Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-04-03 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Are there any other consequences of a list rename? > > You will feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of > voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. :D A few pages

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
name.[1] I'm still not sure a move (from "foundation-l" to "wikimedia-l") has more benefit than cost. MZMcBride [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foundation-L_Proposal ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2012-03-30 Thread MZMcBride
e. Personally, I think having Board members respond to direct follow-up questions regarding specific votes that community members are interested in (on the mailing list or on Meta-Wiki) would be more useful. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list fou

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

2012-03-24 Thread MZMcBride
Samuel Klein wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:06 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Experiments are acceptable... sometimes. > > MZM, I didn't expect you to become the voice of conservatism! > > I cannot agree with your premise that experiments are somehow > 'optiona

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

2012-03-23 Thread MZMcBride
out what Wikimedia's mission actually is (and how to best achieve it). For the Wikimedia Foundation, the goalposts seem to have shifted and it's now all about adding people to build a movement. Is this the right approach, though? MZMcBride _

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

2012-03-21 Thread MZMcBride
birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Mar 21, 2012, at 8:53 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Sue Gardner wrote: >>> Everybody knows that reversing stagnating/declining participation >>> in Wikimedia's projects is our top priority. >> >> Thank you for sharing thi

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

2012-03-21 Thread MZMcBride
Zack Exley wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: >> I was thinking more about this today and how it somewhat relates to you and >> your previous work at MoveOn.org. >> >> Mandatory voting laws look great on paper: increased democratic and civic >> participation, a more in

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

2012-03-21 Thread MZMcBride
t for keeping new editors around? For example, deleting a new user's article is probably the easiest way to discourage him or her, but is the alternative (allowing their spammy page to sit around for a while) an acceptable cost for the potential benefit? MZMcBride _

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

2012-03-21 Thread MZMcBride
ng the numbers (a focus on quantity) is overshadowing the arguably more important goal of improving the content (a focus on quality)? MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Does google favour WIkipedia?

2012-03-20 Thread MZMcBride
articles generally sit around for weeks, if not months or years. I'm not sure what you're talking about. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-15 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > Indeed. I've commented out the iframe for now while discussion continues. > Once there's a clearer understanding of the implications of using this code > and whether this particular third-party's policy is compatible with > Wikimedia's. > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-15 Thread MZMcBride
. I say "compatible" as it's a passive read action of wikimediafoundation.org that will trigger data being sent to Jobvite. Adding a footer might be nice, but if the user doesn't consent to Jobvite's privacy policy, simply reading wikimediafoundation.org has alr

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-14 Thread MZMcBride
://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy * http://recruiting.jobvite.com/privacy-policy.php I don't know the answer, but I imagine someone will be along in short order to clarify. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.w

[Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-14 Thread MZMcBride
king users, but this is a separate case with fewer privacy implications, I think. Thoughts? MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia domains, SOPA, Godaddy and MarkMonitor

2012-03-10 Thread MZMcBride
ly recall some major site being interrupted within the past year because their domain registration password (on a site like GoDaddy or HostGator or wherever) was incredibly weak. You'd be surprised what kinds of domains are registered where. :-) MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2012-03-10 Thread MZMcBride
ddening > day. You've excluded Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, Wikisource, etc. there. I guess it would be less sad for them. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-07 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > Kat: Thank you for weighing in. I know many people appreciated hearing from > you, Phoebe, and some of the other "big" voices who have commented here. And > I think some of the replies in this thread have gone a long way to helping > ease some tensions and

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-07 Thread MZMcBride
s: I think http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2012-March/072463.html is one of my favorite posts to foundation-l ever. I'll go add these examples to <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems> now. MZMcBride ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread MZMcBride
quot; when there aren't even dumps of the images on Commons, much less one of the other 1,000 issues you'd hit when trying to fork a Wikimedia wiki. Be reasonable, please. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-04 Thread MZMcBride
a question about the status of X (e.g., controversial content software implementation) without needing to bother Board members. ;-) Any ideas on implementing something like that? I'm not sure how many other high-level projects there are, even. Any guidance on this

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-04 Thread MZMcBride
h butterflies would be separated from > other types of monarch, etc. Interesting. :-) I encourage everyone to take a look at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming> and chime in. > Beyond wanting to drop the list a note about Niabot's idea, I also

