Wikimedia-l January 2008

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: 18.1831, All: Call for Participation: Wikipedia Volunteers
by GerardM 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Hoi, I have asked and received permission to forward to you all this most excellent bit of news. The linguist list, is a most excellent resource for people interested in the field of linguistics. As I mentioned some time ago they have had a funding drive and in that funding drive they asked for a certain amount of money in a given amount of days and they would then have a project on Wikipedia to learn what needs doing to get better coverage for the field of linguistics. What you will read in this mail that the total community of linguists are asked to cooperate. I am really thrilled as it will also get us more linguists interested in what we do. My hope is that a fraction will be interested in the languages that they care for and help it become more relevant. As a member of the "language prevention committee", I love to get more knowledgeable people involved in our smaller projects. If it means that we get more requests for more projects we will really feel embarrassed with all the new projects we will have to approve because of the quality of the Incubator content and the quality of the linguistic arguments why we should approve yet another language :) NB Is this not a really clever way of raising money; give us this much in this time frame and we will then do this as a bonus... Thanks, GerardM ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LINGUIST Network <linguist(a)linguistlist.org> Date: Jun 18, 2007 6:53 PM Subject: 18.1831, All: Call for Participation: Wikipedia Volunteers To: LINGUIST(a)listserv.linguistlist.org LINGUIST List: Vol-18-1831. Mon Jun 18 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875. Subject: 18.1831, All: Call for Participation: Wikipedia Volunteers Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar(a)linguistlist.org> Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry(a)linguistlist.org> Reviews: Laura Welcher, Rosetta Project <reviews(a)linguistlist.org> Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: Ann Sawyer <sawyer(a)linguistlist.org> ================================================================ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html ===========================Directory============================== 1) Date: 18-Jun-2007 From: Hannah Morales < hannah(a)linguistlist.org > Subject: Wikipedia Volunteers -------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:49:35 From: Hannah Morales < hannah(a)linguistlist.org > Subject: Wikipedia Volunteers Dear subscribers, As you may recall, one of our Fund Drive 2007 campaigns was called the "Wikipedia Update Vote." We asked our viewers to consider earmarking their donations to organize an update project on linguistics entries in the English-language Wikipedia. You can find more background information on this at: http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/wikipedia/index.cfm. The speed with which we met our goal, thanks to the interest and generosity of our readers, was a sure sign that the linguistics community was enthusiastic about the idea. Now that summer is upon us, and some of you may have a bit more leisure time, we are hoping that you will be able to help us get started on the Wikipedia project. The LINGUIST List's role in this project is a purely organizational one. We will: *Help, with your input, to identify major gaps in the Wikipedia materials or pages that need improvement; *Compile a list of linguistics pages that Wikipedia editors have identified as "in need of attention from an expert on the subject" or " does not cite any references or sources," etc; *Send out periodical calls for volunteer contributors on specific topics or articles; *Provide simple instructions on how to upload your entries into Wikipedia; *Keep track of our project Wikipedians; *Keep track of revisions and new entries; *Work with Wikimedia Foundation to publicize the linguistics community's efforts. We hope you are as enthusiastic about this effort as we are. Just to help us all get started looking at Wikipedia more critically, and to easily identify an area needing improvement, we suggest that you take a look at the List of Linguists page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguists. M Many people are not listed there; others need to have more facts and information added. If you would like to participate in this exciting update effort, please respond by sending an email to LINGUIST Editor Hannah Morales at hannah(a)linguistlist.org, suggesting what your role might be or which linguistics entries you feel should be updated or added. Some linguists who saw our campaign on the Internet have already written us with specific suggestions, which we will share with you soon. This update project will take major time and effort on all our parts. The end result will be a much richer internet resource of information on the breadth and depth of the field of linguistics. Our efforts should also stimulate prospective students to consider studying linguistics and to educate a wider public on what we do. Please consider participating. Sincerely, Hannah Morales Editor, Wikipedia Update Project Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable ----------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-18-1831

