Wikimedia-l June 2007

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[Foundation-l] WN Arbcom elections
by Brian Anderton 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Hey Guys, en Wikinews Arbcom midterm elections are next month, Thunderhead has began the process of organising them. < http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Arbitration_Committee/Elections_July_2…> 3 seats are up for election; these include expiring terms of committee members Chiacomo <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Chiacomo>, Ilya Haykinson<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:IlyaHaykinson>, and the seat left vacant when Messedrocker<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Messedrocker>resigned from the committee. The Arbitration Committee members elected will tentatively serve through July 31, 2008, however, there is talk, left over from last election, about extending terms to 2 years (from the current one year term). Like last time in order to vote, you need to have been an active user on Wikinews for more than a month, and you must have at least 200 edits in the Main namespace. The election will be held from July 18, 2007, 20:00 UTC to July 31, 2007, 20:00 UTC, nominations start at 22:00, 11 July 2007. Cheers, Brian NZ

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[Foundation-l] new project proposal: Kunkelfruit Wiki
by Sean Miller 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Dear Wikimedia Foundation Volunteers, I write to pitch you on a project which I'm convinced would be an ideal complement to your existing initiatives. Using MediaWiki, I've launched a site called Kunkelfruit Wiki. The purpose of the site is to provide a home for collaborative articles about how popular products are made. Here is the website address: http://www.scriblerus.net/kunkelfruit/ There are currently about 20 articles on the site, including ones on the Nintendo Wii, Starbucks Latte, Perdue Chicken Breast, Lord of the Rings movies, and contact lenses, among others. Currently, Kunkelfruit Wiki is a one man show-with the occasional contribution from freelance writers. But I am a third-year PhD student who must devote the bulk of my efforts to finishing my thesis. I firmly believe that the long-term success of Kunkelfruit Wiki depends on the development of a core group of volunteer editors and writers willing to research and publish articles to the site. This kind of organizational development is clearly something at which the Wikimedia Foundation excels. My proposal: that the foundation take over the hosting and support of Kunkelfruit Wiki as one of its projects. I believe it merits serious consideration, as it is something that would: * serve as a forum for the further development of your volunteers' research skills * provide a valuable source of information about products for consumers * encourage more responsible production by companies I'd be happy to speak with anyone in more detail about Kunkelfruit Wiki. Please know that I am not particularly attached to the name. But I am very much interested in giving this project the best possible chance of success. I believe that Wikimedia Foundation can greatly enhance this very realistic possibility. Regards, Sean Miller

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[Foundation-l] Report from Wikimedia CH's general assembly
by Michael Bimmler 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

[crossposted] Hi, this weekend Wikimedia CH turned 1 and had its first general (members) assembly. For those of you who understand German, the minutes are at http://members.wikimedia.ch/2007/Mitgliederversammlung/Protokoll We will try to translate it into English somewhen soon but this can still take some time. Summary of the meeting: * We changed some details of our bylaws due to an advice of the Tax office (to emphasize our charity status) * Ilario Valdelli resigned the presidency but remains on the board. The new president is Michael Bimmler. * Jürg Wolf resigned from the board. His successor is Nando Stöcklin (Napa), who is best known as Swiss Wikipedia press contact. The personnel changes take effect 60 days after the assembly. We had interesting discussions about the past and future Wikipedia days and our web presence as well as Wikimedia CH's activities in its first year. We were happy to have Emmanuel Engelhart from Wikimédia France as a guest, who gave a little presentation about Wikimédia France and the Wikipedia 0.5/Linterweb project. Regards Michael

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[Foundation-l] Announcing a great project within the German language Wikipedia
by Mathias Schindler 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

With great pleasure, I would like to tell you about an announcement that was made just hours ago at the German language Wikipedia mailing list about a three-year-project: The German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Customer Protection [1] is going to fund the improvement of articles in the de-wikipedia that deal with the topic of renewable resources. You will find the announcemend, made by Florian Gerlach of the Nova institute at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikide-l/2007-June/019503.html. The first step of this project will be an assessment of the current articles in that topic. The project site can be found at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Nachwachsende_Rohstoffe The content will strictly adhere the Wikipedia's policies about NPOV, the GFDL license, the encyclopedic tone and so on, the articles will remain open for the public to edit. To my knowledge, this is a worldwide premiere and it is my hope that we will use the experience gained from this project to find new opportunities for supporting Wikipedia and the creation of freely licensed content in general. I would like to ask you to have a close look at this project, to spread the word and to see if anything from this can be applied to other editions of Wikipedia as well. Mathias [1]: http://www.bmelv.de/cln_045/nn_754188/EN/00Home/homepage__node.html__nnn=tr…

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[Foundation-l] The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting its Board of Trustees elections
by Aphaia 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hello, Wikimedia Foundation and Software in the Public Interest announces jointly as follows: === The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting its Board of Trustees elections from June 28 until July 7, 2007 (UTC) in cooperation with Software in the Public Interest, Inc (SPI). Three successful candidates will be elected to the Board of Trustees for two-year terms, expiring in June 2009. SPI has agreed to host the Wikimedia Board Election voting and also will be responsible for auditing the tally as a third party so as to ensure the neutrality of the forthcoming election. Michael Schultheiss, SPI Vice-President, will be responsible for server administration and the tally. SPI was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1997 in the state of New York. Since then, it has become an umbrella organization for several free software projects including Debian, PostgreSQL, and Openoffice.org. For more information on SPI, visit http://www.spi-inc.org. Editors from any Wikimedia project are eligible to vote provided that they have been a contributor to at least one Wikimedia project for three months prior to June 1, 2007 (as indicated by the date of the user's first edit), and must have completed at least 400 edits with the same account on the same project by June 1, 2007. Biographies of each candidate are available in many languages. To view a biography of each candidate in English, visit: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates/en . Other language versions are also accessible from that page. To cast your vote, visit the Wikimedia project on which you are active, sign on and follow the instructions at the top of each page. If the instructions do not appear, please contact an administrator on that Wikimedia project and ask for assistance. === We Election Committee would also like to wish all of the candidates the best of luck in this election. Sincerely, Kizu Naoko aphaia(a)gmail.com posted on behalf of Wikimedia Board Steering Election Committee

