[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 61, Issue 14

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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was
      promised ! (Brion Vibber)
  2. Re: mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was
      promised ! (Marcus Buck)
  3. Wikimania 2009 Scholarships (Mark (Markie))
  4. South Korean Government's regulations on real name    for
      Internet (RYU Cheol)
  5. Re: South Korean Government's regulations on real    name for
      Internet (teun spaans)
  6. Re: South Korean Government's regulations on real    name for
      Internet (RYU Cheol)
  7. Re: South Korean Government's regulations on real name for
      Internet (Michael Snow)
  8. Re: South Korean Government's regulations on real    name for
      Internet (RYU Cheol)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:10:37 -0700
From: Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to
    mo-cyrill as it was promised !
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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On 4/6/09 3:28 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu
> <cetateanumd at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> * you have promised that subdomain name mo will become mo-cyrl, it's april
>> now and mo is still not yet renamed.*
>
> None of the wikis have been moved yet, it's not that this situation is
> specific to mowiki.

No idea why this was sent to foundation-l since I already answered 
directly...

Wikis have not been renamed yet since we have no infrastructure for 
doing it. The requests are in the system and will be reached when we 
have an opportunity to set up a renaming infrastructure -- none of the 
renames are high priority, and there are plenty of things most members 
of this list would rather see us do first. :)

-- brion

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:13:52 +0200
From: Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to
    mo-cyrill as it was promised !
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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Brion Vibber hett schreven:
> and there are plenty of things most members 
> of this list would rather see us do first. :)
>  
Great to hear you are working on world peace...
As the developments on 'things most members of this list would like to 
see' are rather slow, I'd say, you should urgently hire some more 
people, who help you do the tasks that need to be done, or alternatively 
make access to administrative tools easier, so that voluntary helpers 
can help you do the tasks that need to be done.

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:53:53 +0100
From: "Mark (Markie)" <newsmarkie at googlemail.com>
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2009 Scholarships
To: wikimania-l at lists.wikimedia.org, foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org,
    wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org, mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org,
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Wikimania 2009 [1], this year's global event devoted to Wikimedia [2]
projects around the globe, is now accepting *applications for
scholarships*to the conference. This year's conference will be handled
from August 26-28
in Buenos Aires [3], Argentina [4]. The scholarship can be used to help
offset the costs of travel and registration. For more information, check the
official information page [5]. Please remember that the Call for
Participation [6] is still open, please submit your papers! Without
submissions, Wikimania would not be nearly as fun!

[1] http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal
[2] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina
[5] http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
[6] http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation

Regards

Mark

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:53:01 +0900
From: RYU Cheol <rcheol at gmail.com>
Subject: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on real
    name    for Internet
To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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According to this post,
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-korea-youtube-korea-to-begin.html
,

"Google, the world?s largest Internet company, has finally submitted
to South Korea?s unprecedented Internet regulations, including
agreeing to implement a ?real name? system in which any South Korean
can post their contents only after they confirm their resident
registration number."

Wikipedia have to response to this regulation.

Any site which has more than 100,000 visitors for a day have to
implement real name system according to the regulation.
We have to check the number of visitors from South Korea. If we have
more than that, we have to decide if we will allow editing or not from
South Korea.

It's a serious challenge for Wikipedia.

-Cheol

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 07:35:12 +0200
From: teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on
    real    name for Internet
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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"oncurrently April 1 is when the amendment to South Korea?s Act on the
Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and User
Protection will go into effect".
That date smells ;-)

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, RYU Cheol <rcheol at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to this post,
>
> http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-korea-youtube-korea-to-begin.html
> ,
>
> "Google, the world?s largest Internet company, has finally submitted
> to South Korea?s unprecedented Internet regulations, including
> agreeing to implement a ?real name? system in which any South Korean
> can post their contents only after they confirm their resident
> registration number."
>
> Wikipedia have to response to this regulation.
>
> Any site which has more than 100,000 visitors for a day have to
> implement real name system according to the regulation.
> We have to check the number of visitors from South Korea. If we have
> more than that, we have to decide if we will allow editing or not from
> South Korea.
>
> It's a serious challenge for Wikipedia.
>
> -Cheol
>
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:42:06 +0900
From: RYU Cheol <rcheol at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on
    real    name for Internet
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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Yap, it's silly. But it's happening in Korea.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/04/123_42862.html

2009/4/9 teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com>:
> "oncurrently April 1 is when the amendment to South Korea?s Act on the
> Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and User
> Protection will go into effect".
> That date smells ;-)
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, RYU Cheol <rcheol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> According to this post,
>>
>> http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-korea-youtube-korea-to-begin.html
>> ,
>>
>> "Google, the world?s largest Internet company, has finally submitted
>> to South Korea?s unprecedented Internet regulations, including
>> agreeing to implement a ?real name? system in which any South Korean
>> can post their contents only after they confirm their resident
>> registration number."
>>
>> Wikipedia have to response to this regulation.
>>
>> Any site which has more than 100,000 visitors for a day have to
>> implement real name system according to the regulation.
>> We have to check the number of visitors from South Korea. If we have
>> more than that, we have to decide if we will allow editing or not from
>> South Korea.
>>
>> It's a serious challenge for Wikipedia.
>>
>> -Cheol
>>
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:04:57 -0700
From: Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on
    real name for Internet
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RYU Cheol wrote:
> Yap, it's silly. But it's happening in Korea.
>
> http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/04/123_42862.html
>  
However, this story indicates that contrary to the earlier report, 
Google (specifically YouTube) is *not* implementing such a system. I 
don't know their reasons or what legal analysis was involved, and I 
hesitate to base my understanding of this law on translated news 
reports. But I can't imagine why we would try to block South Koreans 
from contributing, whether or not they comply with the requirements 
described.

--Michael Snow

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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:19:41 +0900
From: RYU Cheol <rcheol at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] South Korean Government's regulations on
    real    name for Internet
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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Until today they were considering to implement, but finally they
decided to abandon the business in South Korea. Nobody who set his
profile to South Korea cannot upload video and cannot comments on
Youtube. Now you got it?

-Cheol

2009/4/9 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
> RYU Cheol wrote:
>> Yap, it's silly. But it's happening in Korea.
>>
>> http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/04/123_42862.html
>>
> However, this story indicates that contrary to the earlier report,
> Google (specifically YouTube) is *not* implementing such a system. I
> don't know their reasons or what legal analysis was involved, and I
> hesitate to base my understanding of this law on translated news
> reports. But I can't imagine why we would try to block South Koreans
> from contributing, whether or not they comply with the requirements
> described.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
>
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