Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Ratification of Universal Code of Conduct

2021-02-02 Thread Phil Nash via Wikimedia-l
Maybe I've missed something, but there is still an open consultation process on Commons, and one of the points raised there is that of a Wikimedian who operates a website (although a blog would be equally applicable) seriously libelling another Wikimedian. As it stands this UCoC is silent on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation commitment of support for LGBT+ volunteers

2020-12-08 Thread Phil Nash via Wikimedia-l
n Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 19:07, Phil Nash via Wikimedia-l wrote: Great news. Vulnerable contributors to Wikimedia projects should be owed a duty of care, not least because they make good, well-informed contributions, but also that those projects should not become the preserve of a socially and pol

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation commitment of support for LGBT+ volunteers

2020-12-08 Thread Phil Nash via Wikimedia-l
Great news. Vulnerable contributors to Wikimedia projects should be owed a duty of care, not least because they make good, well-informed contributions, but also that those projects should not become the preserve of a socially and politically advantaged elite. However, what he have here is only

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons

2020-05-18 Thread Phil Nash via Wikimedia-l
The search has to be done before the category structure is addressed, even if that needs to be done. How else would you compartmentalise, what 32 million images? And structured data has to be fixed before either. The reason is that structured data does not have unique names, and I don't think

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why renaming to Wikipedia will wreak havoc on otherprojects

2020-02-25 Thread Phil Nash via Wikimedia-l
I haven't seen any evidence of this on Commons. We do delete selfies of non-Wikimedians because we are not Facebook. Apart from that, I'd like to see some evidence for this. Thanks User:Rodhullandemu --- New Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail replacement - get it here: