Mailing List Archive by Gossamer Threads http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/ en-us (c) Gossamer Threads Inc. All rights reserved. 16 May 2008 10:07:22 -0800 120 75 23 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/images/lists/rss_logo.jpg http://englishrussia.com/?p=1849 http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2007/11/it-will-rise-from-ashes.html - d. ___________________________________________ 15 May 2008 13:25:12 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/132279 Here it is :-) Weeks of: April 1 to April 30, 2008 Prepared by: Sue Gardner Prepared for: Wikimedia Board of Trustees MY CURRENT PRIORITIES 1. Begi 15 May 2008 09:01:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/132255 Hello Our Syrian users reported that Arabic Wikipedia access from Syria is being blocked (reading and editing), the block started since 30/4/2008. Th 15 May 2008 08:11:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/132235 It is hard to believe that we don't have translations of the Wikimedian language names in the Wikimedian languages. So, please, do that starting from 14 May 2008 12:39:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/132161 I cannot fully reconcile requests from the community to get involved in WMF's activities; a petition from prostestors of now over 100 people... and 13 May 2008 16:08:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/132042 After a lot of time, I think that it is fair to conclude that Meta community and WMF are not able to move toward organization of the whole community ( 13 May 2008 09:22:17 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/132007 Hi, Though you would find this as an interesting way to surf the web. Certainly makes it easier. Join StumbleUpon for Free & http://www.stumbleup 12 May 2008 07:39:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131840 The Wikimedia Community Assembly is a proposed leadership body for the Wikimedia Community. This proposal is is designed to be significantly more stra 11 May 2008 18:11:34 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131791 Thank you for letting me join this community   phillip a. ca  P.A.C. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundat 11 May 2008 17:17:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131790 Greetings, I have updated the agenda for the future board meetings. I will normally chair the next two meetings, but I was bold and gave an outline 11 May 2008 09:42:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131759 Hello, This is a summary of the 2008 board elections for the week of May 3 to 10. For detailed information on the elections, see <http://meta.wikimed 10 May 2008 19:50:33 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131735    P. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia. 08 May 2008 19:07:38 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131511 -how do I do it?    P.        bacpac@swbell.net _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimed 08 May 2008 19:00:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131510 Hello, All eligible users may submit themselves as candidates for the 2008 board elections from now until 22 May 2008. The voting will start on 01 Ju 08 May 2008 18:50:39 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131508 Hello, There is a handful of people discussion meta EDP. I'd be happy if others could join, because there is rather little chance that essentially t 08 May 2008 17:14:23 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131501 Hello, During the last board meeting, the board approved the following resolution The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will amend its privacy 08 May 2008 16:53:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131499 Hello, At the last board meeting, the board approved the following resolution: the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, consistent with its long 08 May 2008 16:44:23 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131498 Dear Wikimedians, I'm writing to announce two thing of interest to the community: 1. "The Wikipedia Story" wiki invites Wikimedia community folks to 08 May 2008 05:20:38 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131366 Jimmy Wales among others have been participating in a seminar about internet censorship at Nobels Peace Center. The talks are supposed to be streamed 07 May 2008 06:15:26 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131237 Hi All, I'm pleased to announce a new web service. MediaWiki2PDF - is a free online service, that allows you to generate nice looking PDF documents 07 May 2008 04:31:50 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131228 FlaggedRevs is now actually live on de.wikipedia.org :-). Congratulations and many thanks to _everyone_ involved in getting us to this point. In a nut 06 May 2008 23:47:22 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131216 Road accidents kill thousands a year in a lot of countries, Andy. ;-) There is a train line from Cairo to Alexandria, which I will be taking. Takes a 06 May 2008 11:25:19 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131156 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have uploaded the Egypt Country Profile prepared by Clayton Associates for the Wikimedia Foundation, 06 May 2008 10:57:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131149 On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com> w 06 May 2008 08:30:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131120 Sounds like a recipe for Wikichondria. -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.w 06 May 2008 05:15:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131092 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mikael