requests to
> the location that is the best match for the user. This system is used
> by some Linux distributions (see download.opensuse.org for instance)
> with great success.
>
> Regards,
> Strainu
>
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>
tion to kill "the red-headed stepchild of the WMF".
And, Wikipedia could never ever handle original reporting.
That Wikinews is, currently, being used for a second semester of course
assignments from an Australian university is - to me - a clear
indication that what we do is valid, and valuable.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> >
> > It seems that giving w.net/com/org to the WMF would be in line with his
> > vision of no corporation controlling a letter.
> >
> >
&g
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Keegan Peterzell
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
>>
>> > With regards to the wi.ki domain, I asked people at the WMF back in
>> 20
to wi.ki, I'd like to throw my support behind Ryan
Kaldari's suggestion of obtaining the w.org reserved name.
>
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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Neil Harris wrote:
> On 09/05/11 23:57, Platonides wrote:
> > Just create your own tld ;)
> >
> Sadly, .wp wouldn't pass the new gTLD process: new gTLDs must have at
> least three characters.
>
> -- Neil
>
> How about:
http:/
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Correction: So long as basic principles like not showing third party adverts
are not violated there is no reason to suspect that the readership of the
projects and thus the amount that can be collected from donations will
*not*continue to grow.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Brian wrote:
>
dn't be so bad - it's the way things used to be. Overall I would say
there is little to nothing wrong with the current situation, so I really
don't understand your e-mail. Our "economical autonomy" derives from our
principles of openness and freedom.
- Brian
On Fri, Dec
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Mono mium wrote:
> Awesome!
>
> How about we add popups?
>
> Seriously, if you're going to do this, just add AdSense...it's a heck of a
> lot prettier.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:10 AM, K. Peachey
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Dom
r perhaps a book.
http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/979773872.txt
- Brian
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Brian wrote:
> Browsing through the earliest revisions in the revision index (
> http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/revisions.html) is rather
> interesting and full of fod
clearly didn't have much faith in the concept:
None of this is to say that the Nupedia wiki will ''replace'' the main
encyclopedia; of course it won't. But it will be an interesting ancillary
endeavor! http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/979695982.txt
- Brian
O
ell.
http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/
<http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/>Given that it's finals I don't
even have enough time to dig through this at all. Guess I just wanted a
distraction =)
- Brian
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:27 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> FYI, the
> in
> > the past with the less-than-optimal banners eventually did. Now that we
> have
> > a much more effective personal appeal, those who want to contribute do it
> > sooner rather than later.
> >
> > - Brian
>
> But look on the "Christmas days&qu
who want to contribute do it
sooner rather than later.
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pful for project like Commons and Wikisource
> (just talking about data now)
>
> Aubrey.
SMW would have to be completely redesigned for use in a project with
millions of pages and millions of attributes where arbitrary queries are
possible.
- Brian
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:43 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Fred Bauder
> wrote:
> >> For some time I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I don't know any
> >> African American Wikimedian. For some time just because I am living in
> >> a European country without African
I'll bite - it's about time for our yearly advert flame war anyway. The
answer is 0 dollars. That is because as soon as we put the advertising up we
lose credibility and Wikipedia is no more.
- Brian
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> How many billions
nd the
value of their potential contribution, and so it doesn't put them over
the contribution threshold.
One way to bring the reward structure of contributing to Wikipedia to
their attention would be to explain it to them after they create their
account. I'll leave it to the wikipediholics t
of freeing knowledge we must strive to collect it
and understand it in a more nuanced way than we currently are.
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> On 20 Jul 2010, at 18:02, Brian J Mingus wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi Brian and others,
>>
>> I also think that it woul
we
can mold it to our needs here. It has the core capabilities found in
Semantic MediaWiki, and it is fast and scalable.
I say this as a serious user of Semantic MediaWiki. I have seen that it
can't scale well without an alternate backend, and I wonder what kind of
monumental effort wil
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> Brian,
>
> The meta process for new project proposals is still the cleanest one
> for suggesting a specific Project and presenting it alongside similar
> projects.
>
> It would be helpful if you could update a relate
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> > I have been working with Sam and others for some time now on
> brainstorming a
> > proposal for the Foundation to create a centralized wiki of citations,
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen wrote:
>
>
> Hi Brian and others,
>
> I also think that it would be interesting with some bibliographic support,
> for two-way citation tracking and commenting on articles (for example), but
> I furthermore find that
ly be like, once it is fully matured?
Brian Mingus
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University of Colorado at Boulder
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> There have been a number of proposals floated in the Wikimedia
> community over the years
right of the A.
