Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-18 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: So, are we doomed to experience such things every once in a while? Or does anyone have a bright idea about improving the balance between ownership and wiki-ness?

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-18 Thread Domas Mituzas
What was it that lasted only a minute, Chris? Vandalism, probably. I've read an article that vandalism lasts about a minute! Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-18 Thread Peter Gervai
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:13, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: What was it that lasted only a minute, Chris? Vandalism, probably. I've read an article that vandalism lasts about a minute! Impossible. I'm sure one minute has passed but I still see vandalism occasionally. :-) g

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-18 Thread Peter Gervai
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 16:15, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2011/6/17 Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 15:24, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I am not sure it is a valuable contributor who do not accept the base of the

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-18 Thread Strainu
2011/6/18 Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:13, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: What was it that lasted only a minute, Chris? Vandalism, probably. I've read an article that vandalism lasts about a minute! Impossible. I'm sure one minute has passed but I

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-18 Thread Chris Lee
Ha, to clarify, the entire background on any visited page was replaced with swastikas and porn; along the top read brought to you by meepsheep, who I've since learned is a blocked user. On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/6/18 Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com:

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-18 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 06/17/11 7:15 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2011/6/17 Peter Gervaigrin...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 15:24, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: In such cases, as an Israeli saying goes, i am right, but i am not clever. It hurts that person and it hurts the project, because that person may

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-18 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 06/17/11 5:01 PM, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis wrote: I am a bit biased since I have a project to add a trust metric on mediawiki but I think that content ownership is important. It lets us evaluate the content without reading it which is important to most of us who are only experts on one

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-18 Thread Béria Lima
a blocked user with a looong list of sock puppets _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-18 Thread Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis
The fact that the truth is determined by consensus between experts and unknowledgeable or between people with contrary ideas is a problem. It is not a process that derives the truth since the truth is defined by the many,

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

2011-06-18 Thread Samuel Klein
There are some technology changes that could make this much easier. 1) make it easy to see *your last version* of an article when you visit it. 2) provide a link to 'diffs since your last edit' 2.1) provide a way to comment directly on that diff, without having to laboriously cut and paste 3)