it easier to fold separate wikis
(such as a conference wiki) back into Meta when we were done with
them, too.
Why fold them into meta afterwards rather than just use Meta from the
beginning? Isn't
On 28 January 2011 08:25, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote:
Hello,
Tonight, Egypt has ordered all operators to shut down their BGP
adjacencies with out of countries providers. This mean Egypt is
disconnected from the rest of the internet.
I am wondering, should we just close our
On 26 January 2011 23:41, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 January 2011 22:54, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Jimmy has previously made way too many off-the-cuff remarks that have gotten
him into hot water to repeat that mistake again, surely.
*cough*Sarah Palin*cough*
On 25 January 2011 07:11, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
It is a question however if per
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/help/entry_faqs#copyright and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/#4 In certain circumstance the BBC may also
share your contribution with trusted third parties*. would allow
On 25 January 2011 11:26, Alison M. Wheeler wikime...@alisonwheeler.com wrote:
- Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
Very doubtful indeed. Wikipedia might, conceivably, be considered a
trusted third party, but there is no way the rest of world would and
we can't accept content
On 24 January 2011 18:02, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 January 2011 16:09, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12265173
Anything worth salvaging?
Probably but I can't see it falling within our remit. Apart from
anything else
On 21 January 2011 06:36, whothis whoth...@gmail.com wrote:
You can't be on an advisory board and tell a non-profit organization
what to do as a pro-bono advisor to the board and then get paid by the said
foundation as a fellow a few years into your tenure, serving both positions
at the same
On 21 January 2011 20:07, F.-F. Duron ff.du...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, but maybe you can control the partnerships you're making! Wikipedia is
one of the most visited websites in the world. Don't you think there is a
problem here??
Do we have a partnership with them? The French Wikipedia
On 16 January 2011 07:45, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
What they do in the Portuguese Wikipedia is not what i propose; it's
only close to it. What's listed at [[en:Wikipedia:Perennial
proposals]] is very different from what i propose. I don't propose
limited adminship; i
On 15 January 2011 21:55, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Before writing that proposal i reviewed many, many pages of RFA is
broken discussions not just in the English Wikipedia, but in Hebrew,
Russian and Catalan ones, too. Nowhere have i found a proposal to dump
the
2011/1/14 KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that
probably has more to do with it.
Not worldwide I assume, broadband availability seems to depend on
geographic
On 13 January 2011 21:19, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a high correlation between broadband and income levels that
probably has more to do with it.
There is a correlation between broadband and age, as well, I believe.
The elderly (when they have an internet connection at
On 6 January 2011 00:59, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Steven Walling wrote:
The other Wikipedias weren't started on that date, so they have nothing to
celebrate or commemorate.
The anniversary is not just about English Wikipedia. If this was just
English Wikipedia's celebration, there
On 2 January 2011 01:56, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
2011/1/1 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
That is the completely wrong attitude. If we cannot reach our target
with an honest campaign, we should accept that we cannot reach our
target and make do with less money. We should
On 1 January 2011 13:45, Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com wrote:
This puts a ceiling on 'urgent' costs at $8.8 M, or 43% of the budget
of $20.4 M. [3]
This is a worthwhile analysis, but you have neglected the numerous
expenses involved in supporting a large organisation. You can't have
an
On 1 January 2011 23:50, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't see anything wrong at all with messages that signal increased
urgency as the fundraiser draws to a close.
I do. When the fundraiser ends is a choice you make, not something
imposed upon you by external forces. Also, people
On 2 January 2011 00:15, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 January 2011 00:09, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with the rest of your email, though. The WMF's increased
budget is justified. That money is going on worthwhile things. That
doesn't, however, mean
Congratulations to the board members that were re-appointed and good
luck for the next year/two years.
