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<title>Re: Movement roles letter, Feb 2012</title>
<description>On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Mathias Damour &amp;lt;mathias.damour@laposte.net&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Why would both &amp;quot;Associations&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Affiliates&amp;quot; both need to use</description>
<pubDate>13 Feb  2012 00:41:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271221</link>
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<title>Re: Movement roles letter, Feb 2012</title>
<description>Why would both &amp;quot;Associations&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Affiliates&amp;quot; both need to use Wikimedia marks ? Does OpenStreetMap need it if it gets some grants from the WMF ? I</description>
<pubDate>12 Feb  2012 23:45:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271215</link>
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<title>Movement roles letter, Feb 2012</title>
<description>The Board approves the following letter to be sent to the community: ---- The organizational structure of the Wikimedia movement is growing rapidly:</description>
<pubDate>12 Feb  2012 23:09:11 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271214</link>
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<title>Upcoming deployment of MediaWiki 1.19 to Wikimedia sites.</title>
<description>Greetings, The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki, the software powering Wikipedia and its sister sites, to its latest version. T</description>
<pubDate>12 Feb  2012 05:37:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271119</link>
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<title>Re: Fwd: Right to be Forgotten</title>
<description>&amp;gt; On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:25:56 -0700 (MST), &amp;quot;Fred Bauder&amp;quot; &amp;gt; &amp;lt;fredbaud@fairpoint.net&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt;&amp;gt; I think the biggest problems might involve users who ha</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 11:06:54 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271063</link>
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<title>Re: Fwd: Right to be Forgotten</title>
<description>On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:25:56 -0700 (MST), &amp;quot;Fred Bauder&amp;quot; &amp;lt;fredbaud@fairpoint.net&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; I think the biggest problems might involve users who have be</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 10:39:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271062</link>
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<title>Re: Fwd: Right to be Forgotten</title>
<description>I think the biggest problems might involve users who have been trashed for one reason or another, justified or not. Fred &amp;gt; Is the worry primarily ar</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 10:25:56 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271061</link>
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<title>Re: Fwd: Right to be Forgotten</title>
<description>Risker, 11/02/2012 18:45: &amp;gt; The greatest challenge with the entire notion of vanishing is that it is &amp;gt; intended to be permanent. That is, the person w</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 10:13:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271053</link>
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<title>Re: Fwd: Right to be Forgotten</title>
<description>The greatest challenge with the entire notion of vanishing is that it is intended to be permanent. That is, the person who wants to vanish should not</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 09:45:00 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271052</link>
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<title>Re: Fwd: Right to be Forgotten</title>
<description>Is the worry primarily around article-space, or around Wikipedia users? There&amp;#039;s already http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Courtesy_vanishing, t</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 09:30:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271051</link>
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<title>Re: Waste of money, Wikipediacentrism. - Brazil</title>
<description>Le 25/01/2012 14:51, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton a écrit : &amp;gt; Dear all, &amp;gt; Well as you know, Brazil is a priority, but when spending is a waste. &amp;gt; We have a</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 05:25:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271033</link>
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<title>Re: New project: WikiMake - library of free 3D models?</title>
<description>On 02/09/12 10:39 AM, Chris Lee wrote: &amp;gt; The largest problem I see with this is offering a 3D modelling software &amp;gt; that is free and (somewhat) easy to</description>
<pubDate>11 Feb  2012 02:42:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271026</link>
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<title>Fwd: Right to be Forgotten</title>
<description>Forwarding from internal. The right to vanish... or a part of it... proposed as law. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Symonds &amp;lt;r</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 22:42:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271015</link>
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<title>[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, January 2012</title>
<description>Hi all, please find below the WMF report for January 2012, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version is on Meta: https://meta.wik</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 19:48:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/271013</link>
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<title>Re: New project: WikiMake - library of free 3D models?</title>
<description>On 10 February 2012 12:22, Leinonen Teemu &amp;lt;teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; I do not know enough about file formats, but we naturally would been both</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 14:48:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270987</link>
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<title>Budget for Summer of Research 2011</title>
<description>Because this subject was previously mentioned on Foundation-l and Research-l, I thought that those who are interested in research budgets might want t</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 14:12:18 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270970</link>
