Re: [Foundation-l] Three new chapters

2009/7/6 Michael Snow : > I just want to quickly catch everyone up on some of the board's work in > June. In addition to the 2009-10 Annual Plan, which we approved after an > IRC meeting with Sue and Veronique, the board passed resolutions > recognizing three new local Wikimedia chapters. Our newes

Re: [Foundation-l] Why "Wikipedia" and not "the Wikipedia"?

2009/7/7 Samuel Klein : > Once a name or monument transcends what it originally named and is > used by reference to describe similar things elsewhere, there is a > tendency to add the definite article -- the Earth, the Sun, the > Sphinx, the Oracle, the Colosseum.  I do see people running wikis of

[Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikimedia Weather

Dear All, I don't know whether this has been discussed before, apologies if it has. I'm interested in people's thoughts on a new Wikimedia project-maybe WikiWeather, which basically would do what it says on the tin. Along with importing national weather from other sources(especially to begin w

Re: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

Ilario, you said: > without an organization it's impossible to found > a point of contact (for example there is no legal representatives). I understand your concern, but in reality, there are many ways to determine a point of contact "without an organization". For instance, "instead of legal re

Re: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

2009/7/8 Thomas de Souza Buckup : > Ilario, > > you said: > >> without an organization it's impossible to found >> a point of contact (for example there is no legal representatives). > > > I understand your concern, but in reality, there are many ways to determine > a point of contact "without an o

Re: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 06:54, Michael Snow wrote: > case.) The basic question is, what can or should we do to encourage > grassroots groups that want to support our mission, but may not fit into > the chapters framework? As an answer to this question, I would say yes. My nuances come later. > Th

Re: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

2009/7/8 Delphine Ménard : > I have researched a bit, while looking at the "catalan case" and my > conclusion is that such interest groups might be able to fundraise > where national chapters and the Foundation can't. It is impossible > (and in any case not desirable) for Wikimedia France or Wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikimedia Weather

Tris Thomas wrote: > I'm interested in people's thoughts on a new Wikimedia project-maybe > WikiWeather, which basically would do what it says on the tin. Along > with importing national weather from other sources(especially to begin > with), contributors could then put their weather where they

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikimedia Weather

Wikimedia Norway have had a meeting with Meteorologisk Institutt (http://met.no) in Norway about using the dataset published by the institute. Today the dataset is used for the service Yr.no (http://yr.no), a joint venture between them and Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (http://nrk.no). Met sai

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikimedia Weather

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Tris Thomas wrote: > Dear All, > I don't know whether this has been discussed before, apologies if it has. > > I'm interested in people's thoughts on a new Wikimedia project-maybe > WikiWeather, which basically would do what it says on the tin.  Along > with importin

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikimedia Weather

ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Centre_for_Medium-Range_Weather_Forecasts The 4km resolution is from private email correspondence and is for Northern Europe. The four hour cycle is from memory, it should be four times a day. >From

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikimedia Weather

2009/7/8 Tris Thomas : > Dear All, > I don't know whether this has been discussed before, apologies if it has. > > I'm interested in people's thoughts on a new Wikimedia project-maybe > WikiWeather, which basically would do what it says on the tin.  Along > with importing national weather from othe

Re: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > I don't know the details of the "catalan case" and I think it is > probably quite different to the "Welsh case" As far as I know, you're right -- they are very different. :-) My understanding of the "catalan case" is that a group of people w

Re: [Foundation-l] Proposal for Wikimedia Weather

Tris Thomas wrote: > Dear All, > I don't know whether this has been discussed before, apologies if it has. > > I'm interested in people's thoughts on a new Wikimedia project-maybe > WikiWeather, which basically would do what it says on the tin. Along > with importing national weather from other

Re: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 20:20, Casey Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> I don't know the details of the "catalan case" and I think it is >> probably quite different to the "Welsh case" > > As far as I know, you're right -- they are very different. :-)  My > under

Re: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

2009/7/8 Delphine Ménard : > Exactly. One (the Welsh) is integrated into the geographic region of > one chapter, the other (the Catalan) spreads across geographic regions > taken care of by several chapters. > > > On the case of the Welsh, I see no problem of having a "Wikimedia > Wales" as a "sect

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Donation Buttons Upgrade

Hey All-- We are about to gather and refine input on some ideas about enhancing visibility of our donation button. We've had tons of responses so far but still would appreciate any feedback that you might have. Also, some of the comments are quite thoughtful...others have added their own buttons.

[Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was promised !!

*Hi, I want to remind you that on 26 Nov 2008 ** http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047554.html* * you have promised that subdomain name mo will become mo-cyrl, it's July now and mo is still no

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was promised !!

Hi Cetateanu -- As replied previously, we don't yet have infrastructure for conveniently renaming sites. Given that the site has been locked for years and there's nothing to replace it with at mo.wikipedia.org, it's no higher on our priority list than the other sites that have language code re

Re: [Foundation-l] A chapters-related question

I think a possible solution for this kind of thing might be "Working Groups", each carefully organized under a "Working Group Organizer" who has a time-limited charter to lead such a group. The issue here is that when dealing with a small unorganized group, really the only practicable way to maint