Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-07 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I can't follow your reasoning there. Ensuring that Commons can be safely viewed by minors is not censorship, in my opinion. I am actually fine with uncensored pornographic content for adults, but I think we will end up cutting ourselves off from the younger generation if we don't cooperate with

Re: [Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

2010-05-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I am amazed by the Keep votes the various deletion requests for images in the BDSM gallery -- files that are not actually used by any project -- are getting. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2010/05/08#May_8 Editors are saying, with a straight face, that there is no

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
For me, this statement is at the first line a support for Jimmy's effort. It is a soft push from the board to the community to move in a direction. Both Jimmy as well as me believe that the best way for the board to do things is to give guidance to the communities. But, this topic is

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sat, 8/5/10, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Then another idea is to keep on Commons only those pictures which are non-controversial and suggest local project to keep their controversial pictures local? For example en Wikipedia keeps fair use pictures locally and it is OK. If

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Given that several Commons admins had dropped out, and bearing in mind the clean-up campaign called for by the board and Jimbo, I put in an RFA at Commons, saying I would help clean up pornographic images *that are not in use by any project*. The result so far: 14 Opposes, 1 Support.  You get

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
So... are we now going to start writting USfamilyfriendlypedia(tm) ? There is plenty of stuff to be delete then... not only penis and vagina pictures... For example delete all biographies of porn-stars, articles about addictive violent computer games, and there is tons of things to be deleted

Re: [Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

2010-05-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Tue, 11/5/10, wjhon...@aol.com wjhon...@aol.com wrote: If there is enough of a perceived need for content filtering, someone will fill that void.  That someone does not need to be us.  Google does this job with their image browser already without the need for any providers to actively

Re: [Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

2010-05-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I am sorry about the horrible formatting in my last post (any advice appreciated). I'll try this again. --- On Tue, 11/5/10, wjhon...@aol.com wjhon...@aol.com wrote: If there is enough of a perceived need for content filtering, someone will fill that void. That someone does not need to

Re: [Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

2010-05-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Tue, 11/5/10, wjhon...@aol.com wjhon...@aol.com wrote: I would suggest a child-safe approach to Commons, is simply to use the Google image browser with a moderate filter setting.  Try it, it works. Actually, it doesn't. For example, if you search for masturbation

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening

2010-05-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
This post by David does prove that it is possible to argue, with intellectual integrity, that there are more important things at stake than getting Commons into schools. Andreas --- On Wed, 12/5/10, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: From: David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com Subject:

[Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-13 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Jehochman has suggested that we need legal advice from the Foundation at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content with respect to § 2257[1}, and I tend to agree with him. The relevant discussion is here:

Re: [Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

2010-05-13 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Tue, 11/5/10, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: The obvious solution is not to display images by default that a large number of viewers would prefer not to view.  Instead, provide links, or maybe have them blurred out and allow a click to unblur them.  You don't hide

Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-14 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Someone uploading a nude picture of their ex-girlfriend can be far more injurious to the woman concerned than the same person uploading an image of her making tea. Requiring an OTRS release from the model for any nude and sexually explicit content seems appropriate to me. Andreas --- On

Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-15 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Another great post. You are right: this is a separate issue from the original censorship/content filtering debate, but it is an important issue that the proposed Sexual content policy on Commons should address. Recapping some thoughts around this: *No image showing an actual living person

Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-20 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Sounds like a good idea. It would put drafting the Sexual Content policy on a more solid footing, and maybe avoid problems later on. Andreas --- On Thu, 20/5/10, Stillwater Rising stillwateris...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stillwater Rising stillwateris...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l]

Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-20 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I guess people the world over know that at least one member of the board has been quite active in the selection process of late. ;) Also, in cases of illegal content, the Foundation may well find -- or have found -- itself in a position to direct that material be deleted, thus playing an

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-05 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I used the interwiki links all the time in this manner at work, and still do. It was one of the things that turned me on to Wikipedia and caused me to start contributing, and eventually to register an account. As others have said, if the interwiki links had not been visible by default, I

