Re: [Foundation-l] What to do with moribund languages?

2009-01-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2009/1/5 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: 3. A language with ~1-10M speakers from Sub-Saharan Africa. Such language probably has a written form made by some missionaries during the past centuries (or a very similar language has a written form which may be used). However, the most of the

[Foundation-l] Victims pf Soviet... Memorial

2009-01-05 Thread Jon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I know we heard some opinions on that project proposal, I just want to remind everyone who did comment on the list, to go make it count by commenting at the actual proposal page on Meta.

Re: [Foundation-l] Ombudsman commission

2009-01-05 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Michael Snow wrote: Eia wrote: Hi all, A few days ago, the term for the ombudsman commission expired. Unfortunately, I missed an announcement about the commission for 2009. Could someone clarify who will be the 2009 members, and where the announcement (will be/is) made? We're

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-05 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/4/09 5:19 PM, effe iets anders wrote: But was that connection close enough (even in the old days) to complain here about copyright violations there? I think Tim had a good point here :P *nod* The Wikimedia Foundation is not, and has never been, involved with Wikia in a capacity which

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia meets goal

2009-01-05 Thread Jon
Good job! http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090102/ap_on_hi_te/wikipedia_fundraising Jon ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] (no subject)

2009-01-05 Thread Shannon Miller
Creating a universal online language should include cross references like music and photography. Is it possible to provide links within wiki pages written in moribund languages to established blog topics within whichever given country the user wishes to view?

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

2009-01-05 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone! Cross posting this to several lists, forgive me if you get it a number of times. Wikimania 2009 requires will be requiring a number of volunteers to handle the scholarship applications. Details of the Volunteer commitments are at

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-05 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Brion Vibber wrote: The relationship between WMF and Wikia is basically on the order of some of the same people are involved [many fewer now than before], much of the same technology is involved [still true], and because of the above, occasionally both companies find it convenient to share