Re: [Foundation-l] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

2011-08-24 Thread Wjhonson
Admins are once again given even more extensive content powers ? And that's a good thing right Captain Kirk? It's a good thing right? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

2011-08-24 Thread Wjhonson
Let me rephrase in a slightly less trollish manner. Admins should never be given powers over content. Not now, not then, not ever. Admins have no business being involved in content of any type ever :) In every possible universe. Will -Original Message- From: Wjhonson wjhon

Re: [Foundation-l] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

2011-08-24 Thread Wjhonson
Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, Aug 24, 2011 9:44 am Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Admins should never be given powers over content

Re: [Foundation-l] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

2011-08-24 Thread Wjhonson
Give me permission. I am volunteering to head up the abuse filter team. Thomas don't mistake my point for some other point. I am not suggesting that admins AS EDITORS should veer away from content creation, but rather that admins using their clubs should not be given more clubs with which to

Re: [Foundation-l] copyright issues

2011-08-17 Thread Wjhonson
, Wjhonson wrote: The year of publication applies to published material. The year you make it public, to the public, for public consumption. of course, that is the definition of publication But look at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/303.html Unpublished works (in the United States

Re: [Foundation-l] copyright issues

2011-08-17 Thread Wjhonson
For plagiarism to cause injury you have to specify the type of injury in your suit. And then the case is not about laws about plagiarism per se, of which there are none, but laws about the type of injury you are claiming. For example unfair trade as in I made all these designs and posted them

Re: [Foundation-l] copyright issues

2011-08-17 Thread Wjhonson
, because they are trying to make some sheded point more concrete. It's not concrete in the U.S., you have to show what specific sort of actual injury occurred. -Original Message- From: Robin McCain ro...@slmr.com To: Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com Cc: foundation-l foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 89, Issue 44

2011-08-16 Thread Wjhonson
I don't believe your claim that you can take something which is PD, make an exact image of it, slap it up in a new work of your own (enjoying copyright protection automatically) and then claim copyright over that PD image in your work. Copyright applies to the presentation of your work,

Re: [Foundation-l] copyright issues

2011-08-16 Thread Wjhonson
The year of publication applies to published material. The year you make it public, to the public, for public consumption. Unpublished material, if it enjoys copyright protection at all, would be based on the year of creation. That however might be a red herring if it, in fact, does not

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

2011-08-15 Thread Wjhonson
Feedback: Approval based systems only work on a tiny subset of articles as they disenfranchise the vast majority of contributors who don't have a multi-tiered content approach at all. -Original Message- From: Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-29 Thread Wjhonson
is interpretation and would therefore be considered OR which is not allowed at Wikipedia. 2011/7/27 Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net On 07/27/11 12:42 PM, Wjhonson wrote: David how is an exact quote a summary or interpretation? An exact quote, backed up by the actual audio track is... exact. You

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-29 Thread Wjhonson
is that if someone isagrees with my translation, it can be fixed (I have fixed a few ranslations on en.wp myself). 011/7/29 Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com No that's not what it would mean. It would mean that if a Spanish language source is used on an English language page, we should quote

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-29 Thread Wjhonson
Nope, never said that. I disagree with the idea that this is usually done however I have no objections to it's being done. Never did. My point is, and was that the source should be quoted in its original language. -Original Message- From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-27 Thread Wjhonson
All sources can be cited without falling afoul of original research Original research only covers claims without sources at all, or claims made from yourself as the source. Any source, including citing to a video interviews, is never original research. I don't really get by the way, why this is

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-27 Thread Wjhonson
You should not create your own videos and then publish them on Wikipedia. You should create videos or audio tracks of oral interviews, and then publish them. Then allow others to add that material to Wikipedia where appropriate. That's my two cents. -Original Message- From:

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-27 Thread Wjhonson
For actual quotations from sources, you should quote the source exactly. Then you will never be using original research. You are going the next step and summarizing and interpreting. Don't do that. -Original Message- From: Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com To: Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-27 Thread Wjhonson
, Wjhonson wrote: For actual quotations from sources, you should quote the source exactly. Then you will never be using original research. I don't actually understand what this means. If you look at the articles reated: ttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations#Articles.2F_Discussions_

