ComProj June 2007

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[Election] Help distribute the latest notice about Election (written yesterday, 6/14)
by Aphaia 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Hello, comproj folks, I'd ask you for help to publicize the coming endorsement acceptance (of Board Election, of course). This message, taken from [[m:Communication Projects Group/Board Election/Call for translators]], was posted already to the project following: - zhwiki - svwiki - Commons I expect top 13 Wikipedias and all English projects are already informed about Election in a way. On the other hand, I am not sure all of them are aware of the forthcoming endorsement phase. At any rate, even if all of them know about it, as you may know, they are only a top of an iceberg among over 600 Wikimedia project (about 87% registered accounts of all Wikipedias are found on those top 13 - and the left 13% is roughly estimated as one million). Therefore your help for distributing the news will be very appreciated. As noted, please leave a note on meta, to reduce duplication of works. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Translations/en Thanks for your consideration, Cheers, Aphaia / Kizu Naoko == Endorsement == === About === * Latest note for informing the community about endorsement. Help distribute it to the community: VP, mailing list, and other channels. * After posting it, please leave a record on [[Board elections/2007/Translations/en]] for traking record and reduce duplications. === Message === Suggested title: Wikimedia Board Election is soon calling for endorsements  I'm posting it on behalf of Election Committee. --<your signature> ----- Hi Wikimedians, As you may know, we are currently holding the [[wikimedia:Board of Trustees|Board of Trustees]] elections. We are very grateful to your collaborations for sharing the info, through translations, forwarding and other several ways. Next Sunday, June 17, the Board Election will enter its second phase: call for endorsements from the community to the candidates. Only candidates who get 12 or more endorsements in the following week will be able to run in the election. For further information, please see [[m:Board elections/2007/Endorsements]]. Also we would like you to aware we are planning to use [[Wikimedia:Sitenotice]] to inform you that call for endorsement while it is open. Please modify the message in an appropriate way to your community. The notice will be placed at most in seven days. We would appreciate your translation of this message as well as other Election related information. If you'd like to offer further help, just contact your [[Board_elections/2007/Translations#Coordinators_by_languages|language coordinator]] and regularly check [[m:Board elections/2007/Candidates|the list of candidate statements]]. If there's no coordinator for your language, please consider joining our translations team. Please contact [[m:User:Schiste|User:Schiste]] or [[m:User:Aphaia|User:Aphaia]] on meta if you have any question. Cheers, Wikimedia Election Steering Committee  -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *

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Meeting tonight?
by Sean Whitton 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Do we want a meeting tonight? Thanks, Sean -- —Sean Whitton (seanw) <sean(a)silentflame.com> http://seanwhitton.com/

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Press List
by Sandy Ordonez 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

I just wanted to thank everyone for all their help with the press list. Currently, we have over 450 contacts worldwide. Pretty impressive. comproj should give itself a nice pat on the back :) -- Sandy Ordonez Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207S E-Mail: sordonez(a)wikimedia.org

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Seeking volunteers with legal knowledge
by Cary Bass 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Hi guys and gals; I'm looking for help in getting the word out that we need a specific group or task force of users with legal knowledge, particularly in some governing bodies (Japan being a major one). This is something rather strongly needed. Ideas as to the best way to implement this? Cary

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Perfect Case Study
by Sandy Ordonez 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

just sharing, since we are collecting case studies. but this is an example of a perfect case study: (mathias shared this with us) http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/06/fourth-grader-wikipedia-update.ht… I just wanted to relate something that I think shows the power of a Wiki in general and Wikipedia particularly. My son, in 4th grade here in California, was assigned a research report on the California Gold Rush and decided to focus his report on the different routes taken by the 49ers. He used a variety of different resources and particularly used the California Gold Rush Historic Maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection. There is one map in particular that has an incredible description written in 1849 of the different routes: Map of the Gold Regions of California, Showing the Routes via Chagres and Panama, Cape Horn, &c. If you are into maps, this is a fun one to drill down on to see the description. Of course, my son read the Wikipedia California Gold Rush page (it comes up first in Google). It had a paragraph on the routes, but it didn't include the route through Mexico. It did point us to a detailed article on the California Trail. Because it was rather limited about the routes, my son added a sentence about the route through Mexico and added the Map to the Wikimedia Commons and added the map to the article and added a link to the collection of maps on the topic. Now 4th graders doing the same project will be able to find that same wonderful primary source. It's actually somewhat rare that a 4th grader has a primary source like the map, so it's quite a nice little legacy to leave behind. Actually, I don't remember having anything as cool as that to study when I was in school. It's quite remarkable when I think about it. And it shows the beauty of a Wiki and Wikipedia. -- Sandy Ordonez Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207S E-Mail: sordonez(a)wikimedia.org

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Help Election translation and disseminate information
by Aphaia 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Hello Wikimedia translation coordinators and ComProjGroup members. The Election Committee is working on preparing the Wikimedia Board Election, 2007. We hope to open to candidate reception very soon: next Sunday (10 June), hopefully. We think internal communication and translation are very important parts of organizing this Election, and we welcome any help from the community. We would ask you to help us in this. We need people who bring the news to each community; to their village pump, community portal or recentchanges. We'll also ask for updates to sitenotice, at an appropriate time. Indeed, there are many things you can help. For organizing translation and information spreading, we are now setting up a dedicated page on meta at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board elections/2007/Translations The page name could be changed, if you think there's a better one. This page isn't yet finished and needs further organization. As involved parties of communications, would you design it for utilizing it for your coordination in the best way? Thank you for your consideration. -- KIZU Naoko Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee Chair [[m:User:Aphaia]] * vox populi, vox dei *

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Tommorow's meeting
by Christophe Henner 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

I don't if everyone is ok with that, but tommorow there will be a meeting on #wikimedia-cpg at 23h00 UTC so members of the elecom could join us. Two main topic, as I'm aware of, oncomming Board Elections and podcast, if sandy join us. If the scheduled time doesn't feet you, just mail back we'll try to arrange that. -- schiste

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Re: [ComProj] Tommorow's meeting
by Christophe Henner 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

so let's say 16h00. Good night, see you in 5 hours :D On 06/06/07, Martin Peeks <martinp23(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Like Sean, I have exams the following day, so would prefer not to have > something at 0000BST ;). 1600UTC is fine for me though - I should be > reachable by ping. > > Martin > > Christophe Henner wrote: > > I don't if everyone is ok with that, but tommorow there will be a > > meeting on #wikimedia-cpg at 23h00 UTC so"sylvain veyrié" members of the elecom could > > join us. > > > > Two main topic, as I'm aware of, oncomming Board Elections and > > podcast, if sandy join us. > > > > If the scheduled time doesn't feet you, just mail back we'll try to > > arrange that. > > > -- schiste

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Re: [ComProj] Tommorow's meeting
by Sean Whitton 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

I could manage 1600UTC, yeah, thanks :-) Thing is, 2300 would be midnight, and since I'm on exams I'd rather not do that, if you see what I mean. Let me know what ever you decide. Thanks for your organisation with this, Sean On 06/06/07, Christophe Henner <christophe.henner(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sean when it is better? 16h00 UTC? > > schiste, trying to get "everyone" > > On 06/06/07, Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I'm afraid I can't be there for that; way too late for me :( > > > > Thanks, > > > > Sean > > > > On 06/06/07, Christophe Henner <christophe.henner(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't if everyone is ok with that, but tommorow there will be a > > > meeting on #wikimedia-cpg at 23h00 UTC so members of the elecom could > > > join us. > > > > > > Two main topic, as I'm aware of, oncomming Board Elections and > > > podcast, if sandy join us. > > > > > > If the scheduled time doesn't feet you, just mail back we'll try to > > > arrange that. > > > -- > > > schiste > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ComProj mailing list > > > ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj > > > > > > > > > -- > > —Sean Whitton (seanw) > > <sean(a)silentflame.com> > > http://seanwhitton.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ComProj mailing list > > ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj > > > > > -- > schiste > -- —Sean Whitton (seanw) <sean(a)silentflame.com> http://seanwhitton.com/

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Podcast
by Sandy Ordonez 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hello, The podcast project is back on. Please post any ideas you may have for a segment (or speaker) here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_TV. The idea is for each monthly podcast to have several of the segments. (listed in the wiki.) Thanks, Sandy -- Sandy Ordonez Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207S E-Mail: sordonez(a)wikimedia.org

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