Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

ates on our chapter's wiki and e-mail list. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Polish Wikimania scholarship program

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

iaments. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012/1/25 Federico Leva (Nemo) : > Tomasz Ganicz, 25/01/2012 09:22: > >> I don't know if there is manpower for this - but it would be great if >> the analysis covers also impact of ACTA on EU law and EU related >> Wikipedias (those which have majority of editors from

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

the moment where on streets of Warsaw there was around 10 000 protesting people. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz __

Re: [Foundation-l] "RevisionRank": automatically finding out high-quality revisions of an article

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[Foundation-l] "Singing Wikipedia"

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Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal for a Wikimedia project that helps people find solutions to their problems

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Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

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Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

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Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments (Was: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

ot; -"Wiki Lubi Zabytki". Maybe in Macedonian there is similar word to Polish "zabytek" ? -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _

Re: [Foundation-l] help openstreetmap to translate their license ...

e to do that translation. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@

Re: [Foundation-l] help openstreetmap to translate their license ...

or at least revised and accepted. Otherwise the translated text is worth nothing from legal POV. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz __

Re: [Foundation-l] help openstreetmap to translate their license ...

while still preserving all conditions of them. Polish CC chapter has a bona-fide lawyer who does this job. I guess SwisCC chapter has such a lawyer or lawyers as well and I guess they might help... -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek

Re: [Foundation-l] Question: Elmer Fudd Wikipedia?

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Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

ld go on the "discuss" pages, but category discuss pages don't attract > much attention. > [cut] -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Copyright problems of images from India

nder copyright in India. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Copyright problems of images from India

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Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

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Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

editors -leading wikiprojects... -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]

them. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsu

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

2010/11/17 Ziko van Dijk : > According to the statistics only 0.2% of the page views in Germany go > to Wikipedia in Turkish, by the way.Turks in Germany belong largely to > social classes that tend not to read much in an encyclopedia, and when > they need one for school, they presumably copy thei

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

2010/11/12 John Vandenberg : > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: >> 2010/11/12 John Vandenberg : >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen >>> wrote: >>>> Hoi, >>>> Providing help to an organisation that can be c

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

2010/11/12 John Vandenberg : > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen > wrote: >> Hoi, >> Providing help to an organisation that can be considered part of the >> Wikimedia movement makes sense. The issue with Citizendium is that they >> explicitly distance themselves from many of the bas

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia movement roles project

2010/9/23 Austin Hair : > If you have better ideas about how to go about the process, great! > Leave a note on the talk page where everyone can see it, and we'll go > from there. > I suggest to do some basic work on meta page of the committee: a) write a clear definition what "movement roles" mea

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010/9/22 Risker : > On 22 September 2010 04:27, Andre Engels wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson >> wrote: >> >> > Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on >> > English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards? Two-thirds of all ne

[Foundation-l] Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia?

Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia? See: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/the-right-s-latest-weapon-zionist-editing-on-wikipedia-1.308667 any comments? Anyway, I checked the entry "Jewish family" in English Wikipedia and it is just a redir to "Judaism" which is IMHO (at least a

Re: [Foundation-l] Why should Wikimedians meet?

2010/7/31 Thomas Dalton : > On 31 July 2010 16:27, David Gerard wrote: >> On 31 July 2010 16:21, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >> >>> But all of the above are nice dreams about the future. Is there any >>> proven experience from the past that demonstrates why personal >>> meetings between Wikimedians ar

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

2010/7/25 Andreas Kolbe : >> From: David Gerard >> > Yes, the devil is in the details, and in working out >> the correct parameters for default IP access. Each language >> version of any project could make its own determination in >> this regard. Arabic, no Mohammed images; India, no sex and >> ki

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

2010/7/15 Keegan Peterzell : > Okay, this thread has intrigued me and I thought the answers would pan out > and it seems to have gone in various directions, but it was initiated by > Milos so I'll focus on what I perceive to be his problem:  Corruption > (through careerism, nepotism, political func

Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010/5/13 Jay Walsh : > SVG versions of the new globe, and the Wikipedia identity can be found here: > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_official_marks > > I don't believe all of those assets have migrated to Commons yet. > > Hope you won't forget to change the logo here: http://www.w

[Foundation-l] Funny news from Poland

As you maybe now, after the sudden death of Lech Kaczynski (jn airjet crash in Smolens) we have now fast presidential election. One of the most serious candidates Bronisław Komorowski was cached with printed copy of Wikipedia article about "Rada Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego" http://pl.wikipedia.org/

