Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40: - a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are as a society towards reaching that goal We had started a stub table about this: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free Nemo

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, Interesting. Please allow me to second that with the proposal to reconsider existing projects. For example, what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut down such a project, or at least cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages? Or invest money in promoting

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread David Gerard
On 3 April 2012 07:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: We had started a stub table about this: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free This is brilliant! I've been after something like this for a while. - d.

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 3 April 2012 06:50, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote: Hello, Interesting. Please allow me to second that with the proposal to reconsider existing projects. For example, what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut down such a project, or at least

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:47:45 +0200, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40: - a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are as a society towards reaching that goal We had started a stub table about this:

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

2012-04-03 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Are there any other consequences of a list rename? You will feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. :D A few pages at

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

2012-04-03 Thread Thehelpfulone
One other thing to think about while you're making larger adjustments: it's possible to customize the listinfo page to not be so ghastly. For example, compare https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l with https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l. Perhaps one of

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Pharos
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40:  - a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are as a society towards reaching that goal We had started a stub table about this:

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-03 Thread Pharos
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu wrote: On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:38 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 April 2012 07:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: We had started a stub table about this: