I am writing to ask all of you to think carefully when you vote.
The board election is very important and many good people are running.
But it is better for Wikipedia's future to keep a bad person off than
to have the best people on.
There are three seats open. When you make your three choices if you
think only to choose the best you risk making an opening for someone
bad, so '''you must also consider who can win'''.
Look at the endorsements:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements
It is clear that only some have the standing to keep
a bad person off the board. So even if you know in your heart that
someone else is better, you should not pick them because if you do
your vote is WASTED.
If you have already voted and made the error of picking the wrong people you
can still change your vote but you must do it right away before the
election closes.
Hi,
I am writing to ask about promoting (and to promote) my project,
http://BioDatabase.Org - a MediaWiki run "database of biological
databases". This is a 'non-foundation' project run under the 'BioWiki'
collection of BioPedias - http://BiO.CC
I am not sure if this is the correct list to contact (and apologies if
it isn't), but I am interested in information regarding the promotion
of MediaWiki based projects. Like any user contributed resource, the
site needs contributors to be worth anything. I would like to find out
about where and how to try to attract users, and to ask members of
this list if they are interested in looking at this project.
I will be promoting the project to biologists via the 'bioinformatics
bulletin board' run at http://Bioinformatics.Org but the project
really needs people who know MediaWiki inside out, have experience
with working on large community projects, and who are willing to help
out with this kind of work.
Currently I am thinking to similarly email the "Wikipedia-L" list with
a 'call for contributors', but beyond that I don't know what to do...
Any suggestions are very welcome!
Thanks for all the great work!
Dan.
Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 6/28/07, Stephen Bain
<stephen.bain-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Secondly, and this is directed more at the Board, I understand that
>> Sue has been hired as a "consultant and special advisor" and not as
>> Executive Director at least partly because of immigration-related
>> restrictions on the work she is presently entitled to perform in the
>> United States. Will the Board be providing the community with a
>> description of the position "consultant and special advisor"? Are
>> there any substantive differences between this position and that of
>> Executive Director?
>
> I see no particular reason not to post Sue's job description, but I'll
> ask the Chair to confirm that.
>
> The differences between a Board-level consultant and a freshly minted
> ED aren't that great, as the Board needs to build a trust relationship
> with this new staff member in either case. Beyond 3-6 months in the
> future, should the professional relationship develop as expected, this
> status will become too limiting, and I hope the remaining constraints
> can be removed within that timeframe.
Hello
I am sorry, but I was not able to find an internet connection in the
past 36 hours, and will probably be off for the week end. That was my
last move of june (*relief*).
So, yeah, things to be done
* publish Sue job description on Foundation wiki (not done yet)
* remove the reference for ED position being searched (apparently done)
on foundation
* create her asap a sgardner at wikimedia.org
* add Sue to foundation-l, internal-l and internal wiki, office wiki,
wmfcc-l, juriwiki-l, private-l, wikimania-l, wikimania-planning-l,
fundcom-l.
* add her on staff page on foundation wiki
* add her biography on foundation wiki
* add the press release on foundation wiki
* add announcement on foundation wiki (news) with links to pages "press
release" and biography
* then breath and wait till monday :-)
Ant
Dear Wikimedians,
Please join me in welcoming Sue Gardner to the Wikimedia Foundation. Sue
joins us today as a consultant and special advisor to the Wikimedia
Board of Trustees.
Sue’s arrival is an important step for Wikimedia as we continue to
evolve as an organization. We want to ensure sustainability and
reliability, as well as set the stage for future growth: Sue’s role is
to help us do that. She is well-suited to the job: she’s
consensus-oriented (which as we know is important in an organization
like ours), and she has experience leading change and managing
transitions like the one we’re facing. She is sympathetic to our goals
and values, and also has some experience with collaborative projects.
Sue will be responsible for assessing and improving all aspects of the
Foundation’s operations. This means she’ll be taking a look at how we do
things today –everything from staffing to fundraising to financial
controls– and recommending improvements.
Sue comes to us from CBC.CA, the website of Canada’s national public
broadcaster, and that country’s largest and most popular news site.
