On 10 April 2012 17:30, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
There's also a no promotion clause - you can't use the work to promote
your organisation. This is above and beyond the normal 'no derogatory use'
clause...
This sounds like a licence that deserves to die a death.
On 10 April 2012 18:12, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote:
Well, actually we don't know it works for us. Our stuff is in early draft,
and re-use of text is already making life pretty difficult already (checking
for copyvios, notability, and clones in repressive regimes (Baidu
On 20 April 2012 18:10, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Notice that it is seeded with 8,000 entries from the Kluwer-published
Encyclopaedia of Mathematics; these articles remain under copyright
to Springer/Kluwer. However, new contributions and edits will be
licensed cc-by-sa. Seems
From Rick Falkvinge, an English-language writeup of a Swedish study:
http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/21/study-despite-tougher-copyright-monopoly-laws-sharing-remains-pervasive/
http://svt.se/nyheter/fortsatt-fildelning-trots-skarpt-lag (Swedish news report)
61% of 15-25-year-olds in Sweden
On 21 May 2012 18:59, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think the right term here is 0 years. It is also not life
+ 70. Perhaps 7 + 7.
I suggested 14 as a likely figure because that figure is already in
common currency - as it was the term in the UK (Statute of Anne) and
in the
On 21 May 2012 20:30, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
14 years is a fine place to start. Are there any existing campaigns
pushing for it? S.
Now that I'm looking, I can't find any campaigns as such!
I thought the Pirate Parties asked for 14 years, but I'm wrong: the
Swedish party
On 29 May 2012 05:41, Ms. Anne Frazer fraz...@bigpond.com wrote:
However, when I read your words, the essence of your comments is clear in
that part of your message is couched in attacking good prose because it is
too difficult to read and understand. I remind myself that you don't mean to
TomTom press release:
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/
OpenStreetMap volunteer response:
http://www.systemed.net/blog/index.php?post=23 Flags TomTom
quote-mining.
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On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world, whereas
OSM, for the most part, is not.
Yes, TomTom is dying. But it's because of Google, not because of OSM.
I'd actually flag smartphones as the culprit. They're the
On 2 June 2012 00:08, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Fully enabling IPv6 has been coming a *long* time - over a year, with
months of planning and work before even that - as Erik's first message
in this thread notes, and it was hardly a secret. Your objections may
be entirely too late - it is
I was looking over old discussions, and wondered: who originally came
up with the notion that the principle of least surprise should apply
to educational content? If it existed before Wikimedia, who introduced
it to the image filter discussion, on what rationale?
[Personally I think it's an
On 13 June 2012 21:32, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Not sure, but I think it's the principle of least /astonishment/ - which
may be an important difference...
Pretty sure it doesn't for educational purposes. I think my objection
stands in its entirety.
(I note that
On 13 June 2012 21:44, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
My understanding of this line of argument was that images would be displayed
where you would expect them to be displayed (e.g. the article on penis or
vagina would naturally include a picture of a penis or vagina),
I
On 13 June 2012 21:56, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Earliest I have it on a Wikimedia list is from WikiEn-L on 2/11/08 from Ian
Woollard (written as principle of least surprise), in the context of a
Muhammad images thread started by Jimbo -- but my logs only go back to the
summer of 07.
On 14 June 2012 12:52, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you miss the point of a concept. The idea is not that say
[[Marriage]] shouldn't contain information about homosexual marriages,
heterosexual marriages, marriages of convenience or polygamous
marriages but that it probably shouldn't
On 14 June 2012 20:36, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Least surprise is one way to try and get around this problem of not
relying on the community's own judgement in all edge cases; I'm not
sure it's the best one, but I'm not sure leaving it out is any better.
The present usage
On 15 June 2012 13:15, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote:
I argued at some time that if there was a strong need for such a filter that
there would already services in place that would filter the content or
images. So far i have seen some very week approaches using the Google
On 17 June 2012 13:21, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
No software is perfect. No solution is perfect. But don't let the
perfect be the enemy of the good.
You're assuming that a good exists for this function. This
assumption is entirely unsubstantiated.
