Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-22 Thread David Gerard
On 21 January 2012 22:57, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: David, I'm a bit surprised that you think a policy that includes the language Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue or talks. is a good idea. I think it'd be difficult to have a discussion about

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-22 Thread Tobias
On 01/21/2012 11:13 PM, MZMcBride wrote: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy […] regardless of […] preferred Creative Commons license […] I use the GNU General Public License v3 / GNU Free Documentation License v1.3, as commanded by Saint IGNUcius, you insensitive clod!

Re: [Foundation-l] OSM license change

2012-01-22 Thread Strainu
2012/1/22 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: Strainu wrote: Has anyone made an analysis on what the license change would mean to Wikipedia? Looking at the ODbL FAQ on the OSM website, it seems that using maps would not be affected. But what about using data from OSM in our articles? Also, my

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-22 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 05:54:34PM -0500, MZMcBride wrote: Steven Walling wrote: If a policy makes good sense, we clearly need it, and feedback about the text is mostly positive, then we should adopt it. Rejecting a good idea because of process wonkery is stupid. Really? Does this apply

[Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Kim Bruning
Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0112/morningtech377.html Interesting. Any details? sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa        http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0112/morningtech377.html Interesting. Any details? sincerely,        Kim Bruning -- I'm worried that we may be getting

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm worried that we may be getting in trouble. I don't know about US laws, but are charitable organizations allowed to meddle in political lobbying? I'd appreciate if more knowledgeable people could give us some

[Foundation-l] new idea new feature

2012-01-22 Thread keisuke koyanagi
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Re: [Foundation-l] new idea new feature

2012-01-22 Thread Techman224
Wouldn't it be better if you just moderate non-member messages, so there is no confusion where they need to post and they won't get accidentally rejected? Techman224 On 2012-01-22, at 12:43 PM, keisuke koyanagi wrote: Due to a large amount of spam, emails from non-members of this list are

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Gregory Varnum
Basically a charity in the USA can spend up to 20% of its expenses on direct lobbying of related issues. Basically that means they can say this is good and that's good - but they can't actually endorse a party or individual. They can educate on that person - so and so wants to do this - but

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2012 19:24, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Basically a charity in the USA can spend up to 20% of its expenses on direct lobbying of related issues.  Basically that means they can say this is good and that's good - but they can't actually endorse a party or

Re: [Foundation-l] new idea new feature

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
People can subscribe and set their preferences to not receive any emails, then they can email the list with no problems. On Jan 22, 2012 6:44 PM, keisuke koyanagi koyakeiaa...@gmail.com wrote: Due to a large amount of spam, emails from non-members of this list are now automatically rejected. If

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread geni
On 22 January 2012 18:00, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm worried that we may be getting in trouble. I don't know about US laws, but are charitable organizations allowed to meddle in political lobbying? I'd

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
You trust GOOGLE's interests to align sufficiently with ours, to the extent that you're willing to cede government affairs to them? pb On Sun Jan 22 12:48:50 2012, geni wrote: On 22 January 2012 18:00, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Pedro Sanchez

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mono
Actually, they're pretty similar. Don't forget that Google and Sergey Brin's foundation are major income sources. On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: You trust GOOGLE's interests to align sufficiently with ours, to the extent that you're willing to

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: You trust GOOGLE's interests to align sufficiently with ours, to the extent that you're willing to cede government affairs to them? Yes. Why won't their interest align on the same side as everyone else ? The

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Nederland reports

2012-01-22 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, Wikimedia Nederland is reporting monthly on its activities. We just completed December, and for convenience I send you here the link to the whole list of reports. Kind regards Ziko van Dijk president -- --- Vereniging Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread James Alexander
Google (and facebook and twitter etc) are large corporate organizations with profits heavily on their mind (by law, they are responsible to their shareholders). While they clearly have good reasons to be opposed to SOPA and PIPA there reasons are not exactly the same as ours and in my opinion we

[Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
Hello All, I just filed a feature request which I think is of strategic interest to Wikipedia: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33889 Bug 33889 - Request to add a comment section under every Wikipedia article By providing a comment section under every Wikipedia article, we can

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread FT2
Not least our public life-blood comes from the perception we're independent, non-profit motivated, charitable, public welfare motivated, grass-roots - not a Silicon Valley giant. We have spent years explaining we have just 75 staff and volunteer writers. We seek small donations to be aligned to

