[Foundation-l] Update on the Public Policy Initiative

2010-08-19 Thread LiAnna Davis
Hi all, I wanted to very quickly bring you up to speed on the work we're doing for Wikipedia in higher education through the Public Policy Initiative [1]. Today, we've announced the eight professors who will be participating in the Initiative this upcoming term. You can see the announcement in

Re: [Foundation-l] Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia?

2010-08-19 Thread Asaf Bartov
David put it well. Surely this is not the first time it happens. Indeed, some Hebrew Wikipedians have even approached that group in order to explain the principles of Wikipedia to them -- some would-be vandal-editors would be deterred, some would be won over, and some would nevertheless go on and

Re: [Foundation-l] Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia?

2010-08-19 Thread David Gerard
On 19 August 2010 10:10, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia? > See: > http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/the-right-s-latest-weapon-zionist-editing-on-wikipedia-1.308667 > any comments? It made the Guardian as well. Despite the media attention, I don't thin

[Foundation-l] Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia?

2010-08-19 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia? See: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/the-right-s-latest-weapon-zionist-editing-on-wikipedia-1.308667 any comments? Anyway, I checked the entry "Jewish family" in English Wikipedia and it is just a redir to "Judaism" which is IMHO (at least a

Re: [Foundation-l] Banner testing again

2010-08-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Philippe Beaudette, 19/08/2010 06:00: > Just a heads up that Thursday at 22:00 UTC (15:00 Pacific), we'll be > running some very light banner testing to make sure that the tools we > use for the fundraiser are fully optimized before we launch. We'll > also take the opportunity to do a little