[Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

The Tullie House Museum in Carlisle has a number of objects on loan from the British Museum,[3] and it appears that it is only those objects that have any restrictions on photography. I took photographs of two of these (without any flash), as the restrictions are shockingly obvious cases of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

diplomatic and unchallenging for the British Library's public relations department. If we see blatant copyfraud, the community should be free to call it what it is. Thanks, Fae On 28 July 2017 at 22:03, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 July 2017 at 21:59, Fæ <fae...@gmail.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

July 2017 at 02:12, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 July 2017 at 21:36, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Nobody believes that claiming copyright on 2,000 year old works > > > And this is where your failure to understand English and Welsh law and > the hi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia content for in-flight entertainment?

As it happens, as part of my early career in avionics, I was responsible for the software side of the flight certification of the first inflight entertainment systems, both for CAA and FAA. Unless the interpretation of regulations has significantly changed, the snapshot of Wikipedia(s) would have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changing roles

James, thank you for making a public statement. It sets a healthy tone for good governance and transparency of how interests are managed. Does anyone know if WMF board members will ever be required to make public statements about perceived conflicts of loyalties, or indeed actual commercial

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Publicpolicy] Wikimedia Sverige vs. the Visual Copyright Society in Sweden (BUS)

John, The WMF has a large legal fund to support volunteers and projects like Commons, which from my memory has only ever been paid out on a couple of occasions (if anyone has a link to a list, I love to see it). At least part of the 89,000 USD mentioned seems suitable for this emergency funding,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for your thoughts on the Wikimedia Foundation election cycle

I have views on both votes, but I'll just share one, as I no longer feel that sharing any more of my viewpoint about the WMF board and its elections here or on-wiki would be welcome, or make any difference apart from helping to paint a bigger target on my back. Having James back on the board is

[Wikimedia-l] Better public reporting for WMF $1m or $2m+ projects

s question. Thanks, Fae On 27 June 2017 at 12:31, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 June 2017 at 04:33, Anna Stillwell <astillw...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > ... >>> * How much is this timeline extension projected to cost, and from what >>> source are the fun

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

Hi Jimmy, Along with the public announcement to the press about Wikitribune, was the story that you had immediately resigned from The Guardian's board because the new company "will compete for staff, stories and donations".[1] Will you be resigning from the WMF board of trustees because the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

elieves that claiming copyright on 2,000 year old works is something that a British National Institution would want to defend. The issue is expressed in that one sentence, an essay is really not needed to explain it. So "I'm right, everyone else is wrong" does not describe what this is ab

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

but to be honest, I'm not going to. > > "Rogol" > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The Tullie House Museum in Carlisle has a number of objects on loan > > from the British Museum,[3] and it appears that it is only th

[Wikimedia-l] Canmore database and claims of copyright on public domain works

The Canmore database, https://canmore.org.uk, describes itself as the "online catalogue of the National Record of the Historic Environment. It holds detailed information and archive images for more than 300,000 places in Scotland." Canmore is part of Historic Environment Scotland (HES). I'm aware

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Canmore database and claims of copyright on public domain works

Yes! I intended to post to the UK list, and thought I had until reading this. Oops. Fae https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LGBT+ http://telegram.me/wmlgbt On 20 Aug 2017 15:59, "Lodewijk" wrote: Maybe a silly question, but is there no more specialized forum that would

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

+1 :-) The elected candidates are ideal, making me feel confident that the values and aspirations of the wider Wikimedia volunteer community will be well represented in the coming year. As previously mentioned, Alice and Jimmy were the main political players in excluding Doc James from board

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's go gender neutral

no, even "he or she" is considered hostile. Sorry, I consider this an egregious case of special pleading and first-world-problemism. How about instead lets worry about how we are unwelcoming to women. That's a lot bigger problem." To see who said what, go to the RfC. :-) Thanks, Fae W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] June 23: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#19)

On 27 June 2017 at 04:33, Anna Stillwell wrote: ... >> * How much is this timeline extension projected to cost, and from what >> source are the funds being drawn? (Note that this doesn't assume that the >> decision was a bad one, but I very much want to know the source

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

Taking María's statement on behalf of the WMF by itself, there are a couple of simple in-line questions about handling governance I would like to make, based on my experience with a number of governance issues both within and outside of Wikimedia related organizations. I'm sticking to this being

