Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread MZMcBride
geni wrote: >On 13 December 2014 at 02:48, MZMcBride wrote: >>An alternate solution would be to ban automated notices. :-) > >Individualised ones don't scale > >>Or at least make them far less obnoxious. > >Been tried. A lot. It doesn't make any difference mind but I assume people >will continue t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread Austin Hair
I assert that you're absolutely disrupting this mailing list. I have banned this address, and will ban any others that surface from you or your tens of thousands of bot—sorry, "members," intent on disrupting the list to pursue whatever agenda it is you're trying to shove in everyone's faces. Austi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread Bruentrup
And you assert that I personally did all those things ? And you do not acknowledge then IAC is an actual public movement / organisation, with tens of thousands of subscribers all connected by internet and with similar ideologies, all upset with Wikipedia. eg. like Eastern European mailing list, C

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread Austin Hair
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > I do not see why I should be wasting more time for IAC. Then please don't; there's enough nastiness in this thread as it is. Thanks, Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: ht

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2014-12-14 14:05, Bruentrup wrote: And that will magically make all the infringements of IAC's IP at Commons somehow acceptable and usable ? If you have reliable hard evidence of disruption and "socking" by / against IAC, carried out from India, please share it with us so that my clients can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread Bruentrup
And that will magically make all the infringements of IAC's IP at Commons somehow acceptable and usable ? If you have reliable hard evidence of disruption and "socking" by / against IAC, carried out from India, please share it with us so that my clients can report it to the law enforcement agencie

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2014-12-14 06:49, Bruentrup wrote: Hi One of those 6 successful DMCA's of 2014 was filed by us. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/DMCA_India_Against_Corruption_logo I would suggest to the list moderators that every poster identified as IAC would be blocked on sight, due to the high leve

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Chapters are known on Wikidata and so are all the GLAM partners. It is trivially easy to establish relations between them. It allows for many visualisations. That is how we can make the relevance of chapters more obvious. Thanks, GerardM Yeah, I blogged about this in the past as well. O

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
geni, 14/12/2014 09:13: if we can turn the chapters into respected points of contact which GLAMs Is there any evidence to think they aren't? Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread Bruentrup
Please recheck your queue The first email was sent on 28. November 2014 subject "Complaint about images on Wikimedia Commons". A reminder was sent on Dec 2, 2014 Both these emails were sent by the "National Media Coordinator, India Against Corruption, jan andolan" to "info-comm...@wikimedia.org"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons copyright extremism

2014-12-14 Thread geni
On 13 December 2014 at 20:34, Lilburne wrote: > > > > I can't imagine a publisher taking the risk on web images that some > un-contactable anon uploaded. Imagine printing 1000s of copies of a book > and then discovering that you don't have the rights to the images. No one > does this in the real w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-14 Thread geni
On 13 December 2014 at 02:48, MZMcBride wrote: > > I felt kind of meh about the previous thread, so I'm forking it. > > geni wrote: > >2)Large number of semi automated deletion notices. This is going to happen > >whatever you do unless you ban all uploads from people who aren't > >qualified intell