Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

Jovan Cormac, 06/09/2009 20:37: > The proposal has nothing to do whatsoever with people contributing to > Commons not being educated about licenses. It's about contacting to > people *outside* of Commons, people who may not be involved in any > Wikimedia project, and tell them about PD or CC med

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

Marcin Cieslak, 10/09/2009 15:31: > - "Copyright 1995-2009 Wirtualna Polska" notice at the bottom Only after a visible «Historia i autorzy Tekst udostępniany na licencji Creative Commons: uznanie autorstwa, na tych samych warunkach, z możliwością obowiązywania dodatkowych ograniczeń. Zobacz s

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

Mike Godwin, 16/09/2009 07:54: > We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating in > Italy. In the majority of those cases, Wikimedia Foundation itself never > receives service of process -- in effect, the cases only really "exist" in > Italian media. I'm not saying that'

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Italia being sued

Brian, 18/09/2009 17:15: > To restate, there is a tendency in Italy for a media sensation to be > made of purportedly legal matters when no legal actual legal processes > have been initiated, and no legal documents drafted. Cfr. Marco. > As you can see, > the statement has nothing to do with

[Foundation-l] Wikiprogress (OECD wiki)

http://www.wikiprogress.org/index.php/Main_Page (found here: , in Italian). They use GFDL 1.2 (?). Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wik

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I have one more question: how many log entries from italian IPs were discarded? Were they more than in other countries? In Italy, 13 % of broadband users are Fastweb customers. Fastweb uses NATs so that each Fastweb IP is normally used by hundreds of users. Moreover, Fastweb customers are often

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Philippe Beaudette becomes Head of Reader Relations

Sue Gardner, 14/04/2010 08:11: > His > first focus will be to work with Wikimedia volunteers to establish and > maintain systems enabling them to provide good service to readers who > have inquiries, complaints and comments. A lot of this will involve > taking existing FAQ material, cleaning it up

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Communia] Europeana launches its Public Domain Charter]

Messaggio Originale Oggetto: [Communia] Europeana launches its Public Domain Charter Data: Tue, 4 May 2010 07:13:58 -0600 Da: bernardo parrella A: commu...@lists.communia-project.eu The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public Domain Charter, to highl

Re: [Foundation-l] Threading

Adam Cuerden, 08/05/2010 23:30: > If someone will tell me how to get messages to thread if you're in > digest mode - I've been making honest efforts to try and get threading > - I will happily use whatever technique is suggested. Check archives and click the e-mail address of the person you're r

[Foundation-l] Vector improves the visibility of interwikis, reader said

«You're marvellous. I've particularly appreciated the languages menu and I think that in the future it will be even more important (Indian, Chinese etc.).» Funny feedback from a reader here: http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Progetto:Coordinamento/Usabilit%C3%A0&oldid=32767202#Parere App

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posting

Gerard Meijssen, 14/06/2010 13:44: > For me KTHX is > one such, the top rated result makes it a radio station and it took me some > time to find that it is likely to mean "Ok, thanks". http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kthx Time: 1 s? Nemo ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announce] Note from the Board Chair

«Is it possible for Board members hold two officer positions simultaneously? Yes, although this is the first time this has happened.» (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/July_2010_WMF_Announces_Changes_to_the_Board_QandA ) But the real question is: why Jan-Bart is no mo

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

Sue Gardner, 14/07/2010 18:33: > * Anyone who has information about malfeasance or misfeasance inside > Wikimedia should take a look at our Whistleblower Policy, which lays out > process for escalation to authorities. The policy is intended to cover > serious and actual problems (rather than f

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

Tomasz Ganicz, 15/07/2010 10:11: > Just about the scholarship. As far as I know there were two > scholarships - one provided by WMF and the one combined, provided by > Polish and Russian chapters. The WMF scholarship committee was quite > international, and at least what I heard from one Polish Wik

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

Sara Crouse, 15/07/2010 17:24: > For the moment, here are the selection criteria that were applied during > the application review process: > > http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships#Applicant_Selection_Criteria > > These were originally on the Wikimania team planning wiki, and not

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikisource-l] Dublin Core and TEI

John Vandenberg, 16/07/2010 03:03: >> The Perseus project is an *amazing* project, but I regard them far more ahead >> than us. The PP is actually a Virtual Research Environment, with tools for >> scholars and researcher for studying texts, (concordances and similar stuff). > > I agree. I would g

