I do urge you to start such a discussion, bawolff. It would seem to me
that a one- or two-week RFC should be sufficient to opt out contributions
to MediaWiki. I'd be happy to support, even though it's more likely that
I'll star in the next James Bond film than ever write a line of code.
I agree. The new policy would just introduce pointless bureaucracy.
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In terms of applying the rule to things like articles written by someone for
pay on behalf of someone else, that policy makes sense.
As for code, I agree, that policy is counterproductive.
To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:42:05 +0200
From: matma@gmail.com
cc-ing Luis as I think this consequence, whether intended or not, would
interest him
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
So from what I understand, there's now been an amendment to WMF's
terms of use to require disclosure of paid contributions [1]. Its
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
So from what I understand, there's now been an amendment to WMF's
terms of use to require disclosure of paid contributions [1]. Its a
little unclear how this applies to MediaWiki as a project, but a
literal reading of the
The terms of use is basically a clickwrap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap agreement, right? When you make
a
contribution, you see by clicking you accept blah blah blah somewhere,
once you click knowing that, you made a sort of contract from a legal point
of view. So the terms of use
On 16 June 2014 17:03, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The terms of use is basically a clickwrap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap agreement, right? When you
make
a
contribution, you see by clicking you accept blah blah blah somewhere,
once you click knowing that,
On 6/16/14, Gergo Tisza gti...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
So from what I understand, there's now been an amendment to WMF's
terms of use to require disclosure of paid contributions [1]. Its a
little unclear how this applies to
Hey, all-
Our opinion is that the terms of use applies to wikis, and not to non-wiki
activities like code contributions. That said, we can understand why this
would be confusing, so an opt-out that explicitly lists mediawki code
contributions (or even mediawiki as a whole) would be just fine with
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
That gerrit.wikimedia.org doesn't seem to have any of the standard
footnote
links (including the privacy policy, which is perhaps a more significant
oversight)...is that because of the interface? One would think a custom
On Jun 17, 2014 3:25 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
So from what I understand, there's now been an amendment to WMF's
terms of use to require disclosure of paid contributions [1]. Its a
little unclear how this applies to MediaWiki as a project, but a
literal reading of the
Thank you, Luis. I have drafted a request for comment on mediawiki.org
[1], but it can probably use some review to ensure I have included the
correct list of related projects.
Risker/Anne
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Alternate_disclosure_policy
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