if anything, wikimedia stole their idea :P
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On 12/2/16, Pine W wrote:
> OK, thanks for the info. I'll be interested to read a summary of the
> campaign when WMF is in a position to create one, which I'm guessing might
> be in January
What kind of ED would you like to see?
* Someone who knows how the wiki works or atleast has basic knowledge
on how to "edit" wikis.
* Someone who wants to work on "building" the encyclopaedia, not the
bureaucratic side which our last ED was more focused on.
* Someone willing to work on
Well the keyword in "trustees" is the word "Trust" and as far as i can
see James was the ONLY one that was forthcoming with what happened
back in December, the others decided to keep their mouth shut and let
it slide which obviously, made it worse and out of control.The
community has over the
Lawrence Lessig is an excellent suggestion, probably would be my
Candidate A for the job if he wasn't 'besties' with Jimmy Wales..we
have already had issues with the staff and board working together in
secrecy without the community's knowledge, we should not have to go
through it again.. I agree
I was banned on this mailing list last month for pointing out Lila's
incompetency as a leader..I just hope the next ED we have is fully
vetted before they are selected and I'm really hoping that we get
someone with a "wikipedia" background for a change.. Why don't we hire
someone who know the
Since Jimmy is now also on the board for 'The Guardian', maybe its
about time he stepped down from the WMF board? And regarding James, it
honestly no longer matters why he was 'fired', its obvious the board
is filling up its stocks in google employees (lol) and it won't likely
change even after
Indeed, Steinsplitter, they are 'buying time' hoping they can sweep
everything under the rug within a week, unfortunately for them, a few
news sites have picked up on the drama including BBCArrnon may
have step down, but the issue is still there, what's to stop WMF from
hiring another person
The major problem is and has been for a while is that we have people
in the hierarchy who do not understand how the wiki works, most have
never made an edit out of their 'hidden' wikis or userpages on wmfwiki
or meta..
How can one trust a product in the hands of someone who does not use
it? ..We
Jimmy has always been biased so I personally won't trust his words but
the way this is playing out, its like James somehow revealed the pass
codes to the WMF Nuclear launch codes or something...did he?
A board made up to govern a community driven project filled with
people no one voted in decides
We should probably start with our high and mighty leader, Jimbo, just
like everyone else, He should now be 'elected' into the BoT, no more
free seats..Wikimedia has now grown to an extent where we may no
longer need him to run the foundation or to hold a deciding vote on
issues where he has his
Ofcourse you wouldn't see it, but still, as this issue kept dragging
on, things came to light and most of us here do not agree at all with
the outcome...James was elected by the community, he was not another
random person the community did not trust or hear of before being
added to the board which
"My fellow trustees need no reason beyond lack of trust in me to
justify my removal. No reason beyond that is needed per our board by
laws."
Trust does go both ways, so its either 'The Hateful Eight' who are at
the wrong here or just 'James'...This firing comes around the time
when our Project
I'm quite aware of what James was trying to achieve
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Doc_James/Foundation) and I'm
fully in support of his ideas so if whatever he did was related to one
of those he mentions on the link, then its quite understandable why
right now I'm on his side and not on the
Well the longer this drags on, the more likelihood of us getting a
"false" answer ..it takes seconds to speak the truth, but days to
connive a lie..so i doubt we will get the 'truth' or atleast the full
truth..
On 12/30/15, Craig Franklin wrote:
> Thanks Brad for
Wikimedia is still a democracy, even if the people running it aren't
..as someone pointed out above, he was selected by over 1800
"contributors" and i have personally seen him make 'minor' mistakes,
none justifying why he was removed.. This is quite unbecoming of an
organisation that prides itself
contrary to the name, it doesn't actually have 'internet access'
..they can read, but not contribute..
On 9/8/15, Jane Darnell wrote:
> Good idea. I watched a report on TV where they said some refugees have been
> waiting for years for processing. It would be nice for them to
China and Iran blocks https (and WMF thinks https is more secure than
http when it can be EASILY blocked lol) so people in these countries
used wikipedia on http, so some here think that these countries are
spying on them by forcing them to use http, but that https block in
this countries was NOT
Congrats, you just made internet shitty for all 3rd world countries
and did you people even bother to find out how it will affect users in
China or Iran where HTTPS is BANNED?.
On 6/13/15, Tito Dutta trulyt...@gmail.com wrote:
Great job. :)
Thanks for informing
[PS. to members, you may read
for an organization taking on the NSA for spying..why are we using
https? doesn't that show that we are already scared of them and
running with our tail between our legs?
On 3/10/15, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote:
this sounds exactly as a thing we, as a movement, need institutional
yes but mediawiki is a software, not an add-on or as the kids say
these days, an App which is what Media Viewer is. Enforcing
something with more than a 100 bugs (and counting) is indeed not a
very super idea..Fix the bugs or atleast half of them and maybe then
try enforcing them (as WMF ignores
Erik, I wonder, did you have discussion with other staff and moreso,
the technical staff before you went ahead and implemented this and
also something most of us are wondering, just because dewiki did not
accept your enforcement of MediaViewer, did you abuse your authority
and force the technical
I know most on this list use their real names. not everyone, most
of us believe MZMcBride is not even a dude!! :O ...
oh and welcome banned user \\//
meh, you are not a wikipedian unless you have been banned or blocked
atleast once..
On 6/5/14, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Trillium
A few years back i came with an idea, I know wikimedia is not fond of
advertisements but what if we advertise wikipedia? There is a nice
big EMPTY space on the bottom left side of wikipedia.
Make a script/feature/extension which detects the person browsing the
wiki's IP and shows them a link to
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