[Foundation-l] Wikipedia 10 - press release

2011-01-10 Thread Strainu
Hi, I suppose there is (or will be) a press release prepared for the 15th, marking Wikipedia's tenth anniversary. I was wondering if the community could get the text a little earlier, so we can translate it? I'm sure there will be some articles on the subject in every country and it would be good

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia 10 - press release

2011-01-10 Thread Daniel ~ Leinad
Subscribe to mailing list WikiX-l - there is a topic about preparing press release. -- Leinad 2011/1/10 Strainu : > Hi, > > I suppose there is (or will be) a press release prepared for the 15th, > marking Wikipedia's tenth anniversary. I was wondering if the > community could get the text a litt

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-10 Thread emijrp
We need a Free Knowledge Song, similar to the Free Software Song[1][2]. It is cool to sing it in these events. [1] http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw 2011/1/8 Lodewijk > can't we just rename Breakfast to Wikipedia Party Breakfast? :P

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-10 Thread Lodewijk
please give an advance warning if you start singing - I'll bring ear plugs to Wikimania ;-) Lodewijk 2011/1/10 emijrp > We need a Free Knowledge Song, similar to the Free Software Song[1][2]. It > is cool to sing it in these events. > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html > [2]

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 January 2011 11:50, emijrp wrote: > We need a Free Knowledge Song, similar to the Free Software Song[1][2]. It > is cool to sing it in these events. I would suggest that we need one that is *completely different*. Either that or ear plugs. At least RMS is unlikely to be singing it for us.

[Foundation-l] Sue Gardner Insight Interview

2011-01-10 Thread Abbas Mahmoud
Hi guys, Check the following videos of Sue's interview with Insight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFPSvmKls6Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ra_wA0Zbp4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07RQFPS9UaUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPfP018xZqQ Cheers, -- Feel

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner Insight Interview

2011-01-10 Thread Abbas Mahmoud
Sorry for that. The correct links are as follows: [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFPSvmKls6I[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ra_wA0Zbp4[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07RQFPS9UaU[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPfP018xZqQ > From: abbas...@hotmail.com > To: foundation-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-10 Thread Ziko van Dijk
In German there was a children's tv show about "Wickie the Viking", with a popular intro song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgVjAY0n2fQ A Wikipedian came up with a new, Wiki-related text: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Neitram/Hey_hey_Wiki Greetings Ziko 2011/1/10 emijrp : > We need a

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-10 Thread phoebe ayers
Just another in the long tradition of Wiki-songs with revisionist lyrics! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Humor_songs_and_poems :) phoebe, who has -- *ahem* -- sung at least two of these in public On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > In German there was a children's t

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner Insight Interview

2011-01-10 Thread Lodewijk
nice link, but does anyone know when this was taped? The facts seem rather outdated (at least a year old?) Lodewijk 2011/1/10 Abbas Mahmoud > > Sorry for that. The correct links are as follows: > [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFPSvmKls6I[2] > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ra_wA0Zbp4[3] >

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner Insight Interview

2011-01-10 Thread Abbas Mahmoud
Actually, some of the facts aren't outdated: Sue talked about our Wikipedia for Schools project -- which is a very recent project. According to YouTube, the video was uploaded on December 2010! > From: lodew...@effeietsanders.org > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:46:21 +0100 > To: foundation-l@lists.w

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner Insight Interview

2011-01-10 Thread Lodewijk
but she also mentions that one person is running the communications departnemt, only two staffers working from external (amsterdamand sydney) and that she's in the middle of the strategy process. That sounds more like begin 2010 to me. 2011/1/11 Abbas Mahmoud > Actually, some of the facts aren't

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-10 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 01/10/11 2:52 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Just another in the long tradition of Wiki-songs with revisionist lyrics! > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Humor_songs_and_poems > :) > > phoebe, who has -- *ahem* -- sung at least two of these in public > Which one was it that was sung at the pa

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner Insight Interview

2011-01-10 Thread Sue Gardner
I haven't clicked the link, and I don't remember anything called Insight. But if it's a very long interview with a man named Mark Oppenheim then yeah, it's very old. Mark is a recruiter we use, who interviewed me a year or so ago for a series he does on non-profit management. So it's probably that

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner Insight Interview

2011-01-10 Thread Sue Gardner
I just clicked it and yeah, it's the Mark Oppenheim interview, from about a year ago :-) -- Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-10 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 11/01/2011, at 12:45, Ray Saintonge wrote: > On 01/10/11 2:52 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> Just another in the long tradition of Wiki-songs with revisionist lyrics! >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Humor_songs_and_poems >> :) >> >> phoebe, who has -- *ahem* -- sung at least two of the

[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issu e 2 – 10 January 2011

2011-01-10 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Anniversary preparations, new Community fellow, brief news http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-10/News_and_notes In the news: Anniversary coverage begins; Wikipedia as new layer of information authority; inclusionist project http://en.wikipedia.org/wik