Useful link, thank you! I know that article count is very far from perfect
as a metric, of course. All of the things at that page are relevant and my
question could be asked about any of them.
בתאריך 26 בינו 2015 01:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com כתב:
Amir E. Aharoni, 26/01/2015
Hi,
Are you planning on attending the GLAM WIKI 2015
https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015 conference? Then please make
sure that you checked if you need a visa to visit the Netherlands.
Wikimedia Nederland can support your visa request by sending you a
invitation letter to the
While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and are
available for only a fraction of our articles.
Why don't we have a Listen button beside our read button that when
clicked will read the article for the person in question?
There are 37 open source text-to-speech listed
Hello again,
Minutes and slides from the January 2015 quarterly review of the
Foundation's Technical Operations team are now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Tech_Ops/January_2015
--
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That said, there was an attempt in 2013 to provide Memento support,
which would (partially) mitigate this problem by using appropriate
templates:
http://mementoweb.org/wikipedia/
Of course, this would still be vulnerable to deleted images etc. And
we weren't even thinking about Wikidata
Hello,
Minutes and slides from the January 2015 quarterly review of the
Foundation's Finance Administration team are now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Finance_%26_Administration/January_2015
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Hi Amir,
Some variables that you might also want to look at are:
Relative status of language - I have heard from more than one source that part
of the Indic language problem is that people who can write in English and an
Indic language usually prefer to edit English.
Different types of
Hi all
I’m looking for feedback and endorsement for my Wikimedia Foundation PEG
grant to be Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO_Wikimedian_in_Residence
.
An there is much stress for our volunteer (unpaid) job too. I definitely
need to slow down:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard#Request_to_confirm_release_from_the_artist.2C_rather_than_the_gallery_-_Joep_van_Liefland
Regards,
Jee
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Michael
Hi everyone,
FYI:
Wikimedia CH launches its micro-grants program for 2015.
Please find below the message that we were sending out today to announce this
to our communities.
What might be a matter of particular interest to you:
In order to be eligible for a WMCH micro-grant (1- 500CHF ≈ 1 -
Quim Gil wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The proposed concept called collections,
Now the project has a different working name: Gather
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gather
Thanks, good to know.
doesn't really leverage the fact that we already have
Hello everyone,
As a user of the Education extension, for both Wikipedia Education Program
work and non-WEP work, I would recommend using it for other different
purposes. I know many people, including me, who used it to track editathon
activity, working groups and many other projects. It seems
Samir Elsharbaty, 04/02/2015 03:08:
It seems that the
extension already covers most of what was suggested here:
- A teacher or wiki-mentor could make a shared watchlist of their
student's draft pages.
- An editathon organiser could create a shared watchlist of all the
articles within the
On 3 February 2015 at 10:23, Fabian Tompsett
fabian.tomps...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
We need an
extension where users easily can form groups (namespace Groups: or
something, used by an extension), where they easily can see the recent
changes of edits of group members only
Not precisely
charles andrès (WMCH), 04/02/2015 14:25:
Is there a way to know how many people use Wikipedia per interface language?
No.
Said in other words, I want to know how many people display the Wikimedia
project interface in the different version of German and Alemannisch.
Until
Hi Anna,
In the long run I think it would be beneficial to move at least some of the
content of Outreach into LPL where it would be easier to search.
Perhaps you can enlighten me about the purpose of keeping Outreach separate
from Meta. I think the idea is that Outreach is easier to navigate for
Minutes and slides from last week's quarterly review of the
Foundation's Editing (formerly VisualEditor) team await perusal at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Editing/January_2015
.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:46 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com
wrote:
My question is: what could we ask, as a community, to the WMF, o
to chapters?
Is there some tool/task/workflow that could receive help from Wikimedia?
Maybe a new software, or some trusted agents in key position, or
Minutes and slides from three recent quarterly review meetings held
last week are now available:
Language Engineering team:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Language_Engineering/January_2015
MediaWiki Core team
Hello, everyone.
I'm writing with information about the Ombudsman Commission (OC), the small
group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the
privacy policy, and in particular concerning the use of CheckUser tools, on
any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees.
