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[Foundation-l] Greenspun illustration project: requests now open
by Brianna Laugher 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

Dear Wikimedians, This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP). The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Reques… If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons: * http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/ or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects: * http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/fist.php The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1. * General information about the project: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project * Potential illustrators and others interested in the project should join the mailing list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/greenspun-illustrations Please pass this message on to any Wikimedia community that might find it relevant. thanks, Brianna user:pfctdayelise Project coordinator

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Re: [Foundation-l] Port scans?
by Thomas Dalton 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

> My firewall (Outpost Pro) keeps reporting port scans from meta.wikimedia.org > (details at the bottom of the email). It seems very unlikely that anyone would do a port scan from the wikimedia servers. I would guess it's someone spoofing the source IP address, although I can't see much point in that beyond causing an annoyance (which is more than enough reason for some people).

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Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Jimbo's response re:Rampant CheckuserPrivacy Abuse
by Herby 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

I am rather wary of getting involved in this however I'll try a toe in the water. I would stress I am not an arb com/en wp checkuser - I do however hold elected rights on three projects currently. My background (& I agree with everything that Andrew has said) is on en wb. The vast majority of checks there are on vandal accounts or impostor accounts (memorably Cary Bass!). In this situation the rights should be used vigilantly by a trusted admin watching RC. Equally a block of an IP can be made as "vandal source" (indeed with intelligent use of the log frequently "cross wiki vandal source") assuming it is not an open proxy which is often the case. This is visible and if the community require more info they are welcome to ask. I would never reveal private info but I would reveal as much as I could. Vandals aside one real problem I see with public "request for CU" is that it is actually almost impossible to prove that someone is not a puppet account. Percentages of likely or unlikely maybe but not "no" - as such a public accusation cannot be cleared. I work on the basis that 25 or more people felt that they trusted me to use the tools in the each of the community's best interest & I would like to think I do just that. If I see something that concerns me on wiki I may well look, if it is obvious I will act, if there is a question I'll share with fellow CUs and ask them to review it. If there is nothing then that is it - no fuss, no accusations. As a minor example I spotted some rather odd voting on a deletion request on Commons recently. No CU request was made. However it concerned me. I discovered of six people voting, one was a faked user and three of the others seemed highly likely to have been the same person (sock or meat). If someone tells me I am wrong to have done this then frankly a request for removal of my CU rights will be in on Meta shortly. I'd like to think I had not got the wrong end of the stick on this and I stress I am not an en wp/arb com CU merely someone who's communities have trusted to deal with some cleanup work. Thanks for your time. Herby -- Herby herbythyme(a)fmail.co.uk -- http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service?

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[Foundation-l] Port scans?
by Tom Holden 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

Hi, My firewall (Outpost Pro) keeps reporting port scans from meta.wikimedia.org (details at the bottom of the email). For a few minutes after a port scan my firewall decides there's an attack underway and blocks me from accessing Wikipedia. I've not found any mention of anyone else having similar problems through google, so I thought I'd raise the issue here. Hope it isn't entirely inappropriate. Yes I could add Wikipedia/Wikimedia to the trusted IP list, but it seems rather odd that I should have to, (I certainly haven't had this problem with other sites) and if conceivably possible I'd rather not. Why on earth should Wikimedia servers be aggressively port scanning users' computers? (I guess it's proxy detection or something, but it seems like using a hammer to crack a nut, and in any case I'm logged in which one would think would exempt me from such things.) Tom (User:Cfp) Last 10 "attacks". All the Wikimedia IP. 01:20:38 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (14603, 14602, 14600, 14599, 14597, 14595) 01:15:58 Rst attack 91.198.174.2 -> 91.198.174.2 01:09:36 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (14238, 14000, 13995, 13992, 13988, 14211) 12/12/2007 22:42:34 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (9711, 9710, 9708, 9707, 9705, 9694) 12/12/2007 22:31:28 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (9464, 9463, 9460, 9457, 9456, 9461) 12/12/2007 22:16:30 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (8975, 8974, 8973, 8972, 8968, 8963) 12/12/2007 22:16:30 Rst attack 91.198.174.2 -> 91.198.174.2 12/12/2007 17:55:41 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (1406, 1405, 1404, 1402, 1401, 1399) 12/12/2007 16:04:04 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (5321, 5320, 5319, 5318, 5312, 5311) 12/12/2007 14:40:06 Port scan 91.198.174.2 TCP (2499, 2498, 2497, 2496, 2493, 2487)

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Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Jimbo's response re:Rampant
by Durova 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