Häggström <haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM Subject: A wiki where ev 06 May 2008 04:32:26 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131089 Although it is a well known issue, this issue has finally made its way to spotlight with the ongoing CAMERA incident on English wikipedia... I am sure 05 May 2008 20:50:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131090 Hello, You'll find the bylaws update here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions#April_2008 I'll compile (constructive) comments for late 05 May 2008 15:58:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131051 effe iets anders wrote: > What you seem to mean to me, is a group of enthusiast volunteers who > want to do stuff. Yeah, the Volunteer Coordinator (Ca 05 May 2008 10:03:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/131012 With less than three months to go until the fourth annual Wikimania conference, registration has finally opened and will remain so until the 15th of 04 May 2008 18:07:33 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130972 On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 19:42 -0400, Jesse Plamondon-Willard wrote: > Based on community discussion, we changed the eligibility requirements > for candi 03 May 2008 16:49:17 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130907 Following is a summary of the 2008 board elections organization for the week of April 26 to May 3. For detailed information on the elections, see <h 03 May 2008 16:42:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130905 I propose that we promote Cary Bass to "Wikimedia US Affiliates Coordinator", as an adjunct position to "Volunteer Coordinator" of the WMF. The WMF a 02 May 2008 15:20:19 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130801 Dear all, In the past week, I have been reflecting a bit. A lot has happened, and there was a lot of constructive (and some less constructive) discus 02 May 2008 12:44:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130791 starting a new thread, as the old one totally drifted away again. 2008/5/1, Sebastian Moleski <sebmol@gmail.com>: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:09 PM, e 02 May 2008 11:30:02 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130776 The Election Committee would like to ask the community of administrator on Meta to refrain from editing the English version of the Board election page 02 May 2008 05:58:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130737 http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/05/02 We have EFF onside, so CDA Section 230 protection is probably going to see us right on this one. - d. 02 May 2008 01:53:24 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130717 I think that it would be useful to organize a page or a group of pages (if it doesn't exist) where we should collect common Wikimedian and near-to-Wik 01 May 2008 15:15:18 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130676 Dear community and future trustees, 4 years ago, in june 2004, I had the privilege of being elected by the community to be a trustee on the board of 01 May 2008 14:07:04 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130641 I think Birgitte has a valid point. Not as much she wants (if I understand correctly) to "forbid" chapters or so, but she validly points out that ther 01 May 2008 10:44:22 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130607 Community, I was reading some of the discussion surrounding chapters, particularly a chapter residing in the United States. As people have mentioned 01 May 2008 08:51:59 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130588 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jerry~Yuyu <jerry.tschan.yu@gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Chapt 01 May 2008 06:42:32 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130576 Hats off to SJ for channeling the Federalist Papers; specifically No. 10 (factions)(http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fed10.htm) and 51 01 May 2008 06:23:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130562 Hello, I created a page on meta, where we can brainstorm about ways the chapters can determine their method for selecting Board seats. <http://met 01 May 2008 00:10:20 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130530 Sorry for the ever-so-slightly off-topic post, but I wanted to make sure that the members of foundation-l were aware of the upcoming RecentChangesCa 30 Apr 2008 13:21:28 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130483 From: "Delphine Ménard" <notafishz@gmail.com> > > Just as a matter of clarity. Can the 50 edits be spread across > different projects? > Do internal w 30 Apr 2008 11:38:23 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130462 We're still waiting for the FDL 1.3. Since there's been no resolution within the timeframe we hoped for, we're going to re-allow the creation of new W 30 Apr 2008 09:52:46 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130445 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting For what it's worth, I would find it productive if some participants on this list thought abou 30 Apr 2008 06:31:15 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130401 As has been said, the two new "chapter" seats will be filled by representatives of the individual chapters, with the method of selection left up to th 29 Apr 2008 13:27:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130341 Are there good unofficial sites with mirrors and dumps? Is anyone using a live feed to generate same? Here is one of those core project support task 29 Apr 2008 12:53:45 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130338 I don't know if anyone's noticed, but