I
I have received this message with formatting issues on another email
address. In case you are facing the same issue, please go directly to:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News
And here is another copy. Hopefully it will work this time:
This Month in Education: January 2015
Anders,
Sounds like an interesting test, but what were the home ranges of the six bird
species? If they are not native to China or Japan but native to Catalonia and
the Basque Country then it is a little more understandable that they are in
some Wikipedias and not others. I can appreciate
I took them by random, one in Australian region, where many missed out
like fr and es. 3 from etiopian och netropical region and 1 from
palearchtic region.
Anders
WereSpielChequers skrev den 2015-02-02 14:58:
Anders,
Sounds like an interesting test, but what were the home ranges of the six
Pavel,
On behalf of all at Wikimedia UK - including Jon, our old Chief Executive
whom I know you had a good relationship with - we're sorry to see you go.
I hope we'll still see you online!
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in
Hi all,
The past weekend was great! Wikimedia was at FOSDEM, the Free and Open
Source Software Developers' European Meeting, organised as the university
ULB in Brussels, Belgium! We had there a stand with flyers about Wikipedia,
Wikimedia, Wikimedia Belgium, and a lot of goodies.
In the
Someone has thankfully read this issue and has agreed to deal with it. Many
thanks to the person involved :-) It is a huge amount of work to get
release for a single medical image. If commons admins wish the details they
can email me.
James
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:52 PM, James Heilman
OTRS does not even bother replying to the consents I send them. Thus the
images I have received releases for get deleted. Going forwards I am simply
uploading to En Wikipedia. Not ideal but not sure what the solution is.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of
Depending on where the content is coming from uploading the images to
Flickr and then importing them may be an option. When I worked for the
Science Museum we simply changed the licence of some of the images on their
Flickr account and I used Flickr2Commons to import them, it also records
the
I wrote an open letter to Lila because I saw Philippe Beaudette saying he was
taking advice from English Wikipedia Arbcom on the matter of offsite
harassment. The problem is that is that Arbcom has an history of harassing. So
it should not be giving any advice on the matter of stopping it.
To
Uhm, was JurgenNL steward? I thought TBloemink was, not JurgenNL.
-Yena Hong (Revi)
[[User:-revi]]
-- Sent from Android --
2015. 2. 2. 오후 11:49에 Trillium Corsage trillium2...@yandex.com님이 작성:
I wrote an open letter to Lila because I saw Philippe Beaudette saying he
was taking advice from
I wasted the few minutes necessary to read Trillium's blog post, and I
don't recommend anyone else make that same mistake. He's taken a few
incidents in a 7 year period, presented them utterly without the totally
necessary context, and ignored any evidence that might make it clear how
silly and
We have a 57 days backlog now (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS/backlog) and we are
processing first-come, first-served. In case of emergencies, please make a
note at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard or on
my talk page.
Regards,
Jee
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015
One is a steward the other is an administrator, I may have reversed their
roles, but they are definitely the two that stalked Moiramoira.
Thanks for the notification, I'll doublecheck which is which and see about
correcting that.
Trillium Corsage
02.02.2015, 14:55, Hong, Yena
Nathan, there is no context that could possibly justify those evidenced
incidents of harassment and stalking. There is no excuse. The information is
out there for anyone who wants to read about them, but it's wrong to attempt to
rationalize them in a sea of details and that's why I didn't do
It is true that our Arbitrators have not always behaved as we would wish,
and the cases that Trillium brings are are especially egregious, those
familiar with the the Arbcom leaks or indeed who have followed the actions
of the Committee, or dealt with individual Arbitrators on the English
Just noting here that I'm looking forward to seeing the results from this
year's program evaluation reporting, since this information will be useful
for setting goals for projects and campaigns.