> The v2 goes from the middle of the W to 25% of the A.
>
> This is not a visual effect. Put your cursor on the right border of the
> globe and change tabs. Whoops, now there is almost a full piece to the
> border.
>
>
>
>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
>
>> Brian J Mingus wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow > >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Brian J Mingus wrote:
>&
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> Brian J Mingus wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow >wrote:
> >
> >> Brian J Mingus wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling <
> tstarl...@
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> Brian J Mingus wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling >wrote:
> >
> >> Give the Nobel Peace Prize to DARPA for designing the Internet. And
> >> they've made so many oth
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:40, Brian J Mingus >wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton >>> wrote:
> >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolo
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm
>>
>> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like
>> argument for us
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm
>
> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like
> argument for us to get the prize money to me.
>
The Internet is definitely worthy of the prize as a whole but I'm not
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:37 PM, geni wrote:
> On 8 March 2010 00:14, Tyler wrote:
> > That's not what I asked. I said, in 2001, Wikipedia was founded, right?
> The earliest edit in >edit history is 2002. What was the home page in 2001
> then?
> >
>
> Nope oldest edit is 2001:
>
> http://en.wik
ikimedia.org
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On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > Suggestion: weekly updates (to en:wp Village Pump and wikien-l,
> > perhaps), with whatever there is to report, including nothing. People
> > hear nothing and worry and get upset - you can see the frantic
> > activity
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Anthony wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Anthony wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:23 AM, William Pietri >wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/28/2010 09:36 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote:
> >> > On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I've reported w
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Dalton
> wrote:
>
>> On 28 February 2010 22:17, Brian J Mingus
>> wrote:
>> > I run a mediawiki farm with mediawiki trunk installed. I've got the
>> pr
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 28 February 2010 22:17, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> > I run a mediawiki farm with mediawiki trunk installed. I've got the
> process
> > of setting up new wikis scripted and can set one up in 30 seconds. If yo
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:03 PM, William Pietri wrote:
> On 02/28/2010 08:59 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> > I finally figured out that the "view history" button in Pivotal Tracker
> is
> > where all the relevant details are. For each of the items I'm looking at,
> > Aaron appears to have completed them
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
>>Or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sex_positions , one of the most
>>viewed pages of English Wikipedia. Do you think the images there are of
>>excellent quality? I don't.
>
>
> I think they have a certain innocent charm. They look l
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, private musings wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Wikipedia Review, 'tarantino' pointed out that on WMF projects,
> self-identified minors (in this case User:Juliancolton) are involved in
> routine maintenance stuff around sexually explicit images reasonably
> describable as
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
> Is it possible that sometimes Wikipedia steals Wikinews' thunder?
>
> You get something like that kid (not) in a balloon and it
> struggles/fails to get on Wikipedia but I assume did OK on Wikinews.
>
> Sometimes a current event is big enough th
This paper (first reference) is the result of a class project I was part of
almost two years ago for CSCI 5417 Information Retrieval Systems. It builds
on a class project I did in CSCI 5832 Natural Language Processing and which
I presented at Wikimania '07. The project was very late as we didn't se
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> [snip]
> > plan, and Brion is hoping to invest some of his remaining time with it
> > in helping to get the extension ready for en.wp. It's not trivial: The
> > scalability concerns a
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Mike Godwin, 16/09/2009 07:54:
> > We've had a lot of experience of spurious reports of lawsuits originating
> in
> > Italy. In the majority of those cases, Wikimedia Foundation itself never
> > receives service of process -- in effect
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <
cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> > Given the fact that no candidate for the board seems to have
> > campaigned prominently for this issue in this year's elec-
> > tion and it does not even seem to have been mentioned
count locally.
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Brian wrote:
>
> >
> > Tx. Do you know what counts as a user account given SUL? Someone who
> > is
> > logged on at another wiki merely visits, and now they are a new user
> > account?
>
I poked around a
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I knew it would come in handy for something... :-)
>
>
Tx. Do you know what counts as a user account given SUL? Someone who is
logged on at another wiki merely visits, and now they are a new user
account?
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Brian wrote:
> > It's too bad Special:Statistics can't show you basic information over
> time.
