Re: [Foundation-l] Ban and moderate

On 10/22/2010 09:27 AM, Muhammad Yahia wrote: > I wonder if the couple > of points he was making were even worth it, we do have people who are > capable of presenting criticism in a civil manner, so it's not about > 'opinion'. I believe WP:POINT and WP:GAME should apply to any medium we are > tryin

[Foundation-l] Announcing my departure from the Wikimedia Foundation

that I've been considering for many years. I have very much enjoyed my time with the Wikimedia Foundation, and I look forward to continuing to work alongside you all, as a Wikimedia volunteer. I enjoy working with each and every one of you. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator

Re: [Foundation-l] Private Wiki

On 7/20/2010 7:27 PM, James Heilman wrote: > Not sure were to ask this... > > A group of 20 of us from Wikiproject Medicine are working on a paper to > explain the usage of Wikipedia to the medical community. We were working on > it in Google documents but they have made some changes to their soft

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, [TODAY] was a relic of the email I copied this from :/ On 07/20/2010 11:31 AM, Cary Bass wrote: > (Note: This announcement is also an update to James Owen's prior email > announcing Sue would be doing office hours this Friday. T

[Foundation-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 22, featuring Sue Gardner

prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundati

[Foundation-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 15, featuring Frank Schulenburg & Pete Forsyth

k through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/

Re: [Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against "copyleft"

ght to the point, > where any holder *only* gets ten years. That's it. Ten years to > make your money then it's public domain. We can call it the "Knock > it off or else" proposal. > Ten years is an awfully short time[1]. [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Gmail - List messages flagged as spam

fished it out of their spam folder. So it's not just listmail and otrs; it's also mail coming from the Foundation's mailserver directly. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP

[Foundation-l] Office Hour for Friday, June 11, featuring Mike Godwin

slate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.w

Re: [Foundation-l] Volunteer translators needed for Vector rollout

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/2010 09:42 AM, Cary Bass wrote: > Languages still needing at least some work are: German, French, > Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Thanks > to Marco 27 for the work he put in on the Italian Wiki. Make tha

[Foundation-l] Volunteer translators needed for Vector rollout

olls over". Well, we understand and appreciate that--and even more reason to help out with putting a feedback page on your wiki, and permitting people who don't read or write English (or Italian :) ) to be able to provide their own comments about the Vector rollout. Thanks in advance for

[Foundation-l] Office hours tomorrow, Thursday April 22, 2009

ted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoun

Re: [Foundation-l] Chris Clayton

Alex "Mr.Z-man" wrote: > http://www roulette-casino-en-ligne.com/home.php > > > If it hasn't been said yet... someone's email got a trojan. Don't click. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http:

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010 Scholarship sign-up ending April 11

010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>, as well as find a link to the application page. Thanks! Cary Bass ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works from copyrighted sources.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:45 PM, wrote: >> In a message dated 3/31/2010 1:30:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >> jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes: >> >> >>> (e) use the Products in a manner that gives you or

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works from copyrighted sources.

that claiming copyright on a map > is "absurdity" is itself wrong. > > -Dan > If I'm not mistaken, the thread is not about the copyrightability of maps themselves, but the copyrightability of location data pertaining to digital maps, i.e. the very "non-pictoral fact compilations

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

> encyclopedia. If you want to play legal games or fight intellectual > property law reform fights, this may not be the project for you. > It's amazing that Swedish Wikipedia is fighting tooth and nail to get rid of the Wikipedia logo, while the English Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isabell Long wrote: > On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass wrote: >> The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend >> Wikimania 2010 <https://wm10schols.wikimedia.org/>in Gdansk, >> Poland (July 9-11)

[Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

kimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ Please share this announcement with your mailing lists. Thank you. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection: ready for more testing]

For anyone not following wikien-l. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hour for Thursday, February 25

gy process on Mediawiki. Sadly, because of a misunderstanding on my part, today's office hours were postponed until another to be decided date and time. As far as Tim is concerned, I'll ask him and tell him that there's some interest (if he doesn't see it here first!) - -- Ca

[Foundation-l] Office Hour for Thursday, February 25

ted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org

[Foundation-l] Call for Volunteers, Wikimania 2010 scholarships

ll these volunteer positions soon! Any questions may be presented to me directly at my email address. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wik

