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<title>Re: Attribution on small interactive devices and	systems</title>
<description>I know it is even worse for some other languages, but I don&amp;#039;t think it is very interesting to calculate exact numbers for a couple of hundred language</description>
<pubDate>03 Jul  2009 12:36:00 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170506</link>
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<title>Attribution on small interactive devices and systems</title>
<description>It seems like the attribution scheme chosen does not support small interactive devices and systems very Well. Are there anyone who have given this any</description>
<pubDate>02 Jul  2009 16:23:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170403</link>
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<title>EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 27 Number: 110</title>
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<pubDate>02 Jul  2009 15:56:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170391</link>
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<title>Wikimedia Foundation 2009-10 Annual Plan and Questions and Answers</title>
<description>Hi, I&amp;#039;m happy to tell you that I have just posted to the Foundation website, the 2009-10 Annual Plan along with Questions and Answers. The resolut</description>
<pubDate>02 Jul  2009 15:14:51 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170390</link>
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<title>Job Opening at WMF - Project Manager</title>
<description>The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a term-limited (one year) full-time Project Manager for its new &amp;quot;Bookshelf&amp;quot; Project (text below). Feel free to s</description>
<pubDate>02 Jul  2009 14:32:30 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170388</link>
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<title>No default codec for &amp;lt;video&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;audio&amp;gt; in HTML5</title>
<description>http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html Unfortunately OGG Theora didn&amp;#039;t make it as the default codec for the HTML5</description>
<pubDate>02 Jul  2009 02:26:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170326</link>
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<title>Fwd: How do you fully consult the community consensus?</title>
<description>On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Jimmy Wales &amp;lt;jwales@wikia-inc.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt;  I&amp;#039;d be interested to see your positive, assume-good-faith list of &amp;gt; sug</description>
<pubDate>01 Jul  2009 21:07:33 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170311</link>
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<title>$300K grant for Wikimedia Commons</title>
<description>All, I&amp;#039;m very happy to announce that the Ford Foundation has awarded a $300,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation to improve our interfaces and workf</description>
<pubDate>01 Jul  2009 18:30:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170306</link>
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<title>How do you fully consult the community consensus?</title>
<description>Going forward, how does the Foundation plan to make large changes to the software in full consultation with the community consensus? Is the assumptio</description>
<pubDate>30 Jun  2009 22:16:31 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170209</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages</title>
<description>On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Brion Vibber&amp;lt;brion@wikimedia.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; As many folks have noted, our current templating system works ok for &amp;gt; si</description>
<pubDate>30 Jun  2009 18:54:09 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170199</link>
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<title>&amp;quot;antisocial production&amp;quot; &amp;amp; pt:wiki policies</title>
<description>Talking about antisocial... It&amp;#039;s quite interesting what I experienced in this very list. I wasn&amp;#039;t aware of the study published in the New Scientist</description>
<pubDate>29 Jun  2009 17:35:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170072</link>
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<title>Wikipedia article traffic statistics - copyright?</title>
<description>Henrik&amp;#039;s Wikipedia article traffic statistics tool does not indicate copyright or license status, so it&amp;#039;s not clear if I can include a chart on a Wiki</description>
<pubDate>29 Jun  2009 17:13:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170071</link>
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<title>Licensing update rolled out in all languages/projects</title>
<description>After an initial reference implementation in the English Wikipedia and some bottom-up implementations in a number of projects, the licensing update to</description>
<pubDate>29 Jun  2009 15:31:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170060</link>
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<title>demande d&amp;#039;inscription</title>
<description>Bonjor j&amp;#039;ai l&amp;#039;honneur de vous demander de bien vouloir m&amp;#039;nscrire -- Hadraj Said _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing</description>
<pubDate>29 Jun  2009 15:14:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170059</link>
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<title>Wikimedia in the UK</title>
<description>What Wikimedia events or activities would you like to see take place  in the UK? We&amp;#039;re currently trying to pull together ideas for &amp;quot;initiatives&amp;quot; tha</description>
<pubDate>29 Jun  2009 10:43:10 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/170021</link>
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<title>Video and subtitles</title>
<description>Hoi, I am at the moment at a book sprint about Open Translation Tools. One of the topics in the books is how to deal with video. Subtitling and dubbin</description>
<pubDate>28 Jun  2009 06:39:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169943</link>
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<title>Wikizine at foundaiton-l?</title>
<description>I think that it is very on topic and that we should have it here. What do others think? I know that a lot of foundation-l subscribers are Wikizine su</description>
<pubDate>27 Jun  2009 23:13:58 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169934</link>
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<title>&amp;quot;antisocial production&amp;quot;</title>
<description>&amp;#039;Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social production. That&amp;#039;s the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character tr</description>
<pubDate>27 Jun  2009 14:57:44 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169900</link>
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<title>Fwd: [WikiEN-l] The edit heard round the world</title>
<description>Anyone able to help with this? (Durova&amp;#039;s been doing a lot of restoration work on Commons. There has also been discussion on wikien-l about crediting</description>
<pubDate>27 Jun  2009 14:33:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169898</link>
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<title>Why &amp;quot;Wikipedia&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;the Wikipedia&amp;quot;?</title>
<description>Hello, Could someone explain to me why &amp;quot;Wikipedia&amp;quot; is without definite article? In English you say &amp;quot;the Britannica&amp;quot;, so why not &amp;quot;the Wikipedia&amp;quot;? I am</description>
<pubDate>27 Jun  2009 08:12:22 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169865</link>
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<title>Wikimedia Foundation and Tech blogs down for the interim</title>
<description>Hi all - just a quick FYI in case you attempt to access the  Foundations two official blogs, We&amp;#039;ve had to shut both blogs down (they live in the sam</description>
<pubDate>26 Jun  2009 10:28:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169816</link>
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<title>WOT? The School of Reform</title>
<description>Hello Team, My name is Krishna and outside our corporate robe, we have initiated a Thought Leadership Organization called WOT? (World of Thought). Th</description>
<pubDate>26 Jun  2009 02:37:56 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169764</link>
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<title>Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository</title>
<description>OK. So let&amp;#039;s drop the &amp;#039;legal scholarship&amp;#039; from the original thread and get back on topic. On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:33 PM, John Vandenberg&amp;lt;jayvdb@gm</description>
<pubDate>25 Jun  2009 18:08:34 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169728</link>
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<title>Issues about Copyright</title>
<description>Hello all,  These days at the Village Pump of zhwiki, many wikipedians are arguing about whether Wikimedia project should apply to the US Copyright L</description>
<pubDate>24 Jun  2009 20:38:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169646</link>
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<title>Fundraising Survey</title>
<description>(As this email may enact changes that affect the total Wikimedia community, please feel free to forward or post this email on any and all applicable</description>
<pubDate>24 Jun  2009 16:37:09 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169635</link>
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<title>Wikimedia Donation Buttons Upgrade</title>
<description>(As this email may enact changes that affect the total Wikimedia community, please feel free to forward or post this email on any and all applicable</description>
<pubDate>24 Jun  2009 14:22:00 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169624</link>
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<title>GFDL-only + OTRS</title>
<description>With the license move... do we still accept GFDL-only material? I&amp;#039;ve seen OTRSer today accepting and tagging entries released as GFDL only. ________</description>
<pubDate>24 Jun  2009 08:53:29 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169599</link>
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<title>What happened to langcom?</title>
<description>Whatever happened to the language committee? No new languages have been created or even approved for creation in a very long time with only two except</description>
<pubDate>24 Jun  2009 00:20:01 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169566</link>
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<title>Public repositories for research dumps</title>
<description>Hello. Since just a few hours ago, a new public repository has been created to host WikiXRay database dumps, containing info extracted from public Wi</description>
<pubDate>23 Jun  2009 09:26:40 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169509</link>
