Wikimedia-l June 2006

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[Foundation-l] How to develop policy in a multilingual organization
by Elisabeth Bauer 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

"If you contribute to the Wikimedia projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly." german translation: "Wenn Sie zu den Wikimedia-Projekten beitragen, veröffentlichen Sie jedes Wort, das sie abschicken, öffentlich." That's the second sentence of our privacy policy, to be found on http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy and inspires me to loose a few words on how policy writing should be handled in a multilingual project: * Decide on the core principles of the policy - the essential rules * Create a nice, elaborate page in english which you place on the Foundation wiki as the official policy * Ask the community to create inofficial translations based on the essential rules - they may want to phrase a few things differently, some things may need longer or shorter explanations depending on culture, country or project. They may translate the english version word by word but are free to formulate the essential rules in their own words if they prefer. * Each translation should have a note on top that in doubt the english version is the valid one. In the case of the privacy policy, I decided to act on these principles. The german privacy policy at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Datenschutz tries to say the same as the english one but in own words. Some paragraphs and sentences which are not part of the core rules were shortened for the sake of clarity and readability. If you disagree with this you may want to find community members who will create a literal translation. My feel for language and style doesn't allow me to do so. greetings, elian

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[Foundation-l] Wiki trademark issue for ZH Wikipedia in mainland China
by Hsiang-Tai Chien 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Dear Wikipedians in fundation, We now in Chinese Wikipedia have some trademark issues that needs your help. We have found an Chinese had registered "Wiki" and "維基" (in literly it also means "Wiki" in Chinese) as his trademarks at 2005/11/23 in mainland China. Since we now have WP and WN, there might be some trademark issues in mainland China. Do you have any advice or suggestions that we can do? Best regards, Zh:User:HTChien ___________________________________________________ 最新版 Yahoo!奇摩即時通訊 7.0，免費網路電話任你打！ http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/

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[Foundation-l] .eu domains soon
by Jan Kulveit 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi, the 1st sunrise period for .eu domain registration is going to begin soon - 7 December 2005 only domain names which are registred EU community/national trademarks will be registered. I'm not sure about the status of Wikimedia trademarks, but guess at least Wikipedia a Wikimedia are suitable. IMO "we" should apply at least for wikipedia.eu and wikimedia.eu. Because of trademark issues and eu regulations concernig who can apply for .eu, I'm affraid it will be a bit complicated. I hope someone from the foundation can take care of it. (If the process is allready going, sorry :-) Jan Kulveit ([[USEr:Wikimol]])

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[Foundation-l] Wikimedia visual identity guidelines
by Peter Jacobi 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

At common's deletion discussion the question surfaced, whether the Wikimedia visual identity guidelines apply only to the trademark or also to the Wikipedia logo. Especially concerning the ''The logo should not be turned around or distorted'' part. See: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletion_requests#Image:Bouncywi… Regards, Peter

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[Foundation-l] Opinions/suggestions for "outside" members of the board?
by Jimmy Wales 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

To continue the ongoing board development conversation.... The board is considering adding some prominent person from outside the core Wikipedia community to the board and seeks brainstorming ideas of what type of person could be good, as well as mentions of names who we might want to approach. Larry Lessig - head of Creative Commons Mitch Kapor - head of Mozilla Foundation (Firefox), founder of EFF, and extremely passionate about the Wikipedia mission (and he edits Wikipedia, and he is absolutely fascinated by and supportive of our community model) Richard Stallman - needs no introduction Eben Moglen - main legal mastermind of the FSF Comments on these names are welcome... as are further ideas of course! -- ####################################################################### # Office: 1-727-231-0101 | Free Culture and Free Knowledge # # http://www.wikipedia.org | Building a free world # #######################################################################

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[Foundation-l] Public Domain Works DB
by Erik Moeller 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

The Open Knowledge Foundation, together with Free Culture UK, is developing a database of public domain works: http://www.publicdomainworks.net/ Still very early stages, but could eventually become useful for Wikimedia. Erik

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[Foundation-l] Update : wmf-cc translation & promotion
by Samuel Klein 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