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[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Logo - errors
by quiddity 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

*There are at least 2 major character errors in the current Wikipedia puzzle-globe logo, and other minor problems. *[[User talk:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo]] is the most centralized discussion/link compilation that I know of. (There's even a petition at that link's projectpage) *Nohat has explained the problems with correcting the errors. But noone seems to have a solution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo#Changing… *'''Somebody with patience and brains (there are many ramifications/implications, from the practical to the legal, to be considered), and either delegating or computer-graphics skills, needs to adopt this problem as a personal mission, lest it remain unsolved for another year'''. (copied from [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Wikipedia Logo - errors]].) It's been mentioned at various VPump pages, relevant userpages, and metapages, over the past few months, to no avail. I'm not sure how/where else to get this issue the attention it seems to need (and I don't have the background to spearhead the effort). Any assistance would be appreciated. Quiddity

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[Foundation-l] Executive director
by Mike R 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Many are aware of the rumors circulating about WMF's alleged hiring of an ED. Jimmy Wales has recently denied that claim on his en.wp talk page. However, GerardM, who, as I understand, is a respected, long-time Wikimedian, stated in a blog comment, "Everyone who was at the Amsterdam (public) meeting met the new AD and the new resident legal eagle." Is this true? Or was that someone impersonating Gerard M? (I assume "AD" is a typo for "ED") Thanks, Mike R

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[Foundation-l] FYI: wikipedia.de relaunch
by Tim 'avatar' Bartel 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hi, until now, http://wikipedia.de (in posession of Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.) was a redirect to http://de.wikipedia.org. Because of different reasons this was not the best idea. Since now the content of wikipedia.de changed to a search portal where you are able to look up articles in languages officially spoken in Germany. Nice feature is the type ahead search functionality. It's also possible to start a search via third-party wikipedia-searchengines. Just have a look. Bye, Tim. -- http://wikipedistik.de

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[Foundation-l] [Board Election 2007] Final list of candidates
by Aphaia 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

Dear Wikimedians, Thank you for your interest in the Wikimedia Board Election for 2007 [1]. Last Saturday, June 23, we closed the acceptance of candidates and community endorsements for those candidates. From the 18 people who entered this election for three seats of Board of Trustees, we are glad to announce that 15 candidates are validated (they received the required 12 endorsements or more and have confirmed their identity [2]) and will show on the upcoming voting. The candidates who will be appearing in the upcoming voting [3] are: *Ausir (Paweł Dembowski) *Danny (Danny Wool) *DragonFire1024 (Jason Safoutin) *Eloquence (Erik Möller) *Frieda (Frieda Brioschi) *Kate (River Tarnell) *Kim Bruning *Kingboyk (Stephen Kennedy) *Michael Snow *Mindspillage (Kathleen Walsh) *Oscar (Oscar van Dillen) *UninvitedCompany (Steve Dunlop) *WarX (Artur Jan Fijałkowski) *Yann (Yann Forget) *^demon (Michael "Chad" Horohoe) The votes will be accepted in 10 days and closed on Saturday, 23:59 July 7, 2007. The voting will be open for 10 days and closed on Saturday, 23:59 July 7, 2007. Details will come very soon. We are now planning to be We would thank everyone who helped spreading information about this Election as well as the community members who have been involved to this point. In the upcoming elections, we are excited that many more Wikimedians will have the opportunity to participate. This is a unique opportunity to have a voice in the future of the Foundation. Finally, we would like to wish all of the candidates the best of luck in this election and thank them for their willingness to serve the community. Sincerely, Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee 2007, Aphaia Jon Harald Søby Newyourkbrad Philippe ----- URLs: [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements/en [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates/en * In many languages equivalent contents may be available.

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[Foundation-l] Asking for clarification of licensing policy resolution
by Tisza Gergő 26 Jun '07

26 Jun '07

The resolution about the Wikimedia licensing policy ( http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy ) states that an EDP should be "in accordance with United States law and the law of countries where the project content is predominantly accessed". If I recall correctly, one of the aims of the resolution was to forbid media that is "not free enough" for fair use, such as noncommercial and Wikipedia-only licenses. I can't find this requirement, however, in the resolution: using an image with a Wikipedia-specific permission on Wikipedia is certainly in accordance with the law of any country, even if one can't claim fair use on the image. What is the position of the Foundation in the following two cases? 1. Using an image that is not adequate for fair use, with a non-free license that makes it legal to use the image in Wikipedia. 2. Using an image with a non-free license, when the image is adequate for fair use (according to US laws), but it is not adequate for the local version of fair use (meaning that it would be legal due to fair use to set up a mirror or publish a printed version of the wiki in the US, and use the image there, but it would be illegal to do the same in the country where the project content is predominantly accessed). Note that in some countries, there is no equivalent of fair use, so virtually all non-free content would fall in one of these categories. (This is the case with the Hungarian Wikipedia, where we are trying to draft an EDP, and ran into this problem.) thanks Tgr (hu:User:Tgr)

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