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

2008-12-15 Thread Delirium
David Gerard wrote: > It > would be novel indeed to have a Holocaust denier who wasn't a crank as > an editor, but I don't expect it to happen any time soon. > You'd be surprised, then. If you're talking about Holocaust-denial *activists*, trying to edit articles to encompass that point of vie

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

2008-12-14 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Florence Devouard wrote: > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > >> Florence Devouard wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> I did not mean to suggest we should collaborate with whatever >>> government. I meant that we could maybe learnt from what happenned and >>> think about scenarios for different

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

2008-12-14 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
is to ask the electorate again, and let the will of the people govern. From: Ray Saintonge To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 11:02:53 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] and what if... Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Yes, all

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

2008-12-14 Thread Florence Devouard
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Florence Devouard wrote: >> Birgitte SB wrote: >> >>> I am strongly against collaborating with Westernish governments to help >>> make their censorship more effective. I personally don't think we should >>> help anyone make their censorship more effective. But i

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

2008-12-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/15 Ray Saintonge : > Thomas Dalton wrote: >>> Yes, all states have laws. It is the content of those laws which >>> determines whether or not the state is a free and open society. One >>> may have a free and open society that is not an anarchy. >>> >> >> If the country has free and fair elec

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

2008-12-14 Thread Ray Saintonge
Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Yes, all states have laws. It is the content of those laws which >> determines whether or not the state is a free and open society. One >> may have a free and open society that is not an anarchy. >> > > If the country has free and fair elections for its leaders then it

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

2008-12-14 Thread Ray Saintonge
Todd Allen wrote: > Yes, all states have laws. It is the content of those laws which > determines whether or not the state is a free and open society. One > may have a free and open society that is not an anarchy. > > Prior-restraint censorship, or blocking people from seeing, > discussing, and thi

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

2008-12-14 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Judson Dunn wrote: > Make no mistake, the free dissemination of all human knowledge to > every person on the planet is a fight. The forces that would spread > ignorance as a means of control, and separation are always fighting > back. The idea that we should acquiesce in that fight, and censor our

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

2008-12-14 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Thomas Dalton wrote: > It's a democratically elected government making the laws > and those laws don't prevent free and fair elections, so it isn't > undemocratic. (Of course, an semi-official and unaccountable agency > like the IWF enforcing the laws is not a great way to go about it.) Your adden

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

2008-12-14 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> There may be some of that, but it is also true that a lot of experts > are actually unhelpful (perhaps we could do something to improve that, > though - a system for experts to review articles, rather than edit > them, might be good). When experts get involved in editing there are > often ownersh

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

2008-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Florence Devouard wrote: > Birgitte SB wrote: > >> I am strongly against collaborating with Westernish governments to help make >> their censorship more effective. I personally don't think we should help >> anyone make their censorship more effective. But if we are to decide we >> would rath

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

2008-12-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The creation of content is not something the WMF organisation deals with. It has started to employ experts in order to make our environment more usable. As part of the Stanton project, a user interface designer will be included. This is likely to improve the usability of MediaWiki a lot. By in

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

2008-12-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
> True, true. > But note that this fear seems to be less pregnant (hmm, maybe not the > right word, pregnent ?) in WMF, which now has hired "expert" or use some > as consultants. The WMF uses experts for administrative stuff, that is very different to using them directly in the creation of content

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

2008-12-13 Thread Florence Devouard
Marc Riddell wrote: > on 12/13/08 6:52 PM, Florence Devouard at anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> "Professionals could probably help us grow up in certain areas, but they >> would have to cope with all the no-life standing on our mailing lists". > > > Florence, > > "Professionals", or, as they ar

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

2008-12-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/14 Marc Riddell : > on 12/13/08 6:52 PM, Florence Devouard at anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> "Professionals could probably help us grow up in certain areas, but they >> would have to cope with all the no-life standing on our mailing lists". > > > Florence, > > "Professionals", or, as they a

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

2008-12-13 Thread Marc Riddell
on 12/13/08 6:52 PM, Florence Devouard at anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: > "Professionals could probably help us grow up in certain areas, but they > would have to cope with all the no-life standing on our mailing lists". Florence, "Professionals", or, as they are also referred to, "experts" don't

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

2008-12-13 Thread geni
2008/12/13 Florence Devouard : > My answer tomorrow could be > "Wikipedia was probably the least planned project ever; it currently has > reached the level of a non-profit start-up, with a planning ability of > about 1 year". Scenario planning longer than that would start making some seriously unw