[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-01 Thread MZMcBride
e's a project status page somewhere with updated info, feel free to just link that.) MZMcBride P.S. I'm always fascinated by cases where there's an extreme contrast between how seemingly innocuous the search term is and how explicit the search results are. I think my current favorite ca

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

2012-02-29 Thread MZMcBride
Oliver Keyes wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: >> At a minimum, the tab needs to be moved to the sidebar side so that it's out >> of the way. There's no feedback that you're soliciting that's so important >> that it should stand in the way of reading an infobox

Re: [Foundation-l] Communicating effectively: Wikimedia needs clear language now

2012-02-22 Thread MZMcBride
he reader's part just as much as they merit clarity and > brevity on the writer's or speaker's part. Being simplistic about the > "corporate world" is no more charming or noble than is ignorance about > any other field. Applying corporate jargon to a non-prof

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

2012-02-09 Thread MZMcBride
ime. Respectfully, I don't think this is as much about being vigilant as it is about saying that the bullets should be taken out of the gun rather than leaving it loaded on the table. I don't foresee a lot of good coming from this (predictable) step by the Wikimedia Found

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

2012-02-09 Thread MZMcBride
Philippe Beaudette wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: >> A political (lobbying?) arm of Wikimedia? And the Wikimedia community and >> Board have said they're okay with this? > > I'm not really sure where you get that, MZ. Politics and lobbying were not > mentioned a

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

2012-02-09 Thread MZMcBride
dia community and Board have said they're okay with this? MZMcBride ___ 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 MZMcBride
so important that it should stand in the way of reading an infobox or other actual page content. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread MZMcBride
The English Wikipedia has become "one of those sites with a feedback tab"? Example: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Russell_Burnham>. How did this happen? MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia

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

2012-02-06 Thread MZMcBride
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article is pretty good reading. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] "New York Times" op-ed about Wikipedia and copyright

2012-02-06 Thread MZMcBride
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/opinion/steal-this-column.html Some readers may find this interesting; it doesn't seem to have hit this list. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread MZMcBride
ifferent data has different expiries. A lot of it is permanent (e.g., revisions aren't going anywhere for the most part). I guess the question is specific to the ClickTracking extension: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ClickTracking>? MZMcBride

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

2012-02-03 Thread MZMcBride
Béria Lima wrote: > On 1 February 2012 21:56, MZMcBride wrote: >> Béria Lima wrote: >>> Risker, there are SEVERAL documents in meta with the guidelines used to >>> elect the Chapter seats. Say that "nobody knows" is a bit offensive. >> >> SEVER

Re: [Foundation-l] Vice President?

2012-02-02 Thread MZMcBride
http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/10/cto-vs-vp-engineering.html > http://falseprecision.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/10/cto-vs-vp-engin.html Thanks for the insight here. :-) Much appreciated. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@

Re: [Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

2012-02-01 Thread MZMcBride
rotocol (MediaWiki already does it to spot mailto: links and irc: links and add pretty icons). Comparing against a list that's maintained in the MediaWiki namespace probably wouldn't be very difficult. It'd go in an extension, I guess. Extensions

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

2012-02-01 Thread MZMcBride
arly discover pages and processes (or get frustrated with not being able to find them and create my own). I've always found the chapter seats poorly explained and often misunderstood. If there are resources on Meta-Wiki (or even wikimediafoundation.org) that can clarify some of this to me and others,

[Foundation-l] Vice President?

2012-01-31 Thread MZMcBride
tly just noting for posterity. MZMcBride [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-June/054040.html [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?diff=78986&oldid=78985 [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors _

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-22 Thread MZMcBride
r the like) can produce an occasional comment that's not completely awful and useless. Most comment sections are filled with vile language (if people are paying viewing the content) or spam (if people aren't). It's certainly a reaso

Re: [Foundation-l] Policies on wikimediafoundation.org

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
olicies... All kinds of different policies. Board --> staff; Board --> everyone; staff --> staff; staff --> everyone(!). MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Policies on wikimediafoundation.org

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
mplate as well for policies in development. Thanks for this. I saw your edits. Overall pretty good. :-) Using your tagging, it might be easier to clarify <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies#Policies>. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l m

