[Wikimedia-l] Facebook updates "community standards" for a "diverse global community"

2016-03-19 Thread Toby Dollmann
Facebook has updated its "community standards" for its 1.4 billion users. Much of it is relevant for WM Commons. "It's a challenge to maintain one set of standards that meets the needs of a diverse global community," said Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of global policy management, and Chris

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia is basically just another giant bureaucracy

2016-04-29 Thread Toby Dollmann
The article cited is a tertiary source (like Wikipedia), and so is "as astonishingly bad" The underlying research studies [ref#1], [ref#2] claim "Researchers found that a relatively small number of editors have a major influence on the site." "As editors interact with one another and their

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personality rights for individual photos in Vietnam

2016-04-29 Thread Toby Dollmann
At Wikimedia Commons the country specific consent guidelines at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_consent_requirements (especially for Asian countries) are quite distorted by some over enthusiastic members of that project. (See the recent edit warring at that page) Now

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons Picture of the Year 2015 round 2 voting has started

2016-05-16 Thread Toby Dollmann
ven seen Creative Commons itself, on it's official Twitter > and Facebook accounts, posting CC images against the terms. > > James Alexander > User:Jamesofur [Personal capacity, Staff account: Jalexander-WMF] > > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollm...@gm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What New Thing is WMF Doing w. Cookies, & Why is Legal Involved?

2016-05-01 Thread Toby Dollmann
> It's certainly possible that this is only 'obvious' to me because of my > knowledge of outside organizations or law but it doesn't surprise me. Your reply is not obvious to me. I understand that your employment is exclusively with WMF and you do not appear to be particularly qualified (or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What should the board do *now*? [was Re: Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal]

2016-05-10 Thread Toby Dollmann
Hoi, > I think one of the key takeaways from this affair is that people should be > careful about talking the law. An apt observation In context of the 'absolute right of (individual) directors to inspect corporate books and records', did the community director actually ask to access the