Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Keating
Other forms of money we do not currently accept include gold coins, Yap money, Tesco Clubcard Points, cowrie shells and cattle. We could accept any of them in theory. Though if anyone wants to donate a herd of cattle to Wikimedia UK please could they contact the office in advance. Chris On 12

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-12 Thread Peter Gervai
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 12/12/13 02:54, Nathan wrote: Bitcoin isn't native currency for anyone, and anyone who wishes to make a Bitcoin donation could certainly do so using a more standard currency. I would think that if anonymity is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-12 Thread Tomasz W. Kozlowski
Fæ wrote: I hope this is a coincidence. How naive of you, Fæ: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=6705202#Personal_and_Moral_Rights.3F Tomasz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-12 Thread Jeevan Jose
I would like to know where subjects can post their complaint besides on the talk page, since putting complaints there is still a form of publication and only serves to propagate the sensitive information that subjects want removed. - Jane Darnell Yes; we are working on it. See

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-12 Thread Jane Darnell
Thanks Jee, I will try to keep my comments there 2013/12/12, Jeevan Jose jkadav...@gmail.com: I would like to know where subjects can post their complaint besides on the talk page, since putting complaints there is still a form of publication and only serves to propagate the sensitive

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-12 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: (just for the record: I'm not particularly against this amendment, I actually never assumed that files would be treated differently from texts anyway in this kind of stuff. Just plain curiosity.) Neither did the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-12 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this, but even with the amendments it sounds pretty weak. The closing text just shows how helpless we are in helping subjects when their article is under the watchful eye of some Wikipedia editor who feels that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-12 Thread Mark
On 12/12/13, 8:40 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: BLPs remain one of our big challenges, and will continue to be so as long as Wikipedia is popular. With a nod to Andy's comment, as a community I think we may want to review our progress in the last few years on the BLP issue, and have a broad community

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 December 2013 12:25, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote: Undue or unsourced negative information about living people is one aspect of that, and what most of the formal BLP-related policy, and the process around things like OTRS, is intended to address. The flipside is undue or unsourced

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-12 Thread Steven Walling
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote: * Our peers like EFF, and Internet archive accept it To be totally honest, I think this is moot. Support for bitcoin among these two organizations has hardly been a ringing endorsement. In the past, EFF has rejected it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-12 Thread Mark
On 12/12/13, 11:16 PM, David Gerard wrote: On 12 December 2013 12:25, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote: Between tendentious negative information and self-promoting positive information, I worry that the overall quality level of our biographies of living people ends up poor in a great many

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 12 December 2013 19:40, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: With a nod to Andy's comment, as a community I think we may want to review our progress in the last few years on the BLP issue, and have a broad community consultation about where we are still falling short and ideas for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-12 Thread John Vandenberg
On Dec 13, 2013 5:55 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote: * Our peers like EFF, and Internet archive accept it To be totally honest, I think this is moot. Support for bitcoin among these two

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Update on community advocacy liaison work

2013-12-12 Thread Erik Moeller
FYI :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:40 PM Subject: Update on community advocacy liaison work To: All Wikimedia Foundation staff contractors Hi all, As many of you know, we recently brought on board a team of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-12 Thread Peter Gervai
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: naturally appreciates in value, like playing the stock market or buying gold. Avoiding lots of risky investments is something our very competent I do not plan to get into a perpetual debate just wanted to point