Re: [Foundation-l] Academic article review

2009-03-04 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> But I do not believe that experts should have any special powers in > the editing of articles. > > Rather, I think they should be encouraged to act in a pure review > capacity, assessing the existing work of Wikipedians, and making > recommendations for improvement. This might also be partially

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread David Goodman
Any proposals to allow input from the person on the deletion of the article will inevitable tend to reject the medium-important articles which show something unfavorable but documented and relevant and keep those that show only favorable things. What this amounts to is saying, that if someone is re

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread quiddity
> Those that involve themselves in BLP matters should perhaps frequent > AFD more often. Provided that is still how we delete articles that aren't > speedyable. > > -Chad I've left a suggestion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Biographies.27_

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Chad
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Alex wrote: > Chad wrote: >> >> While working with OTRS, I actually sent several articles through AfD. And I >> typically didn't announce that it was an OTRS thing, so as to let the >> community >> judge the article on its own merits. This would actually be a dece

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Alex
Chad wrote: > > While working with OTRS, I actually sent several articles through AfD. And I > typically didn't announce that it was an OTRS thing, so as to let the > community > judge the article on its own merits. This would actually be a decent policy to > follow: encourage OTRS respondents to

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Chad
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Nathan wrote: > [snip] > > (4) How many requests do we actually get from article subjects to delete the > article about them? I would think most would be happier with an article that > speaks well of them and/or is simply factually correct. If we were to adopt > thi

Re: [Foundation-l] Report a problem link

2009-03-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/4 Jim Redmond : > I'm working on that now.  I've half a mind to increase the point size on the > phrase "Wikipedia has no editorial board" and put it in blink tags; if > people could actually grok that, then much of the rest of that text could > become unnecessary. I just put tags around

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread George Herbert
I'd like to put forth for consideration the issue and problem of whitewashing, where the subject of an article wants there to be an article, but wants negative information removed from it despite the negative information being true and verifyable and notable. I've been working one of these since i

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Nathan
There are a couple of reasons I can think of why shifting to delete-on-request for marginally notable BLPs would be problematic. (1) As Tomasz notes, the idea of marginal notability is one that doesn't play well to non-Wikipedians and isn't well defined in any case. (2) We'd still have to have a

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/3/4 Sue Gardner : >  Erik had proposed that articles which meet these three criteria be deleted > upon request: 1) they are not balanced and complete, 2) the subject is only > marginally notable, and 3) the subject wants the article deleted. This would > shift the bar towards a more deletioni

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Sue Gardner
2009/3/4 Nathan > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nathan wrote: > > > As far as granting significant weight to the wishes of a subject? Subject > > request has consistently been rejected as a basis for deleting an > article, > > and many comments in the deletion discussions I've read have even >

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread KillerChihuahua
David Gerard wrote: > 2009/3/4 KillerChihuahua : > > >> I cannot stress enough how strongly I agree with this assessment. If >> NPOV, V, and RS were followed - as they should be by normally >> intelligent adults wishing to write good articles - BLP isn't even >> needed at all. I support BLP exis

Re: [Foundation-l] Report a problem link

2009-03-04 Thread Jim Redmond
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 15:52, David Gerard wrote: > > The final page for people who have a crappy article about themselves > > still needs severe tightening and organisation, though with a mind to > > not causing trouble for OTRS volunteers, who after all are the ones > > getting the crapflood. C

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/4 KillerChihuahua : > I cannot stress enough how strongly I agree with this assessment. If > NPOV, V, and RS were followed - as they should be by normally > intelligent adults wishing to write good articles - BLP isn't even > needed at all. I support BLP existing, although I've seen it misu

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Fred Bauder
> 2009/3/4 Dominic > >> Sue Gardner wrote: >> > I am just clarifying - "default to delete unless consensus to keep" >> would >> be >> > a change from current state, right? >> >> In terms of policy, "default to delete" is the current state for BLPs. >> To be more exact, the important bit is: "If th

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nathan wrote: > > > According to Dominic's quote, it says default to delete if the article is > *not* a marginally notable BLP. Not a very elegant way of changing the > policy, but perhaps it was intended to slip past wide notice. While deleting > marginally notabl

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > I'm confused. Doesn't the current (English) policy say "if there's no > consensus ... the page is kept." So, default to _keep_, rather than > default > to delete...? > > It's only the English policy, so I realize it's not necessarily > represe

