[Foundation-l] Gliimpse: Animating From Markup Code To Rendered Result

2012-03-25 Thread Kim Bruning
Spotted this because it one of the demonstrated uses was with wikimarkup. How useful it actually is or is not is a different question. "Writing documents using markup languages isn't always easy. Take Wikipedia, for example: one often needs time to relocate the current focus when they switch betw

Re: [Foundation-l] Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, , Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-21 Thread Kim Bruning
ot a wp2 with tidied up and streamlined "policy" (redesign as a pattern language), integrated Prod/AFD, deprecated arbcom in favor of DRN, and most importantly: ensuring new users all get mentors. Acculturation failure has severely harmed WP1, we need some way to bring exp

[Foundation-l] CBC getting rid of physical archives(but not digitising all of them)

2012-03-14 Thread Kim Bruning
uot; http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-cbc-music-archives Is this accurate news? If so, can we (eg: commons/wikisource) help? sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscr

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2012-03-09 Thread Kim Bruning
T The people who are pushing for filtering are mostly from what we traditionally regard as being the West. sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mail

Re: [Foundation-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)

2012-03-09 Thread Kim Bruning
out and I am even more passionate about doing it > right. Awesome plan! Minor naming detail: There's an extension called Wikidata too! O:-) http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Wikidata/ I haven't looked at that in a while. Heh, I wonde

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] "We are the media, and so are you" Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh OpEd in Washington Post

2012-02-09 Thread Kim Bruning
e are the media, and so are you Jimmy+Kat ++ :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ 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 Kim Bruning
lsevier citations' option. Coulw we start a WikiJournal of some sort? (Akin to WikiNews in operation, perhaps?) sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com

2012-01-29 Thread Kim Bruning
e whether the site lists any copyright information etc (and what it says?) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] ACTA signed but not ratified Re: ACTA analysis?

2012-01-26 Thread Kim Bruning
rrently la quadrature du net is coordinated best. http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-signed-by-the-eu-lets-defeat-it-together https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA sincerly, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l ma

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Kim Bruning
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:37:38PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:13:59PM -0800, Geoff Brigham wrote: > > Hi Kim, > > > > I will be happy to ask one of our junior attorney interns, Stephen, to do a > > short 1-2 page summary of ACTA. This

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Kim Bruning
t and excellent support to > me during the SOPA protest. Geoff, Hello Stephen! That would be a great start. There's currently a lot of impetus for action across the world. This analysis will help guide that. I wonder if it will make the history books? :-) sincere

[Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-24 Thread Kim Bruning
s, note that La quadrature du net is taking action, and has collected all relevant phone numbers and addresses etc: https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA#Contact_your_Elected_Representatives The window for action on ACTA is now very narrow, time is short. sincerely,

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

2012-01-22 Thread Kim Bruning
Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0112/morningtech377.html Interesting. Any details? sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-22 Thread Kim Bruning
years) Stealing procedure from a different well-known venue: "Without objection, I move that this become policy." sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Maggie Dennis to continue with WMF

2012-01-20 Thread Kim Bruning
oonriddengirl Oh! Duh. Yes. Definitely keep her around. O:-) (Congratulations. Keep up the good work! :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mail

[Foundation-l] Tor guys talking about what happens when your innocent western filter shows up in a repressive state.

2012-01-19 Thread Kim Bruning
&v=DX46Qv_b7F4#t=3944s (from tor talk at CCC) The entire video is a fascinating discussion on how censorship works, and how these guys are working to fight it. I'm really impressed by what they do and how they think. As always I wish we could cooperate with tor more. sincerely

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

2012-01-06 Thread Kim Bruning
, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2012-01-05 Thread Kim Bruning
it might be a good idea to check how and if the new spanish laws (will) affect WMF, and what measures need to be taken to stay safe for now. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented

2012-01-03 Thread Kim Bruning
Looks like .us is pushing other countries to implement similar laws, eg. .es : http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/0241248/spanish-website-blocking-law-implemented sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

2011-12-19 Thread Kim Bruning
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:35:24AM +1100, Tim Starling wrote: > On 13/12/11 01:36, Teofilo wrote: > > Let us stop asking users to individually tag every wrong picture! Let > > us have some developers create a tool to find wrong pictures and > > rotate them back to their original orientation! > > W

Re: [Foundation-l] Smurfs Movie is infringing on wikipedia copyright

2011-12-19 Thread Kim Bruning
fs, surely we could smurf something smurfy like this in the next deal to smurf along? ;-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] sopa debate now live

2011-12-19 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:20:34AM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote: > > Further SOPA debate postponed 'till wednesday. > > https://twitter.com/#!/jasoninthehouse/status/147819972498948097 The Easiest way to kill SOPA would be to interact with the committee before Wednesday.

