Re: [Foundation-l] editor survey report

2011-10-17 Thread Mani Pande
Hi Beria, My apologies for taking so long to answer the question. I was not hiding or avoiding your question. I missed your question till Phillipe pointed it out to me last week since for some reason your initial email and subsequent emails on the topic landed in my junk folder. We asked the quest

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-17 Thread Thomas Morton
On 17 Oct 2011, at 09:19, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > Am 16.10.2011 21:27, schrieb ???: >> On 16/10/2011 19:36, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: >>> Am 16.10.2011 16:17, schrieb ???: On 16/10/2011 14:50, David Gerard wrote: > On 16 October 2011 14:40, ??? wrote: > >> Don't be an arsehole

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Kolbe
> You view them as standalone pieces of information, entirely distinct > from those conveyed textually.  You believe that their inclusion > constitutes undue weight unless reliable sources utilize the same or > similar illustrations (despite their publication of text establishing > the images' accu

[Foundation-l] Office hours with Chief Community Officer Zack Exley, Weds. Oct. 19th

2011-10-17 Thread Steven Walling
Hi all, Just a reminder that there will be an IRC office hours on Wednesday the 19th at 16:00 UTC. The guest is Chief Community Officer Zack Exley, and the topic is the upcoming annual fundraiser. We'll be in #wikimedia-office, and as usual there is info on Meta about how to join.[1] See you ther

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK report, September 2011

2011-10-17 Thread Asaf Bartov
Thanks for a fantastic report! Asaf On Oct 15, 2011 4:49 AM, "Michael Peel" wrote: > Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly > reportfor the period 1 to 30 September > 2011. If you want to keep up with the > chapter's activities as they happen, please subscri

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content (???)

2011-10-17 Thread WereSpielChequers
Re >> I claim that you are talking total crap. It is not *that* difficult to >> get the >> categories of an image and reject based on which categories the image >> is in are. There are enough people out there busily categorizing all the >> images already that any org that may wish to could block i

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Note: This foundation-l post is cross-posted to commons-l, since this discussion may be of interest there as well. > From: Tobias Oelgarte > It is a in house made problem, as i explained at brainstorming [1]. > To put it short: It is a self made problem, based on the fact that this  > images

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-17 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
It is a in house made problem, as i explained at brainstorming [1]. To put it short: It is a self made problem, based on the fact that this images got more attention then others. Thanks to failed deletion requests they had many people caring about them. This results in more exact descriptions an

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-17 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 16.10.2011 21:27, schrieb ???: > On 16/10/2011 19:36, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: >> Am 16.10.2011 16:17, schrieb ???: >>> On 16/10/2011 14:50, David Gerard wrote: On 16 October 2011 14:40, ??? wrote: > Don't be an arsehole you get the same sort of stuff if you search for Presu