[Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-06 Thread Teofilo
During the past few years, the new softwares of the Wikimedia Foundations have been developped in a too much anarchic way. * They are sometimes implemented as a whim of a few WMF big wheels, without consulting the user communities. * We are never shown specifications defining the goals of the

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-06 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: During the past few years, the new softwares of the Wikimedia Foundations have been developped in a too much anarchic way. * They are sometimes implemented as a whim of a few WMF big wheels, without consulting the user

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-06 Thread Bod Notbod
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: Conclusion : Because more software means more harm... Your premises don't seem to support quite such a sweeping conclusion. ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-06 Thread Peter Coombe
On 6 September 2010 11:33, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: * The developpers have enabled for every Admin of the French Wikipedia, the possibility to mask (and exert acts of censorship) without needing to be an oversighter (1) Which means that the policy page at [[:fr:Wikipédia:Masqueur

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-06 Thread Peter Coombe
On 6 September 2010 11:33, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: * We are never shown specifications defining the goals of the planned softwares, which makes me doubt such specifications are ever written. With specifications being written and published, problems could be talked in a proactive

[Foundation-l] MusOpen-WMF partnership?

2010-09-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
See EFF on the project: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/musopen-wants-give-classical-music-public-domain They say: We have partnerships with the OLPC project and Wikipedia so we'll likely add music to those as well.

[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 6 Issue 3 6 – 6 September 2010

2010-09-06 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Pending changes analyzed, Foundation report, Main page bias, brief news http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-09-06/News_and_notes In the news: WikiLeaks and Wikipedia; Google–WP collaboration to translate health information

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-06 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 06/09/2010, at 11:23, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: Conclusion : Because more software means more harm... Your premises don't seem to support quite such a sweeping conclusion. In order to rid ourselves of

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-06 Thread Tim Starling
On 06/09/10 20:33, Teofilo wrote: During the past few years, the new softwares of the Wikimedia Foundations have been developped in a too much anarchic way. * They are sometimes implemented as a whim of a few WMF big wheels, without consulting the user communities.

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-06 Thread MZMcBride
Liam Wyatt wrote: In order to rid ourselves of all this harmful software I propose that we extend this moratorium and dispose with the need for software at all. Instead, we should build the world's first carrier pigeon-based encyclopedia. I think this would be funnier if the Wikimedia