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-06 Thread Andreas Kolbe
One thing that is undoubtedly good is that users now have the choice of displaying lists like the interwiki links, or not. The system seems to do a reasonable job remembering a user's preferences. Someone who prefers the interwiki links hidden can get them off his screen with a click. But the

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-07 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Mon, 7/6/10, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: There is a piece of user js which was implemented on en which does this, incidentally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Manishearth/Scripts#Wikipedia_interwiki_translator - it turns, eg, Espanol into Spanish (t), with the

[Foundation-l] Collapsed galleries for particularly explicit images

2010-06-10 Thread Andreas Kolbe
There is currently a discussion at the en:WP content noticeboard whether we could or should 1. Use collapsed galleries for particularly graphic sexual images (requiring the reader to click Show to see the content) 2. Display them openly, as has been normal practice so far 3. Dispense with

Re: [Foundation-l] Collapsed galleries for particularly explicit images

2010-06-10 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Call me an optimist -- I retain the hope that such discussions may not remain circular forever, but eventually might come to resemble a spiral, with some upwards movement, as has happened in other areas like BLP. In discussions around these issues, it is easy for people on both sides of the

[Foundation-l] Please help review [[Commons:Sexual content]]

2010-06-27 Thread Andreas Kolbe
As many of you are aware, Commons has been developing a proposed policy regarding sexual content at [[Commons:Sexual content]].[1] It is now stable and ready for review by third parties - if you haven't read it yet, please look it over and provide any feedback on the talk page. We want to move

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-23 Thread Andreas Kolbe
From: Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de What I find not convincing is the slogan No censorship. I think this is a bad argument. Actually, I wish we'd rename [[WP:NOTCENSORED]] in en:WP to something more sensible, for similar reasons. It is too often used as a justification for poor editorial

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Thanks Alec. I wouldn't like to see Wikipedia fork either. Excirial's suggestion -- which I understand to mean enabling readers to self-censor the type of content that offends them, or that they don't want their children to see -- strikes me as the way we can have our cake and eat it. It's

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sat, 24/7/10, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: - That IPs are shown a mildly censored version, and that seeing the uncensored version of Wikipedia requires registering an account and setting the preferences up accordingly. And this is where it all breaks down. Once you start

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-24 Thread Andreas Kolbe
From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com Yes, the devil is in the details, and in working out the correct parameters for default IP access. Each language version of any project could make its own determination in this regard. Arabic, no Mohammed images; India, no sex and kissing; Dutch and

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Date: Sunday, 25 July, 2010, 10:54 Andreas Kolbe wrote: to see its content. Yes, the devil is in the details, and in working out the correct parameters for default IP access. Each language version of any project could make its own determination in this regard. Arabic, no Mohammed

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sun, 25/7/10, Fajro fai...@gmail.com wrote: Machine translation is always unsuitable to produce usable articles, but can help to start new ones in smaller wikipedias. I second that. About 50% of machine translation output is gibberish, or worse, plausible-sounding text that actually

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Milos, when I am talking about the possibility of a censored default for IP access, I am talking about the types of censorship Flickr and YouTube are using. They categorise their content on the basis of whether it is moderate or explicit adult content. This has not resulted in Serbian YouTube

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
From: Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com And what about words? Do you think that one devoted homophobic Christian would be willing to see [relevant] citation inside of some general article that Jesus was gay? If it is not acceptable to someone to see pornographic content, it is highly

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-29 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Having tried it tonight, I don't find the Google translator toolkit all that useful, at least not at this present level of development. To sum up: First you read their translation. Then you scratch your head: What the deuce is that supposed to mean ...? Then you check the original language

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
It's a bit of a Keystone Kops joke for the FBI to complain about Wikipedia being irresponsible here, when the Director of National Intelligence himself publishes the seal on his website, in almost infinitely scalable detail: http://www.dni.gov/100-day-plan/100_FOLLOW_UP_REPORT.pdf A. --- On

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Incidentally, britannica.com removed the seal today from their article on the FBI. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/203351/Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation You can see the edit in the Article History. However, at the time of writing, the seal is still included in the Media section of

