On 01/30/2016 07:19 AM, Risker wrote:
> While we're at it...diversity remains a very serious problem for the
> Board. Does the community voting process want to try to take that on? How
> would we do such a thing?
I wildly speculate that it could be done through a voter pledge,
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On 08/21/2014 07:17 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> It's very different futures -- a WMF that
> exists purely to do what communities ask it to, or a WMF that exists -
> in part - to look forward, close gaps, and help anticipate where we
> want to be 3, 5, 10 years from now. Irrespective of what my own ta
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> I cannot cite anything, but there should be studies that show that even
> though most people are "bilingual" or reported as "bilingual" in their
> regional language and another major language, they are more c
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM, ??? wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 16:24, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:14 AM,
>> wrote:
>>> The proposal was floated by Jimmy Wales on the 10th of december, 1
>>> day after a Creative Commons Board meeting, on which
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:14 AM, wrote:
> bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
>> This is inserting a conspiracy theory where one does not exist.
>>
>> The English Wikipedia community voted on the blackout and directed it
>> into existence, not the Foundation. We merely facilitated.
>
> The p
greater exceptions?", "... with
no (c)?", ... "if answer to either is no, is the Colbert Report worth
the reduced freedom and security and increased inequality required to
enforce whatever (c) deemed necessary for it to exist?"
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Samuel Kle
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:31 AM, geni wrote:
> On 21 May 2012 13:09, David Gerard wrote:
>> So, is the time ripe yet for us to start pushing for a 14-year term,
>> or do we wait a bit? I suggest we start contemplating it, however.
>
> The most pirated bit of content at the moment appears to be ga
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:56, Tom Morris wrote:
> Disagree. The point of the NC and ND licenses isn't so much so they can be
> used on Wikipedia but really as a stepping stone into CC for nervous types.
I hope this is true, but the handful of anecdotes I know of where
someone moves in one direc
