[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 33 -- 27 August 2014

2014-08-31 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-08-27/Featured_content In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-08-27/In_the_media News and notes:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

2014-08-31 Thread Yann Forget
Hi all, Thank you Erik for your mail. It shows that the WMF is willing to discuss rather than to impose its solution. I am really shocked that the dispute reaches that level of confrontation, and although some community members have a hard stance, this is largely due to WMF actions, specially

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

2014-08-31 Thread Richard Farmbrough
Legal position: I have seen it claimed by legal and repeated here by Erik that the reasonableness criteria means that we do not have to worry about the CCBYSA-3.0 clause that says all copyright holders need equal attribution. This is simply not so: The credit required by this Section 4(c) may be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

2014-08-31 Thread Pine W
Just in terms of the amount of everyone's time that MediaViewer, Superprotect and related issues are absorbing, this situation is a net negative for the projects. Also, the amount of emotional hostility that this situation involves is disheartening. Personally, I would like to see us building on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Understading power in the Wikimedia context

2014-08-31 Thread ; )
Hey, interesting take - will think on this. If we accept that there might be a duality, the points made in the video could help. Perhaps it might be intersting to look into this as a possible solution (see Council of Stellar Management - CCP/EVE Online) and get over the