Under her leadership as Senior Director there, CBC.CA more than doubled
its audience size, and won dozens of international awards. Prior to
running CBC.CA, she was a journalist for 10 years, writing for magazines
and newspapers, and making documentaries and talk programming for media
companies such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British
Broadcasting Corporation and National Public Radio.
Please join me in welcoming her.
Florence Devouard
Chair Wikimedia Foundation
Just a quick note to let you all know that your cloak requests have
not been forgotten.
There is a problem with the toolserver that means I can't access the
list of submissions and also that new ones are not being accepted.
They are however, I believe, all in there and so it is just a matter
of getting at them when the toolserver admins fix things.
Please spread this knowledge if people ask, and thank you for your patience.
--
Regards,
—Sean Whitton (seanw)
http://seanwhitton.com/
Hello,
Thank you for all your participant to Board Election 2007.
Here is the report from Election Committee, on June 29, 2007.
It is also available at:
https://wikimedia.spi-inc.org/index.php/Reports/Day_1
== Overview ==
Day 1 : 2007/07/29
* Voting has started.
* over 1100 users may have voted.
* Some technical problems happened and were fixed.
* Translations are appreciated.
== Votes ==
In Day 1, 1143 votes were casted. Those votes may include votes from
one user but multiple projects, voluntary strikes by users themselves
or involuntary strikes by Election Committee members, and undetected
frauds. Even reduced, the valid vote count is estimated over 1,100. So
far, the total number of votes is near, or perhaps greater than, the
total votes casted for the first Election in 2004.
As for voters by projects, the largest part has come from English
Wikipedia. Several other European language projects are following.
Votes have come from Eastern language communities also, including
Arabic, Chinese or Japanese.
Votes have come from not only Wikipedia, but also from Wiktionary,
Wikibooks, Commons and some other projects. Wikiversity people were
troubled in the early stage (See [[#Bugs]]). We hope all community
members can vote smoothly by now.
We appreciate all the people, who actively participate help
troubleshoot and localize settings and spread information by all
possible means.
== Bugs ==
*[Outdated information] Some early voters got wrong links with 2006
Election information. Now it seems to be fixed.
*[Wikiversity] Some early Wikiversity users were shut out from the
voting. It was a genuine technical problem and soon fixed.
*[Link broken] SPI changed our wiki over to SSL, leaving a broken
redirect from the original http:// address. Tim Starling changed the
redirect on our side to go directly to the https:// address, restoring
service, and contacted them to have them fix their redirect, which
they have one. In addition, users now get a warning before
redirection. The new message file may be found
<nowiki>[[MediaWiki:Boardvote redirecting]]</nowiki>, if localized
(See also [[#Translation requests]]).
== Translation requests ==
* [Settings] This year two Boardvote files are globally updated, and
four added. Except one, all those files are to move to SPI wiki, not
hosted on local wikis.
* [Boardvote Update] [[MediaWiki:Boardvote entry]] and
[[MediaWiki:Boardvote notqualified]] are updated. Entry is filled with
the up-to-date info, and Notqualified is tuned to use on the remote
wiki.
* [Boardvote New] Additions are[[MediaWiki:Boardvote nosesion]],
[[MediaWiki:Boardvote welcome]], [[MediaWiki:Boardvote blocked]] and
[[MediaWiki:Boardvote redirecting]]. The first three messages are used
on SPI wiki, the other on your own wiki.
* All those messages are found on [[MetaWikiPedia:Board
elections/2007/Interface translation/diff]] and ready to translate.
== Contacts ==
* Questions about Election system: [[MetaWikiPedia:Talk:Board
elections/2007/FAQ/en]]
* Bug reports, Comments, Compliments and others:
[[MetaWikiPedia:Talk:Board elections/2007/en]]
--
KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *
On behalf of Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee
From: Littlebtc <sst.dreams(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2007/6/25 下午 10:34
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2007: Note for registrars
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"
<wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
NOTE FOR REGISTRARS
* Accommodation booking has been re-opened on 7th June, and will be closed
again on 30th June. The beds left are limited, the organizing office will
try to provide enough beds for attendees during Wikimania 2007. But if you
miss the date of booking an accommodation, there won't be any guarantee for
accommodations. Please notice the date and new booking policy.
