Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-15 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, 2015-03-13 5:54 GMT+01:00 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: phoebe ayers wrote: (...) Education is apolitical. Education is certainly not apolitical. People with different political opinions support education, but free education like the one promoted by the WMF is certainly more a political

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-15 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi all, On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:54 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: phoebe ayers wrote: I trust our legal team to make decisions about what legal actions to participate in. Whether the Wikimedia Foundation should be engaged in political advocacy, and if so, who decides when and to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patrolling photographs of living people

2015-03-15 Thread Austin Hair
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-03-13 11:56 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk: On 13 March 2015 at 09:06, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Fae, you are aware that this is NOT the list for en.wp, right? Perhaps you missed the part of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-15 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:53 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: What other unfortunate laws are happening elsewhere in the world and how do we track and maybe act on those? I gave a very specific example in an earlier post this month:[1] A [Kazakh] law that took effect in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-15 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:53 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: What other unfortunate laws are happening elsewhere in the world and how do we track and maybe act on those? Here is a concrete

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-15 Thread MZMcBride
Keegan Peterzell wrote: Single-user login[1] finalization will be taking place next month.[2] [...] All accounts that will be affected by this will be contacted on their talk page within the next couple of days.[4] Hi. Do you think a month of warning to affected users is sufficient? Ideally we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-15 Thread Keegan Peterzell
Hi there, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:33 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Keegan Peterzell wrote: Single-user login[1] finalization will be taking place next month.[2] [...] All accounts that will be affected by this will be contacted on their talk page within the next couple of