Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Personality rights

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:42 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 8 April 2012 13:39, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > >> I've sent you and Ryan an e-mail with a link to the deletion discussion. > > In a discussion like this, secret evidence is approximately worthless. Indeed. This is the link I received by mail:

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

__ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wiki

[Foundation-l] Do you use MediaWiki as a conference website?

Forwarding to f-l/ -- Forwarded message -- From: Samuel Klein Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Do you use MediaWiki as a conference website? Related to this idea, OpenMeetings is a site established to capture meetings and video/audio/text of talks at them, under a free license. The

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - Q&A site

swers over time so that it develops into a permanent reference resource. SJ On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > I would be interested in helping with this project from a third-party wiki > and MediaWiki developer perspective. > > -greg aka varnent > > >

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - Q&A site

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera wrote: > Hi there, > > new projects suck, because there are (close to) none > asked some time ago already with few positive replies > > bug was already filled at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29923 > is there someone who can help move on?

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:38 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 3 April 2012 07:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > >> We had started a stub table about this: >> https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free > > This is brilliant! I've been after something like this for a while.

[Foundation-l] New Project Process

are as a society towards reaching that goal SJ -- Forwarded message -- From: Samuel Klein Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List I would love to see the new project process on Meta

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiktionary App, beta release (Android v1.0.1b)

7;s feedback! > > Thanks, > Patrick Hayes > http://patrickhay.es > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

Birgitte, I have greatly enjoyed all of your replies in this thread; this one in particular. Thank you for sharing. On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:37 AM, wrote: > I simply see the bigger concern to be: What if we don't add 1,000 new > curators who care to learn how to interpret copyright law and

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Oh come on people - this is yet another Foundation-l discussion that has gone > off the rails.."the elusiveness of Samuel Klein"?  sounds like a thriller > novel..  I'm not sure we need to be attacking other volu

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:06 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Experiments are acceptable... sometimes. MZM, I didn't expect you to become the voice of conservatism! I cannot agree with your premise that experiments are somehow 'optional' or new. Experimentation is the lifeblood of any project build arou

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

ributors, they and their increased usage, is merely the > symptom of the underlying issue. > > Regards > Theo > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listi

[Foundation-l] Participation and content, quantity and quality (was re: new editor engagement experiments)

This seems like it deserves its own thread. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:53 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > The vision of the Wikimedia movement is to create a free and accessible > repository of (high-quality) educational content; the vision is not about > trying to get as many people involved as possible

Re: [Foundation-l] sad news

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:12 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > I realize in my first note that I forgot to link Ben's meta page... > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tlogmer > > a quick look at his contributions will remind some of us about the old > fundcom, Wikimania 2006 designs, Associations of Wi

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, Britannica to stop printing books

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Robin McCain wrote: > I find it bizarre that inclusion of information of local importance is > encouraged in the internationalized local language wikipediae but > discouraged in the U.S. English wikipedia.  So events of local interest in a > town in Romania are de

Re: [Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >> > No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still > being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I > am confusing things. There's also World Book in English, the biggest seller of

[Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to replace my old set!) Future versions will be digital only. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Presentation to the Board of Trustees

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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia's ebook and PDF creation feature doesn't support Chinese and Japanese

//lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> ___ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > 2012/3/2 Sue Gardner : >> On 1 March 2012 18:27, Béria Lima wrote: >>> Hello people, >>> >>> So after receive authorization from all candidates, the list of candidates >>> + statements are in meta, and you can find it here: http':// >>> meta.

Re: [Foundation-l] Foursquare ditches Google Maps for OpenStreetMap

i · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > ‪“We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Tom Morris wrote: >> The full proposal is here: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l_proposal > > I think there's another way we could slice the cake: > > (a) a mailing list for discussing Foundation, chapter and management > ... Maybe just rename Foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

rupert THURNER wrote: > "Amir E. Aharoni" >> David Gerard : >> > Strainu wrote: >> >> If names are that important for you, go ahead and rename foundation-l, >> >> but there is really no need for yet another list. >> > >> > +1 >> Another +1. > +1 That sounds reasonable. Most things discussed on

Re: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia

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Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

> On 2/13/12 8:45 AM, Mathias Damour wrote: >> >> Why would both "Associations" and "Affiliates" both need to use >> Wikimedia marks ? >> Does OpenStreetMap need it if it gets some grants from the WMF ? As Andre says, Affiliates need permission to use the WMF marks on their own sites / banners, or

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Right to be Forgotten

Forwarding from internal. The right to vanish... or a part of it... proposed as law. -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Symonds Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM Subject: [Internal-l] Right to be Forgotten To: interna...@lists.wikimedia.org http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technolog

