[Wikimedia-l] Re: Arabic Wikipedia day of action

2023-12-23 Thread Dan Rosenthal
An utterly shameful decision. I guess Israeli and Jewish lives aren't worth standing up for, according to Arabic Wikipedia. Dan Rosenthal On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 8:18 PM Farah Jack Mustaklem wrote: > Greetings to all, > > Arabic Wikipedia editors have agreed to hold a da

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Long Reddit post laying out inner workings of English Wikipedia

2022-12-12 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Man, that essay reads like someone spent a grand total of 5 days reading Wikipedia policies, ventured into some politically fraught articles with a right-wing agenda, got taken to AN/I for it, and subsequently blocked or banned. Dan On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 6:41 AM Vi to wrote: > I don't know w

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

2021-09-14 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Congratulations and welcome Maryana. Dan Rosenthal On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:53 AM Nataliia Tymkiv wrote: > Dear all, > > I am pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees > has appointed Maryana Iskander as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation > [1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-15 Thread Dan Rosenthal
others already stated, the matter here is not > if they can, but if they should be engaging on those schemes, as they are > now. > > Best, > Paulo > > > > A sábado, 15 de jun de 2019, 18:39, Dan Rosenthal > escreveu: > > > There is no "very basic principl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-15 Thread Dan Rosenthal
et's drop the absurd hyperbole that this is somehow a human rights violation. Dan Rosenthal On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 11:35 AM Paulo Santos Perneta < paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote: > People shouldn't be going with any random option, but rather presume the > innocence of o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-14 Thread Dan Rosenthal
preferred action. - Abruptly undoing administrator actions without consultation. - *Reversal of a Wikimedia Foundation office action <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Office_actions>.* Dan Rosenthal On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:06 PM effe iets anders wrote: > Great, now we have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The other side of the crisis at WMFR

2017-10-20 Thread Dan Rosenthal
I think the broader point being that for any legal or criminal complaints, the appropriate venue is the court system, not the Wikimedia-L mailing list. Dan Rosenthal On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:45 AM, James Salsman wrote: > > Legal threats are surely the universal language of bad faith &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RFC on wikimedia-l posting limits

2017-08-24 Thread Dan Rosenthal
hat wasn't what Robert said, nor was there "bullying and harassment" coming from anyone other than you, Rogol. This kind of passive-aggressive straw-manning is an example of precisely why you have worn out your welcome here. -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:26 AM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RFC on wikimedia-l posting limits

2017-08-23 Thread Dan Rosenthal
tattle to someone's manager, because they disagreed with you about the wording of your posts in public, is either constructive or the "sort of behavior" one would "expect you to exhibit in a public forum." But then again, I'd venture to guess you knew that already. Che

Re: [Wikimedia-l] General Counsel: Welcome Eileen Hershenov

2017-04-26 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Michelle is beyond amazing, end of story. Best of luck to the new incoming GC, and hope she can fill the very big shoes. -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > For nearly a decade, I worked (sometimes closely, sometimes not as closely) > with Mi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

2017-03-01 Thread Dan Rosenthal
is a good idea in the first place, separate question. Dan Rosenthal On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Nathan wrote: > It's an unambiguously political statement. Not political in the sense of > "everything we do is political" - but in the sense of opposing the policies >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

2015-06-04 Thread Dan Rosenthal
"What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?" That the WMF is one of the charities in this week's Humble Bundle (along with MSF and charity:water) -- and it's actually a pretty good bundle. https://www.humblebundl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation of messages sent to this list

2014-06-21 Thread Dan Rosenthal
advantage of his post to GerardM as being tangentially related.) Dan Dan Rosenthal On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Morton < morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > At a guess; unpleasant snark. > > Tom > On 21 Jun 2014 16:49, "Tomasz W. Kozłowski" wrote: > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stop the New Privacy Policy until Lila is Thoroughly Briefed on It, Countdown 14 Hours

