le.
Although the decision has now been made, we have a large number of
challenges ahead of us and I hope that we as a movement will come
together to make the Funds Dissemination Committee a success by working
with us to come up with answers tot the questions that we still have and
helping to make
m
illiterates, and only later to do something with it scholarly. But all
this has nothing to do with Wikipedia.
Kind regards
Ziko
2012/2/25 Ting Chen:
Mountain, the first ever editor on zh-wp, and still active until today, told
me the following story one day (it was before the Oral Citation
Mountain, the first ever editor on zh-wp, and still active until today,
told me the following story one day (it was before the Oral Citation
project but I remembered the story very well):
He came from the coast of Shandong, and his father told him that earlier
there was a local tradition where
s of all groups
The committee should also indicate what resources it will need to be
effective, including staff support and resources from the Foundation.
This proposed charter and plan should be shared with the Board by 15
June, for approval by its July 2012 meeting.
;References:
* [[wmf
, the board preferred to amend the above text if necessary when
moving towards a resolution. This letter indicates our intent, and we
may "wordsmith as needed" in our final resolutions.
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Hello Andreas,
it applies for all Wikimedia projects.
Greetings
Ting
On 27.12.2011 23:29, wrote Andreas K.:
> This is a question for Phoebe and/or another board member:
>
> The board resolution on controversial content
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content includ
Thank you very much Itzik and the Haifa-Team
Greetings
Ting
On 29.11.2011 12:48, wrote Itzik Edri:
> Hi,
>
> *I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 2011 in Haifa are
> now available on our channel in YouTube!: http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL
> .*
> Next week I will send a HDD
Hello Fae,
thank you very much for pointing this out. Yes, I think you indeed hit
the nail. We discussed this problem on our meeting and Sue provided some
plans on how to work on this problem. I am normally reluctant to comment
what the staff is doing or what they are planning to do, because th
Hello Tobias,
the text of the May resolution to this question is "... and that the
feature be visible, clear and usable on all Wikimedia projects for both
logged-in and logged-out readers", and on the current board meeting we
decided to not ammend the original resolution.
Greetings
Ting
Am 09
terests, aiming at a high distribution.” I would quibble with some of
his choice of words, but I agree with the general gist of what he said.
I believe we can find an answer that is right for us. I ask you to work
with us, to do that.
Sincerely,
Ting Chen
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indeed welcome all and may you all live long and prosper :-)
Ting
Am 12.07.2011 11:52, schrieb Milos Rancic:
> We've got four new wikis: two for content and two for chapters:
> * Mingrelian Wikipedia: http://xmf.wikipedia.org
> * Argentinian Wikiveristy: http://ar.wikiversity.org
> * Arabic chapt
On de.wikisource.org they scan every page of the original text, upload
the scan on Commons and show the scan on the right part of every page as
an image. It is even obligatory to have the original scan of the text.
The following page is an example:
http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:Oberamt_Te
On 25.06.2011 10:50, wrote Lodewijk:
> Hi,
>
> I read from several posts that the process with the nominating committee did
> not work out at all. In the mean time the whole nominating committee (and
> therefore any formal procedure where non-board members, read: the community,
> have any say on wh
Hello dear all,
on the August 2010 board meeting the board had talked about the
responsibilities of the board, the staff and the committees (minutes
here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/July_8,_2010 ). The
board had worked through this with the RASCI matrix
(http://en.wikipedia.or
Hello Alec,
it is so interesting that you mentioned the idea of the board as a
government. It reminds me of a blog post of Gerard during the election
in which he said that he is candidating but he don't want to be a
politician. And that blog post again reminds me of something happened
earlier
Hello Joseph,
yes you are right that it looked not good for the board at that time,
and we were all aware of that and nobody on the board at that time was
happy about that. But in my opinion this is the responsibility of the
board. A board should make decisions according to if it is right or no
Ah, sorry, read this too late. I had already promised the dutch chapter
to attend their conference. Sorry, would have like to go. And meanwhile
I am really out of my vocation days :-D
Wish you a good event.
