Wikimedia-l December 2005

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[Foundation-l] Status of Chinese Wikinews proposal
by Corum O' Fallamhain 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

What is the current status of the Chinese Wikinews proposal? I feel quite strongly about this, and want to see one set up as soon as possible. More than enough people have expressed interest, why has one not been set up yet? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ce_garcon

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[Foundation-l] Q4 Fund Drive to start Friday
by Daniel Mayer 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hello everyone - The fourth quarter fund drive for the Wikimedia Foundation will start on 00:00 UTC Friday 16 December and last until 00:00 UTC Friday 6 January. There is no specific goal for this drive but we would like to at least cover all next quarter's spending along with the rest of this quarter. That will require well over $500,000. A draft budget is on meta and will be open for public comment soon (announcement will be on foundation-l and metas Goings On page). Wikimedia needs your help to make sure this drive is a success. Some other charities spend up to 80% of donations on fundraising costs. With your continued help our only fundraising costs are PayPal and bank fees. This means that over 95% of donations made to us go toward running the foundation and its projects. Here is what needs to be done: 1) make sure your language's translation of the fund drive documents are completed. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4_planning/Translations 2) get somebody who can edit the foundation wiki to place a copy of your translation there 3) Put your translated fund drive notice on your wiki's [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] page soon after the drive starts. Everything else will be taken care of by myself and the Wikimedia team. Sincerely, Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia CFO __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Foundation-l] Q4 Fund Drive to start on Friday
by Daniel Mayer 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

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[Foundation-l] Jimbo's fantasy...
by Brian 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Jimbo recently confessed his fantasy on #wikimedia: to set aside January 15th as Wikipedia Day. This would at least involve turning off all new account creation and anonymous editing, and just spending the day "cleaning up" in all senses of the phrase. Others suggested setting aside an entire month for this, or doing it one day out of every month. So, can we make some form of this fantasy come true? brian0918

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[Foundation-l] Trademark violation
by Dori 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Is this a trademark violation? http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/

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RE: [Foundation-l] Trademark violation
by Patrick, Brad 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

This situation is being addressed on Juriwiki-L for legal reasons. Thank you for bringing it to the list's attention. -Brad Bradford A. Patrick, Esq. Fowler White Boggs Banker 501 E. Kennedy Blvd. Suite 1700 Tampa, FL 33602-5239 (813) 228-7411 main (813) 222-3336 direct (813) 229-8313 fax bpatrick(a)fowlerwhite.com -----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dori Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 6:43 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: [Foundation-l] Trademark violation Is this a trademark violation? http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer under IRS Circular 230: Unless expressly stated otherwise in this transmission, nothing contained in this message is intended or written to be used, nor may it be relied upon or used, (1) by any taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding penalties that may be imposed on the taxpayer under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and/or (2) by any person to support the promotion or marketing of or to recommend any Federal tax transaction(s) or matter(s) addressed in this message. If you desire a formal opinion on a particular tax matter for the purpose of avoiding the imposition of any penalties, we will discuss the additional Treasury requirements that must be met and whether it is possible to meet those requirements under the circumstances, as well as the anticipated time and additional fees involved. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Disclaimer: This e-mail message and any attachments are private communication sent by a law firm, Fowler White Boggs Banker P.A., and may contain confidential, legally privileged information meant solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message, then delete the e-mail and any attachments from your system. Thank you.

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[Foundation-l] WikiMusic
by effeietsanders l 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