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Could we keep the announcements list for announcements as per its limited scope please? [1] If someone could recommend an on-wiki page or email for Raju Narisetti, this may be useful for those who wish to send personal congratulations or thank you notes. In light of the recent discussion of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] September 28: Strategy update - Final draft of movement direction and endorsement process (#25)

Ziko's point may not fit the rigid Americanocentric ideal of everything must be positive, fantastic, yeehaw-we-are-number-one, but he's spot on with how the foundations remain flawed. Only ever hearing congratulations and thanks can get you to a win, but will never keep you there. Return to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] September 28: Strategy update - Final draft of movement direction and endorsement process (#25)

claim to represent and to be blunt, simply alienating. > > Seddon > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ziko's point may not fit the rigid Americanocentric ideal of everything > > must be positive, fantastic, yeehaw-we-are-number-one, but

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

Getting back to the proposed rules, the list moderators have always had flexibility to use judgement. Creating extra bureaucracy is unlikely to be a healthy 'fix', I would much rather first see the mods take whatever action they feel is necessary to run a welcoming email list, and only start

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New feature: LoginNotify

Neat feature. Who has access to the logs, and for how long will the logs be retained? Thanks, Fae https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LGBT+ http://telegram.me/wmlgbt ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What is the purpose of the Wikimedia mailinglist

Several emails on this topic have been essay length, including some from list moderators. If post limits are halved, this may become more common. Many readers, especially those like me viewing on a phone when scanning through emails, will skip essays which are several screens long. Please

Re: [Wikimedia-l] BLP and the Wikidata / Wikipedia controversy

On 27 September 2017 at 10:01, Jane Darnell wrote: > We don't need to ban statements when we can just deprecate them with a > reason. I think the whole point is to allow differing views equal weight, > based on sourced statements. By allowing statements to reside side-by-side >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

On 18 October 2017 at 12:12, Brian Wolff wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Srishti Sethi wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> >> I would like to share the first edition of the New Developers Quarterly >> Report that the Developer Relations team has

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

On 18 October 2017 at 18:32, Brian Wolff wrote: > Fae wrote: >>Does the minus symbol in "-60.0%" mean anything? Being a retention >>percentage, I do not understand how it can be negative unless >>potential volunteers are getting rejected at the door before they can >>sign-up.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Greener, plastic-free conferences and events

On 21 November 2017 at 15:00, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I'm interested to see how we can make our conferences, not least > Wikimania, and other events more green and, particularly, use less > plastic. > > I see from: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

On 21 October 2017 at 12:44, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 April 2017 at 22:59, Jimmy Wales <jimmywa...@wikia-inc.com> wrote: >> >> Today I announced a new initiative, outside of my Wikimedia activities, >> to combat fake news. It is important to me that I

[Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

On 25 April 2017 at 22:59, Jimmy Wales wrote: > > Today I announced a new initiative, outside of my Wikimedia activities, > to combat fake news. It is important to me that I share directly with > all of you information about this new initiative early on. > > The new

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

purpose. > > Regards, > > Isaac. > > On Oct 21, 2017 12:45 PM, "Fæ" <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 25 April 2017 at 22:59, Jimmy Wales <jimmywa...@wikia-inc.com> wrote: >> > >> > Today I announced a new initiative, outside of my Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

for this thread if there is a > possibility to ask Jimbo personally. > > Regards, > > Isaac. > > > > On Oct 21, 2017 3:48 PM, "Fæ" <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 21 October 2017 at 13:05, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2is...@gmail.com> >> wr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems

On 7 May 2018 at 10:01, FRED BAUDER wrote: > Women editors might have something to add about nursing and the history of > nursing that adds gender-specific value, increasing our coverage of the > subject. So a workshop at a nursing convention might be valuable. > > Fred

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Information on "Multiple failed attempts to log in" emails

On 4 May 2018 at 01:27, John Bennett wrote: > Hello, > > Many of you may have been receiving emails in the last 24 hours warning you > of "Multiple failed attempts to log in" with your account. I wanted to let > you know that the Wikimedia Foundation's Security team is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Rapid Grants Closure May 14 - June 30, 2018