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Tom Morris
On 22 January 2012 21:43, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I just filed a feature request which I think is of strategic interest to Wikipedia: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33889 Bug 33889 - Request to add a comment section under every Wikipedia article

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
The Article Feedback Tool v.5 and the current Talk tab are for discussing *the editing of the current article*, not for discussing *the topic represented by the current article*, although I think these two goals can coexist in a single discussion area. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Tom Morris

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
For example, on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat , we can have a single discussion area that can both talk about the editing of this article and issues related to cats (e.g. petting them). On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: The Article Feedback Tool v.5 and

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread David Gerard
On 22 January 2012 21:43, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I just filed a feature request which I think is of strategic interest to Wikipedia: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33889 Similar to the Opinions tab on Wikinews. Could be interesting. Would need to be

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Tom Morris
On 22 January 2012 22:08, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: For example, on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat , we can have a single discussion area that can both talk about the editing of this article and issues related to cats (e.g. petting them). Well, English Wikinews has what you are

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
There is already a discussion page attached to every article. It's for discussing the article, though, rather than its topic. While we are more than a conventional encyclopedia, we are still an encyclopaedia and I don't think we should add job and product adverts to our articles. If people want

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Fae
As Facebook already takes our articles for the same general chitchat reasons, it sounds like we could add a Facebook link to every article to get the same result. Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On 22 January 2012 22:08, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: For example, on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat , we can have a single discussion area that can both talk about the editing of this article and issues related

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Godwin
geni writes: What is highly questionable is if it a remotely worthwhile use of money. If Google's lobbyists can't impact SOPA and the like what makes the foundation think our can? geni, as you may know, I spent more than a decade in Washington working on public-policy issues for non-profits

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: There is already a discussion page attached to every article. It's for discussing the article, though, rather than its topic. Besides this, another disadvantage of the current Talk tab is it uses the wiki way to talk,

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2012 22:26, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: At this point, I'll understand if you hit me with a [citation needed] here, and I confess that what I'm telling probably is best classified as original research. But don't take my word for it -- talk to other NGOs that work in the

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: There is already a discussion page attached to every article. It's for discussing the article, though, rather than its topic. Besides this,

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2012 22:31, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: Besides this, another disadvantage of the current Talk tab is it uses the wiki way to talk, not the typical comment section we see under every YouTube video, Flickr image, Facebook status update, etc. The wiki way to talk may be

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: There is already a discussion page attached to every article. It's for

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Godwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: There's a massive selection bias there! Of course the NGOs that do lots of lobbying think lobbying is a great idea, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. Not only that, but of course people who eat food and drink

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Nederland reports

2012-01-22 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Ziko, I appreciate your email, but it seems you forgot the link. Also, I personally strongly prefer it if you could include the actual reports in the email. It makes searching finding much easier, as well as offline reading. Best regards, Lodewijk No dia 22 de Janeiro de 2012 22:32, Ziko

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2012 22:54, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: There's a massive selection bias there! Of course the NGOs that do lots of lobbying think lobbying is a great idea, otherwise they wouldn't be doing

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Nederland reports

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2012 22:56, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Hi Ziko, I appreciate your email, but it seems you forgot the link. Also, I personally strongly prefer it if you could include the actual reports in the email. It makes searching finding much easier, as well as offline

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Godwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Mike, I completely understand your point on this and where you are coming from. But you made a conflicting point yourself text omitted But as I saw it, we already made our voice heard? When we blacked out Wikipedia for

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 January 2012 22:54, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: So this can mean very much for scientific research. For example, imagine if there are two mathematicians in the world interested in the same, very deep

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Godwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree - the null hypothesis is that the gain from lobbying isn't worth the cost, not that the gain is zero. (Cost includes far more than just monetary cost, of course.) Ah, then the proper experiment would have

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2012 23:09, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree - the null hypothesis is that the gain from lobbying isn't worth the cost, not that the gain is zero. (Cost includes far more than just

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2012 23:08, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: They can do what academics have always done: read each other's published works and go to conferences. If a subject is so obscure that only a handle of researchers are involved in it, then it probably isn't sufficiently notable to