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

On 2/2/12, Thomas Dalton wrote: > We're getting very off topic, but you are right that there is a problem > with dormant chapters. I know nothing about the Russian chapter, but I do > know how difficult it was to to get the first Wikimedia UK out of the way. > > Perhaps the WMF board should ask C

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Howie Fung as Director of Product Development

> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Pats Pena | Global Fundraising Operations Manager >> > Wikimedia Foundation >> > office +1 (415) 839 6885 x6764 >> > cell:   +1 (415) 816 3349 >> > fax: +1 (415) 284 9511 >> > &

Re: [Foundation-l] Policies on wikimediafoundation.org

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 19:38, Steven Walling > wrote: >> I think it makes sense to better delineate what applies to different >> groups. > > Agreed. A good starting point is the navigation template for > Board-approved policies, whic

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:32 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this.  We've now finalized the >> policy and it now lives at >> >> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy Thank you for working on this, Sumana. > I do

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012/1/17 Delphine Ménard > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > > Thanks for this announcement Jay, and everyone involved in the planning > of > > this unprecedented action. > > For what it's worth, I want to particularly thank the Italian > Community, for showing us with their

[Foundation-l] Fwd: board meeting agenda

] board meeting agenda To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" The agenda for the upcoming WMF Board meeting is now published here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_meetings/October_7-8,_2011 -- phoebe -- Samuel Klein id

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Mark wrote: > On 10/5/11 1:50 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > > The WMF isn't allowed to lobby for or against legislation, per our 501c3 > > non-profit status in the US. This is not necessarily true for chapters > > though, and definitely not true for the communities. >

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Mike Dupont wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:57 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > >> From Wikimedia's perspective, I think this is "one down, several hundred to >> go." >> Wikimedia has made it clear that its singular focus is the English Wikipedia. >> All other Wikipe

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

Hello Andrew, These are very fine ideas indeed. I have always found the 'breaking news' stories on Wikinews to be among its least interesting content, for all of the reasons you note. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Andrew Lih wrote: > Hi all, reading this thread with much interest. Lots of

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Tempodivalse wrote: > I thought the Wikimedia community should know that a large portion of > WIkinews' contributor base has forked into its own project > (http://theopenglobe.org) after becoming deeply dissatisfied with Wikinews. > The new wiki has finished it

Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

w and broken but it handles > non-Western topics: see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Chile > > -- > Tom Morris > <http://tommorris.org/> > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >

Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

Yikes. I think the actual issue here is that we need to drive more editors and contributors to Wikinews (or find an appropriate similar project to merge with). I am a fan of the Project -- I've had two people in the community-news business in the last two weeks chat me up about wikinews because e

Re: [Foundation-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

>> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > ___ > foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:13 PM, M. Williamson wrote: > Yes but again as I said, most people will be looking for their languages on > http://www.wikipedia.org/ or in places where interwiki links are usually > found. Mark, Could you please propose a specific solution that would make incubated lang

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Chapters and some of their coolest activities

Thank you, Lodewijk -- this is awesome. On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Chapters_-_Wikimania_2011.pdf > - > unfortunately Wikimedia Commons still doesn't accept any presentation format > (.ppt, .pptx, .odp) It would be awesome

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

Hello MZM, thanks for taking a start at new pages to illustrate the discussion on Meta. MZMcBride writes: > I fail to see how violating the community's principles of transparency and > accountability by keeping everything on a non-public list is any better. I > just hope nobody's discussing anyt

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

Hello Birgitte, Thank you for these comments and edits/suggestions. [all: please also post suggestions on Meta. most people are not subscribed to this list.] This Board letter was published on short notice. Once it was clear that the issue should be raised and discussed this year, we wanted to

Re: [Foundation-l] Start "questions and answers" site within Wikimedia

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Oliver Moran wrote: > It is a disappointment in some respects that Stack Overflow uses proprietary > software (not least because it is so wonderful) but in all other respects, as > a community, they do a great job. I have had wonderful experiences with them > a

Re: [Foundation-l] Start "questions and answers" site within Wikimedia

gt; > Best, > Oliver > > On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:03, Thomas Morton wrote: > >> There was a push to launch a stackexchange site relating to Wikipedia >> a few months back. It's currently in the commitment phase - needing >> people to commit to seeding it. >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Start "questions and answers" site within Wikimedia

g list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] roadmap for WM affiliation ; a name for self-identified affiliation

tions as >> being about content projects that want to affiliate themselves with >> Wikimedia - want to become the new Wikimedia project. I know that in the >> past this question has lived for example with OmegaWiki/WiktionaryZ . SJ, >> would you consider this to be simila

Re: [Foundation-l] roadmap for WM affiliation ; a name for self-identified affiliation

use it if prompted.   We just have to > be thoughtful about what we want those things to look like.   We will > no longer have total control over whichever name or logos we recommend > projects use for self-identified affiliation. > > So that's my question -- what should thir

Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Wjhonson wrote: > Something better than Wikipedia ? > I can think of something right off the bat. < allow us to link to YouTube videos for example (not host them, just link to them). That makes sense. Can you point to a problematic debate against linking to YouT

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Alec Conroy wrote: My point (working in an academic digital library and just seeing the amount of thesis, dissertation, articles passing by) is that if for people is a difficult, overcomplicated burden to upload a PDF in an institutional reposi

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

Andrea, I hear you suggesting that we need a different upload process for pdfs and other documents, wherein when you upload them there is a "digital document to paged wikitext" script that runs and generates an appropriate result, which can then be imported elsewhere on the projects as needed. >

Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations

I would love to see the new project process on Meta come back online. (much of this email is posted to [[m:talk:new project proposals]]) I could use some help in making this happen - we need to start an incubator process for ideas with support, and a separate process for proposing existing project

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks wrote: >>> On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein  wrote: >>>> >>>> Right.  NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned >>>> this morning.  Is it 'a website'? >>&

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

Dominic - this is from the Archivist's speech today. Is there a handy cite? S On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, geni wrote: > On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein wrote: >> Right.  NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned >> this morning.  Is it 'a web

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

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[Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister (RFC)

Following the recent discussions here and on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_ban_for_Poetlister SJ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Open Access Call for brainstorming

Andrea Zanni started a lovely thread elsewhere asking about how to help the Open Access movement in Italy, with some good replies (below). Forwarding to foundation-l as it is relevant to this list, and linked to recent discussions here about how to fix the sad state of closed journals. [also per

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

> etc. > > Aubrey > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Alec Conroy wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote: >> >> Am 02.07.11 14:17 schrieb Alec Conroy: >>> There's an even bigger opportunity here-- >>> Make a brand new brand name that captures the ideology better than >>> Wikipedia-Mediawiki-Wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > Within the general concept of Merging Wikis I agree, it would be good in > principle to have one uber-wiki that is the central hub of all community > things +1 > I wonder - would it be possible in MediaWiki to make it possible for User > accou

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Estonia report April-June 2011

mailing list about the Wikimedia > Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > ___ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org &

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_libraries > [2] > http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/source/browse/trunk/wikipediadownloader.py > > ___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.w

Re: [Foundation-l] Closing projects policy now official

> Also, I do not understand why the *language* committee has > a role in this in the first place. Is closing projects often about whether > or not it actually is a language (the expertise field of langcom)? Most close requests are for projects that would not have been created under the current str

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:26 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 17 June 2011 16:08, Marco Chiesa wrote: > >> To be honest, when you release your work under cc-by-sa you grant a >> third party the right to reuse a (small or large) part of your work to >> make a derivative work. The license in itself is

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

ecause their edits won't be > immediately visible, however very few new users start by editing templates. > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

ing list > wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/w

Re: [Foundation-l] content ownership in different projects

There are some technology changes that could make this much easier. 1) make it easy to see *your last version* of an article when you visit it. 2) provide a link to 'diffs since your last edit' 2.1) provide a way to comment directly on that diff, without having to laboriously cut and paste 3) make

Re: [Foundation-l] Election results?

tinue to push for your suggestions. Regards, SJ -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Inviting some 'outsider candidates' into the movement in the way they wanted

This is a great point, Alec - something on my mind as well. It is great that we had such a diversity of candidates, and we need more ways to invite people to participate in the future of the movement. > To me, this question was prompted by the skills of Jane S. Richardson > (Dcrjsr) and William

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:55 PM, David Gerard wrote: > This is the actual problem. > > What would happen to a Bugzilla entry flagging systemic problems of > the sort Birgitte flags? It would get marked INVALID in short order. I'm not sure this is true. What about a Bugzilla tag flagging such pr

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

James - Wiki Edit is pretty nice. Is this a one-man project by Don Kosak? On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM, wrote: > Yes I eventually found that app.  And it is much superior to editing from the > browser. But it doesn't support ProofreadPage extension. Still between the > app and browser it i

Re: [Foundation-l] About the low-hanging fruit

There is certainly a lot of low hanging fruit. I don't think we've covered more than a few percent of the topics currently considered notable. We still have a factor of 10 or more to grow covering things that others have already included in existing summaries and references. But the parallel to F

[Foundation-l] Fwd: DPLA Beta Sprint: Calling all Submitters!

ublic unless otherwise noted. -- Maura Marx Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Executive Director, Open Knowledge Commons ** direct: 617-384-9131 mobile: 617-835-3510 email: ma...@knowledgecommons.org -- Samuel Klein     

