[Foundation-l] new survey of digital collection copyrights

Relevant to the NPG et al discussion: "Unless Otherwise Indicated: A Survey of Copyright Statements on Digital Library Collections", by Melanie Schlosser. published in "College and Research Libraries", v.70(4), pp371-385 (July 2009). Unfortunately it's not freely available online, but if y

Re: [Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

Dear everyone, As a reminder, we also discussed suffrage requirements on this list last year: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-April/042105.html As a response to concerns over the proposed requirement that there be 50 edits between April and June before the election, this per

Re: [Foundation-l] Geonotice improvements that could make Wikinews great (among other benefits)

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Sage Ross wrote: > One of the great frustrations of Wikinews for me is that it doesn't > have a system for identifying and pointing users toward opportunities > to get out into the offline world and do original reporting.  A > fine-grained cross-project opt-in geono

Re: [Foundation-l] presentations and marketing @ events

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Austin Hair wrote: > I think everyone will agree that we need to come up with a better > event kit, and at least two of the current proposals on the strategy > wiki refer to that.  I don't think we need to wait for any kind of > formal process to get started on it,

[Foundation-l] new LSS

New list summary: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_July_16-31 by request, I added links to gmane to this version as well as to our own list archives. Please let me know if this is useful -- I'm happy to do it, but it takes twice as long! regards, Phoebe -- * I use t

Re: [Foundation-l] Board election spamming

Thomas, On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > I have just received an email telling me I am eligible to vote in the > board elections when I have already voted. Please don't send > untargetted mass emails - they are spam. You think nothing of routinely filling up all of the list

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Election vote strikes

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Brian wrote: >> This comment makes my skin crawl. Everyone is entitled to have a voice and >> it is only the Board's impoverished vision of the community and limited ... > > Brian, I like many things you say wh

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

-- Forwarded message -- From: Reid Priedhorsky Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles To: wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org On 08/20/2009 11:34 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On T

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikisource-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Joshua Gay wrote: > > I think it would be easy to build upon this work and one could do a really > powerful MW extension (and maybe some new templates, etc) that would allow > people to contribute to both MW and OL simultaneously. > > I think that the OL should cont

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Thank you!

Indeed, what Florence & everyone said -- this year's Wikimania was fantastic. There were several details that especially shone: - the great swag; the book was my favorite part - the welcome dinner and all the nice information for arriving attendees - the tight moderation & room volunteer team, who

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:17 AM, David Goodman wrote: > It is possible that there is a difference between what the WMF is > interested in and what the community is interested in, something which > makes itself evident when there is no responses from people in the > various projects. . I'm aware th

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study Update

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:49 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:17 AM, David Goodman wrote: >> It is possible that there is a difference between what the WMF is >> interested in and what the community is interested in, something which >> makes itself evi

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

Congratulations to Farsi and Slovene! For those who don't know, there's a milestones page here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News Which I've always found fascinating to watch (for instance, this month Ewe Wikipedia doubled in size, due entirely to football related articles by user:foo

[Foundation-l] peer production & software book

There's a new MacArthur Foundation/MIT Press book out called "Peer Participation and Software: What Mozilla Has to Teach Government" that I think many people here might find relevant & interesting. It describes Mozilla's processes, heavily focusing on the roles of volunteer developers and evangelis

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] LocalWiki project needs your support

This is spammy and OT -- but still may be of interest to people on this list. I can vouch for the awesomeness of the localwiki project, which is trying to make local and city wikis (like the amazing Davis Wiki, which serves my hometown) for the world. Free, local, open and nonprofit -- and they're

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [Wikimedia Foundation Blog] Article feedback pilot goes live

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > 2010/9/22 Guillaume Paumier : >> Link to the original article: >> >> http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/ >> >> As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're >> launching an experi

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation-l word cloud

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > wrote: > >> Milos Rancic, 04/10/2010 11:29: >> > May you exclude headers from the cloud? >> >> Well, I did. Which additional (parts of) headers would you like to >> exclude? (Suggest the

[Foundation-l] xkcd's map of the internet

xkcd's updated somewhat-but-not-strictly-scientific map of social communities, where the size of website "territories" is determined by the size of their userbase & activity, is out: http://xkcd.com/802/ a) it's hilarious b) look at how tiny wikimedia talk pages are! cf 2007 where we were a whole

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Staff Addition: Mani Pande as Senior Research Analyst, Global Development

Welcome Mani! As always don't hesitate to ask the community if you have questions large or small about how Wikimedia works :) (and the Institute for the Future is pretty cool... I have a t-shirt of theirs that is one of my favorites) best, Phoebe On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Barry Newstead

