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

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? http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog

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

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

unresolved goals of the Foundation more than any 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/wmfcsdr

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

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

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

>... 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 o

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

> 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 rea

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

is still down. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Dispenser/Toolserver_migration&diff=prev&oldid=615356734 My offer stands. Sincerely, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing

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

ategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/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://lis

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

>... 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

>... 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

> 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

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

CKLOG still not have 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] investment ratio cap on eqities

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, Jam

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

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 pr

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

> 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

[Wikimedia-l] Free open knowledge MOOC, accuracy review, strategy survey

and I feel both are about equally important for the future of the projects. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Un

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

> (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 scien

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

> "being able to figure out wikitext" might be a good attribute, > but making it a requirement pretty much sacrifices any hope > we have of getting rid of our systemic bias Individual editors' skill with wikitext should be independent of almost all of the systemic biases from which we suffer e

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

they came to fruition. 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/listinfo/wikimedia-l,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The first three weeks.

Lila Tretikov wrote: >... > Allocation should follow strategic priorities and it > is the strategy that helps answer this question. On this point, it should be enormously helpful to point out that the only strategic goal which the Foundation has ever failed to achieve, and has consistently failed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The first three weeks.

Lila Tretikov wrote: >... > a few of the things I’m looking forward to from you: >... > provide feedback and on ... projects and initiatives > to help make them better, more useful, and lead to > more successful outcomes Samuel Klein wrote: >... legal work is a significant part of our budget a

[Wikimedia-l] message vs. messenger (was Re: Participating on Wikipediocracy)

Wil Sinclair wrote: > > I personally care more about the message than the messenger If only more people thought that way! Sometimes I feel like I have to explain things to people like they were five because I confused them with technical topics several years ago. People tell me to shut up all the

[Wikimedia-l] European Courts of Justice right to be forgotten

o recourse does not seem particularly well grounded, and seems to be happening without reasons being offered. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

. Step one, collect the data. Because of the nature of such a survey, most people can do that themselves. Ideally the Foundation would want to be at the forefront of collecting and publishing the underlying information. Best regards, James Salsman ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

nurture a discussion of strategic goals. Others have taken issue with less than a handful of the items on the list, but to them I say: why not survey the volunteers as below and find out which ones they think are the most important to them? On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:46 PM, James Salsman wrote: &g

[Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

d the preferences of volunteers with many contributions be weighted more than those with fewer contributions? Can this question be resolved by producing both unweighted and weighted rankings for the ED and Board to discuss? Sincerely, James Salsman ___

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Coalitions on mass surveillance

I strongly object that the advocacy_advisors list is being censored while foundation officials pretend to hold open consultations there. Shame! -- Forwarded message -- From: "James Salsman" Date: Apr 30, 2014 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Coalitio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2014

> Revenue for the month of January is $3.42MM versus plan of $0.01MM, approximately $3.41MM or 58,335% over plan. > Year-to-date revenue is $38.17MM versus plan of $45.04MM, approximately $6.87MM or 15% under plan. Can we please use the word "fiscal" if we don't mean calendar year? > Expenses for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] community broadband

>... the Foundation is not going to be active on stuff like > pushing for community broadband. Who is going to stop monoculture ISPs from interposing ads on top of Foundation content HTTP streams? >... It's not within even the broad remit of the Foundation. That's entirely debatable. It's far mo

[Wikimedia-l] community broadband

http://stopthecap.com/2014/01/30/anti-community-broadband-bill-introduced-in-kansas-legislating-incumbent-protection/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/alec-tech-and-the-telecom_b_1696830.html Is the Foundation active on this issue? My question to the advocacy_advisors mailing list was

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sponsorship/donations to other organizations

I would love to see the Foundation support archive.org and webcitation.org. I have seen dozens of community members express hopes for Foundation monetary support of both continued survival and faster response time for both. But I am not aware of any acknowledgement from the Foundation other than Ji

