Hmm. Is there any practical help the WMF could provide in this
endeavour? Aside from buckets of money, which appears to be the thing
the endeavour is most in need of.
Are there other countries where the law is not easily available and a
word from us would help?
- d.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/business/media/29link.html
Link By Link
Who Owns the Law? Arguments May Ensue
By NOAM COHEN
IN a time when scientists are trying to patent the very genetic code
that creates life, it may not be too surprising to learn that a
variety of organizations — from trade groups and legal publishers to
the government itself — claim copyright to the basic code that governs
our society.
Carl Malamud runs PublicResource.org, which provides the text of
statutes, court decisions and construction codes at no charge.
Dear all,
in the past few months, the Wikimedia chapters have evolved a lot,
introducing brand new chapters in the WIkimedia family, which bring
new blood and perspectives in the evolution of Wikimedia as a
worldwide organisation.
The Board of the Wikimedia Foundation has also renewed its confidence
in the ability of the chapters to further the Wikimedia mission, by
asking them to select two board members. The last announcement of the
upcoming board meeting agenda shows that chapters are at the core of
Wikimedia's strategy.
All of these changes have been accompanied by recurring questions
about the role of chapters and the nature of the relationship
Wikimedia chapters should entertain with the Wikimedia Foundation. And
those questions are still, to some extent "in the air". Much has been
done, much has been thought about and much remains to do and to
brainstorm about.
In the course of these conversations, it has become evident that the
"Chapters question" (or issue, or stuff, or thing) needs a reboot.
Reboot in the sense that a new structure and process is needed to best
capture the energy and perspectives of the growing number of
chapters, along with the growing stability of the staff and board of
the Wikimedia Foundation. One of the steps in this reboot is the
wrap-up of the Chapters Coordinator position.
I have been committed to that position for the past 3 years, first as
a volunteer, and since February 2007 as an external consultant and I
am stopping my work as Chapters Coordinator today. I have been
wrapping up my work with the chapters in the last few weeks. While the
role of Chapters Coordinator as such will not be continued, the staff
of the Wikimedia Foundation is here and ready to work with the
chapters.
The Chapters Committee [1], which has recently renewed its members, is
also here to help existing chapters as well as chapters "to be" to go
forward in developping Wikimedia as a worldwide presence.
I am a bit sad to be leaving, to tell you the truth, but I am also
confident that this "reboot" is much needed, and that many good things
can spring out of it.
I will continue to be involved in Wikimedia as a volunteer. I hope to
participate in this reboot from a different angle. Quickly reflecting
on these last three years, and especially these last few months, which
have been rich in ideas, emotions, questions, novelties and
interesting bits altogether, I want to give my thanks to the (growing)
staff of the Wikimedia Foundation for their support in my
"remoteness", I also wish to thank here all the "chapters people",
those who have been patient or impatient, clueless or full of ideas
and most important, full of motivation and hope. I would not want to
go into "Academy Awards' mode", but I still want to take this one
opportunity to publicly thank Florence for her never faltering vision
of what Wikimedia could accomplish, which was an inspiration all the
way.
I am convinced that the Wikimedia organisations have great things to
accomplish, and I am proud to be a part of their growth on so many
different levels.
I shall see you on "the other side". Who knows, I might even get back
to editing? (well, as soon as I master the syntax again ;-) )
Cheers,
Delphine
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee
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Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org
The next meeting of the Board of Trustees is October 3-5 in San
Francisco. Some of the matters on our agenda include:
*the upcoming online fundraiser (tentatively to begin end of October or
beginning of November)
*progress on the audit for fiscal year 2007-08
*the path toward "sub-national" chapter organizations
*along with that, some additional housekeeping related to chapter business
*Wikimedia's role with respect to open standards, especially for
educational content
*the role of the advisory board
*organizational policies
A few issues are things we basically should be wrapping up, like the
revised privacy policy, and should come out of the meeting as finished
work. Some things we're checking in on but results will probably not
follow quite immediately. For example, the audit committee meets earlier
in the week so the board will have a little more information when it
meets, but I don't think we'll be done to the point of approving audited
financial statements. We'll handle that by email and wiki in the weeks
following.
And finally, some of these topics are big-picture issues we need to
discuss, but aren't always ripe for outcomes just yet. It may be
starting or reopening a conversation. We touched on the advisory board
back in April, but ended up with more work to do on restructuring the
board itself, so we're picking back up on that subject. And as I
indicated earlier, there are many issues we can explore around file
formats and open standards. I particularly want to stimulate some
community discussion in that area to help the board, so I'll address it
separately in a little bit. In the meantime, please let me know if you
have any input you would like the board to consider within the framework
of its agenda for this meeting.
--Michael Snow
>> My POV, and the point I what to stress, is that this ML is quite
>> useless if you use like this.
>> That's why I quite never read it.
>>
>> So long, and thank for the fishes
> May someone put this person on moderation?
