Re: [Foundation-l] Google Translate now assists with human translations of Wikipedia articles

2009-06-12 Thread Gordon Joly
FYI, Don't know if this is relevant Gordo From: Allen Gunn gun...@aspirationtech.org To: icomm...@lists.ibiblio.org icomm...@lists.ibiblio.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Subject: [Icommons] Open Translation Tools 2009 - Call for Participants Howdy iCommons friends, If you are

[Foundation-l] Some reflections about the governance of Commons

2009-06-12 Thread Ting Chen
Hello, I had started a discussion on the Village Pump of Commons. I think Commons is a very important project, and a very complicated project. With more and more projects initiated by our chapters to encourage other organizations or individuals to give their content free and upload them to

[Foundation-l] How to help convince Google not to foul up HTML5 video?

2009-06-12 Thread David Gerard
Summary: Google Chrome includes Ogg support for the video element. It also includes H.264 support. Fine, but ... they're also testing HTML5 YouTube *only* for H.264. Mike Shaver from Mozilla has fairly unambiguously asked Chris diBona from Google what the heck Google thinks it's doing:

[Foundation-l] Volunteer:Email response statistician

2009-06-12 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, please see new volunteer position[1] for Email response (OTRS) statistician. This position is specific to the English Wikipedia group of email queues, but may be customized for other langauges/projects later. If you have specific questions,

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-12 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/6/9 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Sorry if it has already been discussed before but, why has the English version to be included in the same page? Isn't a link good enough? In the past years we've seen substantial semantic drift in the various localized/translated versions. Having the

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-12 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/6/10 geni geni...@gmail.com: Well the Terms for edit screen is unacceptably long snip Some of this was helpful, thanks. I've responded on the talk page and made some further edits. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-12 Thread Unionhawk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Look, this should all be really simple... Just get the developers to change the footer(s) and any admin copy the legal code of the creative commons license into the current page... How many Wikipedians does it take to change the licensing? -

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Final steps

2009-06-12 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/6/12 Unionhawk unionhawk.site...@gmail.com: Look, this should all be really simple... Just get the developers to change the footer(s) and any admin copy the legal code of the creative commons license into the current page... How many Wikipedians does it take to change the licensing? More