On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 19:07, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
The more time you spend trying to shutdown the pages/groups/whatever
else, the more it encourages users to do it, So just pay no attention
to them.
We have an article on that! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
This is nuts. Literally, nothing has changed. Stuff on Wikimedia
sites needs to be either educational or aimed at furthering the goals
of the project and the foundation. We don't host articles about my
her breasts or his penis, and we don't need to host images of them
either. Arguing otherwise
It still works, it's just harder. And I'm totally with you on the
second point. Jimmy got a needed process started. Could he have
started it a different, less dramatic way? Probably. Would that have
been better? Probably. As effective? Probably not. If you're
looking to masturbate,
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/thread.html
Everything is archived.
~Amory
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I recognize that the issue is more about the point and process of the
whole thing, and that it's not just Wales who deleted images, but I
think some perspective is useful.
Jimbo deleted 71 images.
That doesn't call for outright rage.
~A
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Amusing, perhaps, but it would really serve no purpose other than to
be vindictive and pointed (everyone know Wikimedia is smarter than
Fox). Besides, it'd be a copyvio.
~A
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 19:39, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 20:05, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Wikipedia is written by hundreds of thousands of volunteers from around the
world, and that won't change with this project. The Wikipedia Public Policy
Initiative will recruit Wikipedia volunteers to work with public policy
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.
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social communities
I think most would argue that porn is inherently anti-social. I don't see a
lot of social communities made up of just one person (probably half of IRC).
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:55, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Pretty neat; maybe porn isn't on the map because there is
Awesome!
On Saturday, May 14, 2011, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Email notification for user talk page changes is now enabled on all wikis.
The issue came up at the MediaWiki developer meeting here in Berlin. A
few ops people were sitting together, we couldn't think of any
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