[Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees: February 2009

2009-03-13 Thread Sue Gardner
Report to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Covering: February 2009 Prepared by:Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation Prepared for: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees MY CURRENT PRIORITIES 1. Hiring interviews: CPO, usability team members

Re: [Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

2009-03-13 Thread Mohamed Magdy
2009/3/13 Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com Should someone handle this? http://www.blackwikipedia.org/ BlackWikipedia is a nonprofit private organization to support WMF, the Foundation working to maintain and develop the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Wikipedia is constantly looking

Re: [Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Bimmler
On 3/13/09, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Mohamed Magdy mohamed@gmail.com wrote: Assuming their good faith, they will change the domain name (and the logo) into something else if someone approached them. I don't see a problem here except that

Re: [Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

2009-03-13 Thread oscar van dillen
still, their SITE SUPPORT navigation button on the left led directly to http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donaciones very best, oscar On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.comwrote: On 3/13/09, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:18

Re: [Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

2009-03-13 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Is this clearly phishing? It looks like what we've always wondered about, a functioning mirror carrying advertising... -- - Andrew Gray  andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___

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

2009-03-13 Thread Cary Bass
-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] Licensing update committee open for membership applications

2009-03-13 Thread Erik Moeller
The licensing update committee is a group of Wikimedia community members appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation to support and facilitate the process of making and potentially implementing a community decision on Wikimedia's licensing terms. If you would like to be involved, please see:

Re: [Foundation-l] Pissed off at en:Wikisource

2009-03-13 Thread Ray Saintonge
Birgitte SB wrote: --- On Thu, 3/12/09, Ray Saintonge wrote: In the course of the discussion about me, I considered coming here at an early stage, but decided that I would let things play out on wiki first. I did not raise the issue here until a few days after the decision was

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update committee open for membership applications

2009-03-13 Thread geni
2009/3/13 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org: The licensing update committee is a group of Wikimedia community members appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation to support and facilitate the process of making and potentially implementing a community decision on Wikimedia's licensing terms. If you

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

2009-03-13 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've reworded it slightly: b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner

[Foundation-l] Mid-Year Financial Statements Posted to WMF website

2009-03-13 Thread Veronique Kessler
Hello Folks, I am pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Financial Statements (covering the period July 1 through December 31, 2008) are now posted to the WMF website at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports#Mid-year_financial_statements We have also posted