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> David Levy wrote:
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>> Pedro Sanchez wrote:
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>>> Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical.
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>>> And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all
>>> that fancy words let's bother them
May I point out that Alex, also known as majorly or Al Tally, is a respected
member of the British Wikimedia crowd and not just a one off prankster using
a made up e-mail address. Also, this made me laugh and I would have thought
that a prank with cultural significance (due to the date), that is
re
I've just finished coding up Non-Free Content Bot which spiders Google
Images and uploads 10 per second to commons with no license information. I
wrote the bot using MediaWiki's turing complete template language. Given
that Google Images has 916,000,000 images I anticipate it will take
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David Levy wrote:
> Pedro Sanchez wrote:
>> Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical.
>>
>> And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all
>> that fancy words let's bother them with our idiotic pranks
>> becuase we are
--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Marcus Buck wrote:
> From: Marcus Buck
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 10:16 AM
> Birgitte SB hett schreven:
> > Right, it obviousl
Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
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>> This is a (predominantly) English-language mailing list, so using
>> those traditions used in the English-speaking world seems to make
>> sense to me.
>>
> Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sen
Birgitte SB hett schreven:
> Right, it obviously "the pompous English majority" conspiring here because
> you received a prank from every English speaker on the list.
>
> If the list were in Spanish so every immature youth in Latin America with too
> much time on their hands could access it witho
--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> From: Pedro Sanchez
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 9:48 PM
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM,
> Thomas Dalton wro
Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical.
>
> And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all that fancy
> words
> let's bother them with our idiotic pranks becuase we are majority and
> thereforewe have the right to do so
>
> Very good attit
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
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>
> This is a (predominantly) English-language mailing list, so using
> those traditions used in the English-speaking world seems to make
> sense to me.
>
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> foundat
2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez :
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
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>> 2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez :
>> > you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly
>> > jokes on december 28
>>
>> Yes, because December 28 isn't the traditional day for such things. As
>> long
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez :
> > you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly
> > jokes on december 28
>
> Yes, because December 28 isn't the traditional day for such things. As
> long as it is just one day a year, it'
2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez :
> you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly
> jokes on december 28
Yes, because December 28 isn't the traditional day for such things. As
long as it is just one day a year, it's a bit of fun. If people
started doing it on random days, obvious
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Al Tally wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM, David Levy wrote:
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> > > April's fools alredy? *sigh*
> >
> > Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse
> > of the mailing list, I've created a filter to delete any future
> > e-mails f
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM, David Levy wrote:
> > April's fools alredy? *sigh*
>
> Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse
> of the mailing list, I've created a filter to delete any future
> e-mails from Al Tally (with whom my interactions have been uniformly
> n
> April's fools alredy? *sigh*
Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse
of the mailing list, I've created a filter to delete any future
e-mails from Al Tally (with whom my interactions have been uniformly
negative).
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Al Tally wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I just came across this[1] policy on Commons, which states that from today,
> non-free content is going to be allowed to be uploaded on Commons. I'm
> rather shocked that this was pushed through without any notice here, or
> anywhere, a
Hi all
I just came across this[1] policy on Commons, which states that from today,
non-free content is going to be allowed to be uploaded on Commons. I'm
rather shocked that this was pushed through without any notice here, or
anywhere, and it has become policy, going against Wikimedia's "free cont
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