[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Korea approved?

According to http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1636517, This page insists that Wikimedia Korea has been approved in Sep 12 2009 by Wikimedia Foundation. I didn't see any notice about Wikimedia Korea. Also, Korean community is not going discussion for creating Wikimedia South Korea, which

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Korea approved?

A hoax, and I have out in a request for speedy removal, as no such chapter have send in an application to ChapCom. Anders 김우진 skrev: > According to http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1636517, This page > insists that Wikimedia Korea has been approved in Sep 12 2009 by Wikimedia > F

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Korea approved?

김우진 wrote: > According to http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1636517, This page > insists that Wikimedia Korea has been approved in Sep 12 2009 by Wikimedia > Foundation. I didn't see any notice about Wikimedia Korea. > > Also, Korean community is not going discussion for creating Wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

2009/9/12 Sue Gardner : > Fair enough, Brion :-) -- I'm just going to amplify and elaborate a > little on Jennifer's original mail. I think some of this is on the > meta page, but I'll say it here anyway. > > The purpose of the chapters grant process is to make money available > to people to get go

Re: [Foundation-l] Charities get external video annotation on YouTube

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > It would be great to put something like that on YouTube. We have two videos on YouTube already: > I must correct myself, it was the fundraiser before last: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/dona

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Nathan wrote: > I'm curious - Portugal isn't on this list of officially recognized > chapters[1], The chapter has been approved for creation, but has not been created yet, so it's not on wmf:Local chapters. (Last time WMBR was on there without being registered, p

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > Another idea that I encountered somewhere (not currently sure where) > was to create a global wiki directory to essentially replace the > yellow pages.  Something managed under a wiki model to include the > names, addresses, phone numbers, web

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

Thomas Dalton wrote: > While that is true, it is also important to remember that most people > setting up a chapter have next to no experience of running a > non-profit. They don't know what is and isn't appropriate to spend > donations on, they don't necessarily know what needs to done and just >

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

2009/9/12 Thomas Dalton : > While I don't doubt that the > Portuguese Wikimedians are acting in good faith, trust requires two > things - good faith and competence. They are almost certainly not > competent since they haven't had an opportunity to develop that > competence yet, so they should not

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

2009/9/12 Yann Forget : > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> While that is true, it is also important to remember that most people >> setting up a chapter have next to no experience of running a >> non-profit. They don't know what is and isn't appropriate to spend >> donations on, they don't necessarily know

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

2009/9/12 Andrew Gray : > 2009/9/12 Thomas Dalton : > >> While I don't doubt that the >> Portuguese Wikimedians are acting in good faith, trust requires two >> things - good faith and competence. They are almost certainly not >> competent since they haven't had an opportunity to develop that >> com

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > > Another idea that I encountered somewhere (not currently sure where) > was to create a global wiki directory to essentially replace the > yellow pages. Something managed under a wiki model to include the > names, addresses, phone numbers,

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: >> >> Another idea that I encountered somewhere (not currently sure where) >> was to create a global wiki directory to essentially replace the >> yellow pages.  Something managed under a wiki m

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com > > Also there is a big discussion on the idea that wikipedia data can be > imported into openstreetmap, because supposedly the coordinates from > Wikipedia are copied from non free sources.: > http://www.nabble.com/Wikipedia-POI-impo

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > You have this directory already! > Just extract all the deleted articles that are not notible. > you will have all the small business that got deleted. > > In fact that is the biggest pain t

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < > jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> You have this directory already! >> Just extract all the deleted articles that are not notible. >> you will have all the small business

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

> When I was in Prizren, Kosovo, I took pictures of every street > intersection. > There are lots of shops and places that would never make it to the > wikipedia but would be interesting to someone who wants to visit the > place. > > here are some of my dumps in the archive.org : > http://www.archi

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:51 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Anthony wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < > > jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > >> You have this direc

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > Well, ideally we will have wikipedia articles about every street in > Prizren, and they are going to be illustrated by your pictures (I hope > there is fop in Kosovo). Yes? I can create them. How would I name them? Prizren/FaradinHoti

