WikiEN-l February 2010

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"Citation needed" in popular culture
by David Gerard 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

How long until there's an entry on [[Citation needed]]? http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Anatomii-of-a-Hack.aspx - d.

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Office hours this Friday, October 9
by Cary Bass 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi everyone, This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>. Office hours this Friday are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30PM to 4:30PM PDT). Mike will also be taking the following Thursday from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT). The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. Go ahead. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Strategic Planning Office Hours
by Philippe Beaudette 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Wednesday, 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: -Tuesday (8-9pm PST) -Tuesday (11pm-12am EST) There has been a lot of tremendous work on the strategy wiki the past few months, and Task Forces are finishing up their work. Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's happened as well as the work to come. As always, you can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. More details at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Thanks! Hope to see many of you there. ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation philippe(a)wikimedia.org mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Linking Dates
by Marc Riddell 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Folks, Would someone help me here? What is the current policy regarding linking dates such as Birth and Death in biography articles? Thanks, Marc Riddell

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Strategic Planning Office hours
by Philippe Beaudette 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Tuesday from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 12-1pm PST Tuesday, 3pm-4pm EST There has been a lot of tremendous work on the strategy wiki the past few months, and Task Forces are finishing up their work. Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's happened as well as the work to come. As always, you can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. More details at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Thanks! Hope to see many of you there. ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation philippe(a)wikimedia.org mobile: 918 200-WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Another notability casualty
by arromdee＠rahul.net 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

I stumbled into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kinuyo_Yamashi… My personal summary: Notability requirements shown to be utterly broken for popular culture topics.

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Grey crossed out links in edit history (or: did I miss another software update?)
by Rob 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Not sure what's going on in the edit history of [[Sam Walton]]. There are a number of grey crossed out links. At first I thought it might be a new way of displaying deleted edits but they still appear after I log out, and deleted edits on other articles still appear in the normal fashion.

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Italian privacy laws and Google
by Carcharoth 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Does this case have implications for Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8533695.stm Google employees were convicted by a court for allowing a video of a teenager with Down's Syndrome being bullied to be posted online. It seems most of the internet is up in arms about this, as it shifts the location where liability can be placed, though I doubt anything like this would ever appear in the USA. Carcharoth

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Living people task force discussion for this week
by Keegan Paul 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Hi everyone, I've adjusted the meeting time for the weekly discussion to 0:00 UTC, still on Monday, 21 February. We're also moving the discussion to #wikimedia-strategy so that Philippe's bot can more affectively log, as well as making sure that this is Wikimedia, and not Wikipedia. Meeting agenda can be found here: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/IRC_Agendas <http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/IRC_Agendas>Check back to the strategy main page to see links to remit, previous meeting minutes, draft of Recommendations (this month's project), timeline, etc. Email me anytime if you have questions on how to participate! ~Keegan -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan

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Call for proposals for Wikimedia UK initiatives
by Michael Peel 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hi all, The Wikimedia UK board has been putting together a budget for the next year [1] and we have some money left over. We are looking for proposals for projects/iniatives with budget requirements in the range of £100-£3000 (GBP). These projects can be either online or offline, but they should be primarily focused on the UK and they must further the objects of Wikimedia UK (broadly, to collate/develop/ spread freely licensed material). The deadline for proposals is the end of this month (i.e. 0:00 UTC on 1 March 2010). You can submit proposals on our wiki at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Proposals The information we need to know is: - What the project would be, in a paragraph of two - What the benefits would be, again in a paragraph or two - What requirements it has, in terms of a financial budget and any other resources. The budget should give a rough breakdown of what the money would be spent on. - What volunteer time it requires, and how much time you can spend on the project. You would be expected to take an active role in implementing the project. - Your contact details - you should have a registered account on our wiki that we can send emails to (note that single-user login is enabled, so your wikipedia account will work). You do not have to be a member of Wikimedia UK to submit a proposal, although that would be preferable (membership is open to all, so you can always join - particularly if your proposal goes forward. ;-) ). Preference will also be given to active Wikimedians, although that is not a requirement. We plan to set aside a budget for smaller grants (<£100), which we will be calling for proposals for later this year. Please get in touch if you have any questions, and please share this with anyone else that you think might be interested. [1] You can see this, and help with its development, at http:// uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Budget - although this is not fully up to date yet. Thanks, Mike Peel Chair, Wikimedia UK http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/

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