On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:22 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> 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://mediadeco
Those of you who have been around for a few years may remember
user:Tlogmer, aka Ben Yates -- co-author with Charles Matthews and I
on "How Wikipedia Works."
I got an email from his mother this morning with the very sad news
that Ben passed away yesterday. I do not know the details. He was in
his
ngest advocates of producing good
Wikimedia merchandise!
cheers,
phoebe
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Those of you who have been around for a few years may remember
> user:Tlogmer, aka Ben Yates -- co-author with Charles Matthews and I
> on "How Wikipedia W
For another take on encyclopedias & EB -- Karen Christensen, who is a
lovely person, fan of Wikipedia and the head of Berkshire publishing,
which publishes specialty encyclopedias, has a few blog posts up:
http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/
I thought this was especially interesting:
"An art
Hi all,
The next WMF Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for March 30-31,
2012 in Berlin, held with the chapters meeting.
The agenda is now posted here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_meetings/March_30-31,_2012
Wikimedia Chapters Meeting information:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w
nding at least some time actually
> discussing that end?
>
> On 25 March 2012 18:33, phoebe ayers wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The next WMF Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for March 30-31,
>> 2012 in Berlin, held with the chapters meeting.
>>
>> The a
During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on
Trustee voting transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency
asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees
with their votes for each resolution.
best,
Pho
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 8:16 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Dalton
> wrote:
>> On 31 March 2012 06:45, John Vandenberg wrote:
>>> There is no requirement to know everything. There is a requirement to
>>> make decisions in the best interests of the organisa
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 31 March 2012 22:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>> P.s.: It's a bit weird to focus so much on the reasons to oppose; why should
>> opposing be justified /more/ than supporting?
>
> There's supposed to be a Q&A coming that will explain t
Dear all,
The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with
the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the
meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are published
here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions
* "Recognizing models
Hi all,
The Board has published a Q&A document around the recently published
fundraising & funds dissemination resolutions.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Board_FAQ
It's quite long -- sorry! -- but hopefully informative. Note that we
did this as everyone was tr
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with
> the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the
> meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are p
wer are. As a movement, we have a very poor record of
> following through on our trials with proper evaluations and that is
> because we never actually plan them out at the start. It is really
> important that we don't make that mistake again here.
>
> On 5 April 2012 18:35, phoe
Fwd'ing to F-l in case you did not read the Signpost this week... this
is WONDERFUL, thank you so much to the Signpost and to the Research
Committee.
The amount of research done on and about Wikipedia has grown
substantially over the last few years, and has gotten a good deal more
sophisticated as
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Sarah wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:16, Béria Lima wrote:
>> I receveid two mails:
>>
>> 1. To my main account (Beria) in portuguese.
>>
>> 2. To one of my bot accounts, in english.
>>
>> So, i will guess that the language is chosen based in the home wiki (m
Jan -- thanks for your work exploring systems -- I think it's
definitely worth trying out for a test and agree it's worth trying to
support participation. You note in the bug that there could be
different sections for the different projects -- I've also always
wanted a meta-focused Q&A site for all
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Andre Engels wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:25 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Risker wrote:
>> > I have a hard
>> > time understanding why people think chapters are representative of the
>> > community. They're repres
Dear all,
The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
summary, meant to help share our work with the community and movement, and
help make Board work and trustee activities more accessible & trans
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> phoebe ayers wrote:
> > The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
> > first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
> > summary, meant to help share our work w
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:19 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
>
>> phoebe ayers wrote:
>> > The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find
>> the
>> > first report, covering May and
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_accountability for discussion.
Note: for those currently at Wikimania, please feel free to ask us questions
in person as well as on the list or on meta.
best,
Phoebe Ayers
(2011-12 Board Secretary)
---
The Board of Trustees
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> On 8/5/2011 7:17 PM, Nathan wrote:
> > John's e-mail reads like a suggestion that the Foundation negotiated
> > in bad faith. I hope this isn't the case, although the references made
> > to consulting with outside auditors and meetings of the
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 9 August 2011 18:29, geni wrote:
> > On 9 August 2011 08:18, David Gerard wrote:
> >> On 9 August 2011 05:13, Kirill Lokshin
> wrote:
>
> >>> This is all very true, and very insightful; but what does it have to do
> with
> >>> chapters?
