Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-16 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
otable for their scarceness. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-08 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Nathan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: > >> >> >> Whew. We as a community figured that it would be insuperable from >> the get go, about 9 years ago. And Jimbo duely banned the first >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-07 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
I'd like to point out here that the other points addressed in both of > the controversial content resolutions > (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Images_of_identifiable_people > and http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content), > though mu

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-07 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
iable starting position"? It, and all ideas remotely like it never got any traction before. Maybe if you think "We got nowhere before on this, we can only do better." As to being surprised by searches. Talk to google image search. Do you think they have mast

Re: [Foundation-l] [SOPA etc.] [FSF] Fwd: Blood in the water: Brett Smith reports from the latest Trans-Pacific Partnership Stakeholder Forum

2012-03-06 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ACTA appears to be failing precisely because it was approved in smoke filled rooms and merely rubberstamped by politicians after the agreement. The real "snake in the grass" is still OPEN. They "make believe" they are crowdsourcing the law phrasing. But it smells precisely like the pathetic Britann

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Presentation to the Board of Trustees

2012-03-06 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
e is money, to the > acknowledgement that it's time. We need to get better at > conserving energy, focusing and saying no; Focusing on saying "maybe" gets much better results in the long run, and lots of less time gets wasted. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
a slight latitude. Even parliamentarism acknowledges such terms as "free votes" that allow decisionmakers to let their constitutients have a genuine sense where their representatives hearts truly lie. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
than letting it sail isn't quite what we do here. Yet oceans with geological timescales yield high grounds where you can find ancient seafloors, and (if you can imagine it?) high mountains with sharp edges, are turned into rounded curves by the glaciers passing over them, with time. If

Re: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia considering declaring open-season on works from countries lacking US copyright relations

2012-03-05 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ble* rather than hinder that, are a very good indeed. And vice versa. We can only assert copyleft if copyright is correctly followed. And if copyright is draconically asserted, our ability to protect our copyleft is harmed just as much, if not more. Just voted on the issues, so if any one is curio

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
han merely making it easier to exclude what someone wants to make it easier for you to not find you don't want to find. And it is done by the search engine software (at least in theory), not people who are not the person browsing. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] __

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-27 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
hose > examples without using them. > Best example is blueberry wine. It got merged in with fruit wine. Truth is blueberry wine is not fruit wine, but pectine enzymatic over the 16 % limit fermentation...Much stronger. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen,

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
I think it is important to remember that anyone trying to suppress the truth, will lose in the long run. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Right to be Forgotten

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> On 19 February 2012 18:06, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen >> wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) >>> wrote: >>>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12: >>>> >&g

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Right to be Forgotten

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12: > >> Do the people at MeatballWiki know? > > > Why should they care? > This is where it all started, http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/RightToLeave -- -- Jussi-Ville H

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Delirium wrote: > On 2/19/12 2:29 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> >> The key problem here is that WP:UNDUE was expressly written to address >> the problem of genuine ongoing controversies, and fringe views. In >> this case there is

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
at I find discussing this is that, put in that context, the majority of > people (at least that I've talked to) think the policy is correct and makes > sense in that context. So the trick seems to be that it makes less sense in > other contexts. > You are missing the point, th

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
epeneurs from draconian internet/IP legislation and international treaties. This will now, once started, last years if not decades, and we have to stand fast. It isn't our neutrality that is at stake, it is our very existence, and our ability to stay neutral under pressure from governments.

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
doing their job properly requires. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
#x27;s judgement > that was called for with the Haymarket article. A cop pulls over a black man and and follows the usual procedures. It turns out he was a Harvard Professor. He failed to exercise good judgement. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] __

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
w editors from protesting the validity of their case. I do believe this might have some relevance to the low retention rate of new editors. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Right to be Forgotten

2012-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Do the people at MeatballWiki know? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
quickly settled, so >> there never arose a genuine review of the policy and its uses. The >> fact that the policy is used in this fashion daily if not hourly. >> Those (ab)uses just haven't been as glaringly obvious. I suspect we >> all know that deep within our hearts,

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
obvious. I suspect we all know that deep within our hearts, but loathe to go through the tedium of overhauling a policy page with such deep devotees. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list fo

