Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

. Their representative use that to defend themselves against the that modern navigation technology was making people pay less attention to their surroundings. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

part no. They were deliberately ot released so the the copyright could be transferred to the foundation. Some have since been released when they found other uses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Example.jpg for example) but most have not been. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL. Evidence? -- geni ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

On 20 February 2010 19:14, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/20 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted

Re: [Foundation-l] Brion Vibber delete mo. as promised ! Please wake up

in the early 90s. But perhaps you are right. No one cares. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

/Commons:Problematic_sources and en of course has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

to be under GFDL :-) Nope. Nothing in the upload form on meta at that point mentioned the GFDL. So not GFDL. The GFDL-presumed templated that people seem to be using was killed off on en back in early 2009. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Murals_in_Derry Not even UK Freedom of panorama is that broad. It's actualy quite a bit of work to kill of all but the most obvious copyvios. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

or not? looking at the oldest version of the upload page it probably wasn't: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Uploadtextoldid=22573 -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

it happen. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy

through a reliable source that a claim is illegitimate and they have taken action, are they obligated to refuse the positive action they've taken? That's the issue. W. J. The problem you hit there is that the only truly reliable source is the US supreme court. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy

to get involved in legal fights. Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. for example. The legal status of mediawiki is another where I expect it would. Some calculator of little note? It would appear not. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy

reasonable effort. On this issue any reliable source bellow the level of the supreme court (well appeals courts may also be relevant) that states that the claim is invalid is not in fact reliable. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Hello Wikipedia

/List_of_Wikipedias i'd be happy to hear of any larger encyclopedia if you know of any? very best, oscar Hudong is larger but is Chinese not English. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

=Wikipedia:UuUoldid=291430 -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners to increase editors

and hitting them with more rubbish in the banner space is not a useful addition. Instead the foundation needs to develop better self control over it's use of central notices. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikiversity

of [citation needed] aka stuff wikipedians know but haven't been able to find a source for. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

No he doesn't. However he didn't actually impose a global ban in this case but it is unlikely there are any significant wikimedia projects that would not block the individual in question on sight. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on global bans)

it has been shown that at the present time there is no project that considers Jimbo's word to be final. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works

Is for the most part directly traced from various google earth satellite pics. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works

of an edited selection of Wikipedia articles?] Encyclopedia Britannica uses a lot of commons images these days. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works

I know they use at least one of my images. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [slightly OT] how to make a nice(r) copyright law for Europe...

is problematical -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

, but about virtual reality and platform for spreading free knowledge. Doubtful. Why a few turn based and real time strategy have historically spread information MMORPGs have not. Freeciv might be a better target if you want to try that. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

On 6 May 2010 19:00, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:40 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: Doubtful. Why a few turn based and real time strategy have historically spread information MMORPGs have not. Freeciv might be a better target if you want to try

Re: [Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

objects could already be supported as .blend files although we don't at this point. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

,       GerardM http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2010-May/08.html Given the statement would require the deletion of 99% of userpages I think it is best ignored. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

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

the projects if there is no such value. Given the overwelming majority of projects have no such policy the statement would appear to be flawed. For example what policy would you suggests applies on be.wikipedia ? -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list

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

projects when really at most it is only coherent with regards to a handful of them. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

to do something constructive. There isn't one. Oh if you wait about 6 months when things calm down a bit there might be an opportunity but if you look at previous such attempts when someone has just tried the brute force approach is never a good time. -- geni

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

. The community doesn't answer to you. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] A Board member's perspective

. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

, and uses the existing category systems. Popular unpopular categories can be offered as a package. Adblock already exists and can be used to provide exactly the feature set you describe. I'm not aware of any wikipedia image blocklists being produced for it. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Funny news from Poland

issues on various wikimedia projects I can think of worse places to start. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Google open sources VP8 - WebM

claims that their patents cover all modern video codecs. So,  hey, if Google can fight them off - great.  Until then... wait and see? They claim the same about theora. They've had years to actually show this and have singularly failed to do so. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office Hours

it. But at that point I was kinda banned. So peeps. Go along hang out. But be careful with discussion or dissent. They may not work out too well. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office Hours

this here. You have demonstrated a preparedness to shut down lines of debate you don't like. This being the case there is no rational reason why I would chose to raise issues with your actions in places where you were able to continue to take such actions. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Office action

see a case being made for the logo being subject to copyright. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Office action