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

2008-12-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
> Hmmm, at best, a very simplified scenario planning version for the > budget, with short time "best case" and "worse case". Usually, scenario > planning is rather on the 5-10 years scale. Things move far too fast in our world to plan much on that kind of timescale. For example, current models sug

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

2008-12-13 Thread Florence Devouard
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Florence Devouard wrote: >> I can not help reflect further on the whole Virgin Killer story. >> > > Why is that? > > A lack of self control, or because you actually have a > deeply thought out viewpoint? Yeah. Tomorrow, I am talking in a conference. The topic

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

2008-12-13 Thread Florence Devouard
Birgitte SB wrote: > > > --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Florence Devouard wrote: > >> From: Florence Devouard >> Subject: [Foundation-l] and what if... >> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:52 AM >> I can not help

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

2008-12-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> Hoi, > What good are rules if subterfuge prevents them from being applied? > Thanks, > GerardM Well, it is also a part of the rules. Cheers Yaroslav ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wiki

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

2008-12-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
> Yes, all states have laws. It is the content of those laws which > determines whether or not the state is a free and open society. One > may have a free and open society that is not an anarchy. If the country has free and fair elections for its leaders then it is a democracy. A law made by democ

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

2008-12-13 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Todd Allen wrote: > Yes, all states have laws. It is the content of those laws which > determines whether or not the state is a free and open society. One > may have a free and open society that is not an anarchy. > > Prior-restraint censorship, or blocking people

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

2008-12-13 Thread Todd Allen
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Any society considering a Great Firewall of any sort is neither >> democratic nor open, whether or not they periodically hold votes on >> exactly who should implement bad ideas. We should not in any way >> acknowledge or respect such, though

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

2008-12-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What good are rules if subterfuge prevents them from being applied? Thanks, GerardM 2008/12/13 Yaroslav M. Blanter > > Hoi, > > When no real user has this on his user page, then it is no real issue > with > > deleting this nonsense. When it is people actually having this on their > >

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

2008-12-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> Hoi, > When no real user has this on his user page, then it is no real issue with > deleting this nonsense. When it is people actually having this on their > user > page you have a real problem. Now it seems to me that it is easiest to > stamp > such nonsense out. > Thanks, > GerardM > Wel

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

2008-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen >> wrote: >> > > >> Frankly, as a person who thinks nothing of enjoying a sauna >> with members of the other gender of any age, I think you are >> overstating it considerably to say *all* of us think the image is >>

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

2008-12-13 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Frankly, as a person who thinks nothing of enjoying a sauna > with members of the other gender of any age, I think you are > overstating it considerably to say *all* of us think the image is > even mildly controversial, except for th

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

2008-12-13 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/13 Thomas Dalton : >> Jimbo didn't say anyone who denies the Holocaust should be blocked, as >> though Wikipedia should engage in thought-crime. He said "the sorts of >> people who deny the Holocaust are generally the sorts of people who ought to >> be blocked on sight from editing Wikipe

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

2008-12-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
> Any society considering a Great Firewall of any sort is neither > democratic nor open, whether or not they periodically hold votes on > exactly who should implement bad ideas. We should not in any way > acknowledge or respect such, though we should help those who live > there and encourage and as

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

2008-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Florence Devouard wrote: > I can not help reflect further on the whole Virgin Killer story. > Why is that? A lack of self control, or because you actually have a deeply thought out viewpoint? > Whilst I am very happy of the final outcome, and thank David Gerard and > WMF for having handled

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

2008-12-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
> Jimbo didn't say anyone who denies the Holocaust should be blocked, as > though Wikipedia should engage in thought-crime. He said "the sorts of > people who deny the Holocaust are generally the sorts of people who ought to > be blocked on sight from editing Wikipedia". High correlation, not > c

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

2008-12-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:54 AM, geni wrote: > > >> 2008/12/13 Jimmy Wales : >> >>> I would recommend that Russian Wikipedia adopt a policy similar to >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERBOXES#Content_restrictions >>> >>> ># Userboxes must not be inflammato

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

2008-12-13 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:54 AM, geni wrote: > >> 2008/12/13 Jimmy Wales : >> > I would recommend that Russian Wikipedia adopt a policy similar to >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERBOXES#Content_restrictions >> > >> > ># Userb

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

2008-12-13 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:54 AM, geni wrote: > 2008/12/13 Jimmy Wales : > > I would recommend that Russian Wikipedia adopt a policy similar to > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERBOXES#Content_restrictions > > > > ># Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive. > > ># Wikipedi

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

2008-12-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When no real user has this on his user page, then it is no real issue with deleting this nonsense. When it is people actually having this on their user page you have a real problem. Now it seems to me that it is easiest to stamp such nonsense out. Thanks, GerardM 2008/12/13 Yaroslav M.

