Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

2008-12-24 Thread Fred Bauder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:12, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: Well where will it stop? If we have a project, we should have a memorial project for all disasters. And what, in principle, is wrong with that? Kurt, et

Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

2008-12-24 Thread Fred Bauder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2008 19:25, Jon wrote: I don't think it is something we should focus on. Let us focus on our existing projects, perfect them. Reference my earlier rationale. Given that these are all

Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

2008-12-24 Thread Fred Bauder
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. The memorial

Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

2008-12-24 Thread Fred Bauder
Pot, one for the victims of Mao, one for victims of the inquisition, etc, We would not need to mess with small time killers like Osama bin Ladin. Fred From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net I support this project, and don't think it should get pushed off

Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

2008-12-24 Thread Fred Bauder
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net: Oh, but we are, just by what we do. And the mass murders of the twentieth century would have made short work of us. In fact, in the last regime controlled by them Wikipedia is blocked. Controlled by the Soviets, who I understand were

Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

2008-12-25 Thread Fred Bauder
2008/12/25 Ian A. Holton poe...@gmail.com: I do however believe that such a project is a good idea and also believe that it being hosted outside of the WMF might even be benefitial and might even be worth an organisation itself if the scope is extended to cover more than just the victims

Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

2008-12-25 Thread Fred Bauder
2008/12/25 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net: Can you and Kurt come up with a proposal that doesn't abandon our fabulously useful and marketable air of neutrality? Yes, good thought, I think we could. After all, it is a sort of cemetery. I suspect it would turn into a universal

Re: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

2008-12-25 Thread Fred Bauder
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote: I fail to see how simply presenting a list of peoples' names and telling their stories constitutes taking partisan sides in political disputes. It's educating people about the impact of these events, plain and simple. If we cannot present the personal tragedy of

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Fred Bauder
Your initial announcement was fine. Continuing to spam is not. Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Fred Bauder
Basically you've just said we're going to be just like wikipdia except we won't let incivlity, personal attacks and other bad stuff like that happen. How will you stop it? Blocking? Then you're just like wikipedia. Actually, no. Wikipedia no longer enforces civility. At least not against

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility at wikinews [en] warning: contains rant

2009-02-05 Thread Fred Bauder
I remember one time the arbitration committee sanctioned an editor who referred to another as an imbecile and then tried to justify it on the basis that the other editor was obviously stupid. We've come a long way from there. Now people rise to power and maintain it on the basis of their

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-02 Thread Fred Bauder
I asked whether raising the notability bar would improve the overall quality of BLPs. Do we have other ideas for preventative measures? The start of a poor biography is good news coverage of some incident that occurred to a person, their 15 minutes of fame, or infamy. Any other information

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-03 Thread Fred Bauder
Can I ask: does anyone reading this thread 1) think raising the notability threshold is a bad idea, 2) believe defaulting to deletion upon request is a bad idea, or 3) disagree with the notion that other Wikipedias should shift closer to the German Wikipedia's generally-less-permissive

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-03 Thread Fred Bauder
2009/3/3 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net: With respect to biographies of living persons, unless there is sufficient reliable published information about a person to flesh out a well balanced article we shouldn't have one. The question them becomes reliable. Reliable sources usually

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-03 Thread Fred Bauder
2009/3/3 Matthew Brown mor...@gmail.com: I see no reason why having an article on someone need include information not published in reliable sources.  If they're well-known for something in the public eye but details of their life elsewhere are not prevalent, then that's how our article

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Fred Bauder
2009/3/4 Dominic dmcde...@cox.net Sue Gardner wrote: I am just clarifying - default to delete unless consensus to keep would be a change from current state, right? In terms of policy, default to delete is the current state for BLPs. To be more exact, the important bit is: If there is

Re: [Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

2009-04-09 Thread Fred Bauder
should probably be independent. Perhaps it is time a definite policy is drafted and published. Fred Bauder Hi! It is totally clear that all the Wikipedias must respect and follow some particular policies which are global for all the Wikipedias. The question is what are these policies? Each

Re: [Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

2009-04-09 Thread Fred Bauder
/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