Re: [Foundation-l] OSM license change

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
se import of data > (that is from Wikipedia to OSM) will be impossible after the change, > right? You really ought to include links or at least spell out what you're talking about in (opening) posts. "ODbL FAQ on the OSM website" kind of made my head spin, and I

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

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
gt; > +1 David, I'm a bit surprised that you think a policy that includes the language "Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue or talks." is a good idea. I think it'd be difficult to have a discussion about Wikimedia Commons with a rule l

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

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
with any group of people? This way forward certainly has the potential to create some interesting policies. :-) MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
ion, though some of the language will undoubtedly need to be tweaked first. Thoughts? MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2012-01-21 Thread MZMcBride
A new policy should always be announced on foundation-l; forwarding. MZMcBride -- Forwarded Message From: Sumana Harihareswara Organization: Wikimedia Foundation Reply-To: Wikimedia developers Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:30:07 -0800 To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l

[Foundation-l] Policies on wikimediafoundation.org

2012-01-20 Thread MZMcBride
Board-approved" and "Otherwise." Then I considered splitting between "Staff-related", "Contributor-related," "Meetings-related," etc., but I wasn't so sure how many of these policies actually (allegedly) apply to contributors (e.g., the w

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

2012-01-16 Thread MZMcBride
ics is foolish." Have any museums, newspapers, or other cultural or political institutions joined this effort? Is there any concern about further damage to Wikipedia's reputation and credibility as an academic resource when it behaves in the same manner as sites like

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-13 Thread MZMcBride
Apparently there's now a vote at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action>. Not sure why there's a vote. Or why, if you're going to have a vote, you'd use MediaWiki... MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

2011-12-31 Thread MZMcBride
ith AdBlock and similar products, though. More info here: https://easylist.adblockplus.org/blog/2010/11/16/wikimedia-fundraising-banne rs MZMcBride ___ 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

2011-12-31 Thread MZMcBride
ck that would help Wikimedia and outsiders track trademark usage. I think it fell by the wayside when Mike left the Wikimedia Foundation and any work on it has mostly stopped. A bit more info here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TradeTrack>. MZMcBride __

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

2011-12-24 Thread MZMcBride
g closer to the idea of expert-approved or expert-endorsed revisions (implicitly or explicitly). It's an interesting dichotomy between the extension's stated goal of trying to attract new users and the extension's past (and present?) interface that encourages self-identified expert co

[Foundation-l] "Terms of use" rewrite winding down

2011-12-11 Thread MZMcBride
any skilled copy-editors who are able and willing to donate a few minutes to look over and clean up the draft would be greatly appreciated. Sometime in early 2012, a finalized version will be sent to the Wikimedia Board for approval. MZMcBride ___ foundatio

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

2011-12-09 Thread MZMcBride
Why is the banner so visually unattractive? Is the English Wikipedia being punished? MZMcBride ___ 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 MZMcBride
to believe that if the Wikimedia Board is making such a strong push for this feature to be implemented, there are very good reasons for doing so. Whether or not that's the case, I wouldn't look (closely or broadly) at the comments on this mailing list and try to divine community-wide view

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

2011-11-28 Thread MZMcBride
feature, it will need to assign staff and other resources. I don't think this has been done at this point, so the ball is in its court. MZMcBride ___ 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

2011-11-24 Thread MZMcBride
e. I'm not sure you'd want to put it in a cookie, but that's an implementation detail. Watchlist editing is generally based on looking at titles. I don't suppose you'd want a gallery of hidden images, but it would make filter-list editing easier, heh. MZMcBride __

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

2011-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
one as the project making "a world in which every single human being can > freely share in the sum of all knowledge", as if the others have no > relation to that mission. These are the the sorts of things that are actual > causes of frustration,

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours

2011-11-01 Thread MZMcBride
would be at work during the normal time > periods, to attend. I hope to see you all there :). Using 00:00 or 24:00 is strongly discouraged (some people go so far as to say that these times don't exist), as they create unnecessary confusion. Please use 23:59 or 00:01 in the fu

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

2011-10-31 Thread MZMcBride
#x27; interests. That's true, to be sure, but the costs of further close collaboration may outweigh any benefit. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-10-31 Thread MZMcBride
me a form letter about how hard they're working for me. > It's harmless enough though, I just choose to ignore it. A user preference or some other way of disabling the use of WikiLove on a per-user basis might be nice. Similar to an e-mail's "unsubscribe" feature. I'

