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
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
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
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
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.
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
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/