Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-08 Thread RYU Cheol
Until today they were considering to implement, but finally they decided to abandon the business in South Korea. Nobody who set his profile to South Korea cannot upload video and cannot comments on Youtube. Now you got it? -Cheol 2009/4/9 Michael Snow : > RYU Cheol wrote: >> Yap, it's silly. But

Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Snow
RYU Cheol wrote: > Yap, it's silly. But it's happening in Korea. > > http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/04/123_42862.html > However, this story indicates that contrary to the earlier report, Google (specifically YouTube) is *not* implementing such a system. I don't know their reason

Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-08 Thread RYU Cheol
Yap, it's silly. But it's happening in Korea. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/04/123_42862.html 2009/4/9 teun spaans : > "oncurrently April 1 is when the amendment to South Korea’s Act on the > Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and User > Protection wi

Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-08 Thread teun spaans
"oncurrently April 1 is when the amendment to South Korea’s Act on the Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and User Protection will go into effect". That date smells ;-) On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, RYU Cheol wrote: > According to this post, > > http://briandeutsch

[Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real name for Internet

2009-04-08 Thread RYU Cheol
According to this post, http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-korea-youtube-korea-to-begin.html , "Google, the world’s largest Internet company, has finally submitted to South Korea‘s unprecedented Internet regulations, including agreeing to implement a “real name” system in which any So

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2009 Scholarships

2009-04-08 Thread Mark (Markie)
Wikimania 2009 [1], this year's global event devoted to Wikimedia [2] projects around the globe, is now accepting *applications for scholarships*to the conference. This year's conference will be handled from August 26-28 in Buenos Aires [3], Argentina [4]. The scholarship can be used to help offset

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was promised !

2009-04-08 Thread Marcus Buck
Brion Vibber hett schreven: > and there are plenty of things most members > of this list would rather see us do first. :) > Great to hear you are working on world peace... As the developments on 'things most members of this list would like to see' are rather slow, I'd say, you should urgently

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was promised !

2009-04-08 Thread Brion Vibber
On 4/6/09 3:28 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu > wrote: >> * you have promised that subdomain name mo will become mo-cyrl, it's april >> now and mo is still not yet renamed.* > > None of the wikis have been moved yet, it's not that this situation is >