On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote:
In short: I think people like Max and Roger, who make public declarations
about their identities and conflicts of interest, are not the ones who
scare me. We can always find those people and start a conversation
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:39:52 -0600 (MDT), Fred Bauder wrote:
Spotted this in my news feed,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
Promoting of Gibraltar, and warring over it, is not a
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
In the past, those conversations were short, and ended in a permaban (cf.
Jimbo's past statements about blocking anyone offering commercial editing,
cf. Kohs).
Today, the people concerned are chapter trustees and
Yes, this is definitely an issue. My recollection was that the unwanted
content issue was seen as secondary to the debates about placement, but
it's many years ago ;-)
Agree entirely on testing and having a sense of the cost-benefit ratio. One
feature of the old system was that it predominantly
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com
wrote:
In the past, those conversations were short, and ended in a permaban (cf.
Jimbo's past statements about blocking anyone offering
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Steven,
We know people have been beating a door to Roger's path ever since
Monmouthpedia;
... or even a path to Roger's door :))
(Sorry, tired.)
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On 19 September 2012 10:24, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
We know people have been beating a door to Roger's path ever since
Monmouthpedia; there have been enquiries from all over the world from towns
wanting to be the next Monmouth.
Correction: to *everyone's* door. Really, anyone
Andrew Gray, 19/09/2012 10:35:
Yes, this is definitely an issue. My recollection was that the unwanted
content issue was seen as secondary to the debates about placement, but
it's many years ago ;-)
Agree entirely on testing and having a sense of the cost-benefit ratio. One
feature of the old
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:46 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
He gets to decide which town goes forward,
and whichever town goes forward pays him a consultancy fee.
This, OTOH, is spurious made-up bullshit.
Look, David, if a dozen towns express an interest in his services, and
On 19 September 2012 12:08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 September 2012 10:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 September 2012 10:24, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
He gets to decide which town goes forward,
and whichever town goes forward pays him a
On 19 September 2012 12:51, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 September 2012 12:08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 September 2012 10:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 September 2012 10:24, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
He gets to decide
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:19:19PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:
I'm curious as to the internal view of the details, but... this is
Violet Blue blogging about us.
Violet Blue is a known quantity to you?
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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On 19 September 2012 15:36, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:19:19PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:
I'm curious as to the internal view of the details, but... this is
Violet Blue blogging about us.
Violet Blue is a known quantity to you?
Internet-famous
On 17 September 2012 19:27, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com javascript:;
wrote:
On 17 September 2012 18:03, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com javascript:;
wrote:
Naturally every link wants to escape from the toolbox, if it's collapsed
:-)
They were designed to be used, after all.
I also haven't
On 19 September 2012 17:27, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 17 September 2012 19:27, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com javascript:;
wrote:
On 17 September 2012 18:03, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com javascript:;
wrote:
They were designed to be used, after all.
I also haven't
NSince sending that last email, I've been thinking about why the toolboxes
are effectively hidden. (I don't disagree they are - to a new user, having
a link in a collapsed toolbox is functionally equivalent to it not existing)
One possible problem is that the collapsed toolbox has, visibly, very
Hello
Is there a place (I looked on meta and saw nothing) where the situation
with regards to paid editing or more generally the practices toward
declaration of conflict of interest in all linguistic versions of
Wikipedia summarized ?
For example, I more or less know that the English
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote:
Hello
Is there a place (I looked on meta and saw nothing) where the situation
with regards to paid editing or more generally the practices toward
declaration of conflict of interest in all linguistic versions of
The concerns over Bamkin's involvement in WM-UK and GibraltarpediA
seem a little overwrought, but the situation isn't helped by his
minimalist approach to public communication - prompted perhaps in part
by the accusatory, judgmental tone of his UK questioners. Still, it's
too bad he's not more
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
I believe part of the problem is that Roger may not be in the UK - he may
well be in a hotel in Gibraltar with limited and expensive internet access.
It's not yet been 48 hours since this all broke - give
On 19 September 2012 13:17, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Hello
Is there a place (I looked on meta and saw nothing) where the situation
with regards to paid editing or more generally the
it.wiki is extremely strict as regards usernames which contain or equal
the names of entities or internet domains (blocked on sight); editing
articles about yourself is strongly discouraged but not forbidden; COI
is a tough matter and there are no clear rules.
Discussions on similar
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:50 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 September 2012 15:36, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:19:19PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:
I'm curious as to the internal view of the details, but... this is
Violet Blue blogging
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
wrote:
But that is not all. The most important issue is extremism. According
to
the bill, the materials, that are banned for distribution in Russia
2012/9/19 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com
David Gerard wrote:
That there was a plausible reason to hide functionality doesn't mean
it actually works out to be a good idea, and it arguably not working
out to be one is the point of this thread. It turns out that if you
obscure functionality,
Hello all,
As recently announced [1], WMF will move forward in creating a
Wikimedia travel project based on community request and support.
We’re currently in discussions with the Wikivoyage community, who’ve
expressed interest in joining Wikimedia’s project family as part of
this launch. We’re
Well, the new law is now being considered for application to block
YouTube in Russia. Make of that, what you will.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19648808
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
I have never understood anyone who thinks that showing contempt for the
Prophet
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 September 2012 13:17, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
wrote:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest_editing for a
placeholder.
Just for the record, there's a difference between paid editing
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