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- Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:22 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rules
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4583
Re: Wikimedia Foundation breaks copyright, Swedish court rul
But it s a falsehood for WMF to respond that selfies on Facebook are now criminal. The https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/04/strike-against-freedom-panorama/,WMF blog post has now been corrected; it no longer claims that this would follow from the Supreme Court decision (which it doesn't, as Suprem...
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:19 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Fae celebrates his millionth photograph
- Replies: 90
- Views: 26915
Re: Fae celebrates his millionth photograph
Almost everything is from collections. The largest collection is probably US Army. Fæ has become good at putting them in categories, like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... mp_Arifjan.
- Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:48 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Commons' oddest photos
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6885
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:47 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Brian Josephson
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1171
Re: Brian Josephson
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_diseaseDanMurphy wrote:As happens from time to time to brilliant minds, Mr. Josephson appears to have developed some very odd beliefs as he got older.
The topic the fight turns on is Water memory (T-H-L).
- Sun Jun 16, 2013 8:26 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Herbythyme quit commons
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1563
Re: Herbythyme quit commons
I have clashed with him, but he was way better than the few people that are running Commons right now. He had left before, and is unhappy about the developments at Commons. Most reasonable people have left now.
- Thu May 02, 2013 8:15 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Maps
- Replies: 109
- Views: 1949
Re: Maps without a scale
On Commons, there was a contributor aggressively removing borders of images. Also of maps, that had these black-and-white code for degrees longitude and latitude along the border. In discussions, that guy was completely clueless.
(Sorry, I cannot find it back now.)
(Sorry, I cannot find it back now.)
- Thu May 02, 2013 7:58 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia articles with more than 300 references
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1609
Re: Wikipedia articles with more than 300 references
Another metric occurred to me yesterday, when I noticed that the Gangnam Style article had 480 references. I don't recall ever seeing a Wikipedia article with that many references before. Even the article on George W. Bush, apparently one of the most frequently edited articles on Wikipedia, manages...
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Who here supports Wikipedia? Why???
- Replies: 63
- Views: 2445
Re: Who here supports Wikipedia? Why???
Article lengths are presumably growing too. Which is not always a good thing. I am a physics teacher, and I got involved years ago because students were using wikipedia as a source of information. But it is useless to try to write an educational article at an appropriate level. Very soon some grad ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:35 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Doxing, Outing or Harassment
- Replies: 157
- Views: 7454
Re: Doxing, Outing or Harassment
User SergeWoodzing is the not really notable retired hotel manager Jacob Truedson Demitz , who is using that BLP for self-promotion. He was also inserting his self-published book Throne of a Thousand Years as a reference in loads of articles as a source to suggest independent support for his own am...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:46 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Doxing, Outing or Harassment
- Replies: 157
- Views: 7454
Re: Doxing, Outing or Harassment
I'm not saying that you tell your members to cut it out all together, but putting forward a statement that real life identities should only be revealed if they have a direct influence on their Wikipedia editing. User SergeWoodzing is the not really notable retired hotel manager Jacob Truedson Demit...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: How many members here are actually banned from WP?
- Replies: 147
- Views: 6691
Re: How many members here are actually banned from WP?
I am Pieter Kuiper . Cirt once got me a topic ban, and SergeWoodzing has often reported me on AN/I. Twice he got me blocked (for two days, for a week), because I had "outed" him as Jacob Truedson Demitz - that is called "harassment" on wikipedia. On Commons there was a discussion to get me banned. N...
- Sun Mar 17, 2013 8:29 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Earl Doherty -- fascinating and forgotten dispute
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1226
Re: Earl Doherty -- fascinating and forgotten dispute
Indeed, Doherty is not academically established. But his opinions are (or were) once in the mainstream of biblical scholarship. I expanded Radical criticism to demonstrate that, and I wrote the biographies of Allard Pierson , Abraham Dirk Loman , Willem Christiaan van Manen , and Gustaaf Adolf van d...
- Sat Mar 16, 2013 10:58 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Welcome back, Lar
- Replies: 6
- Views: 954
Re: Welcome back, Lar
Lar is surely better than many admins; his return is scarcely going to make things worse. I do not agree. He got very upset about my deletion requests of some uploads of his at Commons - he blocked me for that, calling it " Intimidating behaviour/harassment ." He also censured my user page, removin...
