Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-08 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 02:42, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote: I might just be a crypto-American chauvinist (and really, that sort of inflammatory message is completely unnecessary on this list), so I apologise for any ignorance on the situation, but would Wikimedia Serbia really be the

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-08 Thread David Gerard
On 8 January 2012 09:09, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Structural help is not Wikimedia's task [yet]. There are a lot of other institutions which could give them money for daily operations or artifacts preservation and not require from them knowledge liberation. In other words, it's

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-08 Thread Strainu
2012/1/8 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: So it sounds like the first thing we (in this case, local Wikipedians) should do is approach them and say We don't have money, but is there anything else we can positively help with? What's the programme? It's not so simple - you might very well find

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-08 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:23, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 January 2012 09:09, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Structural help is not Wikimedia's task [yet]. There are a lot of other institutions which could give them money for daily operations or artifacts preservation and

[Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-08 Thread Gregory Varnum
Given the conversations about Bosnia and SOPA, I felt this was worth mentioning. There are a number of stories online about the government limiting Internet access within Iran: http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/iran-intranet-tests/

[Foundation-l] New partnership: Translators Without Borders and Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine

2012-01-08 Thread James Heilman
Translators Without Borders and Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine would like to announce a partnership to improve the free global access to high quality health information. Wikipedia, as many are aware, is one of the foremost health care information resources. It is freely usable by all people

Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific

2012-01-08 Thread James Heilman
Thanks for the clarification. Yes we at Wikmedia Canada we had discussed starting a Wikisource north of the border due to the benefits of our copyright law. I will send this out to some of our members to see if anyone is interested in taking it on. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific

2012-01-08 Thread David Gerard
On 8 January 2012 18:19, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification. Yes we at Wikmedia Canada we had discussed starting a Wikisource north of the border due to the benefits of our copyright law. I will send this out to some of our members to see if anyone is

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia España Chapter Report (October-December 2011)

2012-01-08 Thread Jorge Sierra
Hi all, You will find below the Chapter Report of Wikimedia España for the last trimester of the year. You can also find it in Meta.[1] Best regards, [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a/2011-10-12 -- Jorge A. Sierra Presidente Wikimedia España

Re: [Foundation-l] Intellectual property policy for open organisations

2012-01-08 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:55 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: There are an increasing number of organisations which have indicated that their output is Creative Commons by default, however there are not as many that have a public IP policy which clearly allows staff to publish their

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-08 Thread Mono mium
Unfortunately, the kind of political action editors wished to promote in situations like Italy or the USA wouldn't have the same effect in more restrictive countries like China or Iran. On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.comwrote: Given the conversations about

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Highlights: November issue translated (Dansk, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, Nederlands, Tiếng Việt) / news suggestions wanted for December issue

2012-01-08 Thread Tilman Bayer
This is to draw attention to the translations that have been made available for the November 2011 Wikimedia Highlights - combining some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2011 with a selection of other important