Huh? I was just writing my POV... no wait I would say my CPOV.. no
wait I mean the AbsolutlyMyPOV.. no wait...
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che Silvio c'è
>>> May someone put this person on moderation?
>>
>> Huh? I was just writing my POV... no wait I would say my CPOV.. no
>> wait I mean the AbsolutlyMyPOV.. no wait...
But seriosly, again.
In NOT trolling, I'm seriosly saying that this ml is a mess and is
quite useless like this.
Anyway I write quite nothing here, bye.
--
Meno male
che Silvio c'è
>> Again, I disagree.[..] words are not relevant when the words themselves are
>> being used to repeat [..] the glory of George Bush [...] everything is more or less nicely worded POV.
<tons of of unquoted words>
...
<again tons of of unquoted words>
...
<oh, what a surprise, again tons of of unquoted useless words>
...
My POV, and the point I what to stress, is that this ML is quite
useless if you use like this.
That's why I quite never read it.
So long, and thank for the fishes
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Meno male
che Silvio c'è
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:06, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> joseph seddon wrote:
>> 5 candidates will head the initial board for Wikimedia UK and be
>> responsible for its set up. Due to only 5 candidates
>> reaching the required 50% vote the board the board will consist of those
>> people. The board members are as follows:
>>
>> KTC
>> AndrewRT
>> CFP
>> Warofdreams
>> Mike Peel.
> Given that an association anchor you in the real world, could you please
> provide the real name equivalent of these people ?
She beat me to it. :-)
I think it would make a lot of sense, especially to dissociate their
role on-wiki from their role off-wiki.
Cheers,
Delphine
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On behalf of British community and the election committee, I would like to thank all those who participated
in this election. The committee apologises for the delay in getting these results out. Internet access and real
life resulted in time not being readily available this weekend and hence the lateness. In total, 27 members of the
British community voted in the election, therefore, to reach the 50% requirement, 14 votes in favour of a candidate
were required.
5 candidates will head the initial board for Wikimedia UK and be responsible for its set up. Due to only 5 candidates
reaching the required 50% vote the board the board will consist of those people. The board members are as follows:
KTC
AndrewRT
CFP
Warofdreams
Mike Peel.
I would like to wish the best of luck to all those who will be responsible, whether board members or not, for making
Wikimedia UK a fully functional and successful chapter . In time, feedback will be passed onto the board before the
next elections to hopefully improve this process.
User:Seddon @ en:wiki
Election committee
_________________________________________________________________
Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger
http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/
Hello.
As the testing of the wiki-to-print project (see WMF press release
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikis_Go_Printable) is currently in
progress on labs (http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page,
http://de.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite), I'd like to tell you a
bit
about the project to open up the topic to a broader audience.
The goal of the wiki-to-print project is to add a high quality
print and
export facility to the MediaWiki. Users can easily collect wiki
articles which
are rendered as PDFs (or OpenDocument Text, Docbook, XHTML; more formats
possible) or sent to print-on-demand services.
The two OpenSource software parts used to realize this
functionality are
* the Python packages mwlib and mwlib.rl (http://code.pediapress.com/mwlib
,
http://code.pediapress.com/mwlib.rl) that contain a MediaWiki
wikitext
parser, tools to fetch articles/images/templates via MediaWiki API
and
several writers that render documents in different formats.
* and the Collection extension
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection) -- a MediaWiki
extension that allows collecting of articles, saving/loading them
as regular
wiki pages, rendering documents in PDF or another format and
ordering printed books from a print on demand partner like
PediaPress.
We have a mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib) and a
wiki +
bug tracker (http://code.pediapress.com). If you have specific
suggestions or
problems feel free to discuss on that list or create tickets.
In coordination with Erik Möller and Brion Vibber, we are looking
forward to
a soonish deployment on Wikibooks and eventually on Wikipedias.
Probably lots of you have their own MediaWiki installations. We
invite you
to try out the Collection extension: If you have a low-traffic wiki,
you don't
even have to install any Python software, because you can use the public
render server (which is configured by default). Just make sure that
your wiki
is reachable from the outside internet and has api.php enabled.
-- Johannes Beigel
> From: "Milos Rancic" <millosh(a)gmail.com>
> 2008/9/27 Roberto Corda <roberto.ilcorda(a)gmail.com>:
>> [[http://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lese_%C3%ABl_piemont%C3%A8is_versio…
>> ...
>> Traslate (rough): '''we want to teach respect to all the language an
>> we want that people start to use local languages.''
>>
>> Personally I agree with that thesis, but I also think that is POV and
>> it must be deleted from the page (and maybe published elsewhere)
>
> This is under Wikipedia name space. Under that name space CPOV
> (Community POV) is applied, not NPOV.
What?
Sorry but it doesn't makes sense. Anyway they changed.
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Meno male
che Silvio c'è