Re: [Foundation-l] Smurfs Movie is infringing on wikipedia copyright

2011-12-17 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:00:30AM -0800, Jay Walsh wrote: > Hi folks - I can confirm that this is not an infringement of the WIkipedia > marks. Well, bother. I was so looking forward to an epic tea-party. sincerely, Kim 'O:-)' Bruning -- __

Re: [Foundation-l] Smurfs Movie is infringing on wikipedia copyright

2011-12-17 Thread Kim Bruning
ce sit down and a cup of tea, and make sure they modify the credits properly. :-) ) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Smurfs Movie is infringing on wikipedia copyright

2011-12-17 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:59:29AM +, B?ria Lima wrote: > > > > *it's because smurfs didn't like Wikipedia's article on them. > They can always edit the article ;) xD No No, that'd be COI editing. They need to discuss their proposed changes on the talk pa

Re: [Foundation-l] sopa debate now live

2011-12-16 Thread Kim Bruning
Further SOPA debate postponed 'till wednesday. https://twitter.com/#!/jasoninthehouse/status/147819972498948097 sincerly, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] sopa debate now live

2011-12-15 Thread Kim Bruning
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 08:40:00PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote: > > http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa (Also we hijacked #wikimedia-office for discussion O:-) ) sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l mailing list founda

[Foundation-l] sopa debate now live

2011-12-15 Thread Kim Bruning
http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread Kim Bruning
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:04:36AM +, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On Dec 15, 2011 3:20 AM, "Kim Bruning" wrote: > > That, and remember that it is preferable to stage a protest BEFORE > passage of > > the bill. :-P > > I'm not sure about that. If we strik

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread Kim Bruning
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 02:49:00AM +, Thomas Dalton wrote: > I would say that "technically" Jimmy's statement that it was just an > informal poll to decide whether it is worth discussing further is binding. > Someone acting on that poll alone might get away with it, but it would > "technically"

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread Kim Bruning
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 05:12:34PM -0800, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Before anyone blanks the en.wiki Main Page, please remember that the > bill is still in committee. It could still be heavily modified or > rejected completely before going to the floor. If it does go to the > floor, it probably woul

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread Kim Bruning
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:57:51PM +, Fae wrote: > On 14 December 2011 22:42, Kim Bruning wrote: > > No. My opinion was on the straw man as stated, not for some later > re-interpretation. Um, You opposed the straw man as stated. If you strike your position, then I'd inte

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread Kim Bruning
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:59:13PM +, Fae wrote: > > Strictly speaking, the straw poll there is sufficient, unless people bring > > up true blockers. > > > > sincerely, > > ? ? ? ?Kim Bruning > > I contributed to the straw poll on the understanding

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread Kim Bruning
peaking, the straw poll there is sufficient, unless people bring up true blockers. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The next Wikimedia architecture

2011-12-13 Thread Kim Bruning
dia_proposals sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Internal-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-12 Thread Kim Bruning
o adhere to it better in future. sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Internal-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-12 Thread Kim Bruning
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:59:24PM +, Oliver Keyes wrote: > On Sunday, 11 December 2011, Renata St wrote: > >> as per WIARM. > > As I said, analyze and nitpick things to death. Does any of that above * > > really* matter? > Speaking off the record and in my personal capacity - fuckin' A. Tha

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-11 Thread Kim Bruning
rs%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Harvard.2FScience_Po_Adverts > > > > I will do it right now, That's a good start! sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-11 Thread Kim Bruning
ize an olive branch when I see one. :-) Believe it or not, I've been trying to help, but I'm obviously somewhat frustrated now. Could we call privately first, at some time during the week? sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l m

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-11 Thread Kim Bruning
for beginners. With the greatest possible respect; I would suggest that the research committee does not have the kind of standing required to accuse others of disruptive behaviour, at this point in time. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ f

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-11 Thread Kim Bruning
) rcom members who are involved with the project. To be sure: this is not just a good idea. This is basic wiki(pedia) policy for beginners. ;-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-11 Thread Kim Bruning
agine you walk into a bank office and start working on their computers. No one knows who you are, no one knows what you are doing, and you have no contract, contact info of the local manager, or ID on you. What's going to happen? sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-11 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:48:05PM -0500, Renata St wrote: > > > > Hmm, the research committee still hasn't made any onwiki statement at a > > relevant location that I can find. If this were a court case, RCom > > would pretty much have lost by default and/or forfeit already. > > > > As I said, an

