Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-23 Thread Ting Chen
Hello, (all below are my private opinion.) I'm strongly supporting the No censorship camp, and as of such i am against any wiki-wide measures that would make content unavailable, with the argument that people can choose whether or not to look at offensive content, but people cannot choose

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-23 Thread Andreas Kolbe
From: Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de What I find not convincing is the slogan No censorship. I think this is a bad argument. Actually, I wish we'd rename [[WP:NOTCENSORED]] in en:WP to something more sensible, for similar reasons. It is too often used as a justification for poor editorial

[Foundation-l] Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser

2010-07-23 Thread Philippe Beaudette
[[Please distribute widely to various language communities, projects, and chapters]] Hi All, I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to get community involvement early and often. As you no

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to Foundation Website

2010-07-23 Thread Sue Gardner
Hi Florence, I know Veronique plans to respond to your note, but I have two seconds right now, so I will add a quick comment below. On 23 July 2010 11:18, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: 2) You are maybe aware that some chapter members (deeply) regret that chapters are not listed

Re: [Foundation-l] RecentChangesCamp, Canberra

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello Laura! This sounds great; I wish I could be there, and am sure you will have an amazing time. (I'm helping with an upcoming RCC in Boston, so I'll get to enjoy another one soon). If you haven't already, you can post a geositenotice about the event on Wikipedia to alert people near

Re: [Foundation-l] free software policies

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello Joe, It was great to see you in Gdansk; I hope we can find ways to better collaborate with PlanetMath in the future. On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Joe Corneli holtzerman...@gmail.com wrote: It is my view that a good portion of 'the sum of all knowledge' is currently embodied in

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-23 Thread George Herbert
Meta-question - Is there in fact sufficient evidence that this is a topic that the Foundation must, or should, engage in actively at this time? I know why the Foundation has an inclination to get involved - people ask about it, and some very uncomfortable stuff finds its way into Commons and the

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to Foundation Website

2010-07-23 Thread Veronique Kessler
Hi there, Yes, we put $500K in the Community gifts goal from the Chapters. I too had no idea that Chapters would be looking to see this spelled out in the plan so that is interesting information. Yes, the earned income does represent revenue from trademark deals. Veronique Sue Gardner

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-23 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:52 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Is there in fact sufficient evidence that this is a topic that the Foundation must, or should, engage in actively at this time? I know why the Foundation has an inclination to get involved - people ask about it,

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-23 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 7/23/10 3:52 PM, George Herbert wrote: Meta-question - Is there in fact sufficient evidence that this is a topic that the Foundation must, or should, engage in actively at this time? That seems to be one of the questions that Robert Harris is trying to answer. Ryan Kaldari

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

2010-07-23 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Neil Harris use...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: On 21/07/10 22:38, Nikola Smolenski wrote: Дана Monday 19 July 2010 22:20:15 Brian J Mingus написа: Feel free to provide your feedback on this idea, in addition to your own ideas, in this thread, or to me personally.

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a universal citation index

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel Klein
I second the motion to move this discussion to the wikiresearch-l list, since two threads have diverged...SJ On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Neil Harris use...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote: On 21/07/10 22:38, Nikola

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello Robert, On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:59 AM, R M Harris rmhar...@sympatico.ca wrote: the time has come, I think, to actively begin a discussion within the communities about some of the questions which I've encountered, specifically around Commons and images within Commons. I'd love to