Re: [Foundation-l] The end of donations

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:52 PM, stevertigo wrote: > Interesting points. And yes, accepting government or institutional > money would probably come with conditions like improving overall > article quality, and maybe even getting rid of our "fetish" and other > destructive-sexuality / pro-depravity

[Foundation-l] new LSS

New list summary: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_July_16-31 by request, I added links to gmane to this version as well as to our own list archives. Please let me know if this is useful -- I'm happy to do it, but it takes twice as long! regards, Phoebe -- * I use t

Re: [Foundation-l] Stevertigo

Hoi. Please consider a topic that matters. Navel gazing and fault finding are hardly of a general interest. Thanks. GerardM 2009/8/3 stevertigo > Actually youre not right about it Mark. I tried sending a different > titled message about the block and that returned a mod bounce also. Im >

Re: [Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Andrew Gray wrote: >> 2009/8/1 John Vandenberg: >> >>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >>> Also... *A wiki for book metadata, with an entry for every published work, statistics about its use and siblings, and

Re: [Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

I could see this happening on Wikisource. I mention it as another project because it would eventually involve importing and organizing freely available metadata on roughly ten million books, and defining a style guide for helping organizing citations and comments about each as a source -- very dif

Re: [Foundation-l] Stevertigo

Actually youre not right about it Mark. I tried sending a different titled message about the block and that returned a mod bounce also. Im no computer scientist but a name block not a killfile appears to have been the actual process used. Im not going to want to continue this thread any further.

Re: [Foundation-l] UNESCO "Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace"

( aside : we've got to convince UNESCO to follow the UNEP's lead and make their whitepapers available under a properly free license. -SJ ) On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Brianna Laugher wrote: > Hi, > > I just found out from the Open Source Business Report > () that UNESCO h

Re: [Foundation-l] presentations and marketing @ events

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: Thanks, Guillom. >> Is there someplace other than [[Presentations]] and [[Posters]] where >> people are expected to share new media? > > No. But these pages are not publicised a lot. True. They need a set of navigation links, for one. >>

Re: [Foundation-l] EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 31 Number: 113

Addendum to Wikizine 113: Bigipedia episode 1 is not longer available on the BBC website. Episode 2 is available. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lszrc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigipedia ___ To unsubscribe; mailto:requ...@wikizine.org?subject=uns

Re: [Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

Andrew Gray wrote: > 2009/8/1 John Vandenberg: > >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> >>> Also... >>> *A wiki for book metadata, with an entry for every published work, >>> statistics about its use and siblings, and discussion about its >>> usefulness as a citation (a c

[Foundation-l] UNESCO "Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace"

Hi, I just found out from the Open Source Business Report () that UNESCO has published a report called "Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace". It's licensed CC-BY-NC-SA and available for download:

Re: [Foundation-l] presentations and marketing @ events

> Hopefully the bookshelf project will come up with some shiny fliers > etc. that can be used for events, but in the meantime we *really* need > a nice-looking one page overview about the projects to hand out -- any > graphic designers up for this? And of course a new press kit too > (there must be

Re: [Foundation-l] presentations and marketing @ events

Hello, On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > [[Presentations]]:  Are there any modern lists of speakers about the > projects simiar to > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presentations/speakers ? Not to my knowledge. > Is there someplace other than [[Presentations]] and [[Posters]]