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-10 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:11:35PM -0500, Renata St wrote: > > When did the community turned into this old grumpy bunch being unhappy > about everything? Eh? Not in the least. I think Jerome is a nice guy; and so does practically everyone else who has gotten up to speed on what's going on. The

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-10 Thread Kim Bruning
and adhere to it. * Plan sufficient time and resources for the correction of (inevitable) unforseen issues. If this is done in a timely manner, this needn't take a lot of time or difficulty. Fixing errors and misunderstandings post-hoc is more costly. sincerely, Kim Bruning

Re: [Foundation-l] Is a research banner "advertising" of the evil sort?

2011-12-09 Thread Kim Bruning
note to be careful. In the end you acted correctly according to consensus, albeit by accident, as you now confirm. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Is a research banner "advertising" of the evil sort?

2011-12-09 Thread Kim Bruning
never for consensus. [1] sincerely, Kim Bruning [1] For completeness: once upon a time, wikipedia-l was also acceptable as a source of consensus. No one has tried to use that for quite a while though. ;-) -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] WP being edited by lobbying firm

2011-12-06 Thread Kim Bruning
st NPOVize the lot. :-) [citation needed] and all that. Check page history for misbehaviour as well. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to Censor social

2011-12-06 Thread Kim Bruning
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:25:03PM +0530, Achal Prabhala wrote: > On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: > > I do not believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil > > Sibal's position. Though they'll have to speak for > > themsel

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: office hours this morning with WMF General Counsel

2011-12-06 Thread Kim Bruning
December 2011 Philippe (WMF) (talk | contribs) deleted "User:Geoffbrigham/Strategy" ??? (G6: Per author request: Author request) Oh hey, that's definitely odd! Are we getting a different page back? (In that case, perhaps we should have done a move/

[Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to Censor social

2011-12-06 Thread Kim Bruning
lieve that the Indian internet community shares Kapil Sibal's position. Though they'll have to speak for themselves, of course! :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscr

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: office hours this morning with WMF General Counsel

2011-12-02 Thread Kim Bruning
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:23:14PM +0300, Dan Rosenthal wrote: > Trying to connect -- anyone else having trouble or is it just me? It's you. :-) -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/

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

2011-12-01 Thread Kim Bruning
;s prejudicial labelling. Filtering:meh Prejudicial Labelling: evil. Widely considered a Bad Idea (tm), since at least the '50s The reason filtering is 'meh' (as opposed to 'mostly harmless') is because it is hard to do without prejudi

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet Workers of the World

2011-11-29 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:53:14AM +0100, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 23:35, Fred Bauder wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Workers-of-the-World/224417737626665?sk=wall > > > > Our union > > I was thinking about party, but union is better :) Ar? Kim "Piece

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 videos - mission complete!

2011-11-29 Thread Kim Bruning
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:05:32AM +0100, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > Am 30.11.2011 00:04, schrieb Kim Bruning: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 01:48:24PM +0200, Itzik Edri wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> *I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 2011 in

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

2011-11-29 Thread Kim Bruning
t; improve search functionality and to help categorizing. It will actually > help everyone and would get clear referendum results." ;P That's going in the right direction. And perhaps we can easily do more, within the given constraints. If so, there's no reason not to.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 videos - mission complete!

2011-11-29 Thread Kim Bruning
i8S2_trs * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c2Vb7CqTdc * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDMLkC_pRg O:-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-11-29 Thread Kim Bruning
he actual library argument is a bit different. (Notably, you don't address the ALA's concepts of "prejudicial label" or "censorship tool") sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

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

2011-11-29 Thread Kim Bruning
nd are opposed to them. eg. http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=interpretations&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8657 See elsewhere for further sources. (they get brought up regularly) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-11-29 Thread Kim Bruning
rking towards common consensus. Here's the key argument from a "fellow traveller"[1] kind of organisation, to help you catch up. :-) http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=interpretations&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8657 sincerely, K

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

2011-11-29 Thread Kim Bruning
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:09:04AM +0100, M?ller, Carsten wrote: > > > > ... but -if we want to reach consensus[1]- what we really need to be > > discussing is: screwdrivers. > > > > sincerely, > > Kim Bruning > > > > No, we need

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

2011-11-28 Thread Kim Bruning
few people went: "Dude, shouldn't we use some long object that we can twist or something?" Somehow the discussion has devolved to respectively * "Why do you want the screw to stick out?" versus * "Why do you want to hit our thumb?"... ... but -if we want to reach consens

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

2011-11-27 Thread Kim Bruning
ctive too. See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kim_Bruning#Image_filter In this discussion with Atlasowa I challenge them to come with actual numbers and facts. I think Atlasowa has proved all of us more-or-less wrong ;-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___

[Foundation-l] TVTropes policies: No such thing as notability.

