Hi everyone,
I don't believe the Terms are meant to expressly adopt all foreign laws
outside the United States. The community discussed the phrase "applicable
law" a few times during the drafting process. The Terms of Use only
expressly call out the United States as applicable law in the Overview
On May 3, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Nathan wrote:
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
> wrote:
>
>> birgitte...@yahoo.com, 03/05/2012 14:17:
>>
>> Encouraging people outside the US to live as though they live inside it,
>>> is neither wise nor ethical.
>>>
>>
>> On the other h
Hi everyone,
On May 17th at 16:00 UTC, Kul Wadhwa (Head of Mobile and Business
Development) and Amit Kapoor (Senior Manager, Mobile Partnerships) will be
in #wikimedia-office to talk about Wikipedia Zero,[1] as well as the other
initiatives underway on the mobile team.
As usual, details and time
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Carmen wrote:
>>
>>> For example, in the encyclopedic Wikipedia, there's one article called
>>> Brooklyn Bridge...
>
> Actually, I've just considered this a bit longer (for my sins). It
> occurs to me that perh
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Carmen wrote:
> The WMF should stop pretending it's politically neutral (NPOV).
+1
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Hi all,
we are about to prepare the April issue of the monthly Wikimedia
Highlights (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights ),
which as usual combines a few of the most notable aspects of the
Wikimedia Foundation report and the Wikimedia engineering report with
a brief selection of o
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Jan Ainali wrote:
>
> Axel Pettersson (User:Haxpett), who has been the press contact for the
> Swedish Wikipedia and also on the board of Wikimedia Sverige will work full
> time from Monday. Axel, who has studied computer science and leaves the
> role as a project
What: Meta and mediawiki.org translation tools bug triage
When: Wednesday, May 9, 16:00UTC
Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/ir
Where: #mediawiki-i18n on freenode
Use http://webchat.freenode.net/ if you don't have an IRC
client
You are invited to a bug tr
Congratulations from the UK - I'm sure we will all be looking closely at
the feedback on the London bid to see what we can do better for 2014!
Regards,
Chris
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
> And congratulations to our sisters of Hong Kong too :)
>
> Seriously - congratulat
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Carmen wrote:
>
>> For example, in the encyclopedic Wikipedia, there's one article called
>> Brooklyn Bridge...
Actually, I've just considered this a bit longer (for my sins). It
occurs to me that perhaps you're not looking at big issues (like
abortion) but you
Hi everyone,
Thought I'd drop you a line to let you know that our latest blog post is
up.
It's announcing that Andrew Gray is Wikimedia UK's latest Wikipedian in
Residence. He'll be working from the British Library in London. You can
read the post at
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/05/wik
And congratulations to our sisters of Hong Kong too :)
Seriously - congratulations and I hope to be there!
-Sarah
On 5/3/12 1:06 PM, Ivan Martínez wrote:
Congratulations to our brothers of Hong Kong. Hope to have a nice Wikimania
2013!
There's other *amigos* who want to have to all in their c
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Carmen wrote:
> For example, in the encyclopedic Wikipedia, there's one article called
> Brooklyn Bridge. It should not be arbitrary or subjective or contain original
> research, etc. Essentially anyone in the world could edit this article. But
> in a political
Am 03.05.2012 18:49, schrieb Erik Moeller:
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Dario Taraborelli
wrote:
MathJax [1] is now enabled site-wide as an opt-in preference. You can now see
beautifully rendered, accessible, copy&pasteable and standard-compliant
(MathML) formulas on Wikipedia, replacing
Congratulations to our brothers of Hong Kong. Hope to have a nice Wikimania
2013!
There's other *amigos* who want to have to all in their country in a
Wikimania 2016 XD
2012/5/3 Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu)
> Halo Everyone
>
> Thank you for your congratulations, we honored that we are awarded to
With all the rifles and stuff! :P
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:26 PM, とある白い猫 wrote:
> So we will have a full-scale military parade celebrating commons in Brazil?
> Nice!
>
> -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko)
>
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Mateus Nobre
> wrote:
>
> > Hahaha, right in the Brazi
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Dario Taraborelli
wrote:
> MathJax [1] is now enabled site-wide as an opt-in preference. You can now see
> beautifully rendered, accessible, copy&pasteable and standard-compliant
> (MathML) formulas on Wikipedia, replacing the old TeX-rendered PNGs.
Thanks Dario.
MathJax [1] is now enabled site-wide as an opt-in preference. You can now see
beautifully rendered, accessible, copy&pasteable and standard-compliant
(MathML) formulas on Wikipedia, replacing the old TeX-rendered PNGs.
To enable MathJax on Wikipedia or any other Wikimedia project, go to your
pr
Halo Everyone
Thank you for your congratulations, we honored that we are awarded to host
the 9th global Wikimedia Conference.
our team will work as best as we can, to facilitate such conference, and
meet your expectations.
and we are lOOking forward to seeing you here in Hong Kong, and hope you
w
So we will have a full-scale military parade celebrating commons in Brazil?
Nice!
-- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko)
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Mateus Nobre wrote:
> Hahaha, right in the Brazilian independence day ;P
>
> I am thinking in something really big.
> Something like ''Wikimedia C
Congratulations HK!
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Katie Chan wrote:
> Congratulation Hong Kong! I'll be there. :)
>
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Carmen wrote:
> [This essay was rudely rejected by the gatekeepers at Signpost calling it
> irrelevant but not explaining why. Could someone please suggest where I
> might submit this for a fair hearing by the WMF community?]
>
>
To me it seems like you are somewh
As I understand it, part of the problem is that there are very strict rules
on what the WMF can do as part of lobbying in the US. Under Section
501(c)(3), nonprofits are not allowed to use a "substantial" part of their
spending on lobbying - meaning no more than 5% of the WMF's income can be
spent
>
> As a fictional example, let's suppose some members of Congress propose
> legislation to build a new Brooklyn Bridge. Under the subject: HR 999
> Proposal to build a new Brooklyn Bridge, there would be one pro and one con
> argument edited only by members of Congress and one pro and one con
> ar
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> birgitte...@yahoo.com, 03/05/2012 14:17:
>
> Encouraging people outside the US to live as though they live inside it,
>> is neither wise nor ethical.
>>
>
> On the other hand, this is what happens (o could have happened) in other
> par
[This essay was rudely rejected by the gatekeepers at Signpost calling it
irrelevant but not explaining why. Could someone please suggest where I might
submit this for a fair hearing by the WMF community?]
Why the Wikimedia Foundation should openly articulate its political POV by
establishing a
birgitte...@yahoo.com, 03/05/2012 14:17:
Encouraging people outside the US to live as though they live inside it, is
neither wise nor ethical.
On the other hand, this is what happens (o could have happened) in other
parts of the Terms of use which apply to /users/ (not their
contributions) t
On May 3, 2012, at 7:17 AM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On May 1, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Nathan wrote:
>>> Richard, you removed some relevant language:
>>>
>>> "Certain activities, whether legal or illegal, may
On May 1, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Nathan wrote:
>> Richard, you removed some relevant language:
>>
>> "Certain activities, whether legal or illegal, may be harmful to other
>> users and violate our rules, and some activities may also
Hi all,
We've posted a report from the 2011 fundraiser on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/report
Take a look,
Megan
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Congratulation Hong Kong! I'll be there. :)
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