Ting
On 17.06.2011 20:31, wrote Mike Dupont:
> Congrats to the winners! What a great te
Hello Geoff,
great work you are doing here.
Greetings
Ting
On 22.06.2011 20:40, wrote Geoff Brigham:
> Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus
> ("friends of the court") brief in Golan v. Holder, a case of great
> importance before the Supreme Court that will affect o
This statement is such a lie that I cannot let it stay here unresponded.
You imply the board seat of Matt Halprin. Matt had long left Omidyar, if
his board seat was bought, we had had to chose someone else from that
Foundation to replace him. As we had explained before many times, Matt
is on th
Hello all,
at first thank you all for take part in the election, especially to the
volunteers on the Elections Committee. As most of
organizing-an-event-job, there are always a lot of work that the
attendees of the events don't necessarily see. I also want to thank
everyone who take part in th
Hello Amir,
on zh-wp we delete the old version. The old version is no more used at
all, and thus no more fair to keep them. Still provide them so that
users can find them and copy them looks for me like distributing copy
violated content.
Greetings
Ting
On 31.05.2011 08:16, wrote Amir E. Ahar
Congratulations!
Ting
On 22.05.2011 21:20, wrote Mardetanha:
> Dear all fellow wikipedian and wikimedians
> I am so pleased to announce some minutes ago Farsi wikipedia has reached
> 15 articles.
>
>
> Mardetanha
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Hello Tobias,
on zh-wp we use our local central notice quite often and in my opinion
it is accepted by most users. We use it to announce admin election, vote
for policies and other issues like quality initiatives or call for
articles. Most of these activities are on village pump, but most users
Hello Milos,
thank you very much for the report and thank you all from LangCom for
the work done. It is a very interesting and informative report and very
comprehensive.
Greetings
Ting
On 17.05.2011 13:21, wrote Milos Rancic:
> As you should know, thanks to Wikimedia Germany, Language committe
Very nice, thank you very much developers.
On 14.05.2011 12:28, wrote Tim Starling:
> Email notification for user talk page changes is now enabled on all wikis.
>
> The issue came up at the MediaWiki developer meeting here in Berlin. A
> few ops people were sitting together, we couldn't think of a
This is definitively a wrong approach. Just because part of their
content violate our license does not mean that ALL their content are
under CC-SA-BY. No court will ever follow such a logic.
Greetings
Ting
On 25.04.2011 08:45, wrote Joan Goma:
> As Ray saids legal prosecution to claim for forma
Hello,
Fact is that Baidu doesn't care. We don't know who backs Baidu in China
but with its prominent position it cannot be anyone very small. Maybe
some of you remember that a few months ago there were media coverage
about Hudong is going to sue Baidu because of copyright infringement,
but th
Congratulations to the new board.
Ting
On 10.04.2011 22:13, wrote Ziko van Dijk:
> Dear friends,
>
> Wikimedia Nederland, the Dutch chapter, has a new board. Please be
> welcome on our site with a short Dutch/English message:
> http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Mededelingen
>
> Kind regards
's summary]],
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suggestions [4].
Greetings,
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[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_meetings/March_25-26
[2] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/March_2011_Update
[3] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study
[4] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:March_2011_Update
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and helping to make it a reality.
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Hello SJ, and all the others,
I think SJ's mail has a lot of points. And I think the most important
thing is not to talk about this, but to change one's own attitude. Most
people who are talking here are also the most heavy contributors in our
projects, and as these, they have a heavy mindsetti
uot;to what extend does MediaWiki
> comply with VPAT" as an opportunity.
> Thanks,
>GerardM
>
> On 20 February 2011 08:51, Ting Chen wrote:
>
>> Since we are not funded by the government and we have no relation what
>> so ever with the US government
Since we are not funded by the government and we have no relation what
so ever with the US government I don't see what VPAT has any relevance
to us. If the US government think MediaWiki doesn't fulfill the
condition, they had to use another wiki engine I am afraid.