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<title>Re: Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links</title>
<description>I put together a short explanation of how clicktracking works, what data it stores and why we use it. I&amp;#039;ll work with Oliver to make sure this is also</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 13:27:58 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270969</link>
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<title>Re: Reminder: IRC office hours in 30 mins. with the new Legal &amp;amp; Community Advocacy team</title>
<description>On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Mono &amp;lt;monomium@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Looks like I missed this.  The logs have been posted: https://meta.wikimedia.or</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 11:40:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270941</link>
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<title>Re: Reminder: IRC office hours in 30 mins. with the new Legal &amp;amp; Community Advocacy team</title>
<description>Looks like I missed this. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Steven Walling &amp;lt;swalling@wikimedia.org&amp;gt;wrote: &amp;gt; Hey folks, &amp;gt; &amp;gt; Just a reminder that in ab</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 11:04:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270940</link>
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<title>Reminder: IRC office hours in 30 mins. with the new Legal &amp;amp; Community Advocacy team</title>
<description>Hey folks, Just a reminder that in about 30 minutes, we&amp;#039;ll be in #wikimedia-office with Geoff, Philippe and the rest of the newly-minted Legal and Co</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 08:36:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270917</link>
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<title>Re: Fundraising Letter Feb 2012</title>
<description>Le 09/02/2012 17:01, Emmanuel Engelhart a écrit : &amp;gt; On 02/09/2012 09:11 AM, Ting Chen wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt;&amp;gt; * The board is sharpening the criteria for payment p</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 07:15:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270906</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>I just want to put in a bit of my opinion. This is simply my opinion. I&amp;#039;m not speaking on behalf of anyone else in the department or at WMF. :) Certa</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 07:06:10 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270905</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>The name is misleading and confusing as best. This very conversation proves it. In consequence, the naming is bad. &amp;quot;On behalf of the community&amp;quot;, but d</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 06:51:16 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270904</link>
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<title>Re: Community Advisory Board / Volunteer Council</title>
<description>Since I obviously think it was a good suggestion, I think it is good to provide a link  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicouncil/Resolution Cheers</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 04:40:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270893</link>
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<title>Re: New project: WikiMake - library of free 3D	models?</title>
<description>On 10.2.2012, at 10.55, Gerard Meijssen wrote: &amp;gt; When you consider a new project, it is important to consider how it will &amp;gt; fit in. Just being able to</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 04:22:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270890</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>Hi All, Firstly, congratulations to Phillipe on a very richly deserved promotion! I&amp;#039;m sure that you will do very well in your new role. However, I</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 04:09:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270889</link>
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<title>Re: Invitation to participate in Wiki Africa project!</title>
<description>On 2/10/12 10:13 AM, francisa@africacentre.net wrote: &amp;gt; Dear Wiki colleagues, &amp;gt; &amp;gt; I am excited to invite members of Wikimedia Foundation  Ah. Hum. Ok</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 03:56:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270888</link>
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<title>Re: Fundraising Letter Feb 2012</title>
<description>Florence, I think you gave a great description of the process, and I agree that we should aim at the degree of transparency achieved in it. Actually,</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 03:35:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270887</link>
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<title>Invitation to participate in Wiki Africa project!</title>
<description>Dear Wiki colleagues, I am excited to invite members of Wikimedia Foundation to participate  in the Wiki Africa project that will expand and incre</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 01:13:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270886</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Theo10011 &amp;lt;de10011@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Then my suggestion would be, rename the department. I think the name&amp;#039;s pretty</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 01:10:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270885</link>
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<title>Re: New project: WikiMake - library of free 3D models?</title>
<description>Hoi, When you consider a new project, it is important to consider how it will fit in. Just being able to have 3d images makes sense when people can vi</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 00:55:49 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270884</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>Hi Philippe, it sounds great. Awesome. But still, it doesn&amp;#039;t make much sense to me, sorry. Saying people can &amp;#039;edit&amp;#039; is of course bound to cheer peop</description>
<pubDate>10 Feb  2012 00:19:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270883</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>I think we&amp;#039;ll be doing some combination of all three of those. But here&amp;#039;s the important part: you tell us. I built out the brainstorming page: pe</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 23:54:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270882</link>