2009-04-09 Thread Fred Bauder
. --vvv That is a good start. Perhaps that is the page we should edit to make a policy. Civility is implicit in The wiki process and discussion with other editors as the final decision-making mechanism for all content. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

2009-04-09 Thread Fred Bauder
, or deliberate forking, would result in repudiation of a Wikipedia. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

2009-04-09 Thread Fred Bauder
Is censorship looked down on by most wikis? I presume most wikis will refuse to take down contact due to laws in that language's main base (eg Chinese Wikipedia)? Excellent question. I wonder about the Hebrew and the Arabic Wikipedias. Would, or could, either resist serious pressure by the

Re: [Foundation-l] Murdoch newspaper websites to go paywall -opportunity for citizen journalism!

2009-05-11 Thread Fred Bauder
If things were different, they would be different. Right now Wikinews can serve as an aggregator of news first published elsewhere, but Google and Yahoo can do it better. We can do some original work, at our own expense. When and if the crisis affecting paper newspapers gets worse an opportunity

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-14 Thread Fred Bauder
necklace (sexuality) adds little to a girl's knowledge base in comparison to the barrier it raises to her use of the encyclopedia. I suggest that Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not include Wikipedia is not a manual of sexual practices. It could be phrased Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra. Fred Bauder

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-14 Thread Fred Bauder
in case this is done, fyi the spelling runs: KAMA SUTRA (not kaRma) very best, oscar Just a mistake Oscar, but Karma is indeed the issue. We need to do the right thing. Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-14 Thread Fred Bauder
, it doesn't belong in a general purpose encyclopedia intended and promoted for the use of a young world wide audience. As to censorship, we censor and delete dictionary definitions and recipes for God's sake; that is how Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not works. Fred Bauder

Re: [Foundation-l] Third-party GFDL text irrevocably incompatible with Wikipedia as of August 1

2009-05-27 Thread Fred Bauder
or sometimes imports material to Wikipedia have to do to accomplish relicensing? Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Third-party GFDL text irrevocably incompatible with Wikipedia as of August 1

2009-05-28 Thread Fred Bauder
2009/5/28 David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com: The solution, as with international affairs, is tolerance. In this case, the practical aceptance of all free licenses as equivalent, regardless of lthe licensing zealots. Free culture arose to permit reuse, and should continue that way. We should

Re: [Foundation-l] Third-party GFDL text irrevocably incompatible with Wikipedia as of August 1

2009-05-28 Thread Fred Bauder
You know ... I can't think of a single instance in which I've ever seen Wikipedia content reused in which the GFDL was followed. In EVERY instance, the attribution has either been messed up or omitted altogether. I'm not saying this is a good thing, of course. Newyorkbrad As one of those

Re: [Foundation-l] antisocial production

2009-06-27 Thread Fred Bauder
knowledge, not a place for new ideas, which we call original research. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] It is vital to stamp out citizen journalism. Or claim to.

2009-08-14 Thread Fred Bauder
When you're competing with your own fans, you're ... in trouble. http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece - d. Heh, but is there any basis whatever that the events occurring a football game are of social or education value? Fred ___

Re: [Foundation-l] It is vital to stamp out citizen journalism. Or claim to.

2009-08-14 Thread Fred Bauder
2009/8/14 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net: When you're competing with your own fans, you're ... in trouble. http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece Heh, but is there any basis whatever that the events occurring a football game are of social or education value? Historical

Re: [Foundation-l] So, scientists tell us what do we know for some time...

