[Foundation-l] First office hours for new General Counsel, Geoff Brigham

Hi everyone, I just wanted to send out a reminder that the first IRC office hours for Geoff Brigham, WMF General Counsel, will be held this coming Friday, December 2, 2011 at 18:00 UTC. Geoff would like to talk about his broad legal strategy for 2011-12, and talk specifically about what he plans t

[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 48 – 28 November 2011

News and notes: Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-11-28/News_and_notes In the news: The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia, fundraiser fun and games, and chemists vs pornsta

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On 29/11/11 14:27, Tomasz Finc wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > >> 2011/11/28 Dirk Franke : >>> Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale? >>> Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. >> >

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On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2011/11/28 Dirk Franke : > > Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale? > > Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. > > Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe. We've

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All, Minutes for the October 7-8 meeting of the WMF Board are now posted: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-10-07 Sorry about the long delay on getting these up. best, Phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers gmail.com * -- * I use this

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:26 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Liam Wyatt wrote: > > Perhaps we could focus on those practical points - preferably on-wiki - > > rather than having endless debates about what different people did/didn't > > mean to say or getting into abstract ideological discussions. > > Buz

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:34:16AM +0100, Andre Engels wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: > > Our core mission is making information and knowledge available to > people who want it, not pushing it down their throats against their > will. Well, people actuall

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

Liam Wyatt wrote: > Perhaps we could focus on those practical points - preferably on-wiki - > rather than having endless debates about what different people did/didn't > mean to say or getting into abstract ideological discussions. Buzzkill. There are a lot of ideas here:

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

Greetings Hope you are okay just follow us on twitter Ali Abdul Baasit From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists On

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> One problem here is that I think the error message is for all > Wikimedia projects. Scattered puzzle pieces of a globe is fine for > Wikipedia. > > Perhaps Wikibooks could have pages being torn out of a book. > > Wikisource could have an iceberg melting into the sea. > > Wikiversity could have

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 13:04, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 28 November 2011 07:38, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: >> 2011/11/28 Dirk Franke : >>> Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale? >>> Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. >> >> Scattered pieces of the

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On 28 November 2011 07:38, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > 2011/11/28 Dirk Franke : >> Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale? >> Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. > > Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe. I don't tend to do "+1" emails, but I'll make a

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We could call it the Fail Wales. On Monday, 28 November 2011, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> On 28 November 2011 07:38, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >>> 2011/11/28 Dirk Franke : >> Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 28 November 2011 07:38, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: >> 2011/11/28 Dirk Franke : > >>> Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale? >>> Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. > >> Scattered pieces of t

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

On 28 November 2011 11:03, Andre Engels wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:58 AM, David Gerard wrote: > > > At this point you appear to be stretching to keep a flame war going. > > Stretching? It seemed like a valid chain of reasoning to me. But if > you don't agree, please give your line of re

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:58 AM, David Gerard wrote: > At this point you appear to be stretching to keep a flame war going. Stretching? It seemed like a valid chain of reasoning to me. But if you don't agree, please give your line of reasoning as to how your statement was a refutation of, or ev

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

On 28 November 2011 10:51, Andre Engels wrote: > I said that an image filter was not against our core mission. You > reacted to that by saying that I should show that there is a demand. > Then you added something about "all the points refuted a thousand > times like this". Surely it is quite reas

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:14 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 28 November 2011 10:07, Andre Engels wrote: > >> You're saying that anything that is not wanted by more than a few >> people goes against our core mission? > > > No, and nor did I say anything that could reasonably be construed as that.

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:21 AM, David Gerard wrote: > Unfortunately, the issue is not dead. That's correct; nobody from WMF has said otherwise. What's dead is the idea of a category-based image filter, not the idea of giving additional options to readers to reversibly collapse images they may f

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On 28 November 2011 10:07, Andre Engels wrote: > You're saying that anything that is not wanted by more than a few > people goes against our core mission? No, and nor did I say anything that could reasonably be construed as that. - d. ___ foundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:43 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 28 November 2011 09:34, Andre Engels wrote: > >> Our core mission is making information and knowledge available to >> people who want it, not pushing it down their throats against their >> will. > > > Show that there is a demand. Build a

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

On 28 November 2011 09:34, Andre Engels wrote: > Our core mission is making information and knowledge available to > people who want it, not pushing it down their throats against their > will. Show that there is a demand. Build a filtered Wikipedia and get rich. (There must be a FAQ somewhere

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > I think the fundamental error in this reasoning is that you seem to under the > impression that this is something new here that is considered, and that there > have only been a few people commenting on these different schemes. The >

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On 28 November 2011 02:12, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Using phrases like "some people", "a few people" is a pathetic representation > of the reality. It isn't a minority you want to address/oppose, but a huge and > strong entrenched core group. Pretending otherwise is just pure madness. Unf

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On 28 November 2011 07:38, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > 2011/11/28 Dirk Franke : >> Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale? >> Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. > Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe. +1 - d. ___