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<title>Community Advisory Board / Volunteer Council</title>
<description>While reading the detailed &amp;quot;Legal and Community Advocacy/LCA Announcement&amp;quot;, on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/LCA_Announcement , I stumbled up</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 23:54:35 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270881</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>I must say that after reading all this and the detailed page with the beautiful graphic I am still confused what the department will actually do. Ther</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 23:42:23 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270880</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Erik Moeller &amp;lt;erik@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Casey Brown &amp;lt;lists@caseybrown.org&amp;gt; wrote</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 22:46:37 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270879</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>Congratulations! I think this is a valuable effort in the right direction. anirudh  On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Erik Moeller &amp;lt;erik@wikimedia.</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 22:44:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270878</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Casey Brown &amp;lt;lists@caseybrown.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;quot;Advocacy&amp;quot; is a much more general term in this context than people &amp;gt; seem</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 22:37:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270877</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Casey Brown &amp;lt;lists@caseybrown.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Theo10011 &amp;lt;de10011@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt;</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 21:02:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270873</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Theo10011 &amp;lt;de10011@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; However, the issue of advocacy is not generally agreed upon by the entire &amp;gt; co</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 20:44:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270872</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>Liam Wyatt wrote: &amp;gt; I imagine that it is this kind of thing that would be in the scope of the &amp;gt; &amp;quot;advocacy&amp;quot; aspect of this new department. Certainly, I</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 20:44:37 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270871</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>2012/2/10 Liam Wyatt &amp;lt;liamwyatt@gmail.com&amp;gt;: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; With the specifics of &amp;quot;is this a political lobbying wing of the WMF or &amp;gt; not&amp;quot;... &amp;gt; I think it is quit</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 20:39:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On 10 February 2012 14:43, MZMcBride &amp;lt;z@mzmcbride.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Philippe Beaudette wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; MZMcBride wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt;&amp;gt; A political (lobbying?) arm of Wi</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 20:28:13 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270869</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>Philippe Beaudette wrote: &amp;gt; MZMcBride wrote: &amp;gt;&amp;gt; A political (lobbying?) arm of Wikimedia? And the Wikimedia community and &amp;gt;&amp;gt; Board have said they&amp;#039;re o</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 19:43:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270865</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;m all for a shift from the community department, and dividing focus between existing community and things like new editor retention. Zack and the co</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 19:39:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On 2/9/12 7:19 PM, Andreas K. wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; &amp;gt; &amp;gt; Well, what do &amp;quot;fighting for content online&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;providing information about &amp;gt; legislative initiatives world</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 19:25:46 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/270863</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Philippe Beaudette &amp;lt;philippe@wikimedia.org&amp;gt;wrote: &amp;gt; I&amp;#039;m not really sure where you get that, MZ. Politics and lobbyi</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 19:19:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>No, I report to Geoff. Geoff is the &amp;quot;Chief&amp;quot; for the legal and community advocacy department. I run the C.A. side of it. :-) On Thu Feb 9 18:48:34</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 18:51:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>I believe Liam puts it very close to how I read the announcement. Does this mean Pb is a Chief now? or will that department still be under community/</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 18:48:34 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>Quite right, inasmuch as any of our jobs can work in that much of an insular fashion. We&amp;#039;ll do quite a bit of dealing with the external community (de</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 18:39:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;ll admit that that&amp;#039;s what I thought it meant when I read it too - that the WMF was setting up a congressional lobbying department. So it&amp;#039;s not that</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 18:35:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>Obviously, we have some ideas - several of them are listed in the announcement page. However, one of the most exciting bits of this is that since i</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 18:35:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On 10 February 2012 02:32, Mono &amp;lt;monomium@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; I think the better question is &amp;quot;what will this department actually do?&amp;quot; &amp;gt; &amp;gt; &amp;quot; For detai</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 18:34:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>I think the better question is &amp;quot;what will this department actually do?&amp;quot; On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Philippe Beaudette &amp;lt;philippe@wikimedia.org&amp;gt;wr</description>