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<title>Video from Wikimedia?</title>
<description>There are some posts about a new video solution, and even more posts that ... err ... isn&amp;#039;t quite correct, but without any official news about it its</description>
<pubDate>22 Jun  2009 05:32:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169418</link>
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<title>Google Books</title>
<description>&amp;lt;subject line changed&amp;gt; On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Anthony &amp;lt;wikimail@inbox.org&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Anthony &amp;lt;wikimail@</description>
<pubDate>21 Jun  2009 16:19:34 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169386</link>
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<title>Re: Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an	Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship</title>
<description>Brian wrote: &amp;gt; That is against the law. It violates Google&amp;#039;s ToS. &amp;gt; &amp;gt; I&amp;#039;m mostly complaining that Google is being Very Evil. There is nothing we &amp;gt; can</description>
<pubDate>20 Jun  2009 14:35:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169308</link>
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<title>Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship</title>
<description>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alternative-open-access-repository-for-legal-scholarship/ Interesting. How wel</description>
<pubDate>20 Jun  2009 08:41:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169263</link>
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<title>Iran?</title>
<description>Just wondering whether anyone&amp;#039;s had a check in from any of our  wikimedians in Iran? Any safety reports on our folks? Philippe   ________________</description>
<pubDate>20 Jun  2009 06:00:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169246</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions</title>
<description>Hi all, It&amp;#039;s been 10 days since the last note on flagged revisions, which is sufficiently important to warrant a follow up at this point in my view. I</description>
<pubDate>19 Jun  2009 15:47:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/169201</link>
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<title>Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?</title>
<description>OK, the question has popped up so many times, that I think it would only be fair to give it a separate topic on this list :) Now I&amp;#039;d like to have a d</description>
<pubDate>16 Jun  2009 08:41:49 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168860</link>
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<title>Licensing update roll-out</title>
<description>As per the licensing update decision by the community and the Board, I&amp;#039;ve updated the site terms on the English Wikipedia (and the WMF website) today,</description>
<pubDate>15 Jun  2009 18:59:49 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168810</link>
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<title>Facebook URLs</title>
<description>Since Facebook is a pretty popular Internet service, where Wikimedia already has a sort of presence, it might make sense for the Foundation to contact</description>
<pubDate>15 Jun  2009 15:14:18 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168785</link>
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<title>Reuse policy</title>
<description>Hello everybody, I hope, it is never too late to discuss these things. Today, I have noticed the Commons added following text under the edit window:</description>
<pubDate>15 Jun  2009 10:53:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168732</link>
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<title>Re: [Commons-l] Some reflections about the	governance of Commons</title>
<description>David Gerard schrieb: &amp;gt; 2009/6/15 Rama Neko &amp;lt;ramaneko@gmail.com&amp;gt;: &amp;gt; &amp;gt;  &amp;gt;&amp;gt; The &amp;quot;service project angle&amp;quot; worries me too. I have noticed that many &amp;gt;&amp;gt; ar</description>
<pubDate>15 Jun  2009 07:56:52 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168711</link>
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<title>Re: [Commons-l] Some reflections about the governance of Commons</title>
<description>[foundation-l added back to cc: as well as commons-l]  2009/6/15 Gnangarra &amp;lt;gnangarra@gmail.com&amp;gt;: &amp;gt; Sysops on Commons arent just handed the tools th</description>
<pubDate>15 Jun  2009 02:22:33 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168669</link>
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<title>Re: foundation-l Digest, Vol 63, Issue 39</title>
<description>I wish to see no political limitation towards the exploitation of googletranslate technology to the success of wikipedia and its underwriting pockets;</description>
<pubDate>15 Jun  2009 01:50:07 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168663</link>
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<title>Re: foundation-l Digest, Vol 63, Issue 38</title>
<description>Hi Cary Bass, Congratulations on your new voluntary position in the oversight of Wikipeida! As a volunteer and regular foundantion-l list e-mail rece</description>
<pubDate>15 Jun  2009 01:39:51 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168662</link>
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<title>List Summary Service, finally</title>
<description>After an unintentional long delay, there are short summaries of foundation-l posted now for: April: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-a</description>
