[Wikimedia-l] Re: Joint Statement on Palestine

he area? > I also urge the WMF to take proactive measures to ensure the safety of > volunteers, The WMF is not an oil company. It does not have merceneries on call and nor should it. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@li

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

wikipedia will accept is fairly straightforward. Handbrake has a GUI and pops up in creator workflows as a convient way to compress B-roll. Uploading presents more of a challange than most areas but that would be because we care more about copyright than most so p

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

really something you can do on wikipedia. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

oint they will make a lot of money off it. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Arabic Wikipedia day of action

to combat > injustice. Wikipedia communities have previously stood up for human rights > such as by protesting legal travesties like SOPA and PIPA or by showing > solidarity with Ukrainians following Russia's invasion of their country. And did A

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Osama and Ziyad

it wanted to) and the foundation not at all. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

s that want or need to keep tweeting and its nor clear that either apply to the WMF. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:57, Ramzy Muliawan wrote: > I fail to see how *not* widely publishing the Human Rights Policy can help > better protect the human rights of Wikimedians, Because it avoids making the project an explicty activist one in that area. >particularly when we are now looking at

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

to the "fact" that no Wikipedian has been arrested before the >inception of the policy? The Pierre-sur-Haute thing? Not sure the foundation managed much there either. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.w

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

m is deciding the difference between a "pet-project" and things that are needed but the editing community hasn't noticed. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 06:13, Gnangarra wrote: > We found work arounds mostly by paying for 3rd commercial software to do the > conversion to webm then hoping uploadwizard would work. HandBrake can transcode dirrect to WebM these days. --

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

useless. It doesn’t help at all but marginally increases the risk of being involved with Wikipedia as what can be seen as a harmless hobby writing about trains turns into being involved with a human rights campaigning organisation. -- geni ___ Wikimed

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Auction at Christie's

w is largely irrelivant to foundation issues I suggest there is little point in continuing things on this mailing list. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik

[Wikimedia-l] Re: An Uzbek praktical joke and Wikimedia Enterprise

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 16:38, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga wrote: > Upload MP4 files Try Handbrake. > Have a modern look That would be the mobile site. > Create visually interesting cartography I think open street map got there first. > Hear the articles Not sure that duplicating the work of a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: 100$ million dollars and still obsolete

ing a mouse and keyboard is going to look very different yes. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Pub

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Conflict of Interest - Transition from Trustee to Staff

there is a new budget format coming up and they've got as far as CEO candidates -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing more details about the Equity Fund

our funding levels (also english language lessions would have more impact). 5 runs into the issue that the community has not historicaly proven accepting of attempts to lower RS and notability standards for non western areas. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mai

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bylaws amendments and upcoming call for feedback

ría > > +450 staff organization. Is perhaps this the point where we consider if the organisation has outgrown its volenteer base to the extent that its a problem. The english wikipedia only has 497 active admins. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons

cess but again rather mixed. Ultimately you tend to run into the problem that wikipedia editing tends to be a solo activity and most people don't want to deal with formal links to organisations. Geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons

y want want with an image without giving credit which pretty much limits you to PD or MIT -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons

On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 04:05, Benjamin Ikuta wrote: > Has there been, or should there be, any research into this, or why people > don't contribute more broadly? Perhaps although similar research with regards to wikipedia has never produced particularly useful results.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ¿Qué te está haciendo feliz esta semana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 1 March 2020)

3D scans of things like the apollo 11 command module. Which yes we now have a copy of: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_command_module_smithsonian_high_detail.stl -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

>questionable financial decisions, Again a function of size. It would frankly be concerning if every editor agreed with every financial decisions. There is also the long standing problem of balancing the risk of wasting money with the risk of paralysis. -- geni ___

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

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 21:34, Aron Manning wrote: . > The draft already refers to 2 articles (1 > ,2 > ) > that explain the need for ND. I'll a

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

ects and that mediawiki is so central to what we are do that most people are pretty comfortable with it. So this falls well within the WMF’s nominal goals and is a fairly understandable approach. I still think we would be better off spending the mon

