Wondering if anyone here can put up a site notice on meta regarding
the proposal for the Wikimedia Travel Guide. One needs to be an admin
on meta.
The proposal is here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide
The site notice goes here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice
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Ja
Wikipedia-l is not the most active of lists, to put it mildly. Those
interested in discussing the potential advantages and drawbacks of a
Wikipedia without press sources and coming up with some ideas for a
feasible compromise are advised that there is a related thread on
Wikipediocracy, at http://w
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nathan wrote:
>
> > I thought about that but beyond the language issue, the RfC has also been
> > open for awhile and had significant participation. Since the trend is to
> > reject the policy as written anywa
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nathan wrote:
> I thought about that but beyond the language issue, the RfC has also been
> open for awhile and had significant participation. Since the trend is to
> reject the policy as written anyway, that makes it unenforceable until a
> new RfC is held that de
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Nathan wrote:
>
> >
> > Right now, the RfC is trending towards dispensing with the current global
> > ban policy. A large portion of that sentiment is from people opposed to
> > global bans in general. Of cour
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Nathan wrote:
> It's worth noting here that there is something of a disagreement about the
> import of the Terms of Use; Steve Walling and Ryan Kaldari have argued that
> the ToU require that the Wikimedia community devise a policy permitting and
> describing a pro
It's worth noting here that there is something of a disagreement about the
import of the Terms of Use; Steve Walling and Ryan Kaldari have argued that
the ToU require that the Wikimedia community devise a policy permitting and
describing a process for instituting global bans. In fact, the ToU makes
Hi everyone,
This is a long email, so the less TL;DR version is: there is a request
for comment on Meta about a community policy for global bans.[1] This
is vitally important, and I hope you will both comment and help spread
the word in your community. The background on why we're doing this
follow
(some people ask me to inform this mailing list as well)...
-- Forwarded message --
From: Catrin Schoneville
Date: 2012/7/4
Subject: Zedler Prize for Free Knowledge
To: Communications Committee
Hello everybody,
this past Sunday, 1 July, Wikimedia Deutschland awarded the f