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

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
ated to controversial content: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Timeline>. I strongly urge you and others to add information (with cites, as necessary and appropriate). :-) MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Grant agreements

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > Sue Gardner wrote: >> Oh. I can speak to this, at least a little. The Wikimedia Foundation has a >> policy of publishing our grant applications when the grantmaking institution >> is okay with it. We don't do a lot of grant applications, and

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

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
with the community starts and ends on-wiki. If only there were some sort of meta-wiki where people from the Wikimedia projects could come together and discuss brainstorming ideas for a workable filter... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming MZMcBride ___

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

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
om > above. I don't have a link, but the autofellatio discussion is mentioned at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Timeline>. If anyone finds a link, please post it there. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology

2011-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
spired its founding fathers. And mothers - many of the > founding editors of Wikipedia were women, I don't know how many people know > that. What license(s) will the book be released under? MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailin

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

2011-10-19 Thread MZMcBride
an often have the gravest consequences. As a PHP developer, I would've thought you would know this better than anyone. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Grant agreements

2011-10-15 Thread MZMcBride
(There also doesn't seem to be too much about the grants process on wikimediafoundation.org currently, so I'll look into improving that next week. Even a primer on the difference between grants Wikimedia solicits/receives and the grants Wikimedia administers/doles out would be cool.) MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Grant agreements

2011-10-14 Thread MZMcBride
r? I was talking about Stanton-type grants. Sorry for the confusion. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Grant agreements

2011-10-14 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. I asked about this a few days ago, but I don't think anyone ever responded. Are the grant agreements that the Wikimedia Foundation enters into posted anywhere? If so, where? If not, could someone post them, please? MZMcBride ___ foundat

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

2011-10-13 Thread MZMcBride
buse by a particular project, which > I haven't observed). Not inexplicably: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14281#c10 MZMcBride ___ 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 - Commons searches

2011-10-11 Thread MZMcBride
gmatic question. Users should be able to tailor > their user experience to their needs. Brainstorming for a workable solution, now ongoing: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming>. MZMcBride ___ 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 MZMcBride
ich images belong to which broad category? Not trying to be provocative, I've just never understood how the category-based system is supposed to work in practice. In (abstract) theory, it seems magical. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Controversial content brainstorming

2011-10-10 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. With nudging from Kim, I've started a subpage at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming> to brainstorm ideas for a workable solution to dealing with controversial content on Wikimedia wikis. MZMcBride ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Community Appeal

2011-10-10 Thread MZMcBride
to get banners or banner ideas from outside the Wikimedia (editing) community would be great. There are a lot of creative people who love Wikimedia projects. A few tweets or status updates calling for banner submissions might go a long way... assuming people c

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

2011-10-10 Thread MZMcBride
readers who actually switch the filter ON, and decide they > have better things to do than to edit-war over whether such a user will need > to click on the image to see it, or not. Yes, because rational thought like that is a hallmark of wi

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

2011-10-10 Thread MZMcBride
phoebe ayers wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> David Gerard wrote: >>> On 9 October 2011 14:18, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>>> On 9 October 2011 13:55, Ting Chen wrote: >>>>> The majority of editors who responded to the re

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

2011-10-09 Thread MZMcBride
d to look like in order to get anything other than a rambling "we march forward, unabated!" letter from the Board. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Project-specific donation landing page

2011-10-06 Thread MZMcBride
ar>. That particular link is generally controlled by this message: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitesupport-url>. Hope that helps, MZMcBride P.S. Your e-mail client is wrapping lines at rather odd spots, BTW. ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia $3.6 Million for Technology Improvements

2011-10-05 Thread MZMcBride
ia a friendlier and more understandable environment > for new editors, and an improved mobile experience for readers and editors. Is the grant restricted or unrestricted? (Is there a copy of the agreement somewhere?) Apologies if this is obvious or already stated elsew

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

2011-10-02 Thread MZMcBride
s it serve Wikimedia's mission? Does diverting resources from other projects and activities in favor of this one do more harm than good? I think it makes more sense to focus on these questions, rather than inventing silly tales. MZMcBride ___

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

2011-10-01 Thread MZMcBride
or the timeline. I'm not thrilled with the current page title, but it's a start: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content_timeline>. I'd forgotten all about Toby. That was largely a joke, wasn't it? MZMcBride

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

2011-09-30 Thread MZMcBride
This resolution was an act in bad faith. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-09-30 Thread MZMcBride
it sound as though it was an organization other than Wikimedia that proposed specific design plans, created by one of its employees. People have been discussing a particular implementation because Wikimedia put one forward. Why does your post make it sound as though this is surprising or unexpected?

