Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

2009-09-12 Thread Andrew Gray
ience running it, etc etc etc. People will make bad decisions, estimates, projections, guesses, conclusions sometimes; it happens. We spot them the second time around, once we've realised they're wrong, fix them, and move on. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___

Re: [Foundation-l] strategic planning process update

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gray
or visit it whilst remaining logged in. (This latter part, especially with people looking at article interwikis, will probably account for quite an upsurge in account creation post-SUL...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-

Re: [Foundation-l] Creative Commons publishes report on defining "Non-commercial"

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gray
does begin to sound like a recipe for unintentionally annoying a lot of people releasing material under the license. I wonder, perhaps, if the best thing the next generation of the -nc- licenses could include would be a long list of worked examples... -- - A

Re: [Foundation-l] Creative Commons publishes report on defining "Non-commercial"

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gray
ot the most desired outcome for the creator, though. One of the benefits of CC is to encourage worry-free distribution by helping creators be entirely up-front about what they're happy to have happen with their material, but this sort of ambiguity seems to bring us full circle. -- - And

Re: [Foundation-l] Security holes in Mediawiki

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gray
the software, rather than just "open problems". I haven't checked each one, but all the recent ones look solved, so I think we're safe - at least, safe from the problems we know about, which is always the important caveat! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] It's not article count, it's editors

2009-09-24 Thread Andrew Gray
ternet mechanisms. There's a couple of estimates on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage though they look a little dated. Alternatively, users by country is reasonably well estimated, I think, and you could try estimating based on languages from that. -

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Gray
have done - what would have happened? Would the system have coped? Would we have been able to handle that flood of edits, technically and organisationally? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

2009-10-08 Thread Andrew Gray
ortant to distinguish between the two ratios. It's interesting to note that Reason show the same expenses pattern as WMF; they have program expenses increasing at a fairly linear $1m/year, but unlike WMF their income is plateauing - they'll be exceeding their income this yea

Re: [Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

2009-10-08 Thread Andrew Gray
ng". As to your second question, a tenth of that figure - about 30,000 - seems right as a number for "active volunteers"; it's about the order of magnitude of people active enough to vote for the Board, for example. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [Foundation-l] (no subject)

2009-10-14 Thread Andrew Gray
re, it's just "by X", and the (editor) note is dropped entirely] This is, annoyingly, one of those things that it would probably be relatively easy for Amazon to fix - code the system up so that "by X, Y, Z" becomes "edited by X, Y, Z" when all of X, Y and Z a

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

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Gray
dom article > from e.g. [[November 2]], then chose a random picture from that. First image is probably your best bet - the odds are reasonably high it'll be a picture, or something else "representative", in the conventional top-right slot. Certainly better odds than random sel

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

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/11/2 Nikola Smolenski : > Дана Monday 02 November 2009 18:31:50 Andrew Gray написа: >> First image is probably your best bet - the odds are reasonably high >> it'll be a picture, or something else "representative", in the >> conventional top-right slo

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has not failed

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Gray
ther than burn out and leave entirely. And, of course, people who actively want to write journalism have somewhere to do it. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew Gray
e proposal at all, and we can't just finesse past that stage. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Andrew Gray
a result, I suspect you'll find that traffic to Commons increases proportionately with traffic to Spanish/Portuguese Wikipedia usage. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscri

Re: [Foundation-l] Werner Icking Music Archive may be closing

2010-03-01 Thread Andrew Gray
ted, but we'd have to seperate that out from the rest, and then tackle the problem of whether any "editing" people have done to them gives rise to new copyrights... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l maili

Re: [Foundation-l] Building up the reserves

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Gray
seesaws. I don't know what's considered a normal margin to have - I'd presume around a year or so is considered quite good - but hopefully someone more au fait with standard practice in the field could enlighten us. -- - Andrew Gray

Re: [Foundation-l] Building up the reserves

2010-03-04 Thread Andrew Gray
On 3 March 2010 20:53, Andrew Gray wrote: > mid-2007 - - - - - $1m > end-2007 - - - - - $2.3m - - - - - $0.21m - - - - - 11 mos. > mid-2008 - - - - - $3m - - - - - ($0.32m) - - - - - 9 mos. > end-2008 - - - - - $6.7m - - - - - $0.43m - - - - - 15 mos. > mid-2009 - - - - - $6.2m -