Greetings
Ting
On 16.02.2011
Hello Lodewijk,
just from my understanding: If people take certain responsibilities in
behalf of the Foundation, especially if these responsibilities could be
related to private sphere, the Foundation takes certain legal
responsibilities for these persons too. And thus we need to know who
they
Dear Mido,
the Wikimedia movement is like a big family. Even though we sometimes
quarry with each other but especially in time like this we are all with
you. In the last days I often think back of the hospitality from all of
you to so many Wikimedians from all around the world back in Alexandri
Congratulations,
well done and keep the good work
Ting
On 26.01.2011 17:23, Jyothis Edathoot wrote:
> FYI.
>
> Regards,
> Jyothis.
>
> http://www.Jyothis.net
>
> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
> I am the first customer of http://www.netdot
into implementing the five-year strategic plan we all worked
so hard together on this year. We're looking forward to bringing
Wikimedia to more people in more places all over the world. Thank you
all for your commitment to keeping Wikimedia going and happy 10 years
and 2011 to you al
Congratulations and keep it go on.
Ting
On 29.12.2010 07:21, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
> FYI. The first Wikipedia meetup / workshop in Sri Lanka is a
> milestone for the entire movement. :)
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Anirudh Bhati
>
> 00 91 9328712208
> Skype: anirudhsbh
>
>
> -- Forwarded mess
Hello all,
Olaf Simons, a literature researcher and Wikipedian, wrote a mail on the
mailing list of the German chapter about his experience both as a
researcher and as a Wikipedian. I find his experience very insightful
and got his allowance to forward the mail here, because I think these
expe
on to take that
service. I am sure this answer is maybe not satisfactory, but I hope it
can explain a little what my personal opinion is.
Greetings
Ting
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_January_2008
On 13.11.2010 08:57, wrote SlimVirgin:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 a
Hello Sarah,
I would put it somehow differently. If Virgin Ventures has a tool with
which a newbie (or also an oldbie) can in a very intuitive way construct
a well formatted article from the scrap, so something like that magic
editor we had talked about for long time and never realized until no
At 23.10.2010 16:00, wrote Abbas Mahmoud:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> As some of you may know, there exists a small bunch of Wikipedians in Kenya.
> In the last couple of months, we have been discussing ways in which we might
> increase Wikip\media awareness within Kenya. We then decided to experiment by
Again Kat found the right words. Thank you very much Mike for all the
works you have done. I cannot remember how often I had to ask you about
problems from copyright issues to BLP issues alone related with zh-wp.
And all best wishes from me.
Ting
At 20.10.2010 18:39, wrote Kat Walsh:
>> On 19
Just to clarify the process.
After the previous board meeting I am collecting topics for the next
board meeting. This includes suggestions put directly to me (non until
now), or on the board mailing-list (mostly) or on page of the board wiki
for the preparation of the next meeting.
One month
Yes, indeed, congratulations and keep the good work.
Am 25.08.2010 09:31, wrote Mardetanha:
> Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K articles .
>
> Mardetanha
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Congratulations.
Am 24.08.2010 08:29, wrote Amir E. Aharoni:
> Some good news: The Sakha Wiki community keeps being surprisingly
> active. I don't know this language, but i read the mailing list of
> that community, which is mostly written in Russian, and often
> contribute to it (i also asked t
Hello dear italian team,
that's fantastic. I read three books from Eco and everytime I am
astonished by the plentiness of his imaginations and thoughts. Reading
his thoughts about our project and about internet in total is really
interesting.
Thank you very much
Am 04.08.2010 10:37, wrote
Hello all,
I am a heavy translator on WikiMedia projects. I would say more than 95%
of my contributions on content is translation. But I am against a blind
translation. For example mostly I would translate british or north
american related content from en-wp to zh-wp, and not from other
lang
Hello Alec,
at first thank you for the long mail. It would take me some time to
write my own answer but I don't want to make a hasty and unconsidered
reply. So if the answer comes a little late, please accept my honest
apolozies. My reaction to your mail is very complicated. There are a lot
Hello,
(all below are my private opinion.)
