On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:00, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 18:01, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Tomorrow will be anti-ACTA protest in Belgrade and Wikimedia Serbia
[1], along with the guests of GLAM conference [2] from France, India,
Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic and Macedonia will be there.
You will find here some
Watch the first 2:40 of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3vVVOa-Euw :)
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Tomorrow will be anti-ACTA protest in Belgrade and Wikimedia Serbia
[1], along with the guests of GLAM conference [2] from France, India,
Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic and Macedonia
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 18:56, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
PS I have no idea about the Serbian situation, and I am glad they do not
need to discuss it anymore.
Not sure that we won't do that anyway. Just as a warning.
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 17:52, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
No I will not apologize for act according with my culture.
If Mister de Vreede has a problem with people from different cultures he
shouldn't be part of a international movement.
(And besides if someone would complain about
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 14:54, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
I take it you are aware that each chapter developped over time its own set
of partners (similar-minded organizations that have overlapping goals with
the chapters). These organizations have developped a specific
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 15:58, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
It would be great if we can have this discussion without making sarcastic
remarks like this - I know it is a sensitive topic, but I also know that
we're in a suboptimal situation here right now. In the past discussions
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 17:48, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
Well, I am not sure if I remember well the arguments exactly (those who do,
please help)
* we supported chapter creation covering a geographical area rather than not
mostly because a legal entity ought to be linked to
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:26, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/2/12, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
We're getting very off topic, but you are right that there is a problem
with dormant chapters. I know nothing about the Russian chapter, but I do
know how difficult it
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 04:28, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for letting us all know about this, Beria.
So...a few questions.
Why is the discussion happening on chapterswiki, instead of in an open
place where all Wikimedians can at least read the discussion?
Will the names of the
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 19:17, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
The situation was absolutely crazy. Some candidates had access to chapters
wiki and could have feedback from the answers of other candidates while
others like the one I nominated didn't. One candidate, Phoebe, published
her
Wikimedia Serbia also supports English Wikipedians [1] (English
grammar fixes are welcome :) ):
Wikimedia Serbia wants to express solidarity with English Wikipedians
in protest against the proposed laws -- SOPA and PIPA --, which
undermine the freedom of information on Internet.
Unlike the laws
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 02:42, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:
I might just be a crypto-American chauvinist (and really, that sort of
inflammatory message is completely unnecessary on this list), so I
apologise for any ignorance on the situation, but would Wikimedia
Serbia really be the
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:23, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 January 2012 09:09, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Structural help is not Wikimedia's task [yet]. There are a lot of
other institutions which could give them money for daily operations or
artifacts preservation
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 00:36, Kevin Gorman kgor...@gmail.com wrote:
Although the problem has not been solved, it appears that it has at least
been staved off:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9S3I7DO1.htm
Obviously, cultural institutions are in bad situation and not just in
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 23:26, Robin Pepermans robinp.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
As of yesterday, when you go to a missing wiki (the redlinks on
Special:SiteMatrix) you will no longer see a static this wiki does
not exist error, but it will redirect to the Wikimedia Incubator,
where
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 19:23, Mateus Nobre mateus.no...@live.co.uk wrote:
What did WMF do when WikiLeaks domains were seized and its fundraising
payment processors (PayPal, Visa, MasterCard) were cut off? Did WMF protest
against Internet censorship? No.
Wikimedia defends itself, not the
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 21:38, Mateus Nobre mateus.no...@live.co.uk wrote:
It's complex, Milos.
We are not activists. Being a volunteer in Wikimedia do not torn ourselves
activists.
It could be, but the option to be a volunteer in Wikipedia is just a option
to share the free knowledge,
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 23:35, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Workers-of-the-World/224417737626665?sk=wall
Our union
I was thinking about party, but union is better :)
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I came from pub and before going to bed, I checked emails and news.