2009-08-15 Thread Fred Bauder
Not a new topic, but I find editing about the same. Still nitwits guarding pitiful amateur POV productions like dogs, and citing inapropos policy as though it were holy writ. Fred From Slashdot article [1]: The Guardian reports that a study by Ed H Chi demonstrates that the character of

Re: [Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

2009-08-16 Thread Fred Bauder
2009/8/16 John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no: I would guess that the most important reason why english wikipedia is slowing down is because of the other language projects gets the attention of the editors. perhaps it would be possible to get some numbers on the total influx of content and how it

Re: [Foundation-l] moderate this list

2009-08-29 Thread Fred Bauder
Yes, I delete pages of messages every day, and some of the posters to Wikipedia lists are among them. They are just not worth the time it takes to open them. They are just never part of the solution. Fred Exactly. If you write too many messages, you run the risk that the majority will start to

Re: [Foundation-l] moderate this list

2009-08-30 Thread Fred Bauder
By the way, now that you mentioned it, I have to ask. Did this little thread happen to be canvassed on that internal-l? No, Anthony, it wasn't discussed. This list doesn't play the central role it once did, partially because of incessant unproductive posting by a few people such as yourself.

Re: [Foundation-l] moderate this list

2009-08-30 Thread Fred Bauder
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Anders Wennersten anders.wenners...@bonetmail.com wrote: I am for the moment active in some 15 wikimedia mailgroups. I have compared the working on foundation-l with internal-l for instance and find that almost the same topics are up with very much the same

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-28 Thread Fred Bauder
Jake, It is not an accepted practice to ban users from editing Wikipedia unless they are actively disrupting, endangering, or otherwise harming the project. Such bannings usually require either broad community consensus, an action from the Arbitration Committee, or an action from Jimbo Wales. In

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-28 Thread Fred Bauder
Actually, I think the better argument is that pedophilia activism on Wikipedia harms the project. Fred Jake, It is not an accepted practice to ban users from editing Wikipedia unless they are actively disrupting, endangering, or otherwise harming the project. Such bannings usually require

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-28 Thread Fred Bauder
If [it] brings the project in disrepute, then so be it. André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com It is our responsibility to avoid harm to the project. Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-29 Thread Fred Bauder
appeal - someone said something that highly surprised me. Apparently, the AC of enwiki 'endorsed' the blockade, but still you consider an appeal realistic? I'm sorry, but I would find the chance of honest ruling very low, nearing zero, in case if that same group of judges first endorsed the

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-29 Thread Fred Bauder
Fred Bauder wrote: An appeal is not futile. For one thing the policy might be changed or it might be decided the policy which exists does not apply in this case. Again, I wish to read this policy. Where is it published? And how was it established? Did the ArbCom itself author

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-11-29 Thread Fred Bauder
Laura, It seems unlikely if only based on We have no notability requirement. Essentially, you've forked, chosen an incompatible core policy. Fred Bauder This is a follow up to my proposal that Fan History Wiki join the wMF family, based on my experiences via e-mail, on the list

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-29 Thread Fred Bauder
Just as a point of interest, do we block people currently incarcerated from editing? I have a vague recollection that one of the most voluminous contributors to the original edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, was actually a prisoner... Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen Certainly

Re: [Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

2009-11-29 Thread Fred Bauder
In a message dated 11/29/2009 5:45:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, fredb...@fairpoint.net writes: But then, if Ryan could do it, anyone, including an investigative journalist could have done it. But you're assuming that they could then apply guilt by association which would throw egg on our

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedic OCD

2010-02-19 Thread Fred Bauder
Some books are very productive in that way, if you have time to add each interesting fact to the encyclopedia. TV is a bit awkward to reference, at least routinely. Fred Does anyone else suffer from this problem, whereby you listen to or watch any kind of programme and think I could add that

Re: [Foundation-l] Is the consensus to the policy necessary?

2010-03-07 Thread Fred Bauder
Does Wikipedia's principles need consensus of the community? There is not consensus of the community, but does somebody pass if filled out the page with Policy? They do. A recently created policy page is only a proposal. Fred ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Is the consensus to the policy necessary?

