Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-13 Thread Rui Correia
Hi David Great post! Reminds me of something I saw last night on Russia Today, Keiser Report about JPMorgan and co. They always win, no matter what. And you've just hit the nail on the head. But that goes as far as RD goes, which is one issue. Your way of doing it adequately solves those

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 21:21 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself On the contrary, the Arbitration Committee has the responsibility and the power. That they do not discharge the full

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
...@fairpoint.net; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 0:07 Freitag, 6.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself The dispute resolution page is a little bit of a mess

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Sep 6, 2013 6:01 PM, Steven Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote: You are entitled to your opinion. I don't agree with it, and I don't feel you should say that everyone is wrong but yourself. Cheerio. Steve Sent from my iPhone When replying to mailing list posts, you should quote what you're

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Steven Zhang
On 7 Sep 2013, at 8:14 am, Lars Gardenius lars.garden...@yahoo.de wrote: Sorry, but I didn't say that everone, but me, is wrong. I said that I believe that you are wrong concerning this question. Regards, Lars Gardenius Fair enough. I have to agree with the comments made by Marc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Peter Southwood
- Original Message - From: Josh Lim jamesjoshua...@yahoo.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 6:01 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself I think what we need to consider here is where the loyalties

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Josh Lim jamesjoshua...@yahoo.com An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 6:01 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself I think what we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Peter Gervai
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Lars Gardenius lars.garden...@yahoo.de wrote: No I don't think it is being addressed. Not in a serious way. You mean it's not _solved_. Indeed. At least one problem was mentioned in the thread which is that the (honest, knowledgeable) newbies have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Lars Gardenius lars.garden...@yahoo.de wrote: No I don't think it is being addressed. Not in a serious way. You mean it's not _solved_. Indeed. At least one problem was mentioned in the thread which

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
and with the authority to uphold them. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 10:50 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
Sorry, but I'm not agree with your note, Anders. My home WP is not en: (it's uk: in fact) but everything being discussed is very (100%) applicable for our community. Lucky you are in se:WP that you have no similar issues/problems but perhaps you've collected some magical know-how how to avoid

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Anders Wennersten
It is no magic *yearly reelection of administrators/sysops has meant no bullying types are sysops any more *we are a small community with just a few hundred active. And we have decided to treat everyone (who are serious) as valuable individuals, and go a very long way to make all feeling

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread cro0016
List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 23:08 Mittwoch, 4.September 2013 Betreff: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Greetings to All Let me start by saying that I don't do much here at the WP, not compared to people who make hundreds of edits a week. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
That's Sweden all right, it's like a small town. Thousands of administrators from scores of countries is another matter. Even requests for administration is very difficult as, unless you do big time research, or spend your life monitoring others edits and activity, you just don't know much. Voting

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: fredb...@fairpoint.net fredb...@fairpoint.net; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 14:22 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself I wouldn't say dispute

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
...@fairpoint.net; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 14:22 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself I wouldn't say dispute resolution has never worked, nor does it not work now. It could use improvement, but the same

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
I doubt that scale is only thing which matters. As to me both enWP and ukWP suffers from lack of community (extremely important word in Anders' comment) as that despite the fact that fist is much larger 'town' (even 'city') than svWP, and second is small 'village'. I mean community solid enough

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread cro0016
Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself I wouldn't say dispute resolution has never worked, nor does it not work now. It could use improvement, but the same could be said about everything (and like most things, shortages

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; fredb...@fairpoint.net fredb...@fairpoint.net Gesendet: 15:15 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself I've worked extensively with dispute resolution on English Wikipedia (I have conducted surveys

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
Von: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 14:39 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself That's Sweden all right, it's like a small town

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 15:09 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself For a serious discussion to happen you will need to disclose some examples. The next step is to move beyond anecdote to see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
cro0...@gmail.com An: Lars Gardenius lars.garden...@yahoo.de CC: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; fredb...@fairpoint.net fredb...@fairpoint.net Gesendet: 15:15 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself I've

