Congratulations on your new voluntary position in the oversight of Wikipeida!
As a volunteer and regular foundantion-l list e-mail receiver, I hope that you will be given no discretionary power whatsoever as to this free-entrepreneurial dot.com company.
This economic crisis demands not panic but unity in its smallest form; and under the context in anger upon which I am writing to you, unity is far from a modern reality.
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1. Some reflections about the governance of Commons (Ting Chen)
2. How to help convince Google not to foul up HTML5 <video>?
(David Gerard)
3. Volunteer:Email response statistician (Cary Bass)
4. Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing update: Final steps (Erik Moeller)
5. Re: Licensing update: Final steps (Erik Moeller)
6. Re: Licensing update: Final steps (Unionhawk)
7. Re: Licensing update: Final steps (Erik Moeller)
8. Re: Licensing update: Final steps (Gordon Joly)
I had started a discussion on the Village Pump of Commons. I think
Commons is a very important project, and a very complicated project.
With more and more projects initiated by our chapters to encourage other
organizations or individuals to give their content free and upload them
to Commons it also becomes a fassade project of the Foundation and its
chapters. This and other reasons make me think that we should as broadly
as possible to discuss a few issues on Commons. The discussion is here:
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:22:28 +0100
From: David Gerard
dgerard@gmail.com
Subject: [Foundation-l] How to help convince Google not to foul up
HTML5 <video>?
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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Summary: Google Chrome includes Ogg support for the <video> element.
It also includes H.264 support. Fine, but ... they're also testing
HTML5 YouTube *only* for H.264.
Mike Shaver from Mozilla has fairly unambiguously asked Chris diBona
from Google what the heck Google thinks it's doing:
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020363.html
Google appears to want Ogg support, but strictly as a sideline for
H.264 support. Is there anyone around the Foundation who can ask them
"wtf?"
- d.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:54:04 -0700
From: Cary Bass
cary@wikimedia.org
Subject: [Foundation-l] Volunteer:Email response statistician
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia
wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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Hi all, please see new volunteer position[1] for Email response (OTRS)
statistician. This position is specific to the English Wikipedia group
of email queues, but may be customized for other langauges/projects later.
If you have specific questions, feel free to email me directly, but I'd
like to keep general discussion on the lists to a minimum.
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
[1]
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Email_response_statistician
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:51:25 -0700
From: Erik Moeller
erik@wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Licensing update: Final steps
To: Wikimedia developers
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2009/6/9 Platonides
Platonides@gmail.com:
> Sorry if it has already been discussed before but, why has the English
> version to be included in the same page?
> Isn't a link good enough?
In the past years we've seen substantial semantic drift in the various
localized/translated versions. Having the English version visible for
consistent reference should help to avoid this. A two-column format
should make it not-too-irritating.
> We also need a technical way of flagging CC-BY-SA only content
> (page_props?).
No, we're not committing to any advanced tracking of GFDL; it's an
obligation of re-users. (Which they should be able to meet by checking
for attribution of single-licensed content.)
--
Erik M?ller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:53:04 -0700
From: Erik Moeller
erik@wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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2009/6/10 geni
geniice@gmail.com:
> Well the Terms for edit screen is unacceptably long
<snip>
Some of this was helpful, thanks. I've responded on the talk page and
made some further edits.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation
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Erik M?ller
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:55:04 -0400
From: Unionhawk
unionhawk.sitemod@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps
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Look, this should all be really simple... Just get the developers to
change the footer(s) and any admin copy the legal code of the creative
commons license into the current page... How many Wikipedians does it
take to change the licensing?
- --Unionhawk
Erik Moeller wrote:
> 2009/6/10 geni
geniice@gmail.com:
>> Well the Terms for edit screen is unacceptably long
>
> <snip>
>
> Some of this was helpful, thanks. I've responded on the talk page and
> made some further edits.
>
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:05:26 -0700
From: Erik Moeller
erik@wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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2009/6/12 Unionhawk
unionhawk.sitemod@gmail.com:
> Look, this should all be really simple... Just get the developers to
> change the footer(s) and any admin copy the legal code of the creative
> commons license into the current page... How many Wikipedians does it
> take to change the licensing?
More than one to do it correctly. :-)
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Erik M?ller
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:28:05 +0100
From: Gordon Joly
gordon.joly@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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At 20:05 -0700 12/6/09, Erik Moeller wrote:
>2009/6/12 Unionhawk
unionhawk.sitemod@gmail.com:
>> Look, this should all be really simple... Just get the developers to
> > change the footer(s) and any admin copy the legal code of the creative
>> commons license into the current page... How many Wikipedians does it
>> take to change the licensing?
>
>More than one to do it correctly. :-)
>--
>Erik M?ller
>Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Is there any compulsion to contact all previous
authors/editors/contributors directly?
Gordo
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