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<title>Strategy Planning Office Hours</title>
<description>Reminder: Strategic Planning office hours will happen at: 04:00-05:00 UTC, Wednesday 25 November. That is: Tuesday, 8-9 pm PDT Wednesday, 11pm - 12</description>
<pubDate>24 Nov  2009 08:54:14 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183927</link>
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<title>Can you tell us about ... - An Idea to encourage more edits</title>
<description>Hello folks, this is a suggestion to encourage more edits. It is both a topic for every of our projects but also of most of the foundation projects</description>
<pubDate>24 Nov  2009 05:38:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183920</link>
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<title>strategy question of the week</title>
<description>We started a new regular feature on the strategy wiki: Question of the week. Every Monday, the page will highlight some data and open up a question fo</description>
<pubDate>23 Nov  2009 12:03:20 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183875</link>
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<title>WSJ on Wikipedia</title>
<description>A reporter pal points out to me that the Wall Street Journal has a front page story on Wikipedia: &amp;quot;Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages&amp;quot;. Alas, it&amp;#039;</description>
<pubDate>23 Nov  2009 08:57:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183855</link>
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<title>Recent copyright case regarding photographs</title>
<description>http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/7th/081296p.pdf This is a Seventh Circuit case decided earlier this month dealing with the copyright status</description>
<pubDate>21 Nov  2009 12:33:51 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183758</link>
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<title>Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy</title>
<description>A year or so ago I realized that it is better to make an auxiliary site to Wikipedia [in Serbian] than to spend a lot of time in explaining to student</description>
<pubDate>21 Nov  2009 05:21:54 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183733</link>
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<title>Usability Study Round Two</title>
<description>Hi all! The Wikipedia Usability Initiative conducted an evaluative study of our progress thus far in mid-October. Highlights are posted to the blog</description>
<pubDate>18 Nov  2009 15:47:58 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183574</link>
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<title>Fwd: Fundraiser End of day Monday Update</title>
<description>A fundraising update, forwarded from internal with Rand&amp;#039;s permission. These regular updates are great (you could start your own topical wiki &amp;#039;zine wi</description>
<pubDate>18 Nov  2009 15:36:08 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183573</link>
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<title>Proposal: Fan History joining the WMF family</title>
<description>Erik suggested I post this to the list for further discussion. Sincerely, Laura Hale   *Introduction* Fan History Wiki is a project dedicated to d</description>
<pubDate>18 Nov  2009 10:53:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183528</link>
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<title>Office hours next Thursday, November 19</title>
<description>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! Next Thursday&amp;#039;s office hours will feature Véronique Kessler, the Foundation&amp;#039;s Chief Financi</description>
<pubDate>17 Nov  2009 16:37:35 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183489</link>
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<title>strategy office hours today</title>
<description>Hi everyone, It&amp;#039;s that time again. Strategic Planning office hours are today, November 18, from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: 12-1pm PST, 3pm-4pm EST.</description>
<pubDate>17 Nov  2009 09:07:40 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183456</link>
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<title>Everything okay?</title>
<description>No posts in over half a day. Is everyone simply scared? MZMcBride public@mzmcbride.com  _______________________________________________ foundation-</description>
<pubDate>16 Nov  2009 19:18:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183418</link>
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<title>Minors and sexual explicit stuff</title>
<description>Hi all, On Wikipedia Review, &amp;#039;tarantino&amp;#039; pointed out that on WMF projects, self-identified minors (in this case User:Juliancolton) are involved in ro</description>
<pubDate>15 Nov  2009 17:04:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183361</link>
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<title>Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge</title>
<description>Hello! Hola! Ciao! Last week took place at Barcelona the First International Forum on free culture and access to knowledge (Oct 29 to Nov 1) with gre</description>
<pubDate>14 Nov  2009 16:54:18 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183317</link>
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<title>Update on the fund raiser.</title>
<description>Hoi. I learned that Erik has published a well written article on the issues raised with the 2009 fundraiser. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundr</description>
<pubDate>14 Nov  2009 05:18:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183280</link>
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<title>Foundation-l open for business, with changes</title>
<description>After reviewing the comments of foundation-l participants over the last few days, we&amp;#039;ve come up with a few changes that we hope will ultimately improv</description>
<pubDate>13 Nov  2009 19:20:23 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183258</link>
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<title>Wikimedia Foundation&amp;#039;s Audited Financial Statements on the Foundation Wiki</title>
<description>I am pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation&amp;#039;s audited financial statements for the years ended June 30, 2009 and 2008 are available on th</description>
