[Foundation-l] Agenda for January board meeting

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Snow
Some of these issues have already been mentioned on this list recently, but I wanted to summarize the items on our agenda for the board meeting this weekend, Jan. 9-11, in San Francisco. These include: *a recap of the fundraiser (this will obviously be very preliminary, since the "thank you" por

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion for Licensing update

2009-01-06 Thread Erik Moeller
2008/12/30 Woojin Kim : > 1. Which one will discussion (or vote) for migration to CC-BY-SA be held, > globally, or locally? The plan is for a global vote to be organized on Meta. > 2. If vote will be held globally, when will vote start? We haven't finalized the timetable yet but I hope we can mo

[Foundation-l] Fundraiser update

2009-01-06 Thread Erik Moeller
A quick update: the "Thank You" banner is currently scheduled to stay up until January 9, 4 PM PST. We're keeping it up a while longer in part because it's the first work week after the holidays for many people, and in part because it's an opportunity for chapters to get some more visibility (we ma

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-06 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Delirium wrote: > not the fault of a newbie > complainer who was misled by the association. > Let's not categorize him negatively. We have no idea if he is a "newbie" or not, he was "old" enough to realize that they weren't really connected (evidenced by his subje

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-06 Thread Tim Starling
Delirium wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >> I'm not seeing anything in that rant that contradicts the point I was >> making. They might be different to Wikitravel in other ways, but they are >> the same in terms of the lack of relevance of a content-related complaint >> to foundation-l. >> > > The

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Snow
Delirium wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: > >> They might be different to Wikitravel in other ways, but they are >> the same in terms of the lack of relevance of a content-related complaint >> to foundation-l. >> > The point I was making is that the fact that people thought a > content-related

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have no involvement in Wikia, I am quite happy to say "poppycock" to you. When the WMF has good relations with many organisations, I would credit the WMF positively for this. Cooperation is very much what Wikis are about or should be about. Given that it has been explicitly said that coope

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-06 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Delirium wrote: > The point I was making is that the fact that people thought a > content-related complaint about Wikia might be relevant to the > foundation is the fault primarily of Wikia and the Foundation, and > especially its entangled principals, not the fault

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-06 Thread Delirium
Tim Starling wrote: > Delirium wrote: > >> Tim Starling wrote: >> >>> Brock Weller wrote: >>> >>> Don't know how linked we still are with wikia... >>> What do you mean "still"? Wikimedia has never been linked with Wikia to >>> the extent where this top

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Translators-l] New Privacy Policy

2009-01-06 Thread Foundation-l list admin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Huji To: translator...@lists.wikimedia.org, foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:23:22 +0330 Subject: Re: [Translators-l] New Privacy Policy Dear translators, and dear foundation members, I was just translating the new version of

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-06 Thread Tim Starling
Delirium wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >> Brock Weller wrote: >> >>> Don't know how linked we still are with wikia... >>> >> What do you mean "still"? Wikimedia has never been linked with Wikia to >> the extent where this topic might be relevant on foundation-l. It's no >> more relevant than