[Foundation-l] Office hours for Friday, February 12

to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubs

[Foundation-l] Office hours *right now* Thursday, February 4

e as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Suppo

[Foundation-l] Office hours tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27.

e feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

s far more commonly used to mean 1,000,000. "m" never means > 1,000 - it means 1/1,000 when used with the abbreviation of a unit, > but on its own it usually means 1,000,000 too. I beg to differ, Thomas. It may be an Americanism (I would have to find a source for that), but "M&qu

[Foundation-l] Office hours very shortly

kimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Fre

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 Jury announcement

are neutral aides and will not act as representatives. * James Forrester (Perennial Wikimania attendee) * Phoebe Ayers (Programme and Wikimania 2006 organisation) Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

[Foundation-l] Office hours Thursday, December 17

nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours next Friday, December 11

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hope my inability to send these out without one single mistake is amply entertaining. The day is Friday (as indicated in the subject and the second paragraph), not Thursday (as carelessly left in the first line). Cary Cary Bass wrote: > Hello

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Friday, December 11

through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, December 3

y warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 19

Forgive my poor math (in addition to my poor self-proofreading skills) but 3:00 PM Pacific time is actually 2300 and not 2100. Office hours are in 1:45 hours. Cary Cary Bass wrote: > Hello all! > > Next Thursday's office hours will feature Véronique Kessler, the > Foundation&

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 19

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: > Hello all! > > Next Thursday's office hours will feature Véronique Kessler, the > Foundation's Chief Financial Officer. If you don't know Naoko, you > can get to know her at > <http

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 19

ough a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. Also note, this is Veronique's first foray into IRC, so lets show her how welcoming we can be! :-) - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinato

[Foundation-l] Office hours starting in 30 minutes

your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support free knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia -BEGIN PG

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 12

ght. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. (Naoko is able to speak English and Japanese with a great degree of competancy!) -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikime

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Annual Fundraiser starts November 10th, UTC]

of Community Giving Wikimedia Foundation www.wikimedia.org Email: r...@wikimedia.org Phone: 415.839.6885 x615 Fax: 415.882.0495 Cell: 510.685.7030 “At some future time, I hope to have something witty, intelligent, or funny in this space.” -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Annual Fundraiser starts November 10th, UTC]

Hi all, Rand asked me to forward this email for him as his client is presenting difficulties getting it to the list. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours this Friday, November 6

There's one "Thursday" in my previous message. It's going to definitely be on Friday, sorry if it caused any confusion. (Thanks James!) Cary Cary Bass wrote: > Hello all! > > This Friday's office hours will once again feature Rand Montoya, > Wikimedia Found

[Foundation-l] Office hours this Friday, November 6

Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-

[Foundation-l] Office hours in 30 minutes (2009-10-29)

Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. (Kul is able to speak English, Japanese and Portuguese with some degree of competancy!) -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimedi

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, October 29.

e feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. (Kul is able to speak English, Japanese and Portuguese with some degree of competancy!) -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours tomorrow, Thursday, October 15

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This Thursday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the > Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike > Godwin, you can read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mi

[Foundation-l] Office hours tomorrow, Thursday, October 15

ce and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours this Friday, October 9

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a reminder about today's office hours, which is happening in five minutes. Cary Cary Bass wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia > Foundation's Legal Counsel. If

[Foundation-l] Office hours this Friday, October 9

always access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. Go ahead. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Su

[Foundation-l] Reminder, office hours at 1600 UTC tomorrow (10/1/09).

and picking one of the two gateways, while choosing "wikimedia-office" from the dropdown on the next page. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Staff office hours

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: > Hello all! > > This Thursday, October 1, 2009 between 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM PDT > (UTC 16:00 and 17:00) Rand Montoya, Wikimedia's fundraiser will be > joining us for office hours. Rand will be online to answer

[Foundation-l] Office hours

: 1) Have the Friday office hours one hour earlier (from 21:30-22:30 UTC) 2) Have the Thursday office hours one hour later (from 17:00-18:00 UTC) 3) Keep two sets of office hours the same, we cannot please everyone possible! - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Staff office hours

ing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate PS: I'll be sendi

[Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimedia Staff office hours

rough a security warning. It's fine. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG w