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[Foundation-l] Top posters
by Robert Rohde 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

On Jan 8, 2008 6:19 AM, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote: > <snip> > Forgive me if some of this is retreading old ground, but I've over 50 > messages for this list since yesterday. Can we have a rerun (or a January > run) of the top poster stats? I was 2nd last time and felt embarrassed > despite having thought most of what I wrote was close to the topic in > question. > > Posts in December to Foundation-l 1 Thomas Dalton - 123 2 Anthony - 70 3 Andrew Whitworth - 64 4 David Gerard - 48 5 Florence Devouard - 47 6 Brian McNeil - 43 7 Nathan Awrich - 36 8 Ray Saintonge - 33 T9 GerardM - 32 T9 Mike Godwin - 32 T9 Erik Moeller - 32 -Robert Rohde

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[Foundation-l] Querylogs and accesslogs
by Antonio Gulli 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hi, are this information accessible for an academic research paper? Thank you

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[Foundation-l] [OT] Four tildes
by Gatto Nero 27 Apr '08

27 Apr '08

Wikimedia Italia made some funny pins with four tildes... :p http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Immagine:Spilla_8_copy.jpg

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt
by David Strauss 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

phoebe ayers wrote: > On 10/9/07, David Strauss <david(a)fourkitchens.com> wrote: >> Cary Bass wrote: >>> The Jury for Wikimania 2008 bids have met and are pleased to announce >>> that Wikimania 2008 will be held in Alexandria, Egypt. >> I'm offended that the desire to have Wikimania hop around the globe >> (rotation) trumps the egregious history Egypt has with LGBT and other >> civil rights (local laws). While visitors to Egypt are certainly not at >> the same risk, I refuse to spend any money in a country that -- as >> recently as 2004 -- sentenced someone to 17 years of prison and two >> years of hard labor for posting a personal ad on a gay website[1]. A >> blogger was imprisoned in 2007 for four years for "insulting Islam and >> defaming the President of Egypt."[2] Jimmy Wales even attended the >> Amnesty conference denouncing the censorship. No legal or cultural >> reforms since give me confidence that the situation has improved. >> >> Wikimedia and its projects have an abundance of people from marginalized >> groups and political advocacy organizations participating at every >> level. A place that persecutes, censors, and prosecutes such groups >> under the banner of snuffing out "Satanism" is not a location that >> affirms the pluralism and intellectual freedom of Wikimedia. >> >> People raised these objections early in the bidding process, but I have > > As a jury member, I do not remember any comments from you on this > subject, David; perhaps I missed them. At any rate, what are you > trying to accomplish by sending this message after the winner was > announced, and not before when we were discussing the bids? Other people raised these objections during the bidding process; I didn't have to. Even if no one had brought the issue up, everyone on the voting team should have been aware enough of the problems to them under consideration without further prompting. I thought it was a foregone conclusion that Egypt's human rights record would cripple the bid enough that it wouldn't win. > Wikimania and Wikimedia are both global in scope, which means that > while we can condemn censorship and loss of human rights everywhere So the "condemnation" amounts to docking a modest number of points for "local laws"? > we must also take into account a global range of values. What is this supposed to mean? How can we balance condemnation with toleration? > Our projects > focus specifically on free knowledge, and I expect that will be > highlighted at the conference. Even putting gay rights aside, Egypt's record of imprisoning political and religious dissidents is directly counter to affirming "free knowledge."