*Attendees registered during 15th May to 7th June who need accommodations,
please send a message, mail to wikimania-registration at wikimedia.org with
your name and how many nights you wish to stay at CTOYAC. Important: please
indicate if you are a speaker or scholarship awardee in this message.
*Each one who will attend the conference no matter you will need
accommodation or not, PLEASE REGISTER NOW. (Including the speakers and
scholarship awardees.) This will help the organizing office provide the best
service for all participates during the conference.
* NEW REGISTRATION and ACCOMMODATION BOOKING POLICY since 7th JUNE: for
registration with accommodation, PAYMENT SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 48 HOURS .
Otherwise, registration and accommodations will be canceled by system
automatically. Accommodations will be arranged according to the order of the
time you pay. This is a waiting list, so there's no guarantee. The
organizing office will try to do our best for all participates.
*If you miss the timing to book accommodation, please contact with
CTS-Travel. (http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tour)
Thanks for your cooperation.
--
Littlebtc / 笨笨的小B / 小犬 (Xiaoquan)
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E7%AC%A8%E7%AC%A8%E7%9A%84%E5%B0%8FB
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I find Klingon to be one of those weird geek things that could one day take
off. The Unicode Technical Committee may have rejected their proposal, but
given they actually have their own font, I think that its No Big Deal that
it's in the logo. I'm no huge Trekkie either.
It seems to me that people are getting their shorts in an uproar about this.
Maybe my perception is wrong, but surely we have better things to be
concerned about and send our time on?
Chris
Ta bu shi da yu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ta_bu_shi_da_yu)
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 00:20 +0200, Jon Harald S?by wrote:
> I think it is great that we have Klingon character there. Statistically
> speaking, no-one* will know what kind of character it actually is, and it
> will be an interesting easteregg when people discover it. Something that
> makes people smile. I can't see any bad implications whatsoever coming
from
> it; how can it posibly hurt us?
>
> * How many percent of the world's population have ever heard of Klingon?
And
> of those who have heard of it, how many have ever seen anything written in
> Klingon with the Klingon alphabet? And of these, how many would recognize
> the one Klingon character in the logo without knowing what it is
beforehand?
The plural of anecdote is not data and all that, but I for one never
knew there were any Klingon characters in the logo. That said, I've
never really studied the logo at length or anything?I usually just
mentally process it as "globe with bunch of characters from various
scripts"?nor do I know the first thing about Klingon.
--
Slowking Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Slowking_Man)
Hi,
I have uploaded some screenshots of the Special:Boardvote software,
that may be useful for people who want to write guides about how to
vote (or maybe for candidates to create "how to vote for me" pamphlets
;)). maybe also useful for translators.
They are here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boardvote_extension
cheers
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
--
They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
(Also forwarded to foundation-l)
Per 1 July all sxc.hu images on Commons that are not licensed under a
free license will be deleted! See
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:sxc-warning>.
The list of images, sorted by usage is on
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bryan/sxc-list>.
For some wikis a list of affected images is located on
<http://tools.wikimedia.de/~bryan/sxc/>. If any other any other wiki
is interested in the sxc images that will be deleted, please contact
me off-list or on [[:commons:User talk:Bryan]].
Due to database problems, CommonsTicker may or may not have notified
you of the pending deletion.
Bryan
On 6/28/07, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/27/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Bawolff,
> >
> > I'll see whether I can compile a list for you; I suppose we speak
> > about en.wikinews?
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> > On 6/27/07, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I just tried sending a permission email to an author, but I have a
> > > feeling she's not going to say yes :(. Anyways, thats not what this
> > > email is about.
> > >
> > > The images still havn't appeared on commons ticker. I'm very anxious
> > > to try and figure out which ones affect wikinews. (not that I hope all
> > > of them are saved, but i'm most concerned with the images used on
> > > wikinews). If anyone would be able to figure out how to make them all
> > > appear, it would be appriciated. Thanks.
> > >
> > > -bawolff
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Commons-l mailing list
> > > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
> > >
> >
>
>
> Yes that is correct, English Wikinews.
> Thank you for doing this, it is greatly appreciated.
>
> -bawolff
>
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