Google (and facebook and twitter etc) are large corporate organizations
with profits heavily on their mind (by law, they are responsible to their
shareholders). While they clearly have good reasons to be opposed to SOPA
and PIPA there reasons are not exactly the same as ours and in my opinion
we wo
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all the new members, it looks like a good group. Will all of them be
at the in person meeting coming up?
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we have to be able
to do it in a collegial (sp?) way. I know I want that in a
work environment and whether I'm getting paid or not I certainly see the
projects as a work environment for us all.
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pace... though I've never used them before. In the long run I'm sure
there are lots of options but in the short run I like the changes.
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the IPs actually geolocate to it...
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> Btw how does one *open* this tarball thing (on Windows) ?
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I'm a fan of http://www.7-zip.org/
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Some people can't give monetarily (or don't want to) some can't (or don't
want to) give with their time. They are all part of the community that
drives the projects forward.
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licies and standards that
the project(s) have created. Those who are able to do it within those
policies do nothing other then helping us to increase and expand the content
that we have. If they are able to do it then thumbs up.
If they can do it is of course up for debate at times but
e table is on that however.
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It just needs to be reviewed and deployed.
>
>
> Ah ha! globally suppressed accounts only I gather? (so not normally locked
ones) May be beneficial to have it as an option for stewards while locking
any account and not just ones that need to be suppressed.
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On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Aaron Adrignola
wrote:
> I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created
> to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to
> eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern,
> however. I
Globally locking active xwiki vandals is almost useless if they are able to
just recreate accounts continually or at least until they SUL onto a wiki
without local CUs so that a Steward can check and a global IP block can be
implemented.
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ot totally sure that basic info like edit counts should
be disallowed since most of them are given by the software itself (and still
is) not to mention the toolserver. Perhaps more complex things (which are
currently disallowed by the toolserver without opt-in for example). I know
for example that X!s tool is required to get opt in to show broken down
stats like per month/time of day/graphs.
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self I do think the impact that social
interaction has on trust/creativity and general cooperation is hugely under
appreciated by a lot of people on wiki (and off for that matter).
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:51 PM, quiddity wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
> > I've just discovered that the BBC's music site [1] is using our
> > content for their biographies of musicians/bands [2].
> >
> > This makes me happy.
> >
> > [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/music
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:54 PM, James Alexander >wrote:
> >
> > > I agree, that is exactly what consensus is :) I just don't we want to
> > pretend otherwise.
>
>
>
> James, you just made m
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> If you think about it, one could interpret consensus as pushing one groups
> opinion on another. Doesn't make it wrong.
>
> -Dan
>
>
>
> I agree, that is exactly what consensus is :) I just don't we
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:35 PM, wrote:
> > Prodego wrote:
> >> As another update to this situation, all admins on acewiki have now been
> >> desysoped, and the template removed.
> >>
> >
> > Well done that will certainly show the natives wh
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>
> Sure. There are about a bajillion use cases for it. :)
>
> pb
>
>
>
The foundation just likes to spy on us ;) dirt for later on if
we won't protect that page!
James [redacted for protection]
james.[re
to a
natural conclusion doesn't have any benefits.
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them changed except for Treasurer, which makes
sense since Stuart was appointed to the board specifically as Treasurer
after a search).
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don't envy the position
you guys are all in but greatly admire the willingness you all have to help
and guide the foundation down a path that I think could be both bumpy and
vastly important.
Good luck Michael and thank you for all your work (again a big time of
growth within the
paign proves they are notable (unless of
course it becomes a "big deal" in the community) but when someone
sues/threatens/campaigns against YOU (or WP in this case) it does say
something about the accusers thoughts about the accused's notability or
power.
James Alex
t that this article is so important to
them shows that at the very least they think that the Serbian WP is
used widely enough that having an article is proof of their
importance. If it was't then not having an article wouldn't be a big
deal.
Congrats,
James Alexander
jam
e around the world. I'd love to see some data on whether you
guys are getting a good jump in traffic. I'm sure I can find some for the
wiki in the morning do you know how active your webpage has been so far?
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that the conversation has gone on to long.
Let's end this.
James Alexander
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On Sunday, June 27, 2010, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> Now if we were to get into a pissing contest over the top organizers of
> Wikiversity, I would say the persons most likely to be considered founde
isn't perfect in my mind but much
better then the lawsuits which I think harmed the industry far more then it
helped. I went to many court cases out of interest and while some were very
interesting (there were a couple people that to be honest probably deserved
to be sued) most were a ma
d.