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On 17 June 2012 14:50, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
In short: the almost complete absence of anyone doing *anything*
clever in terms of reusing and repurposing our content strongly
suggests that there are practical barriers to doing so in general,
rather than the flaws with
On 17 June 2012 15:43, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
As there are no major and well-used forks at all, we can't reasonably
draw inferences of the desirability of a specific project from its
non-existence - we simply don't have the information to make that
conclusion. This
On 18 June 2012 08:00, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
{{sofixit}}
If all the people in favour of filters had spent their time building them
rather than arguing about them, we would have had a wide array of different
solutions, without any politics or drama.
The problem there is the
On 18 June 2012 12:41, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 18 June 2012 12:39, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
The Board acted according to the Harris report, which just said to do
it on the site itself:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
On 21 June 2012 20:38, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, Todd has certainly said on-wiki in the past that he would not see a
problem in Wikipedia using a video of rape to illustrate an article on the
topic, provided it were appropriately licensed and did not raise privacy
concerns
On 27 June 2012 16:30, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, they moved fast! I read the blog post and then went to check,
and found the supposedly deleted articles up, less than a full day
after the original mailing list email, so I assumed there had to be
some mistake. How
On 3 July 2012 14:49, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 July 2012 15:35, Tarc Meridian t...@hotmail.com wrote:
What does 'encyclopaedic worthiness' even mean? If Wikipedia is an
encyclopaedia, then all those niche-wikis are encyclopaedia too.
Well, yes, they basically replace the specialist
On 4 July 2012 00:04, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Marc. The other day, someone said here on the list, It's
almost as if what the press say and what the facts are in reality are two
different things that have only a very tenuous relationship.
Yes, in response to you
On 4 July 2012 00:48, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
There's nothing that prevents a subject from having an article in both
namespaces. One can be seen as the complement of the other; mainspace would
become more encyclopedic and there would be a neat space where the more
recent
On 4 July 2012 19:22, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18704192
Dunno about OT. The public protests across Europe followed from the
SOPA blackout.
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On 10 July 2012 09:22, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 9 July 2012 20:41, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
In less than half an hour Russian Wikipedia will go on one-day strike
against SOPA/PIPA-like law in Russia [1] (in Russian).
Unless I am missing something key;
On 10 July 2012 15:29, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
SOPA didn't threaten the existence of Wikipedia,
Geoff Brigham opined otherwise, IIRC.
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On 11 July 2012 08:07, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, very encouraging. We should suggest to the various language Wikipedias
that they monitor laws in their home country, and each time one is
considered (or even
On 22 July 2012 04:16, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Before trying to change New Page Patrol, you should try doing New Page
Patrol for a few days.
+1
I'm broadly an inclusionist, but reading a few hours' Special:Newpages
is enough to have me breaking out the flamethrower. Anyone
On 22 July 2012 07:09, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
The problem with new articles from these places, and like india is that
they have a very high deletion rate, and we need a way to save them. I am
willing to put work into the articles on bands, artists, movies, atheletes
On 25 July 2012 20:48, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
So there were how many years of faffing about before they hired *one guy*
for this project? This is an organisation with a $20m annual budget, now
acquiring umpteen paid chapter officials.
Wikipedia is about as user-friendly as
On 25 July 2012 20:44, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
One of the key problems with the interface is that it doesn't do a lot to
seperate editing and reading.
I know the point is to make editing easy - and to encourage readers to
become editors. But realistically most of
On 28 July 2012 17:47, Ocaasi Ocaasi wikioca...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, I would love feedback about a proposal to help improve the relationship
between COI editors and Wikipedia.
The idea is to guide paid/PR/Corporate participants--who follow a list of
ethics and best practices--to success in
On 3 August 2012 19:12, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
I agree that the community retains the authority to reach its own decisions
about future actions of this type. I think the policy should be understood
primarily as something the foundation will adhere to in its operations, not
On 6 August 2012 15:52, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia has started to come back
but with a really strange appearance - less usable than Vector. Rumour has
it that someone cut through a fibre optic cable in Florida, so far
On 6 August 2012 17:46, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Verify what David said (I'm not technical, but it matches the description
I've been given). Our ops guys and girls are currently poking things, which
is slowing down a larger/more official announcement, but I'll see what I
can
On 6 August 2012 20:43, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
David, the BBC says you told them the following:
See, this is where you part ways with how the media works. These days
I count it as a win if anything in quotes uses words I've ever used in
my life.