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Anders Wennersten
An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 15:09 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself For a serious discussion to happen you will need to disclose some examples. The next step is to move beyond anecdote to see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 09/05/2013 04:18 AM, Lars Gardenius wrote: That Wikipedia:Dispute resolution mirrors a very naive approach in a worldwide organization. It has never worked before and it doesn't work now. Where doesn't work is mostly defined as didn't give the result I demanded. I've been part of that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
Yes, that is pretty much the situation. The howls of outraged anguish from those who were not able to dictate (really bad) content or practices form the core of our organized opposition. That does not mean systemic deficiencies don't exist; just that we must look and think in a noisy environment.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 09/05/2013 11:49 AM, Lars Gardenius wrote: But if your child is mobbed at a Wiki when he/she tries to contribute, or your grandmother is being abused when she contributes to a Wiki, you want somewhere to turn. As said there is no such instance in the Wikis, there is noone responsible how

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself On 09/05/2013 11:49 AM, Lars Gardenius wrote: But if your child is mobbed at a Wiki when he/she tries to contribute, or your grandmother is being abused when she contributes to a Wiki, you want somewhere to turn. As said there is no such instance

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself On 09/05/2013 11:49 AM, Lars Gardenius wrote: But if your child is mobbed at a Wiki when he/she tries to contribute, or your grandmother is being abused when she contributes to a Wiki, you want somewhere to turn

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Lars, Please put your cards on the table. What are your suggested changes? Fred I am also more interested in processes than discussing special cases. I think that was also the meaning of Rui Correia's letter starting

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself That is just a re-invention of the Arbitration Committee. People from an external source nearly always have a fatal flaw; they don't understand how Wikipedia works. More informed people could man

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
or old folks, women or men. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 18:03 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 18:03 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Yes, that is pretty much the situation. The howls of outraged anguish from those who

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 13:28 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Should not this discussion be held on he maillist for English wikipedia? There is not much, if any,  of what is being discussed that I can recognize from my home wp Anders Fred Bauder

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Chad Horohoe
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: It is addressed but by a rather complicated and demanding process. See Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Not really workable for new users who bump up against well-established users who have bad habits, or have learned that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Fred Bauder
No thank you, I do not have a dispute; you do; please follow the dispute resolution procedure. Fred Hi Tom Thanks for your contribution. However, you seem to have missed the point. So Lisa violates the 3RR principle and you lecture me. And I lodge a complaint over the 3RR and that gets

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 13:28 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself At wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org ? Perhaps, but hard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Steven Zhang
The dispute resolution page is a little bit of a mess, but we're working on streamlining things. Informal mediation was closed as it had been made largely redundant by the dispute resolution noticeboard. The same could perhaps be said about the mediation committee, but it's a long-standing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
...@yahoo.de; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 20:37 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself On 5 September 2013 18:50, Lars Gardenius lars.garden...@yahoo.de wrote: I am involved in work

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
  Von: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 18:03 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Yes, that is pretty much the situation. The howls of outraged anguish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Who is both independent, knowledgeable, and not involved in a wiki? All you have to do is read a newspaper or magazine article about Wikipedia to realize how hopelessly outsiders get everything wrong. Fred

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Dennis Pierri
I've had the same issues in Spanish Wikipedia, the project is missing neutrality and is in danger because of serious editors and admins which put their opinions before the Wikipedia values Sent from my iPhone On 04/09/2013, at 16:38, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote: Greetings to All

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-04 Thread Lars Gardenius
Gesendet: 23:08 Mittwoch, 4.September 2013 Betreff: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Greetings to All Let me start by saying that I don't do much here at the WP, not compared to people who make hundreds of edits a week. I would love to, have a long list of to-do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-04 Thread Rui Correia
Von: Rui Correia correia@gmail.com An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 23:08 Mittwoch, 4.September 2013 Betreff: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Greetings to All Let me start by saying that I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-04 Thread Rui Correia
Von: Rui Correia correia@gmail.com An: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 23:08 Mittwoch, 4.September 2013 Betreff: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Greetings to All Let me start by saying that I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-04 Thread Josh Lim
| Wikimedia: Sky Harbor http://akira123323.livejournal.com From: Rui Correia correia@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:08 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from