2011-11-16 Thread Kim Bruning
dater (considered an antipattern on tv tropes!) Addiction warning: These are links to TVTropes. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife (Isn't getting people addicted to reading and editing a *GOOD* thing, from a wiki POV?) sincerely, K

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to Fae

2011-11-07 Thread Kim Bruning
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:18:54PM +, Oliver Keyes wrote: > It's a WP USCRIPT at WP:TLA/TL:DR/TTP. DL it on the QT because it's TS and > you'll get KP if found out. ZOMG, you violated WP:WOTTA [1] ! sincerely, Kim "There's a policy for that" Bruning. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

[Foundation-l] Who *doesn't* suffer from adminitis these days?

2011-11-02 Thread Kim Bruning
wiki and up into low earth orbit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adminitis So qua editor retention, 2 things are needed: * Make editing more obvious and easy, and bring the fun back. :-) * Work on The Cure For Adminitis (tm). O:-) sincerely, Kim Br

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

2011-11-02 Thread Kim Bruning
; Thank you for that, that was hilarious to read through all those reversions. Now you understand the true source of wiki-power: A sense of humor, and a keen sense of fun. /me almost forgot wikipedia used to be that way. :-) sincerely, Kim ':-)' Bruning -- ___

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-28 Thread Kim Bruning
is inadequate, and that is because filtering is a hard problem. If we're smart, we'll try to do something that is slightly different from actual filtering, to get around what I'm starting to suspect is something of a mathematical pothole in our way. s

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-28 Thread Kim Bruning
ms like a fairly good wiki-like solution. :-) It's not perfect, but nothing is. It seems to strike the right balance. I could certainly live with it. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-28 Thread Kim Bruning
omes from people with an IT background. That is to say, people who have tried to figure it out, and have had some trouble finding a solution. (I may be biased, since that's my own personal background too) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ founda

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-28 Thread Kim Bruning
ike > to remember that choice?" seems like a more straightforward > accommodation of the concerns that we're talking about than saying That's actually just POV-pushing :-( , albeit very politely. :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- _

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filtering without undermining the category system

2011-10-11 Thread Kim Bruning
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:20:15PM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote: > On 11 October 2011 21:51, Kim Bruning wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:55:46PM +0100, WereSpielChequers wrote: > > > OK in a spirit of compromise I have designed an Image filter which should > > &g

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filtering without undermining the category system

2011-10-11 Thread Kim Bruning
actually work. > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/filter Hmm, how would it fare against a marblecake attack? ;-) http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/ sincerely, Kim Bruning I just lost The

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

2011-10-11 Thread Kim Bruning
ensure that your own information is impeccable first. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ 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

2011-10-11 Thread Kim Bruning
reviewed images that can be > considered objectionable, that could be filtered/black-listed. We could also just delete them, unless someone actually uses them in a sensible way in an article. :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundati

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:22:09PM -0400, Risker wrote: > all the articles in [[:Category:Sexual positions]] What are you trying to ... Let's try a question like: ...Can you block [[:Category:Demolished windmills]] (and all subcats?) for yourself? sincerely, Kim

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
he given category on commons, if viewed on the actual pages they are used for on wikipedia? And will it also block images from the subcategory - if used on wikipedia? I might investigate or even buy this software (if not exceptionally expensive) and test it extensively if this is the case. si

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:43:22PM -0400, Risker wrote: > On 10 October 2011 18:45, Kim Bruning wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:12:04PM -0400, Risker wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I've seen it in operation. >

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
r content-finding, is not > amenable to use in exactly the same way that an > image-filter-specific category would be. It would require some amount of remapping before it could be practically used in that manner. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- _

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
ppropriate in different parts of the world) Our current category system conforms to B. We would need some sort of mapping to A to make a category based filter work. Social problem: Mapping B to A is evil, according to ALA. ;-) sincerely, Kim Bruning Patient: &q

