Ray Saintonge wrote:
And how are you determining that a work is orphaned? What JuJU do you
have to declare that a work is free to use commercially?
Whether a work is orphaned will vary from one work to another. Do you
have a specific work in mind? I was just providing a plausible
wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
And how are you determining that a work is orphaned? What JuJU do you
have to declare that a work is free to use commercially?
Whether a work is orphaned will vary from one work to another. Do you
have a specific work
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Caution in avoiding offence with one's words must be coupled with a
willingness to avoid seeing offence in the words of others. One needs to
begin from the assumption that a word is being used in its most ordinary
sense. Just like gay is not restricted by modern
Ray Saintonge wrote:
wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
And how are you determining that a work is orphaned? What JuJU do you
have to declare that a work is free to use commercially?
Whether a work is orphaned will vary from one work to another. Do you
Hoi,
Dear Teun, I grew up in the mother church. When asked we would say that we
were catholic. From inside the church there is no credible outside because
they are not part of our community. As a little boy we did not play with the
kids of the public primary school (their school was in front of
Hello all,
the massive thread regarding the default sidebar language link
expansion state has surfaced a number of fundamental and significant
questions regarding the working relationship between the Wikimedia
Foundation and the larger Wikimedia volunteer community. This message
represents my
Hoi,
As you may know, I had reservations about the fact that the UX was funded
for the English language Wikipedia only. This turned out well; there was
attention for right to left languages, testing environments for several
languages were created. In the tools there was time to include character
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
With all this in mind, here are just a few concrete ideas for closing the gap:
1) Embedding teams funded by WMF into larger, publicly visible
workgroups which include volunteers and which meet regularly e.g. via
IRC;
1 a)
The basic attitude has to be that paid developers are treated
identically to volunteers, except that you can tell the former what to
do and expect them to put in more time. There should not be
communication between paid developers and the community, paid
developers should be an integral
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:28 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
7) Further experimentation with tools like IdeaTorrent for large-scale
brainstorming and ranking purposes (we have a prototype running at
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comsimetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com
wrote:
2) Make sure that every paid developer spends time dealing with the
community. This can include giving support to end users, discussing
things with volunteers, reviewing patches,
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
I really agree with this sentiment, but it seems difficult to get staff to
really be part of the community unless they're _from_ the community. The
developers I've seen discuss their personal opinions on public fora
subject was: hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Usability team discussed this issue at length this afternoon. ...
Regarding the data behind the decision. First, let me apologize for the
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Amory Meltzer amorymelt...@gmail.com wrote:
With the exception of the first two numbers, nothing there is wholly
or remotely true.
*Everything* about Wikipedia in the article is 100% true. It is based
on an interview that noted scholar Sam Vaknin had granted to
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
...
It's also worth pointing out that a good way *not* to engage with the
community is to not touch preexisting code that volunteers are
familiar with. All the Usability Initiative stuff was created
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 22:29, Utkarshraj Atmaram utcur...@gmail.com wrote:
Remember, Sam Vaknin is a Ph.D., so he cannot be wrong.
Probably has a Bachelor in Science, too.
~A
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