Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread John Vandenberg
gt;> into Wikipedia. Five years of experience is enough to tell. >> >> Regards, >> Jürgen. >> >> ___ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://list

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 31 March 2012 06:45, John Vandenberg wrote: >> There is no requirement to know everything.  There is a requirement to >> make decisions in the best interests of the organisation, *as you see >> it*.  If a trustee per

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 31 March 2012 06:13, John Vandenberg wrote: >> if you cant decide whether something is good or bad for the >> organisation, you are ill prepared for the vote (a procedural >> problem), or you are incompetent. >

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
if you cant decide whether something is good or bad for the organisation, you are ill prepared for the vote (a procedural problem), or you are incompetent. On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 31 March 2012 05:56, John Vandenberg wrote: >> An abstention is a r

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 31 March 2012 02:03, John Vandenberg wrote: >> I expect that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the >> board.  If not, then the board should put in place procedures to >> prevent abuse of abstains. &g

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
'm curious about the abstains; back > to conjecturing, I suppose. I expect that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the board. If not, then the board should put in place procedures to prevent abuse of abstains. -- John Vandenberg _

Re: [Foundation-l] resolution on voting transparency

2012-03-30 Thread John Vandenberg
gt; dissented. > > > Yes. This will also avoid, as recently, board members appearing to > later disclaim actions (a vote) that they were in fact responsible for > taking. It's worth recalling that for the majority of 2008-2009 the board did record all votes, and often noted who

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-23 Thread John Vandenberg
ch in this area? Is the data available? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-22 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Nathan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:08 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > >> >> >> And the creator of Wikipedia:Short_popular_vital_articles has retired >> after 16 days..due to harassment/accusations of sock puppetry/etc >&

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-21 Thread John Vandenberg
0 bytes of content in less than a year, as > opposed to the prior rate of improvement which was closer to six years > to meet the same goal. And the creator of Wikipedia:Short_popular_vital_articles has retired after 16 days..due to harassment/accusations of sock puppetry/etc https://en.w

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours with Sue Gardner

2012-03-12 Thread John Vandenberg
ing forward to reading it over the morning coffee) -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Author "Wikimedia Foundation" at Barnes&Nobles shop on Nook

2012-03-06 Thread John Vandenberg
egitimate. It is a trademark infringement if >> the foundation did not permit the use. >> >> Cheol >> >> 2012/3/5 RYU Cheol >> >>> Hi, all! >>> >>> I searched "Wikimedia Foundation" by chance and a lot of Wikibooks, >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread John Vandenberg
g in their statements. You are the only board member seeking re-election, and your statement says you "support rescinding [a] part of our resolution." https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Candidates -- John Vandenberg ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread John Vandenberg
iabot, and other ideas the community are coming up with as alternatives. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia considering declaring open-season on works from countries lacking US copyright relations

2012-02-24 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:52 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: >> >> On English Wikisource, we consider these to be public domain. >> We tag them that as public domain and explain why. >> >> https://en.wikisou

Re: [Foundation-l] English Wikipedia considering declaring open-season on works from countries lacking US copyright relations

2012-02-23 Thread John Vandenberg
as public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Afghanistan -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Right to be Forgotten

2012-02-19 Thread John Vandenberg
d comments and signatures using the users > real name or well-known handle? If we are using the wonderful Liquid Threads extension, all signatures change when we rename the account. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads It is implemented on a few WMF projects, but it is being rewritten

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread John Vandenberg
that you have existing feedback, and contributors have seen this feedback. You *can* already determine whether that feedback (already in hand) resulted in article improvements. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread John Vandenberg
until there is evidence that the feedback *will* be used by the community. p.s. it should be "Improve this article" -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread John Vandenberg
le, suggestions for new things, > or notes of errors with existing content. And what percentage of the feedback resulted in article improvements? And will that scale when feedback is being left about all articles? Even useful notes left on the talk page are unlikely to result in articl

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread John Vandenberg
e"? It allows readers to provide feedback; that feedback is not likely to result in improvements except in rare cases. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

2012-02-04 Thread John Vandenberg
sted on wikipedia seems to be replicating much of the work already being done on the OAD wiki. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
cademic_Journals/Journals_cited_by_Wikipedia/Popular1 and Wikipedia articles about journals often have OA information in the infobox. e.g. our most cited journal, J. Biol. Chem., is 12 month delay OA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Biological_Chemistry -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
s. Some individuals on some chapter boards may not be, but each board is a group of people, and each chapter has rules which ensure that their decisions are a majority of their board. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@li

