[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010 Scholarship sign-up ending April 11
Hi everyone! This is a friendly reminder that the period for acceptance of Wikimania 2010 Scholarship Applications is ending on *April 11, 2010* at 23:59:59 UTC. After that time, applications will not be accepted. You can read all about scholarships here at http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/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
[Foundation-l] Flagged Protection API
As you may know, there is a planned trial of FlaggedRevs on English Wikipedia. The proposal page can be found at WP:FPPR. People interested in writing user tools that interact with FlaggedRevs components will of course want to use the API. A reasonable documentation of the existing pages is provided at www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs#API. Anyone interested in testing of these pages should visit flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org to try out these components. It may help to first browse the regular GUI to get a feel for what is going on. Problem reports and feature request should go on Wikimedia:FlaggedRevs_issues/API (on that wiki). A few quick notes specific to the flaggedrevs.labs site: * API page action = review * Use flag_status (1 or 0) not flag_accuracy (each wiki can have it's own tag names) * API page action = stabilize * Use protectlevel (none, autoconfirmed, or review) * Analogous to publish restriction GUI at action=protect -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Flagged-Protection-API-tp28174134p28174134.html Sent from the WikiMedia Foundation mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Board committees update
Following up on Bishakha's appointment, this means we now have the full complement of members on the Board of Trustees. With that taken care of, for now we have decided to dissolve the nominating committee which participated in the process. Again, I want to thank the volunteers on the committee for their service and their help in seeking out and screening candidates. Part of the reason for this is that the board generally agreed that the committees need further reorganization, and this will likely start with the creation of a Governance Committee. For the vast majority of nonprofit boards, this committee (which may go by different names) is a basic organizational standard, designing the operational structure of the board and overseeing its effectiveness. In our ad hoc organization, we haven't gotten around to this properly, and I think the board's work would benefit significantly. One of the first things a Governance Committee would do is review which committees are needed, whether we have them or not, what their responsibilities should be, composition and so forth. More will be forthcoming as those recommendations are developed. --Michael Snow ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