On 2 May 2018 at 17:53, Strainu wrote: > 2018-05-02 1:51 GMT+03:00 Woubzena Jifar : >> 3. On your third point of having the 1st - 15th of the month be an open >> application time, this is also an experiment. We hope that this focused, >> clear timeline

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Movement Strategy: Endorse the strategic direction today! #wikimedia2030

On 26 Oct 2017 09:00, "Nicole Ebber" wrote: Dear Wikimedians, Today marks the final milestone of phase 1 of our movement strategy process. Over the past eight months, many of you, of your peers, colleagues, partners and friends have contributed to an endeavor that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Movement Strategy: Endorse the strategic direction today! #wikimedia2030

gt; confident that this is a typo of a kind. It does not match with how I know > the people in charge of this process. > > Lodewijk > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 26 Oct 2017 09:00, "Nicole Ebber" <nicole.eb...@wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Movement Strategy: Endorse the strategic direction today! #wikimedia2030

Gerard, apart from you, has anyone written "no: this is wrong and I will do everything in my power to see this plan dismissed for the crap I think it is" Unless you are using Trumpist tactics of spreading fake news to deride and smear others, please source any controversial quotes. Thanks Fae

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 February 2018)

On 4 February 2018 at 06:13, Pine W wrote: > P.S. Do people like these "What's making you happy this week" emails? Few > people respond to them, so I don't know whether people like them, feel that > they are a nuisance, or are indifferent. If you would like to share >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2019

On 7 February 2018 at 11:06, Felix Nartey wrote: > Congratulations Wikimedia Sweden! > > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Leinonen Teemu > wrote: > >> Heja Sverige! Congratulations! >> >> Making me happy this week, >> >> - Teemu >> >> On 7 Feb 2018, at

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

On 23 August 2017 at 05:03, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > Hi list members, > > The list admins (hereafter 'we', being Austin, Asaf, Shani and I, your > humble narrator) regularly receive complaints about the frequent > posters on this list, as well as about the unpleasant

[Wikimedia-l] Pixel tracking by Wikimedia

I have been trying to work how the WMF or its suppliers have chosen to use pixel tracking methods on Wikimedia projects, and exactly what data is tracked, who can access it and if it ever gets officially deleted, but failed so far. There was some past speculation that some banners were using

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

Agree with Jane. Wow. For those unaware, Antoine Musso is a WMF Software developer, which you would never know based on their email signature. Hey fellow long-term unpaid volunteers. Remember that the WMF was created by us not that long ago, and had a single mission, to support us volunteers and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Information on "Multiple failed attempts to log in" emails

n analysis of the OurMine hack (11 November 2016) Thank you for helping out with better community communication, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae On Fri, 4 May 2018 at 10:40, Fæ wrote: > > On 4 May 2018 at 01:27, John Bennett wrote: > > Hello, > > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel joins the nationwide strike to protest the exclusion of gay couples the right to become parents

Congratulations to the Wikimedia Israel board for taking positive action for equality. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+ On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 at 08:57, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel joins the nationwide strike to protest the exclusion of gay couples the right to become parents

://www.health.gov.il/English/Topics/fertility/Surrogacy/Pages/default.aspx Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+ On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 11:18, Mario Gómez wrote: > > Hi Fæ, > > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel joins the nationwide strike to protest the exclusion of gay couples the right to become parents

In Wikipedian fashion, let us stick to the published statement by Wikimedia Israel without making unnecessary inferences. WMIL made a positive statement to support equality, and we know that equality is repeated in the Wikimedia Values and echoed in the developing future strategy.[1][2] The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel joins the nationwide strike to protest the exclusion of gay couples the right to become parents

On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 13:12, Mario Gómez wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Fæ wrote: > > > However when you choose to derail a discussion that is no more and no > > less than same sex couples being treated equally and being given equal > > access for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel joins the nationwide strike to protest the exclusion of gay couples the right to become parents

On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 13:29, Mario Gómez wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Fæ wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 at 13:12, Mario Gómez wrote: > > > > > > No it is not "fair", it is a way of dismissing equality for LGBT+ > > people b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ¿Qué te hace feliz esta semana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 11 March 2018)

at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Cut-off_date_for_PD-old_files#Summary Fae On 15 March 2018 at 16:01, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fae, I really like that flowchart. Is it linked somewhere that uploaders > can see it? > > Todd > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ¿Qué te hace feliz esta semana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 11 March 2018)