[Wikimedia-l] neologisms

What does "productize" mean in the context of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_Quarterly_Review_(February_2014).pdf ? Where did the idea that services need to be turned into products come from? Where is the "learning patterns library" mentioned at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metric

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

reasonable answer two it, or a week or two if I can't. But again, the Foundation can do this and should do it. Luckily community volunteers can do it to, so if there is ever any question about fraud or misconduct, that can be audited by the community, which is what open collaborativ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

Hi Geoff, Would you please clarify which of the advocacy topics below, if any, are precluded by the restrictions at https://web.archive.org/web/20120621122539/http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=163392,00.html ? Since multiple people have claimed that some are without saying which, it woul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

* " On Apr 5, 2014 6:17 AM, "James Salsman" wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > Your link to > http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=120703,00.html > in [1], which is cited in turn at [2], is dead, and archive.org won't > show me what it used to be f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

cy by nonprofits? Also, do you think it would be a good idea to make an annotated version for those of us wondering what is and is not allowed when recommending advocacy actions in support of volunteer quality of life to Foundation officials? Thank you. Best regards, James Salsman [1]

[Wikimedia-l] WMF priorities

>... WMF is ... is inviting comment and participation from the > FDC and the community in crafting WMF priorities I hope volunteer quality of life becomes a priority. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://l

[Wikimedia-l] is Wikiquote in decline or just stagnant

Which of the two contradictory colorings on http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/UniqueActiveEditorsOnSmallProjects-Decline.png is correct? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ED transition responsibility

Hi Sue, Since you announced your departure, to whom have you delegated the responsibility of insuring that Foundation advocacy is aligned with the interests of Foundation volunteers, if anyone? Do you support statistical sampling using a method such as at http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft to

[Wikimedia-l] ED transition responsibility

Hi Gayle, During the ED transition, who is responsible for insuring that Foundation advocacy is aligned with the interests of Foundation volunteers? Thank you! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Mid Year Financial Statements

Hi Garfield, Looking over https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/2e/Jul-Dec%2713_Mid-year_financials.pdf and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/b/b6/Mid_Year_Financials_FY_13-14_FAQs.pdf it seems that the Foundation has been earning 0.9% on its liquid asset holdings.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

>... it's probably more effective to make your point directly Any volunteer organization with a several year history of declining volunteer participation should refocus its external advocacy efforts from actions which can benefit no more than a small percentage of volunteers to those that will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

Oliver Keyes, okeyes at wikimedia.org, wrote: > >... I don't see a lot of things that are likely enough to succeed > and provide a meaningful impact That's how I feel about copyright term extension efforts, but we have been standing firm on them as a defense against the very real possibility o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

> The job of the "Community Advocacy" bit of "Legal and Community > Advocacy" is, as I understand it, to advocate for the community's > need within the Foundation, and act as a conduit to the community > for legal stuff. That department and its predecessors have hired professional attorneys to lob

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

> Link to the board of decision to pay advocates please. The most recent seems to be the approval f the Annual Plan as per http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2013-2014_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers#What_is_included_in_the_.E2.80.9CLegal.2C_Community_Advocacy.2C_Communications.2C_Human_Resourc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

>... list of causes - many of which have little or no correlation with > anything even vaguely related to the operation of the WMF, its core > philosophies, or its purpose If the Trustees have decided that we should pay advocates, why not advocate on the issues most likely to increase the numb

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

> Is there ... an explanation which explains what it all means? It's an attempted improvement on the policy survey at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Survey "A survey about the importance of various policy issues ... given the highest priority by our community." If you are having troubl

[Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

. A detailed rationale for this revision is at: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-March/000420.html Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Link to Wikimedia Shop now included in the English Wikipedia sidebar

> The hooded sweatshirt sure has kept me warm through the past > couple of winters. I have had hundreds of t-shirts with logos on them, but none make people on the street smile as much as the Wikipedia t-shirt. > I certainly wish they would expand the product line. I was promised a keychain-co

