Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikimediafoundation.org coup: six months later

2013-11-19 Thread Rschen7754
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request_for_an_account_on_the_Foundation_wiki is quite backed up. Rschen7754 rschen7754.w...@gmail.com On Nov 18, 2013, at 11:13 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Hi. Samuel Klein wrote: The wiki continues to clutter up That's not quite apt. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikimediafoundation.org coup: six months later

2013-11-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
MZMcBride, 19/11/2013 04:59: I think it might be a reasonable goal for 2014 to do away with the wiki. Meta-Wiki will make a fine home. +1. Nowadays, the most technical/scary HTML things are on donatewiki anyway, I guess. Even while the foundationwiki zombie is still around, Meta can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-19 Thread Andrew Gray
It could use abuse-filter tags, just not in an entirely standard way: * Bot scans edit X * Script flags it as a problem * Bot makes edit X+1 to page (perhaps adding copyvio template?) which triggers an abusefilter rule for (if this bot and does such-and-such an edit) and tags it. The offending

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF sends cease and desist letter to WikiPR

2013-11-19 Thread Matthew Roth
The Wikimedia Foundation has published a blog post announcing that we have sent a cease and desist letter to WikiPR. The letter demands the firm cease editing Wikipedia sites until it complies with the conditions of the Wikipedia community's ban, as well as any further conditions that might be set

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-19 Thread Samuel Klein
Aside @Fae: the tineye crew are curious quite pro-freeculture, I bet they would be glad to help design a bot that uses their API to check image copyvios. On Nov 13, 2013 6:48 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 November 2013 07:40, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: ... Our biggest issue

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Samuel Klein, 19/11/2013 21:44: Aside @Fae: the tineye crew are curious quite pro-freeculture, I bet they would be glad to help design a bot that uses their API to check image copyvios. How to make them include the whole Commons dataset into their own, to start with? Nemo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-19 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 11/13/2013 04:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Marco Chiesa, 13/11/2013 10:21: There are bots that go and look whether a newly inserted block of text is already present somewhere else, [...] Rectius: there *used* to be a bot (RevertBot, Lusumbot). The program

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Matthew Flaschen, 20/11/2013 06:05: On 11/13/2013 04:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Marco Chiesa, 13/11/2013 10:21: There are bots that go and look whether a newly inserted block of text is already present somewhere else, [...] Rectius: there *used* to be a bot (RevertBot, Lusumbot). The