Re: [Foundation-l] 10th wiki-birthdays?

2011-09-24 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 7:07 AM, aude wrote: > Rather than 10th birthday for the projects, I think he's talking about as > an > editor. Anyone here who has been editing for 10 years? ;) > Plus a few months, my first edits were from March 2001. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com __

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th wiki-birthdays?

2011-09-24 Thread aude
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > According to [1]: > > * 15 January: English > * 16 March: Catalan, German > * 23 March: French > * 3 May: Swedish > * 11 May: Chinese, Esperanto,Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, > Spanish, Russian > * 19 June: Dutch > * 26 September: P

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th wiki-birthdays?

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Rancic
According to [1]: * 15 January: English * 16 March: Catalan, German * 23 March: French * 3 May: Swedish * 11 May: Chinese, Esperanto,Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian * 19 June: Dutch * 26 September: Polish * 16 November: Afrikaans * 26 November: Norwegian (Bokmal) * 6 Decemb

[Foundation-l] 10th wiki-birthdays?

2011-09-24 Thread Kim Bruning
And now for something completely different. :-) Who here has already had their 10th wikibirthday, and who will have it soon? Seems like an excuse for a party :-) sincerely, Kim 'TINC' Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@li

Re: [Foundation-l] Spamming from this list

2011-09-24 Thread Katie Chan
On 24/09/2011 22:31, wrote: > Could people on this list please refrain from spamming this email with > requests to join LinkIn (and that includes Mike Godwin), as I have no > interest in joining. They're sent out automatically from the LinkedIn (or whoever) system with consent of the named s

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 25.09.2011 01:10, schrieb Jussi-Ville Heiskanen: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Phil Nash wrote: >> wrote: >>> On 24/09/2011 22:46, David Gerard wrote: On 24 September 2011 22:40, wrote: > The last I heard the German people, as expressed through their > lawmak

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 25.09.2011 00:43, schrieb David Gerard: > On 24 September 2011 23:00, Phil Nash wrote: > >> The IWF just did not understand how access to Wikipedia works; a strange >> situation, given their mission. And it wasn't helped by their publicity at >> the time, IIRC. Fortunately, they seem to have sh

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Phil Nash wrote: > wrote: >> On 24/09/2011 22:46, David Gerard wrote: >>> On 24 September 2011 22:40,  wrote: >>> The last I heard the German people, as expressed through their lawmakers, DO NOT want their kids looking at porn or images that are

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Fajro
All this discussion is useless. The image filter is a violation of the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to dis

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-24 Thread David Gerard
On 24 September 2011 23:00, Phil Nash wrote: > The IWF just did not understand how access to Wikipedia works; a strange > situation, given their mission. And it wasn't helped by their publicity at > the time, IIRC. Fortunately, they seem to have shut up since then, and > possibly got their act to

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Phil Nash
wrote: > On 24/09/2011 22:46, David Gerard wrote: >> On 24 September 2011 22:40, wrote: >> >>> The last I heard the German people, as expressed through their >>> lawmakers, DO NOT want their kids looking at porn or images that are >>> excessively violent. They go so far as periodically g

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 25.09.2011 00:15, schrieb : > On 24/09/2011 22:46, David Gerard wrote: >> On 24 September 2011 22:40, wrote: >> >>> The last I heard the German people, as expressed through their >>> lawmakers, DO NOT want their kids looking at porn or images that are >>> excessively violent. They go

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 24.09.2011 23:40, schrieb : > On 23/09/2011 17:46, Kim Bruning wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:43:14AM +1000, Stephen Bain wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Kim Bruning >>> wrote: The survey was not a poll or referendum, and did not address the fundamental questi

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread ????
On 24/09/2011 22:46, David Gerard wrote: > On 24 September 2011 22:40, wrote: > >> The last I heard the German people, as expressed through their >> lawmakers, DO NOT want their kids looking at porn or images that are >> excessively violent. They go so far as periodically getting Google to >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Phil Nash
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Kim Bruning > wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:38:18AM +0100, Andreas Kolbe wrote: >>> Wikipedia was also briefly blocked in Pakistan, because of the >>> Mohammed cartoon controversy. So there might be a scenario where >>> countri

Re: [Foundation-l] Spamming from this list

2011-09-24 Thread Phil Nash
wrote: > Could people on this list please refrain from spamming this email with > requests to join LinkIn (and that includes Mike Godwin), as I have no > interest in joining. > > Thank you. That's an artefact of having a semi-open mailing list; I've been subscribed here and on other WMF mail

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:38:18AM +0100, Andreas Kolbe wrote: >> Wikipedia was also briefly blocked in Pakistan, because of the Mohammed >> cartoon controversy. So there might be a scenario where countries like Saudi >> Arabia and Pakistan f

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* m...@marcusbuck.org wrote: >I just want to point out that an idea like a free community-driven >everybody-can-edit-it encyclopedia with no editorial or peer-review >process would never have been created if a long discussion would have >preceded its creation. The scepticists would have raise

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread David Gerard
On 24 September 2011 22:40, wrote: > The last I heard the German people, as expressed through their > lawmakers, DO NOT want their kids looking at porn or images that are > excessively violent. They go so far as periodically getting Google to > filter the search results for Germans. Analog

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread ????
On 23/09/2011 17:46, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:43:14AM +1000, Stephen Bain wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: >>> >>> The survey was not a poll or referendum, and did not address the >>> fundamental question of whether this feature is wanted. >>> >

[Foundation-l] Spamming from this list

2011-09-24 Thread ????
Could people on this list please refrain from spamming this email with requests to join LinkIn (and that includes Mike Godwin), as I have no interest in joining. Thank you. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: h

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Mikael
On 23/09 2011 14:31, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > I agree with that. But i also have to mention that we have same > repeating patterns in the claims that we would need a filter, because > there is a huge mass of users demanding it. Actually i don't see this > mass of users in all samples that i have ta