<pubDate>14 Jun  2009 11:00:12 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168630</link>
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<title>Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Tamil Wikipedia Academy at 3 PM Today</title>
<description>Good news from the Tamil WP community. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kiruba @ Kiruba.com &amp;lt;kiruba@kiruba.com&amp;gt; Date: Sat, Jun 13, 2009</description>
<pubDate>14 Jun  2009 10:55:06 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168629</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing update: Final steps</title>
<description>2009/6/9 Platonides &amp;lt;Platonides@gmail.com&amp;gt;: &amp;gt; Sorry if it has already been discussed before but, why has the English &amp;gt; version to be included in the s</description>
<pubDate>12 Jun  2009 19:51:25 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168556</link>
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<title>Volunteer:Email response statistician</title>
<description>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, please see new volunteer position[1] for Email response (OTRS) statistician. This position is</description>
<pubDate>12 Jun  2009 13:54:04 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168540</link>
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<title>How to help convince Google not to foul up HTML5 &amp;lt;video&amp;gt;?</title>
<description>Summary: Google Chrome includes Ogg support for the &amp;lt;video&amp;gt; element. It also includes H.264 support. Fine, but ... they&amp;#039;re also testing HTML5 YouTube</description>
<pubDate>12 Jun  2009 11:22:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168526</link>
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<title>Some reflections about the governance of Commons</title>
<description>Hello, I had started a discussion on the Village Pump of Commons. I think Commons is a very important project, and a very complicated project. With</description>
<pubDate>12 Jun  2009 08:10:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168511</link>
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<title>Wiki-Conference New York July 25-26</title>
<description>Hi folks, The 1st Wiki-Conference New York will be held over the weekend of July 25-26 2009 (confirmed!) at New York University, and hosted by Free C</description>
<pubDate>11 Jun  2009 17:18:04 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168478</link>
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<title>IRC Group Contacts Rearrangements</title>
<description>Wikimedia IRC community, I invite you to read the following announcement and then, if you wish to discuss it, join us on meta at &amp;lt;http://meta.wikimed</description>
<pubDate>11 Jun  2009 14:03:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168452</link>
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<title>GLAM-WIKI needs you!</title>
<description>Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, (wikimedia-au, chapters-cultural-partnerships, foundation-l) The event that you have (hopefully) heard about, &amp;quot;</description>
<pubDate>10 Jun  2009 20:07:20 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168390</link>
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<title>Britannica</title>
<description>I can not help share this with you. I was looking for the name &amp;quot;devouard&amp;quot; in a little tool I just discovered today (TouchGraph). And I was surprise</description>
<pubDate>10 Jun  2009 07:36:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168333</link>
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<title>Re: Google Translate now assists with humantranslations of Wikipedia articles</title>
<description>Let me agree with it completely (out of the shadow ;). This feature&amp;#039;s aim is obviously to help understand totally &amp;quot;alien&amp;quot; texts to a certain [.at leas</description>
<pubDate>10 Jun  2009 04:38:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168319</link>
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<title>Re: Google Translate now assists with human	translations of Wikipedia articles</title>
<description>On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:  &amp;gt; Machine translation in its current status is so useless for anything &amp;gt; beyond ordering Oper</description>
<pubDate>09 Jun  2009 20:28:50 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168291</link>
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<title>Google Translate now assists with human translations of Wikipedia articles</title>
<description>Google has built in support for using its machine translation technology to help bootstrap human translations of Wikipedia articles. http://translate</description>
<pubDate>09 Jun  2009 13:42:47 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168243</link>
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<title>Licensing update: Final steps</title>
<description>All, after some internal discussion with the licensing update committee, I&amp;#039;m proposing the following final site terms to be implemented on all Wikime</description>
<pubDate>09 Jun  2009 00:39:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168201</link>
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<title>Fwd: Digital Open seeks a few more international stewards</title>
<description>This may be of interest to some Wikimedia contributors. The Digital Open is a competition for youth (under 17) around the world to create innovative f</description>
<pubDate>08 Jun  2009 18:38:13 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168185</link>