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Staff office hours

ompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

, Germany > These works are Public Domain. Anyone can use them without credit. Since your restoration work did not add any additional copyright, there is no requirement even to credit Wikimedia Commons. While the project can request that reusers credit you for these works, we cert

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5 million files

> -Original Message- > From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf > Of Nikola Smolenski > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:33 AM > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5

Re: [Foundation-l] List moderation (was, Re: Stevertigo)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >> I wrote: >>> I'm taking Stevertigo off moderation. He has agreed by private >>> email not to continue the dispute resolution mailing list >>> thread. >>> >

Re: [Foundation-l] List moderation (was, Re: Stevertigo)

cheal Bimmler's retirement, and the fact that I'm not certain of Ral315's list moderation activity level; I leave the question with Austin, do you want someone to volunteer to help out with moderation? - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 415.839.6885 x 601 Fax: 415.882.0495 E-Mail: c...@wikimedia.org > -Original Message- >

Re: [Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

Pavlo Shevelo wrote: >> How about a new mailing list. Wikimedia-uk-uk-l ? > > What for? > (: To arrange mailing between two chapters? :) > > I meant for my post to be humours, but I failed to include my " :-) "! -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

ls. > > Pavlo Shevelo > How about a new mailing list. Wikimedia-uk-uk-l ? - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?

David Gerard wrote: > 2009/6/28 Walter Vermeir : > > >> Probaly useful for those who do not know it; an expamle >> > > > It comes out infrequently enough that I suggest that posting it here > regularly would be an excellent idea. Could generate discussion, too. > And reader submissions! > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andre Engels wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Jimmy Xu wrote: >> Hello all, >> These days at the Village Pump of zhwiki, many wikipedians are >> arguing about whether Wikimedia project should apply to the US >> Copyright Law that is where the

[Foundation-l] Volunteer:Email response statistician

, feel free to email me directly, but I'd like to keep general discussion on the lists to a minimum. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation [1] <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Email_response_statistician> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Levy wrote: > Pedro Sanchez wrote: >> Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical. >> >> And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all >> that fancy words let's bother them with our idiotic pranks >> becuase we are

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: > While the English Wiktionary community may or may not be satisfied > with the logo as-is, in the interest of maintaining a visual identity, > one logo has to be used across projects, whether or not the English > Wiktion

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dominic wrote: > Gerard Meijssen wrote: > >>> When I read what is proposed, the impression is given that a >>> process will start with a compulsory outcome. I understand the >>> rationale for one shared logo and favicon. The problem is that >>> it is p

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Casey Brown wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Cary Bass > wrote: >> I'd also like considerable help in advertising it throughout the >> projects and managing the page, as well. >> > > CentralNotice on al

Re: [Foundation-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nathan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Cary Bass > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> I'd like to propose the following page: >> >> <http://meta.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to propose the following page: be opened for arguments and vote on it start in a weeks time. I'd also like considerable help in advertising it throughout the projects and managing the

[Foundation-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

Hi all, The two largest Wiktionary projects (English and French) have two completely different logos. [1], [2] The reason for this, from what I understand, is that a vote was taken place about the logo fr.wiktionary currently has, on meta [3]; which the English Wiktionary community chose not to

Re: [Foundation-l] Two new email system team leaders

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hay (Husky) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Cary Bass wrote: >> I've appointed two new volunteers into the role of email system team leader >> (commonly known as OTRS admin), Daniel Bryant and Mark Wesbeeg. > Unless

[Foundation-l] Two new email system team leaders

ort for the two new administrators. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/3/6 David Gerard : >> 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton : >>> 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen : When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. >>> It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect >>> UK politicians, which are t

Re: [Foundation-l] Cabal?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Down wrote: > Ipatrol has just came on IRC claiming that he has been told that > the WMF is hiring people to "validate" articles, and that the > foundation is doing it in secret by using thousands of IPs and > academics. He claims that the WMF ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Saintonge wrote: >> >> The English Wikipedia is probably the worst offender. Until that >> is sorted out a Wikipedia wide policy is premature. The >> qualities at the beginning of you paragraph are important, but a >> level of common sense also n

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aude wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Ting Chen > wrote: > >> Back to BLP. Personally I think that the policies we have related >> to BLPs are enough, but maybe we should be put more resource in >> the inforcement of these policies. The meetin