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<title>Re: &amp;quot;We are the media, and so are you&amp;quot; Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh OpEd in Washington Post</title>
<description>Thomas Morton writes: &amp;gt; Politics is a game, a game that politicians are bred to play. I know this &amp;gt; because, having spent several years helping fight</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 18:30:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;m not really sure where you get that, MZ. Politics and lobbying were not mentioned at all. What was mentioned was advocacy... advocacy for the com</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 18:23:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>Geoff Brigham wrote: &amp;gt; Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new &amp;gt; department called the ³Legal and Community Advocacy Depa</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 18:08:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: Facebook Group re pornography on Wikipedia</title>
<description>On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:52 AM, M. Williamson &amp;lt;node.ue@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Yes, and some people don&amp;#039;t like the fact that we tell the truth about, say</description>
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<title>Re: Fundraising Letter Feb 2012</title>
<description>Yes thanks, Florence. My view is that agreeing on a community-driven process (the Funds Dissemination Committee, or Funds Allocation Committee, whate</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 16:40:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>On 9 February 2012 23:49, Geoff Brigham &amp;lt;gbrigham@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new &amp;gt; depar</description>
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<title>Re: &amp;quot;We are the media, and so are you&amp;quot; Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh OpEd in Washington Post</title>
<description>This is something I penned prior to reading this, whilst on holiday. It will probably be published somewhere eventually when complete, but seems direc</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 16:19:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>[Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department &amp;amp; Promotion of Philippe Beaudette</title>
<description>Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new department called the &#039;Legal and Community Advocacy Department.&#039; This new alignm</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 15:49:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia</title>
<description>On 9 February 2012 23:14, George Herbert &amp;lt;george.herbert@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Oliver Keyes &amp;lt;okeyes@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrot</description>
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<title>Re: Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia</title>
<description>On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Oliver Keyes &amp;lt;okeyes@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; As said above...it is being moved ;p Where / on which lists were the loc</description>
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<title>Re: Fundraising Letter Feb 2012</title>
<description>Thanks you so much, Florence. This is really interesting and definitely valuable food for thought - a very good starting point for the conversation ab</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 15:12:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>I believe Brandon is going to give it the once-over pretty soon :) On 9 February 2012 23:09, Mono &amp;lt;monomium@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; I say the design nee</description>
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<description>I say the design needs improvement; I suggest taking a look at Usernoise&amp;lt;http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/usernoise/screenshots/&amp;gt; for a bit of refi</description>
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<description>Ah yeah. From what I understood, what I outline as a process is very similar to any type of academic call of projects/funding in the USA, such as NS</description>
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<description>I wanted to share an experience with regards to a future FDC. During two years, I was a member of the &amp;quot;comité de pilotage&amp;quot; (which I will here transl</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 14:52:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Stuart West &amp;lt;stuwest@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Thanks Ting for posting, Phoebe for jumping in already, and everyone for ques</description>
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<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart &amp;lt;emmanuel@engelhart.org&amp;gt;wrote: &amp;gt; On 02/09/2012 09:11 AM, Ting Chen wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; * The board is shar</description>
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<title>Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] &amp;quot;We are the media, and so are you&amp;quot; Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh OpEd in Washington Post</title>
<description>On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:52:49PM -0500, Jay Walsh wrote: &amp;gt; (Sharing this oped published in the Washington Post today. Will be printed &amp;gt; in tomorrow&amp;#039;</description>
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<description>(Sharing this oped published in the Washington Post today. Will be printed in tomorrow&amp;#039;s paper) http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-are-the-med</description>
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<description>(Sharing this oped published in the Washington Post today. Will be printed in tomorrow&amp;#039;s paper) http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-are-the-med</description>
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<description>On 9 February 2012 20:01, Emmanuel Engelhart &amp;lt;emmanuel@engelhart.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Without any financial autonomy (that means the ability to raise and inv</description>
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<title>Re: Fundraising Letter Feb 2012</title>
<description>On 02/09/2012 09:11 AM, Ting Chen wrote: &amp;gt; * The board is sharpening the criteria for payment processing. Payment &amp;gt; processing is not a natural path</description>
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<title>Re: Fundraising Letter Feb 2012</title>