And I saw that the conflict with police is escalating. As many
Wikimedians participate in OWS and other Occupy protests in US, it
would be good that you report here what's going on with you.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 19:36, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
If I understand correctly, the English Wikipedia is the main test
deployment for this as an experimental feature. While the feature
remains
Mostly useless and mostly harmless thing becomes harmful at the moment
when people start to spend a lot of time on discussing it.
A note for future improvements: Yes, WMF should do bold actions, but
it shouldn't waste community's confidence on mostly useless
improvements.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:43, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest
IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia?
If so, goodbye wiki, as well. At least in US.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/26/0451240/new-version-of-protect-ip-bill-may-target-legal-sites
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 04:19, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Somehow David Gerard, Milos Rancic, Kim and Tobias Oelgarte made it to
96, 95, 89 and 83 posts last month. Last month Thomas Dalton,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen and I posted 39, 37 and 35 times respectively,
and everyone else
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 18:19, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
If we provide a filter, we have to be pragmatic, and restrict its application
to media that significant demographics really might want to filter.
That should be designed well and maintained, too. I am really
frustrated by
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:49, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Even this corrected version does not seem to be right. As I understand the
proposed law,
the subject would have the right for a statement to be shown, unaltered, on
the page (which
actually would be possible for Wikipedia
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 16:03, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
When writers guild went on strike, we could still watch old stuff, right, it
wasn't pulled ;-)
If doctors go on strike, people are still allowed to live, retroactive
disease correction is not done...
When truck drivers
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 06:27, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote:
http://www.linkiesta.it/wikipedia-law
It'd be nice to have Italian Wikipedia back up as people are waking up
in Italy.
Wikipedia needs to strike just one day to get requests fulfilled.
That's good to know!
Congratulations
I think that Wikimedians should give response on that:
* Writing emails and letters to Italian embassies in your country. (I
will email them immediately.)
* Demonstrate -- 5 people are enough -- in front of embassy in your country.
* If you are in EU country, ask your EU parliament members to talk
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 16:03, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that Wikimedians should give response on that:
* Writing emails and letters to Italian embassies in your country. (I
will email them immediately.)
* Demonstrate -- 5 people are enough -- in front of embassy in your
Wikimedia Serbia supports Italian Wikipedians in denouncing the
proposed law in the Italian Senate known as the Wiretapping Act and
its paragraph 29, which undermines the free speech standards of our
civilization.
Wikimedia Serbia fully supports the protest of Italian Wikipedians and
hopes that
One in English:
http://www.businessinsider.com/italy-wikipedia-wiretapping-2011-10
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 21:57, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
For those not
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 21:58, Aaron Adrignola aaron.adrign...@gmail.com wrote:
Whoever has locked out access to it.wikipedia.org should be immediately
desysopped under emergency procedures. This site is run by the Wikimedia
Foundation and I've seen no authorization by the WMF for the vandalism
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:15, Neil Babbage n...@thebabbages.com wrote:
Yes they are able to strike, but that still doesn't give them the right
(legal or moral) to shut down property that doesn't belong to them. In
any case, if the servers are located in the US then US law applies to
their
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:32, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
(As an aside, kudos to Milos' rapid response and ability to organize his own
local community in support of the concerns of our Italian counterparts.)
Thanks! It should be noted that this the decision has been supported
by 100% of
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:58, Mathias Schindler
mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 22:55, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
Another important point here is that Wikipedia is an international project;
No, this is not another important point, this is exactly my point.
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 17:18, church.of.emacs.ml
church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 09/21/2011 03:47 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
* Create en.safe.wikipedia.org […]
Then governments/ISPs/institutions could block unsafe-Wikipedia via DNS
blocks. This is, compared to DPI, quite easy.
Using
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 15:54, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
(As example: the only 2 girls who commented here - phoebe and me - are in
opposite sides. ...)
