Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Birgitte SB wrote: > The endowment is not about just about funding, I think it is probably also > symbolic of endurance to many people. > There is a worry about the content remaining available in the long term. If > there is not an endowment to donate towards, > I

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > When we are frugal and build reserves, this will be appreciated. When we build > reserves that have no immediate goals, we will lose acceptance as an > organisation > that actually needs the money. I agree we should have specific goals for

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Noein wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I don't know if wikipedia should have a chapter specific to children > because it would be culturally biased by our views about education. I think you mean 'project' rather than 'chapter' My view of

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 Now Posted

ourse, the board knows they need to support of the > community if they are going fulfil the mission of the Foundation, > which is why they will show great restraint in regards to that power.) > > _______ > foundation-l mailing list > foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

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Re: [Foundation-l] Nazi Goatse part 94 (was Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content)

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> If you go against the mission statement, and the expectation with it >> that more information is better than less information - even if the >> information i

Re: [Foundation-l] RecentChangesCamp, Canberra

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Re: [Foundation-l] free software policies

Hello Joe, It was great to see you in Gdansk; I hope we can find ways to better collaborate with PlanetMath in the future. On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Joe Corneli wrote: > > It is my view that a good portion of 'the sum of all > knowledge' is currently embodied in software and > programming

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

ton in the toolbar that will allow users to look up > (with search suggestions) the correct work, request any further > information, and add the information into the page. Then we don't need > to get hung up on the syntax, except for readability's sake. > > -- > Andrew Garrett > http://werdn.us/ > > ___ > 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 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

Hello Robert, On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:59 AM, R M Harris wrote: > the time has come, I think, to actively begin a discussion within the > communities > about some of the questions which I've encountered, specifically around > Commons > and images within Commons. I'd love to see better summar

Re: [Foundation-l] Free translation memory

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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

[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] 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

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

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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] 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] 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] 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] 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] Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Presentation to the Board of Trustees

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[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] 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

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] 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

[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] [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

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!

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!

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] 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

[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] 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.

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] 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 > > >

[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] 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

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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] [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] 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] 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] 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] [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] [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] 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] 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] 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

[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

[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

Re: [Foundation-l] largest free content website

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

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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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. >

[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] [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

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] 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] [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] GFDL Q&A update and question

A prize for best cross-media reuse of content - I love it. I will contribute to the prize pool one large gnu, and one piece of similarly huggable CC swag, signed by free-content luminaries To Be Named. --SJ On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM, g

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia IdeaTorrent?

Yes. For fun, which brainstorming needs. Ever since Jamesday stopped spiking the punch in the virtual server room, the bugzilla quote list + mascot hasn't sufficed. SJ On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > If you haven't seen it yet, Ubuntu is running an interesting > brainsto

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

I usually agree with the Mingus, but: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Brian wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > >> On Monday 02 February 2009 22:41:37 Brian wrote: >> > Following this line of reasoning in both directions, many users who >> > contribute to an encycl

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Brian wrote: > I advocate a much more flexible attribution scheme than listing the authors > or printing a url to the history page. I think a simple (Wikipedia) is a > sufficient attribution for text. If you have the text it is trivial to find > the original author

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Brian wrote: > If you are willing to accept that a URL is sufficient, then there is no > reason to ever show the authors - it's only to accomodate the fact that the > CC-BY-SA contains a clause which isn't really relevant to the projects. > Better to change the CC-B

Re: [Foundation-l] [Textbook-l] Wikibooks community-building meeting

Hi Mike, On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > just organize a time to get people together in #wikibooks on > irc.freenode.net. We'd set up a roster of topics to cover and > just fire around ideas for a while. That's a fine idea. It might also be helpful to have a regular ti

Re: [Foundation-l] dumps

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:44 PM, David Gerard wrote: > It's too easy for a nominally "open" project to effectively be > proprietised by just not providing the data/code/etc. Sure. That's not the issue here, but more people indicating how much they care about good dumps (I do! also full commons

Re: [Foundation-l] dumps

Copying the Commons list. I am interested in hosting (and running some scripts on) copies of the commons media dump on offline regional servers for offline-reading purposes. This is difficult without an image dump. The last time I looked, I was able to find an image dump from 2007? Now I have a

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Wikipedia on xkcd

We should all try the xkcd cure for a while : stick to short words on this list for a week and see where it gets us. (kat, is this curt's law? what sorts of threads are star-crossed to end this way?)SJ. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:09 AM, David Gerard wrote: > http://xkcd.com/547/ > > > - d.

Re: [Foundation-l] dumps

Compression allowing random access is definitely the way to go for large selections. Ángel, that's an interesting reader you wrote. I cc: a list for offline wikireaders (most designed around mediawiki). A similar idea is in use by schools across Peru[1] to provide offline access to the Spanish W

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] dumps

Excellent -- following up offlist. SJ On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On 2/23/09 5:31 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> Copying the Commons list. >> >> I am interested in hosting (and running some scripts on) copies of the >> commons media dump on o

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

languages have in mind / how they test their criteria is fascinating... some cross referencing with decisions made in creating esperanto et al would be fun OR. -- Samuel Klein +1 617 529 4266 One Laptop per Child On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Cary Bass wrote: > Ray Saintonge wrote: >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Amazon Public Data includes Wikipedia

thread convergence! It didn't include wikipedia-proper when I looked yesterday, but this was suggested... On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Brian wrote: > Why not make the uncompressed dump available as an Amazon Public > Dataset? http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1

Re: [Foundation-l] Interview: Wikipedia usability and test results

Thank you Ziko. I always enjoy the unfiltered news exacerbated by the Kurier... you should broadcast your work more than once a year. And Ms. Kimura is clearly a crack dictator, she should be miked up regularly. SJ On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Hello, > A couple of da

Re: [Foundation-l] Anarchopedia changed its license

Milos, This is a great post. On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > As it may be of interest here, I am sending my blog > postto > the list. > And a couple of my personal notes: > >   - Anarchists are not a

Re: [Foundation-l] Anarchopedia changed its license

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > > Yes, things are moving forward, this is true. And I will be happy to > see free culture movement based on Tolstoy's, Kropotkin's and > Goldman's ideas.

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

Hi, As has been mentioned elsewhere in comments on your writings, you have good ideas which aren't directly related to nudity or sexual content. 1) respect human subjects of photos and other media 1a) get explicit model consent, both for models who are 'many meters away' and for significant mode

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