Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on "global bans")

Hoi. It is important that there is a method to puncture boils. It has already been remarked that Jimmy does not use his powers often. Given that there are ALWAYS people who have the opposite view, it is hardly relevant that there will be drama. There always is. Thanks, GerardM On 26 March 20

Re: [Foundation-l] Annulment declaration of "Wikipedia's principles" and "Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines" in Japanese edition.

Discussion about refusal of authority of Jimbo Wikipedia‐ノート:合意形成 http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%E2%80%90%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%3A%E5%90%88%E6%84%8F%E5%BD%A2%E6%88%90&action=historysubmit&diff=26574550&oldid=26185091 "Wikipedia:Ignore all rules" is not policy in Japanese

Re: [Foundation-l] Annulment declaration of "Wikipedia's principles" and "Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines" in Japanese edition.

Briefly, the page pointed out couldn't read as described, at least in my view. There is no such vote but rather just to confirm policies and guidelines said to be applied for the project currently are really such as, and this corner picking seems to be an answer to this poster who raised this as an

[Foundation-l] Annulment declaration of "Wikipedia's principles" and "Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines" in Japanese edition.

Wikipedia's principles and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines resolved to refuse in Japanese edition. The Wikipedia Japanese edition community voted for refusing authority of Jimbo Wales. the formal objection to page. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%E2%80%90%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88:%E3

[Foundation-l] Weekly Flagged Protection update

As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update. This week we've seen a lot of helpful testing from at least 15 people, and we'd love to see more before launch. To participate, start here: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page To see what we've changed this week, ther

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on "global bans")

George Herbert wrote: > Both the "yes he does" and "no he doesn't" sides are asserting and > assuming rather than reporting a known quantity. > > There has been no organized or widespread attempt to either ask Jimmy > to give it up or to take it away. I can name a number of individuals > who asser

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

On 25 March 2010 20:50, Isabell Long wrote: > On 25 March 2010 19:48, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >>> I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly >>> familiar with EU law. >> >> I guess you will not be able to fly without a certified permission of your >> parents/guardians. T

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

Cary Bass wrote: > Ultimately, there are no restrictions on /applying/ for scholarship so > you should feel free to apply. However, the application was designed > to allow only for years that start with "19", so people born 2000 or > later will have to contact us separately to apply. > Wow! The

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010/3/25 Isabell Long : > On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass wrote: >> The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend >> Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland >> (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships >> to pay for select

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on "global bans")

On 25 March 2010 21:33, George Herbert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Benjamin Lees wrote: >> There is now: * >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Remove_Founder_flag* > Putting up a page on a wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on "global bans")

I qualified it with "organized or widespread", and did so for a reason... There is currently one upset individual, and perhaps a few mild supporters of the effort, but there is no evidence of widespread support. Putting up a page on a wiki for an idea does not equal organization or widespread sup

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on "global bans")

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, George Herbert wrote: > > There has been no organized or widespread attempt to either ask Jimmy > to give it up or to take it away. I can name a number of individuals > who assert that should happen, but there's no poll, no project, no > policy proposal to do so.

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on "global bans")

On 25 March 2010 20:33, George Herbert wrote: > Both the "yes he does" and "no he doesn't" sides are asserting and > assuming rather than reporting a known quantity. > > There has been no organized or widespread attempt to either ask Jimmy > to give it up or to take it away.  I can name a number o

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on "global bans")

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49 PM, geni wrote: > On 25 March 2010 02:51, Tim Starling wrote: >> Gregory Kohs wrote: >>> Point of clarification... does Jimmy Wales have the authority to >>> impose a "global ban" on a user? >> >> Yes, Jimmy has always had such rights, and he continues to enjoy broad

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

On 25 March 2010 19:48, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >> I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly >> familiar with EU law. > > I guess you will not be able to fly without a certified permission of your > parents/guardians. The same applies to crossing the borders (I assume yo

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

> I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly > familiar with EU law. > I think you will not be able to fly unaccompanied without a certified permission from your parents / guardians. The same applies to crossing borders. I assume you do not need visa to visit Poland. Cheers

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's authority (on "global bans")

On 25 March 2010 02:51, Tim Starling wrote: > Gregory Kohs wrote: >> Point of clarification... does Jimmy Wales have the authority to >> impose a "global ban" on a user? > > Yes, Jimmy has always had such rights, and he continues to enjoy broad > community support. > > -- Tim Starling No he doesn

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

> I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly > familiar with EU law. I guess you will not be able to fly without a certified permission of your parents/guardians. The same applies to crossing the borders (I assume you do not need visa to visit Poland). Cheers Yaroslav ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

> I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly > familiar with EU law. I guess you will not be able to fly without a certified permission of your parents/guardians. The same applies to crossing the borders (I assume you do not need visa to visit Poland). Cheers Yaroslav ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

On 25 March 2010 18:51, Cary Bass wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Isabell Long wrote: >> On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass wrote: >>> The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend >>> Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, >>> Po

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isabell Long wrote: > On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass wrote: >> The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend >> Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, >> Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass wrote: > The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend > Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland > (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships > to pay for selected individuals' round trip trav