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

2012-03-03 Thread Robert Rohde
of the wiki editors had noticed this apparent change of status during the last 3.5 years. -Robert Rohde [1] http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=241541 (English version) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

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

2012-02-23 Thread Robert Rohde
thing that is clear though is that any claim to public domain status due to the lack of copyright relations needs to address all three factors raised above. John, can you raise these concerns at Wikisource? -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list

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

2012-02-23 Thread Robert Rohde
, but at the very least such templates need to be consistent with Berne / US laws regarding the treatment of content from non-treaty states. In my opinion, the larger ethical issues still deserve further consideration though. -Robert Rohde On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com

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

2012-02-23 Thread Robert Rohde
in prior emails on this thread. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2012-02-22 Thread Robert Rohde
set a precedent for what we ultimately do on the other projects. -Robert Rohde [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027373.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copyrights#Usage_Option_1_Support [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Copyrights

Re: [Foundation-l] Smurfs Movie is infringing on wikipedia copyright

2011-12-17 Thread Robert Rohde
has. So, it seems like it might not even be a real screenshot of Wikipedia, but rather a page that had been further edited for their purposes. For example, they easily could have swapped in a public domain image of the moon from NASA. -Robert Rohde On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Kim Bruning k

Re: [Foundation-l] A possible solution for the image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Rohde
that this was one of the major underlying motivations. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-21 Thread Robert Rohde
a filter that is sort-of-okay some of the time would be helpful to the people who want filtering. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] All human knowledge, by Jimmy Wales (?)

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Rohde
perceptions of that famous quote have been evolving alongside our perceptions of what Wikimedia and Wikipedia have become. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Robert Rohde
if they have no claim to notability at all. In general, notability has very little to do with Commons at any level. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] some worries about fundraiser and editor appeals boycotting it

2010-12-07 Thread Robert Rohde
to do so and there is no need to panic. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 5M by 2 weeks

2010-11-26 Thread Robert Rohde
. In addition, the communication with the community about the fundraiser seems to have improved over previous years. So great work guys. Keep it up. -Robert Rohde On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl wrote: :] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics

Re: [Foundation-l] Left on the Table

2010-11-06 Thread Robert Rohde
than the low end, largely because About would seem to be a better analog of what we do than Facebook is. But I also think it would be interesting to look at other comparisons. -Robert Rohde [1] http://www.nytco.com/pdf/annual_2009/2009NYTannual.pdf

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

2010-10-30 Thread Robert Rohde
given month about a million anon accounts do edit. However, the number of anon accounts with at least 5 edits in any particular month is definitely not millions, it is several tens of thousands. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Mike Godwin leaves the Wikimedia Foundation

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Rohde
I would also like to add my gratitude to Mike for his years of useful service. It is hard to imagine who could be a suitable replacement. -Robert Rohde On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Again Kat found the right words. Thank you very much Mike for all

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-17 Thread Robert Rohde
/siteinfo/wikipedia.org -Robert Rohde On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any explanation for the extraordinary jump in page views this month? http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Rohde
on another project. Circa last May, roughly 15% of new EN wikipedia accounts were being created by SUL cross-overs. Even if you assume that none of these were to engage in editing, it still means that at least 80% of the unused accounts were created via local registration. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Rohde
, but regardless of the details, I think this is a very important avenue for outreach and growth. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

2010-08-24 Thread Robert Rohde
that archive web content is a good one, but I don't know that IA is really in a position to be all that useful. -Robert Rohde On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:57 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; I want to make a proposal about external links preservation. Many times, when you check

Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

2010-08-24 Thread Robert Rohde
it. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Rohde
restrictive privacy policy governing their own content, then that seems fine, but I suspect they would have a difficult uphill battle to extend that decision beyond their own immediate sphere of influence. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice

2010-08-02 Thread Robert Rohde
to a longer campaign and accomplish the same effect as a big banner with a shorter campaign. Personally, I think it would feel less imposing and more friendly to have a smaller banner than ran longer. That's just my two cents. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice

2010-08-02 Thread Robert Rohde
Er, I mean: I think it would feel less imposing and more friendly to have a smaller banner THAT ran longer. Silly typo. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-14 Thread Robert Rohde
. This makes the files more easily scalable (and more compatible with SVG in general), but it also makes the sensation of depth less realistic. Is this a deliberate choice, and if so, why? -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-13 Thread Robert Rohde
it bolder, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#New_logo -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

2010-05-11 Thread Robert Rohde
to harm the people in the images. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Towards actual clean-up...