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
This comment section idea can be an experiment. If it does more good than bad, we can keep it. Otherwise we can remove it. It's just as simple as enabling/disabling a MediaWiki extension. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 January 2012 23:08, Yao

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 22 January 2012 23:25, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: This comment section idea can be an experiment. If it does more good than bad, we can keep it. Otherwise we can remove it. It's just as simple as enabling/disabling a MediaWiki extension. How would you measure how much good and

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 January 2012 23:25, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: This comment section idea can be an experiment. If it does more good than bad, we can keep it. Otherwise we can remove it. It's just as simple as

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
Mike, I noticed you have been equating getting our voice heard with general lobbying. I am curious, mostly because I don't know what it entails. Am I wrong to assume, that lobbying involves approaching a registered, professional consulting/lobbying firm in Washington who in turn, refer the client

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Svip
On 22 January 2012 23:31, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: The wiki way to talk may be favored by the Wikipedia community, but is really weird to the general public. The name 'talk page' is also a terrible name and very ambiguous as to what it is. A far more appropriate candidate for

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Nederland reports

2012-01-22 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Ah - things happen. Thanks for the note. Ziko http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland This is the chapter report for Wikimedia Nederland for December 2011. == Cultural heritage == The Tropical Museum has put out a call for volunteers and will also be

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 January 2012 23:31, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: The wiki way to talk may be favored by the Wikipedia community, but is really weird to the general public. The name 'talk page' is also a terrible name and very

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread David Gerard
On 22 January 2012 23:39, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote: The name 'talk page' is also a terrible name and very ambiguous as to what it is.  A far more appropriate candidate for such a page's name would be 'collaboration page', 'work page', 'improvement page' and so on. English Wikinews calls

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
The simple option that will just blow all this talk fo lobbying away, is to migrate outside US jurisdiction entirely. It does entail some costs, and may well not be optimal, on many fronts. A medium option is to do a plan on the lines of the actions that Google has already put into force, of

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Nathan
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Mike, I completely understand your point on this and where you are coming from. But you made a conflicting point yourself On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: None of this requires

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread David Gerard
On 22 January 2012 23:50, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: So we will put a few fallback datacenters elsewhere, just so our various communities and chapters realize we aren't going to be bullied by US jurisdiction. AIUI setting up the new Virginia datacentre took

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Svip
On 23 January 2012 00:43, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 January 2012 23:31, Yao Ziyuan yaoziy...@gmail.com wrote: The wiki way to talk may be favored by the Wikipedia community, but is really weird to the general

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Svip
On 23 January 2012 00:44, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 January 2012 23:39, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote: The name 'talk page' is also a terrible name and very ambiguous as to what it is.  A far more appropriate candidate for such a page's name would be 'collaboration page',

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread MZMcBride
Yao Ziyuan wrote: This merit is even more evident when the topic is very specialized, e.g. [[Phonological history of English low back vowels]]. I bet there isn't a forum on the Web dedicated to this very specialized topic, and even if there is one, it can be very hard to find it with Google

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Godwin
Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Am I wrong to assume, that lobbying involves approaching a registered, professional consulting/lobbying firm in Washington who in turn, refer the client to politicians and then facilitate

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:16 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Yao Ziyuan wrote: This merit is even more evident when the topic is very specialized, e.g. [[Phonological history of English low back vowels]]. I bet there isn't a forum on the Web dedicated to this very specialized topic,

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Tom Morris
On 22 January 2012 23:33, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: You may have heard the other stereotype about lobbying, that people who actually propose and support legislation like SOPA and PIPA are backed by lobbyist on behalf RIAA, MPAA and other large publishers, who have very deep pockets.

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
Hi Mike I want to talk for a minute about lobbying in general, aside from the WMF position on it. Because this might be one of those international issues where perceptions might differ based on the culture and nationality of someone. I know my position on this might be naive or flawed, but I know

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:12 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 January 2012 23:50, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: So we will put a few fallback datacenters elsewhere, just so our various communities and chapters realize we aren't going to be bullied by US

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Sue Gardner
On 22 January 2012 08:30, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa        http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0112/morningtech377.html Interesting. Any details? I thought we had already discussed this here, but maybe it was only discussed on

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 22 January 2012 08:30, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0112/morningtech377.html Interesting. Any details?

