Wikimedia-l February 2005

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[Foundation-l] NYTimes.com: Google may host encyclopedia project
by rose.parks＠att.net 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

This page was sent to you by: rose.parks(a)att.net. Hi, And, then, today, the Times published this: As Ever, Ruth Ifcher TECHNOLOGY | February 11, 2005 Google may host encyclopedia project Matt Hines, Staff Writer, CNET News.com The group behind the Wikipedia online effort says the search giant offered to host some of its content on company servers. http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1038_3-5572744.html?ex=1108789200&en=… ----------------- Advertisement -------------------------- <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="5" CELLSPACING="0" BGCOLOR="#F8F5EC"> <tr><TD><font size="2"> /--------- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight Pictures ------------\<br><br> ONLY ONE COMEDY HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE <br><br> SIDEWAYS has been nominated for 5 OSCARS including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Critics across America agree... SIDEWAYS is the BEST PICTURE of the year. SIDEWAYS stars Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen. Now playing in theaters everywhere. Watch the trailer at:<br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&page=www.nytimes.co…"> http://www.foxsearchlight.com/sideways/index_nyt.html</a> </font></td> </tr></table> ----------------- Advertisement -------------------------- 0 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 500 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company

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[Foundation-l] NYTimes.com: Google may host encyclopedia project
by rose.parks＠att.net 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

This page was sent to you by: rose.parks(a)att.net. Hi, Is it possible that no one saw this yesterday in the Times? As Ever, Ruth Ifcher TECHNOLOGY | February 11, 2005 Google may host encyclopedia project Matt Hines, Staff Writer, CNET News.com The group behind the Wikipedia online effort says the search giant offered to host some of its content on company servers. http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1038_3-5572744.html?ex=1108789200&en=… ----------------- Advertisement -------------------------- <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="5" CELLSPACING="0" BGCOLOR="#F8F5EC"> <tr><TD><font size="2"> /--------- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight Pictures ------------\<br><br> ONLY ONE COMEDY HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE <br><br> SIDEWAYS has been nominated for 5 OSCARS including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Critics across America agree... SIDEWAYS is the BEST PICTURE of the year. SIDEWAYS stars Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen. Now playing in theaters everywhere. Watch the trailer at:<br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&page=www.nytimes.co…"> http://www.foxsearchlight.com/sideways/index_nyt.html</a> </font></td> </tr></table> ----------------- Advertisement -------------------------- 0 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 500 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company

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[Foundation-l] Wikimedia budget for Q1, 2005
by Angela 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

A finance meeting was held on IRC today with four members of the Board, and Daniel Mayer. Please see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/d8/WikimediaBankHistory2… for the budget details. An open general meeting will be held in #meeting.wikimedia on February 15. All are welcome to attend this to discuss the topics listed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_agenda Below is a summary of today's meeting. The full details of this will be posted at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/February_7%2C_2005 as soon as Anthere and Jimbo approve them. *A budget for $130000 was approved *A fundraising drive to raise $75000 will take place for 3 weeks starting 18 February *Jimmy is discussing hiring options with Brion Vibber *The Google hosting proposal is being discussed this week *GuruNet will donate €30,000 towards the Wikimania conference The following budget was approved for this quarter: Servers/Hardware (base) $35,000.00 Extra hardware/dev projects $20,000.00 Grant hardware $40,000.00 Grant special projects $0.00 Hosting $16,000.00 Travel $5,000.00 Domain names $500.00 Office expenses $2,500.00 Miscellaneous $1,000.00 Developer pay $8,000.00 Fundraising/Promotional $500.00 Hardware assistant $1,500.00 TOTAL $130,000.00 Needed in fund drive $75,000.00 Angela Beesley

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[Foundation-l] Fundraising: German Bank Account
by Stanislav Traykov 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Hi, I'll probably include the bank account of the German chapter in the Bulgarian translation of the fundraising pages. (That's because PayPal isn't available to most Bulgarian clients and a semi-cheap intra-european wire transfer seems like a reasonable option for some people.) My questions: a) Shall we use a different transfer purpose (Verwendungszweck) than "Spende"? b) Does it make any sense to ask donors to optionally add their address to the Verwendungszweck, if they wish to receive a receipt? (Or is tax deducibility for the e.V. not applicable outside Germany?). c) Generally, are there any problems with this? Thanks, Stanislav

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[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Quenya language request, and Chinese Wikipedia again
by David Gerard 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Neil Harris (usenet(a)tonal.clara.co.uk) [050211 03:18]: > Just as with politics, there are many actual positions hidden behind > people's ostensible positions. At the moment, we have a position where > "yes, but only when we are happy", or even "yes, real soon now" actually > mean "never". The key here is _breaking the deadlock_ of _indefinite_ > opposition to other Chinese language Wikipedias, by making supporters on > both sides commit in advance to a value of N, and automatically > triggering the change in policy when N is reached. Making people make > _objective_ choices always clarifies their positions. The thing is you're still presupposing that an existing wikipedia has a right to block the existence of a new Wikipedia. I ask the Board: is this the case? - d.

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[Foundation-l] Board meeting, February 2005
by Angela 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

The approved notes of the Board meeting on 7 February are now at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/February_7%2C_2005 The meeting focused primarily on finance, and the budget is now at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Budget/2005 If you would like to comment on this meeting or discuss any of the points raised there, please do so at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/talk:Wikimedia_Board_meetings Angela.