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

2008-12-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> Hoi, > Do people add these user boxes to their own user page ? > Thanks, > GerardM > Yes, that's right. Actually, we just have one fictitious user, [[ru:User/Box]], who is permablocked, and almost all userboxes (including the Holocost denial one) are moved to the subspace of this user. Che

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

2008-12-13 Thread geni
2008/12/13 Jimmy Wales : > I would recommend that Russian Wikipedia adopt a policy similar to > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERBOXES#Content_restrictions > > ># Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive. > ># Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for propaganda, advocacy, or >

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

2008-12-13 Thread Jimmy Wales
I would recommend that Russian Wikipedia adopt a policy similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERBOXES#Content_restrictions ># Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive. ># Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for propaganda, advocacy, or >recruitment of any kind, commercia

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

2008-12-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Do people add these user boxes to their own user page ? Thanks, GerardM 2008/12/13 Yaroslav M. Blanter > > Any society considering a Great Firewall of any sort is neither > > democratic nor open, whether or not they periodically hold votes on > > exactly who should implement bad ideas

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

2008-12-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> Any society considering a Great Firewall of any sort is neither > democratic nor open, whether or not they periodically hold votes on > exactly who should implement bad ideas. We should not in any way > acknowledge or respect such, though we should help those who live > there and encourage and as

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

2008-12-12 Thread Mike Godwin
Phil Nash writes: > Whilst I would agree with that, context does not appear to have > contributed > to their original decision. Of course it didn't. This particular incident, however, seems to have taught them the value of considering images in context. > One wonders how many similar cases

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

2008-12-12 Thread Todd Allen
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: > I can not help reflect further on the whole Virgin Killer story. > > Whilst I am very happy of the final outcome, and thank David Gerard and > WMF for having handled that very well, I feel also a big disatisfied by > the way we acknowledg

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Phil Nash wrote: > [...] context does not appear to have contributed > to their original decision. Based on their description of the process, it almost surely wasn't. > One wonders how many similar cases there have > been in the last twelve years of their exist

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

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
> The IWF said that contextual issues are important in the decision of whether > or not they will keep the webpage on their list. They specifically > reiterated that they still consider the image to be potentially illegal. You expected them to actually admit to having made a mistake? Why would th

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

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Nash
Mike Godwin wrote: >> Anthony writes: >> >>> I'm sure they're in the process of changing their review system to >>> take >>> these issues into account. At the same time, requiring *all* images >>> to be >>> "found illegal" before taking action, would not be a good idea. >> >> In this particular in

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

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Snow
Andrew Whitworth wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: > >>> Long-time ago, I suggested adding a short-duration cookie whenever a >>> block was triggered that would allow the software to detect the most >>> obvious IP jumping vandals (asumming they used the same bro

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

2008-12-12 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/12 Anthony : > The IWF said that contextual issues are important in the decision of whether > or not they will keep the webpage on their list. They specifically > reiterated that they still consider the image to be potentially illegal. The head of the IWF is potentially a fabulous drag

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Mike Godwin wrote: > > Anthony writes: > > > I'm sure they're in the process of changing their review system to > > take > > these issues into account. At the same time, requiring *all* images > > to be > > "found illegal" before taking action, would not be a goo

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

2008-12-12 Thread Mike Godwin
Anthony writes: > I'm sure they're in the process of changing their review system to > take > these issues into account. At the same time, requiring *all* images > to be > "found illegal" before taking action, would not be a good idea. In this particular instance, however, it is worth notin

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Chad wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Anthony wrote: > > > We don't know that the person (or group) who made the decision was the > same > > person (or group) that viewed the Wikipedia page. In fact, I would tend > to > > believe the opposite. > > > > A

