Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA signed but not ratified Re: ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread Orionist
Here's a link to a useful post by Member of European Parliament detailing the schedule for ACTA in the next months: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ow1v5/acta_note_from_marietje_schaake_member_of_the/ Regards, -- Orionist On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Kim Bruning

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA signed but not ratified Re: ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread Lodewijk
Apparently the ambassador of the Netherlands did not get permission in time to sign the agreement. It seems nobody really knows yet why that was, but it is expected that the signature will follow. Also the signature of Spain, Slovenia and Cyprus seems to be missing yet. Source:

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Global Development Midyear report 2011-12

2012-01-27 Thread Tilman Bayer
Hi all, the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Development department has recently published a midyear report on its activities, regarding the 2011-12 annual plan. You can find it on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Global_Development_Midyear_report_2011-12 -- Tilman Bayer Movement

[Foundation-l] POV in Chechen Wikipedia

2012-01-27 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
I opened a RFC request on Meta, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/POV_in_Chechen_Wikipedia In my view, this is a situation similar to the one in Acehnese Wikipedia, which we had recently - when a group of users basically hijack a WMF project and start to promote goals

Re: [Foundation-l] POV in Chechen Wikipedia

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Goldammer
Hoi, Thanks for bringing this up, Yaroslav. If it turns out to be a really solid claim, we would need someone neutral with language competence to figure out what is going on there... Any ideas? I have a retired professor in mind who speaks the language fairly well (Johanna Nichols from UC

Re: [Foundation-l] POV in Chechen Wikipedia

2012-01-27 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:58:02 +0100, Thomas Goldammer tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Hoi, Thanks for bringing this up, Yaroslav. If it turns out to be a really solid claim, we would need someone neutral with language competence to figure out what is going on there... Any ideas? I have a retired

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for moderators

2012-01-27 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 27 January 2012 06:38, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone - Sue has asked me to create a mailing list to discuss advocacy and Wikimedia's position in it for the future. Although I don't yet have the list created, I wanted to put out a call for moderators. If

Re: [Foundation-l] POV in Chechen Wikipedia

2012-01-27 Thread Thomas Goldammer
Hm, I think closing it is no option we should really consider. Maybe we must try to share apart those who have understood the principles and abide by them and those who don't and - well - remove sysop rights of the latter group and encourage the first group to have the wiki cleaned up and to

Re: [Foundation-l] POV in Chechen Wikipedia

2012-01-27 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:23:22 +0100, Thomas Goldammer tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Hm, I think closing it is no option we should really consider. Maybe we must try to share apart those who have understood the principles and abide by them and those who don't and - well - remove sysop rights of

Re: [Foundation-l] POV in Chechen Wikipedia

2012-01-27 Thread Benjamin Chen
I haven't read the RFC carefully, but since it is opened, so I informed Sasan700 and Dagger on their talk page. Also emailed Sasan700. Best regards, Benjamin Chen / User:Bencmq On Friday, January 27, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:23:22 +0100, Thomas

Re: [Foundation-l] POV in Chechen Wikipedia

2012-01-27 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:14:40 +0800, Benjamin Chen cnchenmi...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't read the RFC carefully, but since it is opened, so I informed Sasan700 and Dagger on their talk page. Also emailed Sasan700. Best regards, Benjamin Chen / User:Bencmq Great, thanks, Benjamin.

Re: [Foundation-l] POV in Chechen Wikipedia

2012-01-27 Thread Benjamin Chen
As for the article on Ramzan Kadyrov, I just checked and the only editor was Дагиров Умар plus a bot (Luckas-bot) Best regards, Benjamin Chen / User:Bencmq On Friday, January 27, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:23:22 +0100, Thomas Goldammer

[Foundation-l] Growing

2012-01-27 Thread cyrano
Interesting facts about size, growing and accelerating. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_of_cities_and_corporations.html ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Foundation-l] WMF Board of Trustees meeting agenda

2012-01-27 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi all, The WMF Board of Trustees is planning our winter meeting for next weekend. The draft agenda is posted here for comment: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_Meetings/February_3-4,_2012 This is a very full agenda, focusing on three main topics: the WMF annual planning process

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Board of Trustees meeting agenda

2012-01-27 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to discuss blackouts, SOPA and lobbying? WereSpielChequers Message: 9 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:22:56 -0800 From: phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Board of Trustees meeting agenda

2012-01-27 Thread Kat Walsh
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it omits.  So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to discuss blackouts, SOPA and lobbying? I am assuming Legal will

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Board of Trustees meeting agenda

2012-01-27 Thread En Pine
Phoebe, On this agenda, could you give more detail about the topic Paid editing discussion? There is a current discussion on EN at the Village Pump regarding, among other things, PR personnel who edit on Wikipedia in ways that might violate NPOV and COI policy. It would be good to know if the

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Board of Trustees meeting agenda

2012-01-27 Thread Béria Lima
Phoebe, this meeting is not the one to approve or not the Recomendations from Sue, right? I always imagined that would be AFTER the meeting in Paris. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Board of Trustees meeting agenda

2012-01-27 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Kat Walsh k...@mindspillage.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it omits.  So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread Stephen LaPorte
Hello Kim, Geoff asked me to prepare the following summaries of ACTA and OPEN with the understanding that it only represents some preliminary research to support the ongoing community discussion. You can find the research here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/ACTA

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: .. One does well to follow Michael Geist's blogs on this [http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ here].  He has been on top of this issue since it started, and provides links to developments on his left sidebar. ACTA is probably

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread David Richfield
I found two sentences unclear, but didn't know how to fix them; see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Legal/ACTA -- [[:en:User:Slashme|David Richfield]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-27 Thread Orionist
If I understand correctly, Obama has issued an executive order approving ACTA, but that executive order is suppressed as a state secret. And the administration hasnt given it a number because there are no gaps in the numbering of Obama's EO list..? As I understand it's rather called an