Wikinews-l July 2010

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[Language committee] Call for applications and advices
by Milos Rancic 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

For those who don't want to read the whole email, we need: * A person who is well introduced in Wikinews. * A person who is well introduced in Wikiversity. * A person who knows to program in Python and willing to spend 2 hours/week in archiving our mailing list on Meta [1]. * Your advices in defining what "substantial activity" (at Incubator, Multilingual Wikisource or Beta Wikiversity) means for the approval of new projects, especially in the cases of new Wikinews and Wikiversity editions. Please, send your applications and comments to me at millosh(a)gmail.com. If you are applying for Wikinews or Wikiversity "position", please write your thoughts on what "substantial activity" means for the project type for which "position" you are applying. It is not hard to define implicitly or explicitly "substantial activity" for new editions of Wikipedia and for new editions of other projects which have dynamics similar to Wikipedia (Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource). You can write an article, word definition, quote, book chapter or you can add a source once and you don't need to see that project for months. In the case of Wikinews, daily activity matters. In the case of Wikiversity, you need real people around. Thus, we need both: your input on question what "substantial activity" for new Wikinews and Wikiversity editions means; as well as two persons who would be willing to take care about new requests for Wikinews and Wikiversity editions. If you have some important note related to the same question, but about other projects (which have Wikipedia-like dynamics), please send your comments, too. If you have any other comment related to the Language proposal policy [2] (except that it would be good to have Wikinews edition in Sumerian or so), please send them, too. Our archives [1] are outdated because of Jesse's lack of time. It is 2 hours/week task. For that position we need a confidential person who knows to program in Python, but not necessarily (then, it is 4 hours/week task). All of the new members will be full members of the Language committee, which means that they will participate in other parts of the new language editions approval. [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Archives [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy

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Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser
by Philippe Beaudette 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

[[Please distribute widely to various language communities, projects, and chapters]] Hi All, I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to get community involvement early and often. As you no doubt are aware, the strategic plan calls for the "many small gifts" model to be the centerpiece of our funding strategy, so our community fundraiser is one of the key methods by which we finance and underwrite the operations of the projects. The fundraiser this year will probably, as in earlier years, be primarily banner driven. We're going to have a strong emphasis on testing and iterating ideas, with a defined methodological testing plan. But the most important part of what we - all of us - are going to need to do is what this community has always been good at: thinking, researching, and iterating. With that in mind, it's important to identify people who want to help. Of course, anyone's welcome to join in and help at any time, but there's a definite need for people who are willing to be deeply involved from now to the wrap up... people who want to be creative but rigorous, innovative but willing to learn from the past, and most of all, to serve as an active part of the team working on this fundraiser. There will, of course, be Foundation staff deeply involved in this, but there's a real need for people from the community to step up and help us design this thing. If you're willing to help, would you add your name to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Committee ? We'll be in contact - soon - to get things started. Thanks, Philippe ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation philippe(a)wikimedia.org ofc: +1 415 839 6885 (x 643) mobile: 918 200 WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Re: [Wikinews-l] Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser
by bawolff 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

I for one was very happy to see this email. Many people on Wikinews, including myself, felt quite left out last year during the fundraiser. It is very re-assuring to see that an effort is being made to involve the community, and especially the sister projects, in this years fundraiser. thanks, Bawolff

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Office hours this Friday, October 9
by Cary Bass 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi everyone, This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>. Office hours this Friday are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30PM to 4:30PM PDT). Mike will also be taking the following Thursday from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT). The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. Go ahead. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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