Brian McNeil wrote: > I have CheckUser on the English Wikinews, and I am glad to say I have never > been pressured to carry out a check in secret. My opinion is that no > undocumented CheckUser should be performed. In addition to otherobjections, some checkusers are performed to identify possible sockmasters of accounts that have been used to harass individual volunteers. Since any visible response at all can result in additional harassment, absolute openness exposes victims to more harassment. The requirement that checkuser requests identify a specific target account also exposes other innocent editors to stigmatization, since the community may construe mischief behind an account that was suggested but later cleared. I sympathize with the request for maximum openness, and I'm certainly not in the best position to voice an objection, but I really don't agree that transparency can or should be absolute. I could support a policy that required onsite checkuser requests except under defined circumstances such as the scenario above. -Durova

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Re: [Foundation-l] Racism in Commons
by Monahon, Peter B. 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

> Earlier: "...I think we should just use common sense. In all honesty, I think that we should allow most non threatening materials which would not spark largescale anger - don't forget the commons motto which if I remember is something like "a database of freely usable media files - not a database of educational Materials"..." Peter Blaise responds: Great advice, but "common" is such an uncommon thing! Especially in the "Commons"! The reference to things "common" for me is based on the US Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, Bill of Rights and Amendments, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and so on. What's "common" mean to you? "Non threatening" and "not spark large scale anger" have never been criteria in any of my "common sense" references. I think of the struggles to garner religious and personal freedoms, children's rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color, the rights of people with disabilities, abandoning caste systems ... all these come about through much threatening and sparking large scale anger, right? Also, on the Internet, ONE single, solo person can dominate a group, good or bad, and "look" like a "large scale" situation, so the term "large scale" is almost impossible to accurately and unambiguously quantify, and base policy on, even though it sounds nice. It even smacks of "appeasing the bully" in trying to placate someone's manifest anger. I don't think anger's a good or bad thing. It's just part and parcel of some people's gyrations, thought process, and sharing, and is part of the flow of things. After all, it's only a mailing list, and these are only words! Anger is in the eye of the beholder, right? ARGH! Is my writing "ARGH" anger, or frustration, or irony, or submission, or ridicule, or teasing ... or what? It's just words. It doesn't matter. Go with the flow! Same with pictures. It's just pictures. And words. Read 'em. Or not. Respond. Or not. Move on. Or not. I think that's all I'm encouraging the originator of this thread (copied below), to do. Those cartoons? Read 'em (or not) just like the rest of us, and move on (or not). Vivisecting political cartoons have been around since politicians have been around. > Earlier: "... [photo Gallery page] ... in commons includes ... cartoons [presumably that express a point of view] ... Commons does not have a NPOV policy ..." Peter Blaise responds: I have another observation: what are "Galleries" for in the first place? Shouldn't the Commons be the one place where Categories themselves reign supreme? If I want to find all resources in Commons on any topic, such as "Ariel Sharon", why have a hand-selected Gallery of not all Commons resources, when an all inclusive search by Category would be a more honest reflection of the true Commons contents? Sadly, those cartoons are not even objectively categorized by content. They appear to have been assessed by type over content: Category:Caricatures of ... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Caricatures_of_Ariel_Sharon So, although the intention of the original poster in this thread was to filter Commons contents by their own criteria, I see it has revealed that there are already too many filters on the Commons, and the "Categories" feature us waay underutilized. I think Categories should be expanded to include anything salient and relevant that EXIF and IPTC Metadata would include.

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[Foundation-l] Fundraising totals as of 17:24 (UTC) on 11-Dec-2007.
by Cary Bass 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

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[Foundation-l] google analytics for everybody on fiwiki
by Pedro Sanchez 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

I was askied to take a look at this: In fi.wikipedia.org couple admins (w:fi:User:Joonasl and w:fi:User:MikkoM) have added Google analytics on every pageload (here). That is really annoinning and it has to be against to Wikimedia's privacy rules. There is no need for that. Please can you or somebody do something? --Anonacco 20:27, 10 December 2007 (UTC) http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3APathoschild&diff=78… I really don't know about it but I recall a long discussion about google analytics a few weeks ago. Where who or how should this be handled? The Google Analytics bug was added into the copyright notice: http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4rjestelm%C3%A4viesti:Copyright Anyone techcnically savvy that can enlighten me? And I'm sending this to foudnation-l since I don't know if this has privacy/persinal info issues

