WikiEN-l May 2004

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blocking
by james schinner 27 May '04

27 May '04

I recently did some vandalism on Wikipedia, and made some racially insensitive remarks. I must note that not only was I in a very childish mood, of which I will not attempt to excuse myself, but was also mildly intoxicated. I assure you it will not happen again. I must also note that on my note of blocking it says I was warned. No such thing ever happened, and I would surely like to see an explanation for it. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger

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[freax@arrakis.es: Copyright Violation at Wikipedia]
by Jimmy Wales 27 May '04

27 May '04

I see that this is already listed on [[Wikipedia:Copyright problems]], and I hope that the resolution will be prompt. ----- Forwarded message from Phil Franks <freax(a)arrakis.es> ----- From: Phil Franks <freax(a)arrakis.es> Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:31:58 +0200 To: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> Subject: Copyright Violation at Wikipedia To: Jimmy Wales, President Wikimedia Foundation 3911 Harrisburg St. NE St. Petersburg, FL 33703 Dear Sir, I'm writing to you regarding the unauthorized use of one of my copyright images. Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Zappa.jpg My original image is embedded with the Digimarc digital watermark, see http://digimarc.com I declare and state, in good faith, that as copyright owner, I have not authorized this use of my copyright image. I state under penalty of perjury that I am the sole legal owner of the image and all rights thereto, and therefore request, in compliance with the DMCA, now that you have been made aware of the infringement, that you take all necessary steps without delay to ensure that this use ceases, and that your subscriber desist from any future infringement of my copyright. Faithfully, Phil Franks -- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Phil Franks <mailto:freax@arrakis.es> URL:http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/ -- Phil Franks Bungalow #100, Pasaje Berlin 4, Haygon 2, 03009, Alicante, Spain. Phone: (+34) 965 181187 Mobile: (+34) 676 214842 ----- End forwarded message -----

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RE: [WikiEN-l] Wik's vandalism and threats
by KNOTT, T 27 May '04

27 May '04

>I see no reason to stay clean any more when people are allowing this guy to do whatever he feels like doing. Rick you are too emotionally involved in this matter. That's completely understandable, but it is clouding your good judgement. Loads of people are trying to stop him from doing whatever he feels like. If you don't stay clean you make it harder to punish Wik. Why would you want that? Theresa

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Error message when site is down
by Timwi 27 May '04

27 May '04

Hi, when the site is down we currently get this error message: Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server. In the interest of user interface design, please could someone change this to Wikipedia is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later. We apologise for the inconvenience. Thanks! Timwi

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Questia link
by Jimmy Wales 27 May '04

27 May '04

On this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedia_articles_based_upo… we have a link to http://www.questia.com/ Questia has offered to pay us $12 per signup through that link, but we would have to change the link to a tracking url. I almost just went ahead told them no, but then I thought, hmm, maybe we should talk about this. It's not likely to generate any significant revenue -- that's a pretty obscure page I think -- so it's really more a question of the general principle here. I guess the problem I have with it is that the text of that page is pure editorial content, and should remain that way. It's different even from the book sources page in that respect. Putting a paid link on a page can be perfectly fine to do, but not unless clearly marked as such. But starting down the path of embedding paid links with disclaimers all over wikipedia is a pretty huge _stylistic_ change if nothing else, and I'm not really comfortable with it. Linking to booksellers and having a mix of paid and unpaid links on that page is not likely to give rise to doubts about our neutrality. But linking for money *within* the content of actual articles, not in the margin or whatever, that sounds pretty bad to me. I think I would be a lot more comfortable with a link in the margin, a link to their search engine for the topic of the page, with us getting paid, with a disclaimer. That would be *outside* the editorial content of the article itself. (I am not proposing that we do that, I am just saying that it would be different.) --Jimbo

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Re: w to properly use articles from an outside GFDL source?
by Sheldon Rampton 27 May '04

27 May '04

David Gerard wrote: >I want to do some Wikipedia articles based on Disinfopedia articles. >They're GFDL. But what is the proper way to carry over authorship >information? Cut'n'paste the Disinfopedia page history (they use >MediaWiki too) to the Talk page? Acknowledgement link at the bottom >of the page, as we use for FOLDOC or Jargon File-based articles? When I use material from the Wikipedia in the Disinfopedia, I put in a line of attribution at the bottom of the article. For example, Disinfopedia's [[Richard A. Clarke]] article includes the following line at the bottom, with links back to Wikipedia article: >Note: A version of this article also appears in the Wikipedia. If you want to do something similar when moving Disinfopedia material into the Wikipedia, it would be appreciated but isn't obligatory. It's not like we're in a position to sue over it. --Sheldon Rampton

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RE: [WikiEN-l] Wik's vandalism and threats
by KNOTT, T 27 May '04

27 May '04

One more (sorry I should have checked this earlier but was getting timeouts) >Maybe if people stopped unblocking the anons, that would be a start. I've just checked to block log. No one is unblocking the anons. Well Guanaco unblocked several range blocks, one because it was done incorrectly, the other because you put (idiot) as the reason. If this IP was Wik you should say so. Incidentally for the user who clearly was wik he reblocked with a clearer reason in the summary box. Like a said in my other post. We are all trying to block Wik. Let's bee cool, calm, and professional as we do it. Theresa

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RE: [WikiEN-l] The Role of Wikipedia is to promote understanding
by KNOTT, T 27 May '04

27 May '04

>... >> With great power comes great responsibility. >Very wise words. Thanks for the message Ed! >--mav it's spiderman isn't it? Theresa

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RE: [WikiEN-l] Wik's vandalism and threats
by KNOTT, T 27 May '04

27 May '04

Rick what do you want done? Tell me something practical and I'll do it. Theresa

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RE: [WikiEN-l] Wik's vandalism and threats
by KNOTT, T 27 May '04

27 May '04

>One thing that could be done, that hasn't been done to the degree that >I would like, is for Cantus/Quagga to just *drop it*. Repeatedly >doing stuff back to Wik as punishment for what Wik has done is wrong >and juvenile. I completely agree. It doesn't even punish Wik. It punishes the rest of us who are trying to sort things out. I also think that if we present a united front (and I'm talking to Rick here), block every IP Wik uses to try and violate the ban AND delete any page that quaggo makes in order to bait Wik, then Wik will get bored and go away. Theresa

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