Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-20 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Those sound like typical problems with external links on Wikipedia, not anything specific to Wikia. It's a shame that there isn't an easy way to only see the links in the article namespace, though, as that might make this list of links somewhat more useful (and a lot smaller)... Is this

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Cool Hand Luke
This isn't why Peter was moderated, is it? Frank On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote: Peter Damian, it turns out has a blog, Beyond Necessity and has commented on our banning and moderating activities:

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
This isn't why Peter was moderated, is it? Frank The folks who control the list: foundation-l list run by adhair at gmail.com, wiki.ral315 at gmail.com, alexandrdmitriromanov at gmail.com didn't say much. Kohs has a big anti campaign in progress, but all I can find about Peter Damain is bad

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Chad
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: I don't think we're in danger of outlawing sharp criticism on Foundation-l. If I had to give a guesstimate of the content breakdown of Foundation-l traffic, it would look something like: 10% news/events/media coverage

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Dupont
I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign, as illustrated at http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia against Wikipedia. Wow, this is very well written and interesting! please share more such information.

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Peel
On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote: I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign, as illustrated at http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia against Wikipedia. Wow, this is very well written and interesting! please share more

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Dupont
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote: I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign, as illustrated at http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia against

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Peel
On 19 Oct 2010, at 19:06, Mike Dupont wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote: I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign, as illustrated at

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
That page is so full of misinformation, it hardly warrants commentary, but just to point out some more annoying examples: The part about how Your non-profit donation will ultimately line the for-profit pockets of Jimmy Wales, Amazon, Google is absurd and very misleading. Sure, Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Chad
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: And that's just one of many sections erroneously blaming the WMF for content issues. For example, A WikiProject of topic lists has existed since November 2007, but it is still half unfinished and the 100 articles about

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Fred Bauder
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: And that's just one of many sections erroneously blaming the WMF for content issues. For example, A WikiProject of topic lists has existed since November 2007, but it is still half unfinished and the 100 articles

[Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Fred Bauder
Peter Damian, it turns out has a blog, Beyond Necessity and has commented on our banning and moderating activities: http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/10/free-culture.html Surely he exaggerates, and mere negative comments would not cause his posts to be withheld. I don't think we gain anything by

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Funny how Peter's blog complaining about moderation is itself moderated by Peter. Ryan Kaldari On 10/18/10 9:37 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: Peter Damian, it turns out has a blog, Beyond Necessity and has commented on our banning and moderating activities:

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Fred Bauder
Funny how Peter's blog complaining about moderation is itself moderated by Peter. Ryan Kaldari That is not significant. The kind of stuff random vandals post has to be moderated. The question is whether sharp criticism is approved for posting. Fred

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I don't think we're in danger of outlawing sharp criticism on Foundation-l. If I had to give a guesstimate of the content breakdown of Foundation-l traffic, it would look something like: 10% news/events/media coverage 10% pointless digressions 10% snarky comments 10% trolling 10% uncritical

[Foundation-l] Free culture forum- Starting Oct 29: Join online!!!!

2009-10-28 Thread Mayo FM
ENGLISH - CATALĂ€ - CASTELLANO First International Forum on free culture and knowledge accessibility (Barcelona October 29 to November 1 2009): Join online!! ENGLISH http://www.fcforum.nethttp://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fcforum.net The International

[Foundation-l] Free Culture vs Fear Culture vs Fee Culture

2009-02-18 Thread David Gerard
Why one small project changed from CC-by-nc-sa to CC-by-sa: http://zak.greant.com/free-culture-vs-fear-culture-vs-fee-culture - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: