[Foundation-l] Quality of information on depression and schizophrenia on Wikipedia

2011-12-22 Thread Sydney Poore
Britannica and a psychiatry textbook. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22166182 Nice to hear!! Sydney Poore User:FloNight ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-09-14 Thread Sydney Poore
that they are not comfortable seeing is necessarily beneficial to WMF projects or the person. Sydney Poore User:FloNight ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-09-14 Thread Sydney Poore
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:52 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 September 2011 14:45, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Besides your acknowledged bias towards confronting people with their bias and forcing a discussion, it is also not very practical that we

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

2011-09-14 Thread Sydney Poore
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote: 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

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

2011-09-07 Thread Sydney Poore
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 18:04, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: While I'm very interested in hearing the opinion of our current editors, I disagree that we will can collect and disseminate information

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

2011-09-07 Thread Sydney Poore
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/7 Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com: The way that WMF collects and uses images is one of the biggest differences between us and other organizations that have a similar mission. Libraries, museums, universities

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

2011-09-07 Thread Sydney Poore
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:35, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Seeking outside opinions, and outreach efforts to bring more people into our Communities are high on my list of priorities because WMF contributor

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

2011-09-07 Thread Sydney Poore
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:29 AM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote: Sydney Poore wrote: The idea of offering imagine filters on WMF project is much more controversial than it is on other internet websites. So, I I think that it is fair to suggest that we examine why we are having

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

2011-09-06 Thread Sydney Poore
with people who had vastly different opinions from mine. I think that this will be true in our community, too. Sydney Poore User:FloNight ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

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

2010-06-19 Thread Sydney Poore
to broaden the base of our volunteers. Sydney Poore (FloNight) On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.netwrote: on 6/19/10 4:58 PM, Keegan Peterzell at keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: snip. There was a great TED speech that I need to look up but don't have

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

2010-06-19 Thread Sydney Poore
. But you are talking about activities community members can participate in. I am talking about how those community members interact with each other. Marc on 6/19/10 5:58 PM, Sydney Poore at sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: English Wikipedia has numerous contests during the year. Some people

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

2010-06-19 Thread Sydney Poore
be a good way to add a social side to WMF. Sydney Poore On 19/06/2010 23:58, Sydney Poore wrote: English Wikipedia has numerous contests during the year. Some people regularly participate in them and enjoy them. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Contest is an example of one

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Serbia billboard campaign

2010-06-17 Thread Sydney Poore
Congratulations on this successful alternative use of content in a BIG SCALE way. :-) Thanks for sharing it with us. Wonderful idea! Sydney Poore (FloNight) On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] (fwd) Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information on Wikipedia

2010-05-12 Thread Sydney Poore
. The public policy area is one that can be taken across different language wikis by volunteers if there is there is an interest from the communities. Sydney Poore (FloNight) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Sydney Poore
. Sydney Poore (FloNight) Cheers, ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

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

2010-05-08 Thread Sydney Poore
is the time for the Community to focus on cleaning up Commons and writing a sensible policy about managing sexual content. Sydney Poore (FloNight) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

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

2010-05-07 Thread Sydney Poore
others concerns and address them. I'm also hopeful that technical solutions will be implemented and will resolve the concerns about hosting images that have an educational value.but are not appropriate for all readers in all settings. Sydney Poore (FloNight) On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Jan-Bart

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome to a new board member

2010-04-06 Thread Sydney Poore
issues. Sydney Poore On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, all. Thought I would just introduce myself a bit more. Building on Michael (Snow's) email, for the last 12 years I have run Point of View (www.pointofview,org), a Mumbai-based non-profit