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[Foundation-l] Grant meeting
by Anthere 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Hi, As you all have probably seen, our budget is seriously increasing every trimester. It is my personal view that we cannot anymore entirely rely on donations by visitors, but must seriously seek other sources of income. Last year, we were offered two grants and one prize, and a third grant of 40 000 dollars was just offered. These grants make the difference between succeeding to run the site, or not. We need to pay more attention to grants. Most require quite a bit of work, but the result is really worth it. For this reason, a meeting will be held on this sunday, 4 PM UTC. If you wish to participate, please come over to #wikimedia, we'll find a quiet room to host us. While the meeting is open, I or Angela or Danny reserve the right to kindly ask a visitor to leave the room if necessary. We wish to involve people as much as possible, but only seriously interested and trusted people :-) Topics will be * feedback on current grant requests (Danny) * discussion over new possible grants * Decision to seek for a couple ones. * Teams setting up. In particular, last year, we thought of asking a NEH grant, but the deadlines were too short. We might try again this year. The work to do is not only setting up figures, but there is also a lot of work simply describing our project, gathering statistics or press clipings, helping on the layout, fixing typos, improving style etc... I invite you to read http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants and join us sunday Anthere __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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[Foundation-l] Re: Progress on wikimedia.com?
by Michael Snow 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Arne Klempert wrote: >That sounds not very plausible because to my knowledge the US trademark >is a pre-condition to apply for registration in the EU according to the >Madrid Agreement. > > Well, we could register the trademarks separately in some European country, but that doesn't make that much sense if we can get an EU-wide registration based on a prior US registration. >"Trademark registrations have been filed for (pending): Wikipedia, >MediaWiki, Wikinews, Others?" <--- "Others?" doesn't make me feel >confident that the rest of the list is correct. It would be great to get >some more informations about the trademarks. At least registration >numbers would be very helpfully to impress domain squatters. > > So far, we've filed just the three applications for US trademark registration that I know of - Wikipedia, MediaWiki, and Wikinews, no others. They don't have registration numbers because they're not registered yet, they're only in the application stage. The applications do have serial numbers, which you can get through the US Patent & Trademark Office's search function. You can also check the status, which in this case shows that none of the applications has yet been assigned to an examining attorney. (Applications seem to get entered in the system with decent regularity; I don't know how good they are about status updates.) Since we're trying to identify all of these with the Wikimedia Foundation, so that Wikimedia is sort of the umbrella brand for all our projects, it would probably make sense to get Wikimedia registered as well. The name is getting some public exposure (the New York Times did a nice job differentiating in their piece about Wikinews), and it could be helpful with the wikimedia.com situation. The domain name problem makes the issue of where to put the Foundation wiki academic for now, but ultimately I agree with Erik that we should definitely go with the shorter name. Either way, though, we should get ourselves the wikimedia.com domain. Eventually we should register the other projects as trademarks too, but I'm not sure that should be an immediate financial priority. I think it's more important to get international registration going for the first four marks (the existing three and Wikimedia), once the US registration is in effect. --Michael Snow

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[Foundation-l] Translations needed of donation pages before fund drive
by Daniel Mayer 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

I'm happy to report that the donation pages and forms for de, en, fr, it, ja, and most recently nl are all translated! See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising and http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donazioni for examples. But in order to maximize donations for our next fund drive (to be held from Friday 18 February until Friday 4 March) we need more translations. Below is a table of those that still need some work: lang page Form-xx Help-xx Onetime-xx Option-xx ar yes no no no no cs yes no no no no es yes no no no no fi yes no no no no he yes no no no no ko yes no no no no pl yes no no no no pt yes yes no no no sv yes no no no no zh yes no no no no KEY (full instructions are on the linked pages) *page (actual donation page | Extremely important) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF/Fundraising/En: *Form-xx (used to translate donation forms | Very important) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:DonationForm-xx *Help-xx (help for donors) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:DonateHelp-xx *Onetime-xx (a message about one time donations) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:DonateOnetime-xx *Option-xx (used for navigation between forms) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:DonateOption-xx I'd also like to see translations for all languages for which there are 10,000+ Wikipedia articles. Here is a list of those that so far do not have anything translated: bg, ca, da, eo, no, ro, ru, and uk Of course, all other translations are also welcome and will be posted to the foundation wiki. ----------- One last thing. I've noticed that there is no donation link in the side bar for for many non-Wikipedia wikis and for some Wikipedias. If you are an admin in any of these wikis *and* a version of the donation page is already on the Foundation wiki in your language, then please do this: Edit [[MediaWiki:Sitesupport-url]] and replace '{{SITENAME}}:Site_support' with 'Wikimedia:donate' with 'donate' being the name of the donation page in your language on the foundation wiki (Spenden, Fundraising, Faites un don, ... etc). Edit [[MediaWiki:Sitesupport]] and replace the '-' with the word 'Donations' (or its closest equivalent) translated into your language. That's it. :) -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav) PS - I you have any questions about any of this, then please either respond to this email or ask me questions on my meta user talk page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Daniel_Mayer __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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[Foundation-l] Wikipedia on answers.com/google
by Christiaan Briggs 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

I was looking up the word orchard via google today and noticed that they have a Wikipedia section: http://www.answers.com/orchard&r=67 http://snipurl.com/cna7 Cool, how long have they been doing this? Christiaan

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