1. Happy to rediscover Clipboard History plugin in Chrome. It saves the frustration of hunting around, or rewording, a reusable snippet of wikitext on Commons image pages. 2. As part of a Commons discussion on copyright, for the first time in a couple of years created a flowchart, and experienced

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru

Support the request that AffCom share their understanding of the scope and authority of the announced User Group. From the wording of "represent Wikimedia UK in Wales"[1], the UG is not independent of WMUK and consequently acts as a Chapter subsidiary. As far as I am aware, there is no other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru

amed pre-existing Affiliates within the scope of the proposed new UG. > Regards, > Kirill Lokshin > Chair, Affiliations Committee Thanks, Fae, volunteer -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru

On 20 March 2018 at 15:36, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.loks...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 20 March 2018 at 15:03, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.loks...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Descriptio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline announcements

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 00:34, effe iets anders wrote: > > Hi Pine, > > I would also suggest not to get overly bureaucratic with this :) If the > public meeting you refer to requires a large attendance, the 14 days makes > sense for example - but I cannot recall many meetings of that style. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to the October 2018 Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting: Thursday, October 25th, 18:00 UTC

ct. I get the impulse to get in and I know if I am > busy with other things. Reminder of something in the future get lost > otherwise. > > Anders > > > > Den 2018-10-26 kl. 10:22, skrev Fæ: > > Saw this message today. Almost all readers of this list will find a > > br

Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to the October 2018 Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting: Thursday, October 25th, 18:00 UTC

Saw this message today. Almost all readers of this list will find a broadcasted 30 minutes reminder equally useless. Please revisit this part of the WMF comms plan. Thanks Fae On Thu, 25 Oct 2018, 18:35 Greg Varnum, wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Reminder that this month’s Wikimedia Monthly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] new blog post: interview with designer George Oates about Wikimedia Commons

rable fraction of them. And annoy the hell out of everyone else." Links: 1. https://medium.com/@nikitonsky/medium-is-a-poor-choice-for-blogging-bb0048d19133 Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 15:33, Fæ wrote: > > So, no lear

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the death of Wikipedia imminent?

On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 at 21:35, Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > I have written a long text today (posted in my FB) Facebook, is that still a thing? Gah, whatever is being posted there, many of us Wikipedians are never going to see it. It would be nice to see more people writing decent essays as blog

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next Wikimedia monthly activities meeting will be on 22 February

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 01:00, Gregory Varnum wrote: > > Greetings, > > Our next Wikimedia monthly activities meeting will be on 22 February 2019. > More information will be available on Meta-Wiki: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings > > But wait?!? What about

[Wikimedia-l] Publication of WMF Affiliate agreements

It appears that Affiliate agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation are not published on-wiki in a consistent way.[1] Though the standard templates are available, these have varied over time, so at a minimum to understand which Chapter/Thorg/User Group has currently agreed which legally binding

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for Liaisons for the Movement Strategy Process

"Liaisons will ensure that the voices and perspectives of these communities are heard and considered in the Movement Strategy Process" Question 1: Was there not feedback last year from volunteer coordinators (or whatever the title was) that their voices were lost, and that their time felt wasted;

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocks which appear to demonstrate prejudice against minorities

itor be agreeable, I suggest that the next step is for > > > > > someone > > > > > > who has the ability to converse in Amharic to contact the Amharic > > > > > Wikipedia > > > > > > and find out why the block has been issued, how

[Wikimedia-l] America may go bizarro, but Wikipedia has a choice to make

Dear fellow Wikimedians, please sit back for a moment and ponder the following, For those of us not resident in the US, it has been genuinely alarming to see highly respected US government archives vanish overnight, reference websites go down, and US legislation appear to drift to whatever

Re: [Wikimedia-l] America may go bizarro, but Wikipedia has a choice to make

any of them by > glaringly public flaws. > > To my mind Steve Walling has it right - the very nature of Wikipedia is > maybe the best protection there could be, even against the absurdly > unlikely circumstance of a United States government takeover of Wikipedia. > > Nat