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Robert S. Horning wrote: > On 10/17/2010 11:01 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Fred Bauder wrote: >> >>> This list is for people who support the project, not those who are >>> actively opposing it or criticizing in public forums in exaggerated ways. >>> >> Please don't st

[Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Risker wrote: > On 20 October 2010 16:47, Muhammad Yahia wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Risker wrote: >> >> > >> > The board defines both "community" and "chapter". I'm not sure that the >> > board does ultimately answer to the community; there's no

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

Hi Risker! On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Risker wrote: > > >> >> changing the subject line because I think we've ranged pretty far away >> from the original subject of moderation >> >> As the person who was selected via this process I feel the need to jump in >> :) >> >> I agree that the

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:30 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > While I am a man with many issues, I'm sure it won't surprise anyone > to learn that I am a single issue voter. ;-) > > "How much has the candidate done, on the ground, for the projects > other than Wikipedia?" > > Over the years there ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Ban and moderate

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Three days after the announcement made by Austin Hair on behalf of > this list administrators, which also includes Ral315 and > AlexandrDmitri, that Greg Kohs was banned and Peter Damian moderated, > this much has been accomplished b

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > The "controversial content" study by Robert Harris and Dory Carr-Harris was > completed a few weeks ago. > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Wikimedia_Study_of_Controversial_Content > > What is the board's view of the recommendations that

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:47 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > I also don't understand who would want a printed copy of a Wikipedia > article. It seems antithetical to the point of the Internet and the creation > of an online encyclopedia. The last time I used the Special:Book extension was not on Wikiped

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:05 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 12 November 2010 17:34, Anthony wrote: > >> These are all questions which would have to be answered before WMF >> should even consider getting involved.  To cover itself legally it >> should have the agreement of Larry Sanger, the Tides C

Re: [Foundation-l] PediaPress

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM, SlimVirgin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 13:59, Ting Chen wrote: >> I know that also this example is not without flaw, as comparisons always >> are. What I want to say is, if a company can provide us a service that >> we really desperately need and we cannot g

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > For some time I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I don't know any > African American Wikimedian. For some time just because I am living in > a European country without African population, so everything seemed to > me quite normal for a long

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> For some time I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I don't know any >> African American Wikimedian. For some time just because I am living in >> a European country without African population, so everything seemed to >> me quite normal for a lon

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> For some time I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I don't know any >> African American Wikimedian. For some time just because I am living in >> a European country without African population, so everything seemed to >> me quite normal for a lon

Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Dan Rosenthal wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Noein wrote: > >> Thank you everybody for explaining your views. >> Most of the US inhabitants who answered me seem to be living and >> believing in a hierarchical and competitive world where the highest >> rank

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:02 AM, private musings wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought I'd note for those interested in the latest from the > community side of the 'controversial content' discussions - the > Commons 'Sexual Content' proposal has just gone into a polling stage > for the second time; > > ht

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:58:02PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote: > > > Ok, people wanting to run F/L/OSS/Wiki projects with me, send me a mail, > and I'll sort things out. If citizendium wants to run  on my > system then I'll at least give it a try

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I > opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete > backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001! > > This is exciting, because there

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

FYI, there is an existing timeline at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline And lots of other wikipedia history pages on English, too. :) Phoebe On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Moka Pantages wrote: > This is so exciting!  To Steven's point: we've also started a page > where folk

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Brian J Mingus, 15/12/2010 01:36: >> Here is an interesting bit of history - the Wikipedia logo was first an >> American flag. Then Scott Moonen suggested we make it a globe: > > No news, this is already on Meta: > http://meta.wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi, > > wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back for > one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to see > enwiki go back to the american flag, but perhaps the round text logo would > lead

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

Just another in the long tradition of Wiki-songs with revisionist lyrics! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Humor_songs_and_poems :) phoebe, who has -- *ahem* -- sung at least two of these in public On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > In German there was a children's t

[Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

Hi all, Back in September we had an open community IRC meeting, where we introduced the new Trustees and talked about various issues. It was pretty successful and we discussed afterwards making such "community meetings" a regular event. I'd like to revive this idea :) I've made a proposal for hav

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Pharos wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Adrignola > wrote: >>> >>> I agree that the edit restrictions on the WMF wiki are very >>> unfortunate and there's still much more that can be done (perhaps one >>> day leading toward www.wikimedia.org as a s

Re: [Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?