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

2008-12-12 Thread Lars Aronsson
geni wrote: > They are not entirely comfortable with it. That is rather the > problem. The IWF exists because in 1996 Chief inspector Stephen > French made it clear that if ISPs didn't do something about > certain usenet groups he would do something about those ISPs. > > What we saw in action

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

2008-12-12 Thread Chad
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Anthony wrote: > We don't know that the person (or group) who made the decision was the same > person (or group) that viewed the Wikipedia page. In fact, I would tend to > believe the opposite. > > Anthony > I've been of the opinion the person who reported it ju

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:27 PM, George Herbert wrote: > Let's take a step back. > > This incident arose because of a third party making a judgement call > about content which was an album cover by an at-the-time leading rock > group, had been published fairly continuously for 30-ish years, and >

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

2008-12-12 Thread George Herbert
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:08 PM, teun spaans wrote: > >> On the other hand: our mission is to spread knowledge in a free form. Under >> a free license. I think it is NOT our task to combat censorship, or to >> advocate free speech. > > > In fact,

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

2008-12-12 Thread George Herbert
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > >> 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 >> >

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

2008-12-12 Thread Alex
Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > "They" didn't block editing. "You" did. Technically, yes, but they made it impossible for us to do anything >> else. >>> I think at this point you have to describe what you mean by "block >> editing", >>> then. >>

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:08 PM, teun spaans wrote: > On the other hand: our mission is to spread knowledge in a free form. Under > a free license. I think it is NOT our task to combat censorship, or to > advocate free speech. In fact, restricting the content to only "free content" *is* self-ce

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

2008-12-12 Thread teun spaans
cite:* if a legal decision forbid us to show a certain article or a certain image, we'll implement a system to block showing the images or text in a certain country. I feel doubts with this statement. It sounds like giving in to censorship, though I think this is noty what you mean. When i take it

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > I'd say it's long past the point where the (minimal) saved hassle is > worth > > the trouble. > > The trouble is minimal, the hassle is almost certainly enough to lose > us some good edits. > I find it hard to believe you managed to keep a

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

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
> I'd say it's long past the point where the (minimal) saved hassle is worth > the trouble. The trouble is minimal, the hassle is almost certainly enough to lose us some good edits. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscr

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> > "They" didn't block editing. "You" did. > >> > >> Technically, yes, but they made it impossible for us to do anything > else. > >> > > > > I think at this point you have to describe what you mean by "block > editing", > > then. > > I th

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

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
>> > "They" didn't block editing. "You" did. >> >> Technically, yes, but they made it impossible for us to do anything else. >> > > I think at this point you have to describe what you mean by "block editing", > then. I think we all know what "block editing" means. It's when you go to Special:Bloc

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

2008-12-12 Thread geni
2008/12/12 Anthony : > If there is a one-to-one correspondence between IP addresses and users, then > there isn't any anonymity, is there? Not if you have the power to get ISPs to reveal what the correspondence actually is no. -- geni ___ foundation

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2008/12/12 Anthony : > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Florence Devouard >wrote: > > > >> If tomorrow, a really illegal-in-UK image is reported to the IWF, they > >> will block it for real. And they will block again editing. > > > > > > "

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

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/12 Anthony : > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: > >> If tomorrow, a really illegal-in-UK image is reported to the IWF, they >> will block it for real. And they will block again editing. > > > "They" didn't block editing. "You" did. Technically, yes, but they made

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

2008-12-12 Thread Judson Dunn
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > IMO, the best approach would be to have a channel (a phone number, an > email address, etc...) where governments can contact the WMF to > request that certain pages are blocked in certain countries. These > entries can then be publicly listed,

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > 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 c

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

2008-12-12 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/12 Anthony : > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: >> If tomorrow, a really illegal-in-UK image is reported to the IWF, they >> will block it for real. And they will block again editing. > "They" didn't block editing. "You" did. Actually, Virgin Media, with whom (

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

2008-12-12 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: > If tomorrow, a really illegal-in-UK image is reported to the IWF, they > will block it for real. And they will block again editing. "They" didn't block editing. "You" did. On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Dan Collins wrote: > > Do yo

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

2008-12-12 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/12 Michael Peel : > IMO, the best approach would be to have a channel (a phone number, an > email address, etc...) where governments can contact the WMF to > request that certain pages are blocked in certain countries. These > entries can then be publicly listed, so that people know that t