Wikinews is achieving much greater prominence. Cirt's articles on Scientology are proving vastly popular across 29 Apr 2008 09:24:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130300 On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 07:55 -0700, phoebe ayers wrote: > I note btw that the *candidate* requirements didn't change -- so any > potential candidates 29 Apr 2008 08:15:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130268 Charles Matthews wrote: > Well, maybe we should discuss the downside first. Not having project > pages on Google would certainly impede my work. You k 29 Apr 2008 08:07:08 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130264 Erik Moeller wrote: > The Board restructuring appears ... > Erik This is a brillant email Erik. Thank you for it. There is little to add to it. But 29 Apr 2008 06:37:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130243 If the functionality of the Board is the primary goal of its restructuring, here is my scratch for making everybody happy: Let's say that the Board w 29 Apr 2008 06:27:08 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130242 Based on concerns raised on this list, the elections committee is changing the requirement from "at least 50 edits between April 1, 2008 and June 1, 2 28 Apr 2008 23:41:18 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130198 David, fair points. Moreover, these stats are for amusement purposes only, and tell little more than the email-prone nature of the community, since a 28 Apr 2008 23:33:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130196 phoebe ayers wrote: > I have two suggestions: > Either > a) drop this part of the requirement > or > b) start a site notice now for logged-in users on 28 Apr 2008 21:59:45 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130184 The Board restructuring appears to have triggered discontent among some community members. This seems to be in part motivated by the fact that previou 28 Apr 2008 20:05:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130172 Hi Phoebe, Thanks for your comments. As you note, our intent is not to disenfranchise anyone who is a part of this community. I'm curious about ho 28 Apr 2008 13:46:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130114 On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Philippe Beaudette <philippebeaudette@gmail.com> wrote: > The 2008 Board election committee announces the 2008 electi 28 Apr 2008 13:35:25 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130111 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13706 Perhaps a community discussion is necessary on the matter, I hereby initiate it. When a person 28 Apr 2008 08:17:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/130058 My attention has repeatedly been drawn to serious negative effects created by the ability of Google and other searches to search and display pages out 27 Apr 2008 18:06:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129969 To my mind, the potential benefits outweigh the potential risks, unless someone can create an argument that hasn't occurred to me yet (which is not 27 Apr 2008 12:39:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129952 On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 15:01 -0400, David Goodman wrote: > absolutely no. G already indexes much too many of the incidental > discussions at WP. So we 27 Apr 2008 12:34:28 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129951 Lodewijk writes: >> I don't this characterization is entirely fair, Lodewijk. The >> opinions >> of the community and the chapters about governance 27 Apr 2008 10:43:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129922 [.courtesy copy to foundation-l, though I suggest that discussion, if any, be centralised on wikitech-l] Hi all, the search index for the mailinglist 27 Apr 2008 10:30:19 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129921 As one of the Wikinews contributors has pointed out, this is starting to come together and look like something achievable. With that in mind, I have b 27 Apr 2008 10:29:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129919 Dear Domas, Florence, Frieda, Kat and Michael, (and maybe Jimmy too) Yesterday the Board announced a major change in the bylaws and power structure. 27 Apr 2008 03:09:38 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129890 The 2008 Board election committee announces the 2008 election process. Wikimedians will have the opportunity to elect one candidate from the Wikimedia 26 Apr 2008 15:02:19 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129842 Dear all, As most of you know, the Board of Trustees met at the Foundation's new San Francisco headquarters a few weeks ago. At that meeting, we tal 26 Apr 2008 12:19:01 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129823 On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9@yahoo.com> wrote: > b) public view. Every time we sneeze, there is a journalist to repo 26 Apr 2008 09:37:15 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129816 As the previous proposal failed, I am able to make a different approach to the issue related to the common body of Wikimedian projects. Proposal below 26 Apr 2008 09:20:01 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129815 At this stage, the board has decided not to take action on the proposal to develop a Volunteer Council. We thank everyone who put the time and effor 25 Apr 2008 22:15:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129774 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Crochet <crochet.david@online.fr> Date: Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:05 PM Subject: Fwd: [Proposal] Fou 25 Apr 2008 04:39:59 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129749 