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread KillerChihuahua
David Gerard wrote: > 2009/3/4 Fred Bauder : > > >> How about something a little more helpful? >> > > > Uh, I think pointing out obvious problems counts, particularly when > the solution offered is to do the same things that are already > problematic twice as hard. > > The hard part is to l

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Sue Gardner
2009/3/4 Dominic > Sue Gardner wrote: > > I am just clarifying - "default to delete unless consensus to keep" would > be > > a change from current state, right? > > In terms of policy, "default to delete" is the current state for BLPs. > To be more exact, the important bit is: "If there is no rou

Re: [Foundation-l] Report a problem link

2009-03-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/4 David Gerard : > The final page for people who have a crappy article about themselves > still needs severe tightening and organisation, though with a mind to > not causing trouble for OTRS volunteers, who after all are the ones > getting the crapflood. Could an OTRS BLP queue handler plea

Re: [Foundation-l] Report a problem link

2009-03-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/3 Birgitte SB : > I there is simpler way to solicit these reports this without all the false > positives that might come from a "report a problem"  link.  I imagine that > all these people who have issues must click on the "Help" link in the sidebar > while looking contact information. W

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Brian
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Part of my questioning the survey is because > its design explicitly excludes the opinions of > people like my friend, who edits under an IP afaik. If they didn't include *all* visitors to the site then it really is a biased sample. Collect fr

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread phoebe ayers
For what it's worth, what Nathan says basically sums up my concerns as well. I think for a (relatively informal, community-opinion) survey it's less important to have an absolutely rigorous methodology (not what I was asking for) than it is to ask the question: is this good enough for our purposes?

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread quiddity
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/3/4 quiddity : > >> http://www.onelook.com/?w=encomium "a formal expression of praise" >> http://www.onelook.com/?w=hagiography "a biography that idealizes or >> idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)" >> http://www.onel

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Ryan Kaldari
The official results of the survey haven't even been announced yet, and already it is being accused of bias. Have any of you actually looked at the survey? It does include demographic questions and it's a ranked preference poll. If someone were trying to skew the results in a particular way, this s

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Phil Nash
Gregory Kohs wrote: >> *Phil Nash* pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk said: >> >> ++ >> Except of course, that such a survey would arguably not have >> "preconceived desires". So much for empiricism! >> ++ >> >> I offered to give some pro bono guidance on overcoming (to a degree) >> self-select

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread P. Birken
2009/3/4 Sue Gardner : > 2009/3/3 Michael Snow > >> But someone making a request is a sign that the article really needs a >> hard look, and quite possibly should be removed for not meeting our >> standards. So the reversed presumption of "default to delete, unless >> consensus to keep" is a good

[Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Gregory Kohs
*Phil Nash* pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk said: ++ Except of course, that such a survey would arguably not have "preconceived desires". So much for empiricism! ++ I offered to give some pro bono guidance on overcoming (to a degree) self-selection bias, even among an anonymity-heightened

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Nathan
As a non-statistician (and, from this list, you'd think there are lots of professional statisticians participating...), can one of the experts explain the practical implications of the bias of this survey? It seems fairly informal, intended perhaps to be food for thought but not a definitive answer

Re: [Foundation-l] Academic article review

2009-03-04 Thread Pharos
I agree with Yaroslav that we should have a specific role for experts, or rather for the greater number of experts who may be interested in contributing, but who will not be attracted to participate in the classical back-and-forth wiki model. But I do not believe that experts should have any speci

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Phil Nash
Gregory Kohs wrote: >> *phoebe ayers* phoebe.wiki at gmail.com writes: >> >> ++ >> I'm not sure there's any way to get a non-self-selected survey about >> anything on the projects due to anonymity concerns. >> ++ >> >> I'm a 17-year veteran of implementing professional quantitative >> surve

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Brian
This entire field has been formalized but in my experience the key things to worry about are experimenter and subject bias. Experimenter bias in a survey context means that the survey writer (Erik) has expectations about the likely community answers. This has been clearly demonstrated, as he alrea

[Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Gregory Kohs
*phoebe ayers* phoebe.wiki at gmail.com writes: ++ I'm not sure there's any way to get a non-self-selected survey about anything on the projects due to anonymity concerns. ++ I'm a 17-year veteran of implementing professional quantitative survey research. Self-selection bias is a very co

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/4 quiddity : > http://www.onelook.com/?w=encomium "a formal expression of praise" > http://www.onelook.com/?w=hagiography "a biography that idealizes or > idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)" > http://www.onelook.com/?w=saccharine "overly sweet" *cough* you mean, of c