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

Manuelt15 Wiki, 16/07/2010 14:17: > Only wanted to notify you that the Acehnese Wikipedia < > http://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ôn_Keuë> > have plans about boycotting Wikipedia, as they say in this statement < > http://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola:Lhi_gam

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 Now Posted

Veronique Kessler, 27/04/2010 02:08: > Please note that the 2008 Form 990 which covers fiscal year July 1, 2008 > through June 30, 2009 has been posted to the Wikimedia Foundation > website at: > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_2008_2009_Form_990.pdf Thank you. (I love to read these

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

Gerard Meijssen, 17/07/2010 12:01: > Did the steward inform them that he did this and why ? Yes: http://ace.wikipedia.org/?diff=19301 http://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marit_Ureu%C3%ABng_Nguy:Si_Gam_Ac%C3%A8h#Don.27t_attack_other_Wikipedias.21 Does somebody know if there's some discussion ongoing wit

[Foundation-l] Statistics on edit summary usage on Wikipedia and standard summaries buttons

[[User:Mauro742]] has produced some statistics: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usage_of_edit_summary_on_Wikipedia There are great differences among Wikipedias. Apparently, sk.wiki and pl.wiki are the only Wikipedias where standard edit summaries buttons are used, and where edit summary usage is a

Re: [Foundation-l] Statistics on edit summary usage on Wikipedia andstandard summaries buttons

Przykuta, 18/07/2010 13:38: > Huh. Try edit any article in pl wiki as IP without edit summary ;) This > question (ask for summaries) is introduced to pl wiki from cs wiki. Script > (red border) has written by Nux (probably). Thank you. When was this feature introduced? Ortega's statistics http:

Re: [Foundation-l] Statistics on edit summary usage on Wikipedia and standard summaries buttons

Amir E. Aharoni, 18/07/2010 13:50: > I may have missed something, but standard edit summary buttons are > also used in Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. I am curious to know the > statistics about these two. ru.wiki is included: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usage_of_edit_summary_on_Wikipedia (74.8

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikisource-l] Wikisource and reCAPTCHA

Samuel J Klein, 16/07/2010 21:49: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Aubrey wrote: >> Luckily, the relationships with the Italian Wikisource are really good, and >> they'll probably share an office with Wikimedia Italy, in October. >> The interesting fact is that the offices will be within a libra

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

Brian J Mingus, 19/07/2010 22:20: > The basic idea is a centralized wiki that contains citation information that > other MediaWikis and WMF projects can then reference using something like a > {{cite}} template or a simple link. The community can document the citation, > the author, the book etc..

Re: [Foundation-l] Statistics on edit summary usage on Wikipediaandstandard summaries buttons

Przykuta, 19/07/2010 17:57: > One year before flagged rev in pl wiki, maybe even in 2006. Nux said April and October 2006 (http://pl.wikipedia.org/?oldid=22477021 ). If that's correct, the updated statistics http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usage_of_edit_summary_on_Wikipedia show that the button

[Foundation-l] [New user interface] Facebook Flops in ACSI E-Business Report

Funny, we said that Monobook was too old and someone says that this gave us an advantage over Facebook et al.: «Compare that to Wikipedia, which is a non-profit that has had the same user interface for years, and it’s clear that while innovation is critical, sometimes consumers prefer evolution

Re: [Foundation-l] Free translation memory

Amir E. Aharoni, 29/07/2010 10:17: > Is there a Free competitor to the Google Translator Toolkit in terms > of online storage and sharing? I've added an entry to http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free table, you could write a paragraph to elaborate a bit. Nemo

Re: [Foundation-l] A prerequisite for the neutral, notable sum of all human knowledge

Ray Saintonge, 30/07/2010 12:14: > Brian J Mingus wrote: >> The WMF mission is to provide free knowledge to the world. Wikipedia, in >> particular, hopes to summarize all notable topics into a neutral sum. >> >> Accomplishing this goal means Wikipedia an the WMF will have to evolve. >> Consider the

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing my departure from the Wikimedia Foundation

That's shocking, indeed. What about all those pages on WMF sites who say "if you don't know who to ask, ask Cary" and similar things? :-/ Thomas Dalton, 03/08/2010 01:12: > On 2 August 2010 23:51, Nathan wrote: >> Cary, you'll be missed. The WMF absolutely should try to replace you, >> although

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

Ilario Valdelli, 04/08/2010 10:37: > A translation can be found here: > http://it.wikinews.org/wiki/Intervista_a_Umberto_Eco/Traduzione Yes, could someone publish it on en.news? Przykuta, 04/08/2010 11:04: > Eco is known in science world as semiologist. Next time ask him about "disambig system"