2014-06-06 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Echoing Luis's shout-out to Michelle for such a colossal achievement. Dan Rosenthal "P.S. Let me take this opportunity to again thank Michelle Paulson for her work leading this process; all told, it has been something like 18 months of work for her. And that is only the start for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

2013-12-29 Thread Dan Rosenthal
er chassis?"* What makes you think they don't? Dan Rosenthal On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:55 PM, James Salsman wrote: > When this came up last time, it turned out that there was some kind of > a deal in place, and certainly many if not most published pictures of > the Wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Block evasion might be a federal offense

2013-08-20 Thread Dan Rosenthal
An additional issue, if we're still talking CFAA's private right of action, is where would the minimum damage requirements come from? -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Nathan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Changes at the Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Team

2013-07-29 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Congratulations about the new site Zack, and congratulations to Megan, Lisa, and Sara! Dan Rosenthal On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:38 PM, James Salsman wrote: > I know I've been critical of Zack Exley for technical reasons over the > past year, but I think very highly of him as a perso

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Staff Images

2013-07-12 Thread Dan Rosenthal
labeled "Cloak of invisibility?" Or the picture of Rory as "mascot"? > > > > Further, what does "all but neutral" mean? > > > > Really, aren't there better things to do than play morality police > because > > someone "might&quo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Staff Images

2013-07-12 Thread Dan Rosenthal
t; mean? Really, aren't there better things to do than play morality police because someone "might" be upset about some ink? This isn't the 1950's. Who is upset, and why? -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Eddy Paine wrote: > Hi, > While its m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

2013-06-10 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Anthony and John beat me to it -- I was going to second the suggestion that the sentence spend a bit of time being wordcrafted on Meta for extra eyes, to clarify things like the National Security Letters, NSL gag orders, etc. -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Anthony wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-28 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Felicitaciones! -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Victor Grigas wrote: > Great job on the video And congratulations for 1m articles! > > On May 27, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Ivan Martínez wrote: > > > In Puebla city, too :D > > > > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia-l administrator/moderator

2013-05-27 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Congratulations Richard (for taking up the task) and also thank you to Alex for your work on the list as well. Best, Dan Dan Rosenthal On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:10 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov < alexandrdmitriroma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please join me in welcoming our new Wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

2013-05-16 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Huh, I did not know that (I use Reddit maybe once a year at best). Perhaps that wouldn't be a bad thing though, if that means you are speaking directly to a relevant audience (men in an all male environment, about gender gaps). Dan Rosenthal On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Federico Leva

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

2013-05-16 Thread Dan Rosenthal
r audience. -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > This was a wonderful idea. Thank you both for organizing it. SJ > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Theo10011 wrote: > > Hi > > > > A few weeks ago MZMcBride proposed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience

2013-05-15 Thread Dan Rosenthal
and several interested parties "clearing" the copy, it completely loses any benefit of the process and becomes no different to me than a Sharepoint site with slightly better UI. -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: > Just yesterday during a meet

[Wikimedia-l] movement blog, not WMF blog, was: Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread Dan Rosenthal
appy to wait for Matthew > to reply to this question. > > > -- > Thehelpfulone > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraising 2013] Wikimedia France stepping back from payment processing

2013-04-30 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Christophe, About this "reconnaissance d'utilite publique" or "supercharity" concept; is there a link to an analysis (preferable) or even just the text of the law/provision/regulation? Even one in French only would be OK, I'm just curious to know more about how it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

2013-04-30 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Global renames will be done by Stewards then, yes? -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:17 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Benjamin Chen > wrote: > > ... > > One thing to note is the technical limitation on # of edits. If account > h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CFAAA+CALEA vs. SOPA+PIPA: the amortization

2013-04-15 Thread Dan Rosenthal
law making it easier for law enforcement to wiretap certain digital communications; I believe the latest provisions under discussion involve VoIP. EFF discusses here: https://www.eff.org/issues/calea Hope that helps, -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Mathieu Stumpf

