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[Foundation-l] Finding ways to rasie funds
by Marie Flynn 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

I am sending my e-mail as suggested

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[Foundation-l] Organization of News Ombudsmen
by Sydney aka FloNight 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

The name ombudsmen is used in the news industy. There is an organization of News Ombudsmen. Link below gives a complete description from the organizations web site. http://www.newsombudsmen.org/what.htm This is the short version. *What is a news ombudsman? A news ombudsman receives and investigates complaints from newspaper readers or listeners or viewers of radio and television stations about accuracy, fairness, balance and good taste in news coverage. He or she recommends appropriate remedies or responses to correct or clarify news reports.* I see a Foundation appointed person doing something similar. Looking at individual serious problems that exist because of fixable flaws in the system. This should keep these same type of problems from reoccuring. Regards, Sydney

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[Foundation-l] Update on ombudsman issue
by Anthere 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

So that it is clear that discussions do not always get buried and forgotten :-) Some time ago, we discussed the possibility to create an ombudsman commission to deal with complaints related to abuse of the Foundation privacy policy, associated to checkuser activity or not. A resolution(*) has been written to describe the role of the commission and the extent of its delegation. 3 members have been proposed. Angela and I approved that resolution early july. The quorum for a resolution to pass is 3 approval. We are waiting for another board member to vote. Anthere (*) For those who wonder what this "resolution" stuff is and coming to Wikimania in 2 weeks, I'll try to explain how the Foundation is functionning (or not functionning) on sunday the 6th of august (open and free ad)

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[Foundation-l] Please implement the [[Wikiversity:Main_Page]]
by Eric R. Meyers 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hello Wikiversity Opinion forums, Please forgive me for showing up so very late in this very important discussion about the Wikiversity project, just to give you my personal opinion, but I've been very busy recovering from a very serious Central Nervous System (CNS) disorder for the past 2-1/2 years, and I just started getting the mental energy to put my mind and my life back together this past spring. I've been very impressed with everything that The Wikimedia Foundation has been creating while I've been gone, and I consider myself very lucky to be doing my stuff with the help of Angela and Sannse at Wikia. I've placed an entry following Cormaggio's at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikiversity#Proposal_-_done.3F. Please make me, and everyone else in the world who sincerely cares about public learning and the excellent Wikiversity project, "joyful" about the [[Wikiversity:Main_Page]] being implemented as soon as possible. James, or Jimbo, I'd like to meet you too, someday. :) Will someone please put this good thing on his desk today, so that he and everyone else on the board can sign it off and get it done for the public good. Yes, I'm crazy. :) Sincerely, Eric

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Re: [Foundation-l] Update on ombudsman issue
by Sydney aka FloNight 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

I think it should be changed. Too confusing. Could someone write a nicely worded explanation about why it is going to be changed on a certain date? Then do it. It will be over and done. Regards, Sydney ---- geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/20/06, Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > PS : is it a good idea to have a user named ombudsman ? > > > > The issue has been raised from time to time (I think it got a mention > in the user's RFC). Since the user has refused to change there hasn't > really been much that can be done. > > -- > geni > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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[Foundation-l] Native Cherokee XML Dumps for enwiki-20060717 posted
by Jeffrey V. Merkey 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Trnslation dumps posted for enwiki-20060717: www.wikigadugi.org ftp.wkigadugi.org/wiki/xml Jeff

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[Foundation-l] Printed on Demand Books from Wikipedia articles
by Volker Haas 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hi everybody, as the title suggests I would like to introduce a website to the wikimedia community that offers books consisting of wikipedia articles that areprinted on demand. The unique feature is that every user can individually pick arbitrary articles from the wikipedia (currently only from the english version) and add them to his book. Once the user is satisfied with the book's content, he can download a pdf-preview and check how the book will look like when printed. The last step is to order the book and get a unique encyclopedia containing only selected wikipedia articles. The service is located at http://www.pediapress.com and has not yet been publicly announced. I would like to know the opinion of the wikimedia community about this service, since I am aware of the fact that a couple of copyright and also "moral" issues are related to selling wikipedia content. Some of these issues are pointed out in the thread "Offering Wikibooks content for sale" (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/63024). I would like to give you some details about our efforts to comply with the GFDL and also the spirit of the wikipedia content and community: * on the pediapress.com website and in the printed books it is clearly stated that all articles have their origin in the wikipedia project * below each article a link (in case of the book the plain URL) to the original wikipedia article is shown * all principle authors are listed below an article in the book if possible * pediapress does not generate any unnecessary traffic on wikipedia since we use the wikipedia dumps * we e-mailed with Angela Beesley (member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation) and Brad Patrick (general counsel to the Wikimedia Foundation) who did not see anything problematic with our service Last but not least I want to point out that the pediapress affiliate program has the goal to generate donations to the wikimedia foundation: after ordering a book, users have the option to publish and promote their book. Thereby others are able to buy the published book. The publisher receives a provision of 10% of the books price which he can donate to the wikimedia foundation.Please note that pediapress is still in a "beta" phase even though compiling, printing and ordering books is perfectly possible. But since all processing and layouting is done automatically there are still some shortcomings that will be fixed asap. I don't want to deny that my company (brainbot technologies AG - http://brainbot.com) and I hope that pediapress supports itself financially. The main motivation nevertheless was to give something back to the wikipedia community. Since me and my colleagues aren't exactly good writers but heavy consumers of the wikipedia, we thought it would be a better idea to try to promote the offline usage of the wikipedia by building pediapress. Thanks for your patience - I hope some of you check out pediapress and post their opinions. Volker Haas

