[Foundation-l] Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-06 Thread Erik Moeller
The author attribution survey is now closed. We have 1017 complete responses. I've posted results of the attribution data in the following report: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Attribution_Survey_Results.pdf I've posted the raw data of the attribution survey here: Respondents from En

Re: [Foundation-l] Academic article review

2009-03-06 Thread Delirium
Pharos wrote: > My experience has been that, although certainly there is room for > expansion in scientific articles on specialty topics, Wikipedia > already has much better coverage of science than any print > encyclopedias, and most basic scientific subjects are treated fairly > completely. > > I

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

2009-03-06 Thread geni
2009/3/6 Mike Linksvayer : > Yes. > > Mike (not the CC counsel but just spoke to her) And what was the exact wording of the question asked and what was the line of reasoning? -- geni ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsu

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/6 Cary Bass : >> That's interesting. We should try and get some more up-to-date >> stats on that - it would be useful for Wikimedia UK to have stats >> like that to throw around in negotiations, etc., to show how >> important we are. > > For that matter, just look at the contributors to this

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Cary Bass
Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/6 David Gerard : >> 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton : >>> 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen : When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. >>> It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect >>> UK politicians, which are t

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

2009-03-06 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 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

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/6 David Gerard : > 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton : >> 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen : > >>> When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I >>> completely agree. > >> It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK >> politicians, which are the subject of the article

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton : > 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen : >> When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I >> completely agree. > It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK > politicians, which are the subject of the article. Note that en:wp is more Briti

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen : > Hoi, > When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I > completely agree. It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK politicians, which are the subject of the article. ___ foundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. Thanks, GerardM 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton > 2009/3/6 David Gerard : > > Politicians get quite annoyed at this stuff. In my experience they > > mostly take a certain level of rubbish in their stride, but

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/6 David Gerard : > Politicians get quite annoyed at this stuff. In my experience they > mostly take a certain level of rubbish in their stride, but that > doesn't mean we shouldn't work to improve the situation. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm This article has now bee

[Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread David Gerard
Politicians get quite annoyed at this stuff. In my experience they mostly take a certain level of rubbish in their stride, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work to improve the situation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm - d. ___ fo

[Foundation-l] new project proposal wikipol

2009-03-06 Thread info
A Wikipol is an political program. It is a collection of wiki-pages that describe the actual stands of (webbased) political parties. The members of the e-party can develop and update these wiki-pages by amendments. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipol Jos Janssen ___