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On 8 August 2012 09:06, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
In the Hebrew Wikipedia the View
history tab is called Previous versions, which makes a lot more
sense.)
That would be an *excellent* thing to do in MediaWiki in general.
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Steven Walling's started an essay on Wikipedia redesigns:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unsolicited_redesigns
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On 11 August 2012 22:56, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
So this is a balancing act - but I'm not currently sure which side outweighs
the other, or whether the two sides are currently balancing each other out…
What does everyone think? And is there an on-wiki page where we
On 12 August 2012 00:07, Ocaasi Ocaasi wikioca...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is not just a problem with paywalled sources, but *any* source which is
not available free *and* online. Not all of the sources that have been
donated are solely pay-for-access; some of them, for example, you would just
I'm sure that collectively we can bloviate with the best of 'em on the
topic - but do we have any case law whatsoever anywhere on the topic
that might give real-world pointers?
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On 20 August 2012 12:50, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:47 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure that collectively we can bloviate with the best of 'em on the
topic - but do we have any case law whatsoever anywhere on the topic
that might give real
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/craigslist-is-on-board-openstreetmap-continues-soaring-to-new-heights/
Go go free content!
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On 6 September 2012 14:48, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 September 2012 01:46, Kelly Kay k...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Today the Wikimedia Foundation filed a
suithttps://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_complaint_for_declaratory_judgement_September_2012.pdf
I urge everyone
On 7 September 2012 20:47, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 September 2012 20:40, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Well, it's Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, so will have to
attribute Wikitravel and the original author(s) on every single page.
I just posted this to commons-l:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2012-September/006660.html
Please answer on that list if you have ideas :-)
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On 17 September 2012 18:03, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Naturally every link wants to escape from the toolbox, if it's collapsed
:-)
They were designed to be used, after all.
I also haven't seen any solid argument for collapsing any navboxes by
default (except perhaps those in the
On 19 September 2012 10:24, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
We know people have been beating a door to Roger's path ever since
Monmouthpedia; there have been enquiries from all over the world from towns
wanting to be the next Monmouth.
Correction: to *everyone's* door. Really, anyone
On 19 September 2012 12:08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 September 2012 10:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 September 2012 10:24, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
He gets to decide which town goes forward,
and whichever town goes forward pays him
On 19 September 2012 15:36, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:19:19PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:
I'm curious as to the internal view of the details, but... this is
Violet Blue blogging about us.
Violet Blue is a known quantity to you?
Internet-famous
On 19 September 2012 17:27, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 17 September 2012 19:27, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com javascript:;
wrote:
On 17 September 2012 18:03, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com javascript:;
wrote:
They were designed to be used, after all.
I also haven't
It's such a pity that Elsevier's attempt to legally block open access
requirements [1] means that they must be destroyed utterly with not
one stone left upon another and the ground salted. I'm crying real[2]
tears here.
On 25 September 2012 16:24, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
To be fair, organising academics is probably quite like herding cats. I can
see it being expensive (but not quite as expensive as currently!) I wonder:
would it be possible to make it so that in order to
On 22 September 2012 20:24, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
It's such a pity that Elsevier's attempt to legally block open access
requirements [1] means that they must be destroyed utterly with not
Of course, it's not all happy bunnies and rainbows and unicorns on the
OA side. There's
On 28 September 2012 20:17, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
The law specifies that the textbooks must be placed under a Creative
Commons license, allowing professors at universities outside of
California to use the textbooks in their own classrooms. The textbooks
must be encoded in
On 28 September 2012 21:18, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote:
At the same time, Wikimedia UK has agreed with the Wikimedia Foundation that
the Foundation shall process payments for the United Kingdom during this
year’s fundraiser.
This being the meat.