>
>
I can at least understand them having issue with EFF and the like but the
article is right: going against Creative Commons is laughable. How DARE you
decide to release your own content into the public sphere, how DARE YOU! /me
sighs
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ously jumped to comparing it to us
(myopic perhaps?) . I actually think it's a better article on the subject
then I've seen for a while with some good video as well.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/06/20/inside_the_mind_of_the_anonymous_online_poster/?page=full
gt;
aye this is my issue. I'm flagging some of the mailing lists at the moment
but part of me thinks I should let them go to spam and press the "not spam"
to train it. I'm still having issues on the one where I'm owner, at least
one gives me 100+ spam mails on some d
history that is the meta deletion archive, here is the
> version I prefer:
>
> <
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=Guerilla+UK+spelling+campaign×tamp=20050608022530
> >
>
> Click "show preview" to see it with formatting.
>
> -- Tim
x27;t have much of an option in that, again the grant). Of course we
would hope to be able to use the information gained to do things elsewhere.
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Daniel Phelps wrote:
> The Wikimedia Foundation has hired four new staff members to guide the new
> Public Policy Initiative. Annie Lin, LiAnna Davis, Sage Ross, and Amy Roth
> will
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Well a counter-notice basically requires them to allow it to be republished
under the law. I'm not sure we want to require the community to restore
something that they deleted on their own accord. I think the appeal for
those would and should be within
he language links
several times a day. I keep forgetting to throw something into my global.js
so that it isn't an issue for me personally but :/
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> if you live farther
> from the centre of the universe
>
Boston? ;) *
*http://www.boston.com/travel/boston/boston_nicknames/ (actually on the wiki
article too, I'm proud)
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james
We have a couple threads on this issue but picking the most recent :). It
appears that this has now been changed (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23497 ) and so once the next
revision is pushed live the interwikis would be visible by default.
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ndeed have the right to upload "such and such" and the company was
mistaken in requesting it's removal (I believe you have to copy in the
sender of the take down notice as well but I don't see it in every example
I've seen). Once the WMF receives that they are under no ob
Ahh this is what I was looking for
http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1048#QID132 (at
least us legal requirements for a counter notice) and their counter-notice
generator http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca/counter512.pdf that may help
you at least start
James Alexander
I remember
correctly there was a mailing list option for that... I don't always
remember correctly though :).
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tand that is the majority (i.e the annual campaign) but also
the volunteers themselves are donors at least in my mind even without
any monetary support. Their time is what makes us good.
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something along those lines as well.. oh well hopefully we can fix it
eventually so that I don't have to subscribe to both to satisfy my desire to
know right away ;).
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ing a "click
here to confirm email" that was from me.
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I
know that Casey said the same thing in a comment on the bug asking for this
to be changed (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23497) so
while I have nothing concrete about it I do think it is a problem.
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ble (and to be honest seems required within the
law) to delete the content when you get a proper notice. If someone then
objects and reuploads the the original requester has to take legal action if
they want it down, then it's up to the courts and if the courts say it
Grad students and active Professors but the Retired/Emeritus
Professors would be another good group to try and target (and one I believe
that will be less focused on by the current Initiative) I know we have
some, but there are tons more out there ;).
James Alexande
use they felt people
would see "edit" as meaning every little change they did (so there were lots
of edits in each revision) but I still think that most would consider an
edit==revision.
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On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:41 AM,
't break any policies, it's just that because of problems on that
page we wanted to have someone double check.
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where
it decided that it had to put [sic] on “added move [sic] protection.” since
obviously we meant more (yes they did indeed add move protection).
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t;
> I agree, I've actually met at least 3 people "out in the world" who
admitted to starting off vandalizing the Wikipedia and then ended up editing
it legitimately. Two of them do very random wikiGnome stuff when they see it
and the third has actually done quite a few articles
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Aye, Congratulations Philippe and I look forward to seeing more about what
you (and others) have in mind for you to do for Reader Relations. I'm sure
some of the idea's will come from those involved at Strategy :). Watch out
for the San Fransisco weather!
James Alexander
ja
ased on free USGS maps and the like
that ARE legitimate (though they should say where they are derived from.
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:29 PM, jamesmiked
Sorry. they are facts and therefore NOT copyrightable.
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM, James Alexander wrote:
> I would say claiming copyright on a map is legitimate but I think the big
> issue here is the geotag's themselves (i.e the locations) since so many
> people use google m
table and I would think that openstreetmap should both be able to
use those and should use those. I don't totally understand the thought
process behind not allowing them to use actual geo locations from wikipedia.
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That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me to
see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size
always seem to have ifs/ands or butts attached.
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oh wow, apologies for the stupid grammar mistakes, most importantly if you
don't want another one of these in a week or so you should probably tell me
No instead of "know".
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nsider researching the candidates and
expressing your opinions so that we can get as many opinions as possible for
everyone running.
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i/Talk:Global_sysops>.
To be eligible to vote you should be logged into a registered account:
with 150 edits and
Registered before October 1st 2009
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