Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF does it again...

2009-01-15 Thread Gordon Joly
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Cormac Lawler
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > I also don't see any problem with the WMF hosting a mailing list--we > > have a number of locally user-based email lists for entities which > > have no interest in forming a chapter (Wikimedia-sf to name one) and I > > see no problem with t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
> I also don't see any problem with the WMF hosting a mailing list--we > have a number of locally user-based email lists for entities which > have no interest in forming a chapter (Wikimedia-sf to name one) and I > see no problem with the creation of a Wikimedia-man-uk (or something > like that).

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cormac Lawler wrote: > > > I've been discussing with a few people (not on this list) about > forming a group of people in and around Manchester who are > interested in free culture - for seminars, workshops, and other > related activities. There have b

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF does it again...

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/1/15 Chris McKenna : > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> [The Internet Archve] >> need to do something to minimise the risk of illegal images being >> archived. > > Illegal according to whose defintion? The definition that applies > currently, or the defintion that applied at the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF does it again...

2009-01-15 Thread Chris McKenna
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Thomas Dalton wrote: > [The Internet Archve] > need to do something to minimise the risk of illegal images being > archived. Illegal according to whose defintion? The definition that applies currently, or the defintion that applied at the time the page was archived? AIUI t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Mark (Markie)
i for one have spare hosting, so im sure dependant on the needs hosting wouldn't be a problem. just got to ask round. if you want to email your needs offlist ill see what i can do, if you want regards mark On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > Which brings me to the sec

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF does it again...

2009-01-15 Thread Al Tally
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/1/15 Ian A. Holton : > >> "Following complaints that its child-porn blacklist has led multiple > >> British ISPs to censor innocuous content on the Internet Archive's > Wayback > >> Machine, the Internet Watch Foundation has confirmed th

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
> Which brings me to the second point - > which is to ask whether Wikimedia UK could support such locally-based > activities by, for example, hosting a mailing list, wiki, and/or other > webspace? It seems to me to be well within WMUK's remit - but I'd like to > hear what other people on this list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF does it again...

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/1/15 Ian A. Holton : >> "Following complaints that its child-porn blacklist has led multiple >> British ISPs to censor innocuous content on the Internet Archive's Wayback >> Machine, the Internet Watch Foundation has confirmed the blacklist contains >> images housed by the 85-billion-page web

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread joseph seddon
Although i dont speak for everyone i think that supporting something like this would be something that the chapter would be interested in supporting. However, for the time being i think that it beyond the chapter to provide any form of hosting. We are attempting to seek our own hosting right no

[Wikimediauk-l] Manchester Free Culture Group

2009-01-15 Thread Cormac Lawler
Hi, I've been discussing with a few people (not on this list) about forming a group of people in and around Manchester who are interested in free culture - for seminars, workshops, and other related activities. There have been a few very small and informal meetings so far - but we're planning to in

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF does it again...

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Bimmler
2009/1/15 Ian A. Holton : >> "Following complaints that its child-porn blacklist has led multiple >> British ISPs to censor innocuous content on the Internet Archive's Wayback >> Machine, the Internet Watch Foundation has confirmed the blacklist contains >> images housed by the 85-billion-page web

[Wikimediauk-l] IWF does it again...

2009-01-15 Thread Ian A. Holton
> > "Following complaints that its child-porn blacklist has led multiple > British ISPs to censor innocuous content on the Internet Archive's Wayback > Machine, the Internet Watch Foundation has confirmed the blacklist contains > images housed by the 85-billion-page web history database." > ( http

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Encouraging new Board members

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Bimmler
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: Perhaps we should ask some board members > from other chapters what they get up to? How much time they spend on > chapter stuff, in particular. > Well. It can differ widely. (In a perfect world, every board member would "work" the same amo