Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 08:30, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: > On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 22:56 +0100, David Gerard wrote: >> And, in detail, why is a hide/show all solution inadequate? What is >> the use case this does not serve? > Are you even trying to pretend to be serious? Use case: me reading an > article. > >

[Foundation-l] testing

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Damian
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[Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Damian
Greetings, I am writing a book on the history of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement, focusing on its 'history of ideas'. Would any Wikipedians be prepared to be interviewed for this? Obviously long-standing Wikipedians would be a focus but I am interested in anyone who is involved in the mo

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 08:49, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: > On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 23:35 +0200, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: >> Why? Because it is against the basic rules of the project. It is >> intended to discriminate content. To judge about it and to represent you > No, it is intended to let people discriminate

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread teun spaans
I completely agree :) On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 21:16 +0100, David Gerard wrote: > > "Both the opinion poll itself and its proposal were accepted. In > > contrary to the decision of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia > > Foundation, pers

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

2011-10-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 October 2011 09:16, Peter Damian wrote: > Edward Is "Edward" Peter Damian, or someone else? - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 October 2011 10:01, teun spaans wrote: > I completely agree :) So you can address my answer, even as Nikola didn't quite. - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

2011-10-23 Thread Przykuta
> > A general question: is there a Wikipedian ideology? What is it? Hmm. "Ideologie und Utopie." Don't forget about Mannheim ;) Przykuta ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Given that we have won, can we turn Italian Wikipedia back on now?

2011-10-23 Thread emijrp
So, the law was finally rejected or it was not voted yet? 2011/10/6 Chris Keating > > > > Not so easy. Yesterday an amendment has been officially proposed, not > > approved. It will be discussed into the parliament camera, then into the > > parliament senate. Only if both will accept it without

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Harris
On 22/10/11 22:56, David Gerard wrote: > On 22 October 2011 22:51, Tobias Oelgarte > wrote: > >> What approaches do you have in mind, that would empower the editors and >> the readers, aside from an hide/show all solution? > > And, in detail, why is a hide/show all solution inadequate? What is >

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

2011-10-23 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Peter Damian wrote: > A general question: is there a Wikipedian ideology? What is it? In > particular, how does the current ideology, if there is one, compare with the > ideology which inspired its founding fathers. And mothers - many of the > founding editors o

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Fae
> A cookie-based "hide all images"/"show all images" toggle clearly > visible in the toolbar at the top of pages. together with > ... > I'd be interested in any arguments that might be made against such a > proposal. How about the fact that newspaper websites regularly include shocking images of v

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 October 2011 11:50, Fae wrote: > How about the fact that newspaper websites regularly include shocking > images of violence and death on their main pages and have few > complaints as they rely on editorial control rather than built-in > software tricks? This is a solution looking for a prob

Re: [Foundation-l] Given that we have won, can we turn Italian Wikipedia back on now?

2011-10-23 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:26 PM, emijrp wrote: > So, the law was finally rejected or it was not voted yet? > It hasn't been voted yet. Cruccone ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Fae
On 23 October 2011 12:02, David Gerard wrote: > On 23 October 2011 11:50, Fae wrote: > The Foundation considers de:wp's careful and thoughtful decision to > put [[:de:vulva]] on the front page of de:wp with a picture was a > clear failure of community judgement sufficient to justify the > imposi

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 October 2011 12:30, Fae wrote: > PS "clear failure" looks like an opinion, not a statement of fact. > Presumably this relates to an official position of the WMF? An opinion held by several staff on the matter, including the Executive Director. I consider this significant, you may not. -

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Fae
On 23 October 2011 12:38, David Gerard wrote: > On 23 October 2011 12:30, Fae wrote: ... >> PS "clear failure" looks like an opinion, not a statement of fact. >> Presumably this relates to an official position of the WMF? > > An opinion held by several staff on the matter, including the > Executi

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-10-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
I agree. There is no way a derivative work being PD invalidates the underlying copyright. That would be ridiculous. It would undermine the whole concept of derivative works. The deletion discussion on commons seems to have been closed prematurely. There was hardly any discussion at all. I'm not su

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-10-23 Thread Anthony
Reopened (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:%22Appreciate_America._Come_On_Gang._All_Out_for_Uncle_Sam%22_(Mickey_Mouse)%22_-_NARA_-_513869.tif#File:.22Appreciate_America._Come_On_Gang._All_Out_for_Uncle_Sam.22_.28Mickey_Mouse.29.22_-_NARA_-_513869.tif) Though I agr

Re: [Foundation-l] Given that we have won, can we turn Italian Wikipedia back on now?

