Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Ray Saintonge
John Vandenberg wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: I have no idea of the en.ws situation, nor do I want to have any idea, but I would like to remark that leaving such things to the community decision is a good idea only if the community

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Ray Saintonge
Birgitte SB wrote: Sorry but there is no reason to have a RFC on Meta for anything remotely like this situation. And I would say that if were regarding any wiki (I am sure I have said that for similar situations on other wikis in the past). The wikis are autonomous on these issues. If

[Foundation-l] Fwd: A question about Attribution survey and licensing next steps

2009-03-12 Thread Foundation-l list admin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dirk hun...@iis.sinica.edu.tw Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:58:07 +0800 Subject: A question about Attribution survey and licensing next steps To: foundation-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org What is your purpose on this statistics? Can you explain it for me? I

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-12 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2009/3/11 geni geni...@gmail.com: Importing wikipedia content would be an absolute pain Why? The language doesn't require you to include a full list of authors. Only if you want your copy to be a link-creditable copy,

[Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: January 2009 (fwd)

2009-03-12 Thread Lars Aronsson
Resending Sue Gardner's report for January, for the list archive. I really like to be able to link to it. (Sue, you have a habit of starting paragraphs with From and this bug is still there.) -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se --

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
I have refrained from commenting in the interests of letting this play out but find myself in disagreement with our worthy colleague from Wikisource. The locus of this complaint, as I see it, is that he was unfairly removed from his position. I see no merit in his claims for the following

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Nathan
That people on this list can't necessarily interfere or overturn the de-adminship is a point separate from whether or not it can be discussed here. I'm not aware of any hard rules limiting topics of discussion to those issues which can readily be addressed by participants of this forum. Bringing

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Birgitte SB
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: From: Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 3:03 AM Birgitte SB wrote:

[Foundation-l] Restoration proposal

2009-03-12 Thread Durova
Hi all, Since January there has been a proposal at Meta to facilitate image restoration. Support has been nearly unanimous. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Restoration.wikimedia.org To keep the discussion centralized, please post comments or questions to the proposal talk page. Many thanks to

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Posting during breaks is a bad idea. I meant kill as in we should stop discussing this as there is no effective remedy, no mod kill intended. From: Nathan nawr...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday,

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-12 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Biographies of living people bring up legal issues, this matter does not. From: Delirium delir...@hackish.org To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:05:14 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed

[Foundation-l] Two new email system team leaders

2009-03-12 Thread Cary Bass
Hi everyone, I've appointed two new volunteers into the role of email system team leader (commonly known as OTRS admin), Daniel Bryant and Mark Wesbeeg. Daniel is a longtime OTRS agent since March of 2007, an administrator on en.wikipedia, and a bureaucrat on meta. His unified account name is

[Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

2009-03-12 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Should someone handle this? http://www.blackwikipedia.org/ BlackWikipedia is a nonprofit private organization to support WMF, the Foundation working to maintain and develop the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Wikipedia is constantly looking for donors as you can see in the banner top of