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fred Bauder wrote: >> I asked whether raising the notability bar would improve the >> overall quality of BLPs. Do we have other ideas for preventative >> measures? > > The start of a poor biography is good news coverage of some > incident that occurred

[Foundation-l] Volunteering positions : Email response team leader

emails on his/her own. Details can be found at <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Email_response_team_leader>. The position has an official close date of 13.03.2009, but will remain open should no suitable candidates come forward. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wiki

[Foundation-l] Steward elections confirmed

and the projects. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJqHIlyQg4JSymDYkRAn7fAJ9o4dzLfBIVfVwWsGnsvv4bUZvUtgCeM1rs REzmip6Vsx1wKSqc0ZRhIGA= =Pr13

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

some kind of simple wikipedia usage among the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) distribution. Perhaps someone could clarify, but if this is the case, then that would make the likelihood that this already failing proposal would pass even more remote. Cary Bass __

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wikipedia-l is still a good place to discuss Wikipedia related issues regardless of language. I've seen some interesting discussions take place there over the last couple of months. It's still quite useful. Cary Mark Williamson wrote: > I still hold

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse (Pathoschild) wrote: > Hello, > > This is a summary of the steward elections and confirmations so far. The > elections are open February 1 to 22, at < > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2009> and < > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wik

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility at wikinews [en]

of good faith. Maybe Wikinews can even come up with a model that can be adopted by other projects. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using Gn

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > Obviously I like it that my picture of a wild boar is used on a > Russian website. They asked, nice. But I take more pride in KNOWING > this than in having my name on their website. This point brings to mind my early days on

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010 Jury announcement

ia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Jury>. This should also serve as formal recognition that the bidding process is ready to begin once the pages are cleared of "potential bids", allowing those that have worked hard on their bids to place them formally. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimed

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > Delirium writes: > >> Anders Wegge Keller wrote: >>> Could you please keep the amount of crackpotish kookery at a minimum >>> at this list >> In what respect is it "crackpottish" or "kookery" to suggest that >> even appearance of impropriety, even where none exists

[Foundation-l] Checkuser ombudsmen

[[User:Sam Korn]] from enwiki [[User:Shizhao]] from zhwiki Please join me in thanking Rebecca, Mackensen, and Hei ber for their willingness to take on this commitment over the course of the last year. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florence Devouard wrote: > Michael Snow wrote: >> Florence Devouard wrote: >>> For example, on meta, Wikimedia NYC is listed as chapters, not >>> subchapters. >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City. And the >>> name does not clarify

[Foundation-l] Call for Volunteers, Wikimania scholarship committees

<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Wikimania_scholarship_reviewer> and <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Wikimania_scholarship_technical_coordinator> Any questions may be presented to me directly at my email address. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Some Ideas About Technical Stuff/Community Relations Improvements

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brion Vibber wrote: > Please see my reply on wikitech-l. :) > > -- brion http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-December/040611.html for the list-impaired. - -- cary -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation applauds IWF decision to reverse Wikipedia censorship in the United Kingdom

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Plamondon-Willard wrote: > Jay Walsh wrote: >> Internet ... internet ... internet ... internet ... internet ... >> Internet ... Internet > > "Internet" should be capitalized as a proper noun, but is also > commonly written lowercase (like "the s

Re: [Foundation-l] List summaries

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 phoebe ayers wrote: > New mailing list summaries: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2008_November_16-30 > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/wikiEN-l-archives/2008_11_16-30 > > > (I won't do this every time one is posted, but j

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikizh-l] [Help] About Participate in Wikipedia - knowledge sharing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 shi zhao wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- From: Joanne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/11/21 Subject: [Wikizh-l] [Help] > About Participate in Wikipedia - knowledge sharing To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Dear friends, We are conducting

Re: [Foundation-l] [Textbook-l] Wikibooks logo vote in progress

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (fix horrifying error in subject line) Cary Bass wrote: > I haven't seen this yet posted to the Textbook-l list or > foundation-l so I wanted to make it known that Wikibooks is winding > down its logo vote over the next couple week

[Foundation-l] Wikibooks ogo vote in progress

ay be some minor tweaks to style, the end logo will be look extremely similar to what we decide here. Thanks. Cary Bass Volco Wikimedia Foundation -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.