Was there any community consultation before this by-law change? If
there was, I missed it. While this change isn't likely to be
controversial, I think it would be a good idea to consult the
On 24 December 2010 23:20, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
Addressing the other half of this issue, is creating a page = to editing,
I'd argue that page creation is a subset of editing with a fundamental
difference. Creating a page has different requirements (such as meeting
I expect a good lawyer can be found. The WMF might be able to help
with that, they have lots of useful contacts. If even the police
didn't think there is much of a case, they must stand a very good
chance of winning the case. While it will surely be a very stressful
and unpleasant experience for
On 14 December 2010 09:41, Adam Cuerden cuer...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, why not just offer Citizendium space on Wikia? Could that be done?
That's not really a discussion for this mailing list. I'm not sure CZ
would accept such an offer even if it were made, though. Accepting
help from
On 13 December 2010 12:27, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
In principle, it would be possible to have a short error message with
a script tag that loads the multilingual error messages.
You should compromise and have a small number of languages, but
greater than 1. Language
On 10 December 2010 00:20, Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone -
First, let me thank you all for your concern about the recent banners.
Michael Snow is right - we tested some things, thinking that we could manage
to raise the yield slightly by deliberately
On 10 December 2010 12:33, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
With that said, the banners are being changed right now - they'll say
Wikimedia.
That's progress, but it is still wrong. Sue is not the ED of
Wikimedia. She is the ED of the Wikimedia Foundation. I am part of
Wikimedia
On 9 December 2010 10:00, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
ouch, this is painful. Like many chapters probably I have been trying
to explain to people the difference between Wikimedia and Wikipedia,
and that Wikipedia has no such thing as a board of editors or even a
board of
2010/12/9 Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com:
Am I placed on moderation? all my previous emails seem to fail?
I've received this email...
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On 9 December 2010 23:03, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
I'm not going to debate the whole wording thing, but I will point out,
It is a crime to receive property/goods under false pretenses in
Australia which is what advertising a person with the incorrect job
title would be. Don't
On 5 December 2010 05:24, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, and only 4 times what the actual internet hosting of a top5 web site
costs.
[Citation needed]
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On 4 December 2010 22:09, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote:
If WMF wanted to spend less money, the fundraiser would have much lower
profile, right? :)
I somehow want us to think about our users and service as primary objective,
not just organizational issues.
When you budget 2
It sounds like you are talking more about an inspection than an
ombudsman. The problem with your proposal is that disagreements
between the Foundation and community are usually due to it being very
unclear what the roles of each are. There isn't a rulebook that
someone can make sure the WMF is
The servers are in the US and owned by a US organisation which has
minimal overseas assets, which means US law is pretty much the only
one that applies. If you want people in Serbia to be able to re-use
the content, though, you need to make sure it satisfies Serbian law
too. That means you need to
On 7 November 2010 22:42, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Why have advertising anywhere when you can just google for things you
want to buy?
Consumers don't put advertising anywhere and it is consumers that can
just google for things. Advertising is done by companies to attract
On 8 November 2010 13:03, Arlen Beiler arlen...@gmail.com wrote:
For one thing, we have always been proud of how Wikipedia and its sister
sites have been ad-free. Why don't we get those half-breeds with their ads
and everything to do the revenue making? I mean, of course, Wikia. Having
ads on
On 8 November 2010 13:34, Arlen Beiler arlen...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought someone was saying that Wikia gets all kinds of special treatment,
or something like that.
People say all kinds of things.
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On 7 November 2010 15:50, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
We use a tab at the top of the article to link to the ad page. No one has
to click on it; but if you're looking for buying, or investigating
products, you will.
The click-through rate would be tiny and therefore so would the
On 7 November 2010 16:05, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 7 November 2010 15:50, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
We use a tab at the top of the article to link to the ad page. No one has
to click
On 7 November 2010 16:21, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
1) Why the huge assumption of bad faith? I don't think you're correct
that people would sign up for ads who don't want ads. As you
correctly point out, there would actually be no long-term benefit to
anyone for doing so.
