Re: [Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

2009-11-22 Thread Judson Dunn
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > Very simply. If an organisation is going to make a project it will get > their own space on "Staging Area" and will upload their stuff there > without any legal problems. Then, one or more editors must examine > this stuff adding to it meta-d

[Foundation-l] some attention regarding our ad placement

2009-12-15 Thread Judson Dunn
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/12/wikis-fundraising-ads-send-wrong-message.html Ah, well. :) Judson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Judson Dunn
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > > Hello, > > > The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? > > We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what > they and us want. > And making the API more awesome, which helps everyone. :

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes launched on English Wikipedia

2010-06-16 Thread Judson Dunn
Yes, it's really amazing to see the difference in coverage for pretty much the exact same feature press was reporting on months ago, in the exact opposite way. I feel like this could be a case study for PR. Great job! -- Judson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion _

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

2008-12-08 Thread Judson Dunn
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoi, > Commons provides no benefit except for sharing the same picture to people > who do not read / write English. They cannot possibly find pictures and > consequently for them Commons is useless. Add to this the extreme

Re: [Foundation-l] and what if...

2008-12-12 Thread Judson Dunn
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > The censorship issue isn't really an issue - if an image (or content > or whatever) is genuinely illegal in a given country then of course > that country has every right to block it. If countries block legal > images (as in this case), or bl

Re: [Foundation-l] and what if...

2008-12-12 Thread Judson Dunn
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > IMO, the best approach would be to have a channel (a phone number, an > email address, etc...) where governments can contact the WMF to > request that certain pages are blocked in certain countries. These > entries can then be publicly listed,

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

2008-12-18 Thread Judson Dunn
This is sort of unrelated, but may be of interest to the people discussing language issues with search: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/12/cross-language-enterprise-search.html Google is announcing some cross language searching for enterprise now anyway, where you might search in one la

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-05-30 Thread Judson Dunn
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:58 PM, David Gerard wrote: > > 2009/5/30 Thomas Dalton : > > > I don't get it... this is just MSN Messenger on steroids. It's a great > > idea and if it works it should be really useful, but it isn't > > world-changing and certainly isn't going to restructure the internet

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-05-30 Thread Judson Dunn
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Anthony wrote: > That would be great, but wouldn't it also mean the death of Google and > pretty much any company which relies on web advertising to make money?  How > do you make money off of P2P?  Software and data license fees, I guess, but > is Google really pr

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-05-30 Thread Judson Dunn
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > 2009/5/29 Milos Rancic : >> Probably, some of you already saw that Google made something for which >> I think that it will be the new form of the mainstream Internet >> perception. You may read Slashdot article [1], a good description at >> th

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-05-30 Thread Judson Dunn
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Peter Coombe wrote: > The best description I've seen so far was "FriendFeed... with benefits" :-) > Right, it's not entirely new, which is I think why some people are saying it isn't a big deal. The problem is, it's only not new for people like us. We obviously s

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-05-30 Thread Judson Dunn
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Judson Dunn wrote: > >> I can't sell my luddite co-workers on the idea of a blog, or a >> wiki, but this is more obviously approachable. For more normal >> web users, there are obviously a lot of advanced

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-06-01 Thread Judson Dunn
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > The mention of a "patent license" should make us worried.  Does > Google, for example, have a patent on the animated playback? > Should we need a patent for "flagged revisions" to counter that? > > Their patent license is basically just sayi

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with human translations of Wikipedia articles

2009-06-09 Thread Judson Dunn
That's really neat, I'm glad they worked on Wikipedia first. I'm sure they are open to working with the licensing issues, they seem to like to use a rather restrictive one as their default almost without thinking about it, which I think is what happened with chrome also. I'm sure they will be open