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racy thread, not
an image filter conspiracy thread :)
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is that the dewiki poll being worded in a manner that is
pleasing to people who have critiqued the Foundation-wide survey does
not render it representative, when it was participated in by at most
one eightieth of the members of the community whom we know to have an
opinion on the matter.
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
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> However, poll data suggests otherwise (taking the de.wikipedia
> sample). AFAIK it's a minority that want filters, with a majority
> that doesn't.
The dewiki poll had 300 participants, the one on meta over 23,
been part of the proposal?
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es of European
anarcho-libertarians either.
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e that they would like to turn off the filter. Or if
such a "dead bodies" filter is described as not including Egyptian
mummies, someone could decide to hide all images by default. This
doesn't have to be difficult.
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:56 AM, David Gerard wrote:
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> How much is "mutilated"? A scratch? Ten scratches? A hundred
> scratches? St Sebastian?
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sebastia.jpg
I'm struggling to recall an example in any of these threads that
fore not suitable to be
covered in articles. This is an editorial decision-making process that
all editors perform all the time. Determining which filters to work on
is entirely analogous to this process, which is inherently neutral.
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long as the option to hide all images is also implemented, we can
quite simply add a disclaimer when anyone goes to turn on a filter
indicating that if complete exclusion is particularly important to
them, they should choose the option to hide everything by default.
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a person would be under such social pressure, how are
they not at present under enough pressure to avoid using Wikimedia
projects (or at least articles where such pictures would be expected
to be present) entirely?
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e to having the loudest
voices, and beg for their absolution."
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; environment, and to have the largest possible impact. Even if a first
> deployment is Wikipedia, they will generally benefit other projects as
> well.
I believe the correct name for that is the trickle-down effect :)
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sewhere, and in that regard Wikipedia has
needed no assistance in drawing attention and contributions away from
Wikinews. What good is yesterday's synthesis today?
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riate for all ages.
Britannica never had authors putting pictures of their own genitals
throughout each volume "because NOTCENSORED".
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On Sep 6, 2011 7:11 AM, "David Gerard" wrote:
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> The mean and median are statistical gibberish in a distribution that
> pathologically bimodal. You should know better than to make any claim
> that the numbers you quote are meaningful.
16% of respondents chose '0' and 20% chose '10'. Nearly 2/3 o
On Sep 6, 2011 6:43 AM, "David Gerard" wrote:
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> However, you initially claimed the referendum itself constituted
> support for the feature itself:
>
> "It provides a quite satisfactory 'yes' in answer to the question of
> whether it is worth the devs' time coding beginning development."
>
> We'r
p-by-stopping-people-choosing-what-they-want-to-see
crowd gives their blessing, to develop and implement...")
The questions are all relating to the development of the feature, save
for the 'culturally neutral' question: the first is about how to
prioritise it, and the others are
el/quantity of dev
resources that should be allocated to developing it.
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satisfactory 'yes' in answer to the question of
whether it is worth the devs' time coding beginning development. We're
merely talking about a proposed software feature here.
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on devs, Wikia devs, etc. Not that I
know how many of them there are.
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under the Wikimedia
umbrella, would there still be enough connection to the Foundation's
operations to render it desirable that they be enfranchised? (I would
think so.)
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d's composition,
and the increasing dominance of the executive).
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us that it's possible we could attract
> more people with the institution of Wikipedia than the institution of
> Wikimedia.
So wait, why was the choice made?
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orrect figure, as I'm sure the tech
staff do not get paid the same on average as all the other staff.
Moreover the order in which the new staff are hired throughout the
year will have some impact on this total. However, not all of the
current/new tech hires are/will be working on anything missi
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 1 January 2011 13:45, Stephen Bain wrote:
>> This puts a ceiling on 'urgent' costs at $8.8 M, or 43% of the budget
>> of $20.4 M. [3]
>
> This is a worthwhile analysis, but you have neglected the
foundation.org/wiki/Staff#Technology
[3] The fundraiser hit $8.8 M on Dec 16. But, subtracting the budgeted
$4 M of non-fundraiser revenue, the fundraiser needed to meet $4.8 M
to cover 'urgent' expenses, a mark it hit on Nov 25.
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ikipedia than the institution of
> Wikimedia.
Thanks for the explanation. It seems some people assumed bad faith
before, when really we can see it was just a good-natured attempt to
deceive these people as to where their money would go.
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and today there are many
> more than 32 sites that clone Wikipedia, so this trick is also becoming
> useless.
If you have Firefox there's an addon that will let you filter out
mirrors (among other things). See:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirror_filter
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model of the
logo, these are just teething issues with finding exactly the right
parameters (lighting, amount of AA, other postprocessing, etc) for the
render. Would the people working on the logo be able to make the 3D
model available for people to play with?
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r than trying to suggest that everything be purposed as
> stated above. "Prurient" and "exhibitionist" are terms which seem to
> adequately define what doesn't belong.
It is not too broad; Commons has always distinguished itself in this
way from general purpose photo/medi
ments rather than fully
immersive environments.
To that end, does anyone know what happened to that project to embed
3D models of chemical compounds?
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in other
ways too.
Any reason why this isn't in SVN?
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Anthony wrote:
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> This post below, I've pretty much ignored
> because it wasn't worth trying to sort through who said what.
Yet instead of deleting it, you included the whole thing.
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e-readable versions of Wikimedia content
may strip or substitute links while retaining images (though you would
hope they would strip most templates too).
Stephen Bain,
- managing to trim replies and avoid top-posting from his mobile device
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there are people getting paid to do the work.
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om production usage), that is sitting
around waiting to be configured like a production server for testing?
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e they know in their hearts that the Schulze method is stupid,
and their heads just want to make sure.
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Anthony wrote:
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> It seems to me to be begging the question. You don't answer the question
> "how bad is vandalism" by assuming that vandalism is generally reverted.
Can you suggest a better metric then?
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right.'"
We should definitely take advice from a professional photographer who
doesn't understand what a licence is.
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to being the de facto standard of the web than Theora is.
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> a party who reprints public domain material, as was the case in Feist v.
> Rural (the supreme court case you mention.)
They want people to use their service. Fair enough, given that the
scanning and OCRing happened on their dime.
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retaining GFDL only for legacy content?
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wants to use our
> content under any such license is welcome, and we will treat yours
> similarly, under the presumption that any court would regard the
> differences as insignificant.
Please tell me you didn't vote on the licensing transition proposal.
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released into the public
domain, three (don't ask me which three) used the GFDL, and ja used
CC-BY-2.1-ja.
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how things will work), you can leave a comment about how
> you feel here:
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary/logo/refresh#Begin_from_Scratch>
> :-)
I couldn't resist making a prototype:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiktionary/logo/refresh#S
law countries, the action of passing
off - which would likely protect the Wikimedia mark, known as it is
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