David Gerard wrote: > 2008/4/24 Cormac Lawler <cormaggio@gmail.com>: >> I >> still have a question, however (which Brian and others have been >ad 24 Apr 2008 15:00:39 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129721 If you have a couple of hours free, please head over to Not the Wikipedia Weekly and join our Skypecast. Brian Bergstein of the Associated Press is o 24 Apr 2008 10:38:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129673 Has there been any discussion on this matter? If a user is being disruptive on a wiki he or she will eventually end up getting blocked for it. If the 24 Apr 2008 09:48:06 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129664 The discussion about the Ancient Greek Wikipedia has started discussions about the current language proposal policy and about the current application 24 Apr 2008 04:19:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129606 Dear all, Following the appointment of our new treasurer, the audit committee in charge of fiscal year 2007-2008 has been recreated. This new commi 24 Apr 2008 03:52:18 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129605 Thanks for taking an interest! I agree that eight hours is more of a long-term goal, but I do have my concerns that if we're going for podcasts as an 24 Apr 2008 01:33:32 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129597 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zDxObMQg8 That's the AP Money Minute. The end segment introduces that audience to copyleft content as a commercial i 23 Apr 2008 16:25:25 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129574 Royalty rates run across the board but I can tell you that we did push Bertelsmann because money that goes back to fund the "mission" is a good thin 23 Apr 2008 10:23:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129522 Let's run with the idea that provoked these questions to foundation-l, and to the FSF. The most apparent one to most people here is the Spoken Article 23 Apr 2008 04:56:40 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129478 Thanks to Florence for the kind words and to everyone else for the warm welcome. I'm glad to see my "honeymoon" as a new board member lasted about 22 Apr 2008 20:22:06 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129452 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M Sz <echalone@hotmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:28 AM Subject: New Semi-Wikipedia Project prop 22 Apr 2008 15:34:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129432 Brad Patrick wrote: > And that is relevant how, exactly? > As a full Board member the treasurer is not limited to voting only on budgetary and fin 22 Apr 2008 14:51:02 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129426 Wikimedia Deutschland did a great job of putting this together and everyone here at the Foundation can't wait to get a copy to enjoy (although most of 22 Apr 2008 14:35:34 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129422 Dear all, On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, it's my pleasure today to announce the appointment of Stuart West as our n 22 Apr 2008 12:00:59 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129393 I didn't see this subject within the foundation archives, so I'm notifying all users about an ongoing discussion on enabling Global Blocking, a tool w 22 Apr 2008 06:14:09 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129335 Hi, 2008 has started as the year of old school encyclopedias permanently relocating to the internet when Brockhaus announced that the current 30 volu 22 Apr 2008 02:22:05 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129317 One important question: how do you manage GFDL on spoken text? To the satisfaction of, e.g., querulous Commons admins who deal with licensing stupidit 22 Apr 2008 02:01:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129315 Hoi, For the MediaWiki 1.12 stable release, Betawiki has issued a language pack. This language pack includes all the localisations that were added aft 21 Apr 2008 00:09:48 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129229 i found a notice in the incubator test page of ancient greek. http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/grc i ask: it is possible to the editors to con 20 Apr 2008 18:42:12 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129206 i found a notice in the incubator test page of ancient greek. http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/grc i ask: it is possible to the editors to con 20 Apr 2008 18:41:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129205 Danny writes: > As such, I ask, are there contingencies for > unanticipated changes in the coming weeks/months? ... <...> > While something like t 19 Apr 2008 14:20:09 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129095 In a message dated 4/19/2008 12:33:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mgodwin@wikimedia.org writes: Are there questions, other than the one in the FAQ, 19 Apr 2008 13:33:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129089 I think we need a more organized way to address this problem. Some background from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GFDL_standardization Pursu 19 Apr 2008 13:25:05 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129087 Although this has been probably discussed before... We currently have a problem with the names chosen for licenses on all wikis. Let me explain. Cons 19 Apr 2008 09:34:17 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129054 The non-wrapping tinyurl is http://tinyurl.com/4gb9ae Brian McNeil -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailt 19 Apr 2008 01:54:12 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/129020