On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> Read
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/25/160236/Contributors-Leaving-Wikipedia-In-Record-Numbers
>
> Article is based on Felipe Ortega's research. There are two claims
> from this article:
>
> 1. English-language version of Wikipedia s
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Teofilo wrote:
>
> How about moving the servers (5) from Florida to a cold country
> (Alaska, Canada, Finland, Russia) so that they can be used to heat
> offices or homes ? It might not be unrealistic as one may read such
> things as "the solution was to provide ne
kigen2700...@gmail.com wrote:
> In Wikipedia Japanese version, the document with the template of principle
> and guidelines up to the present time was operated from the start without
> obtaining the mutual agreement of the community. In Wikipedia Japanese
> version, the participant was doing princi
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> This issue was discussed a number of times here. As some changes has
> happened, you should know that.
>
> Requests for Wikisource in Ancient Greek and Coptic have became
> eligible, as well as request for Ancient Greek Wikiquote. The
> conditi
On 08.05.2010 17:48, Mike Godwin wrote:
> I think it's also worth remembering that when an individual like Jimmy is
> given extraordinary cross-project powers to use in extraordinary
> circumstances, this more or less guarantees that any use of those powers
> will be controversial. (If they were un
On 08.05.2010 23:02, Victor Vasiliev wrote:
>> Think future, not past. Think project, not Jimmy.
>>
> We do think future: if Jimmy had already carelessly intervened twice
> and caused controversies both time, how can we except the story will
> not repeat.
>
Probably this is happened twic
On 09.05.2010 02:04, Noein wrote:
>
> On 08/05/2010 20:52, Stuart West wrote:
>
>> (1) There were some bad actors at work (e.g. hardcore pornography
>> distributors taking advantage of our open culture to get free anonymous
>> hosting). (2) As a community (including the Board), we debated th
On 11.05.2010 06:43, Kat Walsh wrote:
> What I do support are tools and procedures that make it simpler for
> users to choose what they see: I don't think anyone should have to
> avoid Wikimedia projects because they fear that they (or their
> children) will inadvertently see something they didn't
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> 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 e
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Nathan wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
>> Except the case that you make a photo of yourself. In this case the
>> OTRS ticket is not important like is not important in the point of
>> view of copyright.
&
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> It can be.
On 14.05.2010 20:38, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Many nudist will tell you that what happens on the beach stays on the
> beach. There is no expectation that a photo taken by a friend, or
> stranger for that matter, will end up on a public website. Indeed there
> have been recent case inclu
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 24 June 2010 15:04, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
>> - Scope and name: Maybe it would practically make no big difference
>> whether the project is called "simple" or "for kids". Poor readers and
>> adult beginning readers (natives or not) tend to
Dear all,
I have checked in my in box but it seems that this mailing list has
not received this news.
The Italian project w...@home supported by Italian chapter and the
Wikinotizie has organized an interview some months ago with Mr.Umberto
Eco who is a philosopher and literary critic known outside
Really strange because the title of president and that of
vice-president belong to the board.
Do you know that the board should not have any conflict of interests
and should do the benefit of the overall foundation?
If the titles of President or Vice-President is in charge of an
executive person,
io
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 1 February 2012 11:59, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
>> Really strange because the title of president and that of
>> vice-president belong to the board.
>
> The title "President" is sometimes used by the chai
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Risker wrote:
>
> The appointed members of the Board are chosen for their specific expertise
> and skill-set. The Board does publicly identify the slots it is trying to
> fill when looking for appointees, and the qualifications that they
> require.
>
> The chapter
You have not understood the difference between a discussion in Meta
and the transformation of this discussion in an "operational"
implementation in the organization.
This proposal has a lot of "bugs", it seems like a discussion made in
front of the coffee machine.
Formally your point of view is a
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Nathan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Béria Lima wrote:
>
> Jan-Bart and others have asked that you call him Jan-Bart. What part of
> that is confusing? You can ascribe your first error to different custom;
> continuing to ignore his wishes is simply a
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>
>> Mostly though, thanks to the Internet and multinational corporations,
>> godawful business jargon crosses all national borders. Words and
>> phrases like 'onboarding', 'stakeholders', 'm
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We currently have this public list for Wikimedia Foundation matters,
> as well as a private list called "internal-l" which in practice is in
> large part used for WMF/chapters discussions, because chapter board
> members are added
He is a conductor of orchestra, he is member of WM CH and he has
participated in Wikimania in Gdansk.
Ilario
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Huib Laurens wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> It came to my attention that people are using wikimedia mailing lists as
> there primary contact adres for Linkdin. I
The diversity and the variety helps to react in a better way to the changes.
The reduction of the ways to donate helps to control and to monitor, but
gives less variety.
Ilario
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Nathan wrote:
> Since payment processing is not contemplated as a vector for receiv
On 28.08.2011 16:46, Risker wrote:
> On 28 August 2011 04:47, rupert THURNER wrote:
>
>> 2011/8/28 Delphine Ménard:
>>
>> +1.
