Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread Michael Snow
On 8/28/2011 10:04 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael Snow wrote: >> On 8/28/2011 9:00 PM, Victor Vasiliev wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Nathanwrote: Which activities are these? >>> Copyright and internet law lobbying. >> This is incorrect.

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread Milos Rancic
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:03, Ray Saintonge wrote: > On 08/29/11 11:47 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> Sparrows [1], but Serbian Wikipedia article "sparrow" leads to >> "passer" and I am bad in flora and fauna terminology. >> >> Eating sparrows is one of the commons issues during the first phase of >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 08/29/11 11:47 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 13:18, Milos Rancic wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 13:04, David Gerard wrote: >>> But then, central planning is famous for its notable successes in economics. >> Fortunately, we wouldn't have to eat passers to make it clear ho

[Foundation-l] editor survey report

2011-08-29 Thread Mani Pande
Hey everyone, I wanted to share the final report from the Editor Survey. It is available as a PDF and in wiki format. You can find the links to the PDF and wiki report here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011 Here is the accompanying blog post on release of the report and data: h

[Foundation-l] Year: 2011 Week: 36 Number: 125

2011-08-29 Thread EN Wikizine
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Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 13:18, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 13:04, David Gerard wrote: >> But then, central planning is famous for its notable successes in economics. > > Fortunately, we wouldn't have to eat passers to make it clear how the > central planning is economically succ

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:04 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael Snow > wrote: > > On 8/28/2011 9:00 PM, Victor Vasiliev wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Nathan wrote: > >>> Which activities are these? > >> Copyright and internet law lobbying. > > T

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 13:04, David Gerard wrote: > But then, central planning is famous for its notable successes in economics. Fortunately, we wouldn't have to eat passers to make it clear how the central planning is economically successful. ___ fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 August 2011 11:51, Milos Rancic wrote: > That will make significant overload in WMF's processing capabilities. > Can't wait to see how WMF would analyze programs of any larger > chapter; and chapters tend to be larger and larger. Ultimately, that > will lead into even more delay in allocati

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:24, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> I don't see that as chapters' problem, but Foundation's. Chapters >> should present what do they want to do and if Foundation doesn't >> complain, then to do that. If WMF thinks that it

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > .. > > I don't see that as chapters' problem, but Foundation's. Chapters > should present what do they want to do and if Foundation doesn't > complain, then to do that. If WMF thinks that it is feasible to build > infrastructure for handling h

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:55, Lodewijk wrote: > John is unfortunately right. The (currently not publicly available as I > understand) draft includes clauses that require every chapter that receives > a grant to abide all US law, including but not exclusively US anti terrorism > laws and trade ban

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters

2011-08-29 Thread Lodewijk
John is unfortunately right. The (currently not publicly available as I understand) draft includes clauses that require every chapter that receives a grant to abide all US law, including but not exclusively US anti terrorism laws and trade bans (unless a court has ruled that... etc). This puts imho

[Foundation-l] Re : foundation-l Digest, Vol 89, Issue 76

2011-08-29 Thread Thierry Coudray
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Ray Saintonge > wrote: > > If the question is one of "minimum standards of accountability" the > WMF's first obligation would be to publish the standards which it > requires, presumably consistent with IFRS. Chapters incorporated within > particular juri

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-08-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Kim Bruning wrote: > I can still, today, as an anon, remove or add > images as I see fit. This is permitted and even encouraged, provided > that what I am doing is sane (And thus most likely meets consensus). > Tried it lately? pb ___ Philippe