Re: [Foundation-l] Ban and moderate

On 10/22/2010 09:27 AM, Muhammad Yahia wrote: I wonder if the couple of points he was making were even worth it, we do have people who are capable of presenting criticism in a civil manner, so it's not about 'opinion'. I believe WP:POINT and WP:GAME should apply to any medium we are trying to

[Foundation-l] Announcing my departure from the Wikimedia Foundation

considering for many years. I have very much enjoyed my time with the Wikimedia Foundation, and I look forward to continuing to work alongside you all, as a Wikimedia volunteer. I enjoy working with each and every one of you. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Private Wiki

On 7/20/2010 7:27 PM, James Heilman wrote: Not sure were to ask this... A group of 20 of us from Wikiproject Medicine are working on a paper to explain the usage of Wikipedia to the medical community. We were working on it in Google documents but they have made some changes to their software

[Foundation-l] [TODAY] Office Hour for Thursday, July 15, featuring Frank Schulenburg Pete Forsyth

a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Re: [Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against copyleft

*only* gets ten years. That's it. Ten years to make your money then it's public domain. We can call it the Knock it off or else proposal. Ten years is an awfully short time[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_fame_of_Vincent_van_Gogh - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator

Re: [Foundation-l] Gmail - List messages flagged as spam

. So it's not just listmail and otrs; it's also mail coming from the Foundation's mailserver directly. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux

[Foundation-l] Office Hour for Friday, June 11, featuring Mike Godwin

to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Foundation-l] Volunteer translators needed for Vector rollout

and appreciate that--and even more reason to help out with putting a feedback page on your wiki, and permitting people who don't read or write English (or Italian :) ) to be able to provide their own comments about the Vector rollout. Thanks in advance for all your help! - -- Cary Bass Volunteer

Re: [Foundation-l] Chris Clayton

Alex Mr.Z-man wrote: http://www roulette-casino-en-ligne.com/home.php If it hasn't been said yet... someone's email got a trojan. Don't click. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010 Scholarship sign-up ending April 11

/wiki/Scholarships, as well as find a link to the application page. Thanks! Cary Bass ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works from copyrighted sources.

, but the copyrightability of location data pertaining to digital maps, i.e. the very non-pictoral fact compilations mentioned in the statement you provided. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works from copyrighted sources.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:45 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/31/2010 1:30:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes: (e) use the Products in a manner that gives

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

the Goatse.cx image (which is receiving 800 hits a day from people receiving shock image links). -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isabell Long wrote: On 24 March 2010 22:41, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 https://wm10schols.wikimedia.org/in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia

[Foundation-l] Call for Wikimania Scholarship Applications

.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ Please share this announcement with your mailing lists. Thank you. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection: ready for more testing]

For anyone not following wikien-l. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hour for Thursday, February 25

postponed until another to be decided date and time. As far as Tim is concerned, I'll ask him and tell him that there's some interest (if he doesn't see it here first!) - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[Foundation-l] Office Hour for Thursday, February 25

a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[Foundation-l] Call for Volunteers, Wikimania 2010 scholarships

positions soon! Any questions may be presented to me directly at my email address. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Foundation-l] Office hours for Friday, February 12

email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

[Foundation-l] Office hours *right now* Thursday, February 4

be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org

[Foundation-l] Office hours very shortly

as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 Jury announcement

and will not act as representatives. * James Forrester (Perennial Wikimania attendee) * Phoebe Ayers (Programme and Wikimania 2006 organisation) Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Foundation-l] Office hours Thursday, December 17

wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Friday, December 11

. It should be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours next Friday, December 11

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hope my inability to send these out without one single mistake is amply entertaining. The day is Friday (as indicated in the subject and the second paragraph), not Thursday (as carelessly left in the first line). Cary Cary Bass wrote: Hello all

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, December 3

. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 19

Forgive my poor math (in addition to my poor self-proofreading skills) but 3:00 PM Pacific time is actually 2300 and not 2100. Office hours are in 1:45 hours. Cary Cary Bass wrote: Hello all! Next Thursday's office hours will feature Véronique Kessler, the Foundation's Chief Financial

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 19

be all right. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. Also note, this is Veronique's first foray into IRC, so lets show her how welcoming we can be! :-) - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, November 19

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: Hello all! Next Thursday's office hours will feature Véronique Kessler, the Foundation's Chief Financial Officer. If you don't know Naoko, you can get to know her at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique_Kessler

[Foundation-l] Office hours starting in 30 minutes

and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It should be all right. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support free knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Annual Fundraiser starts November 10th, UTC]

Hi all, Rand asked me to forward this email for him as his client is presenting difficulties getting it to the list. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Annual Fundraiser starts November 10th, UTC]

of Community Giving Wikimedia Foundation www.wikimedia.org Email: r...@wikimedia.org Phone: 415.839.6885 x615 Fax: 415.882.0495 Cell: 510.685.7030 “At some future time, I hope to have something witty, intelligent, or funny in this space.” -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours this Friday, November 6

There's one Thursday in my previous message. It's going to definitely be on Friday, sorry if it caused any confusion. (Thanks James!) Cary Cary Bass wrote: Hello all! This Friday's office hours will once again feature Rand Montoya, Wikimedia Foundation's Head of Community Giving. If you

[Foundation-l] Office hours this Friday, November 6

(and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Office hours in 30 minutes (2009-10-29)

(and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. (Kul is able to speak English, Japanese and Portuguese with some degree of competancy!) -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[Foundation-l] Office hours next Thursday, October 29.