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-27 Thread Wjhonson
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, Jul 27, 2011 12:09 pm Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge Hallo, (responses inline) On Thursday 28 July 2011 12:27 AM, Wjhonson wrote: Achal I was responding to Thomas not to you

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-27 Thread Wjhonson
Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, Jul 27, 2011 12:39 pm Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: For actual quotations from sources, you should quote the source

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-27 Thread Wjhonson
Linking the full audio allows the user to dig into the material without trusting your selection. Then other editors can select other pieces, or remove your selection. I personally don't equate Selection with Interpretation. To me interpretation is modifying the original source using other

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

2011-07-27 Thread Wjhonson
: People are Knowledge On 07/27/11 12:42 PM, Wjhonson wrote: David how is an exact quote a summary or interpretation? An exact quote, backed up by the actual audio track is... exact. You are not summarizing it, and you are not interpreting it either. You are presenting it. If that is to be the case

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2011-07-24 Thread Wjhonson
Although he reneged on his offer to buy http://knol.google.com/k/bose-201-series-ii-direct-reflecting-bookshelf-speakers# The Speakers Which Almost Destroyed Knol I as well as others support welcoming Kohs back to this list by unbanning him. I agree with the sentiment that the ban was over

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2011-07-24 Thread Wjhonson
Well maybe you can point out what exactly he did to get himself banned from this list? When it occurred I also had the same reaction that I still have. It didn't make sense to me. It still doesn't. His presence here was not disruptive to me. -Original Message- From: Fred

Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

2011-07-12 Thread Wjhonson
Something better than Wikipedia ? I can think of something right off the bat. Kill the copyright police who do nothing useful and harm the project immensely. Go back to the more transparent rationale that copyright infringement rests solely upon the person who uploaded the copyrighted item,

Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

2011-07-12 Thread Wjhonson
Again you are referring to the hosting or presentation of non-free content and I am not. I am not referring to the DISPLAY of videos within Wikipedia. Only the LINKING of videos from Wikipedia. 99.% of Youtube videos have no licensing information at all so there is no way to tell if they

Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

2011-07-12 Thread Wjhonson
If you don't see the significant value in including video content, then I would suggest that you don't see the significant value in including photographic content either. I would suggest that's an outdated value system. A picture is worth a thousand words, an audio is worth ten thousand, a

Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

2011-07-12 Thread Wjhonson
Links by themselves are not copyrightable, and are not unfree. So your argument, which you keep repeating is not germane to this point. The point is, the copyright police have taken a fear (of something which has never occurred in actual law), and made it a point of battle. We are arbiters of

Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

2011-07-12 Thread Wjhonson
Pick a spot that you think is appropriate. But you are missing the point. The point in not to continue forward *under the current restrictions and requirements*, that is a dead horse. The glamour is off the rose. -Original Message- From: Thomas Morton

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-06-29 Thread Wjhonson
One type of image being Image of Muhammad ? -Original Message- From: Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 1:35 pm Subject: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum *Please distribute

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

2011-06-02 Thread Wjhonson
Because Commons is to be used by the world, not just sister projects. If the New York Times Online links a picture in from Commons (and credits it properly) are we going to make their later-historical story useless by deleting the picture ? -Original Message- From: Fred

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects ...

2011-05-25 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/25/2011 3:33:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, midom.li...@gmail.com writes: There're lots of great ideas around the world, feeding the hungry and curing the cancer among them. Domas your responses are not helpful at all. You are simply stirring the pot to no point.

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects ...