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[Foundation-l] Our values
by Florence Devouard 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

(for those not willing to read a long email, just jump at the end of it to read the 6 proposed values) -------- I would like to propose to the board to finalize (-> approve) the values of Wikimedia Foundation. What is it about ? It would be a collection of common words or ideas which reflects what is important to us, as an organization. It comes on top of * the vision tagline, which is our bold goal * the mission statements, which describe what the organization is doing to reach its goal The values represent the principles we share together What is the difference with the Wikipedia pillars ? The values I am talking about are the *organization* (WMF) values, not the projects values. Obviously, many values will be shared, but not necessarily all of them. For example, Wikipedia has NPOV as a pillar, the Wikimedia Foundation does not have NPOV as a pillar. What is the difference between "vision", "mission" and "values" ? Imagine you are a WMF staff member, you are at a dinner with your grand-mother and she asks "so tell me about your job, is it interesting ? do you have to wear a suit ?" Your answer might be "eh, we want to give access to information to every one in the world (vision). So, to make that happen, we host some freely accessible internet web sites where people can add information (mission). My own job is to make sure we have enough cash to operate, so I raise money from people and companies (my job). What is real cool is that I am not the only one doing that, but many volunteers from all over the world help as well; sometimes it is not easy, because I need to keep them informed a lot of what I am doing even though they are not my boss. Also, it is very important to us to stay independant, so I have to find funds from various sources. It makes things more complicated, but it is super exciting ! As for the suit, the team is very geek like, very diverse set, most have already been living in other countries. So, as long as we are clean and careful not to hurt anyone sensitivities, no need to wear a suit on a daily basis !" (values) Why do we need that ? Some of you would consider that unnecessary. I would respectfully disagree :-) There are two main reasons we should have these values written down, one is related to "branding" (public perception of our uniqueness), the other to "management" (training of our staff members). It is important that "outsiders" (donors, partners, governments, civil society...) understand what is important to us, what is welcome and what is non negotiable. Donors will give us money more easily if they know what is important to us, and actually agree with our values. Potential partners will not lose our valuable time and their valuable time proposing proprietary software deals if they know it is a deal-breaker for us. Wikipedia in particular, currently enjoys very much support because it is clearly identified as a brand. Other Wikimedia projects are not as well clearly identified yet (there are still people wondering what Wikiversity exactly is about for example). During the past year, the WMF motto has been "we are a non profit", and still many people think it is a business company. People do not approach a non-profit and a for-profit in the same way. In any cases, most people have no idea of the existence of WMF, and when they do think about organization, they believe we have 10.000 employees somewhere in the Silicon Valley, and open big round shocked eyes when they learn the truth. There are also beliefs that, as a web 2.0 company, every one can do whatever they want on the websites, and no one is responsible. We should kill such an idea in the egg, and make sure that the common view becomes that thriving to quality is one of our major motto. Values are not only what make us stick together, but also general guidelines for what we want to become, what we are really trying hard to do, and what we want to be known as specific about us. Which is also why it is important to management. The bottom line concept is that the staff is ultimately trying to achieve the VISION, thanks to operational activity (the MISSION), and deep respect of the VALUES. The put it bluntly: no decision should be made that could hurt the values. Any time a decision is on the plate, the staff and volunteers should keep in mind "does it go along with our values, or against our values ?" Example: It seems that past and recent discussions show how important it was for the community that our entire projects be build upon free software, using free format and free standards. It goes beyond the simple notion of creating freely-licenced content, as described in the mission statement. Whilst supporting, defending, developing, the free mouvement is NOT our goal, nor even within our mission, it seems to be an important value to most of us. Hence, the very notion of listing our support to freedom is a VALUE, which has been clarified in a recent resolution. As a value, anytime the staff is thinking of making a deal with a partner, it should ask himself, "is that all right with the freedom value" ? If it is not, no deal. Period. Other values have other impacts. When we talked to Sue last summer before hiring her, we made super clear that it was super important to us to hire staff with international awareness (either non US staff, or US staff having lived outside of the US, or at a minimum, US staff being multilingual). Sue has been extremely careful to take such guidelines into account, and all recently hired staff is in one way or another, respecting these guidelines. Practically, if a staff member was at some point voicing such opinion that "non US people are jerks", I would consider that ground for being fired. --------- Last summer, the board + advisory board brainstormed together over our values. We further discussed the issue on this list, as well as here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Values I have been thinking over it in the past few weeks, and here is the result of my list. * Community * Diversity * Quality of service * Transparency * Freedom * Independance Text is rough draft for now Our community is our biggest asset We are a community-based organization. We must operate with a mix of staff members, and of volunteers, working together to achieve our mission. We support community-led collaborative projects, and must respect the work and the ideas of our community. We must listen and take into account our communities in any decisions taken to achieve our mission. Commitment to openness and diversity Though US-based, the organization is international in its nature. Our board of trustees, staff members, and volunteers are involved without discrimination based on their religion, political beliefs, sexual preferences, nationalities etc... Not only do we accept diversity, but we actually look forward to it. Quality of service is a priority We will try our best to give access to high quality Wikimedia project content 24 hours a day and 7 days, as well as provide access to regularly updated, user-friendly, and free dumps of Wikimedia project content. To insure world-wide, unrestricted, dissemination of knowledge, we do not enter into exclusive partnerships, with regards to access to our content or use of our trademarks. Freedom We make extra efforts to use only free software on our own servers, and to support open and patent-free media formats that are viewable and editable with free software. Transparency We must communicate Wikimedia Foundation information in a transparent, thorough and timely manner, to our communities and more generally, to the public. Independance As a non-profit, we mostly depend on gifts to operate (donations, grants, sponsorship etc...). It is very important to us to ensure our organization stays free of influence in the way it operates. For this reason, we strictly follow a donation policy, reserve the right to refuse donations from a limited number of sources, and try to multiply the number of sources. ---------- are they comments at this point ? Sorry for the verrrry long email :-) Ant

