Hi James
I went to the page and I see that most of the Portuguese articles have "To
evaluate" next to them.
About "To evaluate" is says the following: Article needs to be evaluated by
a Wikipedian in that language ***to determine if translation is needed.
The article on schizophrenia, for ex
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> Their orders would be classified; disclosure of them would be a crime.
> Not a problem for us, but a big problem for staff on the ground in China.
Indeed, I believe it may even be outright life threatening to have
strong connection to WMF Chi
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Matthew Flaschen
wrote:
> But as far as I know, the U.S. government has never blocked the general
> public from accessing a Wikipedia article, nor have they sent a takedown
> that was based on ideology/"social harmony"/etc.
Instead they use "terrorism" (or really
For work of broader interest: have you read/commented
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation and volunteered at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yCvPS65eWk9S8uXkksAbDbLsbZQd0ISQKBDFfJnSSo0/viewform
and/or told translators to)?
Translation on Wikimedia projects is what we'd call a kar
On 09/02/2013 06:17 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
It would allow WMF to monitor censorship and surveillance by being in
the request loop.
There's no guarantee they would accept HTTPS, even if there were still
user surveillance inside the data center.
> It would be kind of like the cooperation we g
Jean-Frédéric, 01/09/2013 15:58:
Hi folks,
While watching the current changes to Wikimedia France microgrants program
implemented, I was curious to know which Wikimedia entities had similar
funding programs for individuals - how they worked, how we could learn form
each other.
Since apparently
There are many very sane comments in this thread. I agree with most of
them -
- Network encryption is important as one aspect;
- "Local" threats and "digging dirt" are an important realistic threat
(far more people are of interest to *THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES* vs nationally,
or open to s
> On 31/08/13 15:17, Erik Moeller wrote:
>> It could be argued
>> that itâs time to draw a line in the sand - if youâre prohibiting
>> the
>> use of encryption, youâre effectively not part of the web. Youâre
>> subverting basic web technologies.
>
> China is not prohibiting encryption. They
Hoi,
HEAR HEAR !!
Thanks,
Gerard
On 3 September 2013 00:17, Tim Starling wrote:
> On 31/08/13 15:17, Erik Moeller wrote:
> > It could be argued
> > that it’s time to draw a line in the sand - if you’re prohibiting the
> > use of encryption, you’re effectively not part of the web. You’re
On 31/08/13 15:17, Erik Moeller wrote:
> It could be argued
> that it’s time to draw a line in the sand - if you’re prohibiting the
> use of encryption, you’re effectively not part of the web. You’re
> subverting basic web technologies.
China is not prohibiting encryption. They're prohibiting spec
A few months ago, I wrote that I plan to retire from all my Wikimedia
positions after Wikimania. Now Wikimania is almost a month ago and I've
moved on to a new job IRL, I think it's time for me to unsubscribe from
most of the mailing lists. Thanks for the love over the last 3 years.
I'll stay subs
On 9/1/13, Anders Wennersten wrote:
> Are there other experiences that can be shared or is there a metapage or
> does it exist a maillist more dedicated to discuss these issues? (it is
> close to wikidata issues but it is not about the technicaliites of
> Wikidata hut more about how to implement u
Hello! I think many of you will be interested in reviving this
proposal. I believe there is still a great desire (and need) for a
more organized system of dealing with new sister project proposals and
proposals for closing sister projects. Please also consider continuing
the discussion on Meta.
ht
I think that we should make a policy of https by default and grandfather-in
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause) exceptions to Iran and
PRC, reason being that
1. We should not exclude whole groups of existing Wikipedians simply
because of the government they happen to live within th
Thank you Dimi! I'll fill it out straight away. I appreciate the
initiative!
/ sophie
2013/9/2 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
> tl;dr
> Help us decide which policy issues are important to Wikimedia by filling
> out a questionnaire [1]
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> Wikimania and most people's summer holi
On 09/02/2013 12:08 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> What information, exactly, are we trying to prevent
> governments from getting ahold of?
There are three such things, in (my personal) order of importance:
1) credentials, especially those of editors that have rights allowing
further privacy encroachment
Erik Moeller wrote:
>So, what to do? My main suggestion is to organize a broad request for
>comments and input on possible paths forward. I think we’re doing the
>right thing by initially implementing these exemptions -- but I do
>think this decision needs to finally rest with the Board of the
>Wik
Thanks for doing this Andy.
On 30 August 2013 21:47, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 30 August 2013 12:48, Richard Nevell
> wrote:
> > Andy, about 230 flyers are in the post and on their way to you.
>
> Thank you. The organisers have kindly agreed to include them in the
> delegate packs (which I'll b
There are three groups to consider, readers, contributors without and
contributors with specific rights that allow them access to data which is
not publicly visible anyway:
For readers: Readers will not have reduced access to knowledge. I think
that runs against our mission. There are a number of
If you want to find out what WM-Nederland did this summer, go to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201307
The report is also included as plain text in this message
COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors
Wikipedia Café.
WMNL rev
[sorry for cross posting]
Hi all,
I just wanted to announce that there is right now a brand new wikimedia
mailing list dedicated to Open Access.
You can subscribe here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
As there are quite a few projects running between the Open Access world
tl;dr
Help us decide which policy issues are important to Wikimedia by filling
out a questionnaire [1]
Hello everybody,
Wikimania and most people's summer holidays are over, in Brussels
bureaucrats are slowly retunring to work and it is time for us to step up
our activity. This being said, there
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