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

Aphaia, 27/07/2010 21:33: > I've noticed many of English Wikipedia articles cite only English > written articles even if the topics are of non-English world. And > normally, specially in the developing world, the most comprehend > sources are found in their own languages - how can those articles be

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

Aphaia, 04/08/2010 23:26: > And also thank you very much for giving us English translation kindly. > It helps spread this great interview ... many passages I have found > stimulating. Thanks to .mau. and Paginazero (in addition to Aubrey) for that. John Vandenberg, 05/08/2010 05:32: > On Wed, Au

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco's interview

Przykuta, 05/08/2010 08:37: > Ah, the license > > http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals/archives/2010/July I've already replied there. It was a silly error. Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsu

Re: [Foundation-l] How many books are there in the world?

Bod Notbod, 06/08/2010 01:23: > Well, one of the things it reveals is the difficulty of answering this > question and I hope that it has some relation to Wikimedia projects; > in particular, I didn't know that multiple books (entirely unrelated > books) have shared ISBNs. It's supposed not to hap

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

Andreas Kolbe, 07/08/2010 02:23: > If Google want to build up their translation memory, I suggest they pay > publishers for permission to analyse existing, published translations, and > read those into their memory. This will give them a database of translations > that the market judged good eno

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

Michael Galvez, 05/08/2010 15:12: > Sorry for coming into this discussion a bit late. I'm one of the members of > Google's translation team, and I wanted to make myself available for > feedback/questions. Thank you, you've explained some important things. > There is spell check in Translator Too

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

Jesse (Pathoschild), 08/08/2010 16:53: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola > wrote: >> It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the >> English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse > locked[1]; about bot[2]-- >". > > These local blocks are m

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

Theo10011, 02/02/2012 00:36: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Risker wrote: The appointed members of the Board are chosen for their specific expertise and skill-set. The Board does publicly identify the slots it is trying to fill when looking for appointees, and the qualifications that they r

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

Thomas Dalton, 04/02/2012 15:05: On 4 February 2012 13:57, Teofilo wrote: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal information through edit links. I won't edit articles with articleFeedbackv5_ct_toke

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

Risker, 11/02/2012 18:45: The greatest challenge with the entire notion of vanishing is that it is intended to be permanent. That is, the person who wants to vanish should not return in the future, under any guise. [...] I don't think it's useful to discuss this. It's certainly not to the poin

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

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12: Do the people at MeatballWiki know? Why should they care? I don't know if this has already been mentioned somewhere: http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-thoughts-on-right-to-be-forgotten.html It's a very cautious comment I think. Nemo

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

Nathan, 22/02/2012 18:38: Thanks for the heads up, Robert. This boils down to a fairly simple question for me - do I want to participate in the political disenfranchisement of Iranian (and other) authors and photographers? They have few rights of political participation in their own nations, and

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

Nathan, 22/02/2012 19:27: In a moral sense, if we treat authors poorly because they live in a country where they are treated poorly, not only are we reinforcing that poor treatment - we are benefiting from their disadvantage. If Iranian authors were from any other of the vast majority of Berne si

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

Nathan, 23/02/2012 01:33: Don't forget - while I used Iran as an example, it isn't the only country affected. Of course, but Iran is the case which worries more, I think; and the first paragraph of my set of questions still applies. ;-) Nemo ___ f

Re: [Foundation-l] Anti-ACTA protest tomorrow in Belgrade and blackout of Serbian Wikipedia

Nathan, 24/02/2012 18:13: It's really unfortunate that blacking out Wikimedia projects is becoming an accepted method of protest. Maybe we should start keeping track of how often different projects are blacked out, and for what purpose. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project-wide_protests Wh

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

Michael Peel, 03/03/2012 22:56: If I'm wrong here, then I would really welcome corrections. But I really don't like that the requirement of keeping the decisions made by this this process is being put on the Wikimedia chapters rather than the Wikimedia Foundation. It may be that this issue has

Re: [Foundation-l] Author "Wikimedia Foundation" at Barnes&Nobles shop on Nook

John Vandenberg, 06/03/2012 10:23: The problem isnt that they are providing ebooks, but 1. they are "By Wikimedia Foundation" http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/wikimedia-foundation 2. they are poor quality, or dont work The second is their problem, but the first is clearly untrue and illeg