-*B?ria Lima*
Technically, you, Sarah Stierch, Phoebe, and Sue have all commented --
at least 4 women, not just 2.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:23, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
One more, but forgot her name and too lazy to search. German females
in discussion on German Wikipedia should be also checked.
Up to now, all females from US (four of them) are in favor of filter
(though, Sarah just
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was talking about
in her blog. It is aggressive, it is alienating, and it is intimidating to
others who may have useful and progressive ideas but are repeatedly seeing
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:29, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
I think there is much that can be discussed on the range of topic areas
covered in this thread. But we must keep in mind that the views expressed
here are those of the individuals, and there is absolutely insufficient
information
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:46, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you have any reason to believe that a statistically significant number
and percentage of female editors of the German Wikipedia are active
participants in this mailing list?
No, but there are German Wikipedians who could
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 19:59, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I just want to point out quickly that I am not American, and my
position on all these issues is actually a very Canadian one. Ray and
Risker and other Canadians will recognize this.
Canada doesn't really feel itself to
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 21:01, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.berlios.de/
Is there anything we could do to help? Is this too far outside our area?
I recall how useful and helpful BerliOS was back in the olden days
when it was Wikipedia's downtime backup and news source ...
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 21:12, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 30 September 2011 20:04, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
On this score, it seems likely that we are failing to live up to one of
our core principles, that of neutrality. I think we need significantly
better
According to [1]:
* 15 January: English
* 16 March: Catalan, German
* 23 March: French
* 3 May: Swedish
* 11 May: Chinese, Esperanto,Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese,
Spanish, Russian
* 19 June: Dutch
* 26 September: Polish
* 16 November: Afrikaans
* 26 November: Norwegian (Bokmal)
* 6
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 14:03, m...@marcusbuck.org wrote:
After some thinking I come to the conclusion that this whole
discussion is a social phenomenon.
You probably know how some topics when mentioned in newspaper articles
or blogs spur wild arguments in the comments sections. When the
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 17:20, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 September 2011 16:17, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Obviously, majority of those who have small number of edits --
who represent specific part of readers, those who have opinion toward
Wikipedia articles
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 18:43, Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com wrote:
My point is that the dewiki poll being worded in a manner that is
pleasing to people who have critiqued the Foundation-wide survey does
not render it representative, when it was participated in by at most
one eightieth
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 20:42, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
I find it odd that some are inclined to discount the German
Wikipedia's poll on the basis that it reflects the views of editors
(as opposed to readers as a whole). Setting aside the general
public's ignorance of the WMF
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 19:26, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
Dear Press: a self-described 13 YO joined Wikiproject Pornography.
Wikipedians support him. webcitation.org/61v0ykxJe
webcitation.org/61v1FfW3K
- http://twitter.com/#!/lsanger/status/117299089439334400
Who cares
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 21:20, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
There are around 300M of readers and less than 30k of the extended
poll of editors, which brings number of 0,01%. Thus, not just
poll = pool
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 16:27, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Such school and safesearch variations already exist. Why waste
donor's money creating more?
Note that more than 50% of money comes from US and that it could be
easily assumed that at least 10% of ~$10M given by US citizens and
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 00:51, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
There are around 300M of readers and less than 30k of the extended
pool of editors, which brings number of 0,01%. Thus, not just
irrelevant, but much less than the margin of statistical error.
You
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 00:51, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
Note that more than 50% of money comes from US and that it could be
easily assumed that at least 10% of ~$10M given by US citizens and
corporations want to have a kind of family friendly Wikipedia
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:10, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Forking and creating safe versions of all our wikis has the same
disadvantage of any other fork, the wisdom of crowds is dissipated if the
crowd is ever further divided. In that sense this would be as much a
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 15:23, Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
It is not the job of
Commons community to work on personal wishes of American
right-wingers.
