[Foundation-l] Pre-wikis vs. maturing Wikipedia: taking away dedicated editors?

[ Please excuse me if the subject has already been beaten to death here; I am not a regular visitor to this mailing list I tried to search for this stuff here on strategywiki, but feel free to point me to the archives! ] I researched recently some material related to a recent catastrophic

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

The proposed change would mean all works where the country of origin (as legally defined by US statutes) is a non-treaty state would be declared as public domain for the purpose of Wikipedia and allowed to be freely used. The current discussion features a 9-3 consensus in favor of this

Re: [Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Other people want it because of a desire to keep controversial content out of their home. Giving these user control over image selection may bring * more* people to Wikipedia, and an article with controversial content. Intellectual curiosity may

Re: [Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

Other people want it because of a desire to keep controversial content out of their home. Giving these user control over image selection may bring * more* people to Wikipedia, and an article with controversial content. Intellectual curiosity may entice them to click through and see the

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 September 2011 22:26, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Turning off images should be, and can be, done by the user-agent. We have a help page describing how to do this. This is really low-bandwidth usability. I've tried editing Wikipedia on dialup

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardener, Wikipedia's leading editor - wikileaks

Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote: I was mentioned in a leaked US diplomatic cable - with my name spelled wrong! http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/11/08SANTIAGO1015.html What about this: Reference id: 09TELAVIV982 Origin: Embassy Tel Aviv Time: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:30 UTC Classification:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 announcement

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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Announcement list is active

, on projects, etc. Could someone see to hooking it up to Gmane, please? Anyone can do it. I just posted a request to create gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce (gmane.org.wikimedia.announce has been snarfed by Wikizine already). -- Marcin Cieslak // sa...@saper.info

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation is there!

visit: http://bit.ly/Submit2010 Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-) See you in Gdansk, July 9-11! -- Marcin Cieslak Wikimania 2010 Gdansk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

[Foundation-l] A branded copy of Wikipedia lanuched today in Poland

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[Foundation-l] Licensing update: third party concern

the vote is underway already and I don't like We'll clarify this later, just do vote now attitude. -- Marcin Cieslak // sa...@system.pl ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https