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

Seems worth a forward given that it mentions the SOPA protest as one of the main causes for a better acceptance of sensible copyright lobby (true or not?). Nemo Messaggio originale Oggetto:Blood in the water: Brett Smith reports from the latest Trans-Pacific Partnersh

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia domains, SOPA, Godaddy and MarkMonitor

Michael Peel, 10/03/2012 21:54: I'm all in favour of moving the Wikimedia domain names from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor (and, tbh, I'm rather puzzled by why the WMF decided to use GoDaddy in the first place), I'm just rather puzzled by your statements here. The official blog post says that «the Fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia financials - bank fees

It would also be interesting to understand why everyone (for reimbursements, grants, scholarships etc.) is required to send and receive money to/from the USA bank or PayPal accounts although there is an EU bank account and bank transfers within EU are mostly free, while PayPal has very high fee

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Scholarship in Medicine

James Heilman, 12/03/2012 11:07: Seven month ago we at Wikimedia Canada offered a $1000 CAD scholarship to be awarded to the Canadian university student who made the most significant contribution to a disease related article on Wikipedia. The scholarship was promoted using posters placed up at a

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

Samuel Klein, 14/03/2012 03:00: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I am confusing things. There's also World Book in E

Re: [Foundation-l] Draft charter of the Wikimedia Chapters Association

Nathan, 18/03/2012 20:47: So a group of chapters, reacting against a perceived effort to centralize the movement, create a brand new central body with an extensive (and apparently, expensive) bureaucracy? Are there really a lot of people that think this is a good idea? Yes because it is. And it

Re: [Foundation-l] resolution on voting transparency

phoebe ayers, 30/03/2012 14:03: During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on Trustee voting transparency: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees with their vot

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

Michael Peel, 30/03/2012 23:52: On voting transparency: this is a great step forward. However, I would encourage the WMF to take a further step, and to explain why trustees voted approve/abstain/against. +1 (as on the other topic). I hope this will done, at least for this particular resoluti

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

John Vandenberg, 31/03/2012 06:56: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 31 March 2012 02:03, John Vandenberg wrote: I expect that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the board. If not, then the board should put in place procedures to prevent abuse of abstain

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 96, Issue 95

Craig Franklin, 31/03/2012 23:20: For the record, those who did not vote in favour of the resolutions, this morning explained their reasons for doing so. I'm sure someone more eloquent than I can summarise those reasons, but I think that they were valid. John Vandenberg is correct that if peopl

[Foundation-l] "We've figured out fundraising"

This is something I've hard multiple times, and it always reminds me this unsettling graph: [1] I'm quite sure fishermen thought they had fugured out cod fishing in the end of the 60s, but only a couple years af

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 96, Issue 95

phoebe ayers, 01/04/2012 07:49: In the meantime, if there are any questions for us (as a board) or for individual trustees I encourage you simply to send those along, either to me (if you want them to go to the whole board, as I will pass them along) or privately. That would help make sure that w

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40: - a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are as a society towards reaching that goal We had started a stub table about this: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free Nemo

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving Wikipedia Information graphics

Steven Walling, 06/04/2012 00:39: These are fantastic. I don't see them on (EN) articles or Commons yet, though it's easy to miss... do the students need help uploading etc? All those images are hotlinked from Commons, or are we talking about different things? Some of them are in articles but

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) & Bots

On the contrary, I'm quite happy: the system recognized that my bot is mainly active on Wikiquote and is Italian although its home wiki is Wikipedia and it's not active on it.wikiquote. :) Errors are annoying but thank you very much to the sysadmin who volunteered for that (Andrew Garrett, I sup

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

Fajro, 11/06/2011 19:13: > 2011/6/11 Béria Lima: >> why try to increase participation is sad, Fajro? > > The lousy performance of the committee is sad. What did /you/ do? Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

Sarah, 11/06/2011 21:54: > Also, looking at the elections e-mail again, it links to a page that, > so far as I can see, doesn't tell people where to go to vote, except > for those most active on meta. It says «Go to the wiki page "Special:Securepoll" on one wiki you qualify to vote from». Could b

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

This seems related: Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Seat and Donations (SPLIT from: EFF & Bitcoins)

Milos Rancic, 24/06/2011 03:54: > However, the most important issue in relation to all of those > appointments is that Board itself was highly disorganized. I mean, why > to organize NomCom when the only product of NomCom's work was to propose > keeping current members and not to do anything else?