> I'm strongly supporting the "No censorship" camp, and as of such i am
> against any wiki-wide measures that would make content unavailable, with the
> argument that people can choose whether or not to look at offensive content,
> but people cannot ch
User:Mimihitam made an introduction on Wikimania about the Acenese
Wikipedia (
http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule#Wikis_of_the_World ). I
remember he said that he doesn't speak Acenese, but the Indonesian
Wikipedia has an intensive contact with the Acenese Wikipedia, so I
think i
Noein wrote:
> I don't know if wikipedia should have a chapter specific to children
> because it would be culturally biased by our views about education.
>
It will be biased on the common sense of the culture, in which language
that version is written, on how education should be. As well as ev
Hudong comes maybe the nearest. And Hudong is doing a lot of
mobilization works in China. A few days ago there were rumours in
Chinese chatrooms about an expansion of Hudong direction Australia.
Greetings
Ting
geni wrote:
> On 1 July 2010 09:58, John Vandenberg wrote:
>
>
>> Who is WMF comp
ey limited
> group of readers (children), with consequences for the content
> (limited length of articles, no explicit images), usage of language
> (no hard words), wouldn't it be different enough from a "usual"
> Wikipedia?
>
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
>
>
>
Hello Milos,
reading your mail below I am wondering why your reaction on my first
mail was so aggressive. It looks to me as if your consideration is not
that far away from mine. Especially I wrote in my suggestion that first
of all the project must have a very clearly defined scope and audiance
Hello Ziko, hello Milos,
some time ago, when the board was discussing about the sexual content
problems I made the following proposal. I didn't published it because I
feel it still very premature and also because I wanted to wait for the
research work that Sue should do and see what the experts
Hello all,
the following sentence from me is surely a very stupid sentense. I
apology for it. And thanks for everyone, especially Aphaia and SJ for
pointing this out to me.
Ting
Ting Chen wrote:
> Commons, Wikiquote and Wikisource has by themselves no educational
> value. They gain
Commons, Wikiquote and Wikisource has by themselves no educational
value. They gain their educational value in the way that they provide
repositories for the other WMF projects. Wikisource is the library of
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikiversity and Wikispecies.
The volumes col
Hello Milos,
Milos Rancic wrote:
> By my opinion, the only urgency which WMF should do is to support Erik
> to fill a lawsuit against Larry Sanger ASAP. Also, if it is not
> possible to sue Fox and Larry Sanger on the basis of spreading lies
> about WMF in United States, I am sure that it is fully
above.
Greetings
Ting
[1] -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Alan_dershowitz_by_Latuff.jpg_reopen
David Levy wrote:
> Ting Chen wrote:
>
>
>> It is certainly possible that Jimmy in doing his work had made some false
>> decisions. We all
Marcus Buck wrote:
> Ting Chen hett schreven:
>
>> For me, this statement is at the first line a support for Jimmy's
>> effort. It is a soft push from the board to the community to move in a
>> direction.
>>
> Not my definition of a "soft pu
Hello Milos,
At first to the two points you pointed out:
* No, I didn't mention that sexually explicit content should be deleted
and I still think the criteria should not be if something is sexually
explicit. The criteria should be if it has educational value. This is
what I said in my statemen
What I can say to your questions is that Jimmy informed the board about
his intention and asked the board for support. Don't speaking for other
board members, just speak for myself. I answered his mail with that I
fully support his engagement.
Personally, I think that the board is responsible f
Welcome Bishakha and looking forward to meet you soon in person.
Ting
Michael Snow wrote:
> As many of you know, we have had one vacant seat left on the Wikimedia
> Foundation Board of Trustees for the board to appoint. We have now
> filled that seat by appointing Bishakha Datta, a journalist,
Thank you very much Shizhao for sharing this. I find the text remarkable
informative and precise for a Chinese online agency.
