--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 9:48 PM
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009
Birgitte SB hett schreven:
Right, it obviously the pompous English majority conspiring here because
you received a prank from every English speaker on the list.
If the list were in Spanish so every immature youth in Latin America with too
much time on their hands could access it without
Pedro Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
This is a (predominantly) English-language mailing list, so using
those traditions used in the English-speaking world seems to make
sense to me.
Of course, wasting resources on april
--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
From: Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 10:16 AM
Birgitte SB hett
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David Levy wrote:
Pedro Sanchez wrote:
Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical.
And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all
that fancy words let's bother them with our idiotic pranks
becuase we are majority
I've just finished coding up Non-Free Content Bot which spiders Google
Images and uploads 10 per second to commons with no license information. I
wrote the bot using MediaWiki's turing complete template language. Given
that Google Images has 916,000,000 images I anticipate it will take
2.90269084
May I point out that Alex, also known as majorly or Al Tally, is a respected
member of the British Wikimedia crowd and not just a one off prankster using
a made up e-mail address. Also, this made me laugh and I would have thought
that a prank with cultural significance (due to the date), that is
Cary Bass wrote:
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David Levy wrote:
Pedro Sanchez wrote:
Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical.
And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all
that fancy words let's bother them with our idiotic
Hi all
I just came across this[1] policy on Commons, which states that from today,
non-free content is going to be allowed to be uploaded on Commons. I'm
rather shocked that this was pushed through without any notice here, or
anywhere, and it has become policy, going against Wikimedia's free
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.comwrote:
Hi all
I just came across this[1] policy on Commons, which states that from today,
non-free content is going to be allowed to be uploaded on Commons. I'm
rather shocked that this was pushed through without any notice
April's fools alredy? *sigh*
Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse
of the mailing list, I've created a filter to delete any future
e-mails from Al Tally (with whom my interactions have been uniformly
negative).
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
April's fools alredy? *sigh*
Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse
of the mailing list, I've created a filter to delete any future
e-mails from Al Tally (with whom my interactions have
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.comwrote:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
April's fools alredy? *sigh*
Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse
of the mailing list, I've created a
2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com:
you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly
jokes on december 28
Yes, because December 28 isn't the traditional day for such things. As
long as it is just one day a year, it's a bit of fun. If people
started doing it on
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com:
you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly
jokes on december 28
Yes, because December 28 isn't the traditional day for such things. As
2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com:
you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly
jokes on december 28
Yes, because December 28 isn't
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
This is a (predominantly) English-language mailing list, so using
those traditions used in the English-speaking world seems to make
sense to me.
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foundation-l
Pedro Sanchez wrote:
Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical.
And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all that fancy
words
let's bother them with our idiotic pranks becuase we are majority and
thereforewe have the right to do so
Very good attitude on
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