Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> > > NPOV policy as written would require us to do the same, yes.
> > The community obviously doesn't share your interpretation of said policy.
> It's not a question of interpretation; it is the very letter of the policy.
It most certainly is a matter of interpretation. I
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, there are people who work on social media
year round (not just for the fundraiser). During this year's fundraiser, we
will be putting out more messages across social media sites and actively
participate in the conversation that's taking place there.
During our wee
On 10/13/2011 8:43 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> My impression, from reading several articles in this topic area in both
> projects, is that this is quite a representative example, illustrating
> fundamental differences in approach between the German and English
> Wikipedias, with the German Wikipe
David,
I just noticed that I left a "bla" at the top of my reply to you. That wasn't a
comment on your post: my e-mail editor often doesn't allow me to break the
indent of the post I'm replying to. My work-around is to type some random
unindented text at the top of my editor window, and then c
bla
>
>From: David Levy
>To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>Sent: Friday, 14 October 2011, 3:52
>Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content
>
>I wrote:
>
>> > In an earlier reply, I cited ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspapers and m
>
> It need be no more complex than
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist
In my opinion, it will need to be far simpler than that if it is to address
the needs of the casual reader. We simply can't expect them to make any
significant investment in understandi
Having thought about the very divisive image filter discussions here, on de:WP,
Meta, and elsewhere, including the August referendum and the more recent editor
poll in the German Wikipedia, I would like to draw the Board's and other
editors' attention to some fundamental differences between the
I wrote:
> > In an earlier reply, I cited ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspapers and magazines
> > that refuse to publish photographs of women. If this were a mainstream
> > policy, would that make it "neutral"?
Andreas Kolbe replied:
> NPOV policy as written would require us to do the same, yes.
Th
> From: David Levy
> > > In an earlier reply, I cited ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspapers and
> > > magazines
> > > that refuse to publish photographs of women. If this were a mainstream
> > > policy, would that make it "neutral"?
> Please answer the above question.
NPOV policy as written woul
I wrote:
> > Apart from the name (which the MediaWiki developers inexplicably
> > refused to change), the bad image list is entirely compliant with the
> > principle of neutrality (barring abuse by a particular project, which
> > I haven't observed).
MZMcBride replied:
> Not inexplicably: https:
David Levy wrote:
> Andreas Kolbe wrote:
>> Again, I think you are being too philosophical, and lack pragmatism.
>>
>> We already have bad image lists like
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Bad_image_list
>>
>> If you remain wedded to an abstract philosophical approach, such lists
>>
>
> --
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:07:54 -0300
> From: Andrew Crawford
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Image filtering without undermining the
>categorysystem
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>
> Message-ID:
> >
> Cont
Am 13.10.2011 09:54, schrieb Hubert:
> Meanwhile, I prefer the following solution:
>
> Everyone, who will not understand and perceive the world so as it is,
> should unsubscribe his internet connection - just like his newspaper
> subscription, radio and television and - of course - any advertising
+1
h
Am 11.10.2011 03:20, schrieb Bjoern Hoehrmann:
> * Sue Gardner wrote:
>> This is how the system is supposed to work. The Board identified a
>> problem; the staff hacked together a proposed solution, and we asked
>> the community what it thought. Now, we're responding to the input and
>> we'r
Am 10.10.2011 21:16, schrieb Sue Gardner:
> On 10 October 2011 11:56, Möller, Carsten wrote:
>> Sue wrote:
>>> It is asking me to do something.
>>> But it is not asking me to do the specific thing that has
>>> been discussed over the past several months, and which the Germans
>>> voted against.
Dear Andreas,
This is, what I wanted to express. But it is not only a quite different
etymology, it is also a definition of gender-related positions to be
interpreted and applied.
But what we care about minorities - as I always say - as long as they
representing only women, children, homosexuals
Hello,
To me, this shows that the search engine is badly configured, or has a
major problem.
So fix it instead of creating a filter, which would have unwanted side effects.
Having a good search engine would be within the WMF mission,
creating a filter is not.
Regards,
Yann
2011/10/12 Andreas Ko
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