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[Foundation-l] Wikipedia songs
by Erik Moeller 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Our IT manager, Rob Halsell, came over to San Francisco this weekend to set up the phones in the new Wikimedia Foundation offices. We're switching to an open source telephony solution based on Asterisk. Obviously, every phone system needs "on hold" music. So far, we are using "The RfA Candidate's Song" by User:Bucketsofg. If you want to shoot to international fame by having your own Wikipedia-related song used while people are waiting for someone to answer their call, this is your chance. ;-) Feel free to add new free content songs to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Song (Meta would also be a good place to organize this.) And no, this post is not indicative of our current priorities. :-) Things have been quite hectic and busy as we're setting up and starting to use our new space. We'll continue to update http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/offices with pictures, and a detailed report of recent Foundation activities will be forthcoming shortly. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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[Foundation-l] Oct 22 to January 3 Fundraising Report
by Erik Moeller 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

All - I've completed a report on our most recent fundraiser: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Report Thanks to everyone who contributed, directly or indirectly. If you spot errors or misinterpretations, please do correct them or leave a note on the talk page. I'll also try to answer any questions you may have. Best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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[Foundation-l] Report to the Board: December 23 to January 29
by Sue Gardner 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

You may know that I send regular reports to the Wikimedia board. Starting this month, I'm going to experiment with sending them here as well. Why am I doing this? I generally want the work of the staff to be visible & transparent to anyone who's interested. I don't see a really compelling reason _not_ to send the reports to foundation-l, and I'm assuming people here will appreciate being kept in the loop. The arguments against it: It means I'll need to strip out from the reports anything confidential - but this would mostly just be information related to individuals, so I don't expect it to be much work. I am a little leery it will stimulate long time-consuming conversations with members of the staff, so I'd ask you to try to respect that the staff needs to spend the majority of its time working, rather than talking about its work :-) And, I won't be customizing or reworking the content of the report - which means, for example, that some links may not be accessible to everyone (e.g., on the office wiki). I'd like to try this out for a couple of months and see what happens. Let me know if you find it helpful :-) Thanks, Sue Weeks of: December 23 – January 29, 2008 Prepared by: Sue Gardner, Executive Director Prepared for: Wikimedia Board of Trustees Current priorities: 1. Establishing the new SF headquarters, including orientation of new staff 2. Planning major donor dinner & Wikimedia welcome party (both early March) 3. Financial reporting and audit wrap-up 4. Bits and pieces (Kennisnet, further hires, partnerships, etc.) Starting soon: 1. Davos follow-up Recent weeks New San Francisco headquarters: Although it is still very much a work in progress, the San Francisco office has been up and running since Wednesday, January 23. Most furniture has been delivered and set up, and the new VOIP phone system is working, with calls now going to San Francisco rather than St. Petersburg. Our mailing address: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 78350, San Francisco, CA 94107-8350 Our phone number: 415 839 6885 We are planning a welcome-to-San Francisco party for ourselves, likely at the beginning of March. (The date is not yet locked down.) Invitations will be sent to board and advisory board members, in case anyone happens to be in the Bay Area, as well as to the Wikimedia San Francisco mailing list, our friends at like-minded organizations, etc. If you have people you would like to see invited, please e-mail me or add them here