> >
>
> Thankfully, Philippe has been saving these statistics so you can see
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> For those of you who don't know me, I'm leading the Wikimedia
> strategic planning process. Our goal is to develop a five-year
> strategic plan through an open community process that is going on
> right now and that will
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Robin P. wrote:
> In the past there were several project proposals on incubator, but we
> deleted them because they were not active. Since then, tests for new WMF
> projects are not allowed. If they were still allowed, Incubator would be
> full of inactive projects
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Tim Starling
> wrote:
> > Erik Moeller wrote:
> >> 2009/9/8 Gregory Maxwell :
> >>> As such, it's time to try something different.
> >>
> >> What do you suggest? Are there models from other mailing list
> >> com
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Austin Hair wrote:
> I've created http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Improving_Foundation-l for
> brainstorming of how to make this list a little bit less of a
> cesspool.
>
Austin, your page says nothing about the kinds of conversations you would
like to see on found
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> 2009/9/8 Michael Peel :
> > What could be the cause of this recent dearth of new projects?
>
> Certainly the process for getting a new project underway is so complex
> and exhausting that it's not something that many people will be likely
> to
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
> sfmammamia writes:
> >
> >
> > A bit of a mystery -- in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, page E-8,
> > there's
> > an ad for the Wikimedia Foundation Head of Communications position. This
> ad
> > does not appear online, at least I could not f
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>
> > 2009/9/4 geni :
> > > 2)The amount described is pretty much consistent with the WMF's entire
> > > office there which means if it was the WMF subletting it is more
> > > consistent with a g
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> I started reading
I'm sorry, did you have something to say that *wasn't* a waste of time? I
did read it, and unlike your e-mail it provides a useful perspective in a
large and complicated issue.
_
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>
> Sometimes, fighting through the high traffic lists to find
> announcements is a huge problem...
>
> Philippe
>
Quite the contrary, it is an even larger problem to be subscribed to an
increasingly large nu
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Tim Landscheidt
> wrote:
>
>> Anthony wrote:
>>
>> >> > [...]
>> >> > The WMF as a membership organisation would be great, but I don't
>> th
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> Anthony wrote:
>
> >> > [...]
> >> > The WMF as a membership organisation would be great, but I don't think
> >> > it is practical. A better option (which I have discussed with a few
> >> > poeple) would be having the chapters as members o
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Nemo_bis wrote:
> See
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/aug/21/encyclopedia-life-species
> Where's the problem with Wikispecies?
> Moreover, EOL received 33.000 images from individual contributors
> (http://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_life)
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Tim Starling >wrote:
> >
> >> Let me say for the record that I'm not at all happy with this data
> >> being released, since it allows vote-buying.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Brian wrote:
> > This kind of fear mongering attitude is why we can't allow more members
> of
> > the community to vote. You'd rather spread FUD about vote buying than
> desi
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Let me say for the record that I'm not at all happy with this data
> being released, since it allows vote-buying. Even if the numbers given
> by voters are reduced to the smallest values which still give the same
> rankings, with 18 candidates
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:57 PM, James Forrester >wrote:
>
> > 2009/8/25 Anthony :
> > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Thomas Dalton <
> thomas.dal...@gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > membership organizations. Wales was right when he sai
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Erik Zachte wrote:
> There is another way to detect 100% reverts. It won't catch manual reverts
> that are not 100 accurate but most vandal patrollers will use undo, and the
> like.
>
>
>
> For every revision calculate md5 checksum of content. Then you can easily
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The Wikimedia Foundation's Board Election Committee has concluded the
> board selection process, and is pleased to announce that the
> candidates ranked as follows:
>
> Final ranking
>
> 1 Ting Chen (W
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >>
> >
> > I'm interested in knowing the nature of the error (understanding is
> > the key to avoidance in the future!)
> >
> > I'd also like to know if any users were denied the ability to vote who
> > should
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On 8/7/09 2:35 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > By containing the magic words "senior" and "architect" the proposed
> > "Senior Software Architect" is, in my experience, not inconsistent
> > with industry naming practice for the most important t
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 31, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Brian wrote:
>
> > There
> > is further no top down effort to ask the community if they have any
> > good
> > ideas, and then ask the c
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>
> I'm going to take particular issue with the last point here.
>
> On 3 June *2008*, right after last year election, Jesse Plamondon-Willard
> (Pathoschild), one of last year election committee membe
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Allow me, please, to reinforce this, wearing my "election committee
> member" hat.
>
> This years' rules were mostly carryovers from last years' rules. When
> we started, we looked around, realized that no s
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
> You know, this comes up every year. And there's always good argument to
> both sides but there's never consensus to actually change it. There has been
> an election in one form or another since 2004, and except in 2004 where the
> requirem
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Steven Walling
> wrote:
>
>> Recentist? Ignoring the, ahem, fanciful language you've chosen, I'd like
>> to
>> throw my support behind the voting qualifications whole
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
> Recentist? Ignoring the, ahem, fanciful language you've chosen, I'd like to
> throw my support behind the voting qualifications wholeheartedly.
