Re: [Foundation-l] Anarchopedia changed its license

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > > Yes, things are moving forward, this is true. And I will be happy to > see free culture movement based on Tolstoy's, Kropotkin's and > Goldman's ideas. At that time there will be no dif

[Foundation-l] Update on April board meeting

This is my report on the April board meeting, which was held in Berlin on April 3-5, in conjunction with a meeting/conference of the Wikimedia chapters. But first, let me say that it was wonderful to be able to coordinate so these could happen in the same place. I really appreciated the opportu

[Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

Hello all, Those of you foolish enough to watchlist the english wikipedia's admin.s noticeboard, or Jimmy's talk page, might have noticed a broo ha ha this last weekend concerning nude pictures on userpages. Basically, a user has an image of a shaven vagina on their userpage with the caption 'No m

Re: [Foundation-l] Anarchopedia changed its license

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Brian wrote: > I'm surprised that Anarchopedia has decided to use MediaWiki which is, at > its core, based on capitalist values such as the notion of authorship. It is > not straightforward at all to subvert this notion in the software which was > designed to give

Re: [Foundation-l] Anarchopedia changed its license

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Free culture is NOT defined by licenses.  If there is any consensus on > this, a good chunk of free culture fanatics need to find a better name > for their movement and goals.  The replacement of copyright with more > sensible social norms for

Re: [Foundation-l] Anarchopedia changed its license

I'm surprised that Anarchopedia has decided to use MediaWiki which is, at its core, based on capitalist values such as the notion of authorship. It is not straightforward at all to subvert this notion in the software which was designed to give credit to individuals for every single edit. Since site

Re: [Foundation-l] Anarchopedia changed its license

Milos, This is a great post. On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > As it may be of interest here, I am sending my blog > postto > the list. > And a couple of my personal notes: > >   - Anarchists are not a

[Foundation-l] Anarchopedia changed its license

As it may be of interest here, I am sending my blog postto the list. * * * * * First of all, anarchists don't care about licenses. Because of that, one month of discussion

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Final of the Commons Picture of the Year competition 2008

I'm sure some people who aren't on commons-l are still interested in this. Please vote! :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Maggs Date: Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:00 PM Subject: [Commons-l] Final of the Commons Picture of the Year competition 2008 To

Re: [Foundation-l] Problems with the new license TOS

2009/4/17 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice > > I don't consider Moeller the main proponent of the current > proposal in any meaningful way; except in the very narrow > sense that Moeller is admirably acting to employ "the art > of the possible", and therefore