2) If the
On 7 November 2010 16:40, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
They won't be people that want ads, though. They'll be people that
want ad revenue
On 5 November 2010 17:02, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
... and compromise content, as TV Tropes found out:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheSituation?from=Main.TheGoogleIncident
That's not a problem with adverts. It's merely an incompatibility
between Google's
On 6 November 2010 17:07, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
ads there would be able
to be served in a way that is both relevant to the end-user (based on the
term being searched for)
That's a big problem. To use a somewhat clichéd example, we should not
be showing adverts for either
On 10 October 2010 09:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Despite repeated assurances at Wikimania, on lists and on strategywiki,
that the strategic plan was going to consider all Wikimedia projects as
important, now at
On 30 September 2010 20:31, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 29 September 2010 17:57, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
Actually
On 29 September 2010 17:57, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
Actually, I'm quite the pragmatist. You are being an idealist by
assuming that can just go with the nice solution and it will all work
out fine, despite
On 29 September 2010 12:24, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
You love theory, I love to be more realistic. Given that chapters are about
providing support in one area with one legal and financial system to the
WMF, it is clear and obvious that Kosovo is not part of greater
On 29 September 2010 13:09, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
That would only be the case if we would have sufficient information to
actually make a decision and this would be the actual body making such
decision in the first place. Some very important indicators are still
missing.
On 27 September 2010 20:36, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
The most important harm which exists now is the fact that free
knowledge activists from Kosovo are not included yet into the
Wikimedia movement. So, until the situation becomes more clear, we
should think how to solve that
On 27 September 2010 21:02, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
We are here to promote Wikimedia projects not to promote Serbia union nor
Kosovo independence.
Very true, but allowing separate Kosovan and Sebian chapters (which is
probably best for the WM movement, since the Serbian chapter
On 28 September 2010 15:27, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 September 2010 21:02, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
We are here to promote Wikimedia projects not to promote Serbia union nor
Kosovo independence.
Very true, but allowing separate Kosovan and Sebian chapters (which is
On 27 September 2010 10:14, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
I doubt very much that political considerations should be part of the set up
of a chapter. Asking the Serbian chapter for an opinion is fine. Giving them
a vote on this is not. Given that Kosovo is a separate
On 31 August 2010 21:56, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
They're not exactly technical issues: I just have a headache :-(
Go and have a lie down - by far the best headache cure. Get well soon!
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On 11 August 2010 12:37, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote:
DISCLAIMER: this is a delicate issue that could easily generate a flame. So
please everybody presume the good faith and stay on topic :-)
I don't really know if this issue as been discussed in earlier threads (I
subscribed
On 11 August 2010 19:54, Abbas Mahmoud abbas...@hotmail.com wrote:
Yaroslav: X has no problem with Israel, there's even an embassy in country X,
from which he applied the visa, but since he is on a work permit in the
Middle east, the embassy sticks the visa on another paper. Since the
On 3 August 2010 09:04, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote:
While I disagree with the policy I'm not sure we can say that they aren't
allowed to make it. I think a more restrictive policy would be allowed just
not less restrictive.
That's pretty much exactly what I was going to say. The
On 3 August 2010 19:33, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Currently the data collection and processing doesn't follow its
recommended code of good practice of the UKs DPA and may even be in
breach of it:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/ebook/ebook.htm
That's quite a long document. You could point out
On 2 August 2010 23:01, 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 very sorry to hear this! I'm not sure how the Foundation is going
to survive without you... thank you enormously
On 2 August 2010 23:51, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Cary, you'll be missed. The WMF absolutely should try to replace you,
although I doubt they'll find someone who can do the job as well as
you have done.
Just to clarify, my understanding is that the plan is to replace Cary
with multiple
On 31 July 2010 16:27, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 July 2010 16:21, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any
proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal
meetings between
On 31 July 2010 16:35, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
You said personal meetings between Wikimedians, not specifically
Wikimania. Do you mean only Wikimania, or do you mean personal
meetings in general?
Ah, you were answering the first of the two questions in the text you
quoted. I
On 31 July 2010 16:37, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
There was also a fundraising summit hosted by Wikimedia UK
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Fundraising_Summit, which Thomas
could tell us more about.