Cheers,
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/
*One gateway to the wide
Minutes and slides from four recent meetings have appeared under the
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Analytics team:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Analytics/January_2015
Parsoid and Services teams:
Hi everyone,
as detailed by Erik earlier [1], the Foundation is changing its
reporting from the monthly cycle that has been in place since 2008 to
a quarterly rhythm. A main reason being to better align it with the
quarterly planning and goalsetting process that has been extended to
the entire
News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space
on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-04/News_and_notes
Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-04/Op-ed
In the media:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The proposed concept called collections,
Now the project has a different working name: Gather
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gather
doesn't really leverage the fact that we already have
shared lists of pages called
On 3 February 2015 at 06:56, Jeevan Jose jkadav...@gmail.com wrote:
We have a 57 days backlog now (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS/backlog) and we are
processing first-come, first-served
Perhaps if OTRS volunteers weren't treated so badly *by OTRS admins*,
you'd have more
While this may be a different OTRS queue, people have told me in the past
that OTRS can take weeks to reply, even in the case of acute BLP problems
such as the one described in this BBC Newsnight interview (time code 2:54):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg9O-e5KGdQ#t=174
I've heard this both
Liam Wyatt wrote:
Fabian Tompsett wrote:
We need an extension where users easily can form groups (namespace
Groups: or something, used by an extension), where they easily can see
the recent changes of edits of group members only
Not precisely this, but related... Is there any plan to have
Liam Wyatt, 03/02/2015 14:06:
Not precisely this, but related... Is there any plan to have folders in a
watchlist, and then the ability to make a specific folder visible (a.k.a.
shared) to others?
[...]
Has this been discussed/suggested before?
Only a few dozens times. See
Well - regarding permission-commons ques the current problem with mass
upload agreements is Common's regulation that ticket-templates has to be
added by OTRS volunteers themselves, except, when you are using GLAM tool,
but GLAM tool is tailored for really huge mass uploads as it requires lot
of
If either a public API were implemented, or a mirror of the
(non-confidential parts at least) database were available on WMFlabs,
then volunteers could happily generate all sorts of reports and tools,
which would probably be far more effective than expecting WMF
development to create new reporting
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately, backlogs
can occasionally crop up and take a bit of time to deal with, especially in
the more complicated e-mails (like BLPs), that can take up to an hour to
process.
Just for the avoidance of doubt –
Hello.
Am 02/04/15 um 12:11 schrieb Michael Maggs:
I would like to see a bot or tool that could provide visibility of statistics
on the various OTRS queues in near-real time.
You know https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS/backlog ?
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Aubrey -
It's not a tools problem, it's a time and number of people problem.
It necessarily draws upon the smaller pool of more stable, mature responsible
levelheaded good judgement Wikipedians, who are in short supply on-Wiki now
much less available for lots of extra off-Wiki, poorly
Yes, I do. That is updated manually, at irregular intervals, applies
only to one Commons list, and doesn't provide anything like the
information that should I think be available.
Michael
Krd mailto:k...@wikipedia.de
4 February 2015 11:55
Hello.
You know
Am 02/04/15 um 13:14 schrieb Michael Maggs:
Yes, I do. That is updated manually, at irregular intervals, applies
only to one Commons list, and doesn't provide anything like the
information that should I think be available.
...which is in detail?
James,
I realize your tickets were already resolved but I thought I'd take a
moment to clarify the issues that cause the delays in response.
The Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team (OTRS) relies on the generous work
of hundreds of volunteers from all over the world to handle hundreds of
Thanks, Romaine. Your thoughts on the gender gap echo some of my own, as
expressed here:
http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/08/26/why-women-have-no-time-for-wikipedia/
I've taken the liberty of crossposting the relevant parts of your post to
the Gendergap list:
Hi Andreas and others,
On 4 February 2015 at 12:31, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Just for the avoidance of doubt – when you say these e-mails can take up
to an hour to process, I presume you mean that it takes one hour just to
read them and understand the complaint. Am I
I applied for OTRS a while back and was turned down. Not sure why. I have
arranged the release of 10s of thousands of medical images and uploaded
nearly a thousand myself. Am involved in dozens of collaborations with like
minded organizations and I have a good grasp of copyright. Anyway I now
have
Thanks Ryan for the clarification.
My question is: what could we ask, as a community, to the WMF, o to
chapters?
Is there some tool/task/workflow that could receive help from Wikimedia?
Maybe a new software, or some trusted agents in key position, or something
else.
What could speed up the
I would like to see a bot or tool that could provide visibility of statistics
on the various OTRS queues in near-real time. At present there is no automated
way to see on Commons or any of the Wikipedias that backlogs even exist, let
alone see how they vary with time, what the average time to
Or AWB, though neither option provides the sort of efficiency that is
needed tio deal easily with the sort of issues that Tomasz mentions.