>> in switzerland we feel that a good target is to get 1 CHF per user and
>> year as donation. not having a better means of calculating the users,
>> we took 10% of the wor
On 28.08.2011 21:00, Nathan wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
>> This is incorrect because to receive tax exemption a person doesn't need
>> to have a receipt.
>>
>> At least for Switzerland the donor can only indicate to have don
On 28.08.2011 21:00, Nathan wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
>> This is incorrect because to receive tax exemption a person doesn't need
>> to have a receipt.
>>
>> At least for Switzerland the donor can only indicate to have don
On 28.08.2011 23:47, Mike Godwin wrote:
> Theo writes:
>
>> Second, it might be some form of elitist outlook if you think accountability
>> standards for US Non-profits are more transparent and fiscally responsible
>> than say somewhere in EU like Germany, France or the Switzerland. I assure
>> you
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:04 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>
> But then, central planning is famous for its notable successes in economics.
>
Ok, but is WMF an economic institution?
Are chapters branches of WMF?
The notable successes should be in no profit organizations.
Ilario
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Arne Klempert
wrote:
>
> We did raise the bar for chapters to participate in the fundraiser as
> payment processors. However, IMO the board's guidance provides enough
> flexibility to let more chapters than just WMDE participate in 2011.
> But again, the board did
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 31 August 2011 09:34, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
>> I asked if the proposal of grant agreement was negotiable and the
>> answer has been "no"!
>
> The talk page of the grant agreement on internal-wiki would see
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 31 August 2011 17:02, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
>> I mean that was not "negotiable" the choice to have grant
>> agreement/fundraising agreement.
>>
>> Grant agreement have been considered mandatory witho
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>> I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
>> for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
>> controlled by Brazilians. At the same time I don't thi
On 02.09.2011 22:02, Michael Snow wrote:
>
> For those reading whose memories may not be quite long enough - I assume
> Florence is referring to Michael Davis here, not to me. The conflict of
> interest policy was adopted in 2006, before I was on the board. I just
> thought it would help to make th
On 03.09.2011 18:55, Jon Huggett wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2011, at 09:25 , WereSpielChequers wrote:
>
>> Increasing the mutual overlap of boards is a tried and tested way of
>> reducing such tension, it doesn't always work, (in wiki speak it isn't magic
>> pixie dust) and we are in this situation despite
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Tobias Oelgarte
wrote:
> Usually you will find rebranding as part to improve your already
> destroyed image. If your image is good, your won't create a new brand
> and start from the beginning. Is our image so bad that we would need a
> restart? Otherwise we only lo
Good execpt some errors.
Italian is national language in switzerland.
Ilario
On 10 Sep 2011 00:54, "Robin Pepermans" wrote:
An idea that I raised during a discussion between the language
committee and Wikimedia South Africa was to inform chapters when a
request for closing a wiki is made for a
An official statement will be published in Foundation-l.
The question is that the server are in USA, but for the penal law it's
sufficient to edit from the Italian country.
I am in a special situation because I live in Switzerland and I
publish in USA servers, but for the main numbers of Italian
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Nathan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Donaldo Papero wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here are the facts: the Italian parliament will discuss within few days –
>> and most likely approve – a law which, among the other things, will
>> introduce the duty, for every w
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Nathan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
>>
>>
>> The question is that all Internet people in Italy is having strike
>> because the project of law can be stopped if not approved. If it will
>> be appr
On 04.10.2011 22:19, Nathan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:15 PM, teun spaans wrote:
>> Isn't this premature? As I understand, the law is still being discussed, not
>> yet in affect.
>>
> It's a protest, they are hoping to influence whether the law is passed or not.
>
> ~Nathan
When you write
On 05.10.2011 20:43, Austin Hair wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
>> There seems to be a situation developing at Italian Wikipedia related to a
>> local law that would infringe neutrality on Wikipedia. The discussions even
>> mention a possible blackout/lockdown in reactio
Sorry for the cross-posting, but I write here what I have already
submitted to internal.
It seems that there is the majority to put it.wikipedia.org alive
again in the following hours.
The law has not been approved yet but the committee, who has in charge
the proposal, has accepted some amendment
A video about the request of some dictators to re-open Wikipedia:
http://tv.repubblica.it/mondo/gheddafi-e-gli-altri-cosi-i-dittatori-salvano-wikipedia/77714/76104
Ilario
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On 08.10.2011 11:11, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> I'm happy that the Italian language Wikipedia is back in business, and I
> hope that in the future projects will find better ways to protest than
> suicide strategies. The key point is that Wikipedias are based on
> languages, not countries. For Italia
On 09.10.2011 17:00, Julius Redzinski wrote:
> That can just mean an italian solution. The Board is ignorant against the
> community needs and wishes, while the Foundation was just some month ago, so
> caring about the editors and to keep them happy and contributing to the
> projects. If the fil
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Julius Redzinski
wrote:
> On such a decision the Board should have before making any decision researched
> really what raeders expect and want and this with empathy for different
> regions and
> the understanding that germany maybe has different needs than the ara
has been opened in a "civil and
respectful manner"?