Re: [Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy

2010-03-06 Thread Andrew Gray
ite sure we do, without a qualm - doesn't mean that we ought to feel we can or should start adjudicating on the reasonableness of any not-entirely-clear-cut case that turns up, such as this one... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Vector skin on Wikisource

2010-06-04 Thread Andrew Gray
et the toolbox section to be expanded by default in the same way the interaction section is... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-05 Thread Andrew Gray
n Vector than in Monobook: http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaa?useskin=vector http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaa?useskin=monobook - dropping the "solid boxes" from the left-hand column means that it doesn't look so dominant when expanded. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.o

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-07 Thread Andrew Gray
s, eg, "Espanol" into "Spanish (t)", with the (t) link going to a Google translate link for the target page. I haven't used it much, but it's a useful tool to have. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-06-24 Thread Andrew Gray
tc. This helps emphasise the distinction between languages and subsets-of-languages, and also means we can be more fluid about the "simple"/"for children" presentation on a project-by-project basis. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Andrew Gray
ack in the first place - there's an option in preferences to provide an edit link actually on the page for section 0. Preferences > Gadgets, and the first entry under "Appearance". -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-18 Thread Andrew Gray
lopedia Britannica: We want it to have 55 times as many entries, present contentious debates fairly, and reflect brand new scholarly research, all while being edited and overseen primarily by volunteers." -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2012-03-10 Thread Andrew Gray
d leaving it there; this isn't the case, and we do need to think seriously about these issues without yelling "censorship!" any time someone tries to discuss the problem. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Gray
On 11 March 2012 00:23, David Gerard wrote: > On 10 March 2012 22:15, Andrew Gray wrote: > >> The image filter may not be a good solution, but too much of the >> response involves saying "we're fine, we're neutral, we don't need to >> do anything&quo

Re: [Foundation-l] Does google favour WIkipedia?

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Gray
n our articles or something - the fact that it's not a cunning ploy on our part is completely inconceivable to someone who approaches everything from this perspective.) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list fo

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-16 Thread Andrew Gray
t from an old copy of the Dictionary of Australian Biography. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

2011-07-20 Thread Andrew Gray
publish academic work - not a quirk of this one organisation for which they specifically need punished. Are there some particularly egregious bits of past behaviour I've missed? -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Genuine, Generous, and Grateful

2011-08-18 Thread Andrew Gray
p there is between [language groups common on twitter] and [small WP projects needing users].) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Genuine, Generous, and Grateful

2011-08-23 Thread Andrew Gray
a look at tidying it a bit... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Twitter -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew Gray
Legal identity is a bit tangential here, I think; if we accept a pseudonymous account as good enough to release the content under CC licenses to begin with, then all you'd need for relicensing would be for those same accounts to agree to it. -- -

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
initial neutrality, is very meaningful; it's presuming that the alternative is reverting to a neutral and balanced status quo, but that never really existed. The status quo is that every reader, in every context, gets given the one particular image se

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
em to have caused the end of the world there :-) My Arabic is basically nonexistent, so while I can tell there *are* some past discussions about it, I've no idea what they were saying. Anyone? -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew Gray
ltered" version of Wikipedia, I think that falls more under the general heading of "where are the major third-party reusers that anyone actually cares about?" - the non-existence of a commercial filtered version is less of a surprise when we consider the dearth of

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew Gray
7;t happening. It's not a problem we can solve (and it's perhaps not one we should be trying to solve) but it does mean we shouldn't draw any firm conclusions from the absence of any specific types of project - there's an absence of *all* sorts of proj

Re: [Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

2011-09-09 Thread Andrew Gray
have to individually turn it on for it to work.) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Summary of findings from WMF Summer of Research program now available

2011-09-18 Thread Andrew Gray
future research on redlinks, it would definitely be worth distinguishing between "links in article text" and "links from projectspace / inline templates". Technically more difficult to figure out, of course, but that's why we call them