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

ther important. On top of that you have more experienced editors using as GA lite who struggle to understand why other editors have such a hard time meeting what are to them such miminal standards. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

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

And you are suggesting that the WMF are taking admin status into account something I can't seem them agreeing with. On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 11:37, David Gerard wrote: > > and you're *seriously* positing that the WMF would ban an admin for > doing only what you des

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

on that at least gives them something to work from. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

reated a financial incentive to include spelling errors. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 07:23, James Salsman wrote: > > Geni, it's the "Day of the Dead" now so I want to attempt to resurrect > this thread. > > Is FoldingCoin still vulnerable to a 51% attack? What is a 51% attack? You've had 6 months to do this basic researc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Vad gör dig lycklig den här veckan? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 26 August 2018)

2018) The fair is still a great source of photos for wikipedia articles. --- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messag

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

/phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimediafoundation.org/ ) but its another barrier to entry, another bit of software I need to keep track of. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

gt; informed response. Thank you everyone for your patience. > > -greg > How much longer do you anticipate this taking? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] International Commons Contest WLL Recruiting International Team

unity outreach > Finance team > Tech team: to design banners and templates > > Find out more on: https://t.co/D1yeNclTRm > Don't forget to spread the word! > > Cheers! > Rupika Sharma To be blunt. Who are you? I can't find any links to us

Re: [Wikimedia-l] GDPR and Wikimedia content?

is probably the only viable option. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] GDPR and Wikimedia content?

ock the EU even if they are not aware of any issues. 4% of turnover and no caselaw? I'm not seeing a rush at OTRS yet but that is probably going to be ground zero on working out what to do with this stuff. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guideli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nini kinakufanya uwe na furaha wiki hii? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 13 May 2018)

tter data and hopefully get a new study on what is an isn't in the local group (most of the sources I'm finding for that are from around 2000 and things have moved on). -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does anyone know what wikimedia france are up to with the Request Network ?

On 27 April 2018 at 16:42, Romaine Wiki wrote: > It can be interesting to use blockchain technology in our movement for > transparency purposes. > > Romaine Not really. At best you end up with a less efficient version of a downloadable database. People claiming that "blockchain technology" is us

[Wikimedia-l] Does anyone know what wikimedia france are up to with the Request Network ?

media france: https://twitter.com/wikimedia_fr?lang=en Is some form of clarification possible? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance?

from suing small businesses. If a small company decides to fight and its a fairly straightforward case you are looking at costs of over $100K. More complicated case against a big company? Millions. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] Knowledge Integrity: A proposed Wikimedia Foundation cross-departmental program for 2018-2019

m's Electric Dustcarts and 7000 years of jewelry. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

xploit this" you are doing it wrong. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

e foundation wants actual money (US$ mostly). Why convert bitcoin into anything other than cash (which is what it does at the moment)? geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

sn't. The problem is it is based off the old folding@home which works on the basis that most people aren't trying to scam the system. If FoldingCoin ever became popular that would no longer be the case at which point it becomes proof of results given to results to Folding@home with

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

f the thing. Meanwhile Norwich continues to be Norwich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_urination_devices_in_Norwich -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Publicpolicy] Update on FISA 702 reauthorization

hardware is pretty low. For someone using something more mainstream the risk is rather higher. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Publicpolicy] Update on FISA 702 reauthorization

no longer have to factor in the risk of burning a valuable exploit. So not much changed since 2013. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 14 January 2018)

On 14 January 2018 at 19:05, Pine W wrote: > What's making you happy this week? We appear to have buried the hatchet with Jason Scott https://livestream.com/internetsociety/wikidaynyc/videos/168540333 -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mail

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

ce=1 It overlaps longer equations (see around the Efficient methods section): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80?banner=dsk_p1_lg_right10&country=US&force=1 I suspect it also breaks with lilypond but I don't have an example to hand -- geni

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

nough work been done to qualify for copyright or is it old enough for life+70 to have expired? I don't know. Do you? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright enforcement?