2011-10-23 Thread Nickanc Wikipedia
very often in italian history, italian politicians use to postpone votings. This is tactics: when people gets angry for a law proposal, they delay its approval saying "we trust you", with the hope that later people wouldnt notice the law proposal. About this law this has already happened: it was or

Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering

2011-10-23 Thread WereSpielChequers
-- > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:57:51 +0200 > From: Tobias Oelgarte > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <4ea3668f.5010...@googlemail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-

Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 15:46, schrieb WereSpielChequers: > -- > >> Message: 3 >> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:57:51 +0200 >> From: Tobias Oelgarte >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering >> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Message-ID:<4ea3668f.5010...@goo

Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering

2011-10-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 October 2011 15:36, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > One open problem is the so called "logic/brain of the system". Until we > have an exact description on how it will exactly work, we know neither > it's strong points nor it's weak spots. Until i see an algorithm that is > able to solve this task,

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 10:31 +0200, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > Am 23.10.2011 08:49, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: > > On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 23:35 +0200, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > >> Why? Because it is against the basic rules of the project. It is > >> intended to discriminate content. To judge about it and

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM, David Gerard wrote: > A neutral all-or-nothing image filter would not have such side effects > (and would also neatly help low bandwidth usage). It would also make the project useless. I don't want to see the 0.01% (yes, rhetorical statistics again) images of medi

[Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Möller , Carsten
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:58:03 -0700 > From: Erik Moeller > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] > > The vote in German Wikipedia, and most of the discussions to > date, have focused on the specific ideas and mock-ups that > were presented as part of the referendum. Erik, You are wrong. The vot

[Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Möller , Carsten
> From: Erik Moeller > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] > > > The literal translation of what was being voted on: > > "Pers?nliche Bildfilter > (Filter, die illustrierende Dateien anhand von > Kategorien der Wikipedia verbergen und vom Leser an- und abgeschaltet > werden k?nnen, vgl. de

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Andreas K.
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Fae wrote: > > A cookie-based "hide all images"/"show all images" toggle clearly > > visible in the toolbar at the top of pages. together with > > ... > > I'd be interested in any arguments that might be made against such a > > proposal. > > How about the fact th

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-10-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 October 2011 13:12, Thomas Dalton wrote: > I agree. There is no way a derivative work being PD invalidates the > underlying copyright. That would be ridiculous. It would undermine the whole > concept of derivative works. The deletion discussion was reopened by Anthony and is still in prog

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 17:19, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: > On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 10:31 +0200, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: >> Am 23.10.2011 08:49, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: >>> On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 23:35 +0200, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: Why? Because it is against the basic rules of the project. It is inten

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 17:24, schrieb Andrew Garrett: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> A neutral all-or-nothing image filter would not have such side effects >> (and would also neatly help low bandwidth usage). > It would also make the project useless. I don't want to see the 0.01%

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Neil Harris
On 23/10/11 16:24, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> A neutral all-or-nothing image filter would not have such side effects >> (and would also neatly help low bandwidth usage). > It would also make the project useless. I don't want to see the 0.01% > (

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On 23.10.2011 19:05, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > >>> The German poll made clear, that not any category based filter will be >>> allowed, since category based filtering is unavoidably non-neutral and a >>> censorship tool. >> Who the hell are you to forbid me or allow me to use a piece of >> software?

