Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Dirk Franke
For anybody interested: I wrote a blog-post full of disagreement :-) http://asinliberty.blogspot.com/2011/09/sorry-sue-gardner-but-image-filter.html regards, southpark On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:45 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 29 September 2011 07:40, Keegan Peterzell > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Dirk Franke
They should be enough, to convice the rest of the community. And when Kiribati users are actually able to convince all the others on en, then: Go Kiribati! Go! southpark On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Mathias Schindler < mathias.schind...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 23:08, Jalo

[Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Dirk Franke
loud. In longer: http://www.iberty.net/2011/10/news-from-german-wikipedia-white-bag.html regards, Dirk Franke/Southpark ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-24 Thread Dirk Franke
Hi Eric, thanks for your answers. For me they were really helpful, and I hope they can lead to some understanding- Some of these ideas are explored here: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/Next_steps/en#Potential_models_for_hiding_images > > Is there a similar brainstormin

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-24 Thread Dirk Franke
> With that in mind, I would humbly propose that we kill with fire at > this point the idea of a category-based image filtering system. > > +1 d/sp ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-24 Thread Dirk Franke
, than with morally objectionable pictures.. but still, I think this would meet all criteria of the German community. regards, d/sp On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Dirk Franke wrote: > > With that in mind, I would humbly propose that we kill with fire at >> this point the idea o

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-31 Thread Dirk Franke
Thank you Björn, may have overlooked it otherwise. and thank you, Sue :-) dirk On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Dirk Franke wrote: > >the cultural homogenous group of Germans tends to discuss in German. So to > >give you a short update on wh

[Foundation-l] Error message

2011-11-27 Thread Dirk Franke
Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale? Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. regards, southpark ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailma

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Dirk Franke
> > I think this sounds pretty good. Is there any indication how German > > Wikipedians generally view an implementation like this? I can't imagine > > English Wikipedians caring about an additional sidebar link/opt-in > feature > > like this. > > > Actually I think, they do not like it too much. I

Re: [Foundation-l] iBooks vs. wBooks?

2012-01-20 Thread Dirk Franke
Yeah! regards, southpark On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > (This mail is focused on books, but the topic is of more general > interest IMHO, thus foundation-l) > > Hi all, > > I just saw the "iBooks Author" news: > > http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/19/a-closer-look-at-i