Well, while we're tarring large groups of people
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 15:16, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 September 2011 14:14, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com
wrote:
The real problem here is that if there was a real market for stupid
sites like that, they would already be there. And they are not, which
does
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 16:45, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 September 2011 15:43, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
They want that censoring tool and I think that they won't be content
until they get it. Thus, let them have it and let them leave the rest
of us alone.
Ah
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 18:00, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
Some people won't be content until Wikipedia's prose conveys their
cultural/religious/spiritual beliefs as absolute truth. Should the
WMF provide en.[insert belief system].wikipedia.org so they can edit
it and leave the
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:10, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the advantage of that compared with the feature as it was
originally proposed? All you've done is made the URL more complicated.
You'll still need to use user preferences to determine which images
are getting
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 20:47, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
Milos Rancic wrote:
Don't worry! Any implementation of censorship project would lead to
endless troll-fests which would be more dumb than Youtube comments.
The point is just to kick out them out of productive projects
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 21:09, Tobias Oelgarte
tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote:
You choose discussions about images in a circus outside the context
they belong to? This won't be circus, since we just reduced the amount
of arguments from some to zero. If combatants argue about a topic
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 20:38, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
An opt-in filter using the same URL as everything else won't affect
anything else either.
Except:
1) fierce opposition from significant part of the community. (I don't
care about the quality of opposition, just about
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 22:04, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote:
An alternative proposal (which is *far* simpler and maintains
neutrality) already has the public backing of WMF trustee Samuel
Klein:
Oh, I don't read Meta pages related to Image filter. It's definitely
better option!
May someone ask Internet Archive to open histories of the Main Pages
of Wikipedias in their Time Machine? If they harvested it at all.
Their Time Machine is usually the only exact way to find when early
Wikipedias were created, but histories of the pages are blocked
because of our robots.txt.
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 00:38, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think White_Cat's nomination is purely without ulterior motive,
unfortunately. As some editors from ku.wp have alluded to, the issue of the
name and designation of the Kurdish Wikipedia has ethnic and nationalist
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 18:35, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
If all Kurdish editors had been in favor of having a Kurdish Wikipedia as
an emblem of their unified ethnic identity, as you claim, then there would
never have been a separate Sorani Wikipedia.
That's true. For example, we
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:39, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that we can do a nice move here. We can enable image filter in
German Wikipedia for all those who don't want to see
copyrighted-images-for-German-law, meanwhile allowing other people to see
all Commons splendour. Using the
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:50, Tobias Oelgarte
tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 16.09.2011 12:42, schrieb Milos Rancic:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:39, emijrpemi...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that we can do a nice move here. We can enable image filter in
German Wikipedia for all those
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 13:45, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:50, Tobias Oelgarte
tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 16.09.2011 12:42, schrieb Milos Rancic:
On Fri, Sep
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 16:27, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
What is your obsession with nudity about? The filter isn't
about nudity.
Ah, you are right! I completely missed the point of the image filter
because my obsession... It's about scared places of indigenous peoples
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 18:52, Tobias Oelgarte
tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 16.09.2011 16:15, schrieb Milos Rancic:
It's about implementing image filter on images which have copyright
problems in Germany (but not in US), not about nudity.
And it got awesomely off-topic. Now we
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 19:35, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
In this case, I do not think anything local changed by langcom, the
foundation, or anybody else unless it creates legal problems. The only thing
this request covers is the code itself, which is currently wrong since ku
is a
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 20:17, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:01:04PM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote:
It's not so hard to guess if you followed them for some time:
* Ting: ambivalent; would be much more happy without the whole drama
* Jan-Bart: not his business
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 14:34, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia has never had paid staff writing content, which is what was
suggested for Wikinews. The community doesn't need managing, it needs
to be large enough to produce enough content to attract readers (some
of whom
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 16:43, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 20:02, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
The question is, would paid staff be a healthy temporary boost
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 16:46, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
And, as Andrew Lih mentioned, Wikipedia *had* payed editor at the
beginning.
Did I say this? I don't remember saying so.