On 5 June 2017 at 18:32, The Cunctator wrote: > Both Google and Graphiq are using pretty much the entire Wikipedia corpus > for their results. However due to the way their output is structured it falls under "you can't copyright fa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Naive questions: what could do the movement with 1B dollars/euros?

r than orbits you can visit a bunch of asteroids. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [PRESS] Turkish authorities block Wikipedia

uliet > FWIW the two articles the Turkish state is apparently complaining about are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Turkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Turkey -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia, right, but on the blockchain

either: > https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/856060215577464833 > > > - d. > Hmm they are taking their user interface from here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/16219877/Wikipedia-Redesign-Concept Which was the one that happened to be the target of the crit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 2 April 2017)

ia.org/wiki/File:A_pair_of_inflated_caterpillars.JPG -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubsc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser) -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia

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

erious > and negative impact on our efforts. Do does the WMF actually have any staff from the countries affected? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages

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

s rather left leaning. Cementing that impression gains us a bunch of enemies and nothing else. A strike by the WMF isn't going to impact them very much. You want a effective general strike? Go talk to the power station workers and the Electrical grid peopl

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

On 29 January 2017 at 15:01, James Salsman wrote: > Should the Foundation take a position on a general strike? > No. This is very much a case where the foundation sits and waits. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Keeping historical documents related to Wikimedia

content is under a free license. Even if Wikipedia isn't around the software and content will be. Degrees of survival out to 10 years are fairly easy to guarantee without special planning. Beyond that things always get a bit speculative and long now

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Music industry threats to safe harbor?

to $200 per image but it would still add up. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/

[Wikimedia-l] Are inline donor banners something we view as acceptable?

m). On a related note the FAQ appears to be out of date: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en Unless we are still in the 2015-2016 fiscal year. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/

[Wikimedia-l] We appear have been partially blocked in France (probably accidentally)

-a-google-pour-les-clients-d-orange_5014900_4408996.html -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

ctic.html > Roadmap: http://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Roadmap > > > - d. So the neoreactionaries have their wiki just like the more traditional far right have Metapedia. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New functionality: cross-wiki search results

On 7 September 2016 at 18:51, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > It is a pity because Wikidata has so much more to offer in missing > information in any language. Fixed the citation issue yet? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guid

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why are articles being deleted?

On 25 June 2016 at 13:14, Vi to wrote: > As a deletion I'd say we totally lost at en.wiki, we can maybe tie on other > wikis. > As so many projects have learned so painfully in the last decade the English Wikipedia knows what they are doin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

'transition period' (and in fact longer than the employment of > the person who replaced her)? Its now been a full working day. Can we have a clarification on this point? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disrupting journal publishing

-approximately-3300-journals/ Now if we can just find a way to get stuff accurately listed by language it will be a lot more usable. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines N

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

ter, transform, or build upon this work, you >may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a >compatible license. > They would argue that they are using the facts not the presentation of those facts and facts are not subjec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disrupting journal publishing

W if we really want something to throw money at funding DOAJ to employ someone to exclude more junk from their database would be useful). We get 173 with and 199 without. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disrupting journal publishing

ed the Journal of Lithic Studies) geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disrupting journal publishing

vessels used in local ferry services) [1]https://doaj.org/ [2]https://doaj.org/article/ebed893bfc3748d58695b2851c8270e9 -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation ED search steering group created

x27;t. Its an incredibly bad idea to the point where people of significance aren't even going to bother engaging with it. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero mass effect on Wikimedia projects

leted and remain to this day. By the same token films under a free license such as Tears of Steel are also not going to be removed from commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tears_of_Steel_in_4k_-_Official_Blender_Foundation_release.webm -- geni ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

lf of the very happy Wikipedia.org Portal Team, > > Deb The image thumbnail thing fails to filter our fair use images along with the usual lack of author and licensing information. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] “Reliable”, “Notable”, and “Encyclopaedic” Sources for Automated Solvers for FreeCell

se you would be looking at peer reviewed journals, retro game magazines or perhaps someone publishing a book through a reputable publisher on microsoft's games. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Executive transition planning

impressions. In more recent times the only practical level of control the board has exercised is appointing the ED. If they are given that up the wider community no longer has any formal mechanisms of control left. While that may not be the intent of the WMF employees it is wh