Re: [Foundation-l] "We are the media, and so are you" Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh OpEd in Washington Post

2012-02-18 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
My read on this is that we did accomplish something for all time. We established that we matter. "We" meaning the larger we, not wikipedia google or any player, but the real body politic. SOPA & PIPA are not dead, but they are in the long grass. ACTA it appears is going the same way (hopefully) be

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

2012-02-17 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
wrong" What's more there is a policy page on Wikipedia that is "simply wrong". Namely Wikipedia's policy page specifically dedicated to how players names should be spelled in the context of the National Hockey League. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ly and freely" discussed in private, than being so discussed in public. If that was what was genuinely happening. In practise what appeared to be the thing that needed to be shielded from the public gaze was the process, not the candidates or any speech about them. I am sorry, but I have

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
community seats. Secondly as past practise has shown, we really don't want thin-skinned people on the board. That leads to escalation of drama, not reduction of it. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing l

Re: [Foundation-l] Vice President?

2012-01-31 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
p?diff=78986&oldid=78985 >> [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors The problem you have, there, is thinking "president" is a title in some historical inalienable sense. It isn't. Grammatically it can still be used in the plain sense as denoting &quo

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-28 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
D/3/3/european_parliament_official_in_charge_of_acta_quits_and_denounces_the_masquerade_behind_acta/ >> I have said before, that SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are smoke-screens for OPEN, which is a nasty beast like none of the other four. It

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-28 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
> community. The community can fork.And If it cannot, WMF is a colossal failure wrt to its stated mission statement. l -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-23 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
d you are on hard moderation" response, and monthly moderation limits should be lifted entirely. We really are on war footing. Not bean-bags at 50 yards footing. We need to sort things out, and more talk is a good thing, not a bad thing. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]

Re: [Foundation-l] Decentralized data center Was: Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-23 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
erver based versions. > -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ts mission, rather than help us steer our mission so that we as a movement can be more "effective" in some political game. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:12 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 22 January 2012 23:50, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > >> So we will put a few fallback datacenters elsewhere, just so our >> various communities and chapters realize we aren't going to be >> bullied by US jur

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
e effective, without costing the Foundation a single backhander. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
hyperbole to say it could totally destroy what Wikimedia is about. Can somebody pass this on to people who work on these issues. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubs

Re: [Foundation-l] Resolution:Developing Scenarios for future of fundraising

2012-01-21 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
timate question.) What if messages used to attract donors and spending being in line with our mission are in conflict? Which comes up trumps? And if it is our mission that comes up trumps should we confidently tell the donors that is the way it is going to be for ever, and that our view of ou

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion duration and the SOPA shutdown

2012-01-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
t migrate and fork to a jurisdiction outside the US control. If that is needed. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-10 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
lost, and there need never have been any [[Anjala conspiracy]]. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-10 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
hings. You aren't put into your positions to sell things to the community. You are their servants. Get it? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-25 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
am the source of rudeness. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
as you seem to have a compulsive need to. Read the words. Think for youself. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
I'ng the shit out of our processes?" You will find that we are pretty inured against such approaches. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:57 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 24 December 2011 17:45, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > >>> I'm quite keen on the idea of a free-form comment box accessible to >>> those wanting to edit. It's much more accessible article feedback than &g

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:28 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 24 December 2011 17:10, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > >> I do not think the aims of the mechanism are wrong. But I *do* think the >> mechanism itself and any attempts to fashion such in a universe of human >&g

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
g. But I *do* think the mechanism itself and any attempts to fashion such in a universe of human beings is totally and fundamentally disrespectful towards reality. That is the hard shoulder. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
uot;consensus". The former is what people inside your own mind think, the latter is what a group of people think (and usually act upon). -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
27;t, honestly, making that much sense. > Would you be happy to take this into private e-mail. I don't think any intelligent readers are much impressed by your logic... -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ssive rather than aggressive about the way things are allowed as valid contributions to the encyclopaedia, is worse than being up front about it". Is that succint enough for you? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ound how you "approve" (or "reify" or whatever) an edit is the nucleus of the issue. It has failed, it will fail and no amount of trying to push on a string will make it succeed. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
working for the right goal. If you have that, everything else flows from that. If you worry about whether you are fulfilling all the conflicting requirements coming at you from various sides, you are in for a hiding to nothing. You won't win, you may not lose, but your position will be ever vulnerabl