Re: [Foundation-l] Seat and Donations (SPLIT from: EFF & Bitcoins)

Milos Rancic, 24/06/2011 03:54: > However, the most important issue in relation to all of those > appointments is that Board itself was highly disorganized. I mean, why > to organize NomCom when the only product of NomCom's work was to propose > keeping current members and not to do anything else?

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

Tom Morris, 30/06/2011 11:28: > I'd have a problem if people started making overwrought > comparison to Nazi book burnings too. Wow, a reductio ad reductionem ad Hitlerum argument. Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Uns

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

There are much more "meta-wikis" that could be merged: Ziko van Dijk, 02/07/2011 00:14: > But in those sister projects communities, I have met fierce resistance > to any new branding or technical rearrangement.

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

John Vandenberg, 08/07/2011 08:26: > 1. Project Gutenberg, however they have a few free-gratis etexts > sprinkled through their collection. > > 2. Million Books Project http://www.ulib.org/ What about the Internet Archive? They certainly have much more free content than us, if you just count byte

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

John Vandenberg, 08/07/2011 09:31: > The Internet Archive has many subprojects which are non-free content > (wayback machine) and dubious content (Open source books). They have 1.5 millions books (texts) only in the 1800-1922 range.

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy concerns

David Gerard, 09/07/2011 12:46: > On 9 July 2011 11:02, Béria Lima wrote: > >> The WMF is not responsible for private mails you send to anyone. The only >> people who "officialy" can receive a copy of any ID you may have are >> Philippe, >> C

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy concerns

Robin McCain, 10/07/2011 07:43: > If I might interject, it seems that the sole purpose of the snail mail > described is to link a physical person to a login name in such a way > that there is some accountability for one's actions that is acceptable > to the organization. Is it really necessary

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback Tools

Geoff Brigham, 27/07/2011 01:20: > We have written a page on wikimediafoundation.org[1] that clarifies how the > Wikimedia Foundation treats user feedback from new tools such as > ArticleFeedback[2] and > MoodBar.[3] Thank you for the clarification. I was wondering whether the page can be confusin

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

David Richfield, 27/07/2011 09:35: > One of the most frequent complaints about Wikipedia, which I have seen > in contexts such as the Wikipedia overview of World History and on > websites that are critical of Wikipedia, is that it has an endemic > bias towards Western, English-language information.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

Lodewijk, 20/08/2011 12:16: > Maybe we could catch this discussion on wiki - it is an ever returning > issue, and the lessons could be valuable for other campaigns too. Andrew has already produced a very useful summary on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/SecurePoll#Email_spam Nemo __

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

Kim Bruning, 21/08/2011 20:29: > == Next steps == > > I suggest that we now concentrate on constructively discussing the > meta-data ecology; including viability, security, and practicality. I personally concluded that wasting a huge lot of time discussing whether this filter will make us waste a

Re: [Foundation-l] Board of Trustees activity report - May-June 2011

phoebe ayers, 04/08/2011 07:29: > The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the > first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short > summary, meant to help share our work with the community and movement, and > help make Board work and trustee acti

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

Guillaume Paumier, 24/08/2011 16:36: > The AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki, which helps prevent vandalism > on wikis, will be globally enabled on all Wikimedia projects later > today. > > More information is available at > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/24/filter-preventing-abusive-edits-all

Re: [Foundation-l] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

Guillaume Paumier, 24/08/2011 17:39: > Both concerns you raise are valid, and I agree with you, but globally > enabling the extension by default is no different in that sense from > enabling it one wiki at a time. > > Mischievous admins could be abusing AbuseFilter already on any small > wiki where

Re: [Foundation-l] Board of Trustees activity report - May-June 2011

phoebe ayers, 24/08/2011 18:39: > Thanks Nemo! > It is true that the first part of the report is a duplication of the > resolutions& meeting minutes that we publish. My assumption here was that > not everyone keeps up with all of the board resolutions etc :) It is also > nice to have a single reco

Re: [Foundation-l] Genuine, Generous, and Grateful

@itwikiquote is an experiment by WMI, it's a bot that writes the Quote of the day via Twitter. It work fairly well. There are supposedly some more of them but we have some problems with templates in other languages. https://twitter.com/#!/WikimediaItalia/wikiquote/members Nemo _

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Brasil + WMF

Florence Devouard, 02/09/2011 21:11: > You seek to remove "perceived" conflicts of interest, even if that means > creating "real" conflicts of interest ? > > Because there would be conflict of interest and rather BIG ONES. > > We are facing rather severe challenges right now. Let's say it str