Indeed. For people involved in chapters, there are lots of in-person
meetings
On 29 July 2010 22:43, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
Job adverts? Really?. Site notice is for critical stuff (fund raising,
servers about to explode) even if you play with the notice to only
appear ~%10 of the time. Central notice even more so. For less
important stuff where you want to
On 17 July 2010 00:28, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a bit late here, but I have three (little) questions:
1) Page 7, part VI, section A, line 7a: Does the organization have
members, stockholders, or other persons who may elect one or more
members of the governing body?
On 17 July 2010 13:53, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
I'd rather not speculate about what happens or the intent before someone
from the WMF who is responsible for this clarifies the statement. I hope we
all can hold ourselves from guessing and seeking logic until that moment.
This
On 13 July 2010 23:30, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I will talk without mentioning names, but I will try to be precise
enough. In other words, I don't want to talk about people and
organizations, but about problems. Taking care about problems is much
more important than making witch
On 14 July 2010 15:17, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Just to make clear about which problems are, because I didn't
structure text clearly. Problems are:
1. Corruption among two chapters.
2. US business interests influence WMF strategy.
3. Gap between those who are coming between poor
On 14 July 2010 23:00, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Sue Gardner, 14/07/2010 18:33:
* Anyone who has information about malfeasance or misfeasance inside
Wikimedia should take a look at our Whistleblower Policy, which lays out
process for escalation to authorities. The
On 14 July 2010 23:54, Oliver Keyes scire.fac...@gmail.com wrote:
To be honest, anyone whistleblowing from outside the organisation.. well,
it's rather hard to be punished by the foundation employment-wise when you
don't work for them.
Well, yes, that was my point.
On 3 July 2010 18:29, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Hm, well, I think this gets back to David Goodman's point, one which I agree
with.
Yes, the only absolute commitment the WMF has in the grand scheme of things
is to provide the physical resource to host the projects.
On 3 July 2010 18:53, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote:
If something of similar consequences as the kill switch [1] were
triggered against the WMF in USA, would it still be accessible for the
rest of the world?
The kill switch idea, as I understand it, is about killing the
internet entirely, not
On 1 July 2010 10:37, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:58 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Who is WMF competing with?
User attention.
Sorry, misread who with what.
Presently,
On 30 June 2010 09:28, Samuel J Klein s...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com writes:
If there is one thing that I find problematic, it is that the WMF office can
be observed to operate a dual role; it is the world wide office for the
Wikimedia Foundation and it
Anya,
Congratulations on getting in grad school. Your work over the last 2
years is greatly appreciated - particularly the help and support you
gave me while I was visiting the office earlier this year! I wish you
the best of luck in the future.
Tom
On 29 June 2010 00:34, Rand Montoya
On 29 June 2010 01:50, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Eugene Eric Kim ee...@blueoxen.com wrote:
Our final (*) strategic planning office hours ..
...
* Several people have discussed continuing the weekly office hours
beyond the scope of this project,
On 26 June 2010 14:44, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Jeffrey Peters
17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu wrote:
Austin,
Maybe you didn't realize but I am the top organizer of Wikiversity.
Wikiversity has a top organizer? What does that mean?
On 27 June 2010 13:55, Dennis During dcdur...@gmail.com wrote:
Are you saying that one can't disclose correspondence to any third-party
without consent of both parties? In what jurisdictions?
The law is a little out-of-date. When someone sends you a physical
letter you can give that letter to
It has been proposed that people from chapters and people wanting to
form chapters get together at Wikimania in order to share experiences
and offer each other advice. I am trying to organise such a gathering.
I'm currently proposing an informal gathering during the Saturday
morning coffee break.
On 27 June 2010 15:29, Aphaia aph...@gmail.com wrote:
In a certain jurisdiction, only creative expression can be under
protection of laws. I have no comment, since I don't follow the whole
discussion, if it is related to the mail in question.