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
the one thing that was demonstrably a total timewaster and failure, namely Nupedia. Just because you are fiddling the bits doesn't mean you are improving things. Usually you are just making them fail less badly. Not a way to design winning mechanisms. -

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > On 24/12/2011, at 17:38, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > > > Trying to do something and not succeeding is not a failure - so long as we > learn from the mistakes. As it says on the door as you leave the WMF office > [s

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > On 24/12/2011, at 17:38, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > >> I hope you will forgive me for being a bit terse and blunt. It is the > season >> for unpalatable truths, and not just in Scotland. To an impartial observer >&

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-23 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ocus pocus and arm waving and say "It is alive! It is alive!" ... And then see it just fall on its face like the corpse it is. Cue even more bubbling vials with smoke and sparks. "Let's try again! This time it will work!" -- -- Jussi-Vi

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-21 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
should be deployed side-wide. Please tell me I am hallucinating, misreading you grotesquely, or there is some other clear communication disconnect! Perhaps it is as simple a misapprehension as that while you linked to an english language page on tbe tool, in fact it has translations in se

Re: [Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-14 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: > >> I don't claim to have made a special study of the issue, but have had it >> pretty much forced down my throat by circumstances. While our laws h

Re: [Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-14 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
this view that we are "unported" and merely acknowledge the right of countries to not adhere to the onerous and WMF-centric attribution praxis. It would be very useful for the foundation to admit, that absolutely nobody needs to attribute WMF if they just mention a few chief au

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > On 14/12/2011 2:04 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> I am genuinely not anti-american. The logic here does escape me though. > >  From a lawmaker's point of view, this is clear enough: US-based > websites ar

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
processors. The new version now exempts U.S. sites like ours." I am genuinely not anti-american. The logic here does escape me though. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > On 12/13/11 12:14 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> Using an URL does allow the semblance of attribution, but does not >> fulfil the legal requirements of moral rights. I find it mildly >> distasteful, that >> o

Re: [Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
how those differ from what we actually advise people to do when they reuse content... ? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] "Terms of use" : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

2011-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
egal text, but it would be extremely useful in the "human readable version". (By this I do not exclude lawyers from the class of humans; but merely imply that the humans are a more inclusive class.) -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] __

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-07 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > On 01/12/2011 7:58 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> "[...] yes, we may be building up a list of categories that could be >> reused by censorware sellers, but that’s not our primary intention." > > I&

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: > >> Am I being dense, or are you being silly? Blocking advocacy from a site with >> a NPOV policy is a bajillion miles from being censorship. > > It

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
n of the proposal that was then on > the table or a rejection of filtering in principle. Am I being dense, or are you being silly? Blocking advocacy from a site with a NPOV policy is a bajillion miles from being censorship. What? I am wrong? How so? -- -- Jussi-

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
's Wikimedia viewing. If you mean me, I am not asserting, I am reminding that this issue has been visited and revisited more times than anybody can be bothered to count. And the consensus has always been the same. The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over ag

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ch the WMF could usefully emulate. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 09:11, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: >> This is not a theoretical risk. This has happened. Most famously in >> the case of Virgin using pictures of persons that were licenced under >> a free licen

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: >> >> While I don't find that line of argument to be a fully fledged >> straw-horse argument, it >> does appear to me to be a cherry-picked argume

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: >> >> While I don't find that line of argument to be a fully fledged >> straw-horse argument, it >> does appear to me to be a cherry-picked argume

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: >> >> While I don't find that line of argument to be a fully fledged >> straw-horse argument, it >> does appear to me to be a cherry-picked argume

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
to refute. There are much stronger arguments, both practical and philosophical, at any attempt to elide controversial content. Even as such, I am not convinced by the argumentation, but would not prefer to rebut an argument that does not address the strongest reasons for opposing elision of controversial

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
rally obligated to try to mitigate any attempts to subvert the use of such a knowledge-base. Which, I do assure you, might not prove to be a trivial task. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foun