2010-05-09 Thread Robert Rohde
of what the issue is and consider the best ways to address it. I've compiled the list at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:List_of_genitalia_for_review (There are actually only 411 on the list, as I dropped 14 after my editor mangled the UTF8). -Robert Rohde

[Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-07 Thread Robert Rohde
a position on the appropriate use of sexual content? -Robert Rohde [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Cleanup_policy (and following sections) [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content [4] http

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

2010-03-30 Thread Robert Rohde
and needs to be considered by reusers, which includes those navigational templates. The logo at the upper left is different in that regard since it isn't part of the dumps. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

2010-03-29 Thread Robert Rohde
to avoid a copyrighted logo. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

2010-03-29 Thread Robert Rohde
-by-Wikimedia templates, but we can go and fix that. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] sell wikipedia

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Rohde
compressed to make it fit in the space available, but that's entirely reversible of course. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Rohde
to ever really know whether this particular image was child porn unless the uploader chooses to confess. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

2010-01-14 Thread Robert Rohde
such collections grow far beyond the applications we have for them. -Robert Rohde [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Privatemusings/ImagesUsedInVideoPresentation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

2010-01-14 Thread Robert Rohde
is okay, and I don't see why we couldn't ask for the same thing here. And, in the unfortunate event that things aren't okay, we would be able to point a specific individual who misled us rather than simply saying that we closed our eyes and didn't care. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Rohde
://stats.grok.se/en/200912/Craig%20Newmark -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:05 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: There is one point left. We can't measure the change in traffic to Craigslist but we can measure this: http://stats.grok.se/en/200912/Craigslist If you

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

2009-12-14 Thread Robert Rohde
director can share a similar idea of what is reasonable (a few percent of the budget perhaps?), then taking a position like that actually feels like a responsible thing for a thoughtful charity to do. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-14 Thread Robert Rohde
The banner can be seen at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=2009_Craig_Appeal1 -Robert Rohde On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: care to give some context to your question? [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog

Re: [Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

2009-11-22 Thread Robert Rohde
of the thread (unless I misunderstood something myself). Yes, there are other scenarios we have to deal with, and perhaps some of them could in fact be helped by the development of standardized permission forms, but I was never suggesting that all of OTRS should be replaced. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] DMCA on Google

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Rohde
of the article being infringed. So, for each article you wanted to take down, you would need to find at least one major contributor to that specific article who was willing to file the infringement claim. Wikimedia is not generally empowered to make such claims. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] New Fundraising Staff: Megan Hernandez

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Rohde
, psychological, and social changes that occur to individuals over the course of a single human lifetime. Good for understanding people's wants, needs, and expectations. -Robert Rohde PS. Welcome Megan. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has not failed

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Rohde
to experiment and try some ideas to see what sticks. -Robert rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Annual Fundraiser starts November 10th, UTC]

2009-11-04 Thread Robert Rohde
format, and I hope we aim to replicate that again this year. -Robert Rohde On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: Trying one more time.  Seems to have disconnected from my previous message. Original Message Subject:        Annual Fundraiser starts

[Foundation-l] Growth vs. maintenance

2009-11-04 Thread Robert Rohde
at the Foundation-l level perceive the same trends, and what they think about the balance between innovation and growth versus simply maintaining and solidifying the processes and products that we already have. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Growth vs. maintenance

2009-11-04 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: At the root, I think that Wikipedia is something of a victim of it's own success.  We've written the largest encyclopedia in history, become a household

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has not failed

2009-11-04 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:02 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:  How do you determine the number of views a particular Wikipedia page has received? http://stats.grok.se/en/200910/Colorado%20Balloon%20Incident -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours ... the concept of time zones

2009-09-30 Thread Robert Rohde
is probably the most that it is reasonable to ask of the staff as an ongoing commitment. -Robert Rohde On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Waerth wae...@asianet.co.th wrote: Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/9/30 Waerth wae...@asianet.co.th: Basically if there is room for two sets of office hours

Re: [Foundation-l] strategic planning process update

2009-09-22 Thread Robert Rohde
the Foundation gets around to endorsing a long-term plan. It would probably be a good idea for someone to start sorting proposals be their perceived difficulty and/or need for external resources (if no one has been already), so that the easy issues could be separated from the hard ones. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Promotion and Job Opening

2009-09-17 Thread Robert Rohde
), and yet at the same time it is too small to have gotten the same level of attention that might go into soliciting a major foundation for $100k+ grant. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Creative Commons publishes report on defining Non-commercial, Is Wikpedia non commercial?