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
Peter Damian wrote: > I am writing a book on the history of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement, > focusing on its 'history of ideas'. Would any Wikipedians be prepared to be > interviewed for this? Obviously long-standing Wikipedians would be a focus > but I am interested in anyone who is invol

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 19:32, schrieb Ilario Valdelli: > On 23.10.2011 19:05, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: The German poll made clear, that not any category based filter will be allowed, since category based filtering is unavoidably non-neutral and a censorship tool. >>> Who the hell are you to for

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: > On 22 October 2011 23:36, Erik Moeller wrote: >> With that said, the mobile site already has a generic "Disable images" >> view and something similar would definitely make sense on the main >> site as well. > > I just tried it. It lacks the "click to show" feature. Add that

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: > With that said, I also think it's important to remember that Sue has > explicitly affirmed that the development of any technical solution > would be done in partnership with the community, including people > who've expressed strong opposition to what's been discussed to date.

Re: [Foundation-l] Grant agreements

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > Sue Gardner wrote: >> Oh. I can speak to this, at least a little. The Wikimedia Foundation has a >> policy of publishing our grant applications when the grantmaking institution >> is okay with it. We don't do a lot of grant applications, and of the ones we >> do, I am guesstimati

Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering

2011-10-23 Thread WereSpielChequers
> Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:36:37 +0200 > From: Tobias Oelgarte > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <4ea42675.9070...@googlemail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Am 23.10

Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering

2011-10-23 Thread Hubert
And after this procedure, we all expect, that some readers may become edtitors? Good Luck! I hope and expect, that wikipedia could help, that people become more educated. The more educated people are, the less important this filters will be. this should be our goal. not patronizing readers in a

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-10-23 Thread geni
On 23 October 2011 17:59, David Gerard wrote: > It's a very tricky one. Yes and no. However regardless of its complexity (which isn't that bad compared to some) it is how most real work copyright cases that people actually care about work. Rather than single the single copyright we might recogni

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Erik Moeller wrote: >With that said, I also think it's important to remember that Sue has >explicitly affirmed that the development of any technical solution >would be done in partnership with the community, including people >who've expressed strong opposition to what's been discussed to date. T

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:56 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> On 22 October 2011 22:51, Tobias Oelgarte >> And, in detail, why is a hide/show all solution inadequate? What is >> the use case this does not serve? > > Clearly Hebrew and Arabic Wikipedia found a "show/hide all" solut

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

2011-10-23 Thread geni
On 23 October 2011 09:16, Peter Damian wrote: > Greetings, > > I am writing a book on the history of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement, > focusing on its 'history of ideas'.  Would any Wikipedians be prepared to be > interviewed for this?  Obviously long-standing Wikipedians would be a focus

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Nikola Smolenski wrote: >Who is this "we" you are talking about? No one is going to force anyone >to categorize images. If some people want to categorize images, and if >their effort turns out to be in vain, again that is Their Problem and >not Your Problem. When your filtering or categorization

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Translations of September 2011 Wikimedia Highlights available in العربية (Arabic), Deutsch (German), Italiano (Italian), 日本語 (Japanese)

2011-10-23 Thread phoebe ayers
So cool! Thank you, WMF reports team! I look forward to hearing how the experiment works :) Phoebe On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Tilman Bayer wrote: > Hi, > > as mentioned in last week's announcement of the September 2011 > Wikimedia Foundation report, this time we published a separate > "Hig

Re: [Foundation-l] Grant agreements

2011-10-23 Thread Sue Gardner
It's Lisa Gruwell, MZ. Last I heard, she has been waiting to hear back from a couple of foundations about recent agreements. Thanks, Sue Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely shar

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

2011-10-23 Thread KillerChihuahua
- Original Message - From: "geni" On 23 October 2011 09:16, Peter Damian wrote: > Greetings, > > I am writing a book on the history of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia > movement, focusing on its 'history of ideas'. Would any Wikipedians be > prepared to be interviewed for this? Obviously

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

2011-10-23 Thread Phil Nash
I'm assuming that this is the Peter Damian who is also knol.google.com/k/edward-buckner/edward-buckner/2u2a5qlvdgh8h/1# since he signs as "Edward", rather than a troll seeking to impersonate the banned Wikipedia editor of the same name, for nefarious purposes. In either case, I have little conf