Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-15 Thread Andreas Kolbe
> From: David Levy > It most certainly is a matter of interpretation.  If the English > Wikipedia community shared yours, we wouldn't be having this > discussion. > In this context, you view images as entities independent from the > people and things depicted therein  I view images as *conten

Re: [Foundation-l] An image filter proposal from German Wikipedia (opt-in version of this proposal)

2011-10-15 Thread Andreas Kolbe
From: WereSpielChequers >To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >Sent: Saturday, 15 October 2011, 9:41 >Subject: [Foundation-l] An image filter proposal from German Wikipedia > > > > > >Hi Andreas, that's certainly an interesting proposal, but I'm not sure it >meets our needs as a community. > >Firs

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-15 Thread Nickanc Wikipedia
Grazie! :) 2011/10/13 Federico Leva (Nemo) : > Nickanc Wikipedia, 12/10/2011 14:21: >> Yes, there are these groups, but in most wikipedias they have few >> persons inside it and they have almost no policy; > > That's because few people need it. > In it wiki basta una riga in [[WP:RA]], secondo me.

Re: [Foundation-l] 6 reasons we're in another book-burning, period in history

2011-10-15 Thread Robin McCain
On 10/14/2011 9:17 PM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > However archiving is rather different from what we are dealing with > which is more focused on books and other mass market material rather > than say old planning application maps and minutes of the union of > postal workers 1

Re: [Foundation-l] Grant agreements

2011-10-15 Thread MZMcBride
Sue Gardner wrote: > Oh. I can speak to this, at least a little. The Wikimedia Foundation has a > policy of publishing our grant applications when the grantmaking institution > is okay with it. We don't do a lot of grant applications, and of the ones we > do, I am guesstimating that two-thirds of t

Re: [Foundation-l] An image filter proposal from German Wikipedia

2011-10-15 Thread Andre Engels
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > What I like about this proposal is its simplicity and elegance. It has the > great benefit of leaving the communities and content writers in charge of > where and to what extent they use the filter, and it also includes > non-logged-in user

[Foundation-l] An image filter proposal from German Wikipedia

2011-10-15 Thread WereSpielChequers
> Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:40:28 +0100 (BST) > From: Andreas Kolbe > Subject: [Foundation-l] An image filter proposal from German Wikipedia > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Message-ID: ><1318635628.69020.yahoomail...@web29616.mail.ird.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; cha