. So are you going to accept all DMCA notices regardless of how valid you feel the copyright claim is? -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Texts deleted on French Wikisource

harbour and even there I'm not sure the loss of safe harbour status would be universal. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: change of registered TMs in Persian wikipedia

-- Amir Since wikipedia is not offering any goods or services under the mark we can pretty much do what we like. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Wikipedia...

Snow The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster goes back to jan 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Gareth_Owenoldid=35978744 -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Wikipedia...

fast if than jan 2006 use is the first. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Wikipedia...

, and measuring the amount of food it actually consumed, is likely not the earliest form of this paradox. Not really. All they ever calculated was weather it could glide. It couldn't. In this they were correct. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

- because it isn't. And it probably shouldn't be. If wikipedia is to survive it needs to be fun. If wikipedia is going to get a broad coverage it needs to be easy. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

to interactions has caused problems. Good content editor mind. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

speak the English language as a native or secondary language.) In practice pulling up the wikipedia article on horse in your language will cover most cases. There is a fairly good argument to be made that wikipedia is common's best search engine. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board resolution commissioning study and recommendations

On 24 June 2010 07:20, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote: 4. We do expect material in our projects to be educational in nature, and any material that is not educational should be removed. I would suggest that passing a resolution that outlaws most user pages is a bad idea. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against copyleft

contract law though which is unlikely to end will for them. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Study of Potentially Objectionable Content

/London/35 -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

On 1 July 2010 09:58, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Who is WMF competing with? Hudong -- geni ___ 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

with most small language wikipedias since they tend to by tied to a single culture or geographic area. I suspect KW and CY have issues although probably not to the same extent. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy etc - merging data

uncomfortable about this but that is tough. I'd suggest letting the WMF answer questions like that. -- geni ___ 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

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 is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Muhammad/images -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

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

to offer a partially censored version as standard you are basically going to have to fight an eternal war until you give up and reacht he bottom of the slippery slope. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

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

) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_ball_torture_(sexual_practice) So, if the child clicks on a wikilink leading there, they would get a screen saying, Sorry, this page is only available to adult accounts. Child responds by logging out. -- geni

[Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice

to wikipedia actualy want to see. Incidentally: In one or two sentences, describe the process in which users are approved to become administrators on English Wikipedia. Is this some kind of test to see if people know how to use semi colons? -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco on small languages/dialects Wikipedias (Aristotle article)

in either country. Australian English or Jamaican English are less easily understood. I do not know to what extend Indian English is homogeneous.. Tends towards 1947 British English. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia movement roles project

a textbook way of killing innovation. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

of the issues from wikis other than en.WP. You might want to go careful there. Things like the current state of de are part of the fight over flagged revs on en. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

that ability for unregistered contributors. We already have the patrolled function on new pages. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

be impossible since even Charles Hadfield needed help with his The Canals of North West England book. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

is a collaboration. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

for content contributions in Wikipedia is, and always has been, that you should have read a reliable source. Which has nothing to do with your original position. Remember you wanted people to review the literature. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list

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

On 3 October 2010 18:23, Peter Damian peter.dam...@btinternet.com wrote: Geni: However it fundamentally fails to explain why other areas of the humanities such as those covered by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Maritime_warfare_task_force

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

on earth qualified to write the [[Canal]] article. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

On 4 October 2010 19:31, Henning Schlottmann h.schlottm...@gmx.net wrote: On 03.10.2010 17:03, geni wrote: So I can run a 30 second search on the british library catalogue than go back to doing what I was going to do all along. Great use of my time. Wikipedia is about people with knowledge

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

, Time Magazine, or CBS News.) Or to put it another way a bunch of sites unlikely to game their alexa rank. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Public Domain Mark - what does this mean for us?