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-18 Thread Dan Rosenthal
ty oversight of the WMF's implementation of the movement's vision, this is a good thing. But if not, it risks the organization slowly drifting into something different, without the leverage of the fundraiser to bring it back. Dan Rosenthal On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:52 PM, David Gerard wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-18 Thread Dan Rosenthal
virtue of being staffed by people who understand technology, who understand the digital space in which the WMF operates, and who can at least keep up with change and innovation? Dan Rosenthal On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Dariusz Jemielniak, 18/03/2013 10

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-18 Thread Dan Rosenthal
plemented one on their own, it'd need support from all sorts of other entities (WMF legal, probably WCA, etc.). -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Ting Chen wrote: > Hello dear all, > > at first thank you very much MZ for put this together. This is a quite ho

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-03-07 Thread Dan Rosenthal
I can't find a copy of mine (probably in storage somewhere) but I would assume mine was identical to Keegan's since we came in at the same time and did the same job. -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Kati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Your support is wanted: The WMF Board of Trustees is looking for a new Board member

2013-02-17 Thread Dan Rosenthal
ddenly a concern now, and not before, especially given the quality of success they've had in the past. -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:21 PM, rupert THURNER wrote: > my first thought when i read this was "should i use my free time to > edit wikipedia so that somebod

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: IRC Office Hours

2012-12-27 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Not really excessive during a holiday season where people may not see the message for several days. And a month is a good amount of lead time for something like this. I don't get what the problem is... Dan Rosenthal On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Jayle, &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Dan Rosenthal
What would be nice to have would be a not-overly-detailed summary of how payment processing/fundraising was done 5 years ago, and how it is being done this year (and in the future) with new payment processing, FDC, etc. Because frankly, I don't have a clue anymore. Dan Rosenthal On Mon, N

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Question for Board

2012-10-24 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Agree with Keegan.Not to mention a) the legal ramifications, and b) the PR ramifications -- how on earth do we maintain a straight face having a policy on paid editing if we begin paying administrators directly? Dan Rosenthal On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Oct

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-21 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:19:59 +0300, Dan Rosenthal wrote: > >> I too have to say that while I agree with a narrowing focus, I disagree >> with the tabling of Fellowships. Not only have they brought a lot of great

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-21 Thread Dan Rosenthal
e Visual Editor (which is awesome), but also creating a conducive environment for new editors from a policy standpoint. I'm afraid we're going to lose that in a narrowing focus. Dan Rosenthal ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright on Xrays

2012-08-20 Thread Dan Rosenthal
ere's no way to know whether there is a standing assignment agreement or not. Additionally to confuse things, HIPAA mandates access to (but not necessarily copyright in, though I haven't really looked at it) medical records, as well as disclosure and protection requirements. Dan Rosentha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright on X rays

2012-08-20 Thread Dan Rosenthal
I've asked on my state bar's listserv to see if anyone has any thoughts or has any caselaw available they can refer to. I have some speculation, but I'm running out the door so I'll post it when I return. Dan Rosenthal On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:21 PM, James Heilman wro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FAQ - Board Resolution on Personal Image Hiding Feature

2012-07-16 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Dan Rosenthal, 16/07/2012 20:01: > > It's like you read the first 14 words, ignored everything else, and >> twisted >> it around until it doesn't even resemble what he actually said >> >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FAQ - Board Resolution on Personal Image Hiding Feature

2012-07-16 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Bishakha Datta, 16/07/2012 18:53: > > At our in-person board meeting of 11 July 2012, the vote on this was >> provisionally recorded at 9-1, with Jimmy voting against. Jimmy has since >> changed his vote to a yes, on reviewing an FAQ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for comment on global bans policy

2012-07-06 Thread Dan Rosenthal
The way I read it, Steven correct me if I am wrong, he is writing in a staff role, but not necessarily within his Engineering responsibilities. Dan Rosenthal On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Steven Walling >wrote: > > > P.S

Re: [Wikimedia-l] TomTom does a Britannica

2012-06-07 Thread Dan Rosenthal
, the Brazilian Ambassador's residence, not a particularly well known landmark, is known. Dan Rosenthal On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2012/6/7 Richard Symonds : > > the house because it's not > > on their navigation systems... > > May I than