Re: [Wikimedia-l] United Nation of Wikimedia

2014-04-07 Thread Thomas Morton
Hi Ting, It's lovely to see such operatic vision! And I for one would love to see some of those things happen. But, just to bring it down a bit; the technological issues rear their ugly heads. Engineering-wise, hosting Wikipedia is a tough problem. Distributing Wikimedia hosting across the globe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] United Nation of Wikimedia

2014-04-07 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
(Note this reply is entirely in my personal capacity, and does not in any way represent anything at all official) On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Files and contents that let's say are legal in the EU but not in the US should of the be able to be stored on a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] United Nation of Wikimedia

2014-04-07 Thread Simon Knight
This is very interesting Ting just to reply to one (fairly minor!) part re: WMUK WMDE strategy, I agree further sharing and coordination would be a good thing (indeed, we did try to look to other chapters/organisations for guidance) but I also think thinking about localisation of strategy is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] United Nation of Wikimedia

2014-04-07 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Files and contents that let's say are legal in the EU but not in the US should of the be able to be stored on a server located in the EU and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] United Nation of Wikimedia

2014-04-07 Thread Peter Southwood
Why not? Peter - Original Message - From: Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 3:39 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] United Nation of Wikimedia Hello dear all, From 2008 on until recently the Wikimedia