Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Austin Hair
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Birgitte SB wrote: > The foundation is not really like en.WP bumped up another level. We rarely > get into policing such issues on this mailing list and that is nowhere near > past tolerance levels, because of among other things features in this medium > that ar

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Birgitte SB
--- On Fri, 7/24/09, stevertigo wrote: > From: stevertigo > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 2:56 PM > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM, > Chad > wrote: >

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Austin Hair
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:12 PM, stevertigo wrote: > I started a thread on Wikien-l last month suggesting we start a > dispute resolution mailing list: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-June/101428.html > > Responses were largely positive, and what little criticism the idea > got

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Mike.lifeguard
No, really, you need to discuss this on wikien-l instead of here. This has been explained to you by multiple people on multiple occasions. I'd suggest someone enforce that if need be. Thanks, -Mike On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:24 -0700, stevertigo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Chad wrot

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:56 PM, stevertigo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Chad wrote: > > > > I'm speaking as a volunteer: go away, and take your thread with you. > > It is /not/ appropriate for foundation-l, period. > > > > It is obvious to everyone that this thread exists for solel

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread stevertigo
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Chad wrote: > I'm speaking as a volunteer: go away, and take your thread with you. > It is /not/ appropriate for foundation-l, period. > > It is obvious to everyone that this thread exists for solely one reason: > for you to bitch and moan when you didn't get wha

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:48 PM, stevertigo wrote: > Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> What do you not understand ? > That is not for you to say. > >> It has been explained to you that the en approach is not compatible with >> what happens elsewhere. > What does this even mean? Nothing has been "explained

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread stevertigo
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > What do you not understand ? That is not for you to say. > It has been explained to you that the en approach is not compatible with what > happens elsewhere. What does this even mean? Nothing has been "explained." Terse and useless "go away's" do not suffice as explanatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What do you not understand ? It has been explained to you that the en approach is not compatible with what happens elsewhere. This list is explicitly NOT about the en policies. You have been politely asked to go away.. Now what does it take for you to move on with this nonsense ? Thanks,

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread stevertigo
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Chad wrote: > Pedro pretty much outlined my views already. I was going to write > a point-by-point rebuttal as to why this doesn't belong on foundation-l, > but I decided not to. Honestly, I thought it was pretty damn obvious > that this doesn't belong on foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread stevertigo
Pedro Sanchez commented on a few of my points, but mistakenly removed my byline, making Yaroslav look like the author. These are responses to Pedro's comments. Pedro Sanchez wrote: > And english wikipedia has several mailing lists to deal with its own issues. > Foundation-l  is for wikimedia-wide

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, stevertigo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Chad wrote: > >> I don't care who's proposing it, to be honest. My issue is that >> this thread does not belong on foundation-l, which others seem >> to agree since I first said so some 14 posts ago. Take it back

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread stevertigo
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Chad wrote: > I don't care who's proposing it, to be honest. My issue is that > this thread does not belong on foundation-l, which others seem > to agree since I first said so some 14 posts ago. Take it back > to wikien-l, /please/. If you could offer some actual

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:58 PM, stevertigo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: >> Well, if the list is for general dispute resolution technique, it could be >> valuable to all projects. > > Its a very simple idea, and one which sort of fills a role that > wikien-l pl

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread stevertigo
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: > Well, if the list is for general dispute resolution technique, it could be > valuable to all projects. Its a very simple idea, and one which sort of fills a role that wikien-l played for years, and for which there are several disjointed o

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, > > Mike.lifeguard wrote: > >> I'm sorry, this is really not something that needs discussion on > >> foundation-l. This concerns English Wikipedia, and not the wider > >> Wikimedia community or the Fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, > Mike.lifeguard wrote: >> I'm sorry, this is really not something that needs discussion on >> foundation-l. This concerns English Wikipedia, and not the wider >> Wikimedia community or the Foundation itself. Please consider moving >> this discussion back to the p

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
Well, if the list is for general dispute resolution technique, it could be valuable to all projects. From: Mike.lifeguard To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:06:10 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread stevertigo
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > I'm sorry, this is really not something that needs discussion on > foundation-l. This concerns English Wikipedia, and not the wider > Wikimedia community or the Foundation itself. Please consider moving > this discussion back to the project-s

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread Mike.lifeguard
I'm sorry, this is really not something that needs discussion on foundation-l. This concerns English Wikipedia, and not the wider Wikimedia community or the Foundation itself. Please consider moving this discussion back to the project-specific mailing list or the project itself so to the community

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread stevertigo
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/7/23 Geoffrey Plourde : > >> Nothing prevents you from starting your own mailing list if Cary won't. As I >> am not a member of the wikien cesspool, what purpose are you thinking of? > > > wikien-l is full of useful and relevant stuff abo

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/23 Geoffrey Plourde : > Nothing prevents you from starting your own mailing list if Cary won't. As I > am not a member of the wikien cesspool, what purpose are you thinking of? wikien-l is full of useful and relevant stuff about en:wp. It's not very cesspooly these days, really! Mostly.

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread Casey Brown
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: > Nothing prevents you from starting your own mailing list if Cary won't. As I > am not a member of the wikien cesspool, what purpose are you thinking of? > Why don't you go have a peek at the archives instead of bringing what you character

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
27 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list Cary Bass wrote: > You have not gained any additional support. Open discussion is of course the first step in gaining support. We've been waiting for your participation, as you seem to be the functionary in charge of start

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread stevertigo
Cary Bass wrote: > You have not gained any additional support. Open discussion is of course the first step in gaining support. We've been waiting for your participation, as you seem to be the functionary in charge of starting new lists. Now that you are participating in an open discussion, we ca

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread stevertigo
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Cary Bass wrote: > Mailing lists don't get opened by mailing list discussions Hm. I also filed a request on mediazilla, which was automatically assigned to you. > and the "largely positive" responses you received were neither > numerous nor > meritorious of cre

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread stevertigo
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Chad wrote: > Not sure what this has to do with foundation-l, can this go back to wikien-l? Thomas' comment was a bit off-topic, but that does not mean this entire thread belongs elsewhere. There are at least four reasons why this discussion belongs here. If you

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/7/23 stevertigo : >> That actually wasn't my proposal to "resolve" disputes there. On the >> other hand, if a report to ANI or RFC receives attention that solves >> certain problems, then does that mean you would object to the usage of >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/7/23 stevertigo : > That actually wasn't my proposal to "resolve" disputes there. On the > other hand, if a report to ANI or RFC receives attention that solves > certain problems, then does that mean you would object to the usage of > ANI or RFC to "resolve disputes?" ANI and RFC *are* part o

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread stevertigo
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > Responses were rather mixed - there were different proposals > being bounced around. There weren't any "different proposals." Aside from suggestions taht dealt with the scope such a list would take, there was a brief suggestion for a separa

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread Cary Bass
; From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf > Of stevertigo > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:13 AM > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > Subject: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list > > I started a th

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/7/23 stevertigo : > I started a thread on Wikien-l last month suggesting we start a > dispute resolution mailing list: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-June/101428.html > > Responses were largely positive, and what little criticism the idea > got (much of it from Thomas Dal

[Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread stevertigo
I started a thread on Wikien-l last month suggesting we start a dispute resolution mailing list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-June/101428.html Responses were largely positive, and what little criticism the idea got (much of it from Thomas Dalton) was fairly easy to deal with.