Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

2017-02-07 Thread James Salsman
>> The people who are loudest in their demands for consensus >> do not represent the Wikimedia movement. > > The voices loudest for the WMF doing something against the > Trump administration are not representative of the Wikimedia > movement either Is the Community Process Steering Committee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

2017-02-06 Thread James Salsman
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Bill Takatoshi wrote: > > I have no suggestion for what a banner might say, but I would like to > see such proposals from others. I propose: http://i.imgur.com/3Fb8Zrr.png Sincerely, Jim Salsman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] banner proposals

2017-02-06 Thread James Salsman
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Bill Takatoshi wrote: > >... I am sending these links without James's commentary The part that was deleted from what I had asked to be forwarded basically said this: Some of the most senior and respected Foundation leaders have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

2017-02-05 Thread James Salsman
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 2:15 AM Yair Rand wrote: > The Guidelines on Foundation Policy and Political Association > established by WMF Legal for internal use, specifically bring up the > issue of "public endorsement or critique" of political policies, listing > several

[Wikimedia-l] Free culture, Mission to empower, and Community Process Steering Committee

2017-02-02 Thread James Salsman
Thyge, Craig, Dan, Rogol, Max, Neil, Mike, Ryan, Pete, Yair, and Leigh, here are some questions I'd like you to answer, neither of which are rhetorical: First, what attracts you to the free culture movement? What freedoms do you personally hold as ideal? Finally, what does the Foundation's

[Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

2017-02-01 Thread James Salsman
I can not in good conscience refrain from asking the Foundation management and Board to please take an exceptional, public, very visible stand in response to these extraordinarily exceptional circumstances. Top officials from the US and China say war between the nations is "no doubt" a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] news events impacting the Foundation's ability to hire and its employees' ability to travel

2017-01-31 Thread James Salsman
Why are proposals to abandon the US being given more consideration than those to address the underlying issues? And from those who have been so concerned about the frequency of discussion on this topic (amongst dozens of redundant crongradulatory messages which have never in a dozen years

Re: [Wikimedia-l] news events impacting the Foundation's ability to hire and its employees' ability to travel

2017-01-30 Thread James Salsman
/forget_protest_trumps_actions_warrant_a_general/ (Except for the Lyft part, because one of its founders is on the adminstration's transition team.) On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:38 PM James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: Is this more appropriate for the Public Policy or Wikimedia-l list?

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: stranded travelers offered asylum in Canada

2017-01-29 Thread James Salsman
https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-offers-temporary-home-those-stranded-trump-order-221401138.html I strongly disagree that Bannon is not a if not the primarily responsible party for both the SSL certificate revocation threats and the travel ban:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should the Foundation take a position on a general strike?

2017-01-29 Thread James Salsman
I just spoke with Gerard Meijssen, who gave me permission to quote him saying that both censorship of the internet and travel of Foundation employees are within the scope of the issues impacting the Mission, and that he has posted here with more information:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should the Foundation take a position on a general strike?

2017-01-29 Thread James Salsman
> I'm alright with the WMF taking a position on issues when they're likely to > have a serious impact on the core mission of Wikimedia. > I fail to see how this is one of those things The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence have just been replaced

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should the Foundation take a position on a general strike?

2017-01-29 Thread James Salsman
> No. This is very much a case where the foundation sits and waits. Please take this survey: https://plus.google.com/+jsalsman/posts/HPav2YWUag3 On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 8:01 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > Should the Foundation take a position on a general strik

[Wikimedia-l] Should the Foundation take a position on a general strike?

