Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

, for example. Video of athletes in action [1]. Etc. Every article on a non extinct animal species is a somewhat viable and useful goal (and it keeps us one step ahead of web of life) -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Does google favour WIkipedia?

ranked higher in the results of non google search engines for at least 4 years. The reason for this is unknown and I haven't even heard any viable theories. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

), and the navigation is heavily JS dependent right now. So we might want to switch back to a hybrid format. The job pages are also still actively being re-designed, and the setup might change significantly in coming weeks. Pointless waffle. You forget what the WMF is meant to be. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, Britannica to stop printing books

(Joseph Kony's home village) is pretty much impossible. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, , Britannica to stop printing books

in such locations? If not, perhaps we need to tie into another organization that is already working on this... There is an oral history project but I'm not sure how viable that is. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] CBC getting rid of physical archives(but not digitising all of them)

that can at a pinch be purchases on the open market. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Landing Pages - functional prototype to test and comment on

by clicking on redlinks are not as a general rule a significant issue. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Landing Pages - functional prototype to test and comment on

On 10 March 2012 14:47, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2012 14:18, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: People creating articles by clicking on redlinks are not as a general rule a significant issue. That appears to be a numerical claim. Do we have numbers? Not that I'm aware

Re: [Foundation-l] Pre-wikis vs. maturing Wikipedia: taking away dedicated editors?

geeks but the british ones have been nice enough to spend the last few decades churning out book after book (along with journals and magazines) that qualify as reliable sources. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright and cakes...

? No but if they put it on permanent display in a public place the photo would probably be totally fine under UK freedom of panorama law. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright and cakes...

of Charles and Diana's wedding cake have turned up at auction as recently as 2008. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] New project: WikiMake - library of free 3D models?

commons to host .blend files. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

manner. Partly so wikipedia will view it as a reliable source and partly because in some way wikinews acts as a terrible warning. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa

? -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

is there any particular reason to think that the funding disputes wont eventually be sorted out? -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

million books and 150 million documents total. The library of congress is much the same. So as I said slightly different league, -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

website. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

of local political and ethnic issues that it is unlikely that anyone at the foundation really understands. So trying to get involved would first involve understanding what is actually going on which we don't really have the resources to do. -- geni

[Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

We appear to have actual blinking ads. Unfortunate. Still I suppose the occasion should be marked. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

On 31 December 2011 09:00, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: Login or wait a day? My understanding is that on any given day we have rather a lot of users. I'm not sure it is entirely reasonable to expect them all to log in and that would in any case rather negate the point. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

at the top of the page is a distraction. And they are also used for displaying bilingual messages, which is very useful for areas in which you can't be sure whether people prefer English or the local language, like India. Except both versions I was getting were in English. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

chose to view things differently. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

is isn't enough to be particularly sure that a reasonable number of wikipedians will actually see it. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Smurfs Movie is infringing on wikipedia copyright

and free licenses. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Terms of use : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

is that the intent is to trash the editor's moral rights. In fact that term would be a particular problem in the UK where it is just about possible that you might be able to give up your moral rights via click through so the inclusion of such a term would rather spoil the intent. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Terms of use : Anglo-saxon copyright law and Anglo-saxon lawyers : a disgrace for Continental Europeans

was impractical and hardly any re-users were actually doing that. Actually it is extremely unclear why we switched. There are in fact a number of re-users that managed to deal with the attribution issue in paper form. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Vital Articles underperforming?

have some vague idea what is important only 13 UCAS listed UK universities offer V610 (ie actual theology rather than various comparative religion) courses. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

leaked Syrian server logs other than some attempts to view it through google translate. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] TVTropes policies: No such thing as notability.