http://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Welcome_Party. Staffing: * Veronique Kessler will be our new CFOO, starting February 4. Veronique joins us from the non-profit Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, where she was Director of Finance and, before that, Controller. Prior to JCCSF, she has 15 years of managerial/financial experience with a wide variety of organizations, including Stanford University, brokerage firm Charles Schwab, the venture capital and investment firm Berkeley International Capital Corporation, the Walden International Investment Group, The Fremont Group, Wells Fargo bank, and Deloitte & Touche. She is a CPA (certified public accountant) with lots of international experience, who speaks and writes French. Veronique is just returning from maternity leave and is spending this week wrapping up some work at the JCCSF: for most of February, she will be with us only three days per week. Her top priorities, in the beginning, will likely include: 1., hiring the fundraiser and the accountant, 2., ensuring the relocation basics are okay (e.g., payroll is undisrupted, bank accounts set up, etc.), and 3., getting to know her direct reports, Kul, Cheryl, Erica and Oleta, and the areas they are responsible for. * The Foundation has begun advertising to hire a software developer / IT support person http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Software_Developer_/_IT_Su…. This is a relatively-junior position, based in the San Francisco office. The advertisement has been sent to various mailing lists, and will remain open until February 15. Please feel free to send it around. * We plan to announce the head of development in February, and the new accountant in March. For the time being, the position of head of partnerships is on hold. (You may recall: this is partly a financial decision and partly a “letting the team shake out before filling the final position” decision.) * Recapping the rest of us: Mike Godwin begins work in the San Francisco office January 30. Jay Walsh, the new head of communications, started January 10. Kul Takanao Wadhwa, the new head of business development, started January 3. Erik Möller, deputy director, started December 31. Erica Ortega and Cheryl Owens (formerly Steffen) have been on the job as, respectively, office manager and PA, since December 10. Brion Vibber (CTO) and Cary Bass (Volunteer Coordinator) arrived from St Petersburg in December. Delphine Menard, Mark Bergsma and Tim Starling continue to work normally from, respectively, Frankfurt, Eindhoven and Sydney. We expect to be fully staffed by the end of March. * We will be having a two-day staff orientation event with facilitator Pat Hughes, February 11 and 12. You can see the agenda in development, here http://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planner/February_2008_Orientation_Meeting. Fundraiser: We've created a postmortem/summary report covering the 2007 fundraiser, which ran from October 23 to January 3. In total, the fundraiser brought the Wikimedia Foundation more than 45,000 donations totaling USD 2,112,251.73 (unaudited figures). This includes a contribution of USD 500,000, stock valued at USD 49,768, and a donation of USD 10,000. The amount raised in the 07-08 fundraiser, compared with 06-07 which raised just over USD 1 million, overperforms the traffic increase of that same period. This is likely because the 07-08 fundraiser ran significantly longer, initially picking up more slowly, but sustaining donation growth better than the 06-07 fundraiser. In addition, this fundraiser saw the most significant participation thus far from the Wikimedia chapters, with active participation from Germany, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and Poland. Wikimedia Germany's participation enabled it to purchase 15 servers for the Amsterdam cluster: in the end, the German chapter will contribute to the Foundation a total of approximately EUR 70K worth of goods and services (the chapter will retain ownership of any purchased equipment). Also, the Swiss chapter has made a contribution of CHF 5K. Many thanks to the chapters :-) The report makes a series of recommendations for the next fundraiser, including: 1., Change the sitenotice regularly to avoid 'banner blindness'; 2., continuing to refine the Media-Wiki-based landing page; 3., improve donor thanking; 4., improve reporting and data capture; 5., enable recurring