[Licom-l] A pre-event announcement

Sun Mar 29 06:01:53 UTC 2009

I got Chinese Wikipedia covered, but I suppose we use the same announcements for not just Wikipedia, but also other projects because the licensing issue is identical (regardless of language). This way, we only need to translate once for each language, and not once for each language and each project. I think we should get additional help to reach out to smaller projects like Wikisource or Wikiversity.

Andrew

"Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."

> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:37:26 -0700
> From: rarohde at gmail.com
> To: licom-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Licom-l] A pre-event announcement
> 
> Myself, Andrew, and MF-Warburg have gotten things started but we could
> use some more people willing to reach out to their home communities to
> help keep them in the loop:
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update_committee/Announcements
> 
> Tomorrow I'll also start picking up some of the languages I can't
> speak, but if anyone wants to help with that, please do.
> 
> -Robert Rohde
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just realized I was ambiguous.  My references to Saturday afternoon
> > and Sunday were based on time in USA.
> >
> > -Robert
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I've created [1] for coordination.  It provides my draft text,
> >> slightly tweaked, in a form suitable for either on-wiki posting or
> >> emailing to a community email list.
> >>
> >> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update_committee/Announcements
> >>
> >> It also contains a sign-up list to help ensure we don't double post.
> >> Please go ahead and sign up now for communities and languages you are
> >> familiar with.  I seeded this with the 20 largest communities,
> >> representing ~85% of editing, so that we ensure good coverage, but
> >> feel free add any additional communities you intend to message.
> >>
> >> I've also proposed an arbitrary start time of Saturday afternoon to
> >> allow for any last minute concerns about the message.  Feel free to
> >> tweak it directly or use the associated talk page.
> >>
> >> I'd like to suggest that the first batch of messages focus on
> >> communities and languages that we collective know, and that we wait
> >> till Sunday for the ones we are less familiar with.  That way
> >> communities have the best chance of getting a personal touch from
> >> someone they know (and who knows them) before we jump into messaging
> >> communities that are less familiar to us.
> >>
> >> -Robert Rohde
> >>
> >> P.S. I'm not sure how "shortly" turned into 8 hours, but sorry for the
> >> delay in getting this set up.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Shortly I'll create a place on Meta to coordinate this so we avoid
> >>> multi-posting to any communities.  We can probably just send these
> >>> things out on a rolling basis if there are no significant objections
> >>> to the proposed message.
> >>>
> >>> -Robert
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >>>> I'm in favor of a message that uses wording like the one Robert
> >>>> proposed and encourage you to just go ahead and do this. I'll post a
> >>>> separate note on general readiness for the vote.
> >>>>
> >>>> Erik
> >>>>
> >>>> 2009/3/27 abi gor <abigorwikimedia at gmail.com>:
> >>>>> I don't think its a lot of work to place that message in the
> >>>>> villagepump for the most projects.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If people think it is a good idea I can place it there tonight, I
> >>>>> think a village pump message is more personal that a global notice.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>> Huib
> >>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Erik Möller
> >>>> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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