Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-15 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, 2015-03-13 5:54 GMT+01:00 MZMcBride : > phoebe ayers wrote: (...) > > Education is apolitical. Education is certainly not apolitical. People with different political opinions support education, but free education like the one promoted by the WMF is certainly more a political issue than social

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patrolling photographs of living people

2015-03-15 Thread Austin Hair
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Strainu wrote: > 2015-03-13 11:56 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett : >> On 13 March 2015 at 09:06, Strainu wrote: >> >>> Fae, you are aware that this is NOT the list for en.wp, right? >> >> Perhaps you missed the part of Fae's email which read: > > I did not. The place for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-15 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi all, On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:54 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > phoebe ayers wrote: >>I trust our legal team to make decisions about what legal actions to >>participate in. > Whether the Wikimedia Foundation should be engaged in political advocacy, > and if so, who decides when and to what extent,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-15 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:53 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > What other unfortunate laws are > happening elsewhere in the world and how do we track and maybe act on > those? I gave a very specific example in an earlier post this month:[1] "A [Kazakh] law that took effect in January 2012 required ow

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-15 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:53 PM, phoebe ayers > wrote: > > >> What other unfortunate laws are >> happening elsewhere in the world and how do we track and maybe act on >> those? > > Here is a concrete suggestion: Reach out to the most rep

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-15 Thread MZMcBride
Keegan Peterzell wrote: >Single-user login[1] finalization will be taking place next month.[2] > >[...] > >All accounts that will be affected by this will be contacted on their talk >page within the next couple of days.[4] Hi. Do you think a month of warning to affected users is sufficient? Ideal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-15 Thread Keegan Peterzell
Hi there, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:33 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Keegan Peterzell wrote: > >Single-user login[1] finalization will be taking place next month.[2] > > > >[...] > > > >All accounts that will be affected by this will be contacted on their talk > >page within the next couple of days.[4