[Wikimedia-l] Conflict resolution wikis

er with a human participant driving the process schedule (to the extent that human is skilled at it) but there are some very attractive opportunities for e.g. Wikidata and maintenance bot integration down the road if it works out. Best regards

Re: [Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

> How could you say no to a face like this? > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitty_meowing.jpg Is that the same angst-offsetting kitten as on j.mp/heygooglers ? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https:/

[Wikimedia-l] ED profile

Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: >... > a large part will never be contacted as a potential candidate, > simply because they are not close to matching the profile Is the profile documented or subjective? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ED qualifications

>... we should consider it a strength in an individual to > refuse to consider applying for a position where every aspect > of their career and personal life would be microscopically > examined by thousands of people What if the tiny fraction of people who were open to examination of their mer

[Wikimedia-l] ED qualifications

>... Most people who are already in a current job are not going > to be willing to have open debates about the job opportunities they are > seeking. Not only because their 'boss' will know but also because if they > are in a public company that could cause large issues in the market etc Do we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

> the community can help with identifying candidates by > suggesting people who should be invited to apply (we did that) Thank you, Oliver! How many people suggested by the community were invited, and what were their responses? Did Ward Cunningham get an invite? __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

Craig Franklin wrote: >... > it would be grossly unprofessional for Erik, Jan-Bart, or anyone else > to publicly discuss the relative merits of people who may or may not > be involved in a confidential hiring process No, the Board resolved to "consult the community as necessary to assist with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

My suggestion of Leonie Haimson as co-director was most certainly not frivolous, and concern trolling on comments made in the spirit of fun to try to sideline consideration of her is offensive. Erik and others, what has Ting accomplished that would make him a better Director or Co-director than a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

>... try to clone Sue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_Futurama_characters#Cubert_Farnsworth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_(2009_film) > Could the WMF strategy extend to creating a Death Star > to preserve all of human knowledge? If Sue and Leonie Haimson were mutual co-d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

ich is a surprisingly common view among Stanford's Hoover Institution-sponsored staff, their relatives, and alumni. See also the proportion of Americans who disbelieve evolution, vaccines, and radioisotope dating. Best regards, James Salsman On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, James Salsman wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

curacy contrary to the peer reviewed secondary literature, many examples of which still exist in the English Wikipedia. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

Why would we promote patent- and secrecy-encumbered formats when Google has spent so much on opening WebM? Also, why does the Multimedia Team care about video when most Wiktionary headwords don't have uploaded audio exemplars yet? Where are our priorities?

[Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

> Neither of Calxeda's articles gives a figure for capital cost I think they went under the moment their first competitor charging typical markups (Mitac) started shipping. Get some GFX servers and some of these to do your own tests: http://www.mitac.com/Business/7-Star.html > you can't just plug

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdoored

> Jasper has tried to give you honest, useful information based on his > actual experience and expertise in the matter It sure seemed like he was trying to imply that ARM servers cost more than twice what they actually do, and that there is some vague reason that we are tied to x86 because porting

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdoored

Jasper, if you can't write an email or pick up the phone asking for a hardware quote without supporting the status quo of the Foundation datacenter being a monument to the poster boy of corporate tax abuses, Microsoft OEM bundling abuses, and NSA collaboration, I really can't help you. If you're i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

>... Wikimedia Labs uses x86 hardware virtualization (just one example) How does that tie us to x86? http://www.eweek.com/servers/arm-server-chips-get-xen-virtualization-support/ >... a conservative $200/server estimate I have been recommending hardware which costs closer to $70 per "server" dep

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

> Maximum 100 Mbps ethernet connection We should be using fiber, which also costs less power and is orders of magnitude faster. If the words "enterprise-class" actually mean something more than "much larger markup than purchasing components" then go with something like http://www.marvell.com/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

When this came up last time, it turned out that there was some kind of a deal in place, and certainly many if not most published pictures of the Wikimedia data center feature rows of shiny Dell logos. But Dell does support Microsoft and the NSA, obviously, and also supports some very creative acco

[Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

Can we please stop paying the Microsoft and NSA taxes and start buying datacenter equipment which costs a lot less? Cubieboard/Cubietrucks for instance? Ref.: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html Best regards, James __

[Wikimedia-l] Our remit

> If people chose to opt into censorship then its a bit outside our remit. For values of empowerment equal to very sincere well wishes. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

Hi Megan, If someone wants to donate the harvestable platinum from an asteroid, would you please make sure that an appropriately progressive excise tax is paid to the ufohastings.com concerns? Thanks muchly. On Dec 11, 2013 8:03 PM, wrote: > Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to >

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising: are we trying what we tried on July 30?

I'm still very interested in July 30, when average donations peaked; Ref.: http://i.imgur.com/3oXk7jq.png What could have caused that? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikimedia-l] is the German/EU Policy Issues Survey a push-poll from empowerment to enabling?

ation. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

edia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013#July_.26_August_Update On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:12 PM, James Salsman wrote: > If October 4th and/or 22nd had large donations because of one-time events > instead of regular donation appeal changes, why are they both bracketed by > vastly abnormally s

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

If October 4th and/or 22nd had large donations because of one-time events instead of regular donation appeal changes, why are they both bracketed by vastly abnormally successful previous and subsequent days? On Monday, November 25, 2013, James Salsman wrote: > P.S. As the referenced attachm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

P.S. As the referenced attachment doesn't make it through to the archives or digests, there is a copy of the fundraising data graph at: http://i.imgur.com/MkXIW4J.png On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:51 PM, James Salsman wrote: > Hi Megan, > > Per the attached graph

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

if it falls off at the same rate as the July test, that still means you could produce an endowment sufficient to do away with fundraising at current spending levels in less than eight months. Best regards, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

[Wikimedia-l] addressing paid advocacy

nces" from previous paid advocacy successes. If this were to become an ongoing effort culminating in name and shame releases ("We caught these paid advocates puffing up these corporations' articles and blocked them") it could easily drive the worst abusers out of busin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Carbon footprints on Wikipedia.

> "The inherent complexity and controversy of carbon footprints". > What do you mean by that? Even those who fight for inclusion of the facts about climate change on Wikipedia aren't very likely to follow the peer reviewed secondary literature when it comes to reporting the extent of changes in ex

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Carbon footprints on Wikipedia.

Geoff, The inherent complexity and controversy of carbon footprints suggests that you should seek assistance at the Teahouse before proceeding with further editing on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse Tim Starling wrote: >... http://www.greenrationbook.org.uk/resources

[Wikimedia-l] New Google interface to Wikipedia

largest number of user referral log entries to the TAFI blurb? Sincerely, James Salsman Oliver Keyes wrote: > > No idea; if people have proposals...well, see above :). > > > On 29 September 2013 20:10, James Salsman wrote: > >>> They are really interested in fi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Google interface to Wikipedia

> They are really interested in finding ways to feed back into the ecosystem Interested enough to link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:TAFI/Blurb ? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

So, there has never been a copyright or privacy dispute involving any actual radiology image, nor has anyone been able to find any evidence of a hint of any such dispute. The law is silent on the question because there has never been such a dispute. Yet some people want to delete hundreds of such

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit Media Attendance Request

Sorry about the message inadvertently sent to this list. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit Media Attendance Request

office. Please call me: 650-427-9625 Best regards, James Salsman -- Forwarded message -- From: "Regina Ramazzini" Date: Sep 5, 2013 12:21 AM Subject: Re: Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit Media Attendance Request To: "James Salsman" Cc: "Noah Diffenbau

Re: [Wikimedia-l] law enforcement buying vulnerabilities on black market & leaving them unreported for surveillance

y readers of Wikimedia >> projects are at risk here because of that story? Are you trying to say it >> is the Foundation responsibility to protect the readers from the >> vulnerabilities of their operating systems? >> >> JP Béland >> >> >> >> 2013/8/19

