Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread HaeB
2012/2/10 Liam Wyatt : > > With the specifics of "is this a political lobbying wing of the WMF or > not"... > I think it is quite clear to everyone that Wikimedians have a hard time > agreeing about *anything* but that the two things we all agree on is "Free" > (in the technical sense) and that pr

Re: [Foundation-l] New project: WikiMake - library of free 3D models?

2012-02-08 Thread HaeB
2012/2/8 Steven Walling : > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Leinonen Teemu wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Has there been any attempt to start a Wikimedia project focusing on free >> 3D models? >> >> I think, right now it would be the right timing for it. The prices of 3D >> printers and other compute

Re: [Foundation-l] "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread HaeB
2012/2/7 Svip : > On 7 February 2012 04:49, MZMcBride wrote: > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article >> is pretty good reading. > > The complaints usually sums as 'hey, great work on that article, > unfortunately, I am a bit uncomfortable with subject at ha

Re: [Foundation-l] The News Hole

2011-11-25 Thread HaeB
2011/11/26 Bod Notbod : > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > >> There has been some discussion in journalism circles that newspapers, who >> after all, provide the raw material for many of our topical articles >> might copy our system of organizing material under a subject headi

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-21 Thread HaeB
1&submit=Submit (providing the link to this tool at the risk of enabling teh censorshipz by dark and powerful outside organizations who might abuse it to restrict Wikipedia's own unfiltered, free speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random according to their own world views ;)

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-09 Thread HaeB
Having followed the recent discussions from the sidelines (and speaking as a longtime volunteer), I found the various appeals to principles such as decentralization and subsidiarity somewhat abstract. Of course BirgitteSB is absolutely correct in that there is a strong consensus that content curat

Re: [Foundation-l] No tail-lights. What do we do now? (was Call for referendum)

2011-06-30 Thread HaeB
I have added your postings to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_proposals Regards, HaeB ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l