2017-01-29 Thread James Salsman
Should the Foundation take a position on a general strike? https://twitter.com/trevortimm/status/825395993789157376 https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/825403294667436033 I know this is an unusual question, but when is the last time that the U.S. judiciary has deployed Federal Marshals

[Wikimedia-l] personal information in reader logs kept for 60 days (was Re: Concerns in general)

2017-01-28 Thread James Salsman
> there are a lot of resources based in the US that may > need to be distributed on a wider base including > personal/private data already collected by the WMF For editors, but not readers. On November 8 a top foundation official tweeted that the Foundation would not store personally identifying

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Concerns in general

2017-01-27 Thread James Salsman
>... there is zero chance that the president will be able to censor > the private sector. If you mean the U.S. private sector, you're right. But otherwise, the U.S. President is allowed to take a whole lot of actions which can effectively censor non-citizens, and I've got some bad news pertaining

Re: [Wikimedia-l] don't run away from the mess we've made, fix it (Re: Concerns in general)

2017-01-27 Thread James Salsman
t the controversy is still ongoing but slowly turning in favor of the MEDRS literature's position: http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/latest-news On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:39 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone doubt that the English Wikipedia's longstanding, &g

[Wikimedia-l] don't run away from the mess we've made, fix it (Re: Concerns in general)

2017-01-27 Thread James Salsman
Does anyone doubt that the English Wikipedia's longstanding, pervasive, counter-factual, systemic bias towards supply side trickle-down austerity libertarian objectivist economics due at least in part to early influence of editors attracted to Jimmy Wales' former public positions isn't at least

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog post on "The end of ownership? Rethinking digital property to favor consumers at a Yale ISP talk"

2017-01-06 Thread James Salsman
Although it is probably something innocuous such as a recent need to moderate all comments by default, I am disappointed that my comment on the recent Wikimedia blog post which I belive should be at https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/06/rethinking-digital-property-yale-isp/#comment-124999 has

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

2016-12-27 Thread James Salsman
Christophe, I agree with your statements: > That resolution provides staff the liberty to do their work more > efficiently. It doesn't remove our duty of oversight. Would a requirement to publish policy changes at least, say, a month before they go into effect along with a complete rationale

[Wikimedia-l] more reasons to extend the Fundraiser

2016-12-22 Thread James Salsman
I was very glad that the Foundation decided to extend the fundraiser. I think adding projects outside of the lengthy, formulaic, overly-committee laden, but necessary in part FDC funding process and getting a head start on the endowment is essential for retaining the soul of the Foundation's

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Publicpolicy] U.S. Copyright Office seeks feedback on next Register of Copyright

2016-12-18 Thread James Salsman
I am forwarding my reply to Luis on the Public Policy list here because the request is for both individual and corporate responses. -Jim -- Forwarded message -- From: James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [Publicpolicy] U.S. Cop

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#1!)

2016-12-16 Thread James Salsman
> Regarding the external expert for inclusive process you are looking for, > maybe this article is of help: > > https://hbr.org/2016/12/how-employees-shaped-strategy-at-the-new-york-public-library What did the New York Public Library do that the Foundation doesn't already do in their ordinary

Re: [Wikimedia-l] investments still poor; return improved +0.3% to 1.5%

2016-12-12 Thread James Salsman
James Heilman wrote: > > I personally invest in stuff that gives 1.5% to 1.7% returns Whether you call it fake news, disinformation, public relations, manufactured consent, astroturfing, propaganda, or simply clever advertising campaigning, bankers are thrilled when people think such returns

[Wikimedia-l] investments still poor; return improved +0.3% to 1.5%

2016-12-12 Thread James Salsman
Over the past decade, the Foundation's low rate of return on investments has been dismal and embarassing, in part because it reflects poor choices in the use of donors' money and sets a terrible example. The ease with which the Foundation can raise funds is simply not compatible with purchasing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement by Wikimedia Board on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces (Christophe Henner

2016-12-08 Thread James Salsman
Christophe, Are there any plans and is there any budget and headcount to measure the effectiveness of the recommendations in Figure 51 on page 46 of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Harassment_survey_2015 ? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list,

[Wikimedia-l] NPOV and reader privacy questions

2016-11-30 Thread James Salsman
Here are questions pertaining to policies. I am glad to have the opportunity to step back and consider these over the long term: 1. When interpreting the neutrality mandate with regards to candidates, but policy implies support of specific candidates or candidate-associated action, how are we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] storing IP addresses and their geolocations?