2010-03-09 Thread Fred Bauder
. The controversy is solved by the vote. Isn't there problem? Yes, but within broad parameters, essentially NPOV and some democratic method of making decisions, it is your problem. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikiversity

2010-03-17 Thread Fred Bauder
of business. Fred Bauder What's going on over at Wikiversity? Jimmy Wales has now been threatened with a block by someone who seems to be an admin in good standing, and he responds that he has the full support of the Wikimedia Foundation. Is this true? What does it mean? Wales also has said

Re: [Foundation-l] How to kill a mailing list

2010-03-17 Thread Fred Bauder
Yes, but no need to delete endless repetitive spam from Anthony without bothering to read it. Bottom line, serious discussions have moved elsewhere. Progress, I guess, discussions here never seemed to lead anywhere. Just round and round. Fred Bauder August 2009: 1030 September 2009: 791

Re: [Foundation-l] How to kill a mailing list

2010-03-17 Thread Fred Bauder
, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Bottom line, serious discussions have moved elsewhere. Progress, I guess, discussions here never seemed to lead anywhere. Just round and round. Where have the discussions moved? I assume you're talking about a private list? Any

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikiversity

2010-03-19 Thread Fred Bauder
is a platform to continue a fight from another MUD. We have this on Wikinfo regularly, ChildofMidnight being the latest. http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/ChildofMidnight Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] open letter by Wikiversity users to the WMF Board of Trustees

2010-04-04 Thread Fred Bauder
please see at: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity_open_letter_project/WMF_Board_March_2010 Signed: User:Jon Awbrey Jon Awbrey Among others. Talk about a red flag! ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

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

2010-05-07 Thread Fred Bauder
image that used to illustrate Pearl necklace (sexuality) comes to mind. I have always objected to offensive images (such as of Muhammad) and know that somewhere there is a sane dividing line between the informative and the prurient. Fred Bauder As some of you may know, Jimbo has recently used

[Foundation-l] The Fox Article

2010-05-07 Thread Fred Bauder
/wikipedia-child-porn-larry-sanger-fbi/ Erik Möller is particularly unfair. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo Wales acting outside his remit

2010-05-08 Thread Fred Bauder
Catholics don't matter, but they do). Much better to use a photo of the woman using a dildo or at least an eye-witness report published in a reliable source. The image could, of course, be used appropriately to illustrate an article on caricatures or something about anti-catholicism. Fred Bauder

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo Wales acting outside his remit

2010-05-08 Thread Fred Bauder
Note however, We were about to be smeared in all media as hosting hardcore pornography with zero educational value and doing nothing about it. Fred Bauder Further, Mr. Wales: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJimbo_Walesaction=historysubmitdiff=38935852oldid=38935659

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

2010-05-08 Thread Fred Bauder
to be available to. We have no power to resolve the cultural differences. We can only be aware and make decisions accordingly. Fred Bauder H... The vast majority of that material is entirely uncontroversial, but the projects do contain material that may be inappropriate or offensive to some

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

2010-05-08 Thread Fred Bauder
. Those will special interests should have no difficulty creating specialized reference resources. Certainly those who are into pornography have. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

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

2010-05-08 Thread Fred Bauder
2010/5/8 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: I dunno, when framed that way it seems the answer is to be family-friendly, and to let the specialists get their information in specialist resources. So... are we now going to start writting USfamilyfriendlypedia(tm) ? There is plenty of stuff to be

Re: [Foundation-l] Filtering ourselves is pointless

2010-05-10 Thread Fred Bauder
Fox News (or at least this reporter and her editors) have dedicated themselves to damaging Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. This is a given, and it is evident from their behavior. *Any* followup story would have demonstrated what these days in the U.S. we are calling epistemic closure

Re: [Foundation-l] [Functionaries-en] Jerusalem Post article about concerted pro-palestinian editing

2010-05-17 Thread Fred Bauder
-is-both-intelligent-and-necessary-1.265853 Fred Bauder There was the I/P ArbCom decision here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Palestine-Israel_articles#Remedies that implemented a host of discretionary sanctions. My personal opinion is that there has been

Re: [Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

2010-05-28 Thread Fred Bauder
With wikipedia, any expert could reach and teach millions of persons. In ten or twenty years, every literate person with internet access could use an interdisciplinary, edge-cutting database of knowledge for their diary reasoning. The knowledge and understanding of mankind could make giant

