Re: [WikiEN-l] ZOMG Wikipedia is TERRORIST!!1!1!!!!

ot negate "offered up to anyone who phoned up and asked for it." In reality, it was simply not publicized; but it was generally fairly easy to get. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN

Re: [WikiEN-l] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, [TODAY] was a relic of the email I copied this from :/ On 07/20/2010 11:31 AM, Cary Bass wrote: > (Note: This announcement is also an update to James Owen's prior email > announcing Sue would be doing office hours this Friday. T

[WikiEN-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner

prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundati

[WikiEN-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 15, featuring Frank Schulenburg & Pete Forsyth

k through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/

[WikiEN-l] Office Hour for Friday, June 11, featuring Mike Godwin

slate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wiki

[WikiEN-l] Office hours tomorrow, Thursday April 22, 2009

ted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoun

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [PRESS] Quality of Wikipedia entries depends on authors' collaboration

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forwarding interesting article: http://sify.com/news/quality-of-wikipedia-entries-depends-on-authors-collaboration-news-international-kdmpudgegha.html Quality of Wikipedia entries depends on authors' collaboration 2010-03-12 15:20:00 Last Updated:

[WikiEN-l] Office Hour for Thursday, February 25

ted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org

[WikiEN-l] Office hours for Friday, February 12

to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscri

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: > SlimVirgin wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:59, Cary Bass >> wrote: > >>> I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be >>> accepted on to Commons, because Commons respects t

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SlimVirgin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:59, Cary Bass wrote: > >> I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be >> accepted on to Commons, because Commons respects the country of >> origin rule rather

Re: [WikiEN-l] Images that are PD in their country of origin

. > > Because of that small doubt, I have to claim fair use. And because > I am claiming fair use, someone has said I will have to reduce the > quality of the image for it to comply with our fair-use policy. > It's insane. I'd like to point out that in fact, these images would be ac

[WikiEN-l] Office hours *right now* Thursday, February 4

e as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Suppo

[WikiEN-l] Office hours tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27.

e feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ WikiEN-l mailing list W

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Cunctator wrote: > Just restored a former prime minister. > Hi! I just want to ask a question about this, and since I don't know the article of which you speak, I can't judge its specific merits. This is my personal opinion, and does not reflec

[WikiEN-l] Office hours very shortly

kimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Fre

[WikiEN-l] Office hours Thursday, December 17

nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wi

Re: [WikiEN-l] Office hours next Friday, December 11

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hope my inability to send these out without one single mistake is amply entertaining. The day is Friday (as indicated in the subject and the second paragraph), not Thursday (as carelessly left in the first line). Cary Cary Bass wrote: > Hello

[WikiEN-l] Office hours next Friday, December 11

through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[WikiEN-l] Office hours next Thursday, December 3

y warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 19

Forgive my poor math (in addition to my poor self-proofreading skills) but 3:00 PM Pacific time is actually 2300 and not 2100. Office hours are in 1:45 hours. Cary Cary Bass wrote: > Hello all! > > Next Thursday's office hours will feature Véronique Kessler, the > Foundation&

Re: [WikiEN-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 19

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: > Hello all! > > Next Thursday's office hours will feature Véronique Kessler, the > Foundation's Chief Financial Officer. If you don't know Naoko, you > can get to know her at > <http

[WikiEN-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 19

ough a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. Also note, this is Veronique's first foray into IRC, so lets show her how welcoming we can be! :-) - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinato

[WikiEN-l] Office hours starting in 30 minutes

your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support free knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia -BEGIN PG

[WikiEN-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 12

ght. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. (Naoko is able to speak English and Japanese with a great degree of competancy!) -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikime

[WikiEN-l] Office hours this Friday, November 6

Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wik

Re: [WikiEN-l] Office hours this Friday, November 6

There's one "Thursday" in my previous message. It's going to definitely be on Friday, sorry if it caused any confusion. (Thanks James!) Cary Cary Bass wrote: > Hello all! > > This Friday's office hours will once again feature Rand Montoya, > Wikimedia Found

[WikiEN-l] Office hours in 30 minutes (2009-10-29)

Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. (Kul is able to speak English, Japanese and Portuguese with some degree of competancy!) -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimedi

[WikiEN-l] Office hours next Thursday, October 29.

e feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. (Kul is able to speak English, Japanese and Portuguese with some degree of competancy!) -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimedi

Re: [WikiEN-l] Office hours tomorrow, Thursday, October 15

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This Thursday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the > Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike > Godwin, you can read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mi

[WikiEN-l] Office hours tomorrow, Thursday, October 15

ce and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Fo

Re: [WikiEN-l] Office hours this Friday, October 9

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, just a reminder that the office hours are just about to start. Cary Bass wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia > Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don'

[WikiEN-l] Office hours this Friday, October 9

t.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. Go ahead. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimedia

[WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Staff office hours

h the Wikizine site at http://chat.wikizine.org/ and picking one of the two gateways, while choosing "wikimedia-office" from the dropdown on the next page. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGI

Re: [WikiEN-l] Age fabrication and original research

tance of Hal Roach, and the Dixons were married in > 1939, but the linked James Dixon was *born* in 1939. In my experience, IMDB is hugely unreliable as a secondary source, notably because the material can be edited by you and me (provided you have an account); and while it is all subject to edito

[WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Staff office hours

eenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate PS: I&

[WikiEN-l] REMINDER: Wikimedia Staff office hours

rough a security warning. It's fine. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG w

[WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Staff office hours

ompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsu

Re: [WikiEN-l] Newyorkbrad's speech at Wikiconference New York

stevertigo wrote: > Charles Matthews wrote: > >> This would be another swipe at [Officer] - don't feed. >> > > No, Charles, it was not a "swipe" at [Officer]. If it was a "swipe" at > anything corporeal all, it was at the way BLP paranoia and the > BLP-police-state often appears to bring a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Saintonge wrote: > # It does not take long for a pile of old newspapers to reach the > ceiling. You've tested this? :-) - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/

Re: [WikiEN-l] In development--BLP task force

Peter Coombe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Cary Bass wrote: > >> In that respect, I'd like to solicit members of the community to take >> part in this project. If you are interested, please send me a brief >> email summarizing what your involvement

Re: [WikiEN-l] In development--BLP task force

27;d be sorry if this experience prevented valuable people from giving me their name. I'm still going to put forth a great effort in getting this group together--and will do my damnedest to ensure that the group members' efforts are not wasted. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedi

[WikiEN-l] In development--BLP task force

now, because my availability over the coming weeks before Wikimania will be somewhat limited, so forgive me if you respond with interest immediately and I don't get back to you right away. I expect development of this task force to go into high gear in September. Thank you for your interest. Ve

Re: [WikiEN-l] A modest proposal - a recap of resolution-l

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stevertigo wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Charles > Matthews wrote: >> stevertigo wrote: > >> Can you not do this thing of bad-mouthing people who disagree >> with you? (See your attitude to Cary Bass.) > >

Re: [WikiEN-l] A modest proposal - a recap of resolution-l

ed and googled by using poisonous language such as "And he recently did, though there was little substance in it," which inherently fail to endear me to your cause any further. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wik

Re: [WikiEN-l] Blocking / moderation

t;non-responsive" in common > language. > Please don't assume that you were embarrassing anyone except yourself. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _

Re: [WikiEN-l] Bible websites

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Magnus Manske wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, David Gerard > wrote: >> 2009/7/7 David Gerard : >>> 2009/7/6 Magnus Manske : You're right. To atone for my sins, here the auto-comparing toolserver tool I hacked since my first mail: >>

Re: [WikiEN-l] Bible websites

Magnus Manske wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Matthew Brown wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Magnus >> Manske wrote: >> >>> Come to think of it: >>> >>> The bible is either wrong, in which case it shouldn't be cited. >>> >>> Or it's true, which would mean that it was di

Re: [WikiEN-l] MediaWiki is getting a new programming language

Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/7/1 AGK : > >> Um, why are we giving Brion such a hard time? If his message didn't provide >> enough details, then a polite request for clarification would be in order; >> on the contrary, however, some of the replies to his post were just plain >> rude. I do miss the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia slags off Palmerston North

Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/6/27 : > >> OK but apply it. >> Who do you ask at "Wikipedia" for comment. >> And how do you state "Wikipedia could not be reached for comment" ? >> > > Well, I would click the "Contact Wikipedia" link in the sidebar, > personally. Given that it says "Contact W

Re: [WikiEN-l] Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death

Carcharoth wrote: > Hmm. > "Brion Vibber "Current events and traffic spikes". June 26, 2009 — > Diary entry by the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation > describing in detail the effects on the Wikimedia Foundation's web > servers, which host both Wikipedia and Wikinews, of the news.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikinews page rating system and social bookmarking

Carcharoth wrote: > Ooh! Wikinews have a page rating system for their readers to use. How > long has that been in use for and how much traffic does it get and is > it in use on any other Wikimedia projects? There is also a "Share > this" feature to allow cross-linking and social bookmarking. Nice.

[WikiEN-l] Volunteer:Email response statistician

, feel free to email me directly, but I'd like to keep general discussion on the lists to a minimum. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation [1] <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Email_response_statistician> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikimediauk-l] User:Stifle on newstalk.ie Saturday7pm (BST)

David Gerard wrote: > > 2009/5/9 Cary Bass : > > David Gerard wrote: > > >> (forwarding to wmuk-l for interest ... we don't have an > .ie list yet, > >> do we?) > > > I would love to see one get started, notably as I'll be visiting

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikimediauk-l] User:Stifle on newstalk.ie Saturday 7pm (BST)

David Gerard wrote: > > (forwarding to wmuk-l for interest ... we don't have an .ie > list yet, do we?) > I would love to see one get started, notably as I'll be visiting Ireland on holiday with my partner in August; and wouldn't mind meeting some Irish Wikip/medians. Cary __

Re: [WikiEN-l] Neutrality enforcement: a proposal

stevertigo a écrit : > SV's choice of scope: "..on Israel-Palestine articles.." cannot be serious. > Everyone knows that theres some subjectivity involved there. "Neutrality" in > that context can only found through lots of shuckling and jihad. > > SV says: "[this idea] could be extended to other i

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carcharoth a écrit : > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:16 AM, George Herbert wrote: >> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wrote: >> >>> 2009/5/5 David Gerard >>> "The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431-404BC, was an Ancient G