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LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009 April 1-30

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  • What is this? A summary of the topics discussed on the mailing list foundation-l, grouped roughly by topic & chronological thread.
  • Time period: April 1-30, 2009
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  • Announcements: Topics that are official WMF board, staff or chapter announcements or reports are also underlined.
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Summary

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  1. Announcements and reports
    1. another Wikibooks meeting April 9 [1]
    2. CFP for Wikimania closing soon [2]
    3. Wikimania accepting scholarships [3]
    4. Wikisym CFP open til April 24 [4]
    5. new foundation program officer: Jennifer Riggs [5]
    6. data from first survey published [6]
    7. report on April Board meeting [7]
    8. Board statement re: BLPs [8], [9]
    9. Board statement re: trademarks [10]
    10. New WMF business partnership with Orange [11]
    11. German newsletter about Wikipedia for non-Wikipedians [12]
    12. Usability study report, preview of results [13]
    13. Video about Wikimedia Deutschland [14]
    14. Wikimedia Argentina invades La Plata museum [15]
    15. Open Educational Resources conference in Poland [16]
    16. Strategic planning board resolution [17]
    17. More on strategic planning [18]
  2. Chapters and community
    1. flaggedrevs poll closed on wp:en with 80% support [19]
    2. global policies for all Wikipedias: what are they? [20]
    3. wikipedia run by robots? Waerth's pictures got deleted. [21]
    4. Foundation policy on linking to copyright-violating site? [22]
    5. voting ongoing for commons picture of the year [23]
    6. Sexual content on Wikipedia: an epic thread [24], [25]
    7. is NPOV a core value for all projects (including Commons)? [26], [27]
    8. upcoming board elections are upcoming [28]
  3. Languages and localization
    1. mo.wp not renamed [29]
    2. language/script conversion engine issues [30]
  4. Licensing
    1. Licensing update vote underway [31]
    2. external/third party definition in licensing update [32]
    3. problems with the new license tos [33], [34], [35]
    4. new license & GFDL attribution problems [36]
    5. Anarchopedia changed its license [37]
    6. Are we using the US CC-BY-SA or the unported one? [38]
  5. Miscellaneous/other
    1. should WMF opt out of Phorm? [39] update WMF opts out of Phorm [40]
    2. Tor settings request for comment [41]
    3. earthquake in Italy; wikimedians ok? [42]
    4. US copyright - things in public domain can't go back under copyright [43]
    5. S. Korean internet regulations require "real name" registration [44], jump: [45], [46]
    6. alternating sitenotices is confusing [47]
    7. wikidoc: could be a sister project? [48]
    8. it's volunteer appreciation week, Jennifer Riggs thanks volunteers [49]
    9. donations of stocks? or a nonexistent currency? [50]
    10. ID requirements proposed for Germans using video sites [51]
    11. EFF/Foundation relations [52]
    12. Site notices not accessible [53]

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