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Brasil + WMF

gs to the realms of scholastic hypothesis (worth rejecting) and surrealism; if you agree you can safely ignore the first two paragraphs of my message. ;-) Nemo > 2011/9/4 Federico Leva (Nemo) >> I've been following the WMF Brasil office activities on Meta for several >> months now

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

David Gerard, 04/09/2011 11:17: > The bimodal distribution in the first graph suggests this feature will > continue to be controversial (to say the least), with fans saying "we > had the majority" and foes saying "there is clearly not a consensus". Or that a successful "plebiscite" (as it's called

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

Erik Moeller, 13/09/2011 03:55: > That's of course a risky project and it may not live up to our > expectations. But it's IMO a smarter bet to make than just picking > (with an unavoidable element of arbitrariness) one of the many > specialized areas in which we currently aren't succeeding and thro

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

M. Williamson, 13/09/2011 00:13: > English Wikiquote, which I've always considered to be one of our most > pointless and least useful projects, has a total of 5 users who make more > than 100 edits a month. This is a project in English, our highest-traffic > language, that has been open since 2003.

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

MZMcBride, 13/09/2011 00:24: > Wikimedia has made its decision and the community has largely sat quiet on > the issue. Rectius: the Wikimedia Foundation (as you say below). Other Wikimedia people, groups and organizations don't think so and are even accused not to have the "legitimacy" (!) to in

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

David Gerard, 21/09/2011 14:00: > The board resolution specifies a magical flying unicorn pony that > shits rainbows. A wide-ranging survey has been conducted on the > precise flight patterns and the importance of which way round the > rainbow spectrum goes. These tiresome people who keep calling t

Re: [Foundation-l] Extension:Babel

John Vandenberg, 21/09/2011 16:18: > Extension Babel is now deployed. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Babel > > Thank you Roan. And thanks to the new Internationalization/Localization team (in case you missed it: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-September/055078.h

Re: [Foundation-l] There is a deadline

emijrp, 22/09/2011 16:43: > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_a_deadline So this combined with http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Digital_Archaeology means that those 4560AD excavations will provide material for philologists who will study interpolations to reconstruc

Re: [Foundation-l] Meta main page

M. Williamson, 29/09/2011 22:45: > ...and Nikerabbit removed it giving only the explanation: "not here, per > Nikerabbit (would have already fixed the real issues if only somebody had > told me)" > > It seems like he's saying that someone should've let him know about the > autoselection issue, but

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

Thomas Morton, 04/10/2011 15:23: > In the modern world countries love to try it on and apply their internet > laws across the world. Fortunately courts tend to give that short shrift. 48 h deadline for correction and fines don't need a court; nor does the police to summon and interrogate a sysop

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

A couple of English articles on the new law: Also, I'm not involved in the strike, but the WMF has been somehow informed by the

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

Jalo, 04/10/2011 18:04: > Not at all! In the italian laws, if you bring lawsuit against me for > defamation, you must prove I'm not saying the truth. Not really: freedom of press/expression is not so broad in Italy, there's no "exceptio veritatis" (in short truth is not important) for "diffamazi

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

Thomas Morton, 04/10/2011 22:25: > Lengthy and critical email on why this is a flabbergasting response... Just replying to some bits. > - Have they had legal advice? From my semi-legal reading of the material > this is not something that will bite them, but that certainly needs to be > clarified.

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia - What exactly does the proposed law say?

Andreas Kolbe, 04/10/2011 23:40: > Is it that disputed content will have to be *removed* if a request is > received, and *replaced* with the BLP subject's statement? > Or is it that BLP subjects have the right to ask for a correction to be > posted on the page, *in addition* to the disputed conte

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

WereSpielChequers, 04/10/2011 23:46: > If someone tried to use this law > to > force an editor to publish a rebuttal of something posted before the > freeze, then surely that would be retrospective legislation? I don't see why. Web pages are permanent, they ask the correction/declaration to be p

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia - What exactly does the proposed law say?

John Vandenberg, 05/10/2011 00:16: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Morton > wrote: >> http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stampati/pdf/16PDL0038530.pdf > > Is this public domain? > > If it is, we can put it on Italian Wikisource, annotate it and > translate it into other languages.

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia $3.6 Million for Technology Improvements

MZMcBride, 06/10/2011 05:13: > Is the grant restricted or unrestricted? (Is there a copy of the agreement > somewhere?) The WMF said very clearly that they're not accepting restricted grants any longer, so I assumed it's unrestricted. Nemo ___ foundat

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