Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Tim Starling
On 28/10/11 01:43, emijrp wrote: > Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. > > I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about > closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when politicians > speak about closing sites. About 90% of every

[Foundation-l] Feedback Dashboard launched today

2011-10-27 Thread Howie Fung
Hey Everyone, I wanted to let everyone know that earlier today, we launched the Feedback Dashboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedbackDashboard This dashboard is a running list of comments that new editors submitted via Moodbar (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoodBar). The idea behin

[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool office hours

2011-10-27 Thread Oliver Keyes
Hey guys So, Office Hours for the AFT is now over; thanks to all who attended. The logs can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2011-10-27 for those who missed it - we're talking about trying to hold a second session at a more North America-friendly time. Is th

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Fred Bauder
> Hi! > > we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to > protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever > > Domas Maybe when Occupy Wall Street call

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.

2011-10-27 Thread Robin McCain
On 10/27/2011 6:43 AM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > On 26 October 2011 14:15, Anthony wrote: >> > And apparently that's fine, if you are making a faithful reproduction >> > of the image in its original context. ?But tagging an image PD does >> > not imply "you may only make

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread emijrp
Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when politicians speak about closing sites. Damn. 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas > Hi! > > we recently did s

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Andre Engels
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest > IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? > > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:43, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi! > > we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest > IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-wo

[Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever Domas ___

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedian in residence in Cape Town, South Africa / WikiAfrica

2011-10-27 Thread Marco Chiesa
Forwarding from Wikimedia Italy, mailing list (we have an ongoing project called WikiAfrica with an association called Lettera27 Dear all, I'm forwarding a call for applications for a Wikipedian in residence in Cape Town. It is a one year position, offering expenses refund and implies living in