Michael
Jeevan Jose mailto:jkadav...@gmail.com
4 February 2015 12:01
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js can be
used for
mass
Dear Nemo,
There is, of course, other documentation on mediawiki already.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Education_Program
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program
However, having additional how-to type pages in the help namespace is a
great idea. I didn't realize
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote:
Well - regarding permission-commons ques the current problem with mass
upload agreements is Common's regulation that ticket-templates has to be
added by OTRS volunteers themselves, except, when you are using GLAM tool,
I mentioned a few basic things in my previous email. There's probably little
point in my writing a comprehensive wish list unless you or some other
volunteer can agree to work on providing an API against which a tool could be
written.
Michael
Michael
On 4 Feb 2015, at 12:19, Krd
Hi,
After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have
queried the top 10 users of the thanks feature last month, on both the
English Wikipedia and Commons. Snapshot image attached and report link
below.
Perhaps someone might think of a suitable barnstar and award these
folks
Fæ, 05/02/2015 18:47:
Top 10*most thanked* users in Jan 2015:
English Wikipedia:
Looks like edit wars pay back in this rank.
Nemo
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Dear Pine,
Thanks for your question.
I think that the idea of merging Outreach into Meta would probably benefit
from some discussion among the users of both wikis, to see if such a change
would work for them. :)
For instance, the Meta community would need to be comfortable with folding
in
Hi Anna,
I have made a more detailed proposal at
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Village_pump#Proposal:_merge_the_Outreach_wiki_into_the_Meta_wiki.
Please comment.
Thanks!
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/
*One gateway to the wide garden of
Glad to see me there. :)
Regards,
Jee
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk
wrote:
Who was most thanked?
On 5 February 2015 at 15:47, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have
queried
For Belgium I would like to know something different. Belgium doesn't have
a primary language, but have Dutch, French, German and English. All these
Wikipedia have other countries with a larger population where they speak
the various languages. What would be interesting for us is to know what
On 5 February 2015 at 10:47, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have
queried the top 10 users of the thanks feature last month, on both the
English Wikipedia and Commons. Snapshot image attached and report link
below.
Perhaps
Who was most thanked?
On 5 February 2015 at 15:47, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have
queried the top 10 users of the thanks feature last month, on both the
English Wikipedia and Commons. Snapshot image attached and report
Is there any record for the number of articles/bytes added to Wikipedia from an
edit-a-thon?
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Thanks for the info. The reason I am asking is that Tec de Monterrey is holding
an edit a thon on three campuses March 4-6. The reason it is so long is that
these days are set aside for major project work. Students work on one of
various projects options as part of a program called Experiencias
Hello friends of Wikipedia!
What is your favorite wiki article or image about love?
For Valentine's Day, we are asking Wikipedians to help create a special story
about Love on the Wikis for the Wikimedia Blog.
We are looking for illuminating wiki pages, pictures, videos or sounds about
love
Thanks to everyone who responded so generously to our call for great wiki
content about love!
Your overnight suggestions from all channels are now posted on this ‘Love on
the Wikis' page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis
Our community-created love collection is coming along
Minutes and slides from last week's quarterly review meeting of the
Foundation's Collaboration team (which was formerly called the Core
features team and is working on the Flow project) have appeared here:
If the WMF is consulting any specific entity of an individual Wikimedia
project out of 800 for a crosswiki matter, that's ridiculous, period. I
don't see why bother looking into the specific merits of the entity in
question, or the allegations about them.
Nemo
Hi all,
During March we will be running an Inspire Campaign to proactively source
and support new projects aimed at addressing Wikimedia’s gender gap:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign
Our goals are two-fold:
1. Experiment with running
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Fabian Tompsett
fabian.tomps...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
At Wikimedia UK we are looking at taking this up in broader context,
editathons etc. and it would be great to hear of other peoples experiences
and their views.
Just a comment aside about the etc. It is
James Heilman, 03/02/2015 05:52:
not sure what the solution is.
Usually, following the docs: «use {{subst:OP}} to tell others that it's
in progress»
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS#Templates_to_use_on_image_pages
Nemo
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Thanks to Romaine for his comment:
The education extension is a primitive form of what is needed. We need an
extension where users easily can form groups (namespace Groups: or
something, used by an extension), where they easily can see the recent
changes of edits of group members only, to be able
Exceptional cross-post. Your help spreading this message is welcome.