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
tively represent them in those waters. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
oard election, 39 chapters consisting of more than 4000 identified people will be voting.[2] Unfortunately neither process captures a large percentage of the active Wikimedian community. 1. see bottom of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Results/en 2. see "member

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread John Vandenberg
hat role in disgust over the process behind getting the EU to sign onto ACTA.' http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/3/3/european_parliament_official_in_charge_of_acta_quits_and_denounces_the_masquerade_behind_acta/ -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l maili

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-22 Thread John Vandenberg
scussion about engaging a lobby firm? The first mention I saw was on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&diff=65523806&oldid=65523798 -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] mobile website

2012-01-18 Thread John Vandenberg
the emergency access should be at a different location. mobile users should not be privileged. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] mobile website

2012-01-18 Thread John Vandenberg
Why is the mobile site operational for English Wikipedia? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion duration and the SOPA shutdown

2012-01-17 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi George, The push came about after the IRC office hours. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-01-12 -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2012-01-16 Thread John Vandenberg
t the process worked, this time? SOPA is currently dead. It may come back, soon, as something else, but SOPA is dead. We need to be watchful and ready to blackout the site, but we should not protest about dead bills. There is no consensus to

Re: [Foundation-l] Intellectual property policy for open organisations

2012-01-08 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:55 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > There are an increasing number of organisations which have indicated > that their output is Creative Commons by default, however there are > not as many that have a public IP policy which clearly allows staff to > publish

Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific

2012-01-08 Thread John Vandenberg
ed out, .. Yann *wants* to give wikilivres to WMCA, and Eclecticology (Ray Saintonge) has the 'wikisource.ca' domain already. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific

2012-01-07 Thread John Vandenberg
See also this thread http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-August/004080.html -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific Partnership

2012-01-06 Thread John Vandenberg
Wikimedia community? e.g. there was an EU submission last year, and here is a WM-AU one http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Submission_on_Australian_Digital_Future_Directions -- John Vandenberg DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE CONSULTATIONS ON POTENTIAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipecies charter

2011-12-04 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: > On 12/3/11 11:33 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: >> ... >> >> Does anyone know where this Jimmy quote comes from?  I presume it is >> after the WMF board meeting on 5 September 2004 as it quotes from it >>

[Foundation-l] Wikipecies charter

2011-12-03 Thread John Vandenberg
rr .. like a charter. It is linked to from the Wikispecies about page https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:About -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

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

2011-12-01 Thread John Vandenberg
quot;nsfw", you can not click it, or be wary about the destination page. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Error message

2011-11-28 Thread John Vandenberg
s well.. > >> Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe. > > > +1 I like it; a good image says a thousands words in every language. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-03 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > On 3 November 2011 09:26, John Vandenberg wrote: > >> We could create a zotero plugin which allows the ref to be added to >> the end of paragraph. >> >> We could go even further and integrate mediawiki and a zote

Re: [Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-03 Thread John Vandenberg
uld create a zotero plugin which allows the ref to be added to the end of paragraph. We could go even further and integrate mediawiki and a zotero server so that Wikipedia can use named refs throughout. http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20026/zotero-plugin-for-mediawiki/

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread John Vandenberg
n-l/2009-November/056032.html "Second, we're adding a "soft post limit" that, for the time being, will kick in at 30 posts per month. At that point, we will, at our discretion, place members on moderation for the remainder of the month, and will approve posts only where we feel th

[Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread John Vandenberg
m/Wikipedia/ScanMail/foundation-l.html (thanks Erik Zachte) Somehow David Gerard, Milos Rancic, Kim and Tobias Oelgarte made it to 96, 95, 89 and 83 posts last month. Last month Thomas Dalton, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen and I posted 39, 37 and 35 times respectively,

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

2011-10-19 Thread John Vandenberg
n, and over-engineering coupled with an expectation for 'the community' to build a dataset that they appear reluctant to build. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-10-19 Thread John Vandenberg
icle? I think we should develop the finite list of 'real' problems, to feed into a defined scope of said problem, and find minimalistic solutions. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-10 Thread John Vandenberg
ased filter, I would definitely like to know the name of the software in order to verify your assertion. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-10 Thread John Vandenberg
et me check: Have seen your image filter software actually >> directly use categories from commons? Are you sure? >> > > > Yes, I have seen net-nanny software directly block entire Commons > categories. What was the name of the software? Or where was it installed where you saw i

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia - What exactly does the proposed law say?

