Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-08 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Marc Riddell wrote: > > Thank you, all, for this. This resolution is great news; and a great > commitment of support for the Wikipedia Project, as well as for the > individual Community Members who are at the heart of it. That's welcome feedback, Marc. Half of the

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-08 Thread Marc Riddell
on 4/8/11 3:35 PM, Ting Chen at tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: > Dear community, > > on the IRC board meeting at April 8th 2011 the board approved > unanimously the following resolution: > > > > We, the Wikimedia Foundation Board, believe that the continued health of > our project communities is c

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-08 Thread Phil Nash
Fred Bauder wrote: >> While I am all about openness and journalism, I had a recent incident >> which made me re-think something on these lines. >> I had a few years back, started creating an open visible >> search-indexed index to ArbCom proceedings. >> Some editors however edit using their real na

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-08 Thread Fred Bauder
> While I am all about openness and journalism, I had a recent incident > which made me re-think something on these lines. > I had a few years back, started creating an open visible search-indexed > index to ArbCom proceedings. > Some editors however edit using their real names, not something I wou

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-08 Thread Wjhonson
While I am all about openness and journalism, I had a recent incident which made me re-think something on these lines. I had a few years back, started creating an open visible search-indexed index to ArbCom proceedings. Some editors however edit using their real names, not something I would nece

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Wikimedia Education List

2011-04-08 Thread Samuel Klein
Excellent. Thanks Jan-Bart, Cormac and Lourie for getting it started.--SJ On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > Hi All, > > We would like to take this opportunity to announce the new Wikimedia > Education list. During the past Wikimania conferences we seen incredible

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Wikimedia Education List

2011-04-08 Thread Isabell Long
Hi, On 8 Apr 2011, at 20:12, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > We would like to take this opportunity to announce the new Wikimedia > Education list. Sounds good! I'm now subscribed. :-) Isabell. (ENWP User:Issyl0) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-08 Thread Dror Kamir
Hello, This resolution is a very positive step. I hope we will soon be updated about practical steps to implement it. Two such practical steps that are easy to implement and would make a significant difference, in my opinion: (1) Administrators' decisions about bans, sanctions etc. should be m

[Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-08 Thread Ting Chen
Dear community, on the IRC board meeting at April 8th 2011 the board approved unanimously the following resolution: We, the Wikimedia Foundation Board, believe that the continued health of our project communities is crucial to fulfilling our mission. The Wikimedia projects are founded in the

[Foundation-l] Announcing Wikimedia Education List

2011-04-08 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hi All, We would like to take this opportunity to announce the new Wikimedia Education list. During the past Wikimania conferences we seen incredible examples of educational use of Wikimedia Projects or Content. During the recent chapter conference in Berlin we saw some more. These are often no

[Foundation-l] A History of the World in 100 Seconds (according to Wikipedia)

2011-04-08 Thread Achal Prabhala
This visualization - 'A History of the World in 100 Seconds' - is fascinating. And instructive. (The missing byline is that it's a history of the world according to Wikipedia). Apologies for cross-posting and/or if you've seen it before - it seems to have been made about 2 months ago. From the m