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Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:17 AM
Subject: Promote GSoC, Outreachy, and Wikimedia Hackathon in France
To: Wikimedia developers
Because the Arbitration Committee does have experience dealing with
harassment. Not many projects have such a body dedicated to dealing with
conflict. You are of course right that a general consultation should be
made, and I'm sure if there are other bodies you can point to the WMF would
love to
http://www.erasmusprijs.org/?page=Erasmusprijs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Prize
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Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
January 15, 2015 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). Please note, on this occasion,
we
On 14/01/15 04:01, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org
wrote:
Sounds like just another enwiki-specific thing.
That's a reasonable assumption. I'm only guessing, but I think the project
is based on the English Wikipedia
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Dear Wikimedia Colleagues:
We are pleased to announce initial eligibility of applicants submitting a
Letter of Intent for 2014-2015 Round 2 of the Annual Plan Grants / FDC
process. Only applicants confirmed as eligible by 15 March 2015 may submit
proposals to the Funds Dissemination Committee by
Hi.
Within the past week, Philippe has posted the Wikimedia Foundation's
global ban policy: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Global_Ban_Policy.
The page itself is interesting, as is some of the related discussion on
the talk page. I'm not sure if wiki bans strictly fall within security
I was thinking of ways that farmers might use Wikipedia. Or maybe that a
group of them had gotten together to improve our content in Ag. Or
something. But no such luck...
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:59 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
wrote:
*sigh* I was hoping the farmers had united
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:30 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
Within the past week, Philippe has posted the Wikimedia Foundation's
global ban policy: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Global_Ban_Policy.
Raised it on the WMF board noticeboard, as I would expect they develop
MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com writes:
I'm not sure if wiki bans strictly fall within security
theater, but it seems fairly clear that these bans are for show and not
much else. It's the Internet, after all, and anyone can edit. Under the
current scheme, the best we can do is try to revert and
On 20 January 2015 at 03:30, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
The page itself is interesting, as is some of the related discussion on
the talk page. I'm not sure if wiki bans strictly fall within security
theater, but it seems fairly clear that these bans are for show and not
much else.
It is now clear that the superprotect affair was only a preliminary move.
Now they hide themselves behind a collective account
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WMFOffice issuing batches of
global locks
2015-01-20 14:03 GMT+01:00 Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl:
transparency does not always have to mean full public access to information
(in the cases described by Philippe clearly TMI may be e.g. involving the
community and the foundation in lengthy legal disputes, or endanger a
discussed
That's the question of trust: there have been too many situations recently
when WMF asked us just to believe:
- believe that there were reasons to ban somebody (Russavia)
- believe that there were reasons to switch-off fundraising in Russia
- believe that most readers prefer MultimediaViewer
-
transparency does not always have to mean full public access to information
(in the cases described by Philippe clearly TMI may be e.g. involving the
community and the foundation in lengthy legal disputes, or endanger a
discussed individual). However, I definitely understand that we, as a
As has been explained multiple times in multiple places, the WMF have been
advised, for very good legal reasons, not to give details.
Believe it or not, there's a sensible reason behind our refusal to
comment: we can execute global bans for a wide variety of things (see the
Terms of Use for
Bans without explanations are certainly not acceptible.
rubin
2015-01-20 14:18 GMT+03:00 Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org:
It is now clear that the superprotect affair was only a preliminary move.
Now they hide themselves behind a collective account
Chris Keating wrote:
Personally I think the present solution is better than no solution, as
cross-project disruption is not something the community is particularly
well-equipped to deal with.
[citation needed]
One point that's unclear to me is why the Wikimedia Foundation (or
Philippe,
hi Fae,
fair enough, but clearly the Board could decide to delegate the oversight
privilege in these cases to community-elected members.
best,
dj pundit
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Dariusz, keep in mind that not all of the functionaries of high
trust you give
This is correct, but it supports the question that the board has not a well
defined control.
A good governance says that the responsible should be proactive.
What Chris is saying is perfect, I would not change a word.
It means that it's not in conflict with what your saying, but he is already
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