hello everybody, We now have a free encyclopedia. We now have a free library. We now have free pictures. Now we have to *free the music* (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-JW1 ) and make it available for everyone. But with the preservation of the wiki-idea: publishing music with a free license, or publishing music in the Public Domain. Let's make a WikiMusic. A Wiki with: - *both score and text* of a free piece of music - the *music itself* in a playable music file (in different versions, for example one version with trumpet, one with a whole orchestra, not MIDI) - the *sheet music* in a wiki-text format - *information about* the piece of music. The WikiMusic has to be *user-friendly* as well. So NO WikiMusic just for expert musicians, but also for people who are just looking for a nice work of Beethoven. There has to be a system to *search* in this Wiki in a user-friendly way, too. Maybe the so-called Parsons code<http://www.musipedia.org/pcnop.0.html>( http://www.musipedia.org/pcnop.0.html) can be used? The WikiMusic wiki has to *allow for growth*. Not just for experts, but rather also for people with little knowledge of the software. Lilypond<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPond>is at the moment still too difficult, too technical, for this purpose. Maybe there are possibilities to make it easier to enter scores into a Wiki. Maybe it is possible to integrate some kind of keyboard (java applet) in the software, and have the software rewrite it into Lilypond-like formats. Perhaps a (java) applet to drag and drop the notes into the score can be developed, so a full score can be reproduced in a Wiki. And that such will be transcribed into the Lilypond format automatically is our dream. The Wikimusic has to be *editable*. So not just the creation of new scores has to be easy, but also their editing. Maybe some way can be found to change the rather complex format of lilypond into a drag-and-drop idea, so the sheet can be altered easily. Later the sheet can be transcribed into the standard format again. WikiMusic must, last but not least, be *able to survive*. Not only with its envisioned community, but also with a protection from vandals. It may prove to be be hard to maintain the usual wiki-way here. Some brainstorming about this issue needs to be done. How can vandals be checked best, by a mere possibility of *listening to the differences* perhaps? You can help with this! Today a proposal is posted on meta ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikimusic_II and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimusic_II), and there are still a lot of technical issues to be solved. Plese add your comment, and get the project on it's way. Every bit of help and comment is welcome. I hope to see you there. Effeietsanders (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/gebruiker:Effeietsanders and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Effeietsanders )

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[Foundation-l] board manual and where information about the WMF should really be
by Anthere 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello everyone, There has been a bit of discussion recently about Non Profit Foundations and their organisation. Michael Davis has been discussing a lot in the past few days with a lawyer we are working with, and amongst various conclusions, it was recommanded that we try to anticipate the best we could our growth curve and to get a strong legal framework in place asap. Which seems to involve good functioning structure... and sticking a bit more to traditional board governance procedures, with some evolution in the way we handle agendas, minutes, bylaws, resolution, board manual, insurance and so on. We are currently working on all this very much. Each according to its own ability. Some of this can only be done by board members proper, other tasks can also be supported by officers, and some can involve anyone who is serious and supportive. Amongst the tasks I will try to take care of in the next few weeks (or months...) is documentation, such as typically board manual. Michael has provided us with some documentation (such as http://www.boardsource.org/FullAnswer.asp?ID=98) and I gathered some more as well. Most of what is typically required on a board manual, we already have, but it is dispersed on at least 3 different wikis and poorly organised. This is unfortunate. Board governance is not something new and there is no reason for us to reinvent the wheel. When I looked at some of these pages, I recognised areas where we have indeed tried to reinvent the wheel... other areas we have never explored at all, areas where we found our own balance and areas which are still a mess :-) I invite you to join and help the way you can if you have such a desire. Either help to organise the structure of the future document (and more generally Foundation website), help to gather what already exist, help write what does *not* exist, help fix poor english, help translate (much later) some of the pages. If you are interested, please, let's talk about this on meta or by irc. I presume this will be very boring for most editors here, so it will probably rarely be mentionned on the list, but if you wish to help, please jump in any time. thanks Ant

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[Foundation-l] Two new Wikinews sites
by Amgine 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

The Thai and Arabic requests for new Wikinews language editions have gathered enough contributors and built the required policies, pages, and templates to meet launch requirements. Please see the proposals at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_language_pre-launch The Arabic main page layout may be viewed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ar.Wikinews.%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D… (alas, the weather bot is currently not operable, so they will need to change their layout some.) The Thai main page layout may be viewed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Th.wikinews_%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B… and is a progressively complex layout design! I'd like to request these two Wikinews editions be created to support these contributors! Amgine

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[Foundation-l] Sources and sourceability
by daniwo59＠aol.com 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

I want to outline my position here, so that there is no misunderstanding, as there seems to be. 1. I am NOT saying that every fact in Wikipedia must be sourced or removed. 2. I am saying that every fact in Wikipedia should be SOURCEABLE. 3. I am not saying that everyone must give their sources whenever they edit. 4. I am saying that we can encourage people to work on a project to find sources for each fact, just like we have encouraged people to fix commas or categorize stubs. 5. I am not saying that people who cannot source should be discouraged from editing. 6. I am saying that we should encourage people to find sources, for their own work and for other's work as well. 7. I am saying that there are many different types of sources, and we should find ways of including them. (BTW, in a previous job I worked extensively with oral histories, which are a wonderful source of information, even if they must always be verified). 7. Finally, I am saying that high quality is NOT something we can compromise. Danny

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