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

2011-09-28 Thread MZMcBride
of harm. I think it's fairly shameful on the part of the Board, a very small body of individuals whose primary objective is to protect the projects. Instead, they chose this? MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.o

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

2011-09-22 Thread MZMcBride
Philippe Beaudette wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:47 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > >> Is there a single staffer who's even thinking about any of them as >> part of their work? I don't know of any. And, back to the original thought: >> are there any Wikimed

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

2011-09-22 Thread MZMcBride
king on Wikisource? What about Wikiversity? Wikinews? Is there a single staffer who's even thinking about any of them as part of their work? I don't know of any. And, back to the original thought: are there any Wikimedia initiatives to spec

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

2011-09-18 Thread MZMcBride
to the communities and a question of how long either side is willing to wait. MZMcBride ___ 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 MZMcBride
g on what you're talking about. Thumbnails, current images, older versions of images, deleted images, math renderings, etc. The sanest solution probably involves mailing a hard drive to someone and then having them mail it back. MZMcBride __

[Foundation-l] System administrators ignoring community consensus

2011-09-15 Thread MZMcBride
page serves to document these instances. [/quote] If anyone knows of any other bugs/requests, please feel free to list them. As the page notes, these rejections are rare, but in my opinion they offer a fascinating look into the "Wikipedia power structure."[1] MZMcBride

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

2011-09-15 Thread MZMcBride
have commented on this list and on the talk page, but most of that is negligible cost and/or volunteer cost. There are grey areas to consider as well. For example, would you consider the time and resources that went into the mock-ups as part of the referendum costs? I agree that a pr

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

2011-09-15 Thread MZMcBride
thing that's knowable at this point. It's going to take X hours of development and Y hours of testing in order to produce Z. Not knowing any of the three variables makes accurate predicting fairly difficult, I think. :-) Plus you have to factor in (or factor out, maybe) volunteer resou

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

2011-09-12 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:24 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> The current reality is that nearly any >> project besides the English Wikipedia has almost no technical support. > > That's a misunderstanding of what's happening. > > I would chara

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

2011-09-12 Thread MZMcBride
hat resources have been devoted to Wikinews in particular? Thanks for volunteering to clarify some of my confusion. :-) MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-09-12 Thread MZMcBride
for. Some of the Wikinews interviews have been impressive, but beyond those, there isn't much to speak of after seven years online. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-09-12 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: > On 12 September 2011 22:57, MZMcBride wrote: >> From Wikimedia's perspective, I think this is "one down, several hundred to >> go." Wikimedia has made it clear that its singular focus is the English >> Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are

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

2011-09-12 Thread MZMcBride
; in a handful of publications), but it's indisputably the reality. A classic example of this reality, incidentally, is the GoogleNewsSitemap extension fiasco on the English Wikinews. I'll echo others in wishing you all the best of luck going forward. I sincerely hope whoever administer

[Foundation-l] Personal image filter: leave it to third parties

2011-09-09 Thread MZMcBride
one will make it. But it's not Wikimedia's place to say who should and shouldn't have access to the sum of all human knowledge and what particular pieces of it constitute (graphic violence, pornography, etc.). MZMcBride ___ foundation-l

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

2011-09-09 Thread MZMcBride
ually true there. A cursory look at the Wikimedia Board resolutions is pretty damning. When the Wikimedia Foundation places the English Wikipedia on a pedestal and treats all other wiki projects/families as peripheral, it's not at all unexp

Re: [Foundation-l] PG rating

2011-09-07 Thread MZMcBride
clopedia, most rating agencies would > decide that the content is appropriate for all ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_PRC Is this a trick question? MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedi

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

2011-09-07 Thread MZMcBride
rity with the tangled mess that is MediaWiki/Wikipedia. Have you done much work on MediaWiki or worked with the replicated databases at all (particularly the databases of the larger sites)? An outside voice is great, but yours comes off as rather naïve. MZMcBride ___

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