Thank you for the update Mido. I certainly hope all our Wikimedian colleagues are ok and would welcome any news if anyone has any. I know we are all thinking about our friends as the situation in Egypt progresses. best, phoebe On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Mohamed Ibrahim wrote: > Unfortunate

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> >> I think it would do us a lot of good to be able to recombine all of >> these topics so when we are looking for a calendar or a presentation >> bank or

[Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

if you can help moderate. Looking forward to it, Phoebe On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Hi all, > > Back in September we had an open community IRC meeting, where we > introduced the new Trustees and talked about various issues. It was > pretty successful an

Re: [Foundation-l] Changes to the identification policies and procedures

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Steven Walling wrote: >> These changes were going to be discussed and documented in public... > [...] >> Speaking as an OTRS volunteer not as a staff member (this initiative isn't >> part of my job)... > > I don't follow. How do you know that thes

Re: [Foundation-l] Changes to the identification policies and procedures

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Steven Walling wrote: >>> These changes were going to be discussed and documented in public... >> [...] >>> Speaking as an OTRS volunteer not as a st

Re: [Foundation-l] Data Summit Streaming

Sweet! Thank you Jon. -- phoebe On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jon Davis wrote: > Once again, I get the joys of bringing you all fun video streams!  Today's > stream(s) comes from the Data Summit [1] at O'Reilly HQ.  Unlike my last set > of feeds (WCWC11/WikiX), this one should be basically all

Re: [Foundation-l] Changes to the identification policies and procedures

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:59 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > phoebe ayers wrote: >> It seems to me that a good-faith interpretation is that not announcing >> changes right this second was the right thing to do -- since there was >> so much controversy among OTRS agents the staff may c

Re: [Foundation-l] Changes to the identification policies and procedures

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM, whothis wrote: > I agree with Brigitte completely. > > Phoebe, love you for trying to answer this but I don't completely agree with > your assumptions. This seems to be going on more and more recently with the > staff. There seems to be a huge communication gap her

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

2011/2/6 KIZU Naoko : > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:21 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> Reminder that an open community meeting is proposed for this Saturday, >> Feb. 5. on IRC: freednode#wikimedia >> >> Please add your agenda items! >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:02 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > 2011/2/6 KIZU Naoko : >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:21 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: >>> Reminder that an open community meeting is proposed for this Saturday, >>> Feb. 5. on IRC: freednode#wikimedia >>> >&g

[Foundation-l] CC "open attribute" released

this is just awesome: http://openattribute.com/ Born at the Drumbeat festival, just released! See the backstory: http://mollykleinman.com/2011/02/07/announcing-open-attribute/ -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers gmail.com * _

Re: [Foundation-l] CC "open attribute" released

2011/2/7 Delphine Ménard : > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:33 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> this is just awesome: >> http://openattribute.com/ >> >> Born at the Drumbeat festival, just released! See the backstory: >> http://mollykleinman.com/2011/02/07/announcing-open-at

Re: [Foundation-l] CC "open attribute" released

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Teofilo wrote: > I have just uploaded the Firefox addon. Although it works perfectly on > http://www.flickr.com/photos/75062596@N00/164893152 , it is not > working perfectly on the corresponding Wikimedia Commons page at > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Om%

Re: [Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: > >> >> One suggestion I made was that, since communication between office and >> community is so critical, it might be worth the foundation employing one >> person at the office purely for community/office liaison (via this list, >> on >> Meta,

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content -- update

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Could Phoebe, Jan-Bart or Kat please give us an update on the activities of > the working group looking into the recommendations resulting from the 2010 > Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content? > > Have any conclusions been drawn, and are

Re: [Foundation-l] Licenses' biodiversity : my big disagreement with the Wikimedia usability initiative's software specifications

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Teofilo wrote: > I think the upload wizard should > > - allow non-CC licenses such as License art libre, or GNU GPL, GNU > LGPL, Open Source Music License, etc... > - when CC licenses are chosen, allow to pick up licenses from any > version (2.0 or 2.5 or 3.0) and

Re: [Foundation-l] VPAT

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:27 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 20 February 2011 13:09, aude wrote: > >> Section 508, widely used beyond government, is a benchmark to allow us >> to assess how we do in this regard. > > > Yep. 508 compliance for software is considered simply good practice, > even if you

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > In Berlin, in parallel to the MediaWiki hackathon, > members of the language > committeeof the > Wikimedia > Foundation will

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Renata St wrote: >> >> This is to some degree a question of balance in approach. >> >> Every day, thousands of absolutely idiotic, non notable articles get >> started that really have no point or hope.  Every day, new page >> patrollers find (most) of those, and th