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<title>Re: [Wikitech-l] Why don&amp;#039;t we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?</title>
<description>I am definitely not opposed to adding in that functionality as I have mentioned in the past: see thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@list</description>
<pubDate>08 Jun  2009 13:28:19 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168151</link>
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<title>Re: China Requires Censoring Software on New PCs</title>
<description>We have been talking about how we survived being blocked by the Chinese government during the last June 4th ban but now this is on the table. We hav</description>
<pubDate>08 Jun  2009 11:27:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168140</link>
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<title>UN announces free (cheap) online university</title>
<description>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=30848 Free tuition, admission fee, testing fee. No word on freedom of materials. Anyone know more about</description>
<pubDate>08 Jun  2009 09:17:12 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168127</link>
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<title>Why don&amp;#039;t we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?</title>
<description>It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them as Ogg Theora</description>
<pubDate>07 Jun  2009 08:26:47 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/168039</link>
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<title>Raising the profile of the privacy policy</title>
<description>It might be worth seeing if we can get the EFF to add our privacy policy to http://www.tosback.org/timeline.php In order to raise the profile of any c</description>
<pubDate>06 Jun  2009 07:58:02 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167954</link>
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<title>Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third partycompanies #2</title>
<description>bug18898 (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18898) is relevant, both in the technical response proposed, which is more appropriate for t</description>
<pubDate>06 Jun  2009 02:15:42 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167942</link>
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<title>Global biographies of living people policy</title>
<description>Hello all -- There is an ongoing discussion about a possible global biographies of living people policy at Meta.[1] Any input / comments / suggestio</description>
<pubDate>05 Jun  2009 18:02:14 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167916</link>
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<title>Re: Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party	companies #2</title>
<description>Bence Damokos &amp;lt;bdamokos@...&amp;gt; writes: &amp;gt; I&amp;#039;d like to note in the interest of facts that the Huwp stats have been &amp;gt; implemented (without complaint till</description>
<pubDate>05 Jun  2009 13:49:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167886</link>
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<title>Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2</title>
<description>Hello, I wasn&amp;#039;t subscribed to this list, since I usually try to avoid the politics around. I was notified, however, that some interesting claims wer</description>
<pubDate>05 Jun  2009 11:03:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167874</link>
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<title>pt:wiki policies</title>
<description>This is in reference to: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-May/051889.html I would like to thank Michael Bimmler for steering</description>
<pubDate>05 Jun  2009 10:16:24 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167863</link>
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<title>Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies</title>
<description>Hi, recently the report of the KnowPrivacy [1] study - a research project by the School of Information from University of California in Berkeley - hi</description>
<pubDate>03 Jun  2009 23:18:38 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167700</link>
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<title>Lowering the idea contribution barrier (and regarding strategic planning)</title>
<description>On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Thomas Dalton &amp;lt;thomas.dalton@gmail.com&amp;gt;wrote: &amp;gt; 2009/6/1 Brian &amp;lt;Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu&amp;gt;: &amp;gt; &amp;gt; While I&amp;#039;m thinking a</description>
<pubDate>01 Jun  2009 12:28:08 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167492</link>
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<title>Comparison of Wikipedia in Norsk (Bokmål) and Store Norske Leksikon</title>
<description>Sunday 31th of May the Norwegian newspaper VG (Verdens Gang) compared Wikipedia in Norsk (Bokmål) and Store Norske Leksikon. The latter encyclopedia i</description>
<pubDate>01 Jun  2009 04:03:19 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167455</link>
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<title>getting Wikipedia to the 5.2 billion people who can&amp;#039;t access it</title>
<description>On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Brian &amp;lt;Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; How does Google Wave help the WMF achieve its goals?  Not sure, it doesn</description>
<pubDate>31 May  2009 04:42:41 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167335</link>