2016-11-13 Thread James Salsman
>> storing the geolocation of every reader request is not within >> the letter or the spirit of the Foundation's privacy policy, >> which explicitly requires consent for the use of geolocation > > No, this is not correct. The reasons why this statement is > incorrect have already been discussed in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DEITYBOUNCE and reader logs (was Re: Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer)

2016-11-08 Thread James Salsman
Dario, I assumed that when an affiliated researcher apart from Foundation staff says, "we have the complete server logs for Wikipedia," amounting to 17 terabytes per month, that means they possess the information. I am glad to be wrong about that, but I object to the implication that such an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DEITYBOUNCE and reader logs (was Re: Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer)

2016-11-08 Thread James Salsman
Leila Zia wrote: >... we are not aware of any reader logs being shipped out of the > WMF servers. Page 20 of http://infolab.stanford.edu/~west1/pubs/West_Dissertation-2016.pdf says, "We have access to Wikimedia’s full server logs, containing all HTTP requests to Wikimedia projects." Page 19

[Wikimedia-l] Conflict of Interest Guideline 3

2016-11-04 Thread James Salsman
Does Guideline 3 of https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution: Guidelines_on_potential_conflicts_of_interest include questions from the community? Is it ever appropriate to try to negotiate limits to answers to such questions in private communications? "Best solutions to avoid conflict of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DEITYBOUNCE and reader logs (was Re: Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer)

2016-11-03 Thread James Salsman
Katherine Maher wrote: > >... If you have further questions about Victoria’s work with the U.S. > Department of Defense, it is/should soon be a matter of U.S. > Congressional record. Her findings and recommendations will also > be a matter of public record, as all government work should be. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DEITYBOUNCE and reader logs (was Re: Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer)

2016-11-03 Thread James Salsman
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > There are two conflicting approaches to vulnerabilities known > to"government"; vulnerabilities make government vulnerable > and therefore they need to be handled properly in code. The > other approach is that a vulnerability is a vector to attack Well, the general

[Wikimedia-l] Why don't we have a warrant canary?

2016-11-02 Thread James Salsman
Are there any disadvantages to a warrant canary which would outweigh the corresponding expected increase in improvements from anonymous editors? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/canary-watch-one-year-later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

[Wikimedia-l] DEITYBOUNCE and reader logs (was Re: Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer)

2016-11-02 Thread James Salsman
It's great that the CTO position was filled. The blog announcement's biography omitted these details: "As Director for Security Initiatives for Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group [Victoria Coleman] was responsible for defining the company’s security technology roadmap and translating it to product

[Wikimedia-l] symposium proposal

2016-11-01 Thread James Salsman
I propose that the Foundation hold a symposium inviting the authors of the following four papers to give a joint talk on formal scholarly reputation in tenure decision: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~xshuai/papers/jcdl240-shuai.pdf

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Publicpolicy] WMF Transparency Report

2016-09-02 Thread James Salsman
Jan, Regarding my questions on https://transparency.wikimedia.org/ below, it has been three weeks since I forwarded them to you. Would you please answer them? Were the five requests for content removal based on the right to be forgotten included in the 243 requests to alter or take down content?

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Publicpolicy] WMF Transparency Report

2016-08-13 Thread James Salsman
be informed, respectively. -- Forwarded message -- From: James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [Publicpolicy] WMF Transparency Report To: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia <publicpol...@lists.wikimedia.org> Very impressive

[Wikimedia-l] coordinate liaising with Google (was Re: Google returning outdated text snippet)

2016-08-09 Thread James Salsman
Dan Garry wrote: > Reaching out to [Google] is the easiest and quickest way to get > these kinds of issues fixed Google is a whole lot better than Altavista was back when their snippets were taken from title and meta tags or the first words on the page, but there have been some issues that

[Wikimedia-l] Four public policy and related proposals (was Fwd: Librarian of Congress and Copyright Royalty Board Petitions)

2016-06-13 Thread James Salsman
Both of the two messages below got encouraging responses off-list, but I doubt they will get Foundation support without wider discussion, and they certainly both transcend mere Foundation public policy advocacy concerns. Please share your thoughts! -- Forwarded message -- Date:

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Sue too! (was Re: please keep Katherine)

