Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Jalo
One has to wonder how the community will be able to discuss unlocking the project if the project is locked. Risker i.e., we can leave unlocked the village pump Jalo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Jalo
, that the amendment must be published without comment and unmodifiable, so we'll have to block all articles in which an amandment is required (almost all politicals articles, sport players articles, merchandising sellers articles and so on). Jalo

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Jalo
Much easier to sue under standard defamation laws (which we are under risk of daily anyway!). Not at all! In the italian laws, if you bring lawsuit against me for defamation, you must prove I'm not saying the truth. With this law you can bring lawsuit against me simply 'cause I've not

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Jalo
Isn't this premature? As I understand, the law is still being discussed, not yet in affect. If the law passes, it'll be too late ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Jalo
In any case, if the servers are located in the US then US law applies to their management. No. Italian citizens that operates wiki (uses a pc) in Italy must follow both italian and US law Jalo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Jalo
Whoever has locked out access to it.wikipedia.org should be immediately desysopped under emergency procedures We knew about this danger. But in the case, you have to desysop many of us. The responsible is not only the one who edited the page, but all of us that agreed on the strike

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Jalo
Is the Kiribati based community (or a part of it) of Wikipedians allowed to block en.wikipedia.org for x hours because a new Kiribatian (sp?) media law might come? Mathias You're right, 2-3% of it.wikip users live outside of Italy, but this new law will affect every page in which a user

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Jalo
Then can you specify the threshold for the community-ratio that is in your opinion required for some Wikipedians to vandalize a language edition of Wikipedia in such way? I've already told that: 100% of articles. Do you need a larger threshold? ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Jalo
FWIW because of the way this has been implemented, it is not (at least obviously) possible to rollback/reverse via the web interface (it appears to be a change in common.js - and even that page redirects to the message). Tom You can disable javascripts and css in your browser. For

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF blog post on Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread Jalo
If you don't even think that is a comparable situation, then you clearly don't understand at all what some people think the image filter is all about. You're comparing a wiki without images with a world (the italian world) without wiki. mumble To me, it seems to be slightly different

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread Jalo
Except that WMF as steward of the open information can roll any of that blackout crap back. Domas There's no need to be so drastic. If WMF wishes the block to be removed, it simply can ask it and we'll do. In a couple of minutes. We're not moving war against WMF. Howerer, at the moment WMF

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia - What exactly does the proposed law say?

2011-10-05 Thread Jalo
the subject would have the right for a statement to be shown, unaltered, on the page (which actually would be possible for Wikipedia to do, via a transcluded and protected template). I think not. The transcluded template can be deleted from the article, if you don't block the article itself

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF blog post on Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread Jalo
Possibly relevant update: http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/news.php?newsid=157111 (might need translation) Theo The comma has been discussed into the Comitato dei Nove, that is a simply discussion committee. They have proposed (it seems) to apply the law only to internet newspapers,

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread Jalo
I wasn't logged in, to begin with. I was looking at it as any casual reader would. Austin To me, it works. Which browser are you using? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Given that we have won, can we turn Italian Wikipedia back on now?

2011-10-06 Thread Jalo
http://www.linkiesta.it/wikipedia-law It'd be nice to have Italian Wikipedia back up as people are waking up in Italy. /me claps Good show, Italy. Knowledge is free. -- ~Keegan Not so easy. Yesterday an amendment has been officially proposed, not approved. It will be discussed

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: It.wikipedia will be turned on

2011-10-06 Thread Jalo
restored wikipedia 'cause the it.wikip comunity whishes that, but the threat remains Jalo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l