<pubDate>13 Nov  2009 17:22:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183261</link>
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<title>FYI Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Craig Newmark to its Advisory Board</title>
<description>Hello folks, This morning (PST) the Foundation sent out the following news about the appointment of Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.org, to the</description>
<pubDate>13 Nov  2009 09:30:08 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183238</link>
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<title>Advisory board update</title>
<description>We&amp;#039;re just about to start our board meeting, but before we do, I have a quick update for you. We have appointed two new members to the advisory boar</description>
<pubDate>13 Nov  2009 08:41:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183239</link>
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<title>Banners</title>
<description>It&amp;#039;s interesting that this list has been effectively closed just before it would be getting a true storm of protest... But on the off-chance that it&amp;#039;s</description>
<pubDate>13 Nov  2009 06:31:19 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183260</link>
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<title>Office hours starting in 30 minutes</title>
<description>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick reminder about today&amp;#039;s office hours with Naoko Komura and the usability team (from 1700 to</description>
<pubDate>12 Nov  2009 08:27:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183112</link>
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<title>new tutorial in pl wiki</title>
<description>Hi!  We have on pl wiki new sandbox/introduction/tutorial - with tests for newbies: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wst%C4%99p and with &amp;quot;Med</description>
<pubDate>11 Nov  2009 12:19:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183262</link>
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<title>List moderation - update</title>
<description>Right now the list remains on moderation, and will remain so for the time being. Our goal is to reach a consensus on what changes to make over the ne</description>
<pubDate>11 Nov  2009 10:49:13 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183060</link>
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<title>Fundraiser tech issues</title>
<description>The fundraising banners went live yesterday, but in spite of efforts to test them, there were serious issues with their basic functionality and IE6 an</description>
<pubDate>11 Nov  2009 06:16:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183038</link>
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<title>Upcoming board meeting topics</title>
<description>Now that the list is running again, here&amp;#039;s a quick look at the board&amp;#039;s agenda for the upcoming meeting, November 13-15. Friday, November 13 9:00 We</description>
<pubDate>10 Nov  2009 22:12:11 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183067</link>
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<title>Office hours next Thursday, November 12</title>
<description>Hello all! Next Thursday&amp;#039;s office hours will feature Naoko Komura, the Program Manager for the Stanton Foundation Usability Project. If you don&amp;#039;t kn</description>
<pubDate>10 Nov  2009 13:19:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182991</link>
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<title>Jimmy on the BBC</title>
<description>Hoi, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t43c#p004zblw Thanks,   GerardM _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list</description>
<pubDate>09 Nov  2009 10:26:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183027</link>
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<title>Matching donations?</title>
<description>Hey, are there going to be matching donations this year? (ie. I donate $x and somebody donates the same $x to match my contribution). If yes, I am go</description>
<pubDate>09 Nov  2009 07:18:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183030</link>
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<title>DMCA on Google</title>
<description>Hello, First of all, apologize for any inconvenience made by my poor English. I&amp;#039;ve found that Google sometimes delete some copyvio materials from it</description>
<pubDate>09 Nov  2009 03:01:19 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183028</link>
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<title>Update from Paris</title>
<description>Hoi. The French chapter did a wonderful job organising some of the brightest lights that deal with Commons in one place. Many subjects were discussed</description>
<pubDate>09 Nov  2009 00:37:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/183029</link>
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<title>List moderation</title>
<description>I&amp;#039;m taking the liberty of putting foundation-l on temporary moderation. Seriously, guys -- take the &amp;quot;who&amp;#039;s a bigger jerk&amp;quot; threads offlist. The regul</description>
<pubDate>08 Nov  2009 04:46:49 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182828</link>
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<title>foundation-l foundation</title>
<description>Dear Foundation-l, There seems that there is a lot of discussion about foundation-l on foundation-l that should be made available to a more meta commu</description>
<pubDate>08 Nov  2009 04:42:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182827</link>
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<title>the use of foundation-l</title>
<description>Hoi, I am at the Commons usability conference in Paris. I am not on any internal mailing lists. It has become painfully obvious that as a consequence</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 23:27:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182787</link>
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<title>new list summary</title>
<description>Oct. 16-31: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_October_16-31 and a reminder that these are also posted (for lss2rss) at id</description>
<pubDate>07 Nov  2009 00:10:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182701</link>