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:39:43PM +0400, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:32:57 +0200, Kim Bruning > wrote: > > > I'll (re)join the community discussion. > > Which page(s) are being used atm? > > > None I know of. That's ok. I'

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:18:23PM +0400, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:37:05 +0200, Kim Bruning > wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:44:09PM +0400, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > >> I was following the discussion without ever giving my own opinion, and

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:49:04PM +0100, David Gerard wrote: > On 10 October 2011 18:37, Kim Bruning wrote: > > > I think that having the image blurring system, combined with an option to > > unblur, > > would get us very far towards the stated board directive, and I

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
perfect > idea, but discussing and debating the merits of each idea might > reveal a solution that's tenable. There are well known standard attacks against pretty much any current user-facing data-collection system [1]. :-/ But perhaps there are even other ideas! :-) sincerely,

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

2011-10-10 Thread Kim Bruning
o view license details and full size versions of the image. If there are but few additions, we can go straight to bugzilla. If people feel that adjustment is needed, we can take this to meta first, before moving to bugzilla. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- _

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

2011-10-09 Thread Kim Bruning
> this will not be possible, but it's the goal. Perfect. That's exactly what I was hoping for. It's a deal! :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https:/

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

2011-10-09 Thread Kim Bruning
#x27;t decide to discuss this with the WMF and reach a > compromise and then do so. That's neither here nor there. There's a way to make that work. (A little more complex than fits into this margin, but it's essentially what I'm up to all the ti

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

2011-10-09 Thread Kim Bruning
> making mechanisms, so it can take deliberate action. The community > can't. Actually, the community is quite capable of generating coherent action, thank you. If you don't know how, there's folks around who can teach you. If you can't find any, I

Re: [Foundation-l] "almost wikipedia" talk

2011-10-05 Thread Kim Bruning
" > > It will be webcast: > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/10/makohill That is SO awesome! :-) I'm definitely going to watch and read about that. sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing l

[Foundation-l] (erratum) Re: We need more information (was: Blog from Sue about ...)

2011-10-01 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 03:21:45AM +0200, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 08:47:43PM +0530, Bishakha Datta wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Lodewijk > > wrote: ^- apologies for leaving this quote-line in. I was replying to a quote by Bishaka Datta. Th

Re: [Foundation-l] Experiment: Blurring all images on Wikipedia

2011-09-30 Thread Kim Bruning
. Constructive solutions FTW. :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] We need more information (was: Blog from Sue about ...)

2011-09-30 Thread Kim Bruning
onse of 5.7 and a median of 6." > > How do we understand this? And how should this be factored into making a > decision? The distribution is strongly bimodal. Describing it as "mildly in favor" is not accurate. sincerly, Kim Bruning -- ___

Re: [Foundation-l] We need more information (was: Blog from Sue about ...)

2011-09-30 Thread Kim Bruning
ion when implementing a form of labelling. Fortunately, labelling is *not* actually required by the board resolution. So, the solution going forward -imo- is to implement a software solution that doesn't depend on labelling. At that point, your arguments hold water; and I agree

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Kim Bruning
ittle too close to the edge on this one. We need some other options. :) Fortunately, people like Erik Moeller have been considering other implementations, where no central categories or lists are used. Those seem MUCH more sane, and are probably the way forward here. :-) sincerel

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Kim Bruning
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 04:12:37PM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: > Up to now, all females from US (four of them) are in favor of filter > (though, Sarah just tactically) and the only one not from US > (Brazil/Portugal) is against. This is not entirely true. At least one other .us female is against. (

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Kim Bruning
than intended. :-( sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ 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

2011-09-28 Thread Kim Bruning
if this is going to be shown at conferences and such, it might be handier to add subtitles? :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th wiki-birthdays?

2011-09-25 Thread Kim Bruning
t; > > Plus a few months, my first edits were from March 2001. First five edits in Nov 2001. :-) (including anime, flying saucers, and Dijkstra ;-) ) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

[Foundation-l] 10th wiki-birthdays?

2011-09-24 Thread Kim Bruning
And now for something completely different. :-) Who here has already had their 10th wikibirthday, and who will have it soon? Seems like an excuse for a party :-) sincerely, Kim 'TINC' Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@li

[Foundation-l] RFC on Image filter on Wikisource

2011-09-23 Thread Kim Bruning
New RFC on image filter, for wikisource, being setup on meta. Please help set it up, and please contribute! :-) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Image_filter_on_Wikisource sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l

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