2016-06-08 Thread James Salsman
ikely to hire someone involved in anticompetitive labor market abuse crimes." Best regards. Jim -- Forwarded message -- From: *James Salsman* <jsals...@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 Subject: Sue too! (was Re: please keep Katherine) To: "edsea...@

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now

2016-06-01 Thread James Salsman
Dr. Heilman wrote: >... we need someone who has excellent communication and people skills. > Technical skills can be hired for at other levels of the organization while > people skill cannot typically be taught. > > Katherine, our current interim ED, appears to have these qualities. If > she is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding Citation Hunt

2016-05-02 Thread James Salsman
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > The one reason why we would pay it is because the industry that prevents > people from finding citations is morally corrupt We need randomized anonymous double blind review for anything like this to be suitable for paid proofreaders. Frankly, the category

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding Citation Hunt

2016-04-23 Thread James Salsman
it would destroy what we are and > how we do things for no obvious benefit. As long as we don't measure the benefit, we have no way to know whether it's positive and will forever remain non-obvious. > On 23 April 2016 at 16:02, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > > &g

[Wikimedia-l] Funding Citation Hunt

2016-04-23 Thread James Salsman
> > Gerard Meijssen wrote: > ... > I categorically oppose paying people for content. Enabling them to create > content is different. Citations is content and its quality is relevant but > only that. Why categorically? We already pay hundreds of people for work in support of the projects,

[Wikimedia-l] Funding Citation Hunt

2016-04-22 Thread James Salsman
How do people feel about a few of the larger the Chapters funding pilots to have professional researchers do https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en and a few other main languages? It would be great to measure the quality of results of different payment incentive models and rates, but this is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DARPA FOSSS programs of interest

2016-04-18 Thread James Salsman
> You're suggesting that counsel spend their time writing to > agencies ... when we know almost nothing about them. Again, if there is another way to find out, I'd like to learn it. >> Therefore I think it would be worth writing a letter asking that the >> BOLT, SMISC, and CSFV be returned to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DARPA FOSSS programs of interest

2016-04-18 Thread James Salsman
am mistaken or if anyone thinks it is not a good idea to ask for this, please let me know. On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:53 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> we have absolutely no idea ... about the technological >> stack [or] how much progress was made > > C

[Wikimedia-l] DARPA FOSSS programs of interest

2016-04-13 Thread James Salsman
> we have absolutely no idea ... about the technological > stack [or] how much progress was made Can anyone think of another way to find out? > covert HUMINT or surveillance technology If we publish the code, it's not covert anymore. We all deserve to see the mentions of Wikipedia which

[Wikimedia-l] DARPA FOSSS programs of interest

2016-04-12 Thread James Salsman
Re https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/publicpolicy/2016-April/001335.html Should the Foundation mount a campaign to rescue BOLT from whomever took it down from the DARPA site? "The Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program is aimed at enabling communication with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject Accuracy

2016-03-27 Thread James Salsman
Hi Olatunde, All the WikiProjects are individually responsible for accuracy, because of Good Article criteria 2 and 3 taken together. However, I agree with your sentiments. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Update_Watch (inactive)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FLOSS for operations equipment

2016-03-22 Thread James Salsman
Marc A. Pelletier wrote: >... as far as I know, high-end networking hardware is not > available with Libre OSes Are the FreeBSD-based pfSense C2758 series in the Foundation's throughput tier? https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#c2758

[Wikimedia-l] FLOSS for operations equipment

2016-03-21 Thread James Salsman
Marc *Pelletier / Coren* wrote: > I don't think it's reasonable to expect that every external supplier > is all-FLOSS. For one, the movement would be pretty much stuck > without hardware, networking gear, and power at the very least. Is there a list of equipment that WMF uses without viable

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open and recorded WMF Board meetings

2016-03-05 Thread James Salsman
> we could start with a smaller step: get the agenda > published within 5 days after any meeting "I would support as best practice the public posting of agendas for routine board meetings. I would support that minutes be posted promptly - but before the next meetings agenda is finalized

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Armenia candidate for the board