A mini-update from a subcommittee. == The Babylonian #0 == Welcome to issue 0 of The Babylonian (temporary name), the WMF promotion & translation subcommittee update from the month of June. Thanks to all who cooperated on the latest translation burst; including press releases, FAQ, and sitenotices. i. Requests ii. News iii. Thank yous iv. About this update === Requests === /* New WMF privacy policy */ * Original: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy * Now available in: English, Czech & Slovenian; French is almost done, too (on meta). * Requested in: all languages, especially Ar, Es, It, Ja, Pl, Tr, Zh * Workplace: see subpages of http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy * Description: The new policy will be official on July 1st, and is linked from every Wikimedia wiki page. /* Wikimedia Executive Director FAQ */ * Original: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Executive_Director_FAQ * Now available in: English (original), Spanish and French * Requested in: Ja, It, Pl, Zh; also in others /* Wikimania site translations */ * Main Page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/Main_Page_2 * Now available in : English, Japanese * Other pages and messages are also requested for translation. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania You can find other translation requests on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests /* Fund drive banner campaign */ * Ideas for a text banner campaign for the next fund drive are requested. This is a new idea that might work with or without a banner server (more easily with; Amgine has been pushing for this) * See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_ideas#Banner_campaign === News === * You can now send translation related email to the Promotion & Translation subcommittee; our address is translator (at) wikimedia (dot) org. IRC contact is also available on irc://freenode.net/#wikimedia-translation * There are efforts to produce web-banners for Wikimedia projects in many langugaes, that websites can subscribe to to support the projects; text notices about wikiprojects and events, small images, &c. You can suggest or link to suitable banner images or text on meta. *: New ideas for ads of all sorts are welcome; there are occasionally groups who wish to provide free advertising space for Wiki[pm]edia, and it would be nice if they did not always have to make their own ads, but could also choose among existing ones (including ads in their audience's language). See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ads * There is increasing needs for help in this area, we as always invite other Wikimedians to participate; english competence is preferable, but not required. If you are interested in promotion or translation activities, you may want to give a look to our pages on meta -- our parent communications committee and its subcommittees: *: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_committee *: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees * Wiki[m|p]edia needs good poster designs; the latest comes via Catherine Munro : http://www.cafepress.com/brightplaces.62248324 Ideas for variations on the theme, and translations of it (perhaps into a more familiar poetic form in each language) as well as quite different types of posters, are welcome. *: See also the [[Poster design group]], where you can leave comments. === Thank yous === In June, we had a burst of translation requests: a press release on the appointment of WMF General Council and interim Executive Director, the FAQ about the latter's office, two Wikimania updates, and the latest Board-approved version of the Wikimedia privacy policy. There are no proper words to describe your contributions and thank everyone: there are too many people and too many works to list in short. For example, the sitenotice translation for Wikimania: from its release in one language, within 24 hours, there were 21 language versions of the sitenotice, and in the end close to 30. The French team are quick starters, and have begun to prepare their version for the latest notices within a day; good team work was shown too, among the Spanish translators with their careful translation processing with several reviews and corrections; localisation efforts on the Wikimedia Foundation site by Vipuser from the Chinese Wikipedia... Your vigorous involvement continues to empower other contributors looking for this information! === On these updates === * This is a newsletter of the Promotion & Translation subcommittee. Its content is released into the public domain. It is temporarily called The Babylonian; after the mutlilingual nature of sharing and promoting the projects. Other name ideas are welcome! * Its editors are subcommittee members, contributing as individual volunteers. Submissions or notes about related initiatives are welcome on the talk page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications_subcommittees/PT * Editors of this issue : Aphaia, Sj

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[Foundation-l] New privacy policy
by Anthere 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Privacy_policy&oldid=14088 may be found here. Please, spread the word that all the translations in various languages should be updated. Thanks in advance. Ant

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Re: [Foundation-l] Open source CRM needed for Wikimedia
by Dirk Riehle 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

I recommend you also look at a full-blown ERP package like Compiere, www.compiere.org, whether its CRM package fulfills your needs. The advantage of Compiere is that it has been around for a while, is likely to spare you future integration and extension hassles, and did not have an incident like the SugarCRM vs VTiger shootout yet. Dirk At 25.06.2006, Angela wrote: >I'm not buying into the arguments Brad and his friends are putting >forward for Wikimedia to turn away from it's reliance on open source >software. Especially when that decision is being taken by some unknown >group of people with no community or Board consultation about possible >alternatives. > >So, I'm asking if people can suggest to Brad some open source (fully >open source, not "can be open source if you don't need the security >package") CRM software >(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management). I've >no doubt that people on this list have contacts in the free/OS >software world, so I'm hoping you can now use those contacts to help >with this. > >Angela. >_______________________________________________ >foundation-l mailing list >foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org >http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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[Foundation-l] Open source CRM needed for Wikimedia
by Angela 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

I'm not buying into the arguments Brad and his friends are putting forward for Wikimedia to turn away from it's reliance on open source software. Especially when that decision is being taken by some unknown group of people with no community or Board consultation about possible alternatives. So, I'm asking if people can suggest to Brad some open source (fully open source, not "can be open source if you don't need the security package") CRM software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management). I've no doubt that people on this list have contacts in the free/OS software world, so I'm hoping you can now use those contacts to help with this. Angela.

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