2009-09-15 Thread Robert Rohde
has no rights that novel, even if the copy of Word I used was completely stolen. They could sue me for the cost of the lost revenue if I am not using a properly licensed copy of their software, but they would have no direct claims over the intellectual works I created using it. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

2009-09-15 Thread Robert Rohde
a greater emphasis on effort in determining eligibility for copyright. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Rohde
by us or by Wikia and similar third parties. -Robert Rohde On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:24 AM, oscar os...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 9/9/09, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: On 2 Sep 2009, at 12:35, David Goodman wrote: There is sufficient missing material in  every Wikipedia, sufficient lack

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Rohde
doesn't really make sense either. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Rohde
and effort to make it efficient, but the underlying idea is simple. Locating nearby articles (and geocoded images) could have a lot of uses. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

2009-09-09 Thread Robert Rohde
and users without necessarily sacrificing the convenience of email for people that prefer that approach. And of course, people who don't want email interaction could just use such a web forum as a web forum without enabling any email features. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

2009-09-09 Thread Robert Rohde
is probably a system that is mostly a forum but has a few email features as well rather than thinking of it as a gateway primarily designed to be used around email. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Frequency of Seeing Bad Versions - now with traffic data

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org wrote: snip Robert, is it possible to share the source for generating the revert-based stats with other folks who may be interested in pursuing further work on the subject? Thanks! Not as a complete stand-alone entity. The

Re: [Foundation-l] Frequency of Seeing Bad Versions - now with traffic data

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Rohde
and not in keeping with the collaborative spirit necessary to run WMF projects. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Frequency of Seeing Bad Versions - now with traffic data

2009-08-27 Thread Robert Rohde
is more likely to be seen than suggested by the uniform weighting. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Frequency of Seeing Bad Versions - now with traffic data

2009-08-27 Thread Robert Rohde
behaviors. Maybe our concern for ensuring accuracy and addressing vandalism has grown, but the scale of the underlying problem of incoming vandalism appears to be more or less constant. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Rohde
is capable of walking away from piles of money if it came with too many strings and conflicts attached.) -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

2009-08-25 Thread Robert Rohde
say anything sooner. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

2009-08-20 Thread Robert Rohde
if the vandalism occurred in more frequently visited parts or not.) Unfortunately, that's it for now as I need to get back to my thesis / job search. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

2009-08-20 Thread Robert Rohde
in it. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

2009-08-20 Thread Robert Rohde
vandalism, but there are a significant number of ways to commit vandalism that nonetheless have nothing to do with impairing the resulting article's accuracy. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

2009-08-20 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Anthonywikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/20 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: I wouldn't suggest looking at the edit

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

2009-08-19 Thread Robert Rohde
Personally, I think the 2 articles in the Bengali Wikipedia serving a speaking community of 230 million is an even better example of failure. -Robert Rohde On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Lars Aronssonl...@aronsson.se wrote: Andrew Gray wrote: For those curious as to overall statistics

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiktionary logo competition makes b3ta

2009-08-14 Thread Robert Rohde
of such a trademark, i.e. who would own the rights to the mark. -Robert Rohde. PS. Since when did the flower have the name Bob? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Knol, a year later

2009-08-10 Thread Robert Rohde
be to think of Knol as the next Geocities. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Board election spamming

2009-08-08 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:34 AM, John Vandenbergjay...@gmail.com wrote: I had forgotten that my bot gave me a second vote. Is that a joke? -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-07 Thread Robert Rohde
are titled Senior this-or-that but are still relatively unimportant. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-07 Thread Robert Rohde
in a significant amount of interaction with external communities, including the volunteer developers and the Mediawiki user base. In that context, I think a description such as head or lead would help explain his role more clearly than senior does. Anyway, that's my two cents. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

2009-07-26 Thread Robert Rohde
of that. It seems unlikely in most cases. Besides which, there are many things we can be doing (such as improving the editing interface and documentation) that should widely benefit most groups of potential new editors. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation Button Enhancement : Part 2