2016-03-03 Thread James Salsman
>... board meetings are confidential so board members under duress can > always claim they tried to do whatever they were told to but got voted down? Board votes are published. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] recording board meetings

2016-03-03 Thread James Salsman
Wikimedia Australia has recorded their Board meetings, e.g. at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYnlRWxFpX0 If accurate minutes are too hard, this solution seems a lot easier. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] organize please; paying the best long term editors

2016-02-25 Thread James Salsman
At this juncture, I would like to repeat my recommendation that Foundation employees to immediately join the Union for Non-Profit Workers, IFPTE Local 70: http://ifptelocal70.org/home/ Furthermore, the discussion concerning innovative ways to fund the best long term editors through, for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

2016-02-23 Thread James Salsman
Sorry, http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:59 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > SarahSV wrote: >> >>... how does a tech organization nurture and support its unpaid >> workforce of mostly writers and researchers? >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

2016-02-23 Thread James Salsman
SarahSV wrote: > >... how does a tech organization nurture and support its unpaid > workforce of mostly writers and researchers? I remain convinced that http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_review can solve this problem through a new spinoff such as WikiEd Foundation, but that's still probably at

[Wikimedia-l] Are Foundation employees represented by

2016-02-08 Thread James Salsman
Given the initial attribution of the Foundation Board of Trustees indicating that they considered the appointment of an anti-competitive hiring blacklist enforcement manager as a "public relations check" problem, I recommend that Foundation employees immediately join the Union for Non-Profit

[Wikimedia-l] answers to community consultation questions

2016-01-18 Thread James Salsman
Re https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Strategy/Community_consultation#The_questions and given https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strategy_consultation_qualitative_comment_categories.png was already published from previous answers, I prefer to answer here: > What major trends would you

[Wikimedia-l] Appointment of proven anticompetitive hiring co-conspirator to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2016-01-08 Thread James Salsman
pointment should also resign immediately. There is absolutely no reason that the Foundation should even present the appearance of endorsing such attacks on technology workers. Sincerely, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Database administration support (was Re: IRC office hours: Shared hosting)

2016-01-03 Thread James Salsman
. The Foundation does that for monthly meetings, why not the Board too? Regards, Jim On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, December 20, 2015, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bawo...@gmail.com');>> wrote:

[Wikimedia-l] Database administration support (was Re: IRC office hours: Shared hosting)

2015-12-22 Thread James Salsman
On Sunday, December 20, 2015, Brian Wolff wrote: > If you want to get Dispenser his hard disk space, you should take it > up with the labs people, or at the very least some thread where it > would be on-topic. > The labs people are so understaffed that two extremely important

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours: Shared hosting

2015-12-20 Thread James Salsman
Were there any objections to my request below? Can we also please hire additional database, system, and if necessary network administration support to make sure that the third party spam prevention bot infrastructure is supported more robustly in the future? On Monday, December 14, 2015, James

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours: Shared hosting

2015-12-14 Thread James Salsman
Hi Giles, I regret I will probably not be available for the IRC office hours as scheduled. In the discussion of shared hosting, I worry that en:User:Dispenser's reflinks project, which requires a 20 TB cache, is being forgotten again. He tried to host it himself, but it's offline again. This

Re: [Wikimedia-l] California drought and WMF

2015-09-15 Thread James Salsman
One thing the Foundation could do to help with climate change and water issues other than move office locations, and which is on topic because the Foundation has chosen to purchase renewable energy through contracting with suppliers in the past, is if the Foundation attempted to secure desalinated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

2015-07-29 Thread James Salsman
... The license requires only that the credit be implemented in any reasonable manner. [Also note that the _text_ of our projects, while also licensed under CC-BY-SA, is licensed in way that explicitly states that a sufficient attribution is [t]hrough hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the

[Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

2015-07-26 Thread James Salsman
If Harald Bischoff has defrauded Commons reusers by requiring stricter attribution than the community requires, does the Foundation have standing in Germany to require him to return the money to his victims in proportion to the extent that their attribution was improper?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ending discrimination by language

2015-07-04 Thread James Salsman
James Heilman wrote: We need to make our current Wikipedias simpler. Yes I know it is an uphill battle but we just need more people working on it. That is why, as I have announced previously, I will soon begin raising money for the human fact-checkers and proofreaders necessary for the

[Wikimedia-l] Ending discrimination by language

2015-06-28 Thread James Salsman
GerardM, Which do you think would end more language discrimination: a WMF co-headquarters in Belgium, moving the WEF to Germany, or a Simple language Wikipedia for the top-25 languages? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] Does the European trade secrets law pose a threat to editors?