2011-05-25 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/25/2011 11:01:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time, midom.li...@gmail.com writes: You forgot to tell if all of my responses or just some, and if there's really no point at all, or there might be some. Anyway, thanks for this helpful contribution! Refactoring my comments :

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 1:35:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk writes: There are many core problems that affect this issue. One of which is 'Verifiability not truth' which seems a laudable concept when applied to hearsay, and to allow articles on the paranormal

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 8:23:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, morton.tho...@googlemail.com writes: But the idea that I have a right to edit Wikipedia or You have no right to do that is incorrect, because WP is a private website. You make the word private have no meaning. What would be a

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 4:38:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, smole...@eunet.rs writes: Aren't these languages written with Chinese characters and thus their speakers can read and write the Chinese Wikipedia? All the Latin languages: Italian, French, Spanish, English, and so on are

Re: [Foundation-l] No rights to participate

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 9:31:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fredb...@fairpoint.net writes: Legally, Wikipedia is private property belonging to a nonprofit corporation. If the United States government, or some other government, owned it and regulated it in such a way as to guarantee public

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 9:53:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time, li...@caseybrown.org writes: Indeed, it doesn't mean that necessarily. However, your analogy doesn't apply in this situation and Nikola was right. Many of the Chinese languages share a common writing system and only differ in

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 5/22/2011 10:39:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, andreeng...@gmail.com writes: In Chinese writing a character shows a word, irrespective of how the word is pronounced. So if we would use a Chinese style writing system, you could write [your] [dog] [is] [dead], and a Frenchman

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-20 Thread Wjhonson
Publish means to make public. To make available to the public. Telling your buddies in the locker room is not publishing. No it isn't. Telling one mate down the pub might but multiple people is kinda dicey. I assume more than one person has access to the User:Oversight feed. Exactly what

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-20 Thread Wjhonson
{{fact}} I dispute that private communications are public. Err you are aware that the courts regard sending the information on a postcard counts as publishing? -Original Message- From: geni geni...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-20 Thread Wjhonson
It is not up to us to decide that something is private. If it's been published, then it is public. If it's been published in a reliable source, than it's useable in our project. We routinely suppress disclosure of private information. When do the details of an affair become public? And

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Copyright problems of images from India

2011-05-10 Thread Wjhonson
As you say any photograph of a person obviously living, and yet who died before 1941 is in the Public Domain in India.? This is true regardless of any other point raised about the source of the photograph as you again say. The first step is to get agreement on those points for the Indian

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread WJhonson
It's my understanding that sweat of the brown does not create a copyright at all. That was the entire argument behind the claim that phonebooks had no copyright protection. Similarly pure indexes have no copyright protection since they exhibit no creativity at all. Bad news for indexers.

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 4/26/2011 12:08:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, smole...@eunet.rs writes: Translation is not sweat of the brow. Copyright law of Germany, for example, explicitly states that translations are copyrighted: http://bundesrecht.juris.de/urhg/__3.html . Copyright law of Serbia,

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-26 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 4/26/2011 4:42:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, waihor...@yahoo.com.hk writes: Baidu do not translate anything copy from English Wikipedia or Japanese Wikipedia, but just keep the full content without attribution and changing anything. There are totally about 50 articles

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-25 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 4/25/2011 9:34:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jrg...@gmail.com writes: My interest in a legal opinion is not to know if what they do is legal or not. My interest is to know for example what can they do if I copy the content they previously have translated from an English

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 52

2011-04-25 Thread WJhonson
I always thought that translations were considered wholely derivative, that is that a new copyright is *not* created, by translating. In a message dated 4/25/2011 1:57:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, sainto...@telus.net writes: On 04/25/11 9:33 AM, Joan Goma wrote: My interest in a

Re: [Foundation-l] Plea for candidates: WMF Movement Communications Manager

2011-04-15 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 4/5/2011 6:08:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bnewst...@wikimedia.org writes: Another quick note on the Movement Communications Manager posting that we are hoping to fill at WMF. We have a number of applicants, but very, very few are from the Wikimedia community. We would

Re: [Foundation-l] Plea for candidates: WMF Movement Communications Manager

2011-04-15 Thread Wjhonson
Sarah I understand your point, but the required qualification just above the non-English states : Exceptional English writing is critical for this role, including the ability to write time-sensitive, efficient, compelling, and clearly understandable communications products for a wide range of