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: I thought we had already discussed this here, but maybe it was only discussed on the SOPA pages on-wiki? Upshot: the Wikimedia Foundation engaged a DC firm, Dow Lohnes Government Strategies, to help us better

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Godwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Direct lobbying is relatively new compared to the older forms of government and legislative influence. Strictly from a global south perspective, a similar form of unregulated advocacy and influence that I saw practiced here

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
I find this discussion interesting, although after Sue's clarification, it might be moot. But I am going to continue it, until someone asks to take this off-list. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Basically a charity in the USA can spend up to 20% of its expenses on direct lobbying of related issues. 20% of the first $500,000, 15% of the next $500,000, 10% of the next $500,000, and 5% of the rest, with a cap

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Godwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: This is an area I have no expertise in. My nascent understanding of the legal implication of those legislations aside, I, like others usually defer to more respected opinions. The Citizens United ruling for example has been

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you imagine money spent is the measure of influence? The pro-SOPA forces outspent the tech industry three-to-one and still lost. Citation needed. Plus, If money is the measure of effectiveness, what does this

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Well, that was my point, according to recent rulings, money is speech and corporations are people Really? That's weird. What recent ruling said that? ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 22 January 2012 08:30, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa        http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0112/morningtech377.html Interesting. Any details? I

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Brandon Harris
On 1/22/12 7:32 PM, Theo10011 wrote: P.S. Hi Jorm, whatcha think? ;) I think that trying to school Mike Godwin on Citizens United and IP Law is colossally bad idea. But entertaining. -- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge:

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Godwin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you imagine money spent is the measure of influence? The pro-SOPA forces outspent the tech industry three-to-one and still lost. Citation

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Well, that was my point, according to recent rulings, money is speech and corporations are people Really? That's weird. What recent ruling said that?

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Well, that was my point, according to recent rulings, money is speech and corporations

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I think that trying to school Mike Godwin on Citizens United and IP Law is colossally bad idea. But entertaining. I agree completely. I love Mike, why on earth would you think I was trying to school him? I was

Re: [Foundation-l] Research assistance

2012-01-22 Thread David Goodman
Experimentation that relies on the availability of Pending changes would be better carried out of those language Wikipedias that have adopted the system, such as the German Wikipedia. The English WP decide not to use Pending Changes; I cannot for certain predict what would happen if the request

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Well, that was

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: If you read I said according to recent rulings And as far as I can tell, what you claim those recent rulings said, is not what the recent rulings said. ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: If you read I said according to recent rulings And as far as I can tell, what you claim those recent rulings said, is not what the recent rulings said.

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread cyrano
Le 22/01/2012 20:04, Mike Godwin a écrit : Another important lesson about arguing issues in Washington is that the fight is never over. The content companies have been at war with technology companies for decades over copyright issues. The fact that we were heard one day (or even one week) in

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread cyrano
Le 22/01/2012 20:18, Thomas Dalton a écrit : That's a good analogy. The approach often taken with studies about humanity is not to do experiments (because they can be harmful) but instead to examine things that have already happened or are happening anyway. But then you won't act until

[Foundation-l] Decentralized data center Was: Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread cyrano
What about sharing the whole databases among the millions of users, in some p2p net with a lot of redundancies?, something like a dense, cloudy internet of databases who remains whole even if it looses part of itself? Does it sound unwordly? It could be a good complement to the server based

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread cyrano
Mike, I don't know how's the political landscape is in the USA, but you would say that there is few significative corruption and collusion? Le 22/01/2012 21:16, Mike Godwin a écrit : Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Am I

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread cyrano
Le 22/01/2012 23:30, Mike Godwin a écrit : I think you imagine the blackout was the only thing that mattered in turning this legislation around. I can see why you might think that, but it is incorrect. Effective strategies for political change are implemented on many levels, and, in my view,

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread cyrano
Le 22/01/2012 20:00, Thomas Dalton a écrit : On 22 January 2012 22:54, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: I welcome your independent research project when you get it started. Or anybody's, really. I suppose the null hypothesis is that one can simply stay silent and wins the issue anyway.

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

2012-01-22 Thread Mike Godwin
Cyrano writes: Mike, I don't know how's the political landscape is in the USA, but you would say that there is few significative corruption and collusion? No, I wouldn't say that. Whenever you have enough human beings assembled to create a political environment, you create the potential for