[Wikimedia-l] law enforcement buying vulnerabilities on black market & leaving them unreported for surveillance

While the trickling release of Edward Snowden's revelations from bad to worse in weekly incremental steps has been enormously effective in swaying public opinion, it has made formulating a meaningful response very difficult. A few weeks ago we learned that the FBI has been purchasing personal comp

[Wikimedia-l] Another example of encryption FUD

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517781/math-advances-raise-the-prospect-of-an-internet-security-crisis/ is another example of a very highly placed secondary news source casting fear, uncertainty, and doubt on the value of industry-standard encryption practices which is not only based on the un

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disinformation regarding perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS

Anthony, padding in this context means adding null or random bytes to the end of encrypted TCP streams in order to obscure their true length. The process of adding padding is entirely independent of the choice of underlying cipher. In this case, however, we have been discussing perfect forward sec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disinformation regarding perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS

> please address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation#Padding Sure. As soon as someone creates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Shimmerso I can use an appropriate example. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disinformation regarding perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS

Marc A. Pelletier wrote: >... >> http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/papers/4681a332.pdf >... > have you actually /read/ that paper? Of course I have. Have you read the conclusions at the bottom right of page 344? What kind of an adversary trying to infer our readers' article selections is goin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disinformation regarding perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS

>... random padding without (at least) pipelining and > placards *is* worthless to protect against traffic analysis No, that is not true, and http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/papers/4681a332.pdf explains why. Padding makes it difficult but not impossible to distinguish between two HTTPS dest

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disinformation regarding perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS

Marc A. Pelletier wrote: >... > A minor random increase of size in document wouldn't even slow > down [fingerprinting.] That's absolutely false. The last time I measured the sizes of all 9,625 vital articles, there was only one at the median length of 30,356 bytes but four articles up to 50 bytes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disinformation regarding perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS

George William Herbert wrote: >... > It would also not be much more effort or customer impact > to pad to the next larger 1k size for a random large fraction > of transmissions. Padding each transmission with a random number of bytes, up to say 50 or 100, might provide a greater defense against fi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disinformation regarding perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS

Ryan Lane wrote: >... > Assuming traffic analysis can be used to determine your browsing > habits as they are occurring (which is likely not terribly hard for Wikipedia) The Google Maps example you linked to works by building a huge database of the exact byte sizes of satellite image tiles. Are yo

[Wikimedia-l] Disinformation regarding perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS

With the NSA revelations over the past months, there has been some very questionable information starting to circulate suggesting that trying to implement perfect forward secrecy for https web traffic isn't worth the effort. I am not sure of the provenance of these reports, and I would like to see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] NSA

Nathan wrote: > >... It seems that most of the data they > collect is wiped within 3 days; that the data itself can only be > analyzed under a fairly specific set of minimization rules Are you referring to the 2009 Holder minimization rules which per http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closere

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

ho doesn't follow FiveThirtySix will first regret it, and then end up following it afterwards to prevent further such regret. Also, congratulations to Megan and Lisa! Sincerely, James Salsman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] article bytes more meaningful than users or revisions (was Re: Updates on VE data analysis)

Denny Vrandečić wrote: >... > Is the graph based on actual data? Yes, the precise sizes for the dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/MMDD/enwiki-MMDD-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 files are: 2012-07-02 9524994664 2012-08-02 9824345489 2012-09-02 9929910893 2012

[Wikimedia-l] article bytes more meaningful than users or revisions (was Re: Updates on VE data analysis)

MZMcBride wrote: >... the number of non-deleted revisions per day for the > English Wikipedia. The results are here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/565971356 So, that looks terrible: http://i.imgur.com/Z9lYCWj.png It looks terrible in the same way that every other graph of acti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates on VE data analysis

Steven Walling wrote: >... We know, for instance, that as the summer progresses, > editing activity drops and climbs again in the fall How do we know that? According to http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm database edits increased from June to July and fell from July to Septemb

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