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-08 Thread Wjhonson
While I am all about openness and journalism, I had a recent incident which made me re-think something on these lines. I had a few years back, started creating an open visible search-indexed index to ArbCom proceedings. Some editors however edit using their real names, not something I would

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Storyteller job opening

2011-03-03 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 3/1/2011 12:08:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, wikipe...@frontier.com writes: If people actually understood how collaboration on a wiki works, it would be much easier for them to accept the projects for what they are, rather than creating drama about things they aren't.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Storyteller job opening

2011-03-03 Thread Wjhonson
-Original Message- From: Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 3:49 pm Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Storyteller job opening On 3/1/2011 2:41 PM, Pronoein wrote: Thank you for your answer Michael. However: «Note

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-27 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 2/26/2011 6:12:10 AM Pacific Standard Time, dger...@gmail.com writes: So, for WIkibooks: what's the tuna? What's the compelling attraction that will keep people lured in? I will go one step further. What is Wikibooks at all? The scope, content, purpose were really poorly

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness: a radical proposal -- some proposed details ...

2011-02-27 Thread WJhonson
The problem with the approach that we can let the welcoming and friendliness be an emergent behaviour, is that we're already many years into this and it's simply... not. However the admin bit is an officially sanctioned method of enforcing rules. This is a lop-sided approach. To

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-27 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 2/27/2011 12:26:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, dger...@gmail.com writes: The scope was supposedly textbooks - how-to books. The problem I see with free books is just that you really need something that says... this is WHY you, the contributor would put in this amount of

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-26 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 2/25/2011 3:12:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, jay...@gmail.com writes: At the moment, we need admins who press buttons more than we need to welcome new users. It is unfortunate, but that is how it is. We need to find ways of reducing the amount of work needed, or radically

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-26 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 2/25/2011 9:56:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, smole...@eunet.rs writes: To my knowledge, no one has ever tried it, but why not? In reality, some people don't do what they know to do, but choose to become teachers. Maybe there are people who know how to edit Wikipedia and

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-23 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 2/22/2011 10:16:25 PM Pacific Standard Time, sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu writes: There's a shortage of core developers. There are quite a lot of PHP developers who have built some sort of MediaWiki extension, or otherwise hacked on it to make their own fork, however. We have

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-23 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 2/23/2011 11:16:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, sgard...@wikimedia.org writes: To belabour the videogame analogy a little further: Zack Exley and I were talking about new article patrol as being a bit like a first-person shooter, and every now and then a nun or a tourist

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-21 Thread WJhonson
Ral I know you'd like to give the benefit of good faith to all admins. However, if we actually have admins who are deleting articles so quickly that they fat-finger the *reasons* then we have a serious problem. No thinkee is quite close to admin abuse. As a community we should be bending over

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-20 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 2/19/2011 4:18:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, thewub.w...@googlemail.com writes: Deletion log for Makmende: * 00:37, 24 March 2010 Flyguy649 (talk | contribs) deleted “Makmende” ? (CSD G3: Pure Vandalism) * 22:53, 23 March 2010 Malik Shabazz (talk | contribs) deleted

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

2011-02-15 Thread WJhonson
Something must be wrong with this stat counter. Back in 2009, Main Page was getting two million views per month, more or less http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/most-popular-wikipedia-pages/4hmquk6fx 4gu/191#view This counter show an amazing drop off if its now only getting about 12,000

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-22 Thread Wjhonson
You are mistaking the problem. It's not that a piece of knowledge is not googleable. It's that a piece of knowledge is not published whatsoever. Never published. Anywhere. At any time. Ever. That's quite a different animal. -Original Message- From: CherianTinu Abraham

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-20 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 1/20/2011 11:37:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, dger...@gmail.com writes: There's a lot of knowledge in fields which everyone assumes, and which are transmitted academically, but not in a format that teenage en:wp admins can grasp in five seconds. Knowledge transmitted