Re: [Foundation-l] On problems in commons

2010/5/9 marcos : > Please, read good. Common Sense. Do you think it´s of common sense delete > this?... > > Yes. If we are really to follow your POV. Muhammad pictures are far more offensive for muslim people than porno stuff. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Poli

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010/5/8 Anthony : > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > >> Well.. maybe... but bear in mind that it is really hard to discuss the >> pictures you can't see, and commons-delinker bot actions are really >> difficuilt to revert. > > > So

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010/5/8 Anthony : > I dunno, when framed that way it seems the answer is to be family-friendly, > and to let the specialists get their information in specialist resources. So... are we now going to start writting "USfamilyfriendlypedia(tm)" ? There is plenty of stuff to be delete then... not onl

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010/5/8 David Levy : > Samuel Klein wrote: > >> I don't think this is a technical issue at all.   Considering how >> flexible and reversible wiki-actions are, it seems eminently >> appropriate to me for the project founder to have 'unlimited >> technical power' on the projects -- just as you and a

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010/3/26 Svip : > On 25 March 2010 20:50, Isabell Long wrote: >> On 25 March 2010 19:48, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: I don't think there are any restrictions but then I am not overly familiar with EU law. >>> >>> I guess you will not be able to fly without a certified permission of your

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

2010/3/25 Isabell Long : > On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass wrote: >> The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend >> Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland >> (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships >> to pay for select

Re: [Foundation-l] policy and the guideline wikipedia - ja

2010/3/6 ksaka98 : > Hi from jawp. > > > 山吹色の御菓子(kigen2700nen) 's question is > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/190708#190708 > > Wikipedia英語版にはWikipedia's principlesがあります。 > これは、各言語版に於いて参加者の裁量で自由に変更することができるのですか？ > > Wikipedia英語版にあるprinciple and guidelinesを純粋にコピーアンドペーストしたものを

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010/2/26 Casey Brown : > All this being said, don't feel bad if you want to run something > through Cary first.  He can always help you figure out who's the best > person to handle your query, it might not necessarily even *be* a > staff member. > For my experience - even Cary has sometimes prob

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy n WMF Staff

2010/2/26 Bod Notbod : > All of which led me to look at the foundation's staff page: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff > > I think answers to these questions will be very useful to strategy > volunteers and so I'd like permission (or explicit advice not) to > paste up the response on t

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge : > Tomasz Ganicz wrote: >> 2010/2/20 Ray Saintonge: >> >>> Probabilistic arguments are difficult to establish when the majority >>> still believes in legal certainty in the same way that it believes in God. >>> >> I am

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010/2/21 Ray Saintonge : > Anthony wrote: >> Tomasz Ganicz wrote: >> >>> Do we agree with the idea, that at that >>> time everything uploaded was under GNU FDL or not >> Definitely not.  You were supposed to release uploads under the GFDL, *if >> you

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010/2/20 Ray Saintonge : > Probabilistic arguments are difficult to establish when the majority > still believes in legal certainty in the same way that it believes in God. > I am not quite sure what you wanted to say :-) Anyway - this cited sentence is for me a nice expression of "0 tolerance"

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010/2/20 Thomas Dalton : > On 20 February 2010 22:49, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: >> Evidence? :-) Is there any formal document of Wikimedia Foundation >> Board of Trustees which says, that logo candidates are a special case >> for copyright issues or it is just your assumption?

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010/2/20 geni : > On 20 February 2010 19:14, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: >> 2010/2/20 geni : >>> On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator wrote: >>>> Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other >>>> submissions to Wikip

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010/2/20 geni : > On 20 February 2010 05:54, The Cunctator wrote: >> Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other >> submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL. > > Evidence? > -- Evidence of what? At the beginning on all Wikipedias as well as m

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010/2/19 David Gerard : > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Florence Devouard > Date: 19 February 2010 21:19 > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent) > To: wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > An editor on META is having the crazy idea of tagging all h

[Foundation-l] Batuta Army for those who remember

Hi, I think it is worth reading: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Batuta%27s_case_became_something_of_a_milestone_in_the_development_of_Wikipedia%22_-_interview_with_Konrad_Godlewski IMHO perfect example showing why Wikipedia is unique :-) Cheers, -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimed

Re: [Foundation-l] Statistics and chapters: searching for chapters

2010/1/15 Milos Rancic : > Based on Erik's statistics [1] and Nikola's addition of Internet users > [2] and the list of Wikimedia chapters [3], here is the first set of > conclusions. > > * United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan: I have good contacts with Bulgarian wikiped

Re: [Foundation-l] Case Study: Fan History's Proposal For Being Acquired by the WMF