<description>Thanks Ting for posting, Phoebe for jumping in already, and everyone for questions so far. As the WIkimedia Board member most focused on financial is</description>
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<description>Hi Phoebe, thank you for the clarification and thanks to the board for sharing this kind of summary soon after the meeting. On 9 February 2012 18:08</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 11:17:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia</title>
<description>A couple quick comments: For folks that are interested in this topic, please consider attending Oliver&amp;#039;s Office Hours on the topic. Oliver hosts an</description>
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<title>Re: New project: WikiMake - library of free 3D models?</title>
<description>The largest problem I see with this is offering a 3D modelling software that is free and (somewhat) easy to use. I know some exist, but they are not n</description>
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<title>Re: New project: WikiMake - library of free 3D	models?</title>
<description>On 8.2.2012, at 22.03, Tom Morris wrote: &amp;gt;&amp;gt; I have contacts to the European Fablab folks and we probably could start with them a project on an Incubat</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 10:25:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: Fundraising Letter Feb 2012</title>
<description>Hi Lodewijk, In this board meeting we were trying to see if we had a general consensus on the direction we wanted to go (rather than take a final vot</description>
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<description>That&amp;#039;s the plan. Neil, this is a concern we&amp;#039;ve taken into account; we&amp;#039;ll be testing whether (for example) the presence of the feedback page adds 2,000</description>
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<description>Ting, Thank you for this. I&amp;#039;m confused, though. You say you want to have another month of discussions, but I don&amp;#039;t see any questions in your letter.</description>
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<title>Re: Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia</title>
<description>On 9 February 2012 09:04, &amp;lt;neil@thebabbages.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; I guess my concern is that it may encourage readers to type in suggestions and take it no</description>
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<title>Re: Fundraising Letter Feb 2012</title>
<description>Hi Ting, thank you for the letter. Could you clarify to what extent this is the end decision, and how much discussion/process should be expected ahea</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 01:07:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia</title>
<description>I guess my concern is that it may encourage readers to type in suggestions and take it no further rather than take the next step and begin editing the</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 01:04:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Fundraising Letter Feb 2012</title>
<description>The Board approves the following letter to be sent to the community: Dear members of the Wikimedia Movement, As you are probably aware we have been</description>
<pubDate>09 Feb  2012 00:11:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Re: Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia</title>
<description>Sure..except we weren&amp;#039;t asking contributors to use this feedback to fix up the articles. I do know that even without any standing system to improve it</description>
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<title>Re: Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia</title>
<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Oliver Keyes &amp;lt;okeyes@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; We&amp;#039;ll experiment with wordings as the testing progresses. On your other &amp;gt;</description>
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<title>Re: Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia</title>
<description>We&amp;#039;ll experiment with wordings as the testing progresses. On your other point - again, how can we find this out without testing it? If little is done</description>
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<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Oliver Keyes &amp;lt;okeyes@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; On the first one, no idea - if you have any idea how we can test this &amp;gt; w</description>
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<description>On the first one, no idea - if you have any idea how we can test this without full deployment, please, go ahead. On the second, it should scale; we&amp;#039;re</description>
<pubDate>08 Feb  2012 20:25:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Oliver Keyes &amp;lt;okeyes@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Minata: I imagine the plan is &amp;quot;deploy on enwiki, and if other wikis ask f</description>
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<title>Re: Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia</title>
<description>On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Oliver Keyes &amp;lt;okeyes@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Well, has it ever been written down anywhere and solidified as Official</description>
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<description>Well, has it ever been written down anywhere and solidified as Official Standard Operating Procedure? If not, structured or not, it&amp;#039;s informal ;) On</description>
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<description>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Brandon Harris &amp;lt;bharris@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Â  Â  Â  Â Let&amp;#039;s be clear about our (admittedly informal) policy here</description>
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<description>On 2/8/12 6:42 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: &amp;gt; Okay, Minata: looks like I was right; if wikis want it after the design &amp;gt; process is finished, they can just</description>
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<description>Okay, Minata: looks like I was right; if wikis want it after the design process is finished, they can just ask for it. On 9 February 2012 02:31, Oliv</description>
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<description>Minata: I imagine the plan is &amp;quot;deploy on enwiki, and if other wikis ask for it, they can have it too&amp;quot;, but I&amp;#039;ll find out :). In reply to &amp;quot;It allows r</description>
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