donations; 6., encourage community fundraising efforts with network effects; 7., begin planning earlier. The full report is here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Notes. Major donor dinner: As you know, we've been on a tour of potential major donors. We continue to follow up individually, and are also beginning to plan a dinner, which will likely take place in early March. It won't be extravagant – we just want to bring together ten or so interesting philanthropists to the San Francisco office, to talk about Wikimedia's goals and plans. Audit: The audited 2006-07 financial statements have been released by the audit committee to the board. Once they are approved, we will release them publicly. We owe a huge debt of thanks to the staff, particularly Oleta McHenry, who worked long hours to get the audit completed. Also: * We announced a partnership with the Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-MERIT to conduct the first-ever comprehensive Wikimedia survey. * We announced a beta program with Kaltura and WikiEducator to allow users to collaboratively edit video and other forms of rich media. * We signed the contract launching the PediaPress wiki-to-print project. * We deployed new parser code that makes wiki syntax more consistent and scalable. * We established peering arrangements with several new networks to reduce the cost of traffic. In coming weeks: * The audited 2006-07 financial statements will be released publicly once approved by the board. * The board is also expected to approve the credit card usage policy January 31. The final two “check cards” were retired last week, and Foundation credit cards have arrived and are in use by a few staffers. * As planned, 2007-08 financial statements will be released to the board February 1. This will include a statement of cash flow, balance sheet, income statement, overall comparison of budget-to-actuals plus some detail, and a cash flow projection for the remainder of FY 2007-08. This package will also include a text summary of the year so far. * The head of development will be announced in February, and the accountant in March. We will also soon begin interviewing software developers. * There will be a two-day staff orientation February 11 and 12. * We continue to explore consortium options in Amsterdam and have rescheduled our meeting with Kennisnet for end of February. * There will be a welcome-to-SF party, and a major donor dinner, in early March. The St Petersburg office will shut down Thursday, January 31, and at that point, we will say goodbye to Barbara Brown (office manager), Sandy Ordonez (head of communications) and Vishal Patel (business development). Our accountant Oleta McHenry will be with us until the end of March, and Rob Halsell will remain as server tech out of Tampa. I want to convey the organization's deep gratitude to the entire staff who worked for us in St. Petersburg: Barbara, Sandy, Vishal, Oleta, Rob, Cary and Brion. It was not an easy year: thank you for sticking it out. We owe you, and we know it :-)

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism?
by David Gerard 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

I've just sent this to wikitech-l, but what I'm proposing is a *big* hammer, so needs lots of due consideration. Please pick holes in the idea. - d. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> Date: 31 Jan 2008 10:18 Subject: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism? To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Discussions on the checkuser list (which is Wikimedia-wide) suggest that an all-project blocking mechanism would be very useful in keeping our more persistent vandals from hopping from project to project, wreaking havoc. This happens quite a bit. A variant of Wikia's regex block would be a likely candidate for a useful implementation. One detail it would need (in some coder's Copious Free Time) would be an option to unblock a globally-blocked IP or range locally. (One use case would be a local ISP which has several good editors from a small project, but has open proxies or similar that are a source of vandalism on many other projects.) Presumably such a global block would only be available to stewards, on due consideration. Before anyone starts coding - what are the devs' thoughts on a global blocking mechanism? What could go badly wrong? - d.

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