Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-18 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/8/19 Gregory Kohs : > I hope that some Foundation staff or board member will comment on what has > happened here.  Wikimedia Foundation server resources were used to > coordinate a discussion of issues by no less than eight candidates for the > Board of Trustees. What WMF server resources wer

Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copy&pasted books from Wikipedia

2009-08-18 Thread Joshua Gay
This won't work. The problem is that these books are not being clearly marketed as printed Wikipedia articles. So, marketing your books as up to date printed versions of Wikipedia articles isn't going to be competing with these books. I recommend doing a positive campaign where you encourage peopl

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-18 Thread Anthony
Greg, You were there. What is in the audio worthy of suppression? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-18 Thread Gregory Kohs
News flash! I received a reply from Adam Cuerden, the audio editor charged with the release of the WikiVoices # 45 session: "I've asked around, and several people involved have made it clear that it should only be released by official means, not privately. I'm afraid that's the end of this discus

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-18 Thread Gregory Kohs
I have asked the User who is supposedly in possession of the raw audio file to explain what's happening, and he has bluntly replied that he is no longer interested in spending the "two days" that it would take to edit the two-hour audio feed. I then requested that he simply deliver the unedited el

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikisource-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-18 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Yann Forget wrote: > >> This discussion is very interesting. I would like to make a summary, so >> that we can go further. >> >> 1. A database of all books ever published is one of the thing >> still missing. > > No, no, no, this is *not* missing. This is exactly t

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When someone chooses not to use Skype, the consequences are his or hers. If you do not want to have Skype installed on your computer, you can install it temporarily or you can borrow a system that has Skype installed. An interview is not about existing board activities, it is about elections,