(and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. (Kul is able to speak English, Japanese and Portuguese with some degree of competancy!) -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

[Foundation-l] Reminder, office hours at 1600 UTC tomorrow (10/1/09).

/ and picking one of the two gateways, while choosing wikimedia-office from the dropdown on the next page. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Staff office hours

in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate PS: I'll be sending a follow up email

[Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimedia Staff office hours

. - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5 million files

-Original Message- From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nikola Smolenski Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:33 AM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5

Re: [Foundation-l] List moderation (was, Re: Stevertigo)

moderation activity level; I leave the question with Austin, do you want someone to volunteer to help out with moderation? - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: [Foundation-l] List moderation (was, Re: Stevertigo)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cary Bass wrote: Tim Starling wrote: I wrote: I'm taking Stevertigo off moderation. He has agreed by private email not to continue the dispute resolution mailing list thread. I also asked him to not make me immediately regret my decision

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 415.839.6885 x 601 Fax: 415.882.0495 E-Mail: c...@wikimedia.org -Original Message- From: foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

mailing list. Wikimedia-uk-uk-l ? - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

Pavlo Shevelo wrote: How about a new mailing list. Wikimedia-uk-uk-l ? What for? (: To arrange mailing between two chapters? :) I meant for my post to be humours, but I failed to include my :-) ! -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?

David Gerard wrote: 2009/6/28 Walter Vermeir wal...@wikipedia.be: Probaly useful for those who do not know it; an expamle It comes out infrequently enough that I suggest that posting it here regularly would be an excellent idea. Could generate discussion, too. And reader

Re: [Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andre Engels wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Jimmy Xuxu.jimmy@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, These days at the Village Pump of zhwiki, many wikipedians are arguing about whether Wikimedia project should apply to the US Copyright Law

[Foundation-l] Volunteer:Email response statistician

, 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 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux

Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Levy wrote: Pedro Sanchez wrote: Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical. And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all that fancy words let's bother them with our idiotic pranks becuase we are majority

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Casey Brown wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'd also like considerable help in advertising it throughout the projects and managing the page, as well. CentralNotice on all wiktionaries? :-) When we

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dominic wrote: Gerard Meijssen wrote: When I read what is proposed, the impression is given that a process will start with a compulsory outcome. I understand the rationale for one shared logo and favicon. The problem is that it is people outside

[Foundation-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

Hi all, The two largest Wiktionary projects (English and French) have two completely different logos. [1], [2] The reason for this, from what I understand, is that a vote was taken place about the logo fr.wiktionary currently has, on meta [3]; which the English Wiktionary community chose not to

Re: [Foundation-l] Two new email system team leaders

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hay (Husky) wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've appointed two new volunteers into the role of email system team leader (commonly known as OTRS admin), Daniel Bryant and Mark Wesbeeg. Unless he has been

[Foundation-l] Two new email system team leaders

new administrators. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/3/6 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Saintonge wrote: The English Wikipedia is probably the worst offender. Until that is sorted out a Wikipedia wide policy is premature. The qualities at the beginning of you paragraph are important, but a level of common sense also needs to

[Foundation-l] Steward elections confirmed

and the projects. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJqHIlyQg4JSymDYkRAn7fAJ9o4dzLfBIVfVwWsGnsvv4bUZvUtgCeM1rs REzmip6Vsx1wKSqc0ZRhIGA= =Pr13

[Foundation-l] Volunteering positions : Email response team leader

on his/her own. Details can be found at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Email_response_team_leader. The position has an official close date of 13.03.2009, but will remain open should no suitable candidates come forward. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wikipedia-l is still a good place to discuss Wikipedia related issues regardless of language. I've seen some interesting discussions take place there over the last couple of months. It's still quite useful. Cary Mark Williamson wrote: I still hold

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse (Pathoschild) wrote: Hello, This is a summary of the steward elections and confirmations so far. The elections are open February 1 to 22, at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2009 and

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility at wikinews [en] warning: contains rant

with a model that can be adopted by other projects. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJizBfyQg4JSymDYkRAt5IAKCKf41wFBKeOZg19zjZsFqLWSLrXACggzlb

Re: [Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Meijssen wrote: Obviously I like it that my picture of a wild boar is used on a Russian website. They asked, nice. But I take more pride in KNOWING this than in having my name on their website. This point brings to mind my early days on the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

Anders Wegge Keller wrote: Delirium delir...@hackish.org writes: Anders Wegge Keller wrote: Could you please keep the amount of crackpotish kookery at a minimum at this list In what respect is it crackpottish or kookery to suggest that even appearance of impropriety, even where none

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florence Devouard wrote: Michael Snow wrote: Florence Devouard wrote: For example, on meta, Wikimedia NYC is listed as chapters, not subchapters. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City. And the name does not clarify the

[Foundation-l] Call for Volunteers, Wikimania scholarship committees

are at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Wikimania_scholarship_reviewer and http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Wikimania_scholarship_technical_coordinator Any questions may be presented to me directly at my email address. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Foundation-l] Wikibooks ogo vote in progress

minor tweaks to style, the end logo will be look extremely similar to what we decide here. Thanks. Cary Bass Volco Wikimedia Foundation -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org