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > Would it make sense to have a "be nice" session at Wikimania to share all > kinds of experiences and best practices around this topic? > Phoebe, you sound like the ultimate person to organize such a session (in > case you did not yet propose such)

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Sue Gardner wrote: >> I spent some time this weekend on New User Contributions on the >> English Wikipedia, reading the talk pages of new people who'd been >> trying to make constructive edits. I was trying to imagine the world >> through their e

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Marc Riddell wrote: > >> On 3/1/2011 2:46 PM, Birgitte SB wrote: >>> Ambiguity is only a bad thing when someone knows exactly what they want and >>> they >>> choose to be unclear about it rather than when is someone aware of a general >>> need while being somewhat o

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:39 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Andrew Gray wrote: >> Here's one line of reasoning: >> >> a) Our fundraising was effective (it brought in money) but also pretty >> tedious for readers - it relied heavily on variants of one banner, >> with the side-effect that millions upon milli

[Foundation-l] participation in Indic-language wikis

Shiju Alex from Malayalam Wikipedia did an analysis of the Indic-language wikis & their active community sizes: http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/indian-language-wikipedias-2010-statistical-report/ It's a really interesting study, and a good reminder of how far we have to go with the small

[Foundation-l] open meeting: March 5

All, In the continuing experiment to revive regular IRC community meetings, I have proposed that the next meeting be this Saturday, March 5: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings#March_5.2C_2011 And in the interests of rotating times and making it available to all parts of the world, I

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On the target itself, I want to note that the strategic plan numbers > aren't set in stone. The financial targets for the 2011-12 fiscal year > are defined in the annual plan process, which just kicked off. This > plan, when approved by the Bo

[Foundation-l] supporting small languages (was WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism)

(changing the thread title) On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > I have proposed to spend 100,000,- Euro and this will make major > improvements for the scripts, the fonts and the standards for the languages > we have a Wikipedia for. This is given the current budget chicken

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > --- On Tue, 8/3/11, Fred Bauder wrote: >> From: Fred Bauder >> Fred Bauder >> I guess I would like editors to have access to archives and >> databases >> such as those ProQuest sells. Not sure how that would fit >> into our >> budget. > > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote: > > > Am 08.03.11 20:20, schrieb phoebe ayers: > >> Most (all?) university libraries sign contracts with database/journal >> vendors restricting access to only faculty/staff/students at the >> university. >

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > 2011/3/8 Juergen Fenn : >> >> >> Am 08.03.11 20:46, schrieb Samuel Klein: >>> Melissa -- absolutely!  I don't know the real stats, but I think we >>> cite OA jornals far more than any others in Wikipedia for this reason. >> >> Which is certai

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011/3/8 Casey Brown : > 2011/3/8 Victor Vasiliev : >> Ты это серьёзно? Мне кажется, письме на двадцатом Google Translate >> всем изрядно надоест. К тому же как быть с просторечиями и >> фразеологизмами, на которых автоматические переводчики постоянно >> спотыкаются? > > It's not perfect, but it's

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:51 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > On 03/08/2011 10:25 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> I'd like to see that tested, personally. More than 50% of the >> Foundation contributors do not write in English, and don't read >> English as a primary language; if this is true, then we sho

[Foundation-l] get your cc project funded

Possibly of interest: Creative Commons is running a workshop in April on how to get a Creative Commons project funded. "The course consists of a series of workshops and seminars that will take you through the steps from an initial idea to having a finished project proposal for submission, including

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 elections - low turnout

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: > Funny, secret ballots are actually meant to discourage cabalism, voting for > favors and voter intimidation. > > But yeah, with both lack of turnout and lack of information on candidates > they do tend to make things easy to manipulate.

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 elections - low turnout

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > What Phoebe of course meant to say was: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_board_manual > > Is a great document containing answers to all the topics you might need > > ;) > > Jan-Bart > > PS: If you have suggestions for topics

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 elections - low turnout

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: > >> I believe that we did this in... 2007, I think? (with open >> endorsements). Anyway, it seemed to lead to cabal-ism and so was >> dropped. > >> -- Phoebe >> > > Don't take this personally, but who is "we" and who are the "cabals"? Who > is

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 elections - low turnout

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:42 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> >>> I believe that we did this in... 2007, I think? (with open >>> endorsements). Anyway, it seemed to lead to cabal-ism and so was >>> dropped. &

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [Announce-l] Wikimédia France report for July - December 2010