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-- Forwarded message --
From: Roger Bamkin victuall...@gmail.com
Date: 29 September 2012 06:53
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Joint statement with the Foundation
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org
I have been encouraged to issue statements for the last
On 5 October 2012 11:53, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
A new logo for the travel guide is being requested. If anyone is interested
in proposing one please add it here
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Logo
Oliver suggested we ask b3ta. I wholeheartedly concur.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2012/1012/Rohini-Nilekani-pours-her-wealth-into-getting-books-to-India-s-poorest-children
Anyone know anything about this? Is there anything for us to
participate in regarding this initiative? It does more specifically
target people who haven't
On 21 October 2012 22:50, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand it, the biggest problem with editor retention at the
moment is the second edit. By that point, they haven't had any
interaction with our governance structure, so that can't really be the
cause.
On 23 October 2012 10:59, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
This looks fantastic, and very useful! I'm not sure how related this is,
but is there any way the page can also pull up page views? Or would that be
a problem? My understanding is that page views puts too much
On 26 October 2012 20:05, JP Béland lebo.bel...@gmail.com wrote:
There isn't such things as my wiki or your wiki... it's all our wikis.
Ideally, yes. In practice, no.
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On 5 November 2012 16:38, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
This afternoon has been another terribly slow one for response from WM
sites, I've tried patience, and wandering off to other faster sites for a
while, but I suspect we have another IT glitch. Or at least we do here
On 26 November 2012 07:10, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We're going to run this end of year campaign only in 5 countries (US, CA,
GB, AU NZ) and then spend three months meticulously localizing and
translating (and testing for new purely local messages) before running the
global
On 26 November 2012 07:10, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We have some information on the fundraiser launch to share. We are still
planning on launching Monday, November 26, but we're going to make a change
this year in the timing of campaigns around the world.
BTW, a blog post
On 27 November 2012 21:21, ??? wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
Techdirt, and its commentards, are as usual is full of crap. Taking down an
OZ, or EU based site is one thing. Taking down some .cn or .ru another thing
all together.
Also we just love bank robbers?
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On 3 December 2012 09:04, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
For easier comparability of the two banner behaviors -
Activation on hover (current behavior):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Lorenzo?banner=B12_5C_120216_SuperCondensed_Hover
... yeah, that's the sort of behaviour that
On 3 December 2012 10:09, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:10 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
... yeah, that's the sort of behaviour that inspires ad-blockers.
Wouldn't be quite so bad if they shrunk again when you moved the mouse out
On 3 December 2012 20:11, Pavel Richter pavel.rich...@wikimedia.de wrote:
the thing we are selling to people As I see it, we are not *selling
*anything.
Wikimedia provides a free encyclopedia to the public, and it promotes Free
Knowledge worldwide. For this, we ask for donations, during a
On 4 December 2012 17:37, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote:
As I'm currently viewing en.wikipedia.org, the banners _continue_ to block
portions of the page content as I scroll down the page. This is also
unacceptable.
This comment indicates to me that this behavior is not what
On 10 December 2012 05:17, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Wordpress' strong card is its rather stable PHP-based
platform, and when you think of it, that platform is not much more
technically advanced than MediaWiki is, but it has a much more vibrant
community of users.
On 18 December 2012 21:21, Pavel Richter pavel.rich...@wikimedia.de wrote:
And on the first page, it says: A portion of the proceeds of each book
will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission. Do
we have any records on wether these donations actually happend and how much
On 23 December 2012 21:18, Ted Chien hsiangtai.ch...@gmail.com wrote:
We have received this letter as below. Is there anyone aware of this Miller
Investment Ltd?
This is a pretty common scam. Best ignored.
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On 24 December 2012 12:48, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 December 2012 12:46, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk
wrote:
Can a list admin please investigate why I'm not receiving anything from this
list?
Because there hasn't been any.
http
On 25 December 2012 12:49, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
That's a huge relief. I was afraid those comments of December 4th had
been superseded by his and his employees' subsequent comments.
