Re: [Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Wagner
no literary tradition, and the only written material is linguistic studies by outsiders. -- Mark Wagner ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Wagner
on tape, remote servers, or magic pixie dust. -- Mark Wagner ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-20 Thread Mark Wagner
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:33, Still Waterising stillwateris...@gmail.com wrote: I can accept that Commons may not fit under the definition of secondary producer. However, when Wikipedians choose a sexually explicit image from Commons, the crop it and add a caption, this may fall under the

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-09 Thread Mark Wagner
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 18:20, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: Given that several Commons admins had dropped out, and bearing in mind the clean-up campaign called for by the board and Jimbo, I put in an RFA at Commons, saying I would help clean up pornographic images *that are not in

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-07 Thread Mark Wagner
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 15:15, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: For me, this statement is at the first line a support for Jimmy's effort. It is a soft push from the board to the community to move in a direction. The problem is that what Jimmy is doing on Commons isn't a soft push. It's a

Re: [Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Wagner
one was clearly vandalized the first time I looked at it, so I'd say a thousand samples is probably too small to get any sort of precision on the vandalism rate. -- Mark Wagner [[User:Carnildo]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

2009-06-22 Thread Mark Wagner
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 14:35, Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net wrote: Brian wrote: That is against the law. It violates Google's ToS. I'm mostly complaining that Google is being Very Evil. There is nothing we can do about it except complain to them. Which I don't know how to do - they

Re: [Foundation-l] Reuse policy

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Wagner
2009/6/15 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.yu: Дана Monday 15 June 2009 23:20:10 Brian написа: I'm not going to get into any more of a tit-for-tat with you (seriously - its my last post), but I do not claim to have legal counsel. As you would expect, however, both CC and WMF do. The best you

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-14 Thread Mark Wagner
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 13:44, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have much to add, but I want to voice my strong agreement. Some sort of serious effort to reach out to the many users who don't share the outlook of our more-libertarian-than-the-general-population community

Re: [Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

2009-05-05 Thread Mark Wagner
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 08:29, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: However, most information isn't lost because of disaster, it is lost because people don't think they need it any more and delete/destroy it. Can we trust whoever is around in the future to continue to preserve the

Re: [Foundation-l] Alternating sitenotices is kinda confusing

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Wagner
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:40, Casey Brown cbrown1023...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Mark Wagner carni...@gmail.com wrote: I just hope you guys settle down on something soon.  I'm tired of playing whack-a-mole with the sitenotices. Hmm?  This is the only time we changed

Re: [Foundation-l] Alternating sitenotices is kinda confusing

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Wagner
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 13:30, Casey Brown cbrown1023...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote: Could we please have both at once We now have a combined notice running.  Hopefully, this is a better way of doing it (even though it's

Re: [Foundation-l] dumps

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Wagner
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:48, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: One of the academics I am speaking of wrote the textbook on natural language processing. He has a 3TB raid cluster. Of course, for about a thousand dollars you can create a bigger raid cluster than that using the new 2TB