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Adrienne Alix wrote: > Dear Chapters, > > Please find below the chapter report of Wikimédia France for July, August, > September, October, November and December 2010. > > It is also available on Meta >

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Sarah wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:10, Jan-Bart de Vreede > wrote: >> It seems that our natural reaction is to immediately question the numbers >> and the underlying studies. We are Wikimedians and will not rest until we >> are sure that we are looking a

Re: [Foundation-l] All wikimedia sites were blocked again in China

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Mingli Yuan wrote: > Hi, folks, > > When I browsed Wikipedia this morning, I found all wikimedia sites were > blocked again in China. > And several others reported blocking by their ISP also. > > Recently Ai WeiWei, a famous artist and activist, were detained by the

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiGuide on Wikisource

So cool!!! Thank you Wikimedia Italia :) Phoebe On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > [sorry for cross-posting] > > Hello everyone. > Wikimedia Italia is proud to announce you the release of the new WikiGuide, > a video tutorial dedicated to Wikisource. > The video, directed by C

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:36 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Risker wrote: >> I'm particularly interested in policy simplification; I know our project has >> far, far too many complex and even contradictory policies, guidelines, and >> miscellaneous pages that result in "alphabet soup" messages that even >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Sarah wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 13:54, phoebe ayers wrote: >> * "how do I delete an article?" and its counterpart: "why was my >> article deleted?" >> * "how do I merge/split an article?" >> * "

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 14:50 -0400, ext Pharos wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: >> > Perhaps it would be helpful if, when creating a new account, a user could >> > write a short message about what would they like

Re: [Foundation-l] Marjon Bakker working for Wikimedia Nederland

Hurray! Welcome Marjon to a new role, and congratulations to the Dutch chapter :) -- phoebe On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Dear friends, > > Today is Marjon Bakker's first day in the office of the Dutch chapter, > our first paid coworker in Utrecht. For the next six mont

[Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias

Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these sites were: catalan.wikipedia.com chinese.wikipedia.com esperanto.wikipedia.com french.wikipedia.com de

Re: [Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Marco Chiesa wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:13 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years >> since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. >> Originally with spe

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome Wikimedia Macau

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I'd like to publicly welcome our colleagues at Wikimedia Macau on being > recognized as a Wikimedia Chapter. congratulations to Macau! > May you create and share much knowledge! :) We need to start collecting wiki-toast

Re: [Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > On 5/10/2011 4:13 PM, ext phoebe ayers wrote: >> Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years >> since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. > > Joan and Анатолій have mentioned th

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content -- update

> > How did that go? Any further developments? > > Best, > Andreas > > > > --- On Sun, 20/2/11, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > >> From: Andreas Kolbe >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content -- >> update >> To: "phoebe

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Thomas Morton wrote: > So, just a quick thought for future reference - during maintenance is it > possible in future to update the error message to explain that maintenance > is ongoing? I work with lots of (library) databases, and standard practice for these serv

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

tings#June_4.2C_2011 best, Phoebe On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Hi all, > > Back in September we had an open community IRC meeting, where we > introduced the new Trustees and talked about various issues. It was > pretty successful and we discussed af

[Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

has worked on this issue, and special thanks to Robert and Dory Harris for their hard work. -- Phoebe Ayers, on behalf of the Board working group and the Board ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://li

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On 06/01/2011 11:05 PM, Michael Snow wrote: >> On 6/1/2011 2:03 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: >>> "Wikimedia projects are curated and edited collections, according to >>> certain principles: namely, we host only content that is both free and >>> educ

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Alec Conroy wrote: > I feel that basically _is_ the role of the board.   I feel like my > dream board personified is a little like a judo master.   When push to > rule on a dispute, usually they should pull that energy and > productively deflect that energy back to

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Fae wrote: > Briefly responding to a couple of points raised so far: > > Yes, there is a need for a policy as otherwise the WMF would have no > long term operational archive plan. "Self evident" is insufficient in > order to budget and plan in a credible way. If as

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Risker, 02/06/2011 00:53: >> I think the more important part of this announcement is the resolution on >> images of identifiable people  [...] > > I agree. It's also the first time (if memory serves me well and if I > understand it corr

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:52 AM, George Herbert wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:55 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> On 2 June 2011 18:48, Fae wrote: >> >>> In 2016 San Francisco has a major earthquake and the servers and >>> operational facilities for the WMF are damaged beyond repair. The >>> emer

Re: [Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister?

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Scott MacDonald wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l- >> boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Yaroslav M. Blanter >> Sent: 03 June 2011 18:05 >> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List >>

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