Re: [Foundation-l] FBI Seal and Wikimedia

2010-08-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Indeed. I should have written The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, because that's who www.dni.gov belongs to, according to its banner. A. --- On Wed, 4/8/10, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair, the DNI is a relative a friend of mine and I am pretty sure he

Re: [Foundation-l] Mini update on sexual content discussions

2010-08-06 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Also raised on the Sexual content talk page in Commons are uploads by User:Midnight68. Some users feel these are out of scope at Commons, and may violate child pornography laws: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archive001.jpg

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-06 Thread Andreas Kolbe
the relevant Wikipedia communities, are garbage. Why feed that garbage into the system? There should be alarm bells ringing at Google here. A. Andreas Kolbe написа: Having tried it tonight, I don't find the Google translator toolkit all that useful, at least not at this present level

Re: [Foundation-l] Parallel text alignment (was: Push translation)

2010-08-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sun, 8/8/10, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: This is where our experience differs. I'm working faster with the Google Translator Toolkit than without. Whether faster or not is a function of a number of variables: - How well do you know the languages and subject matter

Re: [Foundation-l] Parallel text alignment (was: Push translation)

2010-08-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I read that thread and noticed a lot of confusion. One translator admitted she never even tried it, but still had lots of negative stuff to say; more than one person said they found it useful (see Esperantisto's response), and other people seemed to not realize there was a difference between

Re: [Foundation-l] Parallel text alignment (was: Push translation)

2010-08-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
combinations seem to do much better. A. --- On Mon, 9/8/10, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Parallel text alignment (was: Push translation) To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Monday

Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals with content issues.

2010-08-09 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Mon, 9/8/10, Oliver Keyes scire.fac...@gmail.com wrote: Let's linky here, Oliver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MEDCOM -- ~Keegan My bad. Anyway, to quote The role of the Mediation Committee is explicitly to try to resolve disputes, especially those *involving content*

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-09-18 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Bod Notbod, when you say, I see a lot of green, it's also worth looking at what B actually means. The article on Doris Lessing for example, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is B class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_lessing It is woefully inadequate. It says there are three phases

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-09-19 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I agree with that. The first step is to acknowkedge that there is a problem. But most people I have read about this topic even deny that. So we can't go further until this is accepted. BTW this is also the case on the French Wikipedia, so the issue is not restricted to the English

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-09-20 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Mon, 20/9/10, Robert S. Horning robert_horn...@netzero.net wrote: When I see those involved with the Humanities, it is a very different environment.  I merely mentioned to one historian that I was writing a Wikipedia article and wanted to ask him a relatively minor question that

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-09-20 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Will, I suspect the problem may often have to do with due weight. To judge due weight, you need to have an overview of the literature, not a single source that states what you want to add to the article. It is the same problem in climate change articles, where editors that have no overview of

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-09-21 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Tue, 21/9/10, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: The problem of access to old obscure works and journals remains. The challenge then is to make the obscure material more available to keep people from falling into recentism. Old obscure works are often available with a full

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes

2010-09-29 Thread Andreas Kolbe
German Wikipedia has had pending changes implemented *globally*, in all articles, for several years now. Unlike en:WP, where numbers of active editors have dropped significantly since 2007, numbers of active editors in de:WP have remained stable:

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes

2010-09-29 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: German Wikipedia has had pending changes implemented *globally*, in all articles, for several years now. Unlike en:WP, where numbers of active editors have dropped significantly since 2007, numbers of active editors in de:WP have remained stable

Re: [Foundation-l] Differences between projects with common versus highly diverse cultural backgrounds (was Re: Pending Changes)

2010-09-30 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Anne, Thanks for the extra perspective. The post-2007 decline in 100+ editors on en:WP may indeed reflect a decline in vandalism reverts. The most interesting point to me was that de:WP introduced flagged revisions in spring 2008, across the board, and that editor numbers appear to have

Re: [Foundation-l] Differences between projects with common versus highly diverse cultural backgrounds (was Re: Pending Changes)

2010-09-30 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, 30 September, 2010, 18:23 On 30 September 2010 04:02, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: Anne, Thanks for the extra perspective. The post-2007 decline in 100+ editors on en:WP may indeed reflect a decline in vandalism