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
> On 8/11/2011 7:08 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> > Anyway, thanks for raising the importance of decentralization. The
> > Board agrees: there's a reason it was first in our list of principles.
> > To my mind "decent
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Birgitte SB wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >____
> >rom: phoebe ayers
> >To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> >Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:13 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters
> >
That's really unfortunate :(
The best way I can think of to honor his recent contributions is to have a
look at his meta userpage:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alecmconroy
which is filled with all sorts of good and ambitious ideas about the future
of our projects, and begin to discuss them
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:58 AM, church.of.emacs.ml <
church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 08/14/2011 11:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> > I support the idea of language contact persons, or ambassadors, but
> > their appointment shouldn't be as rigidly regulated as the appointment
> > of
Every time we've run an election of any kind with emails, to the best of my
knowledge, the email has caused a huge jump in participation. This time,
sending the email led to an additional 5000 votes overnight, which more than
doubled the total vote count. I don't have the numbers to hand, but we s
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 01:17:15PM -0700, phoebe ayers wrote:
> > This week, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously
> > passed a resolution addressing the issue of controversial content on
> > the pro
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:
> phoebe ayers, 04/08/2011 07:29:
> > The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
> > first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
> > summary, meant to hel
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:21:23PM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > Board was aware of that, as the first Robert Harris' report included
> > very similar text from Canadian librarian association.
>
> I would then like to point out that there is
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:20 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 27 August 2011 09:04, wrote:
>> On Aug 26, 2011 11:12am, David Gerard wrote:
>>> On 26 August 2011 16:06, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> > This labeling is proposed to be done on the basis not of the regular
>>> > commons
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> Well, it seems that every year we choose locations that for one reason or
> the other are likely not to be accessible to some groups or nationality (I
> hear complaints every year about these issues)(no judgements, just a fact).
> So I agree th
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>
> On Monday 05 September 2011 03:53 AM, Kim Bruning wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 11:54:44PM +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Yes, exactly! You're smart! :-)
Now, one definition of censorship is :
* Filtering on the basis
FYI: the minutes from the August 3rd, 2011 Board meeting in Haifa (the
Wikimania meeting) are now posted:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-08-03
Regards,
Phoebe Ayers
p.s. Digression on minutes:
Since I recently had to learn the process by which board minutes are
written and
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Tempodivalse wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> 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 n
chapter:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_District_of_Columbia
-- Phoebe Ayers
___
Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed
to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its
better understood? If so, it would
> probably be helpful to link them from the minutes :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lodewijk
>
> Am 12. September 2011 19:27 schrieb phoebe ayers :
>
>> FYI: the minutes from the August 3rd, 2011 Board meeting in Haifa (the
>> Wikimania me
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:53 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 11 September 2011 17:22, Kim Bruning wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:38:38AM -0700, Sue Gardner wrote:
>
>>> I wrote the questions, with Phoebe and SJ, in Boston at the Wikipedia
>>> in Higher Ed conference.
>>> It's not a secret --
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:01 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Fae wrote:
>>> Fae wrote:
Is there a link somewhere to the total budget and actual staff costs
of the referendum?
>>>
>>> This was asked very early on:
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/Archive1#Cost
>>
>>
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Fae wrote:
> Thanks Phoebe. I'm glad to hear that the WMF has used almost no
> donated money in staff costs running this global referendum.