Which is a lie. They just changed the words a bit. Deletionist vs inclusionists turns into lumper vs splitter. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

of subjects. Under those conditions the web is by far the most likely viable source of citations. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

line would be to make one of the wikilove options (probably the first one) a simple a message for you rather than a kitten for you or an ironclad battleship for you or whatever the options are. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

. However in some cases that is what it can actually mean. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

before people complain which means that copyright nerds are a reasonable and far more cost effective solution than lawyers. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

. For example it is possible to argue that the image is effectively PD-ND which would be difficult for commons to deal with. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

we might recognize on say a photo of some flowers you tend to get whole bundles of IP rights. In some ways mickey mouse isn't too bad since Disney have kept such a tight grip on him. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

fashioned. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 6 reasons we're in another book-burning period in history

of the loopholes in payways. With the removal of such archives the paywalls become more controlling. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 6 reasons we're in another book-burning periodin history

and other mass market material rather than say old planning application maps and minutes of the union of postal workers 1937. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

is the kind of tactics needed to do that tend to be socially damaging and we don't need another pending changes mess. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of German speakers v the Foundation re an unknown system

this requires no foundation involvement to do. It can already be done through adblock plus with no modifications. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

* *Isopod_from_West_Sirius_Rig_GOM.JPG* *Bathynomus doederleinii.jpg* *Bathynomus doederleinii (dorsal).jpg* W -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of three months access to Feminist Economics

and will open at 22:00 UTC, Monday, August 29. Please pass the word to anyone you think might be interested. Sarah Can anyone provide any info on what the journal carries? are we looking at pure theory or are their case studies? -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

to take on the task. Citizendium failed to achieve this, for example, and ended up deleting most of the articles they'd forked from Wikipedia. That assumes it's actually worth editing wikipedia on any scale at this point. For most normal applications of encyclopedias it probably isn't. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

of encyclopedias. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

On 12 August 2011 20:59, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:53 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 August 2011 20:24, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: We still have wide gaps in knowledge coverage.  Not in the most common areas

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

their perspective, so recentralising fundraising. However it was the WMF that created that particular model of decentralisation in the first place. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

not particularly critical. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 88, Issue 62

On 27 July 2011 09:01, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote: God forbid that someone should have an opinion contrary to the fashion of the day (in this case, oral citations)! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_video has been around for years. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

etexts sprinkled through their collection. 2. Million Books Project http://www.ulib.org/ In terms of raw data the answer is no. wikimedia commons is larger. Other than that you are probably mostly looking at US goverment stuff. The patent office for example. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Right.  NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned this morning.  Is it 'a website'? Do you have a cite for that? Could probably be added to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] No tail-lights. What do we do now? (was Call for referendum)

general background is pretty common though. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

much about the situation in the humanities though. You cannot do science in a system with these effects. In fairness you demonstrably can. Of course it's an open question how many people really are. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Amicus Brief Filed in Golan v. Holder: Fighting for the Public Domain

outside. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Amicus Brief Filed in Golan v. Holder: Fighting for the Public Domain

. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Amicus Brief Filed in Golan v. Holder: Fighting for the Public Domain

+70 then the US did. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Amicus Brief Filed in Golan v. Holder: Fighting for the Public Domain

. Truth is of course that congress can't impact my public domain one way or another. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Amicus Brief Filed in Golan v. Holder: Fighting for the Public Domain

undersand that the foundation wants to be able to ignore what they regard as their more legitimate copyright claims will be really helpful. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

well away from major legal actuation unless there is serious money involved. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The John Does’ First Amendment right to speak anonymously

://www.rcfp.org/djlg/index.php?action=show_itemcat=LIBtid=15 Fred Thing is from our POV the question is does the law protect these vandals. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister?

by sporadic (and wildly inefficient) witch-hunts is rather insane. If the door is unlocked, you don't imprison every person who tries to open it, you lock it (and then imprison those who break in). Stopping it is always impossible. Zee aim is to reduce it. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister?

feel details will sway more than allusions. Tom We know Poetlister's meatspace identity. Are you demanding that we repeat that? -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Upload Wizard

be being watched. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

that is their legal position. There is past clase law suggesting that really wont work. More practically they are likely betting the CTB thing wont last beyond Monday on the basis that at this point there are hermits in central wales who know who CTB is. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

participants, I imagine. MZMcBride You realise that [[Daniel Brandt]] passes that test yes? On the other hand recently elected African leaders will tend not to. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

got however is an argument over what is considered a reputable news source. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

it appears that one of their PR people is trying to edit the Trafigura article). The Fred Goodwin one probably is. The rest that I know of probably not. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