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > John Vandenberg, 05/10/2011 00:16: >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Morton >>  wrote: >>> http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stampati/pdf/16PDL0038530.pdf >> >> Is this public doma

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
There is a petition with over 1430 signatures in 24 hours http://twitter.com/#!/jayvdb/status/121435650057707520 -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
t true for the communities. >> >> Ryan Kaldari > > not for/against the US legislation, that means? Or world-wide? The US laws apply to lobbying internationally as well as in the US. The WMF is allowed to lobby, but additional regulati

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
ould hurt freedom of > expression in Italy, and therefore it's entirely reasonable for the Italian > Wikipedians to oppose it. The Wikimedia Foundation will support their > position. Is this the first time that WMF has actively taken a stance on politics an

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
their management. The WMF can override the local community if they want. The WMF is very unlikely to approve of this, as that would be influencing legislation. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia - What exactly does the proposed law say?

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Thomas Morton wrote: > http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stampati/pdf/16PDL0038530.pdf Is this public domain? If it is, we can put it on Italian Wikisource, annotate it and translate it into other languages. -- John Vandenb

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
://secure.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011 -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-10-03 Thread John Vandenberg
t recognise date of first publication? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Three short films about Wikipedia

2011-09-29 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi Lennart. Thank you for these. I'll be using the Läraren video on this coming Monday at This Is Not Art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Newcastle/TINA2011 The other two are not as obviously about Wikipedia. -- John Vande

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-29 Thread John Vandenberg
Facts and Opinions on the copyright can be added to the Wikipedia talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dead_Sea_Scrolls#Google_scans -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread John Vandenberg
to the 'medium' / 'channeler'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_on_religious_works And there is the crown hold copyright on KJV, in perpetuity. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-23 Thread John Vandenberg
rewlih.com/blog/2006/07/27/wikipedia-blocked-in-saudi-arabia/ Thank you. Added to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Saudi_Arabia -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing li

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-22 Thread John Vandenberg
upport_Wikipedia_Kicks_Off http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Half_a_Million_People_Donate_to_Keep_Wikipedia_Free Someone who does have non-English language skills and non-English project experience, and they arnt in use: http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Melamrawy_%28WMF%29 -- John Vandenberg ___

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 90, Issue 121

2011-09-22 Thread John Vandenberg
also has "Author" and "Portal" pages, which is where _all_ of the user-contributed content goes. Wiktionary has an Appendix namespace, which is one of its most important sets of content pages, consisting of lovely word lists. Some of thes

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-21 Thread John Vandenberg
e good to compile a list of any WMF projects of this kind. maybe the WMF can have _one_ "sister projects support officer" (think how many dedicated _English_Wikipedia_ support staff the WMF has). -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Extension:Babel

2011-09-21 Thread John Vandenberg
Extension Babel is now deployed. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Babel Thank you Roan. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread John Vandenberg
ch do not have their own project (yet). each text is a discrete work, and dont need an active community in order to be a useful resource. Eventualism is stronger on Wikisource, which is why texts are not forced to reside on the normal incubator. -- J

Re: [Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Ancient Greek reconstructed an analysis of a proposal for a new Wikipedia

2011-09-20 Thread John Vandenberg
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Old_English_works -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-17 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard wrote: > ... > We need people to try the technical basics of a fork, i.e. taking an > en:wp dump, an images dump, .. Is there an images dump? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list fou

Re: [Foundation-l] On Wikinews

2011-09-16 Thread John Vandenberg
e this useful to a > larger audience. It is true that we have more English scanned books than we could transcribe in a hundred years, but there are many languages which have very few scanned books available online, and there are some important E

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-13 Thread John Vandenberg
er there may be instances where we can fix the problem by removing gratuitous images from articles, and leave them in a Commons category. If it turns out to be a very limited problem, we should not build a complex system that ends up over-engineered and not supported by the community. A few gadgets to

Re: [Foundation-l] Minor projects withering and dying? Really?

