[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool office hours - Today, #wikimedia-office, 19:00 UTC

2011-12-16 Thread Oliver Keyes
Hey guys! Just a reminder that there will be an office hours session at 19:00 UTC today to discuss the new Article Feedback Tool. This is the last session before the prototype is deployed, so if you have any last-minute requests or issues, or want to find out precisely what is going on, this is

[Foundation-l] External free image repositories

2011-12-16 Thread Strainu
Hi, Has the foundation ever expressed an opinion on using external free image repositories in WMF projects? The licensing policy only says that the content should be free, but without the specific limitations that are present on Commons. I was wondering if it would be acceptable for a project to

Re: [Foundation-l] External free image repositories

2011-12-16 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Typically the Foundation has been very reluctant serve any content that is not under their control. There are two primary reasons for this: * Security/privacy - This is mainly an issue for remote Javascript, but also for images. Images can set cookies via their headers and thus be used for

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation's 2010-11 Annual Report

2011-12-16 Thread Jay Walsh
The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce the release of the 2010-11 Annual Report, which is now posted on the WMF Wiki at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report From here you can download a high and lo res PDF of the report, or go right to the meta-hosted wiki version. And for

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation's 2010-11 Annual Report

2011-12-16 Thread Jay Walsh
The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce the release of the 2010-11 Annual Report, which is now posted on the WMF Wiki at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report From here you can download a high and lo res PDF of the report, or go right to the meta-hosted wiki version. And for

[Foundation-l] Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Vendetta?

2011-12-16 Thread Robin McCain
Thank you all for your support. The editors involved stirred up the pot and learned something in the process. One of them had already been warned about deleting content just for the fun of it, so this was instructional for all. In looking through the threads, one of them found one of my

Re: [Foundation-l] sopa debate now live

2011-12-16 Thread Kim Bruning
Further SOPA debate postponed 'till wednesday. https://twitter.com/#!/jasoninthehouse/status/147819972498948097 sincerly, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Internal-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study

2011-12-16 Thread Jérôme Hergueux
I just wanted to mention here that I've started a new thread at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Berkman_Sciences_Po_banner_taken_down Since our research banner was taken down, we've been paying a great deal of attention to the various concerns