Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-16 Thread effe iets anders
nonsense. There are (small list): * Creative Commons, dozens of chapters * Wikimedia, several chapters * Free Knowledge institute * Open Office * Several Linux organisations * Actually *any* organisation that makes on a large scale freely licensed manuals etc * Open Streetmap * Several libraries

Re: [Foundation-l] List Syndication Service reboot

2008-11-16 Thread effe iets anders
who! 2008/11/16 phoebe ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi ya'll, You may remember way that back in mid-2006 user:Improv started up the List Syndication Service: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS This was an ongoing weekly summary of the mailing lists, particularly Foundation-L. It was

Re: [Foundation-l] European Commission Green Paper - Copyright in the Knowledge Economy

2008-11-16 Thread effe iets anders
It doesn't really matter what was on their mind, even though I also disagree on what is on their mind. It matters that the discussion has been broken open, and that it will be on the agenda of the commission and after that the parliament. If it is on the agenda, it is time for a little lobby and

[Foundation-l] wikipedia.de shut down

2008-11-16 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Apparently the German portal on wikipedia.de has been shut down after a legal case. Is there any more information on this? http://www.wikipedia.de/ Bryan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs status/news?

2008-11-16 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Gerard Meijssen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hoi, I think it makes sense to have functionality like FlaggedRevs be localised prior to it being enabled. Given that it is important for the editors to understand what is intended with Flagged Revisions. I would argue

Re: [Foundation-l] Explanation related to the license migration needed

2008-11-16 Thread Thomas Dalton
BTW, I am not the only person who is working on the site, but it is a very small group of people and editing is not open to the world. In that case, you can just get explicit permission from each of them to do whatever it is you need to do, so there shouldn't be a problem.

Re: [Foundation-l] wikipedia.de shut down

2008-11-16 Thread David Gerard
2008/11/16 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Donations to WMDE are apparently coming in very fast because of this: http://wiwowo.blogspot.com/2008/11/internet-cannot-be-censured.html I'm reluctant to advocate upset politicians as a fundraising tool, but ... Here's the list. Dig the comments:

Re: [Foundation-l] Explanation related to the license migration needed

2008-11-16 Thread David Claughton
Milos Rancic wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you could delete the GFDL-only version and remake it as a dual licensed version after the switchover (assuming we do switchover), I can't see how there could a problem. (Assuming you are the only

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs status/news?

2008-11-16 Thread Dovi Jacobs
Gerard wrote: Given that it is important for the editors to understand what is intended with Flagged Revisions. I would argue that localisation prior to implementation is essential. I would like to remind Gerard that the requests for FlaggedRevs are based on the consensus of live wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] wikipedia.de shut down

2008-11-16 Thread Robert Rohde
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:02 AM, David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/16 Ian A. Holton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This isn't the first time the German chapter has had an interim injunction issued against them[2], but everytime the matter has been resolved in a professional manner and the