[Foundation-l] [OT: OSM] State of the Map, Sep 9-11 - discount for early birds, scholarships

nver! Henk Hoff -- Organising Committee State Of The Map 2011 http://www.stateofthemap.org/ http://www.openstreetmap.org/ h...@stateofthemap.org phone +31 6 4808 8925 -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 _

Re: [Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:04 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 1 June 2011 10:42, Sarah wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 02:46, Samuel Klein wrote: > >>> Those who toil away in the depths of style guide subpages and cite >>> templates should be reminded from time to tim

Re: [Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > An interesting technique: > > http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/30/c8623.html This is so true! My highschool sweetheart is a science prof, and recently pointed me to this essay that one of her students published to Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia at events

dation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] readership draft for feedback

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Mani Pande, 24/05/2011 18:53: >> The draft of the survey, and a FAQ section is available on meta, if you >> are interested. Here is the link to meta space that I have set up for >> the survey. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Readership_

Re: [Foundation-l] readership draft for feedback

i Pande, PhD > Head of Global Development Research > Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter: manipande > Skype: manipande > > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language (Milos Rancic)

o slowly bootstrap their > language sophistication It seems to me that most countries in the world have it in their interest to develop excellent intro-literacy courses to help people learn their language, which could then be disseminated far and wide. As Casey says, Wikiversity would

Re: [Foundation-l] User talk page email notification

Thank you, that is just great! On 5/14/11, Orionist wrote: > I suggest to make it on by default for all new users. That will hopefully > help us bring back some of those editors lost before their fifth edit. > > And for registered users, we can spread the news through a site notice. +1 to both

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome Wikimedia Macau

Congratulations and welcome! On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > > May you create and share much knowledge! Now that's a lovely general-purpose cheer :-) SJ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: > A while back, I think the WMF got offered the enwp.org domain for > free, which is a fairly oft used shortener. Does anyone remember what > ever happened to that offer? I love this service, btw. Thanks for the offer, Thomas. SJ ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

>> it's just not enabled on >> larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug >> . This is definitely needed. (I remember the debates about implementing this at all when it was first under development; I am quite glad tha

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy wiki

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:34 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > project within meta.  In fact if we are serious about the > simplification agenda then migrating the contents of Strategy to meta > would be a logical step to take, perhaps also with a rename to "new > ideas" as that was what it effectiv

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

ikis. Those are all aggregates of multiple projects. Most of the others use a single TLD but they aren't single 'sites'. [for SEO purposes, we would probably do better if every project shared the same TLD the way Google's do, but that's a

Re: [Foundation-l] "How many articles have you created?"

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:37 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 10 April 2011 13:14, David Moran wrote: > > For that matter, the contents of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads might be nice for > the site notice. Yes, we should start doing this. Most wikiproject banners are fun for

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

outside the realm of financial risk. "Declining participation" was the top risk in late 2009, and helped drive related strategic research and discussion. Thanks to that group for helping to focus attention on this. (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_risks_2009) -- Samuel

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Wikimedia Education List

> ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 _

[Foundation-l] Movement roles notes on Meta

The movement roles working group met again yesterday, and the main meta pages are being updated as a result. One point of note -- Sue recently shared her long-form answers to some questions about the process (thank you!), which are worth reading: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_pro

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

all. It might not be a bad idea to have a multilingual foundation list where the expectation is inverted -- that most people won't use English unless it is their best language, or they find it necessary to communicate. -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

s from now we'll all appreciate it. Brion's blog post about the parser bits was great. I hope it's indicative of a series. -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foun

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

n other major language families. However, Maria's emails haven't indicated that she knows anything about this list, nor has she posted to wikies-l... not the best test case. SJ -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: >> >> We certainly have many individual contacts with the OA community, >> including Melissa Hagemann, who is on our advisory board :)  This is >> also an area of professional work for me. What kinds of lobbying did >> you have in mind? >> >> I w

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

vement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_(publishing) > which advocates for public access to publicly funded research. > > Hopefully the research which is being made available through open access > can help to support the work of the community. > > Melissa &g

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Birgitte SB wrote: > > - Original Message >> From: Ray Saintonge >> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List >> Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 3:54:11 AM >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian >>governments distance themselves fr

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Jay Walsh wrote: > Multilingualism is at the core of our design thinking, as is the concept that > everyone be able to take simple graphic forms and turn them into their own > works. That's a nice way of putting it. Has anyone thought of making icons for the co

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

>> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> _______ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

Re: [Foundation-l] (OT) Wael Ghonim TED talk on the Egyptian Revolution

t; -- >> >> Sue Gardner >> Executive Director >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> 415 839 6885 office >> 415 816 9967 cell >> >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in >> the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality! >> >> http://wikimediafo

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

Property%20Watch%29 >> >> ___ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______ &g

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