Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-13 Thread Andre Engels
My opinion on this is clear: Commons should welcome both photographs and pictures. Whether a project shows a picture or a photograph should be the project's decision, not that of Commons. Some may prefer one, others the other. Sexuality is in scope on Wikimedia projects, so its images are in scope

Re: [Foundation-l] commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-13 Thread David Goodman
This is not a photograph of sexual activity , but the after-effects of sexual activity. A photograph is clearer about the nature of it than any drawing could be. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:03 AM, private musings wrote: >

[Foundation-l] commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-13 Thread private musings
g'day all, There's an interesting deletion discussion taking place here; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Sexuality_pearl_necklace_small.png concerning an image of a woman with sperm on her neck. To my mind it's very doubtful that this is in fact a freely licensed

Re: [Foundation-l] 2007 Form 990 Now Posted

2009-05-13 Thread Brian
Where is the Foundation's public yearly calendar anyway? It would at least be useful for everyone to see what and when the Foundation should be handling certain responsibilities. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/5/13 Robert Rohde : > > As it is, this is being released

Re: [Foundation-l] 2007 Form 990 Now Posted

2009-05-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/13 Robert Rohde : > As it is, this is being released more than 10 months after the end of > the fiscal year which is rather a lot. Indeed. Normally waiting a while for this kind of stuff doesn't matter, but an organisation like WMF is moving so quickly that it's pretty much irrelevant publi

Re: [Foundation-l] 2007 Form 990 Now Posted

2009-05-13 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Veronique Kessler wrote: > Dear All, > > Please note that the 2007 Form 990 which covers fiscal year July 1, 2007 > through June 30, 2008 has been posted to the Wikimedia Foundation > website at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_2008_Form_990.pdf > > A

Re: [Foundation-l] 2007 Form 990 Now Posted

2009-05-13 Thread geni
2009/5/13 Veronique Kessler : > Dear All, > > Please note that the 2007 Form 990 which covers fiscal year July 1, 2007 > through June 30, 2008 has been posted to the Wikimedia Foundation > website at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_2008_Form_990.pdf > > Also posted are questions and a

[Foundation-l] 2007 Form 990 Now Posted

2009-05-13 Thread Veronique Kessler
Dear All, Please note that the 2007 Form 990 which covers fiscal year July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008 has been posted to the Wikimedia Foundation website at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_2008_Form_990.pdf Also posted are questions and answers which can be found at: http://wi

Re: [Foundation-l] bureaucrats - best practices?

2009-05-13 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to invite the interested people to submit some best practices from > their communities about the bureaucrat procedures. Please let me know what > works well and what not. Appointment, removal, rules of use of the bit. > > Than

[Foundation-l] bureaucrats - best practices?

2009-05-13 Thread Lodewijk
Hi all, I'd like to invite the interested people to submit some best practices from their communities about the bureaucrat procedures. Please let me know what works well and what not. Appointment, removal, rules of use of the bit. Thanks a lot. Best, eia _

Re: [Foundation-l] Congratulations to Gdansk!

2009-05-13 Thread Aphaia
Congrats to the Polish team, and poor committee, it's always a tough decision but this year one seems one of toughest since ever. Thank you for everyone involved and hope to see you all in Gdansk next year. Again, congrats! On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Dedalus wrote: > Congratulations to the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum

2009-05-13 Thread Hay (Husky)
It's nice to see initatives like this spring up all over the world! Next month Wikimedia Nederland (together with Creative Commons NL) will organize a month-long 'wiki loves art' project in which 15 museums participate. -- Hay On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51 PM, emijrp wrote: > Really nice Patric

Re: [Foundation-l] Congratulations to Gdansk!

2009-05-13 Thread emijrp
Congratulations to all people involved on this bid! 2009/5/7 Kwan Ting Chan > Michael Bimmler wrote: > >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Domas Mituzas >> wrote: >> >>> Tomasz, >>> >>> To be able bring what captivates me on a daily basis back to the city I was born and grew up in ma

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum

2009-05-13 Thread emijrp
Really nice Patricio. Keep up the good work and tell us about those future events! 2009/5/13 Patricio Lorente > 2009/5/1 Pharos : > > I think this is a good idea too. > > > > You can make a pretty template for the images produced that both > > briefly explains the project and that also includes