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Re: [Foundation-l] ..
by valdelli＠bluemail.ch 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting Ilario ----Messaggio originale---- Da: oldakquill(a)gmail.com Data: 18.07.06 14.46 A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org> Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] .. What is this "ToFU discussion"? The only tofu I know about is the coagulated soy milk... On 18/07/06, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com> wrote: > We could start a nice ToFU discussion... >

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Re: [Foundation-l] ..
by valdelli＠bluemail.ch 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

It could be... nothing else to do? Ilario ----Messaggio originale---- Da: messedrocker(a)gmail.com Data: 17.07.2006 7.34 A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org> Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] .. It's incredible how much conversation there is sorrounding a blank message. On 7/17/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey(a)wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote: >

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[Foundation-l] Native Cherokee Wikibooks/Wiktionary for enwiki-20060702
by Jeffrey V. Merkey 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

Translations posted based on enwiki-2060702 dumps. Translation rate at 99.1% completeness. * Native Cherokee Language Syllabary Website is at chr.wikigadugi.org <http://chr.wikigadugi.org> * Native Cherokee Language Phonetic WikiGadugi Website is at chrp.wikigadugi.org <http://chrp.wikigadugi.org> * Native Cherokee Language Syllabary Wikibooks translations at books.wikigadugi.org <http://books.wikigadugi.org> * Native Cherokee Language Phonetic Wikibooks translations at phbooks.wikigadugi.org <http://phbooks.wikigadugi.org> * Native Cherokee Language Syllabary Wiktionary translations at dictionary.wikigadugi.org <http://dictionary.wikigadugi.org> * Native Cherokee Language Phonetic Wiktionary translations at phdictionary.wikigadugi.org <http://phdictionary.wikigadugi.org> * XML dumps of the Native Cherokee Wikipedia Translations are at ftp.wikigadugi.org <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki> * English Language WikiGadugi Website is at en.wikigadugi.org <http://en.wikigadugi.org> XML Dumps posted at ftp.wikigadugi.org File: cherokee-syntax-errors-20060607.txt.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/cherokee-syntax-errors-20060607.txt.bz2> 2 KB 06/23/2006 11:24:00 PM File: cherokee-syntax-errors-20060619.txt.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/cherokee-syntax-errors-20060619.txt.bz2> 2 KB 06/24/2006 12:44:00 AM File: cherokee-syntax-errors-20060702.txt.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/cherokee-syntax-errors-20060702.txt.bz2> 2 KB 07/04/2006 01:12:00 AM File: phwiki-20060607-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/phwiki-20060607-pages-articles.xml.bz2> 1530644 KB 06/23/2006 11:20:00 PM File: phwiki-20060619-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/phwiki-20060619-pages-articles.xml.bz2> 1570369 KB 06/24/2006 03:18:00 AM File: phwiki-20060702-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/phwiki-20060702-pages-articles.xml.bz2> 1618409 KB 07/04/2006 02:40:00 AM File: phwikibooks-20060713-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/phwikibooks-20060713-pages-articles.xml.b…> 29078 KB 07/18/2006 05:23:00 AM File: phwiktionary-20060714-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/phwiktionary-20060714-pages-articles.xml.…> 31379 KB 07/18/2006 05:27:00 AM File: sylwiki-20060607-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/sylwiki-20060607-pages-articles.xml.bz2> 1517820 KB 07/09/2006 01:33:00 AM File: sylwiki-20060619-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/sylwiki-20060619-pages-articles.xml.bz2> 1557419 KB 07/09/2006 01:41:00 AM File: sylwiki-20060702-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/sylwiki-20060702-pages-articles.xml.bz2> 1604903 KB 07/07/2006 06:58:00 AM File: sylwikibooks-20060713-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/sylwikibooks-20060713-pages-articles.xml.…> 28426 KB 07/18/2006 05:24:00 AM File: sylwiktionary-20060714-pages-articles.xml.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/sylwiktionary-20060714-pages-articles.xml…> 31035 KB 07/18/2006 05:28:00 AM File: untranslated-log-20060607.txt.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/untranslated-log-20060607.txt.bz2> 8144 KB 06/23/2006 11:23:00 PM File: untranslated-log-20060619.txt.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/untranslated-log-20060619.txt.bz2> 8271 KB 06/24/2006 03:04:00 AM File: untranslated-log-20060702.txt.bz2 <ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/untranslated-log-20060702.txt.bz2> 10205 KB

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