Re: [Foundation-l] Template Overkill

2011-01-01 Thread WJhonson
One fix that developers could do, and which would address 93.6% of the problem is to move the template editing out-of-normal-editing-space. Disentangle the template code, from the editable text. W ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia / Wikipedia Statistics

2010-12-16 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/15/2010 9:57:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, ezac...@wikimedia.org writes: Technical problems: First the dump server needed fixing , now the wikistats server is broken: power unit is no longer. Replacement is on order. Erik Zachte Is there any other way to get a

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia / Wikipedia Statistics

2010-12-16 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/16/2010 2:14:01 AM Pacific Standard Time, z...@mzmcbride.com writes: Erik Zachte wrote: On 12/16/2010 0:12, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Why are these tables so out of date? http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm Technical problems: First the

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread WJhonson
Is the current CC license retroactive to all of the old versions from the beginning to now? W ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis analysed

2010-12-15 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/14/2010 2:55:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, v...@fct.unl.pt writes: The Wikimedia projects power structure is definitely a serious candidate for such analysis. What is this? Link ? Will ___ foundation-l mailing list

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia / Wikipedia Statistics

2010-12-15 Thread WJhonson
Why are these tables so out of date? http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/14/2010 8:21:09 AM Pacific Standard Time, steven.wall...@gmail.com writes: This is fantastic, and the timing could not be better. If anyone finds anything noteworthy, please add it to the timeline of Wikipedia that we're building at the 10th anniversary wiki,[1] as

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-12-10 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/10/2010 12:45:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, jayen...@yahoo.com writes: Apart from summarising COM:PORN*, all that the draft sexual content policy was meant to do, actually, was to address two cases: * Material that is illegal to host for the Foundation under Florida

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki[p/m]edia

2010-12-10 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/10/2010 6:52:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, zvand...@googlemail.com writes: It is difficult to say how many people refuse to donate to Wikimedia because they want to donate to Wikipedia. People should know that you can't donate to a website itself but only to the

Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-10 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/9/2010 11:06:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes: Google does it, archive.org (wayback machine) does it, we can copy them for caching and searching i assume. we are not changing the license, but just preventing the information from

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-12-10 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/10/2010 12:08:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, jayen...@yahoo.com writes: Suggest you read the draft policy, rather than the votes. You're suggesting that all the no votes are simply trolls then? That's a lot of no votes to just cast them off as people who didn't read the

Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-10 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/10/2010 2:12:44 PM Pacific Standard Time, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes: Well, lets backtrack. The original question was, how can we exclude wikipedia clones from the search. my idea was to create a search engine that includes only refs from wikipedia in it.

Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-10 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/10/2010 1:31:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes: If we prefer pages that can be cached and translated, and mark the others that cannot, then by natural selection we will in long term replaces the pages that are not allowed to be cached

Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-10 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/10/2010 1:10:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes: My point is we should index them ourselves. We should have the pages used as references first listed in an easy to use manner and if possible we should cache them. If they are not cacheable

Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-10 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/10/2010 2:58:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes: my idea was that you will want to search pages that are referenced by wikipedia already, in my work on kosovo, it would be very helpful because there are lots of bad results on google, and

Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-09 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/9/2010 2:51:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes: yes it would be great. As i said, it could just include all pages listed as REF pages and that would allow people to review the results and find pages that should not belong. We also need

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation-L Mirrors

2010-12-08 Thread WJhonson
What is the perceived limitation(s) on mirroring this email list ? That is, making copies of it, on other sites. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread WJhonson
Is this like the difference between colour in Great Britain and color in the U.S. ? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Use Wikipedia as a Marketing Tool

2010-12-07 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/7/2010 9:38:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, przyk...@o2.pl writes: The more mentions you have in the press, and the more visibility you have in social media and blogs, the more likely you are to seem legitimate and “notable” -- a precondition for inclusion.

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Me...

