Wikimedia-l October 2006

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[Foundation-l] Some question about Wikimedia Hong Kong
by valdelli＠bluemail.ch 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

I am looking the new chapters and I have seen that there is the project of creation of Wikimedia Hong Kong. I don't understand if this creation is correct considering that Hong Kong will be completely integrated in mainland of China in the 2047. Ilario

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[Foundation-l] Board retreat
by Anthere 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Hello all, I am beginning to see in my inbox a pile of emails wondering what is happening, where we are etc... :) So, to make it short, we had last week end a board retreat in Frankfurt (roughly 25 people moved there for the 3 days of the retreat). In my opinion it was very productive. All of us went out of it alive (though... I saw several empty bottles of whisky littering the lobby floor when I left very early on monday... so, maybe not) All participants should be soon back home. Oscar volunteered to write a report about the Retreat and the decisions which were made, and I presume it should be today or tomorrow. So, heads up everyone, cool pictures and news are on their way ! I myself drifted a couple of thousands miles to the North (Finland), where I would not be so surprised to see snow soon. More feedback after I get back home on thursday evening. Anthere --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

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[Foundation-l] Allegations of Wikipedia plagurism by Brandt/Websites he has stirred up sending nasty notices
by Jeff V. Merkey 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Mr. Brandt has posted a long listing of articles to his website making allegations of plagurism of wikipedia articles from copyrighted sources. http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/psamples.html Some editors may want to investigate these claims to determine if the articles were copied from (Wikipedia -> these sites) or the other way around (these sites -> Wikipedia). I did receive a notice on a couple of the articles I had uploaded to Wikigadugi from the XML dumps along with some comments about "looking into possible copyright infringement" from one of the sites Brandt references which brought this matter to my attention in the first place. Someone should probably go over these articles and determine if these claims have merit. I am not going to take down anythig from Wikigadugi right now since I am unable to determine if the articles were copied FROM Wikipedia or the other way around. Jeff

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[Foundation-l] Proposed guidelines in our IRC channels
by Tangotango 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

This topic might be a little old, but as a regular in #wikipedia-bootcamp, I can definitely say that this channel is dedicated to helping users out. We do occasionally get users from other Wikimedia projects, and although our level of expertise in languages other than English may be lacking depending on the time and users active, we are always friendly and attempt to help anyone who comes in. The channel is also largely free of off-topic conversation. If we can get a combination of (1) more experienced and friendly Wikimedians with expertise in languages other than English and (2) more users from different projects who need help, then I think we would do great as a multilingual support channel. Tangotango -----Original Message----- From: geni <geniice at gmail.com> Sent: October 13 2006 On 10/13/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote: > Last time I was using IRC (quite a few months), #wikipedia was the juvenile, > off-topic channel and #wikipedia-en (the official support channel for > en.wikipedia) was largely quiet. But, mainly for non-English speakers, it > may be useful to create an multilingual support channel free from off-topic > conversation. > > -- > Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com) #wikipedia-bootcamp would probably come closest. -- geni

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[Foundation-l] FoundationWiki accounts
by Erik Moeller 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Aphaia (Kizu Naoko) now has permission to create FoundationWiki accounts, together with Michael Snow. -- Peace & Love, Erik Member, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, all views or opinions expressed in this message are solely my own and do not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.

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[Foundation-l] Good example; The works of Charles Darwin freed :)
by Gerard Meijssen 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Hoi, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6064364.stm Thanks, GerardM

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[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2007 Team Bulletin, 21 October, 2006
by mingwangx 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Wikimania 2007 Team Bulletin 21 October, 2006 Published by the Wikimania 2007 Taipei Team<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Team&action=edit>, *Team Bulletin* provides the latest news of the Team's organizing work to everyone who is interested in Wikimania; it also gives the Team chances to announce calls for help/participation, so assistance in human and other resources can be sought in a wider range. *Team Bulletin* is published at the official website of Wikimania 2007 and released to the public domain. Everyone is welcome to reproduce and distribute it to their websites, mailing lists, BBS, blogs, and so on, but please kindly include the Bulletin's original link at the official website of Wikimania 2007<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/>in your distribution. In the weekly meeting of the Taipei Team on October 19th, team members reported their work and discussed the following matters: - The sponsorship division expresses gratitude to Chunghwa Telecom<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chunghwa_Telecom&actio…>for their generous sponsorship. - The website division reports that Wikimedia Foundation has set up the official website for Wikimania 2007. The division will implement the web pages, infrastructure as soon as possible. - The scholarship<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scholarships&action=ed…>committee is being planned. This committee will work with the Team and the Foundation in handling scholarships for attendees from outside of Taiwan. - Frances is named the local press contact and is in charge of media request, public relations, and advertisements. - Tzu-Chiang<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TzuChiang_Liou>is the Team's program<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Program&action=edit>coordinator and is in charge of program and topics. - The team is looking for contact persons from each school for the "Campus promotion tour and volunteer training<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Campus_promotion_tour_…>" activity. The team asks any student associations, computer centers, clubs, and libraries in Taiwan that are interested to contact the team. - The team is looking for more translators<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Translation&action=edit>and a site manager for the conference venue<http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venue&action=edit> . If you have any questions or suggestions, please kindly leave them at http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Team_Bulletin/20061021

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[Foundation-l] GFDL v2 draft - GNU Wiki License
by luke brandt 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

on *Wed Sep 27 04:40:37 UTC 2006, **Gregory Maxwell *wrote:- <quote> The GFDL v2 draft contains the following: [8b. WIKI RELICENSING If the Work was previously published, with no Cover Texts, no Invariant Sections, and no Acknowledgements or Dedications or Endorsements section, in a system for massive public collaboration under version 1.2 of this License, and if all the material in the Work was either initially developed in that collaboration system or had been imported into it before 1 June 2006, then you may relicense the Work under the GNU Wiki License.] Would anyone at the Wikimedia foundation like to make a public comment about this?</quote> Any news on this in the intervening weeks? luke

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[Foundation-l] Planned change to default IP blocking behavior
by Brion Vibber 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

A few months ago the ability was added to limit IP blocks to allow logged-in contributions to continue. This allowed finer-grained blocking of troublemakers on shared IPs (schools, AOL etc). There's some suggestion to make this the default mode. I wanted to announce this ahead of time since it will change what happens when admins make a block without manually clicking something extra. If there's no serious objection, we'll go ahead and change this in a few days. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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[Foundation-l] Dublin Core and OAI
by David Monniaux 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Hi, I remember seeing projects on "Dublin Core" metadata and "OAI" retrieval. I've been asked about it in a conference where I was promoting Wikimedia projects. Where can I learn more about what we do on these points? Thanks

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