>
> As a member of the board you may want to consider what it means in
> terms of operational accountability if such a large
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Tobias Oelgarte
wrote:
> 86% of the German contributers opposed the feature. Does the same
> pattern apply to the global poll, or was it just the difference in
> question? We don't know as long per project data isn't released. I
> repeatedly asked for this data for
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:10 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:>
>>
>> This seems like an over-hasty statement. There are many possible
>> categorization schemes that are neutral; the ALA in fact makes that
>
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
>
>> http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/
>> Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take. Naturally, please
>> discuss the blog on the blog and not t
Of interest:
Benjamin Mako Hill is giving a talk at the Berkman Center on October
11, entitled: "Almost Wikipedia: What Eight Collaborative Encyclopedia
Projects Reveal About Mechanisms of Collective Action"
It will be webcast:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/10/makohill
cheers,
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> On 9 October 2011 14:18, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>> On 9 October 2011 13:55, Ting Chen wrote:
The majority of editors who responded to the referendum are not opposed
to the feature. However, a significant minority
So cool! Thank you, WMF reports team! I look forward to hearing how
the experiment works :)
Phoebe
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Tilman Bayer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as mentioned in last week's announcement of the September 2011
> Wikimedia Foundation report, this time we published a separate
> "Hig
Following up on last year's OSTP call for comments (which I also sent
to foundation-l), the US government is seeking public comment on more
technical questions (including policy, repository and standards
development) related to sharing federally-funded scholarly data and
publications. This process
Hi all,
The Sept-Oct activity report for the Board of Trustees is published on
Meta here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_Reports/September-October,_2011
This is an informal report that we started doing a few months ago to
try and communicate more about what the board and individual trustees
All,
Minutes for the October 7-8 meeting of the WMF Board are now posted:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-10-07
Sorry about the long delay on getting these up.
best,
Phoebe
--
* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
gmail.com *
--
* I use this
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Itzik Edri wrote:
> 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 with all the footage and the edited videos to
> t
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:08 AM, emijrp wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> Looks like Wikimedia Foundation is very worried about censorship and the
> cut off of fundraising payment processors. Now.
>
> What did WMF do when WikiLeaks domains were seized and its fundraising
> payment processors (PayPal, Visa, Mas
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Just wanted to let you know that I got word a few minutes ago that today's
> SOPA markup meeting will be using a new tool that allows for public input
> into the markup. Shortly before 8:30, you'll see the SOPA bill replac
Mateus, you misunderstood me. I am not saying we should only use it
after the bill is approved; that would indeed be pointless. I am
saying that this could be a very good time to strike, but it would
have to be right now, as we speak, this morning. And if the bill does
pass this vote, then it goes
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 31 December 2011 19:28, Zack Exley wrote:
>> Geni - You're being mean. On New Years Eve! Happy New Years!
>
> Neither Geni's meanness or the date are relevant to the point he was
> making. It certainly seems to be the case that the WMF
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:16 PM, MF-Warburg wrote:
> On Incubator we have in this year for the first time compiled an
> end-of-the-year review in order to inform people about what is going on on
> Incubator / new wikis.
>
> The version on-wiki can be found on
> http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/
A bit of context for those who haven't been following those pages -- a
draft of those principles (going hand in hand with funds dissemination
principles) was proposed by the WMF board and submitted for community
review and input. After a few months of this, the board is now voting
to approve a fina
Thanks Kevin :) Yes, I am a professional librarian who follows such
things (and listens to NPR!) and I somehow missed this story. I don't
think it is a well known or reported on event. Thank you for bringing
it to everyone's attention, it sounds like a tragedy. Following David,
if anyone has sugges
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
> Relatedly, where is the updated, latest discussion on what Wikimedia's
> response (if anything) is going to be?
> Presumably there is are several on-wiki debates, but because there are
> different potential "levels" of blackout (all project blac
Should be fixed now; right at the very beginning it was blacked out
accidentally. . -- phoebe
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Chris Lee wrote:
> The "Learn More" link at en.wp is blocked too.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Minh Huy (WMF) wrote:
>
>> Landing page SOPA on Vietnamese Wikipedi
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, George Herbert
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, FT2 wrote:
>> It's worth pointing out the discussion was open from 15 December to 16
>> January before any close.
>
> No, there was informal discussion going back into December. "The
> discussion" - the con
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:
> MZMcBride, 21/01/2012 01:19:
>
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies#Policies lists policies of
>> the
>> Wikimedia Foundation.
