Re: [Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-20 Thread Dan Rosenthal
I find it somewhat ridiculous that someone would not know about the key dates. I've had them on my calendar for at least a month, if not more. -Dan On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > It appears that perhaps centralnotice might be working again once > you've confirme

Re: [Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-20 Thread Huib!
Hello, The globalsite notice is working again :D I removed the local sitenotice on incubator and Commons. Huib ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It appears that perhaps centralnotice might be working again once you've confirmed that on local wikis, would those of you who put up local notices kindly defer to the central notice? Many thanks! pb On Jul 20, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Thanks Robert - > > You're cor

Re: [Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Thanks Robert - You're correct that extending it doesn't do much good if we don't get the word out. Thanks for doing this. Philippe On Jul 20, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: > Given that CentralNotice still isn't working, I've taken the hopefully > temporary and short-lived approach

Re: [Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-20 Thread Huib!
Hello, I have imported the En.wiki sitenotice on Commons and Incubator. This isn't the best way offcourse but it will let more people know about it. Best regards, Huib -- Http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:Abigor ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-20 Thread Robert Rohde
Given that CentralNotice still isn't working, I've taken the hopefully temporary and short-lived approach of simulating the candidate notice using enwiki's local site notice. Extending the nomination period does little if people don't actually know about it. Philippe has been posting a notice abo

[Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

2009-07-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Ladies and Gentlemen, As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a ful