I'm glad I finally found you. I have a silly walk, and I'd like to apply
for a government grant to help me develop it.
Newyorkbrad
2011/8/23 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com
Wow, if all it takes to get exemption from road tax is a quick edit, I
can guess there will soon be a number
2011/8/24 Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com:
I'm glad I finally found you. I have a silly walk, and I'd like to apply
for a government grant to help me develop it.
Newyorkbrad
OK, first step: post a video of your walk to Commons under a free license.
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e^(πi)+1=0
I did, but it was deleted. The deletion summary was that's not *particularly
*silly
Newyorkbrad
2011/8/24 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com
2011/8/24 Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com:
I'm glad I finally found you. I have a silly walk, and I'd like to apply
for a government
Just occasionally this Python sketch feels very relevant to Wikipedia;
M: Ah. I'd like to have an argument, please.
R:Certainly sir. Have you been here before?
M: No, I haven't, this is my first time.
R: I see. Well, do you want to have just one argument, or were you
thinking of
Stop this thread at once! It's gotten entirely too silly!
Kirill
2011/8/24 Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com
I did, but it was deleted. The deletion summary was that's not
*particularly
*silly
Newyorkbrad
2011/8/24 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com
2011/8/24 Newyorkbrad
Agreed, this thread is definitely deceased ... following a prolonged squawk.
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Guillaume Paumier, 24/08/2011 16:36:
The AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki, which helps prevent vandalism
on wikis, will be globally enabled on all Wikimedia projects later
today.
More information is available at
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM, James Forrester ja...@jdforrester.org wrote:
On 24 August 2011 15:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
I know I can look at noc.wikimedia.org, but could you please add some
info about the default configuration so that at least sysops know what
to
Guillaume Paumier wrote:
The AbuseFilter extension for MediaWiki, which helps prevent vandalism
on wikis, will be globally enabled on all Wikimedia projects later
today.
More information is available at http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=6106
From
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:17 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Was there any discussion about giving every Wikimedia user an abuse log? I
don't really have any objection to the AbuseFilter (beyond the performance
implications, particularly with poorly written filters), but there are
Admins are once again given even more extensive content powers ?
And that's a good thing right Captain Kirk?
It's a good thing right?
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Let me rephrase in a slightly less trollish manner.
Admins should never be given powers over content. Not now, not then, not ever.
Admins have no business being involved in content of any type ever :)
In every possible universe.
Will
-Original Message-
From: Wjhonson
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
phoebe ayers, 04/08/2011 07:29:
The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
summary, meant to help share
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Admins should never be given powers over content. Not now, not then, not
ever.
Admins have no business being involved in content of any type ever :)
In every possible universe.
Oh, sure. Especially when the content is HELLO I
Extreme cases can be used to justify any action Victor.
Why live in a country where every month new powers are being given to the
police to control the population?
Who wants to live in that country?
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From: Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Foundation
Let me rephrase in a slightly less trollish manner.
Admins should never be given powers over content.
Perhaps fittingly, the abuse filter has been active on English Wikipedia for
some time. And even better, it is not a sysop group right. Instead it has
its own group.
If you are volunteering
Give me permission.
I am volunteering to head up the abuse filter team.
Thomas don't mistake my point for some other point.
I am not suggesting that admins AS EDITORS should veer away from content
creation, but rather that admins using their clubs should not be given more
clubs with which to
On 24 August 2011 18:12, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Give me permission.
I am volunteering to head up the abuse filter team.
Thomas don't mistake my point for some other point.
I am not suggesting that admins AS EDITORS should veer away from content
creation, but rather that admins
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Extreme cases can be used to justify any action Victor.
Why live in a country where every month new powers are being given to the
police to control the population?
Who wants to live in that country?
I'm amused.
The first
The filter works. On es@wiki we don't have a group. We just have a group of
people that add some rules when asked. The admins who know how to add rules
do it, the others, ask the ones that know about it, period.
I'm really happy people don't have to worry about certain types of
vandalism. I just
Guillaume Paumier, 24/08/2011 17:39:
Both concerns you raise are valid, and I agree with you, but globally
enabling the extension by default is no different in that sense from
enabling it one wiki at a time.
Mischievous admins could be abusing AbuseFilter already on any small
wiki where the
phoebe ayers, 24/08/2011 18:39:
Thanks Nemo!
It is true that the first part of the report is a duplication of the
resolutions meeting minutes that we publish. My assumption here was that
not everyone keeps up with all of the board resolutions etc :) It is also
nice to have a single record of
@itwikiquote is an experiment by WMI,
it's a bot that writes the Quote of the day via Twitter.
It work fairly well.
There are supposedly some more of them but we have some problems with
templates in other languages.
https://twitter.com/#!/WikimediaItalia/wikiquote/members
Nemo
On 23 August 2011 19:09, Slim Virgin slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
Routledge has kindly offered three months free online access to
Feminist Economics, a peer-reviewed academic journal, for up to 15
Wikimedians. The sign-up sheet is here,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Feminist_Economics
Can anyone provide any info on what the journal carries? are we
looking at pure theory or are their case studies?
You can see the table of contents for their current issue here:
http://www.feministeconomics.org/journal_spotlights/
It's not a perfect answer, but will at least give you some
I suspect the only answer you are going to get is that some people or
places would need it. What you will not get is any explanation for
why the WMF itself should do it. instead of letting those who want it,
to do it as they wish outside Wikipedia, as our licensing permits.
(You might get the
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