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Andrew Gray
the existing "Wikipedian POV" *really* the same as "neutral", or are we letting our aspirations to inclusive global neutrality win out over the real state of affairs? It's the great big unexamined assumption in our discussions... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.or

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Andrew Gray
ges are in articles, the unacceptable ones aren't. People are saying we can't have the image filter because it would stop us being neutral. If we aren't neutral to begin with, this is a bad argument. It doesn't mean we *should* have the image filter, but it does

Re: [Foundation-l] A possible solution for the image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
registered-user-only we need to work out how this interacts with account creation - and IP blocks. It clearly will cause problems if people *want* to turn on the filter, go to create an account, and discover one of our famed cryptic block messages telling them they can't...

Re: [Foundation-l] A possible solution for the image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
the images, just to label them for display [or not] in articles. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] A possible solution for the image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
erfect, but it's probably no *less* clunky than requiring people to sign in (and the associated forgetting-to-sign-out...) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
ne? For images, on the other hand, it's a relatively coherent position to be willing to *read* about sex or violence without wanting to look at pictures of it - a system which allows someone to choose to read the article without looking at the pictures thus makes more sense in comparison. -- - An

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
get were there a filter which screened out articles under a minimum quality threshold! Opt-in to see articles with more than two cleanup tags, etc. :-) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
e - there might be demand, there might not, we just can't tell from the available evidence. (To steal David's analogy, it's a bit like saying that unicorns can't be trained, as there are no trained unicorns. Of course, there are no unicorns at all, and their trainability is moo

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
But there's a problem when the issue is whether it's appropriate to *include an image at all*. If one position says we should include an image and the other position says we shouldn't, then whichever way we decide, we've taken sides. We can't really be neutral in a yes-or

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug

2011-12-12 Thread Andrew Gray
. testing on Commons is tricky, but I've spent a few minutes sampling the Flickr live upload feed. Over about 20 pages of 20 images each, I found eight wrongly-rotated shots, or eight in 400 ~~ 2%. It's not Commons, of course, but it is indicative. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunel

Re: [Foundation-l] Research assistance

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew Gray
but it's going to be a hard sell. If you're planning to get this running in the summer, you might want to start the negotiations quite soon... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Chinese wikinews in China Blocked

2009-01-11 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/1/9 shi zhao : > Today Chinese wikinews in China Blocked. GFW keyword is "zh.wikinews.org". > other wikinews can acess. Do we have a page somewhere listing exactly which sites of ours are blocked in China? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g.

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
Jane Doe and Mike Placeholder (2004-2007), Citizendium contributors Alan White, John Smith and Betty Green (2007-2009), and anonymous contributors." It's not exactly smooth, but it is comprehensible, and it does seem helpful to name the project to give some context to the na

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
he "cite all named authors who make nontrivial contributions" result would be like? This might be a useful bit of data... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscr

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
ou over it. I'm not sure quite how the results were obtained via WikiBlame, but it certainly seems a little more meaningful than just dumping every name which appears in the article history. (Admittedly, that has the advantage of not accidental

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
has ballooned to around six hundred! Especially for something like this, we might well have to exert editorial control sooner or later as to who gets listed - I'm all for doing it, of course, but I think we need to be aware from the start that the ideal "everyone gets listed" might brea

Re: [Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Gray
How is this a special case? The CC switch, when and if it happens, will be complex enough without inventing extra problems! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Gray
"buy a print now" clickthrough button? I can't see anyone arguing to keep it because they want to run off a poster... (and to a degree this is rendered moot by that helpful "lowest useful resolution" requirement of the unfree material rules) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@

Re: [Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Gray
7;t, I'm stull confused over how we have the right to use one set of GFDL v.1.2 or later contributions, and not the other. It is, after all, *exactly the same license*... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list f

Re: [Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

2009-01-30 Thread Andrew Gray
shed elsewhere, and must be treated as such. Which is to say, if you look hard you have a point, but there's a perfectly legitimate interpretation going the other way, which complies with the letter just as well and the spirit perhaps better

[Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gray
can be set to read off this "credit name" rather than simply using the normal internal username, if one is available. I note that MediaWiki already has a user_real_name field - could we use it for this sort of purpose? Would this be technically practical? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gray
of "NOCREDIT" magic word, perhaps. This would neatly sidestep the worry of people not wanting credited downstream... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://li

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gray
here's going to be a step in the process - perhaps only an optional one - where someone takes a Wikipedia article and tries to shake out some authors. Figuring out how to make that work efficiently and cleanly and helpfully is a good thing in and of itself, whatever conclusion the main d

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gray
ed this way... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility at wikinews [en]

2009-02-05 Thread Andrew Gray
7;s backs up. So, please, if you know how we can make this situation better, *tell us*. Please explain, clearly and practically, what you think we need to do. You clearly have some understanding of the issue, but I hope you can see that you've really not been managing to communicate it to any of

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/2/19 Mark Williamson : > I still hold the crown on Wikipedia-l. Whatever happened to that list, > anyways? Most of the people wanting to have abtruse cross-project theological debates just took it to foundation-l :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.

Re: [Foundation-l] An technical idea on spreading and improving Chinese Wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Gray
in/ which isn't *quite* what you want, but you can see the potential. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] An technical idea on spreading and improving Chinese Wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Gray
ch ones are appropriate. Or, even simpler (for the user), a plugin where the author selects a word or phrase and the system generates a Wikipedia link for it. Should be relatively effective for nouns and names, at least... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

2009-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
tly) derived from two defined "simplified versions" of English which were deliberately designed - have there been projects to do the same for, say, French or Spanish, or would we have to do the heavy lifting ourselves? -- - Andrew Gray and

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

2009-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
ctly what he was suggesting - I'm not sure why you're objecting to it... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Gray
simplified form of Latin, but mostly it's all conlangs... ...oh, well, another on for the to-do pile :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2009-03-03 Thread Andrew Gray
want, and keeping the material we *do* want up to a high standard. The trick is taking advantage of their perspective, without turning it into a (real or imagined) conflict-of-interest issue, or letting it degenerate into the kind of thing that breeds automatic assumptions of bad fai

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

2009-03-04 Thread Andrew Gray
gestion... ...print up a sheaf of business cards, with "Got a problem? info @ wikimedia.org" in nice clear bold lettering, the puzzle-globe at one edge; the other side just WIKIPEDIA writ large. Distribute them to everyone who does PRish stuff... -

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

2009-03-04 Thread Andrew Gray
prevent even more by proportion if we turned on a "report this" function, since that'd heavily be skewed towards vandalism. Enabling both, together, would be excellent. But I think making it something for after we get the thrice-blesséd FlaggedRevs might be the most e

Re: [Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

2009-03-13 Thread Andrew Gray
ting in Wikipedia supporting. Is this clearly phishing? It looks like what we've always wondered about, a functioning mirror carrying advertising... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Foundation-l] Court: Congress can't put public domain back into copyright

2009-04-06 Thread Andrew Gray
I was under the impression we'd moved wholesale, servers and all, to California, so we were in the ninth circuit jurisdiction... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: ht

Re: [Foundation-l] Stategic planning : Sharing textbook knowledge

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gray
t nodules== (...) ==Chapter 307: smelting copper== (...) ==Chapter 87,823: the basics of nuclear fission== (...) I love it as an intellectual exercise, but the plausible *utility* of the whole thing might be open to question! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dune

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Andrew Gray
e 2008 Board Election only had 3019 > votes, which also suggests the turnout this time was remarkable. Do we have a rough estimate of qualifying voters who didn't vote? 17000 is pretty good, but it occurs to me I have no idea how large the editing community really is! -- - A

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-04 Thread Andrew Gray
il 2009... and there we get this problem. So, yeah. Pretty solid consensus that this is something to avoid. If we have some "explanatory notes" to go with the privacy policy anywhere, it might be worth explicitly mentioning the use of external logging services and Why Thou Shalt N

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-04 Thread Andrew Gray
emented - would it be too impractical to just regularly run a script to check those for things like Google Analytics links, and remove them with a polite note when found? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailin

Re: [Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

2009-06-25 Thread Andrew Gray
d in the US, but I could be wrong. (3) is quite a common provision, but (4) takes it further than usual. (I really like the spirit of nr. 11, but I can see how it's not really applicable here...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

2009-06-25 Thread Andrew Gray
e public domain. > Additionally, if so, that means for a news, the "five Ws" are not > eligible but the comment by the author is eligible for copyright. Am I > right? Thanks. I'd extend "comment" to be "the words they've actuall

Re: [Foundation-l] Why "Wikipedia" and not "the Wikipedia"?

2009-06-27 Thread Andrew Gray
27;s worth, I've noticed that "the Wikipedia" is becoming more common, but more among third parties than among people associated with the project. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-07-01 Thread Andrew Gray
d presumably a lot of the code for it is already in existence (what with etc). It'd also solve the issue with people wanting to "templatise" content such as infoboxes in order to reduce the clutter on a specific page. Can anyone see any obvious downsides? -- - And

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Andrew Gray
kipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=302589573 I discovered yesterday that: enwp.org/Article redirects to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article Sadly, it doesn't work with revision IDs, but it's a start! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation Button Enhancement : Part 2

2009-07-20 Thread Andrew Gray
ton for x many hours at a stretch, rotating them so as to ensure they don't regularly go up at the same time (of the day or of the week) and so that they get roughly equal coverage. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

2009-08-01 Thread Andrew Gray
wouldn't equal a year's output now. I don't have the numbers to hand to be confident of this - and hopefully Open Library, as it grows, will help us draw a firmer conclusion - but I'd guess that at least half of the identifiable works ever conventionally published as monographs

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Gray
th Wikinews project - there's now Turkish editions of wikinews, wikiquote, wikisource, and wikitionary, as well as wikipedia. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Gray
ht well be quicker. One other false positive here: edit warring where one or both sides is using undo/rollback. You'll get the impression of a lot of vandalism without there necessarily being any. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _

Re: [Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Gray
t;asdfdfggfh" at the end of a paragraph in the same article. I'm not sure how we'd go ahead with the second one, but it's an interesting thing to think about. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Gray
this more closely soon - for now, has anyone else identified attribution problems with the PDF generators? -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread Andrew Gray
t without them, but they are emphatically *not* primary goals in themselves. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] How to improve quality of Wikipedia?

2010-10-10 Thread Andrew Gray
dia? If there's a problem with mass creation of articles, you could try being stricter about requiring community approval before the bots are allowed to run, to check that you actually do want these topics. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-14 Thread Andrew Gray
e posted some praise of their own rather than just leaving a blank void.) The most recent of the editorial articles in the HE section to have any comments at *all*, good or bad, is from 29th September - there have been ten posted since then. I suspect the site operators are just not very respo

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Andrew Gray
; for most users by a week or so later - the middle of the month. If we were going to see a surge from that, we'd have had it appearing in late September, but that month doesn't seem to be particularly unusual. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Audited Financial Statements for 2009-10 Fiscal Year Now Available

2010-10-27 Thread Andrew Gray
unt, but I think you can make a decent case either way. So our first estimate is 85k; polyglot users will drive the figure down, whilst "less active" users will drive the total up, as will accounting for past contributors. I don't have any estimates as to the m

Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

2010-11-18 Thread Andrew Gray
e marketing consultancy" services that vaguely promise this sort of thing - but I wonder what will come of it in practice. (I have written articles on companies. I never thought to *invoice* them for it...) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

2010-11-18 Thread Andrew Gray
action=history All you'd need to do is produce a nice wrapper for it... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-28 Thread Andrew Gray
t editor. At which point, you can easily discover their great fondness for reading about something embarrassing... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimed

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread Andrew Gray
for the pageview statistics, which are very fine-grained The end result: one file with 0.1% of requests logged in detail and another file with "hit counts" and no more. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing li

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-04 Thread Andrew Gray
107830.html "We were not consulted, and are currently fully examining this. It is not official or endorsed by us." [Erik] -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: h

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