[Foundation-l] Wikipedia songs

[Mark Williamson]

I'm not much of a musician, but I was disappointed to see that all of
the actual music was ripped off from established artists. Don't we
have anyone who can write a short song that's free, instead of just
having free lyrics to a probably non-free tune?

On 27/01/2008, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Our IT manager, Rob Halsell, came over to San Francisco this weekend
> to set up the phones in the new Wikimedia Foundation offices. We're
> switching to an open source telephony solution based on Asterisk.
> Obviously, every phone system needs "on hold" music.
>
> So far, we are using "The RfA Candidate's Song" by User:Bucketsofg. If
> you want to shoot to international fame by having your own
> Wikipedia-related song used while people are waiting for someone to
> answer their call, this is your chance. ;-)
>
> Feel free to add new free content songs to:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Song
>
> (Meta would also be a good place to organize this.)
>
> And no, this post is not indicative of our current priorities. :-)
> Things have been quite hectic and busy as we're setting up and
> starting to use our new space. We'll continue to update
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/offices with
> pictures, and a detailed report of recent Foundation activities will
> be forthcoming shortly.
> --
> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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