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread quiddity
http://www.onelook.com/?w=encomium "a formal expression of praise" http://www.onelook.com/?w=hagiography "a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)" http://www.onelook.com/?w=saccharine "overly sweet" On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Gerard Meijssen wr

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Mike Godwin wrote: > Phoebe writes: > > This is a very small, self-selected sample; there would be >> no harm or cost associated with turning it on for a much larger >> percentage (or all) of logged-in users on the top-ten languages, not >> just English or German a

Re: [Foundation-l] Academic article review

2009-03-04 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> One of your points there was: >> 6. The current experience (or at least my current experience) is not >> really encouraging. The real top researchers just plainly have no time >> to edit articles, nor are they really interested. Those who come are >> mostly interested in editing article about th

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/4 Mike Godwin : > Phoebe writes: > > This is a very small, self-selected sample; there would be >> no harm or cost associated with turning it on for a much larger >> percentage (or all) of logged-in users on the top-ten languages, not >> just English or German alone, which both have peculiar

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread David Goodman
It is unfortunately not unheard of for policy proposals to be rejected, and then added to policy pages nonetheless. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Nathan wrote: > Sue, > > As far as "default to delete" goes... There was a high profile proposal > about it awhile back, written by Doc_glasgow (now

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Mike Godwin
Phoebe writes: This is a very small, self-selected sample; there would be > no harm or cost associated with turning it on for a much larger > percentage (or all) of logged-in users on the top-ten languages, not > just English or German alone, which both have peculiarities associated > with being t

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: > > I'm not a statistician, someone else can work out how large a majority > > is needed from a sample size of 570 to be confident (at the 95% level, > > say?) that a majority of the pop

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Nathan
Sue, As far as "default to delete" goes... There was a high profile proposal about it awhile back, written by Doc_glasgow (now en:User:Scott_MacDonald), which got significant support but appeared to fall short of a consensus. Nonetheless the deletion of articles on marginally notable living peopl

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread geni
2009/3/4 David Gerard : > 2009/3/4 Andrew Gray : > >> I did a headcount the other week of all the OTRS simple vandalism and >> "uncomplicated" BLP tickets I handled - ie, all the ones not needing >> digging and arguing with people and so on. 80-90% of them would have >> been avoided by flagged revi

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > I'm not a statistician, someone else can work out how large a majority > is needed from a sample size of 570 to be confident (at the 95% level, > say?) that a majority of the population as a whole agrees. If the 570 people are a RANDOM sampl

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
(Last email, since I received this I was I was typing what was meant to be the last one. Then I'll really stop.) 2009/3/4 Anthony : > What if the FSF could be convinced to come up with a GFDL 1.4 which makes it > legal? They can't. The GFDL requires future versions to be in the same spirit. >> I

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/4 Anthony : > >> How are you going to define "ethical"? It's an entirely subjective > >> concept, a vote is pretty much the only way we can handle it. > > > > > > I define ethical as that which promotes "the good life". I don't think >

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/4 Andrew Gray : > I did a headcount the other week of all the OTRS simple vandalism and > "uncomplicated" BLP tickets I handled - ie, all the ones not needing > digging and arguing with people and so on. 80-90% of them would have > been avoided by flagged revisions. Please say this REALLY

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/4 Anthony : > This is more than just an "argument" if it's being used to purport to give > copyright licenses away.  In fact, it's not much of an "argument" at all - > arguments aren't won by voting, unless you're defining the "argument" as > which position more people agree with. I've made

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/4 Anthony : > > What constitutes a significant majority? What if the survey results had > > said that a significant majority was happy with their work being released > > into the public domain. Would you then find it reasonable to rel

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/4 Anthony : > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Dalton >wrote: > > I imagine > >> most Wikimedians are sufficiently mature to accept it if the majority > >> disagree with them. > >> > > > > Accept what, that the majority disagre

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/4 phoebe ayers : > I know there's time pressure on this... but on the other hand, we've > waited years :) It would be worthwhile to get better stats before > making sweeping generalizations about the community's desires. That we've waited years is irrelevant. We make a decision soon, or the

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/4 Anthony : > Order of difficulty is not the same as order of happiness.  I would be > happier with "no credit" than "credit to Wikipedia". You have declared previously on this list that you do not contribute and in fact have tried to repudiate all your past contributions. As such, it's e

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Marco Chiesa wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote: >> > And yes, 80% of people ranked one of 4 options which I consider >> > unacceptable >> > first.  But then, 67% of people would have done so