>>
>> Would it make sense to sub-divide these policies into sub-lists? It seems
>> very strange
Hi all,
The WMF Board of Trustees is planning our winter meeting for next
weekend. The draft agenda is posted here for comment:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_Meetings/February_3-4,_2012
This is a very full agenda, focusing on three main topics: the WMF
annual planning process for
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Kat Walsh wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers
> wrote:
>> Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it
>> omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to
>> discuss blackouts, SOPA and lo
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, En Pine wrote:
>
> Phoebe,
>
> On this agenda, could you give more detail about the topic "Paid editing
> discussion"? There is a current discussion on EN at the Village Pump
> regarding, among other things, PR personnel who edit on Wikipedia in ways
> that migh
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> "Wikipedia" would only satisfy the license if the author specifically
>> said that was ok. The FAQ says there will not be a requirement to
>> designate "Wikipedia" or anything else to rec
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM, geni wrote:
...
> Secondly you hit the issue that the license states that attribution
> should be reasonable "reasonable to the medium or means". Quite apart
> from the problem that this will vary from legal system to legal system
> the range of medium means that th
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Anthony wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Anthony wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
>>
>>> Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> > My complaint was that the WMF was (and still is) copying and
>>> > distributing my copyrighted content in a
Belated announcement:
New Foundation-l summary posted on LSS:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_January_1-15
(the last summary for December was also posted a couple weeks ago:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2008_December_15-31)
I am behind on
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> First, we think it's wonderful that O'Reilly has done this; TMM is a
> fantastic book and a great introduction for newbies. (We have been
> giving copies away as gifts for a while.) I believe Frank is planning
> to blog about this in more deta
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/1/22 Erik Moeller :
>> Because I don't think it's good to discuss attribution as an abstract
>> principle, just as an example, the author attribution for the article
>> [[France]] is below, excluding IP addresses. According to the view
>
Hi all,
1) There's a new list summary here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_January_16-31
2) Can someone *please* do a huge community service, and work on a
page on Meta that summarizes some of the community concerns re: the
licensing proposal, before voting starts?
I'm pleased to announce the newest issue of the The Wikipedia Signpost:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
which has several important changes:
* A new editor: User:Sageross has agreed to take over as editor in
chief from User:Ral315, who was editor from Sept. 2005-Dec. 2008
Ha! That's user:Ragesoss, real name Sage Ross, who is taking over the
'Post. Clearly I need a good editor before my stories go to print!
-- phoebe
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the newest issue of the The Wikipedi
A friendly reminder to bidding or potentially bidding cities that the
deadline to add your city's name to the bid page for Wikimania 2010:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids
is March 7th, next weekend.
There is still time to add information to your bid after March 7th,
but no furt
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Anthony wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Marco Chiesa wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote:
>> > And yes, 80% of people ranked one of 4 options which I consider
>> > unacceptable
>> > first. But then, 67% of people would have done so
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Mike Godwin wrote:
> Phoebe writes:
>
> This is a very small, self-selected sample; there would be
>> no harm or cost associated with turning it on for a much larger
>> percentage (or all) of logged-in users on the top-ten languages, not
>> just English or German a
For what it's worth, what Nathan says basically sums up my concerns as
well. I think for a (relatively informal, community-opinion) survey
it's less important to have an absolutely rigorous methodology (not
what I was asking for) than it is to ask the question: is this good
enough for our purposes?
://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=SERIES11299&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=SERIES11299&part=series&WantType=Proceedings&title=ISW
The conference is colocated with OOPSLA 2009. For more, see:
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/
-- Phoebe
Hello all,
Bidding is now closed for Wikimania 2010! The bidding cities are
Oxford, Amsterdam, Gdansk, and Philadelphia.
The bidding cities now have a month to complete work on their bids,
after which a public meeting will be held to answer questions and the
Jury will evaluate the bids.
Also, a
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
> I am curious to know if there is a wiki page somewhere, summarizing the
> major points (and differences) between the different languages BLP
> policies (and actually, if there is or not a BLP policy...).