2011-09-13 Thread John Vandenberg
Supporting/Investing in the extensions used by OmegaWiki. http://www.omegawiki.org/Special:Version see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_data_design and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OmegaWiki -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l ma

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-12 Thread John Vandenberg
than five contributors with >100 edits per month http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt100.htm -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-10 Thread John Vandenberg
e plans the type of voting and requirements for voters, drafts and organizes all of the official referendum pages on Meta, verifies that voters meet the criteria, audits votes to ensure there are no duplicate votes or other problems, et cetera." Does "the type of voting" include the s

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-10 Thread John Vandenberg
gt; I'm sorry, no.  This is just untrue. It would be nice to see some analysis of the results per country or language. But please can we have the data first, so that the analysis tasks can be undertaken by we the people. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/Results/en#R

Re: [Foundation-l] Hypothetical project rebranding Wikimedia

2011-09-08 Thread John Vandenberg
ggested in December 2010, with pretty mockups, and mentioned again in this thread. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fajro/5249381685 Fajro, I like it. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Risker wrote: > On 7 September 2011 17:32, John Vandenberg wrote: >> Every version of Mozilla has included the "Dont load images" option. >> And it is simple to find. > > John, you made me laugh out loud when I read that - it remi

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:30 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > John Vandenberg wrote: >> I think you might be more interested in looking at the same question >> from another perspective. >> >> Are there any encyclopedia which have been >> classified/banned/bowlderised by

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
content is appropriate for all ages. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Phil Nash wrote: >>John Vandenberg wrote: >>.. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Classification_Board > > Rubbish, and the article you cite is very poorly-written anyway. I provided the link to Wikipedia so people unfamiliar with

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
te to talk about real content pages on a Wikipedia project which should be rated, either by law or on a voluntary/best practice basis. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Phil Nash wrote: >... > [[WP:ANI]] is hardly an example to our children, is it? ANI isn't a content page. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubsc

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
assify as PG, or M? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
lementation of > the image filter? > > Because, unless we got some serious statistical backing for those > assertions, they are just smoke blowing our of asses to the sound of > "but think of the children!" Are there ar

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Risker wrote: > On 7 September 2011 17:18, John Vandenberg wrote: > >>  On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Risker wrote: >> > On 7 September 2011 10:48, David Gerard wrote: >> > >> >> >> > >> > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
approach is far better than the approach used by most other large > educational institutions which currently control the viewing of > controversial content through their acquisition process. Wikipedia *is* successful, and an image filter was not part of its

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
significant opposition to > even this simple matter. Turning off images should be, and can be, done by the user-agent. We have a help page describing how to do this. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Summary of findings from WMF Summer of Research program now available

2011-09-06 Thread John Vandenberg
Thanks Steven, and the Community Department. I am instantly drawn to the analysis of redlinks. Can we please have this data!! Article writers are on stand by ready to kill red links ;-) The special page for this is dead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

2011-09-06 Thread John Vandenberg
they need to win the battles (as well as the war ..) is slightly more advanced tools... like the block button. add a mix of abusefilter, flagged revs, semi-protection, etc., and we can slow down changes to the categorisation system and respond quickly to attack

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-06 Thread John Vandenberg
d still apply to any survey of the public, especially when conducted by organisations funded by the public. The survey instruments used should be valid, and the survey results should be discard if the survey population was not satisfactory. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

2011-09-06 Thread John Vandenberg
ed into Google News. http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&hl=en&gl=au&tbm=nws&btnmeta_news_search=1&q=wikinews -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

2011-09-05 Thread John Vandenberg
projects .. ;-) If WMF already is doing this, it isnt being heard on the blog or other communication mechanisms. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikiquote-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-04 Thread John Vandenberg
nt used, whether the survey population obtained is suitable, etc? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-30 Thread John Vandenberg
lexibility? Arne, do you agree that all signed fundraising agreements should be honoured by the WMF? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-30 Thread John Vandenberg
27;s not public? Not really asking you (Nathan) > directly, but asking the list, I suppose. It is a draft. A few problems were communicated privately nine days ago from WMAU, and from other chapters around the same time. I would like an ETA from the WMF on a public version for comment. -- Joh

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread John Vandenberg
WMF to continue to say "NONE" in the relevant sections of its annual 990 form. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-28 Thread John Vandenberg
en the draft Chapters Grant Agreement? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-28 Thread John Vandenberg
it to chapters via grants, all chapters must comply with the US regulations regarding use of money by a 501(c)(3) charity, and any additional constraints that the WMF puts on these grants in order to minimise its own risks and simplify its own compliance checking. By doing this, the WMF is taking on

Re: [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-13 Thread John Vandenberg
the Wikipedia articles, > but in a new plataform. It would be an interesting experiment. Something like this.. ? http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:PersonalWikiTool -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Alec Conroy

2011-08-11 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi, gmail email account has been terminated. ;-( -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-08 Thread John Vandenberg
es in the Wikisource incubator. http://www.wikisource.org/ -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Intellectual property policy for open organisations

2011-08-08 Thread John Vandenberg
p://infojustice.org/public-events/global-congress -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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