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-02 Thread Andreas Kolbe
This suggests the problem is: how do you *get across to* someone that they're just ignorant, in a manner that is duplicable across the wiki, and do that without breaking our spectacular successes so far? Well, one way is to make clear to our editors that we expect them to make a bit of an

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-02 Thread Andreas Kolbe
No indeed. That's why I say the question is how to get across to idiots that they are, in fact, idiots - without breaking what clearly works fantastically well on Wikipedia. (How to avoid, for instance, falling into a credentialism death spiral.) I guess it is also worth thinking about

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-02 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Putting in place what are effectively featured article standards would for starting new articles would be a great way of killing the project if it was remotely enforceable. Worse still articles like [[Canal]] would be effectively unrwritable by anyone. Since there is not going to be

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
So 30 seconds British library catalog search then forget about it. Which means that unless you happen to live with a library that includes a bunch of naval history or are prepared to spend a non trivial amount of money you can't edit say [[HMS Argus (I49)]] (which cites Warship 1994).

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Citing sources doesn't help because if Wikipedians don't like the sources, they want to know why we've chosen this source and not some other. No matter how canonical it is, it'll be questioned, because they don't realize it's part of the canon. You can make an argument based on how well

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Experts complain about uncitability - they complain that common knowledge in the field doesn't actually make it into journal articles or textbooks, but is stuff that everyone knows. I have a hard time believing that it should be impossible to find a source which states something that

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Geni, would you like to describe how you research sources? Entirely depends on what I'm doing. Sometimes I start with an article and go looking for refs. Okay. Assume that all I am saying is: when you go looking for refs, look first whether there are any academic refs out there that

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
We were talking about very aggressive editors who know absolutely nothing of the subject, and drive away specialist editors. I see an equal proportion of very aggressive editors among the expert as well as the non-expert editors.  Expertise does not necessarily mean a devotion to

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Seems to me you would not be the right editor to embark on this then. :) Best to leave it to someone who speaks Japanese, and they should have a look what scholarly literature there is available, including Japanese scholarly literature. err by that standard the person would have to be

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-05 Thread Andreas Kolbe
It's very distracting, and completely unnecessary. There are ways of bundling citations into one footnote at the end of each paragraph, while still making clear which citation supports which words. But it's It doesn't distract me at all, Me neither. As a reader, I find it

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-05 Thread Andreas Kolbe
As an editor, it makes it very difficult to edit, when you have three words then a {{cite}} template. You're right there. It's a bloody headache finding the words of the article in amongst all the citation templates when you're trying to edit. A.

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Part 3

2010-10-11 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Documentation of consent has been discussed several times on the COM:Sexual content talk page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content One interesting idea raised a few days ago was that we could have a drop-down menu on the upload page for self-made images. This would

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2010-10-17 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Mon, 18/10/10, Virgilio A. P. Machado v...@fct.unl.pt wrote: I strongly disagree with both decisions. Sincerely, Virgilio A. P. Machado (Vapmachado) While I appreciate the situation the moderators are in, I'm afraid I disagree too -- in particular in Peter's case, whose

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-20 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Those sound like typical problems with external links on Wikipedia, not anything specific to Wikia. It's a shame that there isn't an easy way to only see the links in the article namespace, though, as that might make this list of links somewhat more useful (and a lot smaller)... Is this

Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing, was Re: Ban and moderate

2010-10-23 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sat, 23/10/10, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: Someone working for the company that makes Lipitor would try to stop mainstream media sources being used in the article, because it's the media that has been pointing out problems with these drugs. And that's exactly what happens on

Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing, was Re: Ban and moderate

2010-10-24 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sun, 24/10/10, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: By excluding high-quality media sources you're elevating the lowliest scientist as a source, and the vested interests that finance the research, above the most senior and experienced of disinterested journalists. That makes no

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-10-24 Thread Andreas Kolbe
They can argue, but if we keep our heads, they cannot overturn a founding principle. As in the Atorvastatin article when patients are running to their doctors, saying, My God, I can't think, and it is observable by medical practitioners that indeed they can't, it's a significant event.