2015-06-12 Thread James Salsman
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/health-consumers/new-law-muzzle-whistleblowers-315357 Wasn't there some time a few years back when the PCI consortium and some ~40 digit hexadecimal number were making Philippe have to do around doing revels or such? Can we vote against that please?

[Wikimedia-l] comments on Annual Plan

2015-05-28 Thread James Salsman
://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2015-May/031684.html I have a new contract through the end of the year and will be unable to devote the time I had planned. Thank you. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

[Wikimedia-l] Net neutrality: since when has it had anything to do with price?

2015-04-01 Thread James Salsman
dictatorships use Wikipedia Zero for propaganda purposes, but I am not sure how much of a problem that is relative to the advantages. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Engineering Community

2015-02-16 Thread James Salsman
, and causing their own organizations, whether they be foundations or nations, to be less effective because of it, and I'm proud I am one of the very few who do. On Saturday, 14 February 2015, James Salsman jsalsman at gmail.com wrote: Rachel diCerbo wrote: ... Community Engagement is continuously

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Engineering Community

2015-02-14 Thread James Salsman
by co-mentoring the accuracy review GSoC proposal. It shouldn't take more than a few hours per week over the summer. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

[Wikimedia-l] surveys of active female editors?

2015-01-18 Thread James Salsman
Are there any surveys of active female editors which have asked how they started editing? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Wikimedia-l] $55 million raised in 2014

2015-01-02 Thread James Salsman
with fuschia blinkmarquee text on a epileptic seizure-inducing background and auto-play audio than have the fundraising director claim that donations are decreasing to help justify narrowing scope. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

[Wikimedia-l] Cryonics

2014-10-15 Thread James Salsman
-inclusive cryonics solutions. I understand that supercooling vitrification freezers such as those manufactured by ABI, Ltd. of Chiba, Japan called CASfresh or Cells Alive System may be of some interest. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-17 Thread James Salsman
Wil Sinclair wrote: ... I'm wondering if there is a place where the lighter side of individual Wikimedians ... stuff like funny stats about our wikiprojects surfaced through clever metrics, the weirdest of the weird factoids that we uncover in the process of documenting our universe,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

2014-09-10 Thread James Salsman
Wil Sinclair wrote: Flow needs a deep and broad community consensus to what would probably amount to the biggest single change in the history of the project for the day-to-day collaboration amongst editors that is so vital to our success. Wouldn't it be easier to achieve such consensus if

[Wikimedia-l] Endless drama around solutions to non-problems as misdirection

2014-09-06 Thread James Salsman
Where does the idea that user interface changes to the system which has already produced the most monumental reference work in the history of humanity are going to help with its only actual problem, that people aren't sufficiently inclined to stick around and maintain it? If there was any

[Wikimedia-l] new Code of Ethics from the Society of Professional Journalists

2014-09-06 Thread James Salsman
Today the Society of Professional Journalists updated its Code of Ethics in two ways pertinent to wikimedians and Wikimedia projects: 1. The term journalist has been replaced with references to journalism in areas that were seen to perpetuate the idea that the practice of journalism requires

[Wikimedia-l] editor retention initiatives

2014-08-23 Thread James Salsman
Is there a list somewhere of all currently active Foundation initiatives for attracting and retaining active editors? I am only aware of the one project, Task Recommendations, to try to encourage editors who have made a few edits to make more, described starting at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] is it possible to accept bitcoins without receiving stolen property?

2014-08-13 Thread James Salsman
Andre Engels wrote: ... When choosing between unwittingly accepting tainted money and forcing people to give up their complete financial privacy, I find the first option the least morally repugnant one. forcing people to give up their complete financial privacy happens when people donate with

[Wikimedia-l] is it possible to accept bitcoins without receiving stolen property?