I thought that it was you
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 16:52, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
In my book I described Nupedia, and how that system of having a paid head
didn't work out (namely, Larry Sanger as editor in chief).
In fact, if you
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 06:12, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't say that we shouldn't rely on volunteers, I said that we need
for the beginning one employed person: employee which management would
be Wikinews community.
I think that the syntax in the last sentence is broken
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 18:19, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:48:58 +0200, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com
Theo, volunteers do not care about things which require to be
accurate. Besides that, more and more volunteer positions were
replaced by paid staff
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 20:03, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
certain Elections come to mind. For example, there is the recent case of the
upcoming steward election which was previously handled by Cary as a
Volunteer Coordinator (among several dozen things Cary did) but since his
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 20:02, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
The question is, would paid staff be a healthy temporary boost for
sustainability or be futile artificial life support? I fear it's the
latter.
As Wikipedia requires WMF employees to keep servers running, Wikinews
requires
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:39, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Milos, you state that Americans see everything involving nudity under the
label as porn and offensive, and filtering with that mindset is a bad idea.
You're correct about Americans acting that way in general.
Just a
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:04, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
Also, if there was no group let us give a random example - in Macedonia -
who wanted to organize the contest, still it would be a good idea to open a
category for WLM in Macedonia, just to get a chance to indeed involve
2011/9/12 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com:
W dniu 12 września 2011 19:30 użytkownik Tomasz Kozłowski
odder.w...@gmail.com napisał:
On 12.09.2011 19:05, Milos Rancic wrote:
Eh, wrong example. There is Wikimedia Macedonia and they really hate
monuments because every local tycoon builds
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:17, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote:
This is an excellent idea. However, to cut down on frivolous closure
requests, will you also make more explicit on the page (within the
policy) that requests for closure can *no longer* be based upon
inactivity alone? My
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 03:17, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 8 September 2011 17:28, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
As I am speaking as a steward, I have to say that it's very good news
for us. Instead of being harassed because not dealing with harassment,
since
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 13:44, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote:
On 9/7/11 9:15 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
I think that damage produced by thiswhatever should be localized.
The target is English Wikipedia, Board is not especially interested in
other Wikipedia editions and other projects
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 00:59, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
The resolutions are more a reflection of what issues the board is able
to reach a consensus on, as opposed to what it is interested in. From my
experience, there was a fair bit of discussion about various concerns
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 00:18, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
- Harassment, threats, stalking, vandalism, and other long-term issues:
The proposed agreement would make clear that such acts are prohibited.
Novel for us, the agreement also raises the possibility of a global ban
for
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 02:14, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 01:48, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 00:18, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
- Harassment, threats, stalking, vandalism, and other long-term issues
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 03:34, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
On 06/09/2011 3:19 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
I realized that I started to participate in this madness when I asked
for some data from the results. And now, community is asked to
participate into the Next steps [3]
Milos, I
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:22, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 September 2011 09:15, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
We need to stop wasting time and energy on personal wishes of two
Board members. As it isn't about removing the content, any solution is
better than wasting
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 15:14, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote:
We know that our core contributors are a homogeneous group and could be
introducing biases into WMF, both in content and policy decisions.
Of course. Those editors created Wikipedia based on their biases.
There wouldn't
Not long ago I had a gaffe on internal-l, by publicly expressing
opinion what do I really think about Wiki Loves Monuments, although my
intention was to send a private email. However, WLM has a number of
good sides: Commons will be filled with photos, people will spend time
together, it makes at
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:22, Oliver Moran oliver.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
In future, let's just call these kind of things a survey, can we?
TLDR; surveys are great but don't call them a referendum if you don't ask a
direct question
Welcome to the political society! I could imagine how the
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 14:33, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Personally, I think the filter will be mostly harmless, and that it's
not worth the effort to rail against it. It will be useful for PR --
it will seem as if we are trying to accomodate all points of view even
if the
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