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-10-24 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Can you address the issue of vested interests? If a drug company has financed all or most of the peer-reviewed work, your argument is that we should nevertheless reply on those studies exclusively, and not allow high-quality mainstream media who may be pointing to problems before anyone

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and ...

2010-10-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
From: David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 6:57 Whether or not we want it to be, whether or not it ought to be, Wikipedia is being relied on. Our foundational principles do not control the outside world. What we have produced is being used as the nearest

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-10-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Can you address the issue of vested interests? If a drug company has financed all or most of the peer-reviewed work, your argument is that we should nevertheless reply on those studies exclusively, and not allow high-quality mainstream media who may be pointing to problems

Re: [Foundation-l] The pathology informatics curriculum wiki: Harnessing the power of user-generated content

2010-10-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Nice. Worth noting though that the articles were informatics articles, rather than medical articles. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929539/table/T0004/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929539/table/T0003/ A. From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net Here is a

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-11-01 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Mon, 1/11/10, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: You don't seem to have read the cited article. And to be changing the subject. Peer review decides what is to be published, based on quality and significance. Errors are made as scientists hold views as to what that is at any

Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

2010-11-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Tue, 2/11/10, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:36 AM,  wjhon...@aol.com wrote: .. There have been plenty of studies on drugs, which were not paid for, by anyone with a vested monetary interest in changing the drug's market outlook. Being flippant

[Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-11-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
The controversial content study by Robert Harris and Dory Carr-Harris was completed a few weeks ago. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Wikimedia_Study_of_Controversial_Content What is the board's view of the recommendations that resulted from the study? Are there any ongoing deliberations

Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

2010-11-06 Thread Andreas Kolbe
John, by your rationale, every scholarly journal that follows defined ethics guidelines *requiring* that the funding be disclosed impugns the authors' integrity. Does it really? There is a difference between transparency and assumption of wrongdoing; and history is full of people who resisted

Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

2010-11-06 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sun, 7/11/10, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: It is appropriate that journals expect that researchers provide information to _them_ about potential conflict of interests, so it can be available for peer-reviewers both before and after publishing.  In case this was not

Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

2010-11-07 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing... To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Monday, 8 November, 2010, 0:22 On 7 November 2010 12:26, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

2010-11-13 Thread Andreas Kolbe
From: SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com If PediaPress's software is open-source the Foundation surely wouldn't need to buy it. This is what I'm finding confusing, and that's partly because of my lack of technical knowledge. But as I see it Wikimedia has developers, paid and unpaid, lots of

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

2010-11-22 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Glad to read this question here, have often wondered about this myself. User:Emelian1977, an African American PhD student named Brenton Stewart, conducted a survey of Black American Wikipedians in 2008. I can only find a short write-up of his study online: ---o0o---

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

2010-11-22 Thread Andreas Kolbe
If the Foundation wanted to enquire, or do something about the relative dearth of African American editors, a good person to contact would probably be Henry Louis Gates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates He's a Harvard professor, famous for having been arrested on the front porch

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Me...

2010-11-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
It happens more and more often that books copy from Wikipedia. I found verbatim parts of an article I had written in a book published by John Wiley Sons the other day. No attribution whatsoever. It's a headache for the copyright team on en:WP because they have to figure out which came first.

Re: [Foundation-l] Pieter Kuiper

2010-12-06 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I had a rather different impression of events around Pieter. I remember several times where he got admins on his case because he nominated copyvios for deletion which said admins had uploaded to Commons. I'm also not sure whether a sarcastic reference to German efficiency in a talk page

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-12-06 Thread Andreas Kolbe
And thanks for the prod... we've been slow to put together the working group that I mentioned in my last message, but it is still happening. In the meantime comments on the recommendations are certainly welcome. More soon, I hope! Yes please. Greg has predicted that this study and its

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-12-06 Thread Andreas Kolbe
From: private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com Hi all, I thought I'd note for those interested in the latest from the community side of the 'controversial content' discussions - the Commons 'Sexual Content' proposal has just gone into a polling stage for the second time;

