On 19 November 2013 20:44, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
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.
This is an area this spins off from my little experiments with better
Yes, let's keep on pushing for policies that drive away editors!
On Nov 20, 2013 2:10 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 November 2013 20:44, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Aside @Fae: the tineye crew are curious quite pro-freeculture, I bet
they
would be glad to help design a bot
On Nov 20, 2013 1:13 PM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, let's keep on pushing for policies that drive away editors!
I'm not sure exactly what kind of policy you are getting at here. Could you
elaborate a little?
On Nov 20, 2013 2:10 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19
Dear Ansuman,
Thanks for flagging this. All the profiles of the CIS-A2K team members are
now updated. Please see [1].
Best,
Vishnu
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Team
On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:
Me:
Please make available the
Dear Ansuman,
On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:
Why still *2* new recruits are missing even after several months, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Teamhttp://bl-1.com/click/load/ADAAMlM2Um8Hb1w7CTw-b0231
,
Why there is no *monthly
Dear Ansuman,
On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:
Why there is no response to this, Evaluation results after months? *How
long are your two weeks?*
I feel like there is some context missing from this thread To me it
looks like five replies to an e-mail from a few weeks ago that wasn't sent
to the list?
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On 11/20/2013 07:13 AM, The Cunctator wrote:
Yes, let's keep on pushing for policies that drive away editors!
Let's be clear here: contributions that are copyright violations are not
desirable to begin with. If someone is driven away because they cannot
cut and paste from random websites
On 11/20/2013 8:31 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 11/20/2013 07:13 AM, The Cunctator wrote:
Yes, let's keep on pushing for policies that drive away editors!
Let's be clear here: contributions that are copyright violations are not
desirable to begin with. If someone is driven away because
There's also been discussion of automatically deleting content from
contributors contributor from their own writing.
On Nov 20, 2013 8:31 AM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
On 11/20/2013 07:13 AM, The Cunctator wrote:
Yes, let's keep on pushing for policies that drive away editors!
On 11/20/2013 11:59 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
An essential part of collaboration is, after all, reviewing each other's
work. From the terseness of the comment, it might be alluding to either
aspect or both.
That's actually an interesting question that has been lurking beneath
all the editing is
User:Jackson Peebles is no longer with us, he passed away in late
October. Jackson was a Western Michigan University Honors student
studying behavioral science and biology. He worked as an ice hockey
referreee and volunteered with the Red Cross. His Wikipedia efforts
focused on counter-vandalism
Corrected link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jackson_Peebles
*Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | :
@Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Jake
Never let it be said that one person can't make a difference. Clearly this
young man was all about reaching out to others and making an impact
everywhere he went. The planet and many people on it benefited from his
kindness for the brief time he was here.
Thank you, Jackson for all you gave to
Not quite: I would argue that anti-vandalism work is a gateway drug to
the rest of the project. Just a hunch, though.
On Nov 20, 2013 5:21 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
On 11/20/2013 11:59 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
An essential part of collaboration is, after all, reviewing each
On 11/20/2013 9:20 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
That's actually an interesting question that has been lurking beneath
all the editing is going down nervousness.
How much of that 'editing' was, in fact, busy work made immaterial by
technical advantage (bots, extensions, abusefilter)? The number
On 11/20/2013 01:06 PM, Richard Symonds wrote:
Not quite: I would argue that anti-vandalism work is a gateway drug to
the rest of the project. Just a hunch, though.
I'm pretty sure that typo correction fills pretty much the same niche,
though.
-- Marc
On 11/20/2013 01:13 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
My general point is that opportunities for automation are best
considered with our overall mission in mind, not just the speed or
efficiency of a particular workflow. In certain situations, automation
that creates more work rather than removing it
The loss of someone always hits us hard; the loss of one of us even more
so. I was lucky enough to work with Jackson, albeit briefly. He will be
very sorely missed and I wish his family all the best during these tough
times.
On 21/11/2013 4:33 AM, Amy Vossbrinck avossbri...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 11/20/2013 10:52 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
Perhaps another way of putting it is to ask whether the
encyclopedia-building community is the means or the ends. To my eyes,
having more contributors is not valuable unless it has better
encyclopedia as a direct consequence.
I believe the
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
maybe – as suggested by Luis in a copyright-related discussion[2] – they
could make some interns assess their content (what can become public, what
needs to stay private to the same group of people, what can be
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sep11wiki
I think it's disrespectful to solicit contributions towards a memorial
website, and then to fail to maintain that memorial website in a
searchable format.
Today, searching the web for phrases in contributed memorial pages
brings up only ancient,
I think it would be better to reformulate it into book format and make it
available as an e-book, for free download either directly from Wikimedia or
other outlets like iTunes or Amazon. That would be searchable, and I don't
know that hosting it in wiki form provides any benefits. Certainly as a
Tim Starling wrote:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sep11wiki
I think it's disrespectful to solicit contributions towards a memorial
website, and then to fail to maintain that memorial website in a
searchable format.
I think there's general agreement that setting up this wiki was a mistake.
This
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:38 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
We provide a dump of the September 11 wiki's contents here:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backups-of-old-wikis.html. Memorial sites,
while depressing and touching, are completely outside the scope of
Wikimedia's mission. I don't
On 11/20/2013 07:09 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
In 2007, the September 11 wiki was moved to a non-Wikimedia site,
evidently hosted by an individual without the capacity to preserve
that content for posterity. It was offline after only 3 years.
It is still accessible at the Internet Archive's
On 21 Nov 2013, at 00:52, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
+1. sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo already redirects to the IA copy, as
well. Anything else is a distraction and a waste of time, sorry.
Perhaps it would be worth fixing the mobile redirect for the wiki, currently it
doesn't
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sure, but you can't undo it, once it is done. Maybe it was stupid to
take on this responsibility, but deleting the site is not an ethical
way to rectify the mistake.
If you _really really_ want to take this on, please
Hello,
2013/11/21 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com
I think it would be better to reformulate it into book format and make it
available as an e-book, for free download either directly from Wikimedia or
other outlets like iTunes or Amazon. That would be searchable, and I don't
know that hosting it in
Tim,
You could start an indiegogo or a kickstarter campaign for this. I'm sure
you'd find funding and volunteers to keep it online. There is also a museum
on the ground zero site that you may want to get in touch with about such
an effort : http://www.911memorial.org/ They may be interested in
Thank you for sharing this, Ocaasi. Sad, sad news indeed.
~ Keegan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
On Nov 20, 2013 1:09 PM, Steve Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote:
The loss of someone always hits us hard; the loss of one of us even more
so. I was lucky enough to work with Jackson,
Hi.
Is there a status update about the search for a new Executive Director? I
checked https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ED_Transition_Team.
Relatedly, there's now a position opening for a VP of Engineering
(http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ods8Xfwu).
Big changes ahead, it seems.
Tim Starling wrote:
On 21/11/13 11:38, MZMcBride wrote:
No subsequent major world event (e.g., the 2004 Indian Ocean
earthquake and tsunami) has had its own Wikimedia memorial wiki
established and it's very unlikely that we would ever set up another.
Sure, but you can't undo it, once it is
Thank you so much for posting this Jake. I will dearly miss Jackson and
his flow of good spirit and ideas.
SJ
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote:
User:Jackson Peebles is no longer with us, he passed away in late
October. Jackson was a Western Michigan
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