Cary Bass wrote:
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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
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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
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