2009/12/20 Tim Starling : > Tomasz Ganicz wrote: >> 2009/12/20 Laura Hale : >>> This was posted to the Strategy wiki but I don't think I ever mentioned it >>> on list.  The case study itself can be found at >>> http://www.fanhistory.com/FHproposal.pdf .  Th

Re: [Foundation-l] Case Study: Fan History’s Pro posal For Being Acquired by the WMF

2009/12/20 Laura Hale : > This was posted to the Strategy wiki but I don't think I ever mentioned it > on list.  The case study itself can be found at > http://www.fanhistory.com/FHproposal.pdf .  The blog entry about the case > study can be found at http://blog.fanhistory.com/?p=1103 . > I think

Re: [Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

2009/11/22 Robert Rohde : > For some applications (though not necessarily all), it might help if > the OTRS process was replaced by a standard online permission form > rather than having Wikimedians negotiate with outsiders in the hope of > getting them to say magic words. > > I might imagine a pro

Re: [Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

2009/11/22 Ray Saintonge : > Tomasz Ganicz wrote: >> The >> idea is to create a "Staging Area" - a wiki (or non-wiki) project >> which is not public and can be used for media and meta-data mass >> storage before sending the stuff to public projects. The idea

Re: [Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

2009/11/21 Milos Rancic : > A year or so ago I realized that it is better to make an auxiliary > site to Wikipedia [in Serbian] than to spend a lot of time in > explaining to students that everyone has to send to me the sentence "I > agree that all of my work is realized under ...". It may be funny

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009/10/31 Olli : > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Olli > Date: 2009/10/31 > Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? > To: translator...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > What about a wikipedia christmas calendar? It can maybe preview some > articles or something similar. Then it can be mu

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009/6/20 Ray Saintonge : > Milos Rancic wrote: >> I've got the first report. There are no information that something >> happened to any Wikimedian. >> >> Take a look at [1]. I don't expect bigger scale problems in Iran, but >> not just because of that analysis. Except theocratic structures, >> pre

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

2009/5/8 Nikola Smolenski : > I am wary of this: "Users often missed the ‘edit’ buttons next to each > section, clicking on ‘edit this page’ all the way at the top." In my > experience, users do exactly the opposite, and I have seen new users who > know how to edit sections asking how to edit top

Re: [Foundation-l] Congratulations to Gdansk!

2009/5/7 Dedalus : > Congratulations to the Poland team for winning the Wikimania 2010 bid! > Thank you :-) Actually we are all very happy but also shocked in Poland. Now, we feel great responsibility to organize Wikimania as well as we are able or even better :-) I think all three biding team des

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Educational Resources in Poland Conference

W dniu 25 kwietnia 2009 15:06 użytkownik Tomasz Ganicz napisał: > Hi, > > Two days ago there was an Open Educational Resources in Poland > Conference. The conference was organized under the honorary patronage > of the Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Mr. Bronisław &

[Foundation-l] Open Educational Resources in Poland Conference

(Warsaw University): "Polish school - open educational resources for the Pole-in outside the country" dr Alek Tarkowski (ICM UW): "The regulation of open education and learning" dr hab. Tomasz Ganicz (Wikimedia Poland): "Open access to the public contents" 15.20 - 1

Re: [Foundation-l] PGP-keysign at the tech/chapter-meeting

2009/3/31 DaB. : > Hello all, > > I think that when such a number of people come together it would be nice to > have a key-signing in Berlin. If you have no idea, what a key-signing is, look > at the wikipedia-article [[en:Key_signing_party]]. > If you don't own a pgp-key yet and are an linux-user

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Polska Conference 2009

Hi, Wikimedia Polska Conference 2009 s a fourth event organized by the Wikimedia Polska to encourage ideas, exchange of Wikimedia projects users in Poland and people connected with free software, free knowledge and free culture in a information society. We invite everyone interested in all areas o

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Polska Conference 2009

Hi, Wikimedia Polska Conference 2009 s a fourth event organized by the Wikimedia Polska to encourage ideas, exchange of Wikimedia projects users in Poland and people connected with free software, free knowledge and free culture in a information society. We invite everyone interested in all areas o

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009/3/4 Sue Gardner : >  Erik had proposed that articles which meet these three criteria be deleted > upon request: 1) they are not balanced and complete, 2) the subject is only > marginally notable, and 3) the subject wants the article deleted. This would > shift the bar towards a more deletioni