Re: [Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

2010-05-31 Thread Fred Bauder
in the U.K. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, B.Sc. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-16 Thread Fred Bauder
http://ace.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marit_Pola:Lhi_gamba_peukabeh_Nabi_Muhammad_sawaction=history Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-16 Thread Fred Bauder
with images of a man whose appearance is unknown, and unknowable. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-16 Thread Fred Bauder
images is a big problem, not a tiny little problem that can be brushed under the rug. You're doing something that outrages millions of people and saying, Hey, tough. And you don't possess, and will never possess, an authentic image of Muhammad. You don't listen. Fred Bauder

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-16 Thread Fred Bauder
to millions of people. They should have common sense and not put images up in a reference work which are both offensive and false. There might be an exception for Persian art, but such images certainly don't belong in an article on Muhammad or Islam in any language. Fred Bauder

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-17 Thread Fred Bauder
On 07/17/2010 04:39 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: First: There are no authentic images of Mohammad extant. There are no authentic images of most characters from the Bible. Yet I believe at least 1 % of works of art on Commons contain them. --vvv There is a difference between using an image

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-17 Thread Fred Bauder
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: ... That's the issue. Displaying offensive religious images is a big problem, not a tiny little problem that can be brushed under the rug. You're doing something that outrages millions of people and saying, Hey

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-17 Thread Fred Bauder
. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-17 Thread Fred Bauder
of it, no real harm is done is there are images of Muhammad Why doesn't the same reasoning apply to the butt plugs? No real harm would be done. Or would there? Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-17 Thread Fred Bauder
of Islam.) - d. Well, we should not bow before noise and violence. However, there is a substantial body of Muslim public opinion that holds this view today. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-18 Thread Fred Bauder
You are arguing in the wrong place. A very large debate has already taken place on this issue and consensus has been reached. Nothing you can say on this mailing list will impact that. If you really think you have something new to bring to the debate the correct place to raise the matter

Re: [Foundation-l] The Border Control

2010-08-22 Thread Fred Bauder
Under the Border Control philosophy Larry Sanger, to say nothing of others, would have banned me years ago. I've done plenty of work, in fact, most of the work I've done here, since then. Fred Bauder Dear colleagues, I personally think that this Russian Wikiversity story is primarily

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

2010-08-29 Thread Fred Bauder
We need to set up a regular mechanism which analyzes and searches for errors. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Error_management We need to make a science of it, Wikipedia:Error_management Fred Gerard writes: The trouble is that attempts to make something that

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

2010-08-29 Thread Fred Bauder
From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 8:05 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals with content issues. We need to set up a regular mechanism which analyzes

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

2010-09-02 Thread Fred Bauder
Actually, we could routinely use twitter more, asking for input. With the right searchable keywords we might regularly attract both help with the specific problem and new editors. That could become a regular routine. Obviously asking for help in such a forum could also attract cranks and axe

Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

2010-09-25 Thread Fred Bauder
If I understood well, Americans don't have such bad feelings toward the word bureaucracy and its derivatives. Wrong, the study of bureaucracy is considered by Americans to be a branch of entomology, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_studies Yes, it's hard to collaborate; that's

Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

2010-09-25 Thread Fred Bauder
I would however suggest that a good psychological profile question might be, Have you ever worked on a government contract before? W Early on, I was in the Navy. Ignore all rules is enshrined in There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Navy way which tells you to get it done, rules

Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

2010-09-26 Thread Fred Bauder
- Original Message - From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com To: fredb...@fairpoint.net; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example [...]

Re: [Foundation-l] Liu Xiaobo

2010-10-08 Thread Fred Bauder
by Wikipedia in a conceptually similar fashion. If you think he actually believes Liu Xiaobo is a criminal deviant, I think you missed the point. Nathan Well, do we actually prevent some viewpoint from being expressed adequately? How about a list? Fred Bauder

Re: [Foundation-l] Liu Xiaobo

2010-10-08 Thread Fred Bauder
Well, do we actually prevent some viewpoint from being expressed adequately? How about a list? Fred Bauder I have a better idea. Peter is simply too offensive at times to be an unmoderated list participant. No further discussion is needed... Well, it's not a promising start, but I