[Wikimedia-l] Blocks which appear to demonstrate prejudice against minorities

Do we have cross project policies to govern or limit local policies for the use of sysop tools? I would like to pass on policy advice, and any past cases folks here would like to highlight that set a precedent. The case below is illustrative, though based on my recall of several complaints which

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

Congratulations and sincere thanks to all working hard behind the scenes as well as those publicly fronting the projects to achieve these successes. For putting in lots of late evenings, perspiration and perseverance, well done. Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [strategy process] Fwd: I decided to leave the working group

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 15:38, Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > > Hello Itzik, > > thanks for sharing this. > > I actually did not want to react, because I presumably sound too critical > on this list in the last couple of years. However, 24h passed, and nobody > reacted, and It would be unfortunate if

[Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

It is sad to see that two well established Wikipedians, Barbara (WVS) and SMcCandlish have misused Wikipedia Signpost to publish a "humour" article which derides the use of nonbinary pronouns. It will be clear for any reader that not only is this a joke in bad taste, but the article is a misuse of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

Original Message- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf > Of Fæ > Sent: 06 March 2019 10:37 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour" > > It is an old story, artists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > > Behalf Of Michel Vuijlsteke > > Sent: 03 March 2019 19:49 > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour" > > > > I don't understand in wh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

As the last post had a format error, I am reposting the body of the email again to avoid confusion! I would like to apologise to SMcCandlish and Barbara (WVS), and more generally to the Wikipedia community, for any possible implication given in my previous email to this list, that authors

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-02-28 Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Wikimedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+ On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 16:39, Fæ wrote:either > > It is sad to see that two well establish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

As the last second repost had the same format error, I am trying for a final time. How embarrassing! I would like to apologise to SMcCandlish and Barbara (WVS), and more generally to the Wikipedia community, for any possible implication given in my previous email to this list, that authors

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals

Most Chapters and many other Affiliates are registered legal organizations. In some cases, like the one you quote, the organization is a registered charity and has several years of submitting accounts and reports as that entity. Names can be changed but this would be a legally meaningful decision

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals

Seeing this "brand" discussion eat up all the limited available unpaid volunteer oxygen on wikimedia-l makes me sad. If the WMF's biggest strategy topic this year is to enter into navel gazing about its brand, then the WMF looks like it has a problem with setting meaningful work for its senior

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AI Image Restoration

For Wikimedia Commons the issue of how to handle digital restorations has been discussed several times, there are no single solutions. The general position is that original images, such as very old glass plate prints from archives, should be preserved and displayed in their original state, but

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

WMF T will not do anything about off-wiki harassment either, apart from banning on-wiki users or offering to block your account as the target of harassment. There's a lot that can be improved around harassment and civility, but honestly, the WMF has no special answers or powers, they do not claim

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

There are some non-controversial facts that apply: * The WMF was created to operationally support the projects, by design it is not a police force for social conduct, even though it may have a duty to remove unlawful content * There is no consensus with the English Wikipedia community for WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Wikimedia Space: A space for movement news and conversations

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 18:47, Maria Cruz wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Today, the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Engagement department is > launching Wikimedia Space *[1]*, a platform for movement *[2]* organizers, > affiliates, contributors, partners, and the Foundation to share news, >

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

This misses the point, as others have highlighted already. The WMF can and /should/ globally and permanently ban paedophiles, terrorists, system hackers and people making multiple cross-wiki death threats or threats of suicide. There are perfectly good and understandable reasons as to why the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New board for Wikimedia Belgium + evaluation behaviour WMF

Thank you for a sensible response. Hopefully Wikimedia Belgium will be able later to publish some agreed recommendations or conclusions, both for how this case could have been handled more appropriately, and how the WMF procedures or policies should improve better to protect the interests of all

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dispute between Common and Outreach

A couple of years ago a proposed project was for the WMF to pay for access to the Google image matching API access so we could run a copyvio bot on the live new uploads list. Such a bot would not be terribly hard to get working, and would be a great experiment to see if this aspect of the more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF commitment for a Wikimedia projects archive

May 2019 at 18:38, Joseph Seddon wrote: > > Because the Wikimedia Foundation doesn't make long term strategic decisions > based off of a 4 person discussion on a mailing list. > > I really don't know why people keep being surprised by this. > > Seddon > > On Tue, May 14