Sure, but I think creative expression is usually
On 27 June 2010 20:42, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
Given that this is recurring drama-creating behavior, perhaps we can
move on to the ignore stage of WP:RBI.
On enwiki, we did that ages ago. I don't believe he is blocked on
Wikiversity (yet).
On 27 June 2010 21:30, Dennis During dcdur...@gmail.com wrote:
I would have thought almost any copying (such as what the software routinely
does on, say, this very e-mail) would be at worst fair use.
You've copied the email as a by-product of replying to it to provide
context. I think that is
On 24 June 2010 19:08, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 June 2010 07:20, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
4. We do expect material in our projects to be educational in nature,
and any material that is not educational should be removed.
I would suggest that passing a resolution
On 24 June 2010 20:13, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
If education is learning about the world, there is essentially nothing
that can not be considered as having at least potential educational
value. There are of course different degrees of educational value,
but using it by
On 24 June 2010 15:04, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote:
- Scope and name: Maybe it would practically make no big difference
whether the project is called simple or for kids. Poor readers and
adult beginning readers (natives or not) tend to read texts that are
meant for children
On 22 June 2010 15:45, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22 June 2010 15:20, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
The common name in any language has more stability as far as the lay person
is concerned. the lay person shouldn't have to first find the latin name of
an organism when
On 17 June 2010 11:37, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 17:25, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote many things.
My sidenote is that if you believe in what you say then you imply
Wikipedia, Wikimedia and everything we have with 'wiki' string
On 17 June 2010 18:12, Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com wrote:
A housekeeping note: Gmail has been marking some list messages as spam for
the past five days or so. It sounds like this is affecting other Wikimedia
lists, including Otrs-en-l and daily-article-l. I don't know what if any
On 16 June 2010 08:52, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Tardises are antiquated visual whatchamacallits, but not
even remotely trademarks.
Now you are just embarrassing yourself. Check your facts:
http
On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
I happen to know there is an English phrase Doctor, heal
thyself.
You probably ANAL. But that doesn't stop you from FUDDing.
I'm an anal non-lawyer, at that! I may be spreading uncertainty and
doubt and something that is
On 15 June 2010 00:20, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
You are claiming the law is complicated. But the facts are
plain and simple, and no amount of FUDD is going to support
a view that there is any reasonable
On 13 June 2010 23:33, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
Dog isn't strongly associated in the public psyche with a particular
brand. Wiki is. Like I say, these are complicated issues of legal
interpretation and really should be left to the lawyers
2010/6/12 Jiří Hofman hofm...@aldebaran.cz:
The community is not unanimous. Therefore I would like to ask an
international Wikipedia community for its opinion. Is it a violation of the
Wikimedia Foundation rights?
The opinion of the community (local or international) is largely
irrelevant.
On 10 June 2010 19:47, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It would be great to have one from the technical staff also...
I mentioned Danese (CTO), do you want to here from other technical staff?
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On 10 June 2010 01:13, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey everyone!
On Friday, June 11, the Office Hour will once again be hosted by Mike
Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read
about at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Mikegodwin
As interesting as
On 3 June 2010 00:13, Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.com wrote:
It was clearly un-lawful to take down the TU Munich logo which isn't
protectable according German copyright law but WMF has done so.
Of course it is lawful for the WMF to remove something from a WMF
site. It may not be legally
On 22 May 2010 01:54, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Rob Lanphier wrote:
In trying to solve the user interface problems as well as generally figuring
out how we're going to talk about this feature to the world at large, it
became clear that the name Flagged Protections doesn't adequately
and
to work independently as well as part of a team.
The process that will be followed for this selection can be viewed
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/Process
All nominations must be sent to the moderator (Thomas Dalton from
Wikimedia UK) and deputy moderator (José
On 13 May 2010 09:41, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote:
The Wikimania jury has selected Haifa, Israel as the location for
Wikimania 2011.
Ther was a young jolly man from Haifa
Who logged in to get the best airfare
The Internet said, At once,
you had to stop by in Gdansk
but you
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