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Andrew Whitworth wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Anthony wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Dalton >wrote: > > > >> Do we really want to only listen to the opinions of those people > >> actually willing to make a fuss if they don't get thei

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/4 Anthony : > What constitutes a significant majority?  What if the survey results had > said that a significant majority was happy with their work being released > into the public domain.  Would you then find it reasonable to release > *everyone's* work into the public domain? No, because

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/4 Anthony : > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> Do we really want to only listen to the opinions of those people >> actually willing to make a fuss if they don't get their way? >> > > We should.  If someone isn't willing to make a fuss if they don't get their > way, t

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Andrew Whitworth
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> Do we really want to only listen to the opinions of those people >> actually willing to make a fuss if they don't get their way? > > We should.  If someone isn't willing to make a fuss if the

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > Do we really want to only listen to the opinions of those people > actually willing to make a fuss if they don't get their way? > We should. If someone isn't willing to make a fuss if they don't get their way, they don't really care in the f

Re: [Foundation-l] Academic article review

2009-03-04 Thread Ray Saintonge
Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > Just to remind that I am a university professor and that I posted my > thoughts a while ago on meta > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yaroslav_Blanter/Temp17 > > So far, nobody showed any interest. > One of your points there was: > 6. The current experience (o

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/4 Anthony : > > You're assuming that those who ranked "no credit is needed" first will be > > happy with attribution by URL, and you're assuming that those who ranked > > "credit can be given to the community" will by happy with attribu

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/4 Marco Chiesa : > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote: > >> >> And yes, 80% of people ranked one of 4 options which I consider >> unacceptable >> first.  But then, 67% of people would have done so even if everyone chose >> their answers randomly. > > > Now, how many of the 20% wh

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Marco Chiesa wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote: > > And yes, 80% of people ranked one of 4 options which I consider > > unacceptable > > first. But then, 67% of people would have done so even if everyone chose > > their answers randomly. > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/4 Anthony : > You're assuming that those who ranked "no credit is needed" first will be > happy with attribution by URL, and you're assuming that those who ranked > "credit can be given to the community" will by happy with attribution by > URL.  But these people will also probably be happy w

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote: > > And yes, 80% of people ranked one of 4 options which I consider > unacceptable > first. But then, 67% of people would have done so even if everyone chose > their answers randomly. Now, how many of the 20% who wants their name cited would have

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> The numbers given by Erik at the start of this thread are sufficient >> to draw the conclusion that a significant majority of the community >> will be happy with attribution by URL. >> > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/4 Anthony : > > 1) Have the numbers been released? All I saw was a selective summary. > > 2) What do you think they're conclusive of? > > The numbers given by Erik at the start of this thread are sufficient > to draw the conclusion th

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/4 Anthony : > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> >> And that explicitly included offline reuse? If so, it looks like we're >> ready to present a final proposal for the community to vote on. Even >> with such a small sample size, those numbers are pretty conclusive. >> >

Re: [Foundation-l] Academic article review (was:Re: Cabal?)

2009-03-04 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
>> If we were doing such a thing: >> >> 1. we wouldn't be paying anyone >> 2. we'd be shouting it from the rooftops. >> >> Nice idea, actually. Anyone feel they could put together a serious >> programme to recruit academics to such a cause? > > (changed subject as this is an interesting discussion

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/3/2 David Gerard : > As far as I can make out, the present situation on en:wp is: a > proposal was put which got 59% support. That's not a sufficiently > convincing support level. So Jimbo is currently putting together a > better proposal, with the aim of at least 2/3 support and hoping for >

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread philippe
On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > Ha. Tie this into Thomas's suggestion... > > ...print up a sheaf of business cards, with "Got a problem? info @ > wikimedia.org" in nice clear bold lettering, the puzzle-globe at one > edge; the other side just WIKIPEDIA writ large. Distribute the

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > And that explicitly included offline reuse? If so, it looks like we're > ready to present a final proposal for the community to vote on. Even > with such a small sample size, those numbers are pretty conclusive. > 1) Have the numbers been re

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread geni
2009/3/4 Geoffrey Plourde : > They wrote the damned thing, so they are most likely to understand it. So? Their line of reasoning will still be very much based on the questions asked and the outcomes they have considered. -- geni ___ foundation-l mail