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF commitment for a Wikimedia projects archive

han with lack of > capacity. Let me emphasize that unresponsiveness is not a problem with > everyone in WMF, but I think that it is a significant problem and I know of > no excuses for it. > > Pine > > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > > On Tue, May 7, 2019,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dispute between Common and Outreach

opposed that, see their > blog post > https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/03/26/european-parliament-limits-internet-freedom-in-controversial-copyright-vote/ > I > presume that they will not permit the use of such an automated system on > their projects. > > Thrapostibongles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF commitment for a Wikimedia projects archive

? > > Dan > > On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 09:35, Fæ wrote: > > > With all of the strategy discussions still on-going, it would be good > > to know where the long term public archive of our Wikimedia projects > > sits within it. > > > > As has been men

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 12:47, Philip Kopetzky wrote: > > Please don't generalise frustration with your conduct on this list. You're > the only one telling people to shut up here. I have told nobody to shut up. This is a continuation of the use of character assignation to shut up points of view

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 10:24, Fæ wrote: > > I agree that the official announcement on Commons is worse than unfortunate. > > The announcement by the Diversity Working Group on a sub-page of the > VP of their recommendation to permit NC and ND license restrictions on > Co

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

ommendation might fix. Thanks, Fae > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 11:25, Fæ wrote: > > > I agree that the official announcement on Commons is worse than > > unfortunate. > > > > The announcement by the Diversity Working Group on a sub-page of the > > VP of their recomm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

I agree that the official announcement on Commons is worse than unfortunate. The announcement by the Diversity Working Group on a sub-page of the VP of their recommendation to permit NC and ND license restrictions on Commons, comes after no attempt in advance to discuss the recommendation or its

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

Many Wikimedians have left detailed and logical feedback on the Meta talk pages, as per the request for feedback by Nicole Ebber. No doubt there is no requirement to keep on making this same feedback in other places, especially where not part of the planned feedback process, or where the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki loves SDGs

It astonishing that the WMF and affiliates are supporting a conference in Tunis. The country is not safe for LGBT+ people, including tourists, despite what promotional holiday and travel websites imply. I urge anyone who is LGBT+ and booked to go to this conference, including WMF employees,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki loves SDGs

ch "Zwarte Piet" will no > longer be black because of the foreign imposition of what is the > discriminatory practice "blackface" in the USA. But I digress. We should > engage all over the world particularly when the SDG are topical because > what global effect will it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community feedback and next steps on movement brand proposal

If the WMF is going to make statements that are not derived from all the demonstrable facts, perhaps the community should now respond with a completely unambiguous RFC on meta so there can be no doubt? Something along the lines of: "The WMF have employed Wolff Olins for rebranding advice, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation joins the global climate strike

Because # of flights is not a useful metric for assessing environmental > impact. > > Seddon > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 3:23 PM Fæ wrote: > > > Those publications are where my numbers came from. There is no useful > > transparency to explain how many actual flights are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Outcomes of the Harmonization Sprint in Tunis

That's helpful. Volunteers are repeatedly shut down asking questions on this list and on wiki project noticeboards, by being told they should ask questions on these more obscure and hard to find meta talk pages. So it's good to know that when we are redirected this way, it's fair to say that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation joins the global climate strike

A screenshot has been uploaded to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_global_climate_strike_banner_2019.png. Unfortunately, though web.archive.org has snapshots of the website, these do not appear to render the banner as it displayed in a browser on the day. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiDonne User Group - 2018/2019 Report

I think you meant to link to: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiDonne/Reports/Report_2018-2019 Fae On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 13:31, camelia boban wrote: > > Dear wikimedians, > > at this link you can find the > WDG's last report with activities done

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Free content by tv broadcaster ZDF

The five available videos have been re-encoded to webm (mp4 is a non-free format) and released on Wikimedia Commons.[1] Some are already in use on the German Wikipedia.[2] If ZDF copied their CC-BY videos to YouTube, there are several tools available that can assist mass uploading and encoding

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Remember Wikipedia Zero.. Where is the research about the effects of its demise?

On Sun, 1 Dec 2019 at 11:09, Gerard Meijssen wrote: ... > What I have noticed is that once consensus has been reached, we do not want > to be confronted with the consequences of our actions. Wikipedia Zero has > damaged our outreach and what the BBC info reminds us of is that Internet, > the cost

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