Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recent statement on the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:55 AM, David Cuenca Tudela wrote: > Hi Eileen, > > Thanks for the follow up and for the nice letter that you wrote to the > Turkish Minister. There is something I do not understand about Turkey's > block and maybe you (or somebody else) could offer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recent statement on the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

I think they can see the subdomain too (i.e. en.wikipedia.org or tr.wikipedia.org) but yeah. On Thu, 24 May 2018, 09:13 James Hare, wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:55 AM, David Cuenca Tudela > wrote: > > > Hi Eileen, > > > > Thanks for the follow up

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recent statement on the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

Hi Eileen, Thanks for the follow up and for the nice letter that you wrote to the Turkish Minister. There is something I do not understand about Turkey's block and maybe you (or somebody else) could offer some insights about it. Apparently the ban was issued because it was felt that Turkey was

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recent statement on the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

Thanks for the explanation, James! On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:06 AM, James Hare wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:55 AM, David Cuenca Tudela > wrote: > > > Hi Eileen, > > > > Thanks for the follow up and for the nice letter that you wrote to the > >

[Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

I find this rather disturbing that Airtasker accepts adds for people wanting to have articles written, on wikipedia. The person writing the add is asking someone to violate WMF terms & Conditions as you can some of the respondents are indicating that they do this regularly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

In what way are they proposing to violate WMF terms and conditions? Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gnangarra Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 12:29 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 3:28 AM, Gnangarra wrote: > Would it be prudent for the WMF legal to contact Airtasker > You might want to ask legal directly at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal#Wikimedia_Foundation_Email_Contacts -- Daniel Zahn

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

Shouldn't articles be judged independently of who exactly wrote them and for what reason? If an article reads well, has good content, is sourced, neutral etc, what's the issue exactly? On 24 May 2018 at 12:28, Gnangarra wrote: > I find this rather disturbing that Airtasker

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

We have Terms of Use that require disclosure when people are involved in paid editing. Often paid editing occurs on obscure topics and we are unable to closely vet the volume of paid editing that is occurring, this means a lots of promotional content can and does slip through and make us look bad.

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 14, Issue 6 – 24 May 2018

>From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/From_the_editor Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Op-ed Opinion: Integrating my many

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to the Wikimedia Foundation May 2018 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, May 31, 18:00 UTC

Hello everyone, The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net, and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream.[1] We’ll post the