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

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Peel
On 12 Dec 2008, at 10:52, Florence Devouard wrote: > Now, seriously, what is more important right now ? > That citizens can not read one article ? > Or that all the citizens of a country can not edit all articles any > more ? > > I would argue that the content of Wikipedia can be copied and > d

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

2008-12-12 Thread Birgitte SB
--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Florence Devouard wrote: > From: Florence Devouard > Subject: [Foundation-l] and what if... > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:52 AM > I can not help reflect further on the whole Virgin Killer > story. > >

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

2008-12-12 Thread geni
2008/12/12 David Moran : > I absolutely agree with Judson that we should be devoting exactly zero of > our material and mental resources to thinking of ways to assist in the work > of censors. The problems presented in this example are almost entirely > those of a national legislature comfortable

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

2008-12-12 Thread Tim Landscheidt
"David Moran" wrote: > I absolutely agree with Judson that we should be devoting exactly zero of > our material and mental resources to thinking of ways to assist in the work > of censors. The problems presented in this example are almost entirely > those of a national legislature comfortable wi

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

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Whitworth
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Long-time ago, I suggested adding a short-duration cookie whenever a >> block was triggered that would allow the software to detect the most >> obvious IP jumping vandals (asumming they used the same browser on the >> same machine each time

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

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/12 Robert Rohde : > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: >>> Long-time ago, I suggested adding a short-duration cookie whenever a >>> block was triggered that would allow the software to detect the most >>> obvious IP jumping vandals (asumming they used the same browser

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

2008-12-12 Thread Robert Rohde
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Long-time ago, I suggested adding a short-duration cookie whenever a >> block was triggered that would allow the software to detect the most >> obvious IP jumping vandals (asumming they used the same browser on the >> same machine each time)

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

2008-12-12 Thread David Moran
I absolutely agree with Judson that we should be devoting exactly zero of our material and mental resources to thinking of ways to assist in the work of censors. The problems presented in this example are almost entirely those of a national legislature comfortable with allowing private bodies to m

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

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
> Long-time ago, I suggested adding a short-duration cookie whenever a > block was triggered that would allow the software to detect the most > obvious IP jumping vandals (asumming they used the same browser on the > same machine each time). It doesn't get at the bulk of Tomek's > criticism, but i

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

2008-12-12 Thread Robert Rohde
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>> Indeed, I don't see any alternative way to block anonymous users. Even >>> forcing people to register wouldn't help since, without IP addresses, >>> we can't block account creation by people creating new accounts every >>> time one gets blo

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

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
>> Indeed, I don't see any alternative way to block anonymous users. Even >> forcing people to register wouldn't help since, without IP addresses, >> we can't block account creation by people creating new accounts every >> time one gets block. What we need to do is put pressure on ISPs to use >> XF

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

2008-12-12 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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 >>> causing a lot of problems even without action

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

2008-12-12 Thread Andrew Whitworth
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Judson Dunn wrote: > Not a response to your email, but the reaction in general strikes me > as very inconsistent. With China they have been censored, they try and > use TOR, and we block them, and say for years that there is > regrettably nothing we can do about th

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

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
> Not a response to your email, but the reaction in general strikes me > as very inconsistent. With China they have been censored, they try and > use TOR, and we block them, and say for years that there is > regrettably nothing we can do about this situation. UK gets blocked > for a day and we are

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

2008-12-12 Thread Judson Dunn
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > The censorship issue isn't really an issue - if an image (or content > or whatever) is genuinely illegal in a given country then of course > that country has every right to block it. If countries block legal > images (as in this case), or bl

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

2008-12-12 Thread 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 >> causing a lot of problems even without action of IWF and other similar >> wach

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

2008-12-12 Thread 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 > causing a lot of problems even without action of IWF and other similar > wachdogs. There are more and more I

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

2008-12-12 Thread geni
2008/12/12 Florence Devouard : > Now, seriously, what is more important right now ? > That citizens can not read one article ? > Or that all the citizens of a country can not edit all articles any more ? It isn't an either or. > I would argue that the content of Wikipedia can be copied and > dis

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

2008-12-12 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
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.

[Foundation-l] and what if...

2008-12-12 Thread Florence Devouard
I can not help reflect further on the whole Virgin Killer story. Whilst I am very happy of the final outcome, and thank David Gerard and WMF for having handled that very well, I feel also a big disatisfied by the way we acknowledged what happen and discuss future steps. We all perfectly know th