Re: [Foundation-l] Use Wikipedia as a Marketing Tool

2010-12-07 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Tue, 7/12/10, Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 17:31, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: http://www.inc.com/managing/articles/201001/wikipedia.html It is not a bad article. Basically tells the company to establish their presence, to join the

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-12-09 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Mon, 6/12/10, Mariano Cecowski marianocecow...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: Date: Monday, 6 December, 2010, 19:40 I'm sorry we are putting more energy into what should be banned from commons instead of searching for mechanisms to protect those readers who would prefer to stay away from such

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-12-10 Thread Andreas Kolbe
, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com escribió: De: Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content Para: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: jueves, 9 de diciembre de 2010, 22:46 --- On Mon, 6/12

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-12-10 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Fri, 10/12/10, wjhon...@aol.com wjhon...@aol.com wrote: From: wjhon...@aol.com wjhon...@aol.com Apart from summarising COM:PORN*, all that the draft sexual content policy was meant to do, actually, was to address two cases: * Material that is illegal to host for the

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

2010-12-11 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sat, 11/12/10, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: People don't read they react. In the UK a couple of years ago there was a petition that gathered 50,000 signatures against a proposal to ban all photography in public spaces. As a point of fact there was no such proposal.

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material

2010-12-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
This might need some eyes and attention: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidentsoldid=401953034#Creation_of_articles_from_leaked_classified_documents It concerns Wikipedia articles reproducing the content of the recent Wikileaks releases,

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material

2010-12-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Fred, I agree. However, any [[WP:UNDUE]] argument of the kind you are making, Copying a list of potential military targets from a classified document would seem out of bounds unless a source generally considered reliable has widely distributed the list. will not win the day. See the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material

2010-12-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Sun, 12/12/10, David Moran fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com wrote: From: David Moran fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com Taking the nonexistence of an article on a particular subject as positive evidence of an editorial judgment by our best sources is an unsupportable argument.  Wikipedia is not here

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material

2010-12-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Perhaps we should write a guideline that editors should please wait with the Wikileaks articles until there is secondary-source coverage, and that they should sum up *that coverage* rather than the original document. If Wikisource should decide they can host the original documents, it is always

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia articles based on Wikileaks material

2010-12-12 Thread Andreas Kolbe
, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: This might need some eyes and attention: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidentsoldid=401953034#Creation_of_articles_from_leaked_classified_documents It concerns Wikipedia articles reproducing

Re: [Foundation-l] Big problem to solve: good WYSIWYG on WMF wikis

2011-01-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Thanks, interesting. Go to http://www.wiki4enterprise.org/index.php?title=Editoraction=edit for example, and click on [Rich Editor] (above the button bar at the top of the edit window). This gives you a WYSIWIYG display in the edit window. Users can toggle between the two types of display.

[Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content -- update

2011-02-18 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Could Phoebe, Jan-Bart or Kat please give us an update on the activities of the working group looking into the recommendations resulting from the 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content? Have any conclusions been drawn, and are there any plans or discussions about implementing any of

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content -- update

2011-02-20 Thread Andreas Kolbe
ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content -- update To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com Date: Sunday, 20 February, 2011, 19:35 On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:26 AM

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Tue, 8/3/11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net I guess I would like editors to have access to archives and databases such as those ProQuest sells. Not sure how that would fit into our budget. I

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011-03-08 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Tue, 8/3/11, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: From: George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com We should have no illusion that the WMF or open content movement will zero out the production of copyrighted and not-freely-licensed content - most authors of books, most movie

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011-03-09 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Wed, 9/3/11, Stephanie Daugherty sdaughe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stephanie Daugherty sdaughe...@gmail.com I object to this strongly. The FA, and DYK processes are absolutely useless as a measure of an editor's worth to the project. There's plenty of wikignomes and other mostly

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-09 Thread Andreas Kolbe
-- On Wed, 9/3/11, SlimVirgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: The nearest university to me will give access to databases for $150 a year, but they make non-students and staff travel to the university itself to do it; no logging in from home, and that turns into a serious hassle over time

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