Forwarded message from Erik Moeller via Foundation-l:
This page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews
now contains five basic requirements for the launch of Wikinews, as
outlined in my previous message:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2004-October/001228.html
Most specific policy ideas have been moved to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Thinktank
and are considered non-binding, should the project be approved. This
allows us to evaluate whether the community wants Wikinews to start, and
to let us then concentrate on how to do it, using the ideas we have
collected as inspiration. The vote will take place on:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Vote
starting October 22, 2004, 20:00 UTC. Until then, I ask people to
translate these pages into other languages. I have also put this call for
translations on [[m:Translation requests]]. Is there any other page I
should use?
On October 22, I will announce the vote in many places to get as much
interest as possible.
Regards,
Erik
I would like to have a brief meeting Wednesday about the newsletter,
to discuss final updates to the content of the first newsletter, how
to publish partial translations on the official foundation site, and
how to proceed towards email distribution and print publication.
Right now, the best meeting time seems to be 1400 UTC on IRC
(#quarto, on freenode). A transcript will also be published online.
If you can't make this time,
but want to be involved, feel free to comment on the agenda beforehand :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AWikimedia_Quarto#IRC_meeting
Please mention this to others in your projects who might be interested.
Fontifiably,
+sj+
The current fundraiser will be over soon; we should reach the target
goal early, within the next hour or so. The fundraising banner will
be replaced by a thank-you banner for the rest of the day:
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Thanks to you, we have reached our goal of $50,000 in
[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising donations].
We are grateful to everyone for their help. Donation breakdowns
are now available
[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2004/Q4 online].
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Please translate this notice and send it to a sysop on your project.
( To edit your site notice, you need to change the protected page
[[Mediawiki:Sitenotice]] )
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+sj+
Please see the new Covers and Updates sections on the NL-1 newsletter
translation requests page. Covers should be uploaded to meta and
linked from there.
The first 3 pages of the De, It, and Ko newsletters could use
proofreading; they could also use covers (requires an image editor).
Ar: is already proofread; thank you, Ayman.
We want to include the first three pages of these along with the full
translations
that currently exist on the foundationwiki.
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+sj+
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A new multilingual mailing list has been set up for people interested
in translations of wikimedia content. You can sign up here :
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
The list will announce new content for translation as soon as it is
created, and provide a place to talk about the progress of
translations. New content includes new Mediawiki: messages and
sitewide notices, and important changes to pages on the
wikimediafoundation site.
--SJ