LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009 February 1-15
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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: February 1-15, 2009
- NOTES: Each link is to the first post on that topic in the selected time period that was found. In the effort to group topics together, some threads are listed out of chronological order.
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- Important topics: Topics that generated a lot of discussion or that are especially important are bolded.
- Announcements: Topics that are official WMF board, staff or chapter announcements or reports are also underlined.
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Summary
[edit]- Announcements and reports
- Chapters and community
- Are the projects uncivil? (and is wikinews any better?) [3]
- ... and how they get that way, or think before you call someone names [4]
- Steward elections summary, week 1 [5]
- it.wiki problem re: history deletion/oversight [6]
- organization for small languages that don't have their own chapter? [7]
- Starting community building meetings in Wikibooks [8]
- Languages and localization
- Licensing
- RFC on licensing continues with lots of discussion [13], jump: [14], jump: [15]
- and with discussion about credits for printing a poster, etc [16]
- and licensing re: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on wp [17]
- proposal for cleaned-up attribution: "attribution name" field? [18]
- Licensing update from Erik: vote getting postponed [19]
- Miscellaneous/other
- new free software group in Kosovo [20]
- Wikimedia branding on cell phones/nokia [21]
- discussion continuing re: sexual content [22]
- call for participation in Epistemia, a new wikifork: [23]
- Unesco list discussion on open educational resources, call for interested participants [24]
- putting links to social software sites on wp? [25]
- en.wp notability policies [26] (meant for wiki-en-l)
- question re: governments using open content licenses or wp content [27]