Your posts are assuming a ridiculous degree of bad faith, where you
start from your own
On 29 December 2012 00:05, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes so Wiki Med Foundation Inc incorporated Dec 19, 2012 and we had our
Isn't the name just a little prone to confusion with Wikimedia Foundation?
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On 4 January 2013 13:39, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
I'm afraid the shooting gallery is already coded into Twinkle/Huggle. It
is the use of that coding that is at issue. It could be used to
encourage, reward and advise as well as to enforce.
This is currently implemented by
http://www.freep.com/article/20130104/FEATURES01/130104028/Wikipedia-is-driving-away-newcomers-report-says?odyssey=nav|head
A news report on the study that newbies are dropping out very early
indeed - being driven out by preremptory and mechanical treatment,
well before they can be driven out by
On 4 January 2013 15:41, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
Editing an article was easy. All I needed to know was simple and intuitive
syntax for headings, bold, italic and links. It was easy to see article text
through this syntax.
I spent idle time in the holiday week working on
On 5 January 2013 19:32, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote:
Also, I will stand up and say that I, for one, am not a fan of WMF trying to
match market pay in the SF area. I am interested WMF in retaining qualified
and motivated employees, and I am interested in employee job satisfaction
On 8 January 2013 10:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
In general, as far as we know captchas are currently not stopping spammers
at all, while effectively stopping many legitimate (less motivated and
experienced) users.
Yes, MediaWiki captchas are, presently, literally
On 8 January 2013 12:10, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 08/01/13 11:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
In general, as far as we know captchas are currently not stopping
spammers at all, while effectively stopping many legitimate (less
Care to elaborate? Do we know how are spammers
On 8 January 2013 23:27, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
I think that the requirements for a wiki (open, welcoming, anyone can edit,
eventualism) are always going to be at tension vs the requirements for an
encyclopedia (reliable, good sourcing, etc).
Right now, en.wikipedia rules
On 9 January 2013 06:41, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard, 09/01/2013 00:32:
I understand the decline is similar in other wikis - that this is not
at all just an en:wp problem.
How are the numbers for the other Wikipedias? How are the numbers for
the non-Wikipedias
Killed himself.
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
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On 12 January 2013 15:01, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote:
He was an author (user:aaronsw) and developer, among others.
Also came up with the study showing that most content contribution is
done by drive-by editors:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
So a
On 12 January 2013 19:37, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
A few posts if anyone here's not aware of Aaron (see also his Wikipedia
bio)
Even Tim Berners-Lee weighs in (and he basically keeps quiet about
almost everything):
https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/statuses/290140454211698689
Aaron
NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html
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On 14 January 2013 10:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
James Alexander, 14/01/2013 10:44:
The test planned for tomorrow (for Anonymous users in North America,
without a discount) is mostly to see the potential for this to fund the
Giveaway program we've been running (
On 15 January 2013 08:26, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote:
* the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It
is not properly legal, read it all.
Note, btw, that this page was set up for humorous purposes - the
papers it liberates are the public domain
On 15 January 2013 21:07, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
maybe it would be good to consider at some point in the near future the
timing of press releases, embargoes etc - keeping our international climate
in mind. Unfortunately SF is quite at the far edge of timezone-land, and
On 15 January 2013 21:45, Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is what happens when you people get an empire, isn't it? :-)
They're not too bad a bunch once you get used to them. You can always
beat them at games they invented.
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On 21 January 2013 01:23, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:53:46AM +, Richard Farmbrough wrote:
number of years ago the oligarchy destroyed hope (Esperanza) - now the
Well, Esperanza ended up ossified faster than the rest of wikipedia,
so it had to be
On 21 January 2013 13:09, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
What if this long standing editor decided to either hand the story over to
the press or write something up for publication in a peer review journal as
said editor does not stand for intimidation easily? And this long standing
On 22 January 2013 17:41, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
FYI, each and every edit on Commons has this text above the edit box:
...You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the
Creative Commons license.
Yeah, but Commons pulls in stuff from other
So when and who authorised non-free formats?
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From: Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org
Date: 2 February 2013 16:25
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Audio derivatives, turning on MP3/AAC
mobile app feature request.
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