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<title>New Fundraising Staff: Megan Hernandez</title>
<description>Hey All-- The WMF fundraising team will have a new member starting today: Megan Hernandez. Megan recently graduated from UC San Diego with a degree</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 09:42:08 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182523</link>
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<title>Jimmy Wales is a winner of 2009 Nokia Foundation Award</title>
<description>Congratulation! http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS179904+04-Nov-2009+PRN20091104 Best regards, Jiri  ________________________________</description>
<pubDate>05 Nov  2009 00:39:00 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182494</link>
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<title>Re: Wikinews has not failed</title>
<description>----- WJhonson@aol.com wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; ... Few to no Wikipedia articles &amp;gt; point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article.  How about:  http:/</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 15:32:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182471</link>
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<title>Growth vs. maintenance</title>
<description>I have been part of the wiki community for 6 years now. As I reflect on what I&amp;#039;ve seen over the years, I&amp;#039;ve developed a definite sense that the enthu</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 13:36:53 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182459</link>
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<title>Re: Wikinews has failed</title>
<description>Wikinews should be gracefully shut down. It&amp;#039;s long since failed to serve any service to the community or to the world. Few to no Wikipedia articles</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 13:02:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182456</link>
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<title>[Fwd: Annual Fundraiser starts November 10th, UTC]</title>
<description>Hi all, Rand asked me to forward this email for him as his client is presenting difficulties getting it to the list. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordina</description>
<pubDate>04 Nov  2009 09:21:35 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182434</link>
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<title>The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent firing?</title>
<description>--- On Mon, 11/2/09, wjhonson@aol.com &amp;lt;wjhonson@aol.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; From: wjhonson@aol.com &amp;lt;wjhonson@aol.com&amp;gt; &amp;gt; Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firi</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 18:56:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182394</link>
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<title>Office hours this Friday, November 6</title>
<description>Hello all! This Friday&amp;#039;s office hours will once again feature Rand Montoya, Wikimedia Foundation&amp;#039;s Head of Community Giving. If you don&amp;#039;t know Rand,</description>
<pubDate>03 Nov  2009 09:41:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182347</link>
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<title>Wikimedia Strategic Planning Office Hours</title>
<description>Strategic Planning office hours are tomorrow, Tuesday, November 3, from 20:00-21:00 UTC. We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You</description>
<pubDate>02 Nov  2009 18:09:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182301</link>
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<title>Re: Improving search in Wikipedia through quality and	concept discovery</title>
<description>Hi Brian, I&amp;#039;m not sure this is foundation-l type of discussion, but let me give a couple of comments. I took the liberty of re-running your sample q</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 08:15:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182191</link>
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<title>How to make a puzzle globe</title>
<description>http://www.externaute.net/la-globe-en-puzzle-de-wikipedia-en-realite-3d/1071  - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mail</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 06:36:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182189</link>
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<title>Wikiprogress (OECD wiki)</title>
<description>http://www.wikiprogress.org/index.php/Main_Page (found here: &amp;lt;http://www.sbilanciamoci.info/Sezioni/globi/Ora-rifacciamo-i-conti.-Il-progetto-Wikipro</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 05:11:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182186</link>
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<title>Improving search in Wikipedia through quality and concept discovery</title>
<description>This paper (first reference) is the result of a class project I was part of almost two years ago for CSCI 5417 Information Retrieval Systems. It build</description>
<pubDate>01 Nov  2009 02:36:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182183</link>
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<title>Re: foundation-l Digest, Vol 67, Issue 50</title>
<description>Thomas Dalton writes: Perhaps this is a wrong-side-of-the-pond issue. In the UK if an &amp;gt; employer calls it redundancy when actually they just want to</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 19:58:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182178</link>
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<title>Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?</title>
<description>---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Olli &amp;lt;ollinpostit@gmail.com&amp;gt; Date: 2009/10/31 Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? To: translators-l@l</description>
<pubDate>31 Oct  2009 09:19:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182140</link>
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<title>Recent firing?</title>
<description>Hey all -- Just heard that Steve Kent (Head of Office IT Support) got fired. Is this just a wild rumor? If not, what&amp;#039;s the backstory? MZMcBride publ</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 12:21:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182092</link>
