Wikimedia-l October 2005

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[Foundation-l] German law and wikiquote
by Magnus Manske 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Just FYI :-) The German Verein has just received a legal opinion they ordered some time ago, concerning various legal issues for wikipedia and German law. It turns out that, according to the legal opinion, German law prohibits the collection of quotes, or quotes as such, if they are not used in a context. That would mean the German wikiquote project's legal status is shaky at best. (IANAL) The German PDF with the legal opinion is at [1], and as wiki code at [2]. Magnus [1] http://www.wikimedia.de/files/Rechtsfragen_Maerz_2005.pdf [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rechtsfragen_M%C3%A4rz_2005

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[Foundation-l] Hebrew Wikinews set into development
by Nicholas Moreau 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Avichai and six other Hebrew Wikipedians and Wikiquoters have signed up to create a Hebrew Wikinews. I've checked out their contributions, approved the request to start development on Meta-Wikipedia. So you know, Nick Moreau/Zanimum

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[Foundation-l] wikinews feature
by James R. Johnson 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Hey, Is there a feature on the wikis that allows you to have auto-updated stock information, much like the weather maps on wikinews? James

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Re: [Foundation-l] Re: Our exponentially increasing costs
by daniwo59＠aol.com 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

In a message dated 10/23/2005 6:50:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wikipedia(a)earthlink.net writes: Volunteer to help Danny finding grants and preparing applications. Get the Wikimedia Foundation added to your employer's matching program for charitable donations if you have one. I just wanted to note that in the past month, I have registered us with several major corporations, including Microsoft, American Express, and Sara Lee (the ones that make cake) for matching donation programs. Many large corporations in the US and elsewhere having matching gift programs. If anyone here works at a company that does, I encourage you to look into it. Danny

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[Foundation-l] Re: Privacy policy and editing anonymously notice.
by Amgine 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Your [[IP address]] will be shown publicly if you edit when not [[Special:Userlogin|logged in]]. See [[Wikipedia:Privacy policy|privacy policy]]. <grin> Cool challenge, David Gerard Amgine ---- Strunk: Rule 13: Omit unnecessary words.

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RE: [Foundation-l] 9/11wiki content sharing
by Poe, Marshall 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

As said. I'd be happy to copy and preserve the memoir content of the site on memorywiki.org. In fact, we've copied some of it already (with attribution, of course, as per the GNU license). If you'd like to enter into some more formal relationship re the transfer and preservation of the content, I'd be happy to discuss it (though I'm not sure that's necessary). In exchange for taking it (or rather more of it than I wanted, and promising to maintain it), I would like help publicizing www.memorywiki.org, though I'm not sure if the Foundation has any mechanism for helping in that area. In any case, I'm glad to have the memoirs as they fit the mission of MemoryWiki perfectly. Best, Marshall Poe Jimbo Wrote: I could be easily persuaded to support this move. --Jimbo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Re: Privacy policy and editing anonymously notice.
by David Gerard 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Timwi wrote: >Even shorter: > Your [[IP address]] will be logged when you submit. If you are > not [[Special:Userlogin|logged in]], it will be shown publicly. > See [[Wikipedia:Privacy policy|privacy policy]]. "SUBMIT! SUBMIT TO WIKIPEDIA!" heh :-) The use of "logged" in two different ways is (apparently) very bad. How about: Your [[IP address]] is recorded when you edit. If you are not [[Special:Userlogin|logged in]], it will be shown publicly. See [[Wikipedia:Privacy policy|privacy policy]]. Can anyone go even shorter and not lose important info? - d.

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Re: [Foundation-l] Benefits of advertising (was Our exponentially increasing costs)
by David Gerard 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Dan Grey wrote: >On 27/10/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote: >> A full one-third of that hard core sufficiently dedicated to Wikipedia >> to spend their own scarce cash going all the way to Wikimania 2005, >> wasn't it? Something about that doesn't sound "insignificant" to me. >> Maybe it does to you. >I think you're under-estimating the total number of editors WP has, >over-estimating who'd leave, and over-valuing their importance. >Where'd you get that figure from anyway? This list: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2005-October/004659.html "Apparently a poll was done at Wikimania and 2/3 of people were against it and 1/3 said they'd leave. So yeah, there's one good argument not to have ads, I guess. I just can't figure out what any of the other ones are." (I've only just noticed it was posted by Anthony DiPierro, who may or may not be a primary source - was he at Wikimania?) - d.

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[Foundation-l] Re: Trademark violation
by Any File 30 Oct '05

30 Oct '05

Daniel Mayer wrote: > This is what really caught my eye: "Webhosting Provider, Aplus.Net, Launches > Media Wiki" along with the first sentence: "San Diego webhosting provider, > Aplus.Net, has introduced a new offering to its customers - the Media Wiki." > and "The new product is licensed under the GNU Public License, and is the same > system that serves popular collaborative sites such as Wikipedia.org." > > How can they launch MediaWiki when it already exists? MediaWiki is *not* a new > product of Aplus.Net. *That* along with the other things I mentioned is > confusing the brand ID. I should agree with mav. The message is measling or at least that someone can measlead it. The message may lead to belive that MediaWiki software was created by themselves. Of course is not a severe problem, just a clearer statment would be better. In any case since tradmark law required the prooves of active protection could be shown, a request to them to clarify their message can be useful in this aspect. AnyFile

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[Foundation-l] French-speaking people needed for translation
by Michael Bimmler 30 Oct '05

30 Oct '05

Hello, at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Schweiz/International I wrote a short message in German (on a linked page) and English about the Swiss Wikipedians meeting on november 13th in Zurich, where the foundation of Wikimedia Switzerland will be the main topic (thanks to Ilario who translated it into Italian!). Now we need somebody, who translates this message also in French. The translator would need to update (i.e. translate) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Schweiz/Location as well, which is linked in the message. Thanks in advance for helping! Michael -- An eternity is very, very long, especially towards the end

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