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<title>Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the	distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)</title>
<description>I would guess a partership with Google would be a good idea because: 1) They are the best (according to Brian) and 2) If we were to go through with th</description>
<pubDate>31 May  2009 00:37:41 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167317</link>
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<title>Re: One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution	of and the ability to read Wikipedia)</title>
<description>It does sound like an excellent idea, but it does appear to require us teaming up with Google, a hardware vendor, a software vendor (the OS of cours</description>
<pubDate>30 May  2009 22:54:58 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167312</link>
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<title>One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)</title>
<description>Given currently existing technology, and technology that we can reasonably assume to be available within the next decade, how can the WMF best achieve</description>
<pubDate>30 May  2009 19:38:33 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167309</link>
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<title>IMPORTANT CHANGES: Information about 2009 Board of Trustees election</title>
<description>Hi all, As promised on this list, the election committee has revisited the  election dates. The election pages have been updated to reflect new  d</description>
<pubDate>30 May  2009 06:34:05 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167268</link>
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<title>Google Wave and Wikimedia projects</title>
<description>Probably, some of you already saw that Google made something for which I think that it will be the new form of the mainstream Internet perception. You</description>
<pubDate>29 May  2009 12:10:32 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167170</link>
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<title>Testing of the LocalisationUpdate extension</title>
<description>Hoi, We have been testing the LocalisationUpdate extension for some time now and, we consider it quite good at the moment. We have been testing it in</description>
<pubDate>29 May  2009 03:16:41 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167155</link>
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<title>Google Chrome to support Ogg Theora video natively</title>
<description>Another step towards an open web -- Google&amp;#039;s Chrome browser is going to support Theora video natively with the HTML5 video tag: http://blog.internetne</description>
<pubDate>28 May  2009 13:56:56 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/167128</link>
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<title>Third-party GFDL text irrevocably incompatible with Wikipedia as of August 1</title>
<description>Hello, The relicensing process is underway. This means we have only 2 months to help GFDL wikis that want Wikipedia compatibility to follow suit. Th</description>
<pubDate>27 May  2009 02:54:43 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166971</link>
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<title>Information about 2009 Board of Trustees election</title>
<description>Information concerning the election rules, candidacy, and suffrage/ voting requirements for the 2009 election to the Board of Trustees is  now poste</description>
<pubDate>27 May  2009 01:41:56 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166966</link>
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<title>Vancouver &amp;amp; open source</title>
<description>Some may find this interesting. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-vancouver-open-source-standards-software-city.html Ec __________</description>
<pubDate>26 May  2009 20:53:17 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166950</link>
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<title>Goodbye</title>
<description>Dear all, I would like to use this opportunity to say &amp;quot;Goodbye&amp;quot; to all of you, because my involvement with Wikimedia is now coming to an end. I could</description>
<pubDate>26 May  2009 10:50:36 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166916</link>
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<title>Darwinian search on wikipedia</title>
<description>Hi, I hope this is the right list to post this email - otherwise I would  appreciate being directed to the right one. Shortly, I would like to prom</description>
<pubDate>26 May  2009 04:00:31 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166879</link>
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<title>Announcement: Chapter Selected Board Seats</title>
<description>Hello Everyone, As you may recall the board was restructured last year around this  time. At that time we asked the chapters to select two board me</description>
<pubDate>22 May  2009 11:53:23 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166727</link>
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<title>Proposals re : sexual content on wikimedia</title>
<description>Hi all, I saw this news item today; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8061979.stm and felt that it was tangentially related to the discussions on this</description>
<pubDate>21 May  2009 19:50:09 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166683</link>
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<title>Licensing resolution</title>
<description>In light of the vote results announced regarding the proposed licensing update, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has unanimously passed th</description>