- Sat Mar 16, 2013 10:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crowdsourcing justice
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3673
Re: Crowdsourcing justice
Indeed, the same stuff as on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commo ... ter_KuiperPeter Damian wrote: Or they will ask to correct ideological deviation or ask you to 'reform', like Stalinists.
"Peter needs ... to make appropriate commitments . "
- Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:09 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: suicide or assassination?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 863
Re: suicide or assassination?
In WP, there is a variation on this theme - assassination. Because the culprit is making a nuisance of himself. There is also suicide by cop. If one is sufficiently fed up with a wikipedia or with commons, one just does a few things that will get you banned, blocked and quartered. Like editing whil...
- Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:09 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: De minimis
- Replies: 2
- Views: 342
Re: De minimis
It is all about politics, not much to do with copyright law.
Election_2009_night_-_Kadima_Party is an example. It was undeleted because of a word from the Office - Bastique, Cary Bass.
Election_2009_night_-_Kadima_Party is an example. It was undeleted because of a word from the Office - Bastique, Cary Bass.
- Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:00 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jimbo is not feeling the love
- Replies: 125
- Views: 5500
Re: Jimbo is not feeling the love
Jimbo is not a part of the Commons incrowd. Russavia knows that he can get away with it. But do not try to scrutinize the uploads of people like Fæ and Fastily.
- Sun Dec 30, 2012 2:40 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Long-lasting hoax (and "Good Article") deleted
- Replies: 60
- Views: 52542
Re: Long-lasting hoax (and "Good Article") deleted
He proposed it for featured article:TungstenCarbide wrote:I'm guessing it was A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a (T-C-L), though it's kinda hard to tell with all the history hone.
Hmmm, the logs don't show page creation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... t/archive1
It even fooled dab...
- Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:01 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia employee salaries
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1358
Re: Wikimedia employee salaries
Ottava Rima writes that Cary Bass (Bastique) was the best employee the WMF ever had. Well, that was a guy with a sort temper and a long memory. But he left to join holy orders...
- Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:55 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cirt starts WikiProject Freedom of Speech
- Replies: 5
- Views: 663
Re: Cirt starts WikiProject Freedom of Speech
Cirt put rangeblocks many thousands of Swedish ip-numbers - promoting freedom of speech? https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard&oldid=85218948#Blocking_thousands_of_IPs_for_a_year And he blocked this innocent Danish contributor: http://commons.wikimedia...
- Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:04 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Ashley van Haeften and Cirt: save the village by burning it
- Replies: 16
- Views: 986
Re: Re: Fae
Ashley van Haeftan, You are a shitheel. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Blocks_on_dynamic_IPs_tagged_as_puppets Talking to Cirt is like talking to cleverbot. Fæ suggested that Telia change its network architecture to give my phone a fixed ip-number! All this ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:55 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Rhett Allain (Dot Physics, Wired science blog) about wikiped
- Replies: 17
- Views: 981
Re: Rhett Allain (Dot Physics, Wired science blog) about wik
Jens Bjernemose commented: When it comes to maths and physics, the problem with Wikipedia is not so much vandalism, as its nerdview. The authors only rarely try to communicate their subject to the uninitiated, and as such Wikipedia is useless to the neophyte anyway. Indeed. And if a good teacher sta...
- Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:49 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Rhett Allain (Dot Physics, Wired science blog) about wikiped
- Replies: 17
- Views: 981
Rhett Allain (Dot Physics, Wired science blog) about wikiped
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ ... wikipedia/
The long comment by Maia Lyentre is interesting, about the difficult environment and experts leaving the project in disgust.
The long comment by Maia Lyentre is interesting, about the difficult environment and experts leaving the project in disgust.
- Sat Nov 03, 2012 9:55 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia Editor Survey 2012
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1130
Re: Wikipedia Editor Survey 2012
I finished it. Wrote somewhere that the Foundation should do something about Commons.
As to all these language options: for gender there were five options. And they had left out "Furry".
As to all these language options: for gender there were five options. And they had left out "Furry".
- Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:28 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Sharyl Attkisson -- a disaster on the way
- Replies: 116
- Views: 17275
Re: Sharyl Attkisson -- a disaster on the way
You might vaguely remember this from the Gibraltarpedia thread. Attkisson suggests the vaccine apologists are being paid by the pharmaceutical industry - I doubt it. There are plenty of science apologists putting a lot of unpaid effort into this. For the record, I have let my daughter take all the ...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:04 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
Pieter, you've been fighting with Commons fools over copyrights for years. Can you compile for us a list of photos that you think are blatant copyright violations, and estimate how many there are on Commons today? Really blatant ones get deleted when someone makes a deletion request or puts one of ...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:39 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
I generally voted to keep publicity photos from the US from before 1978. They rarely had a copyright notice - purpose was to get them published. And renewals of such stuff was practically never done. This photo was used on anthologies of Piquer's performances, an original source or photographer mig...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:18 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
No commercial enterprise that is concerned about licenses is going to take WP word on the issue, there is too much at stake not to do one's own due diligence. News publishers use images from Commons. I suppose they make an educated guess about how reliable the license is. But there is not that much...
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:54 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Biographies of murdered persons
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2012
Re: Biographies of murdered persons
2. Sometimes the Wikipedia ghouls find pictures of the deceased. See e.g. this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jill-Lyn_Euto . Have the relatives consented to this? Were they consulted? Sometimes the photos were issued by the police for identifying missing persons. Not for the purposes of il...
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:19 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
The photo of Concha Piquer is almost certainly free. It is an American work, she was posing half-naked when she worked for Penella in New York. She arrived there in 1922, so if the photo was published that year, it is free. If it was published later, it is unlikely that copyright was renewed. Maybe...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:39 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
So you admit to being a sock puppet.rd232 wrote:(not least if you find out one or more of the names or usernames I use elsewhere)
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:19 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
Also, several of the examples in this thread are likely out of copyright. Maybe, but some of them aren't. The photo of Concha Piquer is almost certainly free. It is an American work, she was posing half-naked when she worked for Penella in New York. She arrived there in 1922, so if the photo was pu...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:53 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
When a highly active user has a pattern of going after highly active users in particular ways over a long period of time instead of talking to them (giving them a chance to fix problems), that is a problem. So you now admit that I was blocked for going after copyright violators. All my nominations ...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
If these photos are indeed copyvios (and they almost certainly are), should they be displayed on this site? It is daft for us to criticise Commons for violating copyright and then doing the same thing ourselves. OK, we don't state that anyone else is free to re-use them, but our standards are highe...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:04 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
You could stop blocking people for going after copyright violators.rd232 wrote:But on to the real issue: what can Commons actually practically do to reduce the problem that will actually make a big difference to the level of bad uploads to Commons?
- Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:31 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2355
Re: Cimeg1984: a Common(s) thief?
I see this routinely. Now for the incisive question: how many Commons users do this routinely? No one knows. One can also send a scan of an old print to OTRS. Fæ will then verify that it is a free file, Fastily will close the deletion request and put his stamp of approval on the tag that says that ...
- Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:30 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Plastic surgery advertisements on Wikipedia
- Replies: 4
- Views: 374
Re: Plastic surgery advertisements on Wikipedia
Seems like the "Mommy makeover" doctor was clearing his patient photos through OTRS . The plot thickens? The source was indicated as http://www.sanfranciscocosmetic-surgery.com/PHOTOList.asp?photo=Mommy+Makeover&c=862 . So the claim of "own work" would need to be confirmed by e-mail from the domain...
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:10 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: About being a software engineer for the Foundation
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1158
Re: About being a software engineer for the Foundation
If Brandon was working 18 hour days during the SOPA blackout, that to me mainly suggests that he and his compatriots are incompetent, because there's no reason why that blackout action should have required that many man-hours to implement and maintain. Probably the technical people used the blackou...
- Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:08 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Giraffes don't heart "comprised of"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1040
Re: Giraffes don't heart "comprised of"
When my students write "comprised of" it is a certain sign of plagiarizing the patent literature.Sweet Revenge wrote:I would totally agree with all y'all about the utility, except for the fact that "comprised of" is not actually wrong in any sense.
- Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:58 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Misogyny in German
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4206
Misogyny in German
I see this because Sue Gardner posted a link to Andreas Kemper . Apparently, ejaculations from Commons were posted on the user page of a female contributor: Zu dieser Kampagne gehören permanente feige Angriffe auf ihrer Benutzerinnen-Seite. “Zieh dich aus, Kleine” mit Bildern von Ejakulationen wurde...
- Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:00 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: About being a software engineer for the Foundation
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1158
About being a software engineer for the Foundation
http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Are-Wikipedia-software-development-engineers-of-the-caliber-that-could-work-as-SDEs-at-Google-Facebook-Amazon-etc The question is mostly about perks and about colleagues. What about resources and management? The answers are mostly about the goodness of the cause and a...
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 1:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jew tagging and gay tagging illegal in France
- Replies: 6
- Views: 551
Re: Jew tagging and gay tagging illegal in France
Someone has quoted the article on wikien-l and asked the question: "Under the French penal code, stocking personal details including race, sexuality, political leanings or religious affiliation is punishable by five-year prison sentences and fines of up to euro300,000 ($411,000)." — http://www.huff...
- Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:21 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Definition of Sockpuppetry
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1725
Re: Definition of Sockpuppetry
They could easily ban IP-address editing, and millions of abuses would end. But of course, they won't do that. One must be logged in to upload images. This does not make much of a difference. There are lots of accounts with only a single upload, and quite often those are copyright violations. One c...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:03 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Commons is broken
- Replies: 167
- Views: 10022
Re: Commons is broken
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.ph ... d=69419426
I had made this deletion request of two files. Jameslwoodward forgot to delete the second one. Now someone removes the DR tag with the argument that I am blocked. Strange people.
I had made this deletion request of two files. Jameslwoodward forgot to delete the second one. Now someone removes the DR tag with the argument that I am blocked. Strange people.
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:38 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: That silly Fastily
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1674
Re: That silly Fastily
What if it is outside their shitty scope? Deleting it saves not a fucking single byte of server space because it isn't wiped off the server, merely makes it invisible. I don't think even an oversighter can wipe it. Indeed. So Fastily uploading loads of video from his dorm room window and then delet...
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:18 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: That silly Fastily
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1674
Re: That silly Fastily
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commo ... 0715p9.jpg
Either he is lying, or (more likely) he does not get irony/sarcasm.Fastily wrote:... reusers (whom I frequently receive thank you emails from!)
- Sun Aug 05, 2012 9:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation Inc loses Loriot stamps case in Germany
- Replies: 66
- Views: 3815
Re: Wikimedia Foundation Inc loses Loriot stamps case in Ger
i) Obviously the enforcement of the rules is imperfect. But you were basically saying that the rules only respect US law; this is not true. Someone did not seem to care about Turkish law: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Template:PD-Ottoman_Empire And as so often, the adm...
- Sun Aug 05, 2012 9:44 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Image filter resolution rescinded
- Replies: 41
- Views: 12984
Re: Image filter resolution rescinded
It's been a long time since I've heard Jimmy Wales speak so clearly and correctly about a subject: Too bad he's rather powerless now against the Board and the "community". "It is not that difficult to do". That is correct, it may already be possible, with some javascript "gadget" in one's settings....
- Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikimedia Foundation Inc loses Loriot stamps case in Germany
- Replies: 66
- Views: 3815
Re: Wikimedia Foundation Inc loses Loriot stamps case in Ger
Here's a thought. Why don't the two of you take 200 random photos from Commons, and figure out if they are licensed properly or not, and if they were "flickr-washed"? 200 is a pretty good-sized sample, it would only take a couple of days. Or are you afraid of what the results might be? Loads of pho...
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:04 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Unreferenced BLPs, on Examiner
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1618
Re: Unreferenced BLPs, on Examiner
Does it matter if there are references? For example, do the 55 references in Jacob Truedson Demitz matter? Most of those seem to be press clippings collected in subject's own scrapbook. Or to blogsites written by subject.thekohser wrote:I wrote just a short piece on unreferenced BLPs on Examiner.