[Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC office hours with the WMF features team, Jan. 4th 2012

2012-01-04 Thread Steven Walling
Reminder that this is happening at 23:00 in #wikimedia-office. -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Walling Date: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:58 AM Subject: IRC office hours with the WMF features team, Jan. 4th 2012 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Hey everyone, Since folks h

Re: [Foundation-l] the limits for fundraising. Was Blnk tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 4 January 2012 16:24, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Check the IP history; Jan-Bart added them ;p Now I'm on an actual computer and not trying to go through page histories on my phone, I've taken a closer look. The bit about being truthful was in the initial version. The other bit is the result of edit

Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented

2012-01-04 Thread emijrp
http://gigaom.com/2012/01/04/how-spains-version-of-sopa-is-setting-the-web-on-fire/ 2012/1/4 Federico Leva (Nemo) > emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59: > > With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can > block > > any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that

Re: [Foundation-l] the limits for fundraising. Was Blnk tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-04 Thread phoebe ayers
A bit of context for those who haven't been following those pages -- a draft of those principles (going hand in hand with funds dissemination principles) was proposed by the WMF board and submitted for community review and input. After a few months of this, the board is now voting to approve a fina

Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented

2012-01-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59: > With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can block > any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that > _links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or whatever. > Without a judge. That's entirely different! > F

Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented

2012-01-04 Thread emijrp
With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can block any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that _links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or whatever. Without a judge. For further details, search for an analysis. 2012/1/4 Lodewijk

Re: [Foundation-l] the limits for fundraising. Was Blnk tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-04 Thread Oliver Keyes
Check the IP history; Jan-Bart added them ;p On 4 January 2012 16:21, Thomas Dalton wrote: > Check the page history - I don't think those bits were added by the > foundation. > On Jan 4, 2012 3:26 PM, "WereSpielChequers" > wrote: > > > Re Tom's suggestion that we have an RFC on meta to discuss

Re: [Foundation-l] the limits for fundraising. Was Blnk tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
Check the page history - I don't think those bits were added by the foundation. On Jan 4, 2012 3:26 PM, "WereSpielChequers" wrote: > Re Tom's suggestion that we have an RFC on meta to discuss what we are and > aren't prepared to do when fundraising; We already have a discussion at > Meta > > http

Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented

2012-01-04 Thread Lodewijk
We should be careful to start calling all copyright related laws evil (at least you seem to suggest that) because then that would devaluate very quickly. At least what I see quickly (but IANALawyer and IANASpaniard) this law is not thát evil: the government can ask to close a website that is actual

[Foundation-l] the limits for fundraising. Was Blnk tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-04 Thread WereSpielChequers
Re Tom's suggestion that we have an RFC on meta to discuss what we are and aren't prepared to do when fundraising; We already have a discussion at Meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_Guiding_principles_with_regards_to_fundraising. Funny thing is that debate has almost been the mirror of here