On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Brian wrote:
> To restate, there is a tendency in Italy for a media sensation to be made of
> purportedly legal matters when no legal actual legal processes have been
> initiated, and no legal documents drafted. As you can see, the statement
> has nothing to do wi
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Teofilo wrote:
> I should have said it in my previous message : the first and foremost
> priority for France, is that Government-owned museums allow visitors
> who paid their entrance ticket to carry a camera and take pictures of
> paintings and sculptures when the
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Andre Engels wrote:
>
> To quantify this, I have taken the 50 largest countries, excluding
> languages where English is the main language (United States, United
> Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Philippines, Singapore, Ireland,
> New Zealand, South Africa). For
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Marcus Buck wrote:
>
> It would make sense. But at the moment WMDE is not even actively doing
> anything for the _native_ languages of Germany except for German. I
> think that would be the first step to do.
>
I had a quick look at the native languages of Italy,
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:42 AM, kigen2700...@gmail.com
wrote:
> Does Wikipedia's principles need consensus of the community?
> There is not consensus of the community, but does somebody pass if
> filled out the page with "Policy"?
There are values which are at the core of Wikipedia and cannot rea
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Dan Rosenthal wrote:
>
> We want to use a bare minimum of unfree content, wherever possible. That is
> not the same as NO unfree content. It does not follow that because we cannot
> have ZERO unfree content, than we should be able to use everyone elses unfree
>
Hi,
a friend of mine just pointed out this event on facebook, a
vandalize wikipedia day
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110813902286034&ref=search&sid=674858731.794509965..1
I'm not sure if WMF is aware, or if there is the possibility to close
the page.
Cruccone
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:27 PM, teun spaans wrote:
> Dear Derk-jan,
>
> As for 1), I think youtube can be compared in populairity and size with
> wikipedia, and in videos surpasses commons.
> Youtube enables its visitors to tag videos as adult.
I think there is a difference between using tags/ca
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:57 AM, stevertigo wrote:
> Translation between wikis currently exists as a largely pulling
> paradigm: Someone on the target wiki finds an article in another
> language (English for example) and then pulls it to their language
> wiki.
>
> These days Google and other trans
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Joan Goma wrote:
> This procedure is unfair for some candidates and is sowing suspiciousness
> against chapters.
Please read
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws#ARTICLE_IV_-_THE_BOARD_OF_TRUSTEES
section 3D
"Chapter-selected Trustees.
On 6/17/11, Strainu wrote:
> I think that such a policy could not be fundamentally different in
> other languages, since they all have the same license. However, the
> wording could be improved, for instance by explaining WHY one cannot
> consider himself as the owner of an article: by accepting t
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Béria Lima wrote:
> Never tryed in en.wiki, but in PT.wiki we even have a 15 radom articles
> selection to see the quality of pt.wiki articles in a small scale.
>
> He did it 5 times from 2005 to 2008, and I never saw a sex article on it. In
> fact we used to joke
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:26 PM, emijrp wrote:
> So, the law was finally rejected or it was not voted yet?
>
It hasn't been voted yet.
Cruccone
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Dear all,
I'm forwarding a call for applications for a Wikipedian in residence in
Cape Town. It is a one year position, offering expenses refund and implies
living in
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mateus Nobre wrote:
>
> Etienne,
>
> Why any Wikipedia would not want the Wikilove feature?
>
> This is inconsistent for me. Wikilove's a global improvement, there's no
> reason to disagree improvements.
>
What a lot of people would reply is: "Because Wikipedia i
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Béria Lima wrote:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cite4wiki/ (in wiki:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite4Wiki )
>
> right click and paste in the article. Easier than that can't be ;)
There are a lot of tools available to make the life
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Peter Damian
wrote:
> If you ask why, I reply that no method has yet been devised
> to give attribution to the author of a work in a way that advances
> their career. I will earn little or no money from either work, I
> imagine. Note that Andrew Lih's book, which
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 16 January 2012 14:08, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>
>> WMIT is interested, too, because the board has decided to move the
>> semi-free and PD-Italy content hosted on biblioteca.wikimedia.it to
>> wikilivres and we'd like Canada to be stil
2012/1/17 Delphine Ménard :
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
>> Thanks for this announcement Jay, and everyone involved in the planning of
>> this unprecedented action.
>
> For what it's worth, I want to particularly thank the Italian
> Community, for showing us with their own
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Mark (Markie)
wrote:
> so as long as money goes to a chapter your saying it would be fine to say:
>
> *Put an amazon or ebay link on every product related page
> *Use referrer ids on wikis to websites that allow it
> *and the dreaded advertising as long as the mon
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM, geni wrote:
>
> Not really. For example our need for portraits of people we have
> articles on means that we should have several hundred thousand images
> of faces.
>
> In addition most parts of the human anatomy don't have the same
> providence issues.