At least I have used a generic reference, someone here has give a
*direct personal offense*, he is not really a person who can educate
about civilization and respect.
Please be kind to apply the same measure for all comments.
Thank y
On 23.10.2011 19:05, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
>
>>> The German poll made clear, that not any category based filter will be
>>> allowed, since category based filtering is unavoidably non-neutral and a
>>> censorship tool.
>> Who the hell are you to forbid me or allow me to use a piece of
>> software?
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Pronoein wrote:
>
> Why does the Board of Trustees think that WMF should raise the «maximum
> possible amount of money»?
> Why not ask for what is needed and nothing more?
>
I agree. A no profit association should raise the "opportune" amount
otherwise there a "p
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This is just a quick interim update on the BLP issue I raised here last week.
>
>
> First, there seems to be a general view that BLPs are a problem that
> is worth addressing. I won't recap all the reasons for that, because
> it s
I would announce you that until the 15th of May Wikimedia Italia is
collecting some nominations to select the winners of the Wikimedia
Italia Award 2009 which will take place the 23th May in Vicenza (near
Venice) in collaboration with local administrations and associations
during the "festival of d
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
> some of them in languages I have no idea of like Japanese. This is of
> course a meta issue and somebody (me for instance) could take an
> initiative and create a project alerting other wikipedias of new image
> arrivals (I vaguely remem
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
>
> There are various possibilities here. One example is interest groups
> that aren't tied to geography, the way the chapters are. I always cite
> the idea of an Association of Blind Wikipedians, who might wish to
> organize to promote work on ac
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Thomas de Souza
Buckup wrote:
>
> *We are **a movement of autonomous volunteers:
> *
>
> - *Instead of a legal entity, an open movement*
> - *Instead of bylaws, a statement of principles*
> - *Instead of legal representatives, task assigned peers*
> - *Inste
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Anders
Wennersten wrote:
> I also like this approach
> *On most informal level - a Working Group, carefully organized under a
> "Working Group Organizer" who has a time-limited agreement/recognition
> letter with the Foundation
> *On intermediate level - a legally
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
> Using the chapters as intermediaries between the Wikimedia Foundation
> and the communities is actually a solution that has been used in the past.
>
> It certainly feature a certain efficiency (proximity with the community
> and common lan
Chad wrote:
> This list has really high traffic (depending on season, it fluctuates a bit)
> and it can be a bit overwhelming at times. Moderation isn't the answer
> though. The signal to noise ratio here remains fairly decent, so we wouldn't
> really gain anything through moderation (except some v
On 19.09.2010 13:01, Marcus Buck wrote:
>An'n 19.09.2010 11:32, hett Mark Williamson schreven:
>> We have heard this type of criticism before, that lower-prestige
>> varieties or languages that are not "official" or "national" languages
>> are somehow intrinsically incapable or unsuited to en
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:08 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 19 September 2010 12:42, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
>
>> It is normal because any standard language has different registers, the
>> dialect has limited registers and in general only for daily and familiar
>> use.
&g
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:52 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
>>
>> Three board positions (30% of the board) are elected by the community at
>> large. They are the only members of the board who have a direct
>> responsibility to the community, and there is no method for the community to
>> revoke their re
On 10.04.2011 05:03, Dror Kamir wrote:
> Are there people who would like to help me collect such cases like those
> of Astrology, Kosovo, the Middle East etc. and/or cases that were sent
> to arbitration which didn't help much and the like, and productively
> analyze them in order to think of bette
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> There is a long thread on the Commons and Gendergap lists about today's
> featured image on Commons:
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-May/
>
> It's an original
On 16.05.2011 18:54, Béria Lima wrote:
> I would like to question something:
>
> Why you people are not discussing that in commons? Because here people
> can give opinions, in Gendergap mailing list too, but the people who can
> actually change the policy are the commons editors.
>
> So, is not bet
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> I am preparing document for Wikimania. Presently, I am in process of
> analyzing data (SIL [1], Ethnologue [2], Wikimedia projects). I am using
> Ethnologue data for population estimates.
>
The statistics are not realistic considering only th
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:47 PM, wrote:
> A single dedicated person could be enough to put a project in motion.
> A dean of a Nigerian college who integrates Wikipedia article creation
> in the instruction plan ("if you create 200 Nigerian pidgin Wikipedia
> articles this semester you'll get X ex
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hoi,
> Over the last weeks I have been rather active in promoting improved
> usability for the MediaWiki software. What really got me going was learning
> from a Wikimania presentation that a UNICEF usability study done i
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hoi,
> You do not create a new article by finding the "edit" button. The task all
> these people failed at was creating a whole new article.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
Ok, it's a real problem... but we know that any wiki
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