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<title>Font support for our domains</title>
<description>Hoi, According to an article on the BBC website, it is now possible to have a URL that is completely in the script used for a language. This means tha</description>
<pubDate>30 Oct  2009 04:49:31 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182076</link>
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<title>Re: Sue Gardner nominated for HuffPost mediagame-changer of the year</title>
<description>I have limited time. I have no shame admitting that I&amp;#039;m going to vote for Sue and ignore the others, who I am certain are all good, worthy people -</description>
<pubDate>29 Oct  2009 16:51:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182060</link>
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<title>Sue Gardner nominated for HuffPost media game-changer of the year</title>
<description>Nominated for having successfully taken the organisation to the next level of professionalism and the influence that gives us. http://www.huffingtonp</description>
<pubDate>29 Oct  2009 15:15:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182051</link>
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<title>Office hours in 30 minutes (2009-10-29)</title>
<description>Greetings! Just a reminder that today&amp;#039;s office hours will feature Kul Wadhwa, Wikimedia Foundation&amp;#039;s Head of Business Development. If you don&amp;#039;t know</description>
<pubDate>29 Oct  2009 08:31:19 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182022</link>
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<title>Board Minutes, August 24-25</title>
<description>Minutes from the August 2009 (Wikimania) board meeting -- approved October 2009. (We are still experimenting with the style, and the next set of minu</description>
<pubDate>28 Oct  2009 21:27:40 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/182001</link>
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<title>Free culture forum- Starting Oct 29: Join online!!!!</title>
<description>ENGLISH - CATALÀ - CASTELLANO First International Forum on free culture and knowledge accessibility (Barcelona October 29 to November 1 2009): Join o</description>
<pubDate>28 Oct  2009 18:44:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181998</link>
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<title>strategic planning office hours today</title>
<description>Hi everyone, Strategic Planning office hours are tonight, Wednesday, October 28, from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: 9-10pm PDT, 12am-1am EDT. We meet i</description>
<pubDate>27 Oct  2009 16:20:34 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181908</link>
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<title>RFC: A Wikipedia/etc.-like Web Directory (e.g: dmoz.org, the old dir.yahoo.com , etc)</title>
<description>Hi all! This is a request-for-comments (RFC) about an idea that had surfaced on #wikipedia at the time about creating an open web directory similar</description>
<pubDate>27 Oct  2009 12:04:51 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181879</link>
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<title>Fwd: Have you dealt with this Systemic Secretive Checkuser Abuse yet? If so, how?</title>
<description>Forwarded to the list per request. The message pertains to her initial inquiry of November 2008: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2</description>
<pubDate>26 Oct  2009 22:13:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181850</link>
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<title>Dumb survey about Commons</title>
<description>When you make a dumb survey, answers will be dumb, as well as conclusions. I am really frustrated with that survey... I wanted to help with my respon</description>
<pubDate>26 Oct  2009 04:02:59 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181772</link>
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<title>Office move completed</title>
<description>This is just a quick update that we&amp;#039;ve completed our office move to 149 New Montgomery in San Francisco, which also means that the usability team is n</description>
<pubDate>23 Oct  2009 18:53:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181690</link>
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<title>Year: 2009 Week: 41-42 Number: 120</title>
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<pubDate>23 Oct  2009 18:25:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181689</link>
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<title>Welcome Moka Pantages to the Foundation!</title>
<description>Hi all, Earlier this week I had the pleasure of announcing the addition of  Moka Pantages to the Foundation staff. We&amp;#039;ve been busy with all-staff</description>
<pubDate>23 Oct  2009 17:03:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181679</link>
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<title>Wikimedia Foundation Credit Card</title>
<description>Hi! Just found out about Free Software Foundation credit card (http://www.cardpartner.com/app/fsf). Similar credit card program for Linux exists sin</description>
<pubDate>23 Oct  2009 14:51:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181677</link>
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<title>Office hours next Thursday, October 29.</title>
<description>Hello all! Next Thursday&amp;#039;s office hours will feature Kul Wadhwa, Wikimedia Foundation&amp;#039;s Head of Business Development. If you don&amp;#039;t know Kul, you can</description>
<pubDate>23 Oct  2009 14:01:04 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181664</link>
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<title>Announcing Pete Forsyth as Public Outreach Officer</title>
<description>Hi all, I am delighted to announce that this week, Pete Forsyth joins Wikimedia as its first Public Outreach Officer. Pete will support me in all of</description>
<pubDate>21 Oct  2009 08:44:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181519</link>
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<title>Comparison of Chinese Wikipedia, Hudong and Baidu Baike</title>
<description>Hello, Having read http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/14/wiki.china/ I would like to collect more information about the situation of online encyclop</description>