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony
2009/3/4 Erik Moeller : > We've been in repeated conversations with CC about the possible > attribution models. CC counsel has commented specifically that > attribution-by-URL is a permissible attribution model that is > consistent with the language and intent of CC-BY*. From: geni What is their

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/4 Andrew Gray : > 2009/3/2 David Gerard : >> (My usual answer: "Email info at wikimedia dot org, that's wikimedia >> with an M. It'll get funneled to the right place. All other ways of >> contacting us end up there anyway." This seems to work a bit.) > Ha. Tie this into Thomas's suggestion

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/3/2 David Gerard : > (My usual answer: "Email info at wikimedia dot org, that's wikimedia > with an M. It'll get funneled to the right place. All other ways of > contacting us end up there anyway." This seems to work a bit.) Ha. Tie this into Thomas's suggestion... ...print up a sheaf of bu

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Ting Chen
Sue Gardner wrote: > 2009/3/3 Michael Snow > > >> But someone making a request is a sign that the article really needs a >> hard look, and quite possibly should be removed for not meeting our >> standards. So the reversed presumption of "default to delete, unless >> consensus to keep" is a good

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

2009-03-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/4 Erik Moeller : > 2009/3/3 Thomas Dalton : >> Excellent. Getting some idea of community opinion is very important. >> However, has anyone carried out my suggestion of consulting with the >> CC lawyers? > > We've been in repeated conversations with CC about the possible > attribution models.

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What is: * encomium * hagiographical * saccharine sentiment PS You lost me. Thanks, GerardM 2009/3/3 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > Michael Snow wrote: > > Jimmy Wales wrote: > > > >> Let me repeat that in a different way, for emphasis: I think that a > >> great number of our biographies, a

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

2009-03-04 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > I realise, and beg of people not to actually believe I buy into > this, but > when someone makes an accusation that someone is claiming to be a WMF > employee and claims that there is a conspiracy, I tend to bring it > up. I beg > of people to not take me for an idiot. Thats what more

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread John at Darkstar
If I'm not mistaken it should be possible to detect the presence of a text which describe a person, and then include a link to a contact form about BLP. John Nathan skrev: > Personally, I'd like to see a prominent "Report a problem with this article" > link or box only on BLPs for starters. We do

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread John at Darkstar
In Norway it seems that neglecting to do something will not lead to any real danger of legal actions, its phrased "uforstand", but gross neglectence, or "grov uforstand" could be punishable by law. An example given is that if an admin is notified on email about specific child porn in an article (th

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread John at Darkstar
In Norway its covered in "Lov om behandling av personopplysninger (personopplysningsloven)" §7; Forholdet til ytringsfriheten (Relation to freedom of speech) [http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-2414-031-001.html#7] It is an exception for "kunstneriske, litterære eller journalistiske, herunder opinio

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread John at Darkstar
At no.wp there was a link in the sidebar with email address to OTRS to ease reporting of such problems. It generated to many emails to the liking of some of the people on the OTRS list. After a poll with 3 against the link - they wanted an alternate solution, two for the link, one unclear and one w

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Lars Aronsson
David Gerard wrote: > If bad writing were curable by guidelines and policies, English > Wikipedia would be brilliant prose from end to end. This should be printed on coffee mugs and sold in the web shop. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Dominic
Sue Gardner wrote: > I am just clarifying - "default to delete unless consensus to keep" would be > a change from current state, right? In terms of policy, "default to delete" is the current state for BLPs. To be more exact, the important bit is: "If there is no rough consensus and the page is n

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Sue Gardner
2009/3/3 Michael Snow > But someone making a request is a sign that the article really needs a > hard look, and quite possibly should be removed for not meeting our > standards. So the reversed presumption of "default to delete, unless > consensus to keep" is a good idea for living subjects. I wo

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Ray Saintonge
Fred Bauder wrote: >> This would exclude a great deal of pornographic actresses and actors. >> Which I don't think is a bad thing, in fact. I'm far from a prude, >> but someone who is solely notable for appearing in a few pornographic >> films seems to contradict what our policy is regarding other

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Ray Saintonge
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> Sue Gardner wrote: >> >>> * Wikimedians have developed lots of tools for preventing/fixing vandalism >>> and errors of fact. Where less progress has been made, I think, is on the >>> question of disproportionate criticism. It seems to me that the solution may

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Ray Saintonge
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Ray Saintonge wrote: > >> I'm making a point of replying to this before I read any of the other >> responses to avoid being tainted by them. >> > Since I think you make several insightful observations > well worth focusing on, I hope you will in return not >