Hello all,
thank you for helping Results translation. Today I post our (possible)
last notice as Election Official 2006 for the community.
You Wikimedia editors are now invited to submit your comments about
this Election on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comments/Board_Election_2006
Thanks for all your input, either positive or negative, in advance
Cheers,
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Kizu Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* vox populi, vox dei *
Hi Phoebe,
Thanks for the clairification, really appreciate. I think I should correct
my words as "It's the logo for Wikimania 2006".
Thanks and regards,
H.T.
-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of phoebe ayers
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 11:41 PM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007
FYI, that lovely logo was designed by Ben Yates (tlogmer) for Wikimania
2006, and the red and blue colors were chosen for 2006 out of a whole
spectrum of possibilities. AFAIK there's not been talk of making it "the
official logo" for future Wikimanias, though there's no reason why it
couldn't be -- it seemed to print and scale quite well, and I heard quite a
bit of unsolicited praise for it :)
best,
phoebe
On 9/30/06, Hsiang-Tai Chien <htchien1225(a)yahoo.com.tw> wrote:
>
> I wish to let you know that the logo is the official logo of
> Wikimania, which you can find in
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimania_(blue-red).svg
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimania_%28blue-red%29.svg>
>
> H.T.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org ] On Behalf Of
> rfrangi(a)libero.it
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:40 PM
> To: foundation-l
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007
>
> Yes. That Logo.
>
> Snowdog
>
> > Excuse me. Could you clarify what is the "logo from the Torino's bid"
> > you mentioned? Do you mean the WM with a green W and red M on the
> > left-under corner of Torino's banner?
> >
> > THD
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I can't not find one on Wikimedia. If someone can start the article or give me the URL, that would be great!
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I wish to let you know that the logo is the official logo of Wikimania,
which you can find in
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimania_(blue-red).svg
H.T.
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From: foundation-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of rfrangi(a)libero.it
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:40 PM
To: foundation-l
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007
Yes. That Logo.
Snowdog
> Excuse me. Could you clarify what is the "logo from the Torino's bid"
> you mentioned? Do you mean the WM with a green W and red M on the
> left-under corner of Torino's banner?
>
> THD
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As you may know, MediaWiki:Sidebar supports defining little boxes that
contain navigation links. de.wikipedia.org has used this to customize
its sidebar, for example.
Should we have a sidebar with the heading "Wikimedia" containing links
to wikimediafoundation.org for things like:
- About Wikimedia
- Projects
- Volunteer (info about committees, mailing lists, etc.)
- Jobs (those we chooose to publicly advertise)
- Chapter information
This is partially a follow-up to my earlier mail re: sitenotice for
chapters. I think this might be a slightly less aggressive way to
raise awareness of chapters, sister projects, and the work of the
Foundation in general.
Thoughts?
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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.
Yes. That Logo.
Snowdog
> Excuse me. Could you clarify what is the "logo from the Torino's bid" you
> mentioned? Do you mean the WM with a green W and red M on the left-under
> corner of Torino's banner?
>
> THD
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sep11.wikipedia.org is currently in read-only mode. I suggest the
following course of action:
1) That the wiki be opened again for a period of 4 weeks.
2) That an open message is to be sent out to ask for clean-up of the
wiki -- remove irrelevant content, possible lingering spam, etc.
3) That, after the cleanup is complete, the wiki is exported as a
static HTML dump and hosted by a volunteer external to the Wikimedia
Foundation under its own domain name. No reference should be made to
it from then on as an official Wikimedia project. It might be possible
to arrange advance renumeration for the domain name cost and hosting.
Does this sound like a sensible course of action?
If you are a volunteer, and willing to host the content, please send
me a private e-mail response.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
As I am waiting for the result to be certified, I would like to ask
all of you to send me your thoughts -- privately or publicly -- on
what you think the key priorities should be for my work as Board
member. For instance, is there a particular issue with the chapter/WMF
relation that you feel should be addressed? Is the financial reporting
lacking? Do you find some organization processes difficult to
understand? Are there legal problems that you feel have not received
the right amount of attention? Technical issues that should be
prioritized?
Before responding, please note that the Board is not supposed to do
operational work; that is, it merely oversees and informs the work of
Foundation staff, publishes and approves reports, and makes key
structural and strategic decisions. Here is a simple overview of
typical Board responsibilities:
http://www.managementhelp.org/boards/brdrspon.htm
The Wikimedia Board, especially in this time of transition, is a bit
more active than most, but it is not an operational entitity. So I
won't fix the servers for you or block a vandal on a wiki outside
regular admin duties. :-) But I can try to help (!) make sure that
tasks are properly resourced, that reporting from the Board happens in
a timely fashion, etc.
And no, I won't forget that I'm not the only Board member ;-). All
this needs to be coordinated properly and ideally find consensus. But
your responses will help me in organizing my part of the work. I can
also suggest some of this information for the agenda in the coming
Board retreat.
Thanks in advance for any and all responses and flames. ;-)
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Peace & Love,
Erik
There is no secret sponsorship for Taipei anymore. They are DotAsia.org and
Chung-Hwa Telecom in Taiwan and they did promise the amount as we listed in
the bidding page. And I believe there will be more amounts because now we
have more sponsors willing to help.
We keep it secret before the bidding final because DotAsia.org has bussiness
in many cities, and they do not wish to offend their customers in those
cities so they ask us to keep it secret until the bidding result is out.
And if you wish to know, a employee from DotAsia.org now is in our team to
help for organizing Wikimania 2007.
I wish to remind that we should respect the sponsors because they recognize
the vision of Wikimedia Foundation and they are willing to help us to host
this big WM event.
For the flight price, the fare we listed on the bidding page is the fare we
checked in *this* August. And yes it might have estimation errors because
the fare is changing every day and it should be firmed when the time of
Wikimania 2007 is coming closely. It would be also related with what travel
agency you choose and how you take the flight.
Thanks and best regards,
H.T.
-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gatto Nero
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:06 PM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007
2006/9/29, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>:
> In Taipei we will have a completely different event from the event in
> Frankfurt and Boston. Each time we learned new things and the
> resulting offers for hosting were different as a consequence. Not
> allowing for this by saying in advance that Turin does not have to do
> "the work" again is imho stupid. In order for Turin to be a competitor
> next year, they have to analyse what went wrong; was it their offer,
> their presentation sheer bad luck?
Turin is not in Asia.
(Oh, and we didn't talk about "secret sponsorship", right: how came that a
bid as been even shortlisted with this sort of "Yes, you have to trust us:
we have a huuuuuge sponsor but we cannot tell you who, secret secret!"?
Not talking about strange flight cost, strange "surplus sponsorship"
and other funny reason...)
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Lovenworth and Dyas, two members of corporate law firm Dewey
Ballantine, tackle unresolved issues in an essay on enforcing
collaborative copyright (and suggest the need for a new class of
copyright. (Are they waiting for a GNU-blessed Wiki license to
emerge?) Someone should ask for a freely licensed version of the
essay...
"As ownership of collaborative works becomes increasingly diluted, a
common point of enforcement becomes more necessary. One solution is
to treat collaborative works in a similar manner as a joint work so
that certain contributors to the collaborative work can enforce its
copyright. Such a solution would do nothing, however, to ensure that
those contributors act with the interests of the collaboration in
mind. Consequently, until copyright law catches up with the
developments of the modern world, the ability to enforce copyright in
collaborative works will remain limited at best."
http://news.tmcnet.com/news/2006/09/27/1937133.htmhttp://www.deweyballantine.com/home1024.cfm
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