On 20 May 2011 22:47, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Please mail User:Oversight with any such instance you are aware of. That's not actually legal. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

the pub might but multiple people is kinda dicey. I assume more than one person has access to the User:Oversight feed. Exactly what is and isn't considered a private communication is a complex area though. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

people the law applies to. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

://journalism.winchester.ac.uk/?page=227 -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

think this would be rather obvious to you. ;-) MZMcBride Except we know that wikipedia gets the overwhelming majority of the traffic. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

of the article. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

. The foundation was still trying to play that card until fairly recently. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

hiring people to talk to the likes of the peace corps and age concern to see if we could get them to distribute Wikipedia in various forms. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

personality-rights one way or the other and moral-rights tend to conflict with how common law thinks contract law should work. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

it and they will come. It not much to bet quite a budget increase on. And yet nowhere in the document do we encounter any statements about what happens if the money isn't there. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

in 2014-2015 to archive it's goals. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Storyteller job opening

a problem. Obvious exception would be the likes of prison officers but I would suggest that that is not a model we wish to explore. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Storyteller job opening

is shattering stories. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Licenses' biodiversity : my big disagreement with the Wikimedia usability initiative's software specifications

. Trying to create opt outs for single formats isn't going to work. I can provide plently of closely related ones where it also breaks. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Licenses' biodiversity : my big disagreement with the Wikimedia usability initiative's software specifications

On 21 February 2011 19:39, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/21 geni geni...@gmail.com: (...) What is more complicated is what happens in a movie theatre. In my opinion, the theatre owner should tell the viewers where the movie is available for download on the internet. Look

Re: [Foundation-l] Licenses' biodiversity : my big disagreement with the Wikimedia usability initiative's software specifications

On 21 February 2011 19:45, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/2/21 geni geni...@gmail.com: Can't images are again CC-BY-SA and not compatible What if the Creative Commons guru issues a statement saying that TVL is Creative Commons 4.0 ? Why on earth should they do that? CC has

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

out what G3 is could make this tricky. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

On 20 February 2011 15:49, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/20/11, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 February 2011 10:57, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Please consider that this is foundation-l and for many people CSD G3 is pretty meaningless Cruccone http

Re: [Foundation-l] Licenses' biodiversity : my big disagreement with the Wikimedia usability initiative's software specifications

licenses to play with so you are far better off working on suggestions to improve the various creative commons licenses rather than trying to push yet more alternatives. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

sources into the article creation process and make adding sources easy. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)

stuff. Sure this will sometimes result in you staring blearily at a deletion log wondering why CSD#T2 has come back to life (answer it means something different now) but that is pretty unavoidable. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC 5 Live Investigates on Books LLC, Sunday night 9pm UTC

. I suspect that all we have to do is wait. Someone has effectively worked out how to spam Amazon. What one person can do so can others. Eventually the level of spam will rise to the point where Amazon will have to act or lose customers due to their service being degraded. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?

produce something far better. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] H2G2 to be disposed of

might highlight areas we could perhaps move into but there isn't much detail and nothing listed at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/2011/01/delivering-quality-first.shtml Looks like it would really interest us. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

. Paper has been around for 1800 years. The odds of orally transmitted information remaining accurate over that kind of time period are limited. In any case the who Guru thing has taken a bit of a hammering lately from the likes of Sanal Edamaruku and Basava Premanand. -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

On 15 January 2011 15:26, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Now, fight. First review the discussion that has already taken place at WT:RFA -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

On 15 January 2011 16:40, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2011 16:24, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2011 15:26, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Now, fight.  First review the discussion that has already taken place at WT:RFA All five

Re: [Foundation-l] Template Overkill

. Instead you would be better off looking to collapsible templates and perhaps moving common ones like infoboxes into their own namespaces (note this already started happening with things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Rolle_Canal_map ). -- geni

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

for a number of years (Hudong). -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

needed the help of third parties. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Me...

Claus. Totally dismayed, Virgilio A. P. Machado Since mid 2004. The existence of arbcom and the foundation are hardly classified. -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Me...

On 4 December 2010 16:56, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 12/4/2010 6:50:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, geni...@gmail.com writes: Actually we have at least 3. Editor, admin bureaucrat, steward, dev. everyone, arbcom Everyone, foundation, foundation board. Not three Geni

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