> For me, the analogy is simple: just because you get a driver's license once
> doesn't entitle y
rbitrarily. And if it was
voted on, I seriously consider the result of that vote suspect, given
present knowledge.
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Mathias Schindler <
mathias.schind...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton
> wrote:
> > http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=866109
> >
>
> I am getting timeouts on this server. Does any have copy of their
> statement fo
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> 2009/7/27 Brian :
> > It doesn't cover the most important case in my mind: meta is where people
> > actually are!
>
> Strategy.wikimedia.org is part of SUL, moving from one space to the
> other is trivial. T
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Brian wrote:
> > I recall convincing arguments on this list that meta was the appropriate
> > place for this, rather than fragmenting into a new wiki. This is because
> > previously cre
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> As part of the Foundation's Strategic Planning Initiative, a new wiki (
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org
> ) is being soft-launched today. This soft-launch is being announced
> only to foundation-l and a few o
reads just doesn't seem like it. I also note that the mailing lists have
been on the decline since June of 2006.
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/7/24 Brian :
> > In that case they can highlight the attribution and press backspace!
>
> Sure, but we shouldn't make it unnecessarily difficult for people to
> reuse our content and tidying up after our
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/7/24 David Gerard :
> > http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16060
> >
> > Basically, if you cut'n'paste text, it appends a CC credit line to the
> > pasted text. Obviously the paster can remove it, but it does remind
> > them this i
We can't use this particular tool because it includes a tracking bug.
However, I like the idea of automatically providing CC-BY-SA attribution. I
think we should hold a projects-wide vote on this, probably it would go over
well. Another area to consider automatic attribution is within EXIF data so
Preprint:
http://www.ala.org/ala//mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crljournal/preprints/Schlosser.pdf
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Relevant to the NPG et al discussion:
> "Unless Otherwise Indicated: A Survey of Copyright Statements on
> Digital Library Collections", by Mel
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Rand Montoya
> wrote:
> > Wikimedians--
> >
> > As many of you know, last month we began work on exploring the
> > visibility of the donate button on all Wikimedia projects. After a long
> > comment period, we
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> "Happy-melon" wrote:
>
> > We need to think a little bit outside the box, here; this domain should
> > really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites.
> > http://www.wm.org is only occupied by a websquatter at the moment,
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Benjamin Lees wrote:
>
>>
>> On which wiki do you mean, for FlaggedRevs? For the English Wikipedia, my
>> understanding is that consensus was reached in favor of a limited trial
>
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Benjamin Lees wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Brian wrote:
>
> > Sorry, where I said AbuseFilter I meant to say FlaggedRevisions. I'm not
> > sure on how AbuseFilter came to be agreed on.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Brian wrote:
>
> > I really like the ParserFunctions example. Enabled with hardly any
> > discussion and now used 500,000 times on the English Wikipedia. It had a
> > major effect o
Sorry, where I said AbuseFilter I meant to say FlaggedRevisions. I'm not
sure on how AbuseFilter came to be agreed on.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Jennifer Riggs wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm curious. In your perspect
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Jennifer Riggs wrote:
>
> I'm curious. In your perspective who is doing the central management
> that makes it difficult for ideas to percolate up? WMF, Jimmy, Board,
> select administrators/highly involved community members? In your
> opinion, is there an infrastr
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Aryeh Gregor
> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Brian wrote:
> > It's a shame they couldn't get all vendors to agree to ship both ogg and
> > h264 codecs.
>
> No, it's not. H.264 is patented and you need to pay l
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Brian wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John at Darkstar wrote:
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>> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site
>> would be
>> "
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
>&g
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John at Darkstar wrote:
> Minimum attribution of «Terms of Use» from Wikimdia Foundations site
> would be
> "
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/";
>
> That is 96 chars, with spaces, of 140 bytes avail
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Hay (Husky) wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Thomas Dalton
> wrote:
> > Flash isn't generally available out of the box, though, is it?
>
> In theory, no. In practice, yes. Adobe claims around 99% of all web
> users to have Flash installed.
>
> http://en.wik
H264 already plays in, IIRC, 98% of browsers through flash.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Hay (Husky) wrote:
> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html
>
> Unfortunately OGG Theora didn't make it as the default codec for the
> HTML5 element in the spec. Until
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