Ting
shi zhao wrote:
> Chinese report: http://tech.163.com/10/0217/12/5VNMNPCH000915BF.html
>
> Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/
> My blog: http://shizhao.org
Hello folks,
this is a suggestion to encourage more edits. It is both a topic for
every of our projects but also of most of the foundation projects. So I
post it here at first and will welcome everyone to carry it to the
single projects.
On the home page of our projects for example en-wp we h
Thomas Dalton wrote:
> a) Could you give an example of an organisation with over 100 board members?
>
IOC has, ok only more than 70 members, not totally 100.
> b) You haven't answered the question. Why couldn't the dedicated
> experts that currently go on the board of trustees go on the advisor
Thomas Dalton wrote:
> That's only because we don't specify such an obligation. There is
> nothing stopping us having such an obligation included in the rules
> for the advisory board.
>
Yes there are. See my answer to Antony about dedication.
> Brion and Véronique have that expertise and could
Anthony wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Ting Chen wrote:
>
>> There are a lot of differences between a board member and an advisory
>> board member. The most important difference is the dedication. As a
>> board member you MUST attend board meetin
Hi Thomas,
one year ago when I run for the board election I came with the same
proposal as you. Meanwhile I have changed my oppinion. The problem is
that this would not work out.
I totally agree with you that voting is the minor part of the board
decision making process. Actually in many cases
Kropotkine_113 wrote:
> Ok. It would be interesting to explain that more explicitely somewhere
> (on meta or on wikimediafoundation's wiki) because It was not so obvious
> (or I didn't understain...) when I read the Q&A page I mentionned.
>
I agree, we will improve that.
> Thank you for all thes
Hello Kropotkine_113,
since I am on the NomCom I will answer your questions.
Kropotkine_113 wrote:
> Has Matt Halprin been designated to the Board by the Nominating Commitee
> (NOMCOM) ? This is explicity required if I read correctly this page :
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trus
I would really like WikiSpecies to improve their visibility in the
community. Sadly enough, the interwiki-links from Wikispecies to other
projects are already insufficient. Given that we have all those
tax-box-templates I always think that it should be an easy task to write
bots to make links b
Hello,
I had started a discussion on the Village Pump of Commons. I think
Commons is a very important project, and a very complicated project.
With more and more projects initiated by our chapters to encourage other
organizations or individuals to give their content free and upload them
to Com
Hello Philippe,
I thought this year three candidates would be elected.
Ting
philippe wrote:
> Information concerning the election rules, candidacy, and suffrage/
> voting requirements for the 2009 election to the Board of Trustees is
> now posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_electi
Hallo Arne,
welcome and looking forward to meet you and work with you.
Ting
Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> As you may recall the board was restructured last year around this
> time. At that time we asked the chapters to select two board members
> for the board. This would h
effe iets anders wrote:
> I think that if the public does /not/ differentiate, that is actually
> quite a compliment. That actually shows that the quality is better,
> because it corrects for the lower quantity and the assumptions that
> English must be better because more people. For example in th
Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Yoni Weiden wrote:
>
>> The question is - shouldn't there be one set of standards for all
>> Wikipedias? I think it is "unfair" that I can read about Simpsons episodes
>> in the English Wikipedia, while those how speak Hebrew cannot.
>>
Amir Elisha Aharoni wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 21:09, Yoni Weiden wrote:
>
>> The question is - shouldn't there be one set of standards for all
>> Wikipedias?
>>
>
> I do think that there should be one set of standards for all
> languages. But it may be hard to enforce it on an existi
Hello Phoebe,
yes three seats will be open.
Ting
phoebe ayers wrote:
> Hi all,
> I know it's still a couple of months out, but I've lost track. Are we
> electing two people or three people to the Board this summer? Will all
> of the community seats be open? (it looks like the terms of Kat and
>
Good work Ziko, thank you very much.
