Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

This is a great idea. SJ On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On 06/19/2011 07:37 PM, Ryan Lomonaco wrote: >> I recognize that this is probably a touchy issue given the controversy on >> the English Wikipedia over flagged revisions (which I thankfully wasn't a >> part of),

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

On 06/19/2011 07:37 PM, Ryan Lomonaco wrote: > I recognize that this is probably a touchy issue given the controversy on > the English Wikipedia over flagged revisions (which I thankfully wasn't a > part of), but maybe flipping flagged revisions on for everything in the > template namespace would h

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ryan Lomonaco wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Risker wrote: > >> I'm not sure what kind of on-wiki discussions you might expect to see, >> Sage. >> > > I think he might have been going with Chris' assertation that every page was > affected, which doesn'

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

Forwarding the update to foundation-l. Amazing news -- congratulations to the Malayalam Wikisourcerors for this work and its success. As far as I know, this is the first offline Wikisource compilation to be released as a CD. It would be interesting to see something similar with translations of es

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

Ray, I agree with you. The trust metric is not meant to substitute critical thinking. What I try to do seems to me quite interesting.Google uses links between pages to rank them. This metric uses links between people to rank pages. It is intended as a search engine. What is more, links between peo

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Chris Lee wrote: > I don't know if that was the template. I first saw it on the page 0.999... > and then on the main page. This was after I had noticed Wikipedia's loading > speed drop significantly. It was this template then, which is now protected:

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

I don't know if that was the template. I first saw it on the page 0.999... and then on the main page. This was after I had noticed Wikipedia's loading speed drop significantly. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: ht

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Risker wrote: > I'm not sure what kind of on-wiki discussions you might expect to see, > Sage. > I think he might have been going with Chris' assertation that every page was affected, which doesn't appear to be true - the template's transcluded on just under 1,0

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

On 19 June 2011 09:41, Sage Ross wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Casey Brown wrote: > > > Yeah, that does happen sometimes. The cause is usually "template > > vandalism", where a vandal adds some content to an unprotected > > template that's used in a few pages. This makes it difficu

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Elections: post mortem

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Post_mortem I think that is 2011/6/19 MZMcBride > Béria Lima wrote: > > 2011/6/19 Jon Harald Søby > >> Since the election is over I have started a post mortem page on Meta to > >> evaluate the election: what was good, what was bad (and how can

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

Sage Ross wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Casey Brown wrote: >> Yeah, that does happen sometimes.  The cause is usually "template >> vandalism", where a vandal adds some content to an unprotected >> template that's used in a few pages.  This makes it difficult for new >> users to find ou

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Elections: post mortem

Béria Lima wrote: > 2011/6/19 Jon Harald Søby >> Since the election is over I have started a post mortem page on Meta to >> evaluate the election: what was good, what was bad (and how can it be >> approved), etc. As always, all input is appreciated, just add it to the >> page. :-) > > What page?

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Elections: post mortem

What page? ;) _ *Béria Lima* (351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer .* 2011/6/19

[Foundation-l] Board Elections: post mortem

Hello all, I hope you have all heard the news of the election results. (If not, they can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Results/en ) Since the election is over I have started a post mortem page on Meta to evaluate the election: what was good, what was bad (and

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Casey Brown wrote: > Yeah, that does happen sometimes.  The cause is usually "template > vandalism", where a vandal adds some content to an unprotected > template that's used in a few pages.  This makes it difficult for new > users to find out what happened and us

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Chris Lee wrote: > Ha, to clarify, the entire background on any visited page was replaced with > swastikas and porn; along the top read "brought to you by meepsheep", who > I've since learned is a blocked user. Yeah, that does happen sometimes. The cause is usua

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

On 17 June 2011 16:08, Marco Chiesa wrote: > To be honest, when you release your work under cc-by-sa you grant a > third party the right to reuse a (small or large) part of your work to > make a derivative work. The license in itself is not what determines > that the live version of a Wikipedia a

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

On 06/18/11 3:28 PM, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis wrote: > The fact that the truth is determined by consensus between experts and > unknowledgeable or between people with contrary ideas is a problem. > > It is not a process that derives the truth since the truth is defined by the > many, > http://en.w