Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread Stephen Bain
thread, not an image filter conspiracy thread :) -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread Stephen Bain
-on-telstra/531627.aspx -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Stephen Bain
. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Stephen Bain
is that the dewiki poll being worded in a manner that is pleasing to people who have critiqued the Foundation-wide survey does not render it representative, when it was participated in by at most one eightieth of the members of the community whom we know to have an opinion on the matter. -- Stephen

Re: [Foundation-l] A possible solution for the image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen Bain
things been part of the proposal? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-21 Thread Stephen Bain
anarcho-libertarians either. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-19 Thread Stephen Bain
. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-19 Thread Stephen Bain
bodies filter is described as not including Egyptian mummies, someone could decide to hide all images by default. This doesn't have to be difficult. -- [1] Which, naturally, includes actual images of people undertaking all sorts of activities involving human genitals. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-17 Thread Stephen Bain
not suitable to be covered in articles. This is an editorial decision-making process that all editors perform all the time. Determining which filters to work on is entirely analogous to this process, which is inherently neutral. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-16 Thread Stephen Bain
are they not at present under enough pressure to avoid using Wikimedia projects (or at least articles where such pictures would be expected to be present) entirely? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-16 Thread Stephen Bain
to hide all images is also implemented, we can quite simply add a disclaimer when anyone goes to turn on a filter indicating that if complete exclusion is particularly important to them, they should choose the option to hide everything by default. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-14 Thread Stephen Bain
, and beg for their absolution. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-12 Thread Stephen Bain
, and in that regard Wikipedia has needed no assistance in drawing attention and contributions away from Wikinews. What good is yesterday's synthesis today? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-12 Thread Stephen Bain
, and to have the largest possible impact. Even if a first deployment is Wikipedia, they will generally benefit other projects as well. I believe the correct name for that is the trickle-down effect :) -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread Stephen Bain
for all ages. Britannica never had authors putting pictures of their own genitals throughout each volume because NOTCENSORED. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-05 Thread Stephen Bain
satisfactory 'yes' in answer to the question of whether it is worth the devs' time coding beginning development. We're merely talking about a proposed software feature here. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-05 Thread Stephen Bain
the level/quantity of dev resources that should be allocated to developing it. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-05 Thread Stephen Bain
-to-see crowd gives their blessing, to develop and implement...) The questions are all relating to the development of the feature, save for the 'culturally neutral' question: the first is about how to prioritise it, and the others are about setting out the specs for the feature. -- Stephen Bain

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-05 Thread Stephen Bain
On Sep 6, 2011 6:43 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: However, you initially claimed the referendum itself constituted support for the feature itself: It provides a quite satisfactory 'yes' in answer to the question of whether it is worth the devs' time coding beginning development.

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-05 Thread Stephen Bain
On Sep 6, 2011 7:11 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: The mean and median are statistical gibberish in a distribution that pathologically bimodal. You should know better than to make any claim that the numbers you quote are meaningful. 16% of respondents chose '0' and 20% chose '10'.

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed

2011-03-20 Thread Stephen Bain
composition, and the increasing dominance of the executive). -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed

2011-03-20 Thread Stephen Bain
umbrella, would there still be enough connection to the Foundation's operations to render it desirable that they be enfranchised? (I would think so.) -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed

2011-03-20 Thread Stephen Bain
-Wikimedia extension devs, Wikia devs, etc. Not that I know how many of them there are. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2011-01-01 Thread Stephen Bain
$4 M of non-fundraiser revenue, the fundraiser needed to meet $4.8 M to cover 'urgent' expenses, a mark it hit on Nov 25. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2011-01-01 Thread Stephen Bain
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 January 2011 13:45, Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com wrote: This puts a ceiling on 'urgent' costs at $8.8 M, or 43% of the budget of $20.4 M. [3] This is a worthwhile analysis, but you have neglected

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2011-01-01 Thread Stephen Bain
attract more people with the institution of Wikipedia than the institution of Wikimedia. So wait, why was the choice made? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki[p/m]edia

2010-12-09 Thread Stephen Bain
the institution of Wikimedia. Thanks for the explanation. It seems some people assumed bad faith before, when really we can see it was just a good-natured attempt to deceive these people as to where their money would go. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-08 Thread Stephen Bain
, and today there are many more than 32 sites that clone Wikipedia, so this trick is also becoming useless. If you have Firefox there's an addon that will let you filter out mirrors (among other things). See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirror_filter -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Office action

2010-06-02 Thread Stephen Bain
to be expert in French copyright law when contesting copyright claims by French companies, and the answer is yes. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-13 Thread Stephen Bain
, these are just teething issues with finding exactly the right parameters (lighting, amount of AA, other postprocessing, etc) for the render. Would the people working on the logo be able to make the 3D model available for people to play with? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Another board member statement

2010-05-11 Thread Stephen Bain
. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

2010-05-07 Thread Stephen Bain
environments. To that end, does anyone know what happened to that project to embed 3D models of chemical compounds? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia iPhone app goes v2.0

2010-05-01 Thread Stephen Bain
to be out of date in other ways too. Any reason why this isn't in SVN? -- (1) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_iPhone_app -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] How to reply to a mailing list thread

2010-03-31 Thread Stephen Bain
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: This post below, I've pretty much ignored because it wasn't worth trying to sort through who said what. Yet instead of deleting it, you included the whole thing. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

[Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

2010-03-30 Thread Stephen Bain
versions of Wikimedia content may strip or substitute links while retaining images (though you would hope they would strip most templates too). Stephen Bain, - managing to trim replies and avoid top-posting from his mobile device -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevisions status (March 2010)

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Bain
is that it's not unreasonable to expect something more concrete when there are people getting paid to do the work. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

2010-02-28 Thread Stephen Bain
usage), that is sitting around waiting to be configured like a production server for testing? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Frequency of Seeing Bad Versions - now with traffic data

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Bain
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Anthonywikim...@inbox.org wrote: It seems to me to be begging the question. You don't answer the question how bad is vandalism by assuming that vandalism is generally reverted. Can you suggest a better metric then? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Raw data of 2009 Board election ballots

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Bain
they know in their hearts that the Schulze method is stupid, and their heads just want to make sure. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] [Slashdot] Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad

2009-07-20 Thread Stephen Bain
advice from a professional photographer who doesn't understand what a licence is. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] No default codec for video and audio in HTML5

2009-07-03 Thread Stephen Bain
the browser (in mobile devices, for example). It's much closer to being the de facto standard of the web than Theora is. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

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

2009-06-20 Thread Stephen Bain
a party who reprints public domain material, as was the case in Feist v. Rural (the supreme court case you mention.) They want people to use their service. Fair enough, given that the scanning and OCRing happened on their dime. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update roll-out

2009-06-18 Thread Stephen Bain
and retaining GFDL only for legacy content? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Third-party GFDL text irrevocably incompatible with Wikipedia as of August 1

2009-05-28 Thread Stephen Bain
wants to use our content under any such license is welcome, and we will treat yours similarly, under the presumption that any court would regard the differences as insignificant. Please tell me you didn't vote on the licensing transition proposal. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

2009-03-26 Thread Stephen Bain
), you can leave a comment about how you feel here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Begin_from_Scratch :-) I couldn't resist making a prototype: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Suggestion -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com