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2009-02-20 Thread g t
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Re: [Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

2009-02-20 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > geni wrote: > > 2009/2/20 Henning Schlottmann : > >> * The responsibility for decisions of this magnitude lays with the > >> board. WMF is a non-membership association. Don't even try to evade that > >> responsibility by delegating it

Re: [Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/20 Henning Schlottmann : > geni wrote: >> 2009/2/20 Henning Schlottmann : >>> * The responsibility for decisions of this magnitude lays with the >>> board. WMF is a non-membership association. Don't even try to evade that >>> responsibility by delegating it to the "community". Accept the >>>

Re: [Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

2009-02-20 Thread Henning Schlottmann
geni wrote: > 2009/2/20 Henning Schlottmann : >> * The responsibility for decisions of this magnitude lays with the >> board. WMF is a non-membership association. Don't even try to evade that >> responsibility by delegating it to the "community". Accept the >> responsibility and act accordingly. >

Re: [Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

2009-02-20 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > * Ditch the dual licensing. I don't understand it. I am trained as a > lawyer to understand about licenses and I have not the slightest idea > how the dual licensing is supposed to work. No one I talked to - > layperson or professional

Re: [Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/20 Henning Schlottmann : > * Ditch the dual licensing. I don't understand it. I am trained as a > lawyer to understand about licenses and I have not the slightest idea > how the dual licensing is supposed to work. No one I talked to - > layperson or professional - understood about it. Make a

Re: [Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

2009-02-20 Thread geni
2009/2/20 Henning Schlottmann : > * Ditch the dual licensing. I don't understand it. I am trained as a > lawyer to understand about licenses and I have not the slightest idea > how the dual licensing is supposed to work. No one I talked to - > layperson or professional - understood about it. Make a

Re: [Foundation-l] status of the licensing update

2009-02-20 Thread Henning Schlottmann
Ryan Kaldari wrote: > As far as anyone not subscribed to this listserv can tell, the > proposal to migrate Wikipedia to Creative Commons is dead in the > water. True. This should be quite an important issue for the Foundation. The time frame is narrow, running out and it looks like the Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] An technical idea on spreading and improving Chinese Wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/2/20 Thomas Dalton : re/ the earlier comments, remember that we don't have to invent keyword identification from scratch. There's quite a bit of stuff out there already - I've seen a tool for writing blog posts, for example, which automatically adds in "contextual" Wikipedia links to the end

Re: [Foundation-l] An technical idea on spreading and improving Chinese Wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/2/20 Mingli Yuan : > Since "Songhu Hui" use Wordpress, so I just propose a technical idea to > improve the cooperation between Wikimedia and "Songhu Hui". How about a > keyword-link-generator to Wikipedia for Wordpress? This new Wordpress plugin > will query Wikipedia to get a keyword list,

Re: [Foundation-l] An technical idea on spreading and improving Chinese Wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/20 Mingli Yuan : > Since "Songhu Hui" use Wordpress, so I just propose a technical idea to > improve the cooperation between Wikimedia and "Songhu Hui". How about a > keyword-link-generator to Wikipedia for Wordpress? This new Wordpress plugin > will query Wikipedia to get a keyword list, an

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/2/19 Mark Williamson : > I still hold the crown on Wikipedia-l. Whatever happened to that list, > anyways? Most of the people wanting to have abtruse cross-project theological debates just took it to foundation-l :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___

[Foundation-l] An technical idea on spreading and improving Chinese Wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Mingli Yuan
First, let me demonstrate a case for the liveliness of Chinese Internet users on knowledge sharing. It is the "Songshu Hui"( the Squirrel-Organization http://songshuhui.net/ ), an new branding for scientific knowledge sharing in Mainland China right now. So far about one hundred of scientific-write