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

er I would like to ask Susanna about. So why haven't you? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://l

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

On 2 March 2016 at 19:58, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Western countries don't really have a tradition of state-published > encyclopedias, Wales is not a western country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia_of_Wales > If we had the US Secretary of Defense > writing Wikipedia articles about t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Post mortems (second attempt)

ation's senior > leadership to prioritize creating a thoughtful and official post-mortem > document and discussion. > So they want there to be even more incentives for the foundation never to admit failure? -- geni ___ Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] US Copyright Law Forces Wikimedia to remove Public Domain Anne Frank Diary

year copyright term. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?

but if they are still going for the searching for reliable information line DOAJ would be an obvious place to deploy it (well mostly. This got into their database some how https://doaj.org/article/ebed893bfc3748d58695b2851c8270e9 ). -- geni __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message from Arnnon Geshuri to the Wikimedia Community

from the heart doesn't speak in highly polished legally cleared PR statements. They speak like RMS or Jason Scott which is one of the things that make them annoying. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Update

ndowment reaches critical mass. > > Heh I remember those guys. Their fees were one of the costs that caused Citizendium so much trouble (not that Citizendium didn't have a bunch of other issues). Ah 2007. Fun times. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google

On 9 January 2016 at 08:22, Lodewijk wrote: > I suspect they need a few days, based on past experiences. To dig into the > matter, and prepare an answer relevant parties can agree on. > > Lodewijk > > They've had a few days. Any further s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Introducing Jaime Villagomez as our Chief Financial Officer

including the Salvation Army, Diversity or the Salvation Army. Pick one. Seems a reasonable choice but we shall see. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

t seriously trying that argument are you? in any case it doesn't really help since people skills are a job requirement for WMF ED. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google

gotten about. > > They've had over 24 hours. How long do you think they need? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

removed James. The community can't actually do much about this other than perhaps recommending board level representation for WMF employees with the counter that we revive that old proposal of them not voting in the elections for the community representatives. -- geni ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

ith the 2015 Elections Committee. > > So can I see these conferings? -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unreliable sources? Pay-to-publish science journals and too-trusting popular news outlets

e > Eh running a search of Beall’s List: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ against the wikipedia database is probably something that should be done but beyond that the problems aren't really limited to any specific type of journal. -- geni __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

ites you are suffering from the classic problem of failing to consider all use cases. For example books, calendars or indeed any form of data transmission that isn't the web. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

rg and the > Wikidata disclaimer. > > It's a one-minute job. > > You've broken say a CC-BY-SA license in at least two ways there. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

much of their time worrying about copyright law. > > So, who in society benefits, other than (arguably) the big commercial > search engines? > The big search engine companies could make their in house version with little effort. An open version means that they have

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ta. > Both are semied on en. I think this mostly shows your ignorance of protection patterns. The first things you think of will pretty much always be protected since they are the ones that attract a lot of vandalism. You either use special:random or something closer to your personal int

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On 13 December 2015 at 15:57, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Jane, > > The issue is that you can't cite one Wikipedia article as a source in > another. > However you can within the same article per [[WP:LEAD]]. -- geni ___ Wiki

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't need the extra workload. -- geni ___ 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, &l

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ctors (wikipedia forever, this) but in principle it is a valid approach. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wiki

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age that we can freely license. To clarify these are different designers? Messing with Getty is not something you want to be doing. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guideli

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e36%2FNumber2%2Fazu_radiocarbon_v36_n2_247_250_v.pdf ) and then adding enough information for the correct calibration curve to be selected (Northern hemisphere land based which at the moment probably means INTCAL13) -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing l

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