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderate this list

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > Isn't temporarily blocking such a user a way to calm him/her down? I > admit, it might be not the nicest or even not the most efficient way, but > still? A bit of an aside: One of the best ideas I've seen in a collaborative tool in th

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Anthony wrote: > > Does OSM maintain a persistent unique ID for every node/way? > Answering my own question, yes. And http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_du_Change , which locates the temple at the rounded 45.76, 4.827778, thus making it difficult

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

Just updated http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_du_Change has a link to this : http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/26127031 But realistically, we need to be able to match them together with error tolerances. These two small differences are very small. see the red dot: http://yfrog.com/elbild

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:48 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Just updated http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_du_Change > has a link to this : > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/26127031 > > But realistically, we need to be able to match them t

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

Now I'm going to get yelled at for posting too much, but better links would probably be: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=12174465 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=6678417 On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Anthony wrote: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/6678417 ( > http://en.wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

>> Well, ideally we will have wikipedia articles about every street in >> Prizren, and they are going to be illustrated by your pictures (I hope >> there is fop in Kosovo). > > Yes? > I can create them. > > How would I name them? > Prizren/FaradinHoti? > > What would they look like? > Like this? >

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

I just added the street, and already they want to delete it. What should I put as a reason? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaradinHoti_(street_in_Prizren,_Kosovo) On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >>> Well, ideally we will have wikipedia articles about every street in >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

Hoi, I can't respond to that question about a particular project on this mailing list. But suffice it to say, at least some language Wikipedia's aren't going to include articles about streets without a reference to a published source. "I went there and took this pictures of it" doesn't qualify as

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/9/8 Pedro Sanchez : > >> Geographical/atlas/map kind ofproject >> >> granted, there's wikimapia and other external equivalents >> but we (Wikimedia) are lacking it >> > > Is there any point us doing something that already exists? What would > be better about a Wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Mailing lists are push media and they are one stop: the new posts come > to my own mail folders automatically. Their look and feel is always the > same: that of my mail program (or web mail operator). Browsing through > "your" web boards in the morning takes much, much

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderate this list

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Eugene Eric Kim wrote: > A bit of an aside: One of the best ideas I've seen in a collaborative > tool in the past 10 years was in a project called H2O that came out of > the Berkman Center in its early days. The idea? People could only post > once a day. It's built

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderate this list

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Eugene Eric Kim > wrote: > > A bit of an aside: One of the best ideas I've seen in a collaborative > > tool in the past 10 years was in a project called H2O that came out of > > the Berkman Center in its earl

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderate this list

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Eugene Eric Kim wrote: >> Just some additional food for thought for folks thinking about >> developing other alternative discussion tools. :-) In the meantime, I >> think what Andrew is doing with LiquidThread

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Seems to me that the mailing list is working just fine, despite a few > people who complain far too much about the volume of traffic, or about > the occasional tendency to irrelevant comments. They need to exercise a > little more patience a

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderate this list

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Eugene Eric Kim wrote: > A bit of an aside: One of the best ideas I've seen in a collaborative > tool in the past 10 years was in a project called H2O that came out of > the Berkman Center in its early days. The idea? People could only post > once a day. It's built

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > While that is true, it is also important to remember that most people > setting up a chapter have next to no experience of running a > non-profit. They don't know what is and isn't appropriate to spend > donations on, they don't necessarily k

[Foundation-l] Finance and logistics for professional CC/GFDL works

Hello, i would like to let you know about this very new platform I launched. It aims to fund, license, release professional CC/GFDL works: https://yk.net/ You are welcome to tell me critics, and let people around you who might be interested in it know about. Thank you for your interest. Be

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

Delirium wrote: > Maybe I'm unusual in treating large mailing lists as if they were > FidoNet or Usenet discussion forums, but the idea of people being > bothered by long threads they don't care about, individuals whose posts > they don't like, etc., is strange to me. Isn't that easily handled on