>
> Did someone create that compar
Here's the summary for foundation-l for Mar 1-15:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_March_1-15
and here's the one for Feb. 16-29:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_February_16-28
My apologies for the delay on both of these!
And again, if an
Dear foundation-l,
1) summaries for March are posted:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS#Foundation-l
2) please, if you have some sort of community news (a big chapter or
meetup group event? goings-on on your wiki? some proposal on meta we
should all know about?) don't forget to post it to the mai
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
Ting will be up in July; and Frieda still needs to be replaced).
Perhaps someone
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/5/1 Samuel Klein :
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton
>> wrote:
>>> 2009/4/30 Samuel Klein :
I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some 300-year stances on
knowledge dissemination,
>>>
>>> Did you mean
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:08 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Dalton
> wrote:
>> 2009/5/1 Samuel Klein :
>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton
>>> wrote:
>>>> 2009/4/30 Samuel Klein :
>>>>&g
Right. Milos' point is a good one, and should be written up carefully
in all of the job descriptions for this particular project -- and
probably all of the job descriptions in general for the Foundation.
"Must be willing" doesn't seem quite strong enough for making the
point that this position has
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Sue Gardner wrote:
> Just a few quick notes.
>
> A couple of quick comments on posts earlier in this thread:
>
> * Thanks Milos for advocating on behalf of a permanent Research Analyst! I
> want this too. I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do with the role
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:13 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/5/5 Aryeh Gregor :
>
>> Of course, since all of Wikimedia's data is freely available, anyone
>> else who'd like to store it in some durable form for any sum of money
>> is absolutely free to do so. Or they could give Wikimedia a directed
r bid review is included below. Putting together a
great Wikimania bid is a major undertaking, and we are grateful to all
the bid teams for doing so with style.
With respect and thanks,
Phoebe Ayers
On behalf of the Wikimania 2010 venue selection committee
Voting members:
Ting Chen
Austin Hair
Mo
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> Parul Vora wrote:
>> Thanks for all of the feedback, comments, and support. I just wanted to
>> let you know that our full report (including highlight videos!!) is now
>> up our the Usability Initiative's project wiki:
>>
>> http://usabilit
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> El 5/8/09 9:21 PM, phoebe ayers escribió:
>> About this: on en:wp, at least, under user preferences/gadgets, users
>> can turn this on themselves by clicking the "Add an [edit] link for
>> the lead section of
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Marco Chiesa wrote:
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
>>> The licensing update poll has been tallied.
>>>
>>> "Yes, I am in favor of this change" : 13242 (75.8%)
>>> "No, I am opposed
This may be of interest to some Wikimedia contributors. The Digital
Open is a competition for youth (under 17) around the world to create
innovative free & open technology projects. There's an associated
online contest that is running this summer (I'm a judge :)). The call
below is for "stewards" t
Good news from the Tamil WP community.
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From: Kiruba @ Kiruba.com
Date: Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Tamil Wikipedia Academy at 3 PM Today
To: wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi fellow Wikipedians,
Wikipedia Academy is a free platfor
After an unintentional long delay, there are short summaries of
foundation-l posted now for:
April: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_April_1-30
May: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_May_1-31
and the first half of June:
http://meta.wikimedia
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/6/28 Samuel Klein :
>> Wikipedia does not take an article, nor does Wikimedia.
>
> As far as I'm concerned "Wikimedia" doesn't exist as a proper noun.
> It's just an adjective: "the Wikimedia Foundation", "the Wikimedia
> movement", "the
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Gerard
Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> The signpost is something of the English Wikipedia. I do not frequent there.
> Also you are wrong on principles when you expect people of this list to give
> the English Wikipedia all their attention. This is after all the foundation
Dear all,
New list summaries for the past month:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_June_15-30
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_July_1-15
I swear I'll try to get back on a bi-weekly schedule. Note: If anyone
wants to try their hand at summar
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> * Could you please help update the meta page on the process with your
>> thoughts and ideas? [[m:Strategic planning 2009]] What's your current
>> rough timeline for the coming 12 mon
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