On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:00 AM Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Steven Walling has written an interesting answer on Quora about one aspect
of the New York Times op-ed, i.e. the threat NSA surveillance supposedly
poses to Wikipedians living under oppressive regimes:
I'm generally supportive of this legal action, but I am troubled by this
statement:
I trust our legal team to make decisions about what legal actions to
participate in.
In general I think highly of Michelle, but this statement fits a
long-running pattern I percieve in WMF governance of the board
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm generally supportive of this legal action, but I am troubled by this
statement:
I trust our legal team to make decisions about what legal actions to
participate in.
In general I think highly of Michelle, but this
Oliver,
I have thought about running more than once (:
Perhaps I am reading more into that comment than was intended.
James,
I have mixed feelings about having discussions behind closed doors.
Sometimes it's convenient or emotionally easier to do so, but I worry about
losing our value of
Keegan: thank you, great news.SJ
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Keegan Peterzell kpeterz...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi all,
Single-user login[1] finalization will be taking place next month.[2] I
know this has been said before over the past two years, but it is actually
going to take
Excellent, thank you Keegan and all who have worked on this.
Pine
On Mar 13, 2015 1:07 PM, Keegan Peterzell kpeterz...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi all,
Single-user login[1] finalization will be taking place next month.[2] I
know this has been said before over the past two years, but it is
Hi all,
Single-user login[1] finalization will be taking place next month.[2] I
know this has been said before over the past two years, but it is actually
going to take place after nearly a decade of waiting :)
I just posted an important announcement about the renaming process itself
on Meta.[3]
(Personal capacity)
Pine: I think you're reading far more into Phoebe's comment than it
actually contained. What she said was I trust our legal team to make
decisions about what legal actions to participate in. In other words,
to make evaluations about the probability of success, the necessity of
Pardon the mobile device mistype. A *move* toward more openness.
Pine
On Mar 13, 2015 12:49 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Oliver,
I have thought about running more than once (:
Perhaps I am reading more into that comment than was intended.
James,
I have mixed feelings about
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks very much for keeping us up to date, Keegan. When I look at
the Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed on enwiki, I note a large number of
accounts whose registration date is listed as today, even though I realise
that's not
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Keegan Peterzell kpeterz...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
5. for example,
https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patikos:UsersWhoWillBeRenamedHmm
That should be https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patikos:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed
It does make you go hmm though.
--
Keegan Peterzell
2015-03-13 10:36 GMT+01:00 Edward Saperia edsape...@gmail.com:
Education is apolitical.
I beg to differ.
Me too.
«Growing up, you know, I slowly had this process realizing that all
the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way
of things were, or the way things would
On 13 March 2015 at 19:04, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
In general I think highly of Michelle, but this statement fits a
long-running pattern I percieve in WMF governance of the board being
deferential to the ED and staff. This goes back to Sue's tenure and
possibly longer. I feel that
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm generally supportive of this legal action, but I am troubled by this
statement:
I trust our legal team to make decisions about what legal actions to
participate in.
...WMF needs an activist board. All of the guidance
Hmm. It's more like we have little evidence that the former is happening,
perhaps because of the latter. Anyway, yes, I think I've made my point and
will let this thread get back on its main track.
Pine
On Mar 13, 2015 5:43 PM, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote:
So we've now moved from the
So we've now moved from the board doesn't ask hard enough questions!
to the board doesn't tell us enough? Those are distinct concerns. If
you have them, I'd suggest spinning off a thread so we can keep this
one to what it's meant to be discussing.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Pine W
2015-03-12 20:50 GMT+02:00 Fæ fae...@gmail.com:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BLP_overwrites
A quick reminder about this report which helps vandalism patrollers
for the English Wikipedia spot when images used in Wikipedia
biographies are being overwritten by newbie accounts. I
On 13 March 2015 at 09:06, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
Fae, you are aware that this is NOT the list for en.wp, right?
Perhaps you missed the part of Fae's email which read:
If there are other Wikipedias that may benefit from a
similar report, please drop me a note on Commons or
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BLP_overwrites
It was chance that the English Wikipedia was the first noticeable
target of a revenge porn attack. The serious concern about potential
public impact started me looking at how to build a report to help
address the problem of image overwrites
Education is apolitical.
I beg to differ.
Saying that Wikipedia is apolitical is like saying democracy is apolitical.
Control of information is at the heart of politics, and the knowledge that
people have access to profoundly changes the way that they interact with
society over their
Hello everyone,
Apologies for cross posting.
Wikimedia UK, along with the Open Coalition http://open-coalition.org/
and Demos http://www.demos.co.uk/, are developing a project called From
ticks to clicks - understanding and building digital democracy.
We have just made a proposal
I think we can agree to disagree - I don't want to clutter other
people's inboxes even more.
Still, I'll hold you to this PoV next time I'll feel the need to
constantly remember other people about my initiatives.
Best regards,
Strainu
2015-03-13 15:30 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett
I think that making us not-a-source-of-referred-traffic might
be a good thing. (It disincentivises those
who should be disincentivised, while not harming
anyone else)
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 09:21:57AM -0700, Pete Forsyth wrote:
There's a relevant research
2015-03-13 11:56 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
On 13 March 2015 at 09:06, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
Fae, you are aware that this is NOT the list for en.wp, right?
Perhaps you missed the part of Fae's email which read:
I did not. The place for such announcements
Steven Walling has written an interesting answer on Quora about one aspect
of the New York Times op-ed, i.e. the threat NSA surveillance supposedly
poses to Wikipedians living under oppressive regimes:
On 13 March 2015 at 11:36, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure Fae will appreciate your apology.
There is nothing to apologize for. There is a place for such
announcements, and wikimedia-l is not that.
ORly?
From:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
quote
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:03 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
How does the Wikimedia Foundation intend to protect the rights of
users around the world when it will have a nearly impossible time of
protecting Americans, much less non-Americans? U.S. courts and the U.S.
Congress have
On 13 March 2015 at 14:32, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll hold you to this PoV next time I'll feel the need to
constantly remember other people about my initiatives.
constantly?
How many times has Fae made such posts in, say, the last three months?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
No more, please. If needed, start a thread to discuss the scope of
wikimedia-l.
Regards,
Thyge
2015-03-13 16:57 GMT+01:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
On 13 March 2015 at 14:32, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll hold you to this PoV next time I'll feel the need to
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