2009-07-21 Thread Robert Rohde
based on higher order bytes in the IP address and assuming those are fairly stable (e.g. using BBB mod 4 where the address is AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD). Neither approach is foolproof or totally without bias, but one can do fairly well. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] [Slashdot] Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad

2009-07-21 Thread Robert Rohde
and derivative lies however tends to be a fuzzy concept not well defined by existing licenses. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-20 Thread Robert Rohde
to take similar steps on other wikis. Hopefully though some form of CentralNotice will be restored shortly. -Robert Rohde On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Philippe Beaudettepbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation Button Enhancement : Part 2

2009-07-20 Thread Robert Rohde
way to get a reasonable distribution is to vary which button people see based on their IP. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread Robert Rohde
, our images appear to be 3 or 4 times larger in linear dimension than the largest view they currently make available. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the National Portrait Gallery ...

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Rohde
. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: How do you fully consult the community consensus?

2009-07-06 Thread Robert Rohde
legible and intelligible. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-07-06 Thread Robert Rohde
were ever to actually consider this for production use, the parser would probably need to be patched to allow a more appropriate solution. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Rohde
. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: How do you fully consult the community consensus?

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Rohde
. (For the record, I'm referring to the earliest history of ParserFunctions. I'm not sure about the history of #expr and some of the later bits.) -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-06-30 Thread Robert Rohde
/ if a corresponding ref_define name=foo.../ref appeared later in the text. Personally, my guess is that a system of placement by reference would make for a more flexible / less confusing approach than trying to create a system of article hooks and attach infoboxes and the like to them. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

2009-06-25 Thread Robert Rohde
. So in short, you must comply with US copyright law. You have the option of further restricting content based on Chinese copyright laws, if your community so chooses. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

2009-06-25 Thread Robert Rohde
by the text. Simple facts are not eligible for US copyright. Only creative expression is protected under US case law. One of the more important Supreme Court cases dealing with this is: [[Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service]] -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL-only + OTRS

2009-06-24 Thread Robert Rohde
as potential copyright violations at this point. This applies specifically to works published elsewhere under the GFDL. It does not apply if the work was published elsewhere, but the first GFDL publication was in a WMF site. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

2009-06-16 Thread Robert Rohde
by the WMF. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Reuse policy

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Rohde
contributors will happily continue editing, and it won't lead to the end of Wikimedia projects as you suggest, even though some individuals may choose to stop contributing. -Robert Rohde On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jiri Hofmanhofm...@aldebaran.cz wrote: Hello everybody, I hope, it is never too

Re: [Foundation-l] Reuse policy

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Rohde
through the current parser with current templates, current stylesheets, current image versions, etc., etc. ;-) -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?

2009-06-07 Thread Robert Rohde
mainstream format of their choice in return. But such thinking seems to be pie in the sky at the moment. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?

2009-06-07 Thread Robert Rohde
on distribution because it was the one I knew off-hand. Since David is talking about decoding and re-encoding as Ogg, there would be a different set of fees to consider which I haven't looked at. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Rohde
that things were handled, but erring on the side of protecting user privacy is generally a good thing. Now that you are here discussing the matter, I'd hope a reasonable solution can be found. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-04 Thread Robert Rohde
is the proposal to install the AbuseFilter in a global mode, i.e. rules loaded at Meta that apply everywhere. If that were done (and there are some arguments about whether it is a good idea), then it could be used to block these types of URLs from being installed, even by admins. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-04 Thread Robert Rohde
on current status. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-06-02 Thread Robert Rohde
in gibberish. Anyway, that's the optimistic interpretation. -Robert Rohde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)

2009-05-31 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: snip The technical specifications of such a device allow for it to be extremely cheap. snip I think you are underestimating the size of Wikipedia. Even compressed a snapshot of the English articles with both text and low

Re: [Foundation-l] Information about 2009 Board of Trustees election

2009-05-27 Thread Robert Rohde
cast with relatively little movement afterwards. You mileage may vary of course, but the Licensing Update vote had roughly 60%, 25% and 15% of votes cast during each of its three weeks. I'd hate to have ignored 40% by stopping after only 1 week. -Robert Rohde

Re: [Foundation-l] Information about 2009 Board of Trustees election

2009-05-27 Thread Robert Rohde
, but they shouldn't be kept to the last minute. -Robert Rohde [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/licom-l/2009-May/000245.html ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

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