>
> Oh yea
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Chad wrote:
>
> That aside: the two situations are entirely different. This proposal
> is effectively outsourcing a section of Wikipedia to some experts
> in the field. That's entirely unlike the Foundation deciding to add
> an additional language for Wikipedia to
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
> And yes, 80% of people ranked one of 4 options which I consider
> unacceptable
> first. But then, 67% of people would have done so even if everyone chose
> their answers randomly.
Now, how many of the 20% who wants their name cited would have
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Waerth wrote:
>
> Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why
> because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 anyone
> with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the
> license or would have done i
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Yoni Weiden wrote:
>
> i.e. "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" episode is published in no less
> than 15 languages. Above policy means that the creation of this article
> should be allowed in he-wp, and not deleted due to insignificance in the
> eyes of 57% of t
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> The licensing update poll has been tallied.
>
> "Yes, I am in favor of this change" : 13242 (75.8%)
> "No, I am opposed to this change" : 1829 (10.5%)
> "I do not have an opinion on this change" : 2391 (13.7%)
>
> Total ballots cast and cer
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Stephen Bain wrote:
>> Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad
> ...
>> 'To me the problem is the Wikipedia
>> rule of public use,' says Jerry Avenaim, a celebrity photographer. 'If
>> they truly wanted to elevate the image on the site, they should allow
>> photogra
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Teofilo wrote:
> Hello everybody;
>
> This is to say that I have written a piece on this topic at :
>
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#uk.wikimedia.org_is_Wikimedia_Ukraine,_isn't_it_?
>
I've noticed that http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ redirects to
http
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Henning
Schlottmann wrote:
>
> But do we know how many professionals and other people from the general
> public use Wikipedia every day? One of the most active contributors to
> de-WP once told the story that he was at a pediatric with his sick child
> and the docto
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gerard
Meijssen wrote:
> The fact that all of our material can not be made available under the
> CC-by-sa license because of some people insisting on using the wrong
> license is beyond me. The fact that we insist that the two licenses are
> compatible does not ma
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Andrew
Turvey wrote:
> My first response is that's probably a reflection of the voting system. When
> you have a non-partisan system like this, there are no clear political
> pro/con reasons to vote for/against particular candidates and the
> anti-incumbency fact
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>
> I don't know if they commonly do it but at least at
> http://amazon.decenturl.com/amazon.com-prehistoric-europe they openly
> say it's from Wikipedia.
>
And still by reading that review you get the impression that they're
building upon w
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
>
> Given the nature of the approximations I made in doing this analysis I
> suspect it is more likely that I have somewhat underestimated the
> vandalism problem rather than overestimated it, but as I said in the
> beginning I'd like to believe
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
>
> I suppose that it could help up to some extent. However, we have at
> least one -- already identified or not -- big systemic problem. And it
> looks to me that it is not connected exclusively to African Americans.
>
I think this is part of
On 1/21/11, F.-F. Duron wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> J'espère m'adresser au bon endroit.
>
> Aujourd'hui, ma nièce m'a appelé à l'ordinateur en me disant que Wikipédia
> faisait de la publicité pour un site pour adultes. Je lui ai dit que
> Wikipédia n'affichait pas de publicité. Elle a insisté et voilà
On 2/20/11, Ryan Lomonaco wrote:
> The third incarnation of the article (the one that was labeled "vandalism")
> was labeled as a "hoax" under CSD G3 by an IP editor. It looks like the
> admin meant to delete it as a hoax, but picked the wrong option from the
> drop-down box -- G3 covers both "va
On 2/20/11, geni wrote:
> On 20 February 2011 10:57, Marco Chiesa wrote:
>> Please consider that this is foundation-l and for many people CSD G3
>> is pretty meaningless
>> Cruccone
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#G3
>
> But we are talking
On 3/13/11, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>
> From what I know, only the Spanish Wikipedia does not recognize fair-use
> images, and the German Wikipedia has a very strict policy which makes the
> usage of fair-use tricky. All other Wikipedias allow for fair-use. I am
> absolutely sure about the Russ
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
> When I said "can" I was talking from a legal perspective. The law is
> the same regardless of what language the content is in.
>
This is not correct, please read
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy
Quoting:
E
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:13 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
> since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
> Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these
> sites were:
>
> catalan.wikipedia.com
> ch
On 5/20/11, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
> Please mail User:Oversight with any such instance you are aware of. We do
> suppress any mention of a superinjunction, as the assertion that there is
> embarrassing personal information sufficient to support issuance of a
> superinjunction is defaming.
>
Is ther
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Platonides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is Moldovan Cyrillic transliterable to Latin? Then a transliteration
> module could be used. A closed wiki readable on both scripts wouldn't be
> too troublesome.
> OTOH the work needed to make the transliteration module i
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Ting Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Heilmann complained through his lawyer at first by WikiMedia
> Deutschland. The chapter answered him that it is not responsible for the
> content on Wikipedia and they would do nothing. I agree with the first
> part of the
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hoi,
> Over the last weeks I have been rather active in promoting improved
> usability for the MediaWiki software. What really got me going was learning
> from a Wikimania presentation that a UNICEF usability study done i
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