Ting
Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just a few minutes ago I have sent the second edition of my "Infobrief
> Wiki-Welt". It is meant for people who are interested in Wikipedia and
> related subjects, but are no Wikipedians, for example journalists,
> teache
Hallo Brianna,
NPOV is mainly a principle of Wikipedia, later also used by Wikibooks
and Wikinews. There is at least one project (Wikiversity) which
explicitely allow participants not to follow NPOV, but the Disclosure of
Point of Views in Wikiversity follow in principle the ideal of NPOV: It
Hello Jaska,
I think in principle we have the five pillars which should be hold by
all wikipedia language versions.
The foundation restrains from putting up too much global policies, but
there are foundation policies that also have implication to the
projects. For example the privacy policy
(
Hello Cheol,
first of all, we are all very concerned about this issue and we are
still sorting things out. So more informations especially from you in
the country would be of great value.
To your question at first: According to the comScore data (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stu/comSco
Milos Rancic wrote:
> Chinese is a little bit more complex because there are a number of
> characters. However, AFAIK, Simplified and Traditional scripts share a
> number of characters and some of others may be guessed form context.
>
>
Well, Chinese is not that simple, especially for the differ
Sue Gardner wrote:
> 2009/3/3 Michael Snow
>
>
>> But someone making a request is a sign that the article really needs a
>> hard look, and quite possibly should be removed for not meeting our
>> standards. So the reversed presumption of "default to delete, unless
>> consensus to keep" is a good
Aude schrieb:
>> 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 polici
Sue Gardner wrote:
> Can I ask: does anyone reading this thread 1) think raising the notability
> threshold is a bad idea, 2) believe defaulting to deletion upon request is a
> bad idea, or 3) disagree with the notion that other Wikipedias should shift
> closer to the German Wikipedia's generally-l
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 has
> contracted colleges all across the US have be
Sue Gardner wrote:
> 1) If we're imagining a continuum with smaller/higher-quality/restrictive
> at one end, and larger/variable-in-quality/permissive at the other I am
> curious to know where the other language versions situate themselves. I am
> assuming that (with some exceptions) they cl
Sue Gardner schrieb:
> There is lots I want to reply to here; this mail is just a start...
>
> 2009/3/2 Thomas Dalton
>
> >From what I can tell, a lot of subjects of BLPs that have problems
>
>> with their articles don't complain at all. The accounts I've heard
>> (or, at least, my interpretati
Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There are some language versions of Wikipedia who have no relation to a
> chapter or cannot create a chapter, or where a chapter would not be
> suitable. Examples:
> - nation-less languages such as Latin, Esperanto
> - diaspora languages or Wikipedia communities, s
geni wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Ting Chen :
>
>> Surely is this a prejudice. Because there is no data that support such
>> an assumption. In the eight years since the being of Wikipedia I don't
>> know any such case happend on any Wikimedia project.
>>
>> T
geni wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Ziko van Dijk :
>
>> If I understand it right, Wikimedia or other stewards can trace what a
>> single steward is doing. Even if a dictatorship forces a local steward to do
>> something, there is the danger that this becomes public.
>> Ziko
>>
>
> Thats the danger for
geni schrieb:
> 2009/2/9 Ting Chen :
>
>> I dislike this argument very much. People cannot choose that they are
>> born in Iran or in China, or in the USA or Europe. Use such a trait that
>> cannot be influence by a person against him is a kind of discrimination.
>>
Robert Rohde wrote:
> Looking at the summary and comments, I am struck by the fact that
> Mardetanha [1] is getting a significant number of oppose votes from
> people who believe it is fundamentally unsafe for a Steward to live in
> Iran. Including comments that the Iranian government might arrest
The Foundation was searching for rooms because the current rooms are
already quite crowded (everyone who had visited the office can confirm
this) and because we will start the usability project we are going to
hire three more developers.
Thus the Foundation has either to lease offices in the vi
Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2009, at 2:13 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
>
>
>> Nathan wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Erik Moeller
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2009/1/20 Ting Chen :
>>>
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