<pubDate>20 Oct  2009 08:20:57 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181456</link>
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<title>Fwd: [SharedKnowing] WatchKnow launches!</title>
<description>This is actually a fantastically cool idea.  - d.   ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Sanger &amp;lt;sanger@citizendium.org&amp;gt; Date: 2009</description>
<pubDate>20 Oct  2009 06:44:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181447</link>
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<title>[Announcement] Guillaume Paumier joins the Ford multi-media usability project</title>
<description>It is my real pleasure to announce that Guillaume Paumier has joined the usability team as Product Manager of the Ford multi-media usability project</description>
<pubDate>16 Oct  2009 21:03:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181299</link>
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<title>Wikipedia meets git</title>
<description>Hallo, I have gotten the wikipedia article for Kosovo in git. It is fast, distributed, highly compressed, redundant, branchable and usable. The blame</description>
<pubDate>15 Oct  2009 11:55:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181163</link>
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<title>Report to the Board August 2009</title>
<description>Report to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Covering: August 2009 Prepared by: Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation Prepare</description>
<pubDate>14 Oct  2009 19:02:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181090</link>
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<title>Office hours tomorrow, Thursday, October 15</title>
<description>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, This Thursday&amp;#039;s office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia Foundation&amp;#039;s Legal C</description>
<pubDate>14 Oct  2009 09:37:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181037</link>
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<title>Commercial open content and not quite getting it</title>
<description>factual.com is a new &amp;quot;open data&amp;quot; site. Here&amp;#039;s a line from the TOS: &amp;quot;You may not sell, resell, redistribute, sublicense, or transfer all or any portio</description>
<pubDate>13 Oct  2009 15:51:42 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181000</link>
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<title>Alphascript Publishing scam</title>
<description>&amp;gt; David Gerard said: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; ++++++++++++++ &amp;gt; &amp;gt; 2009/8/13 David Goodman &amp;lt;dgoodmanny at gmail.com&amp;gt;: &amp;gt; &amp;gt;&amp;gt; I would be exceedingly uncomfortable with us organ</description>
<pubDate>13 Oct  2009 12:12:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180987</link>
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<title>Fwd: Task forces for strategic planning</title>
<description>Hi folks, In case you haven&amp;#039;t already, now might be a good time to consider  submitting an application for task forces. The selection committee is</description>
<pubDate>13 Oct  2009 09:27:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180974</link>
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<title>Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [openmoko-announce] WikiReader</title>
<description>That is really neat. I wonder if they made arrangements with the WMF to use to the trademarks? It&amp;#039;s unfortunate they didn&amp;#039;t give it a USB port for the</description>
<pubDate>13 Oct  2009 08:45:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180971</link>
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<title>Fwd: [openmoko-announce] WikiReader</title>
<description>---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sean Moss-Pultz &amp;lt;sean@openmoko.com&amp;gt; Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:51 AM Subject: [openmoko-announce] Wiki</description>
<pubDate>13 Oct  2009 08:33:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180970</link>
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<title>Cross-wiki defective translations in Korean</title>
<description>First, I apologize if I sent wrong email list. I&amp;#039;d like to report wrong/defective translations has been being created in Korean on MetaWiki and Strat</description>
<pubDate>11 Oct  2009 06:45:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180910</link>
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<title>Reader script is running</title>
<description>Hi all, I have gotten my old youtube introspector::reader script now running on the wikimedia strategy, and am reading all the english articles as yo</description>
<pubDate>10 Oct  2009 10:53:27 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180872</link>
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<title>Public release of Wikimedia Report Card</title>
<description>Erik Zachte, Data Analyst for the Wikimedia Foundation, has just released the first official public version of the Wikimedia Foundation&amp;#039;s monthly repo</description>
<pubDate>09 Oct  2009 18:28:41 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180822</link>
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<title>Statistical research on Wikipedia (Godwin inspired)</title>
<description>Mike Godwin says: +++++++++ You should publish the results of your statistical research of high-school-teacher attitudes toward Wikipedia. It will</description>
<pubDate>08 Oct  2009 18:56:21 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180725</link>
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<title>Something to look at...</title>
<description>The US Government is funding $5m for up to 5 organizations working on &amp;quot;how to use new media and technology to increase participation and education in</description>
<pubDate>08 Oct  2009 14:48:34 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180699</link>
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<title>Charity Navigator rates WMF</title>
<description>Greetings. The Charity Navigator site has evaluated and rated the Wikimedia Foundation: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary</description>
<pubDate>08 Oct  2009 10:34:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180661</link>