2014-08-12 Thread James Salsman
Given this news about BGP hijacking used to mine hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars worth of bitcoins per year, as a practical matter concerning donations, is there any way to accept bitcoin payments without risking accepting stolen property?

[Wikimedia-l] Community liaison advocacy in support of the community

2014-08-06 Thread James Salsman
Steven Walling wrote: The community liaisons put in a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to advocate not only *to* the community, but *for* it within the Foundation. How is the effectiveness of their advocacy of the community measured? Back when I was the only wikimedian speaking out in support

[Wikimedia-l] Community Engagement Products

2014-07-30 Thread James Salsman
other engineering effort undertaken so far to improve community engagement. Best regards, James Salsman [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#Community_Engagement_.28Product.29 [2] http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please)

2014-07-07 Thread James Salsman
Kevin Gorman wrote: Regarding the IA: they have a significant interest in working with the Wikimedia projects, a lot more experience than the Wikimedia projects have caching absolutely tremendous quantities of data, a willinness to handle a degree of legal risk that would be inappropriate for

[Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-03 Thread James Salsman
conflicts of interest back on it? Was all of that Terms of Service amendment only for show? Can the Foundation please hire an information theoretician familiar with the hyperbolic space embedding of splay trees? Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-03 Thread James Salsman
throwing a tantrum because WMF won't give him 24TB of storage for a project that has legal questionablity If society depended on lawyers for determining the parameters of their inverted indices, you would all be using WAIS for the last five years of corporate press releases for your reference

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-03 Thread James Salsman
... His demands for the storage are for a new version of the tool he is yet to write that is meant to actually cache the external link's webpages...likely to need Legal to look into Just like any search engine keeps a reconstructable representation of the indexed text. There is absolutely no

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-03 Thread James Salsman
... I am glad that there is at least some sanity checking On my happy planet, sanity means taking historical progress into account when telling people that they have to fill out a form and wait for committee review when making a reasonable request for an obvious need. There is so much more that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-03 Thread James Salsman
/Proposal:Develop_systems_for_accuracy_review Is that a fair deal? Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-03 Thread James Salsman
://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Dispenser/Toolserver_migrationdiff=prevoldid=615356734 My offer stands. Sincerely, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-03 Thread James Salsman
I don't think it's a donation if you're getting something (a survey) in return. How could the Foundation possibly not benefit from understanding contributors' opinions about general strategic goals for improving participation? I also want development of accuracy review. If there are any

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-03 Thread James Salsman
... the standard category of a programmer who doesn't work well with non-programmers and sucks at writing specs/documentation. That is an extremely rude way to characterize a volunteer who has single-handedly saved volunteer-centuries of time and then taken a principled, non-zero sum stand to

[Wikimedia-l] investment ratio cap on eqities

2014-06-22 Thread James Salsman
indirectly. It would be like a visual editor for Yo with bronies versus brogrammers fighting over graphical styles when what people really want is adaptive rate voice buffering. Please do not contribute to the perpetuation of the business cycle. Thank you. Sincerely, James Salsman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-17 Thread James Salsman
Erik Moeller wrote: ... My own focus will be on fleshing out the overall narrative, aligning around organization-wide objectives, and helping to manage scope Steven Walling wrote: The Wikimedia Foundation does not write nor edit content on Wikipedia Newyorkbrad wrote: ... The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms

2014-06-13 Thread James Salsman
There are several backlogged queues on English Wikipedia at the moment, and I would be interested in hearing ideas for how to shrink the backlogs. I've been observing task clearance from WP:BACKLOG ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BACKLOG ) for eight years. By far the most effective

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase participation [WAS: The first three weeks]

2014-05-31 Thread James Salsman
(non-CS) engineer friends ... upon hitting that edit button, basically went Gak! No way! Wikitext is simpler than what phototypesetter operators in the 1960s-1990s had to deal with, and they had a much better gender balance. Wikitext resitricts editing to pretty much only computer science

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