Re: [Foundation-l] Liu Xiaobo

2010-10-08 Thread Fred Bauder
I want to get something clear here, however: Is Liu Xiaobo a Wikimedia user and is it possible that he has been banned from zh.wikipedia? If so, that is something legitimate to discuss here and continue this thread. Certainly people of his stature have participated with editing Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Liu Xiaobo

2010-10-09 Thread Fred Bauder
Дана Saturday 09 October 2010 01:46:43 Fred Bauder написа: Well, do we actually prevent some viewpoint from being expressed adequately? How about a list? Well, it's not a promising start, but I have, for example heard a few complaints that the views of Lyndon LaRouche were

[Foundation-l] Project Creator: thekohser

2010-10-15 Thread Fred Bauder
At http://www.freelancer.com/projects/Internet-Marketing-Link-Building/Thirty-news-site-comments-with.html Status: Open Selected Providers: - Budget: $30-$250 USD Created: 10/13/2010 at 12:36 MDT Bid Count: 0 Average Bid: - Ends: 10/17/2010 at 12:36 MDT (1d 19h left) Project Creator:

[Foundation-l] Aapka Apna Wikipedia

2010-10-16 Thread Fred Bauder
Delightful piece about the Tamil Wikipedia: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Aapka-Apna-Wikipedia/698406 Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Conservative collaboration and the Wikipedia model

2010-10-17 Thread Fred Bauder
A serious analysis of Conservapedia: http://www.yalelawtech.org/wikipedia/conservative-collaboration-and-the-wikipedia-model/ Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

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

2010-10-17 Thread Fred Bauder
This list is for people who support the project, not those who are actively opposing it or criticizing in public forums in exaggerated ways. Nothing constructive or helpful is likely to be added by thekohster, and if Peter contributes something interesting and helpful it can be approved. Fred

[Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Fred Bauder
by providing a platform for Kohs campaign, as illustrated at http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia against Wikipedia. Fred Bauder ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Fred Bauder
Funny how Peter's blog complaining about moderation is itself moderated by Peter. Ryan Kaldari That is not significant. The kind of stuff random vandals post has to be moderated. The question is whether sharp criticism is approved for posting. Fred

[Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-18 Thread Fred Bauder
From RT: http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-10-18/russian-police-probe-wikipedia.html Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder

Re: [Foundation-l] Another machine-assisted translation tool

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
This time from Microsoft Research: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/10/18/wikibhasha/ Has anyone used this one? How is it? Did Google ever commit to releasing the translation pairs? If so, we should certainly ask Microsoft for the same. - d. I'm trying to make it work as a gadget.

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
talk, which is exaggerated and in my opinion unfair. Fred On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote: Peter Damian, it turns out has a blog, Beyond Necessity and has commented on our banning and moderating activities: http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/10/free

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

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
, or defended. Fred On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: This list is for people who support the project, not those who are actively opposing it or criticizing in public forums in exaggerated ways. Nothing constructive or helpful is likely to be added

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: And that's just one of many sections erroneously blaming the WMF for content issues. For example, A WikiProject of topic lists has existed since November 2007, but it is still half unfinished and the 100 articles

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
A longer piece about this: http://www.mn.ru/society/20101019/188137566.html -- John Vandenberg And it contains the conflation of Wikipedia with WikiLeaks, to boot. Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Ban and moderate

2010-10-22 Thread Fred Bauder
To what use are you talking about, Gerard; groupthink-l? Marc Riddell This is a public list for discussion of matters which concern and affect the Wikimedia Foundation. It is open to supporters and critics of our projects; to novices and old hands. Fred

Re: [Foundation-l] Attack pages at Encyc. Dramatica

2010-10-22 Thread Fred Bauder
Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Encyclopedia Dramatica is a parody site. Plenty of people have tried to shut them down before, it's unlikely to ever happen (and in my opinion, should never happen). If they have an offensive article about you, trying to get rid of it will probably make

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

2010-10-22 Thread Fred Bauder
Kohs will likely return with sockpuppets on the mailing list. He is relentless when prodded.) H.N. Yes, but he is relentless when not prodded. Unless we chose to open up Wikipedia to paid editing of the sort he does he will probably continue to be relentless. When I was checking out

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