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Re: [Foundation-l] Cary Bass has forwarded a page to you from Wikimedia Fundraising
by Cary Bass 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Let me try this again with the attached... > > > <http://donate.wikimedia.org/> > Cary Bass <mailto:cbass@wikimedia.org> thought you would like to see > this page from the Wikimedia Fundraising web site. > Message from Sender: > > *These are the fundraising totals as of 17:24 (UTC) on 11-Dec-2007.* > > *Contributions Summary > <http://donate.wikimedia.org/en/forward/emailref/22>* > > *Note:* Dates begin and end at 0:00 (UTC + 2), or 5:00 PM (EST). > Donation figures are based on raw data and may not accurately match up > with sitenotice on the various Wikimedia projects. Also, the totals do > not include donations totalling less than US$1. > > Date Number of > Contributions Amount of > Contributions > in USD Average > in USD > Total 35941 1,128,453.18 31.40 > 2007-10-22 2 100.00 50.00 > 2007-10-23 1676 43,092.26 25.71 > 2007-10-24 1392 39,062.56 28.06 > 2007-10-25 1029 26,993.66 26.23 > 2007-10-26 1146 29,702.43 25.92 > 2007-10-27 967 27,984.23 28.94 > 2007-10-28 931 26,788.93 28.77 > 2007-10-29 785 22,096.44 28.15 > 2007-10-30 732 19,993.76 27.31 > 2007-10-31 765 24,634.37 32.20 > 2007-11-01 670 18,957.87 28.30 > 2007-11-02 592 28,661.97 48.42 > 2007-11-03 525 19,038.52 36.26 > 2007-11-04 1180 36,447.15 30.89 > 2007-11-05 1414 40,499.57 28.64 > 2007-11-06 1192 38,292.60 32.12 > 2007-11-07 1350 39,084.81 28.95 > 2007-11-08 1063 34,930.17 32.86 > 2007-11-09 971 30,310.51 31.22 > 2007-11-10 912 28,355.23 31.09 > 2007-11-11 858 26,979.58 31.44 > 2007-11-12 784 23,748.94 30.29 > 2007-11-13 675 17,891.55 26.51 > 2007-11-14 656 22,015.78 33.56 > 2007-11-15 682 21,488.24 31.51 > 2007-11-16 641 20,951.29 32.69 > 2007-11-17 534 17,746.35 33.23 > 2007-11-18 598 19,825.79 33.15 > 2007-11-19 536 17,522.75 32.69 > 2007-11-20 563 17,271.28 30.68 > 2007-11-21 541 15,418.51 28.50 > 2007-11-22 458 13,463.10 29.40 > 2007-11-23 731 25,288.14 34.59 > 2007-11-24 776 26,176.76 33.73 > 2007-11-25 624 20,160.67 32.31 > 2007-11-26 635 22,172.65 34.92 > 2007-11-27 578 19,145.89 33.12 > 2007-11-28 554 18,739.02 33.82 > 2007-11-29 516 15,606.52 30.25 > 2007-11-30 469 16,452.74 35.08 > 2007-12-01 433 15,801.24 36.49 > 2007-12-02 440 13,819.99 31.41 > 2007-12-03 375 13,096.63 34.92 > 2007-12-04 402 11,708.93 29.13 > 2007-12-05 375 12,536.56 33.43 > 2007-12-06 408 18,048.23 44.24 > 2007-12-07 382 14,372.61 37.62 > 2007-12-08 358 15,088.49 42.15 > 2007-12-09 420 15,755.84 37.51 > 2007-12-10 345 15,081.08 43.71 > 2007-12-11 300 10,050.99 33.50 > > > Currency Number of > Contributions Amount of > Contributions > in USD Average > in USD > Total 35941 1,128,453.18 31.40 > AUD 698 20,630.12 29.56 > BGN 3 29.18 9.73 > CAD 1058 34,297.99 32.42 > CHF 423 19,972.47 47.22 > CZK 141 1,983.91 14.07 > DKK 224 6,037.82 26.95 > EEK 1 1.83 1.83 > EUR 9398 247,940.39 26.38 > GBP 1908 60,105.58 31.50 > HKD 79 2,334.90 29.56 > HUF 21 357.40 17.02 > ILS 1 8.69 8.69 > JPY 923 35,385.15 38.34 > NOK 175 6,751.15 38.58 > NZD 90 2,493.53 27.71 > PLN 178 3,720.89 20.90 > RON 7 62.12 8.87 > SEK 254 7,427.39 29.24 > SGD 105 2,813.28 26.79 > SKK 3 27.26 9.09 > TWD 1 2.17 2.17 > USD 20249 675,963.70 33.38 > ZAR 1 106.24 106.24 > > Click here to read more on our site > <http://donate.wikimedia.org/en/forward/emailref/22> > > > -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass(a)wikimedia.org

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[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2009 bidding dates
by Cary Bass 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Hello all. We have finally formalized the dates for bidding for Wikimania 2009. Bidding officially runs from December 15 to February 3, allowing the prospective bidders a much longer period of time in which to present and polish their bids for Wikimania 2009. The jury will be announced on January 12. Information about Wikimania 2009 can be found at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009>. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass(a)wikimedia.org

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