? We should use CC0 instead of PD-Self. We should not be encouraging attempts to rebrand the public domain. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

is a great bit of rhetoric but it is not consistent with any rational definition of encyclopedia. Of course pre wikipedia I doubt anyone outside OED really worried about the definition of encyclopedia. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

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

a minute. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

On 24 October 2010 20:47, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:43 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 October 2010 20:26, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: None of which I'd expect to say that John Seigenthaler is a murderer. There are mistakes of facts

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

added nonsense to the article on Maurice Jarre. You've just defined the New Columbia Encyclopedia as not an encyclopedia (see http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/08/29/050829ta_talk_alford ). And then well consider this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine#Length -- geni

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

/List_of_historical_encyclopedias fall to one side while wikipedia does not. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

has been increasing it's rate of updates. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Audited Financial Statements for 2009-10 Fiscal Year Now Available

are using some non standard definitions of community here. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

issue. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

? Thought? Sure. Find an article with a french author and bring moral rights into play. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

On 2 November 2010 03:53, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote: Дана Tuesday 02 November 2010 02:57:10 geni написа: 2010/11/1 KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com: I see, thanks Mike. Personally I'm not for this kind of attempt, I'd rather agree with Ryan: if and only if they complies with CC

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

is it a violation of the architect's moral rights to alter a bridge? is a valid question (the answer was no BTW but it was a close thing). -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Left on the Table, vs. Google's serving portion

(in fact while I haven't checked recently for a long time google ranked wikipedia lower than those two) it seems unlikely that any reasonable algorithmic change would kill off wikipedia's traffic. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

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

loans company limited+Joint Information Systems Committee) (rollback | undo) -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

worry about things like paywalls when it comes to sources. Eh your averaged paywalled journal is highly assessable compared to some of the stuff I've cited over the years. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] naming of things in kosovo

is of secondary significance. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

it is something we should do. The citizendium community/Editorial Council may well say no but at least we will have tried. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

On 12 November 2010 17:37, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote: An'n 12.11.2010 08:56, hett geni schreven: Should we offer to host citizendium? Headlines of tomorrow: Wikipedia buys out competitor. Chucked-out Editor-in-Chief Larry Sanger says: They try to defend their de-facto information

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

is that it allows them to come up with a good solution rather than what is at best likely to be a hasty kludge. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

the costs. Geni mentioned offering a level of support equivalent to our smaller projects, which is most definitely *not* just providing ISP services. err beyond ISP services what do you think the WMF provided say the Galician language wikipedia with this year? -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

services is one area where it's doing fairly well. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

On 25 November 2010 22:15, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: We have Geni, many ways to determine if someone is an established editor. Name one that doesn't boil down to editcountitis We have flags already to mark people as established editors in addition to that. I for one have no wish to turn

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

On 4 December 2010 16:56, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 12/4/2010 6:50:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, geni...@gmail.com writes: Actually we have at least 3. Editor, admin bureaucrat, steward, dev. everyone, arbcom Everyone, foundation, foundation board. Not three Geni

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

Claus. Totally dismayed, Virgilio A. P. Machado Since mid 2004. The existence of arbcom and the foundation are hardly classified. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

needed the help of third parties. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

for a number of years (Hudong). -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Template Overkill

. Instead you would be better off looking to collapsible templates and perhaps moving common ones like infoboxes into their own namespaces (note this already started happening with things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Rolle_Canal_map ). -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

On 15 January 2011 15:26, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Now, fight. First review the discussion that has already taken place at WT:RFA -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

On 15 January 2011 16:40, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2011 16:24, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2011 15:26, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Now, fight.  First review the discussion that has already taken place at WT:RFA All five

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

. Paper has been around for 1800 years. The odds of orally transmitted information remaining accurate over that kind of time period are limited. In any case the who Guru thing has taken a bit of a hammering lately from the likes of Sanal Edamaruku and Basava Premanand. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] H2G2 to be disposed of

might highlight areas we could perhaps move into but there isn't much detail and nothing listed at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/2011/01/delivering-quality-first.shtml Looks like it would really interest us. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing

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