<pubDate>21 May  2009 10:25:47 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166641</link>
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<title>Licensing update vote result</title>
<description>The licensing update poll has been tallied. &amp;quot;Yes, I am in favor of this change&amp;quot; : 13242 (75.8%) &amp;quot;No, I am opposed to this change&amp;quot; : 1829 (10.5%) &amp;quot;I</description>
<pubDate>20 May  2009 22:54:03 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166624</link>
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<title>Open teaching materials in the Netherlands</title>
<description>Hello, Maybe this is interesting for Wikimedians too, certainly for Wikibookians. The Dutch ministry of education is going to set up &amp;quot;Wikiwijs&amp;quot;, a pr</description>
<pubDate>19 May  2009 07:40:18 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166502</link>
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<title>Fwd: Fw: Embassies sponsor article-writing contests in three languages</title>
<description>---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ave Maria Mõistlik &amp;lt;avjoska@yahoo.com&amp;gt; Date: 2009/5/18 Subject: Fw: Embassies sponsor article-writing co</description>
<pubDate>18 May  2009 20:10:00 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166494</link>
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<title>Call for volunteers: 2009-2010 Audit Committee</title>
<description>As many of you know, the Foundation has an Audit Committee which represents the Board in oversight of financial and accounting issues, including plann</description>
<pubDate>17 May  2009 15:12:15 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166408</link>
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<title>Re: Wikipedia is not the Kama Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery</title>
<description>On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Birgitte SB &amp;lt;birgitte_sb@yahoo.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; Your really didn&amp;#039;t address my question. Â Why do you think WMF resources</description>
<pubDate>15 May  2009 11:26:55 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166248</link>
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<title>Re: Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery</title>
<description>--- On Thu, 5/14/09, Aryeh Gregor &amp;lt;Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com&amp;gt; wrote: &amp;gt; From: Aryeh Gregor &amp;lt;Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com&amp;gt; &amp;gt; Subject: Re: [Foundat</description>
<pubDate>15 May  2009 10:44:56 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166246</link>
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<title>We&amp;#039;re not quite at Google&amp;#039;s level</title>
<description>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8051262.stm Google has an hour of slow service and it&amp;#039;s headline news. Imagine the donations we could get if ou</description>
<pubDate>15 May  2009 04:59:45 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166218</link>
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<title>pt:wiki policies</title>
<description>Dear Sirs, The day before yesterday (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pedidos_a_administradores/Discuss%C3%A3o_de_bloqueio/Arquivo/2009/05#NH)</description>
<pubDate>14 May  2009 15:19:11 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166154</link>
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<title>Wikipedians groups on LinkedIn?</title>
<description>There was a &amp;quot;Wikipedians&amp;quot; group which was apparently started for &amp;quot;networking&amp;quot; (which in practice seemed to mean spam blasts), per http://davidgerard.</description>
<pubDate>14 May  2009 11:47:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166108</link>
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<title>Fwd: pt:wiki policies</title>
<description>---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Virgilio A. P. Machado &amp;lt;vam@fct.unl.pt&amp;gt; Date: Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:29 AM Subject: pt:wiki policies To</description>
<pubDate>14 May  2009 11:32:14 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166104</link>
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<title>Collecting or spreading information (was: Wikipedia is not the karma sutra)</title>
<description>Here we have an interesting discussion topic. So what /is/ the main focus of Wikimedia? Is it about collecting together free knowledge, or is it about</description>
<pubDate>14 May  2009 05:34:48 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166058</link>
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<title>Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery</title>
<description>&amp;gt; This is not a photograph of sexual activity , but the after-effects of &amp;gt; sexual activity. A photograph is clearer about the nature of it than &amp;gt; any</description>
<pubDate>14 May  2009 04:46:28 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166055</link>
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<title>Re: [Commons-l] commons and freely licensed sexual imagery</title>
<description>My opinion on this is clear: Commons should welcome both photographs and pictures. Whether a project shows a picture or a photograph should be the pro</description>
<pubDate>13 May  2009 23:18:58 -0800</pubDate>
<link>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/166050</link>
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