Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

2012-03-02 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2012/3/2 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org: On 1 March 2012 18:27, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Hello people, So after receive authorization from all candidates, the list of candidates + statements are in meta, and you can find it here: http'://

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not Foundation) matters

2012-03-02 Thread Pharos
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: That sounds reasonable.  Most things discussed on this list are not specially relevant to the Foundation. OK. Any strong objections to changing the

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not Foundation) matters

2012-03-02 Thread Tom Morris
On 1 March 2012 09:14, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: That new list wouldn't be intended to replace foundation-l (which would continue to be used for matters strictly related to the Wikimedia Foundation) or to internal-l (which may have some legitimate uses, although I personally find

[Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

2012-03-02 Thread Joan Goma
From: Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions Message-ID: caf-odcvqatfofxutfelwhmoly-tau3qa4lvqd6whct7+sod...@mail.gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not Foundation) matters

2012-03-02 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: The full proposal is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l_proposal I think there's another way we could slice the cake: (a) a mailing list for discussing Foundation, chapter and management ... Maybe just

Re: [Foundation-l] Foursquare ditches Google Maps for OpenStreetMap

2012-03-02 Thread Samuel Klein
Both pieces of news are amazing. Thank you for the heads-up. :) SJ On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2012/3/1 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Other companies doing similarly:

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

2012-03-02 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/3/2 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org: On 1 March 2012 18:27, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Hello people, So after receive authorization from all candidates, the list of candidates + statements are in

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia's ebook and PDF creation feature doesn't support Chinese and Japanese

2012-03-02 Thread Samuel Klein
Well, I think Shizhao is subscribed to this list :-) but I cc: him just in case. This sounds like a reasonable request. Can one of the developers involved comment on the situation? Ziyuan: can you post a link to the discussion on the chinese wikipedia about whether to upgrade? SJ On Wed, Feb

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

2012-03-02 Thread Tinu Cherian
Thanks Beria for taking the initiative for making the list of candidates and statements on a public wiki. It brings in more transparency and better understanding of the process to the whole of the Wikimedia World. All the best wishes to the candidates! Regards Tinu Cherian Wikimedia India. On

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia's ebook and PDF creation feature doesn't support Chinese and Japanese

2012-03-02 Thread Ziyuan Yao
Yesterday I started two discussion threads for this issue, one one the Wikizh-l mailing list, the other on the zh.wikipedia Google Group (both are official discussion lists for the Chinese Wikipedia): Wikizh-l thread: (in Chinese)

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia's ebook and PDF creation feature doesn't support Chinese and Japanese

2012-03-02 Thread Ziyuan Yao
Actually, the MediaWiki extension Collection developed by PediaPress is based on a PDF generation library ReportLab, which doesn't support Chinese very well (for example, so far, a Chinese line in a generated PDF doesn't take up the full width of a page; there is still much space unused to the

[Foundation-l] WikiQueer

2012-03-02 Thread Fae
The recently launched[4] WikiQueer website has a system for transcluding Wikipedia content[1] and appears to have a background negotiated with the Wikimedia Foundation. Can someone confirm the nature of any special relationship with the website and the nonprofit that runs it?[3] 1.

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiQueer

2012-03-02 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: The recently launched[4] WikiQueer website has a system for transcluding Wikipedia content[1] and appears to have a background negotiated with the Wikimedia Foundation. Can someone confirm the nature of any special relationship with