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<title>Global Sysops proposal on Meta</title>
<description>Hi all!, I wanted to bring everyones attention to the discussion happening on meta about global sysops. I know its been discussed before and it appear</description>
<pubDate>07 Oct  2009 14:38:33 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180603</link>
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<title>Bookshelf project</title>
<description>I am worried about this passage in the Bookshelf project &amp;gt; The materials created as part of the Bookshelf Project include basic &amp;gt; &amp;quot;first step&amp;quot; documen</description>
<pubDate>07 Oct  2009 09:18:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180575</link>
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<title>Announcing Marlita Kahn as the Project Manager for the Bookshelf Project</title>
<description>Hi all, I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia&amp;#039;s Bookshelf Project will be led by Marlita Kahn. Marlita is a Senior Project Manager/Program Manag</description>
<pubDate>07 Oct  2009 07:00:54 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180567</link>
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<title>Office hours this Friday, October 9</title>
<description>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, This Friday&amp;#039;s office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia Foundation&amp;#039;s Legal Cou</description>
<pubDate>06 Oct  2009 11:48:58 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180528</link>
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<title>Re: LiquidThreads in Beta testing at	labs.wikimedia.org</title>
<description>On 10/2/09 11:45 AM, Steven Walling wrote: &amp;gt; Andrew, do you think LiquidThreads is stable enough for production &amp;gt; deployment on a much smaller wiki, s</description>
<pubDate>05 Oct  2009 11:40:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180457</link>
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<title>Strategic Planning Office Hours</title>
<description>Reminder: Strategic Planning office hours will happen at: 04:00-05:00 UTC, Wednesday, October 7. That is: Tuesday (6 Oct), 9-10pm PDT Wednesday, 12</description>
<pubDate>05 Oct  2009 11:09:21 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180455</link>
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<title>Deletopedia for the history of Kosovo</title>
<description>Hello all, I am working on a Deletopedia for the history of Kosovo, to put them into the althistory wikia. http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Histor</description>
<pubDate>05 Oct  2009 09:16:42 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180451</link>
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<title>menashebi@gmail.com</title>
<description>_______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma</description>
<pubDate>05 Oct  2009 03:49:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180435</link>
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<title>EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 38 Number: 119</title>
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<pubDate>04 Oct  2009 16:45:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180428</link>
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<title>&amp;quot;Wikipedia&amp;quot; localization</title>
<description>Hello!  As User:mizusumashi said in wikitech-list, now in Japanese Wikipedia, it&amp;#039;s proposed that to change sitename ($wgSitename) from &amp;quot;Wikipedia&amp;quot; in</description>
<pubDate>04 Oct  2009 03:06:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180403</link>
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<title>LiquidThreads in Beta testing at labs.wikimedia.org</title>
<description>For those of us who don&amp;#039;t follow the tech blog [1], I&amp;#039;m pleased to  announce that LiquidThreads is now in beta testing in the Wikimedia  Labs [2].</description>
<pubDate>02 Oct  2009 03:05:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180307</link>
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<title>Improving foundation-l</title>
<description>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Improving_Foundation-l hasn&amp;#039;t had any edits in a couple weeks now. Have we decided this isn&amp;#039;t such a big problem after</description>
<pubDate>01 Oct  2009 13:46:14 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180257</link>
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<title>Reminder, office hours at 1600 UTC tomorrow (10/1/09).</title>
<description>Hi all, this is a reminder that office hours will be tomorrow, Thursday, October 1, at 1600 UTC (9:00 AM PDT) and feature Rand Montoya. The IRC chann</description>
<pubDate>30 Sep  2009 16:11:31 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180138</link>
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<title>Re: Office hours ... the concept of time zones</title>
<description>Basically if there is room for two sets of office hours it should still be possible to please most of the world. There are times when Europe/Africa</description>
<pubDate>30 Sep  2009 09:45:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180070</link>
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<title>Consensus on Meta for suspecting every volunteer of abuse ?</title>
<description>Make the following experience: Go to Gmail and create a new account on Gmail. Does Google tell you after you have created your new account : We are</description>
<pubDate>30 Sep  2009 07:00:26 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/180053</link>
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<title>Wikimedia Laboratories</title>
<description>Hoi, Can someone inform me what &amp;quot;Wikimedia Laboratories&amp;quot; is? Thanks,   GerardM _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing</description>
<pubDate>28 Sep  2009 23:30:39 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/179960</link>
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<title>lots of people please test this :-)</title>
<description>I also forwarded this to the English Wikipedia mailing list... Brion Vibber wrote: &amp;gt; It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the</description>
<pubDate>28 Sep  2009 17:15:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/179930</link>
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