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

2015-03-18 Thread Dennis During
Thanks MFWarburg. Almost exactly what I want and certainly good enough for now. On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:43 PM, MF-Warburg wrote: > Special:Log/renameuser > Am 19.03.2015 00:59 schrieb "Dennis During" : > > > So, for the third time: Will there be a report accessible to normal users > > that ha

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

2015-03-18 Thread Austin Hair
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > These off topic emails about the same subject Andreas grinds his axe about > perpetually are pretty annoying. Can moderation do something please? I'm not sure what forum would be more on-topic, if not this one. I think this particular disc

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

2015-03-18 Thread MF-Warburg
Special:Log/renameuser Am 19.03.2015 00:59 schrieb "Dennis During" : > So, for the third time: Will there be a report accessible to normal users > that has the name changes for the most voluminous contributors who have had > a name change so that one can transfer one's experience with a user to th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New financing model for editations

2015-03-18 Thread Richard Symonds
I worry that running an auction and a raffle for each - or even some - editathons would be a lot of work, even if you just focus on the admin work (I'm not sure what the laws around fundraising auctions and lotteries are but that could be costly too). The FDC and the community in general are very m

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

2015-03-18 Thread Dennis During
I'm a bit confused about implications of SUL for edit history. What name will show up in page history for a contribution made by someone who, after SUL, has a new name? The new name, if any, of that user? The name being used at the time, which would now be attributed to someone who did not make th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing interim COO

2015-03-18 Thread Pine W
Welcome Terry. Will we have a chance to meet you at the Wikimedia Conference? Is the COO role temporary for the duration of the strategy review or does interim mean indefinite pending a more expansive search for a permanent COO? Gayle, thanks for your resilience in the HR role. Good luck! Thanks,

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Commons

2015-03-18 Thread Carmen Alcázar
Hello. I am Wikipedian in residence and want to upload a high quality tiff archive and I can't seem to upload more than 100.00 MB. I get this message: "You can only upload files with a size of up to 100.00 MB". What is happening ? Do you know what I can do? -- *"Wikipedia es algo especial. Es co

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 18/03/2015 20:41, Marc A. Pelletier a écrit : On 15-03-18 02:19 PM, Mathias Damour wrote: [...] the content must be appropriate for children [...] The problem is exactly that. What is or is not "appropriate for children" is an inherently *political* question, the answer to which is inherent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread David Gerard
I'm not dismissing other approaches! I'm noting one approach that did work :-) On 18 March 2015 at 20:02, Mathias Damour wrote: > Le 18/03/2015 16:23, David Gerard a écrit : >> >> http://schools-wikipedia.org does most of the job. And teachers LOVE it. >> We should give this project more love and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing interim COO

2015-03-18 Thread Gayle Karen Young
Dear colleagues, It was a difficult decision to leave the Wikimedia Foundation as its CTCO. Some of my best memories of my time with the Wikimedia movement include the privilege of interacting and learning from Wikipedians at the Chapters Conferences and Wikimanias in D.C., Hong Kong, and London,

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing interim COO

2015-03-18 Thread Lila Tretikov
Dear Wikimedians, At the Wikimedia Foundation, our mission is to empower, support and engage people around the world to share in free knowledge. One of our top priorities for the WMF in 2015 is improving organizational effectiveness in service of this mission. This means we need to strengthen WM

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 18/03/2015 15:02, Amir E. Aharoni a écrit : Both were printed in Russian in the Soviet Union, so they also had, um, ideological adaptations, which I was smart enough to spot (yay for me), but the reason I loved it is that it had large illustrations, clear and large font and engaging language.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 18/03/2015 16:23, David Gerard a écrit : http://schools-wikipedia.org does most of the job. And teachers LOVE it. We should give this project more love and assistance, it's basically the refutation of all attempts to, er, filter the base product. Teachers love it, what about children? Le 1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 18/03/2015 13:59, Marc A. Pelletier a écrit : On 15-03-18 03:09 AM, Mathias Damour wrote: [from the Convention on the Rights of the Child] "[...] this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds" Interestingly enough, to me this reads /against/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 March 2015 at 16:07, Richard Symonds wrote: > Indeed. http://schools-wikipedia.org is already used around the world - > it's a great example of what can be done if Wikimedians work with (even > passively with) other orgs. Everyone likes it, not many are coming forward to lead the ongoing

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

2015-03-18 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Thyge wrote: > I do not think that WMF's filing a suit against NSA should be a starting > point for demanding the WMF to cure all the evils of the World, political > or otherwise. > Well, not all the evils of the world, obviously. :) But there is certainly prece

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

2015-03-18 Thread
Correction. This link lists backwards from "Fae" but misses out "Fae": https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed&dir=prev&offset=Fae This link lists forwards from "Fae" but again misses out "Fae"!: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UsersWho

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 March 2015 at 14:02, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > But TLDR - a Wikpedia *adapted* for children is a good idea. http://schools-wikipedia.org does most of the job. And teachers LOVE it. We should give this project more love and assistance, it's basically the refutation of all attempts to, er, f

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

2015-03-18 Thread Dennis During
Thanks for moving this close to completion. I hope finalization goes well. However, It found Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed totally useless at Wiktionary, as I'm sure it is at any mature project. Only 25 names appear at time. On Wiktionary the first page only includes names using exclusively excl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I'd be the most vocal opponent of an encyclopedia *censored* for children. But I would be a very vocal proponent of an encyclopedia *adapted* for children. Not by dumbing it down and not by removing information that some cultures, religions or governments consider immoral or mature-audiences-only,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread
On 18 March 2015 at 12:59, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > For instance, would a Russian Kids' Wikipedia carefully avoid "promotion > of homosexuality" as their law now demands (to pick one salient example > amongst thousands). Yes it would. Though this has been bounced about as a project for many ye

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

2015-03-18 Thread Thyge
I do not think that WMF's filing a suit against NSA should be a starting point for demanding the WMF to cure all the evils of the World, political or otherwise . Even handling the recognized problems of some minor Wikipedias fall outside the scope of the WMF. Wikipedia is the Encyclopedia anyone c

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

2015-03-18 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe > wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:53 PM, phoebe ayers >> wrote: >> >> >>> What other unfortunate laws are >>> happening elsewhere in the world and how do we track and maybe act on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 15-03-18 03:09 AM, Mathias Damour wrote: > [from the Convention on the Rights of the Child] > "[...] this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart > information and ideas of all kinds" Interestingly enough, to me this reads /against/ the idea of a "Wikipedia for Kids" insofar as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-18 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 18/03/2015 02:32, Samuel Klein a écrit : Thanks for summarizing this, Mathias. I love the work that has been done so far on Wikikids, and think WMF should think about creative ways to make such projects successful. Gathering knowledge for all audiences requires simpler language than most wik