Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-03-28 Thread James Alexander
in the near future. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Kyanos someanon...@gmail.com wrote: I don't believe a different license is needed. CC licenses can be used for anonymous works: The author is not given and does

Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-04-08 Thread James Alexander
) with as little fear of retaliation as possible. There are some countries and topics where editors take an inherent risk upon themselves by editing (and they know that) but I want to keep that risk as limited as possible. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation @jamesofur

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wired: Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text

2009-09-01 Thread James Alexander
. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l -- James Alexander http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jamesofur ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Permission required on copyright expired images...

2009-09-18 Thread James Alexander
the photographer has been dead more than 70 years. Steve ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l -- James Alexander aim

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-18 Thread James Alexander
working with China and going along with their filtering they should be leaving us alone. Instead they decided to attack us and therefore we can no longer trust them. User:Jamesofur James Alexander james.alexan...@rochester.edu Wiki:jameso...@gmail.com wiki%3ajameso...@gmail.com 100 gmail invites

Re: [WikiEN-l] PR consultants: perhaps Wikipedia is not the ideal promotional medium

2010-04-03 Thread James Alexander
and that they and the company they represent our better served by a good Wiki article. and 2. That the COMPANY realizes they are better served by a good Wiki article so that they let the PR company do it. James Alexander james.alexan...@rochester.edu jameso...@gmail.com 100 gmail invites and no one to give them

Re: [WikiEN-l] Upcoming Changes to the User Interface

2010-05-08 Thread James Alexander
features BEFORE the switch is made. James Alexander james.alexan...@rochester.edu jameso...@gmail.com 100 gmail invites and no one to give them to :( let me know if you want one :) On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Everyone, As many of you already know

Re: [WikiEN-l] flagged revisions - autoreviewer even of minor edits

2010-05-22 Thread James Alexander
/Special:ListGroupRights I think you have the terminology right but that is something we probably want to change if we can.. if we keep using autoreviewer as a statement there it is going to confuse a lot of people on En who have seen autoreview as a very different thing for a while now. James

Re: [WikiEN-l] Destructionism

2010-08-06 Thread James Alexander
be to try and rewrite that new info to be good enough for an FA. James Alexander james.alexan...@rochester.edu jameso...@gmail.com ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] New tool: Write before you revert

2010-08-30 Thread James Alexander
is more sincere.' -SC More sincere then posting to get past the edit filter :) James Alexander james.alexan...@rochester.edu jameso...@gmail.com ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

[WikiEN-l] Fundraising 2010

2010-09-13 Thread James Alexander
Hey Everyone, My name is James Alexander, I'm an Associate Community Officer working with the Wikimedia Foundation on this years fundraiser. Depending on what other mailing lists you're on or how active you've been on Meta you may have seen my colleagues and I getting more active

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread James Alexander
be much harder. James -- James Alexander Associate Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation jalexan...@wikimedia.org +1-415-839-6885 x6716 On 10/5/2010 8:49 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to take a moment to bring you up to date on the planning of the 2010-2011 fundraiser

[WikiEN-l] Fundraising Office Hours

2010-11-03 Thread James Alexander
to accept. Please feel free to forward and translate this email to any list I may have missed and I hope to see everyone there! -- James Alexander Associate Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[WikiEN-l] REMINDER: Fundraising Office Hours-Today!

2010-11-05 Thread James Alexander
hope to see everyone there! -- James Alexander Associate Community Officer Wikimedia Foundation ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] Fundraising testing up now

2011-06-16 Thread James Alexander
anonymous only at 17:00 UTC (10:00 Pacific) and will come down in about 30 minutes at 18:00 UTC. James Alexander -- James Alexander Community Fellow Wikimedia Foundation ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-05-16 Thread James Alexander
@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l James Alexander @Jamesofur jameso...@gmail.com jalexan...@wikimedia.org ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Vandalism instance

2013-11-12 Thread James Alexander
Thanks Matt, it looks like someone got it before I could. I imagine you know already but, just in case, if you find yourself wanting to edit frequently from tor you may want to consider asking for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption on your account. Not the simplest for sure

Re: [WikiEN-l] Local Wikipedia mirror system messages

2013-11-16 Thread James Alexander
Hi Tim, It is and is a,relatively, low traffic list which is probably why you weren't responded too as quickly. You may want to try wikitech-l ( wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org) which has a lot of the more technically minded staff and volunteers who can help you figure out what is wrong. I know

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help finding photos on Flickr

2014-08-12 Thread James Alexander
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks for the tips. Can you set the parameters of a search to only return openly licensed content? Aye, if you search for images on google and click 'search tools' then 'usage rights' you can select what kind of