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009/3/2 David Gerard : > 2009/3/2 Tomasz Ganicz : > > >> Two recent examples from Polish Wikipedia: >> *A sportsmen had anitdoping case around 5 years ago, when he was 18. >> There is good source of this information (his own interwiev in sport's >> magazine

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009/3/2 Sue Gardner : > Hi folks, > > I've been increasingly concerned lately about Wikimedia's coverage of living > people, both within biographies of living people (BLPs) on Wikipedia, and in > coverage of living people in non-BLP text.  I've asked the board to put this > issue on the agenda for

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

2009/2/9 Ziko van Dijk : > If I understand it right, Wikimedia or other stewards can trace what a > single steward is doing. Even if a dictatorship forces a local steward to do > something, there is the danger that this becomes public. The "real danger" is that stewards have access to global check

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

2009/1/11 Milos Rancic : > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: >>> Well, I think there should be not only computer-linguists experts like >>> Evertype in LangCom, but you desperatel

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

2009/1/11 Gerard Meijssen : > When you talk about reasonable decisions, what is it that makes something > reasonable? The fact that people like Mohamed consider Egyptian Arabic as > ignorant makes clear their position, but is that reasonable ? The language > committee has only a remit to help new

Re: [Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

2009/1/11 Milos Rancic : > So, there are two conclusions: (1) I may imagine the process which had > happened in relation to EA approval: no one made any serious objection > and it passed. (2) There are two LangCom members introduced better in > the linguistic issues, so the expertise level is rai

Re: [Foundation-l] transparency or translucency?

2009/1/10 James Rigg : > Thanks geni. > > So, to put it crudely, the talk of full transparency and lack of > hierarchy is now viewed as just naive idealism that existed at the > start of the project, and which has now been abandoned? > I think it was all about Wikimedia wiki projects, which still

Re: [Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?

2009/1/9 Brian : > Why are so few community-developed mediawiki extensions used by the > Foundation? > > Why do developers have such priviledged access to the source code, and the > community such little input? > > Why must the community 'vote' on extensions such as Semantic MediaWiki, and > yet th

Re: [Foundation-l] Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?

2009/1/8 Amir E. Aharoni : > 2009/1/8 Milos Rancic : >> A friend of mine put my attention to this blog post [1]. >> ... >> [1] - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/who-the-hell-writes-wikipedia-anyway > > Is the date on it correct? I remember reading this or something very > similar months ago, if

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008/12/22 David Gerard : > 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic : > >> Then, I wanted to see what is the value of Britannica; without >> success. It is a "private company" (in US sense of that meaning; >> "public companies" in European sense are just companies owned by some >> local or state government; and in

Re: [Foundation-l] Emphasis on "edit"

2008/12/22 Milos Rancic : > Many times we raised the issue that many (maybe majority of) users of > Wikimedia content don't realize that it is possible to edit pages on > Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Last time I was talking about > it a couple of days ago, during the conference in Belgra

Re: [Foundation-l] and what if...

2008/12/12 Thomas Dalton : > 2008/12/12 Dan Collins : >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: >>> Well, the story with IWF have shown that the current system of >>> blocking vandals by their IP has to be changed ASAP. In fact it is >>> ca

Re: [Foundation-l] and what if...

2008/12/12 Florence Devouard : > We all perfectly know that if this particular image was borderline, > there are images or texts that are illegal in certain countries. I am > not even speaking of China here, but good old westernish countries. > In some countries, it may be sexually-oriented picts.

Re: [Foundation-l] WP edit/access blocking in the UK - statement from the WMF

2008/12/8 Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mhmthat would be a risky move for whomever profits from increased > sales of the album...although coverage is surprisingly pro-Wikipedia > at the moment, (allegations of) child pornography do not make for very > good PR in general. > Yes.. I ra

Re: [Foundation-l] WP edit/access blocking in the UK - statement from the WMF

2008/12/8 Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Florence Devouard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> geni wrote: >>> 2008/12/8 Florence Devouard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: A link http://stats.grok.se/en/200812/Virgin_Killer Ant >>> >>> More up to

Re: [Foundation-l] Trademarks

2008/11/25 Mike Godwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Without criticizing Mozilla at all, I'll note that we're not that much > like Mozilla in the scale on which license trademarks commercially. > It's probably difficult for anyone outside the Foundation to imagine > the sheer number of licensing opportun

Re: [Foundation-l] A local chapter without Wikimedians

2008/11/24 Florence Devouard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Luiz Augusto wrote: > First, is that wrong that a chapter is made in majority or entirety by > non-editors ? I would tend to think it is unfortunate, but not wrong. A > person may be part of the wikimedia mouvement without editing a lot. The > pe