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Year: 2007 Week: 13 Number: 66
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An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
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=== Policy ===
[Foundation Licensing] - The WMF approved a licensing policy for its projects.
The policy has an impact on all projects about how they are allowed to use
media (like photos, logos). The policy heavily restricts the use of media under
a "Fair use" or similar status and allows it only under very specific
circumstance if no other possibility exists. All new files uploaded from March
23, 2007 must comply with the new policy or be deleted. Please read the policy.
Reading this text is no substitute.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15318
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_policy_FAQ_draft -- *!*draft*!*
Editorial note: spreading the news accords all projects and languages is the
objective of Wikizine. Please bring this new policy under the attention of your
home-wiki community and help to close the language barrier by translating or at
least report the essence of the new policy.
[NL.wikibooks] - The Wikibooks NL community has decided to change the default
license
of textbooks for the future. That will mean that from a certain
point in the near future all new submitted changes and new texts will
be default double licenced under GNU FDL *and* CC-BY-SA-2.5 or later.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15213
http://nl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Dubbellicentie
=== Technical news ===
[Upgrade] - A large hardware purchase for $280,000 is approved. This will
include 36 Apache servers and 20 Squids. After this upgrade the server park
will be able to handle the traffic until it doubles from the current one.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Hardware_purchase_March_2007
[Quiz] - On Wikiversity (that is a WMF project) is the MediaWiki quiz extension
enabled. With this extension you can make wiki-based quizzes.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Quiz
=== Request for help ===
[EN Wikinews] - There is interest by some users of EN Wikinews to try to make a
video news bulletin. The problem is that there is need for people who know how
to do that. People who are interested to help can say so in the "Water cooler".
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals#wikinews_Video --
Like to help?
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Broadcast -- early attempts
[Wikimentary] - In Wikizine 64 there was an item about a project to make a
documentary about Wikipedia. But there is also another unrelated project for
making a documentary. This is a project of Rory O’Connor, a documentary maker
and journalist. This documentary is supposed to be focused on wiki technology
including Wikipedia. Video recordings have been made at the previous
Wikimanias. This project is now seeking financial support to complete a film.
To contact the people working on this; <roc AT globalvision DOT org>
http://www.archive.org/details/WIKIMANIA-ROUGH_CUT.mov -- A possible segment of
the documentary
=== Foundation ===
[Resignation] - Brad Patrick, General Counsel (lawyer) and ex-interim Executive
Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, has announced that he will leave the WMF
on March 31, 2007. Brad was hired by the WMF in June 2006. In his statement
Brad makes clear that he announced his decision to leave Wikimedia weeks ago
and is totally unrelated with the resignation of Danny.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15210 -- statement by
Brad about this resignation
[Danny] - Danny also has posted a statement about his resignation. He writes
that he will run for the board of WMF in next election.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15204
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-26/Depart…
-- Danny&Brad
[Job] - The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a legal coordinator to handle the
day-to-day legal needs of the Foundation and to coordinate outside help.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15307
[Hire upgrade] - Anthere announced that Rob Halsell who has been working
part-time as data center technician since December is hired full-time now to
work for the WMF. Rob will work as IT'er in the Tampa data center of and as
office IT technician in the Wikimedia Foundation world headquarters in Saint
Petersburg.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15253
[Advisory Board] - Two new members are added to the WMF Advisory Board: Teemu
Leinonen and Debbie Garside. This brings the board up to 20 members.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15291
=== Community ===
[Wikimeet Serbia] - Everyone who has time and means is welcome to come to
Belgrade,
Serbia during the weekend of April 21 and 22 for a Wikimeet.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dungodung -- contact person for this
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/15300
[Wikimania 2007] - New Team Bulletin, edition March 25, 2007
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Team_Bulletin/20070325
[JA Wiki] - Japanese Wikipedians have held a public interview with Jimbo Wales
who is staying in Japan for a month until 2th April. Twenty questions to ask to
Jimbo were written by the Japanese Wikipedia community. The questions where
send to Jimbo in advance and Jimbo answered questions at the event. There were
about 60 people attending. Jimbo also answered non-prepared questions from the
audience.
[Wikiquote-l] - There was not yet a general mailing list for the Wikiquote
project. Now there is one; Wikiquote-l
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquote-l
=== Stats ===
[EO.wp] - The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles with Biblioteko
de Aleksandrio (Library of Alexandra). The Esperanto Wikipedia is one of the
older Wikipedia's and now the 11th largest Wikipedia out of +/- 240.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_Wikipedia
[Wikibooks] The Russian Wikibooks and the Chinese Wikibooks has reached 500 book
modules.
=== Other news ===
[Open] - Citizendium, then encyclopedia project of Larry Sanger, co-founder of
wikipedia depending on who you ask, has opened his Wiki to the general public
for reading. Applying for an account is also possible but it will take more
effort then on our projects.
http://en.citizendium.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium
[WikiSym] - International Symposium on Wikis; Call for submitting of a paper,
panel, workshop, etc
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/30941
http://www.wikisym.org/
=== Was ist das? ===
OTOH: On The Other Hand
Stroopwafels: plural form of stroopwafel
Shills and Astroturfing: A type of sockpuppet created by the manufacturer of a
product or the author of a book for the sole purpose of recommending the
product/book by posing as an enthusiastic consumer or reader. A single such
sock puppet is a shill; creating large numbers of them to fake a "grass-roots"
upswelling of support is known as astroturfing. (Source: [[w:en:Sockpuppet
(Internet)]])
=== Linus Torvalds quotes ===
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." (1991)
"If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply
know
better than you do." (1996)
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." (2000)
"They are smoking crack." (2003) Source: eWeek interview. Notes: said about SCO
"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect." (2003)
"Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go
suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but
that's _my_ choice, dammit." (October 26, 2004) rms = Richard Stallman
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