Re: [Foundation-l] Two questions about the licensing update of media files

2009-08-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Uploading material that is incompatible with our license, I would personally consider it a bad faith move. Only when it is considered that the inclusion of a GFDL file is similar to fair use within the context of a Wikipedia clone would it be acceptable. This however possibly negates the reaso

Re: [Foundation-l] Stevertigo

2009-08-03 Thread Tim Starling
I wrote: > I'm taking Stevertigo off moderation. He has agreed by private email > not to continue the dispute resolution mailing list thread. I also asked him to not make me immediately regret my decision, and to let this thing with Austin drop. I repeated this request in a second private email w

Re: [Foundation-l] Two questions about the licensing update of media files

2009-08-03 Thread Nemo_bis
mizusumashi, 25/07/2009 16:54: > Q1) All media files that have been licensed under the GFDL and allowed > to relicense under CC-BY-SA were relicensed by > [[wmf:Resolution:Licensing update approval]]? Yes, all GFDL "1.2 and later". See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GFDL_1.3_relicensin

Re: [Foundation-l] The end of donations

2009-08-03 Thread David Goodman
I'm pleased to accept the epithet. Pro-freedom dogmatist describes me nicely with respect to many areas of life, including both sexuality and access to information. I think it comes close to describing most of the people at Wikipedia in matters of personal life and of information. Those who suppo

Re: [Foundation-l] Stevertigo

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Williamson
Why did you feel it necessary to reply to Gerard? Is it so important to you to have the last word? In your last e-mail, you said you didn't want to continue this thread any further. The best way to put an end to it is to stop responding to others' messages rather than to tell others not to respond

Re: [Foundation-l] The end of donations

2009-08-03 Thread masti
W dniu 31.07.2009 01:16, stevertigo pisze: > It occurs to me that when people donate money to something, it is to > some degree with an expectation that the recipient entity grows to > eventually gain a certain kind of financial self-sufficiency. Is this > not also the case with Wikimedia and man

Re: [Foundation-l] The end of donations

2009-08-03 Thread stevertigo
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Matthew Brown wrote: > As opposed to you, who'd just love to destroy that content to get money? Destroy what content? Recall I used the terms "fetish" and other destructive-sexuality / pro-depravity articles and images" and referred to people who support their ubi

Re: [Foundation-l] Stevertigo

2009-08-03 Thread stevertigo
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Please consider a topic that matters. It's not important that this list be run according to certain basic rules and principles? And no doubt there are others here who dislike your own comments for the simple fact that they extend the threa

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Strategic Planning Office Hours

2009-08-03 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi folks: This is just a reminder: Eugene and I will be having our regular weekly office hours to discuss strategic planning. The time for this week is: Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 1-2pm PDT or Tuesday, 4-5pm EDT. The office hours will be held in #wikimedia on the IR

Re: [Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

2009-08-03 Thread Lars Aronsson
Samuel Klein wrote (in two messages): > >> *A wiki for book metadata, with an entry for every published > >> work, statistics about its use and siblings, and discussion > >> about its usefulness as a citation (a collaboration with > >> OpenLibrary, merging WikiCite ideas) > I could see this ha

Re: [Foundation-l] presentations and marketing @ events

2009-08-03 Thread Nemo_bis
phoebe ayers, 02/08/2009 08:50: > in the meantime we *really* need > a nice-looking one page overview about the projects to hand out -- any > graphic designers up for this? And of course a new press kit too I suppose local chapters have many... See Wikimedia Italia last one: http://www.wikimedia.