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
#x27;t like it when google was prejudicially priviledging other results above ones from wikipedia (a practise they no longer adhere to). I don't see much of a difference here. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
udimentary good-faith effort at listening what the other side is telling them. Just doing a lot of hand-waving and misdirection. Case in point, ditching the idea of a "category based filtering scheme" as if that particular bit was what people were opposing. Not even close. There is still

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2011-11-29 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
the community is against, it is the whole frigging priniple of the thing. Wake up and smell the coffee. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-27 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ke "some people", "a few people" is a pathetic representation of the reality. It isn't a minority you want to address/oppose, but a huge and strong entrenched core group. Pretending otherwise is just pure madness. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Ava

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filtering without undermining the category system

2011-11-27 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
al opinion. But it is just your personal opinion. Do you have references to any pages or other sources that support there is *any* significant portion of wikipedians or wikipedia readers who feel even close to the way you feel? Or are you just a voice crying out in the wilderness? -- -- Jussi-Ville

Re: [Foundation-l] Finnish MP FAIL!!!

2011-11-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:57 AM, M. Williamson wrote: > Which article was it? Something on immigration. Moron is of the party who doesn't realize we *need* immigrants. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Finnish MP FAIL!!!

2011-11-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Not sure if this is appropriate for this list, but just for lulz. A finnish member of parliament just got caught for his speech being a word for word piece of snippets from a Finnish Wikipedia article. No intervening binding lines, just the Wikipedia text. Way to go!!! -- -- Jussi-Ville

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-11-17 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 21:03, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: >> Hi; >> >> Could I humbly suggest the image in the campaign notice bar be moved >> to the other edge of the page. In the default skins, the article

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-11-16 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-04 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ed summarily outright). Tonyt Sideaway can back me up on this, if he is still reading this list, but the creator of Albedo Anthropomorphics is a genuinely notable figure in the furry movement; if not its father or atleast god-father. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
nother famous movie quote. "Build it and they will come." Welll there is an obverse side to that coin. "Tear it down, and they won't come anymore." -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
r in dimes to their designated charity. And I say this with a straight face, this might well bankrupt me. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

2011-10-31 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ts considered vital. My guess is that quite a few of the elements of such are already in the code. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
olitely. :-) > You are being very much too kind to Erik here, This is the rhetorical bottom of the barrel. Claiming you can read the other persons mind through telepathy. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foun

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
them like are shit you can walk all over by a board decision that seems to have spawned from somebody in bedlam. That is what you have to worry about. Sorrry again if my "tone" isn't to your liking. But be realistic and face the facts. There would be no wikipedia without the people wh

Re: [Foundation-l] New Version of PROTECT IP Bill May Target Legal Sites

2011-10-26 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>> > >> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/26/0451240/new-version-of-protect-ip-bill- >> > may-target-legal-sites >> >> >> > >> > Well, the servers still could be moved to Europe. >> > This one

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
e absolute the issue is pretty much a dead horse. I personally think my level of civility on the issue is pretty much consistent on the height of feeling on this issue from the community side. You are free to disagree. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
ther? The resolution was always against long held perennial proposal opposition. It never was going to fly. Walk away from the dead horse. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: >> This is very very meta. But in my own defence, I haven't posted >> anything for over a year. Mourning my dearly departed mother. I have >> sa

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
hat monthly limits are prejudicial against those that rarely post, but do post when the expletive hits the fan; and do so with the full force of conviction they are expressing the views of the community. Nuff said. Go ahead and moderate this, if you like. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Andreas K. wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: > >> As a person from a more nordic and perhaps even ruder than brazilian >> culture, We did confront a teacher who was in her retirement age with >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
here have been attempts to do so, but they have all failed. We excercise editorial judgement where needed. Which is as it should be. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
. Being against censorship only >> matters when there is a potential outrage there... > > > On Wikipedia this is called vandalism and trolling; and we *do* censor it :) > No we don't and that is the whole point. We edit. We don't censor, -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen,

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
s sounds totally offensive on the face of it, but surely that is the whole point. Being against censorship only matters when there is a potential outrage there... -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
solutions. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems > > If I may be so blunt. What part of non-negotiable don't people quite grasp? -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-19 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: >> Yes, but that is not proof of what we as a community understand the >> principle to mean, it means the board is on crack. > > That's not a

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