2010-12-04 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 12/4/2010 6:50:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, geni...@gmail.com writes: Actually we have at least 3. Editor, admin bureaucrat, steward, dev. everyone, arbcom Everyone, foundation, foundation board. Not three Geni, one. Has anyone become Arbcom without being an

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderation (was: should not web server logs (of requests) ...

2010-12-02 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/30/2010 11:47:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, aph...@gmail.com writes: After I mentioned Wikimedia troll, Will thought it meant him and sent me some mails. I told him it was an in-joke (Bostonian Maniacs may remember that) but not further. Besides annotation to a joke is

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-30 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/30/2010 11:11:10 AM Pacific Standard Time, birgitte...@yahoo.com writes: And like everyone who contributes to this list, they also send other messages to the list that are useful or contribute a perspective that would otherwise be absent from the list. They should

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-30 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/30/2010 11:58:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, birgitte...@yahoo.com writes: Your recent postings have definitely been foolish. You seem to be going out of the way to misinterpret everyone's words in the worst possible light. Why should you assume the phrase donor is

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-30 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/30/2010 4:46:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, z...@mzmcbride.com writes: The phrase you're looking for is, An ounce of prevention is a pound of cure. Either be an active part of this mailing list and moderate as appropriate or give up the damn post already. The current

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/29/2010 2:14:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, midom.li...@gmail.com writes: This isn't Wikipedia, this is Wikimedia. You can cite me, if you want. Go on record, then I'll cite you. An email list is not a citable source, per our policy. However a page on the server is

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread WJhonson
If that's the case, I would suggest, if it does not do so already, that the server also grab details about How did you get here? such as keywords used, or page-come-from and so on. Also I would want it to grab geographic location (where known), which would help us to know, for example, if

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/29/2010 11:33:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, midom.li...@gmail.com writes: Hi! Go on record, then I'll cite you. An email list is not a citable source, per our policy. Why would I care about your policy? Which policy is 'our' policy? Why does it apply to anything

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/29/2010 8:48:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, russnel...@gmail.com writes: Those with the passwords are accountable to the foundation, which is accountable to the donors. The foundation needs to make sure that the money donated to it is spent wisely, and not frittered

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/29/2010 9:34:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, russnel...@gmail.com writes: Huh?? Editors are donors as well, as are people who contribute to mailing lists, as are you. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:13 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 11/29/2010 8:48:40 PM

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/29/2010 10:00:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, pbeaude...@wikimedia.org writes: To suggest that the WMF (which means what, exactly, in this context? Staff? Mailing list participants?) does not feel accountable to anyone but donors is to make a careless generalization,

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-28 Thread WJhonson
I'm afraid our Tatar is correct in some senses and others in this thread are in a failing or failed mode. Each web server, of which the WMF has a few, collects details on the behaviour of IPs, in logs. Those logs can be and probably have been requested by certain government officials, most

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-28 Thread WJhonson
My belief is that this is not so. Checkuser logs are not the same thing as IP logs. Are you suggesting that should a court, three months-and-a-day after a logged in user made a libelous edit, order the WMF to release the IP address of that user, they would not be able to do so? I suggest

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-28 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/28/2010 2:34:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, erikzac...@infodisiac.com writes: Repost with shortened url: WJhonson: The issue with the AOL Search Scandal is a red herring. People are not going to be searching for their own phone number or Social Security numbers

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-28 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/28/2010 3:36:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, russnel...@gmail.com writes: You misbelieve. Listen to Aude. She knows what she's talking about. I'd rather have Aude cite a reliable source. People are not reliable sources. No living person is such an authority that we

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-28 Thread WJhonson
How exactly do config files tell us what the WMF is retaining? That the error logs are manually purged tells us that they are in fact retaining details. What I asked was an official statement of what and for how long. The config files do not answer that question. At any rate you didn't link to

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-28 Thread WJhonson
Again Aude, this is your statement only. This is not an official statement of what the policy is or isn't, nor what is or isn't done under any policy which may or may not exist. You may be satisfied that you are right, but I would rather have a citable source. Humans are not citable

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