Re: [Foundation-l] This is tolerated on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list?

2010-10-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Peter Damian, 15/10/2010 07:50: > So if someone is banned it is OK to call him a dick? Fine. «Telling someone "Don't be a dick" is usually a dick-move — especially if it's true.» http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_dick Nemo ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] This is tolerated on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list?

2010-10-14 Thread teun spaans
PA are simply NOT DONE. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > What is unacceptable, that Greg is a dick or that he is said to be a dick? > > It takes a fair amount of doing to get banned on two projects and to be put > on moderation on mailing lists. He achieved all th

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Damian
- Original Message - From: "George Herbert" To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Peter Damian wrote: >... > In summary, Wikipedia is hardly making a

Re: [Foundation-l] This is tolerated on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list?

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Damian
So if someone is banned it is OK to call him a dick? Fine. - Original Message - From: "Gerard Meijssen" To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 5:58 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] This is tolerated on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list? > Hoi, > Wh

Re: [Foundation-l] This is tolerated on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list?

2010-10-14 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What is unacceptable, that Greg is a dick or that he is said to be a dick? It takes a fair amount of doing to get banned on two projects and to be put on moderation on mailing lists. He achieved all that and he is now getting the accolade for his efforts. Thanks, GerardM On 14 October

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-14 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
Peter, Whoever you might be, that's one heck of a post. Congratulations. Want to get together on Meta? I have only two more months to go on my very first block there. Maybe we can come up with a proposal for a multilingual Wikipedia for banned users. I wonder if Larry Sanger would like to joi

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-14 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Peter Damian wrote: >... > In summary, Wikipedia is hardly making a dent.  Where it is making a dent, > it is by cheapening the product.  No win all round. Broadening, not cheapening. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Five-year WMF targets exclude non-Wikipedia projects

2010-10-14 Thread Erik Moeller
2010/10/14 Federico Leva (Nemo) : > A very small improvement to Wikipedia may cost much, much more than a > huge improvement to projects where we've never invested almost anything. > And I could give you a list of examples (from the past) and proposals > (for the future), but we would be OT. I thi

Re: [Foundation-l] Five-year WMF targets exclude non-Wikipedia projects

2010-10-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thank you for your replies. Sue has kindly answered some questions on IRC, as well: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2010-10-14 Sue Gardner, 13/10/2010 03:58: > Below are some questions and answers re the targets that might be > helpful for the discussion. (Erik wrot

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Damian
- Original Message - From: "David Gerard" To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:56 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux > And it didn't irritate you that this is a vice-chancellor saying these > things, with an aim to making y

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-14 Thread Andrew Gray
On 13 October 2010 14:42, Gregory Kohs wrote: > I find it interesting that some 18 hours after Gerard's notification (and my > posting a comment on The Australian's page), still not a single comment has > been approved for publication.  I wonder why that is?  Is there some > official policy withi

Re: [Foundation-l] This is tolerated on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list?

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Damian
This is unacceptable. Please apologise to Greg. - Original Message - From: Gregory Kohs To: Ral315 ; Austin Hair Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:42 PM Subject: This is tolerated on the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list? http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-14 Thread David Gerard
On 13 October 2010 14:42, Gregory Kohs wrote: > I find it interesting that some 18 hours after Gerard's notification (and my > posting a comment on The Australian's page), still not a single comment has > been approved for publication.  I wonder why that is?  Is there some > official policy withi

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-14 Thread Gregory Kohs
Regarding the opinion piece by Jim Barber, mentioned yesterday by David Gerard: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/stand-and-deliver-on-its-last-legs/story-e6frgcko-1225937823844 I find it interesting that some 18 hours after Gerard's notification (and my posting a

[Foundation-l] Reminder: Office Hours with Sue Gardner (TODAY)

2010-10-14 Thread James Alexander
Hi all, A reminder that Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will be having office hours Today in about 2 hours at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT 19:00 CEST) on IRC in the #wikimedia-office channel. As usual the meeting will be an open format so bring your questions

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] How to improve quality of Wikipedia?

2010-10-14 Thread Felipe Ortega
--- El dom, 10/10/10, Federico Leva (Nemo) escribió: > De: Federico Leva (Nemo) > Asunto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] How to improve quality of > Wikipedia? > Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > CC: "Research into Wikimedia content and communities" > > Fecha: domingo, 10 de