[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation's help to the projects

[Anthere]

Michael Snow wrote:
> Erik Moeller wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 12/14/06, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I don't believe you understand how useful it would be
>>>to just have some one say "That particular case is
>>>unknown.  The most similar case to this is Foobar."
>>>Even if there were a table of questions that people
>>>have asked in the past with yes/no/unknown and no
>>>futher advice would be extremely helpful.  I think it
>>>a false expectation of yours that we are expecting
>>>clearcut answers.  Really we have been mucking through
>>>copyright questions as best we can for some time; we
>>>are all well aware there are often not answers only
>>>arguments.  Just being able to eliminate some
>>>arguments as invalid would be very helpful.
>>
>>Aside from the potential issues with the WMF "officially" giving such
>>advice to the communities, Brad (our GC and ED) simply doesn't have
>>the time to do this. Let's brainstorm about how we can get juriwiki-l
>>going, i.e. a functioning, community-driven group of advisors with
>>demonstrable legal expertise.
>>
>>At the moment juriwiki-l is configured so that postings from the
>>outside are moderated and replied to by a group of insiders. Is there
>>any real issue, from a legal point of view, with making it a public
>>mailing list? This is perhaps something Brad can answer.
> 
> 
> In the context of rethinking the various internal, private mailing 
> lists, I'm not sure whether it will be considered appropriate to 
> continue juriwiki-l in its present form. As Anthere noted, the list is 
> not all that active at present. However, it has had sporadic use and a 
> variety of sensitive subjects were discussed there with an expectation 
> of confidentiality. So I would strongly oppose simply converting it to a 
> public list and making the accompanying archives public.
> 

Obviously, it would be a huge change of caracteristics. Just a 
correction though Michael, imho the juriwiki has no archives. It is was 
done on purpose to avoid any information being released afterwards by 
new members.

ant

> If a public list dedicated to legal issues is thought desirable, it 
> should be launched separately. We had wikilegal-l before, but that too 
> dwindled into oblivion.
> 
> --Michael Snow