LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009 January 16-31
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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: January 16-31
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Summary
[edit]- Announcements and reports
- Chapters and community
- From the board meeting: 2 chapters, Wikimedia NYC & Wikimedia UK (v.2) approved [5]
- Re: the above: Wikimedia NYC as sub-(national) chapter -- what does that mean? [6]
- Swedish chapter declares 2009 year of the picture; efforts with images [7]
- Pontic Wikipedia is electing admins [8]
- General assembly 2009 of Wikimedia-CH: March 28 [9]
- Languages and localization
- Estonian Wikipedia code should be renamed [10]
- Licensing
- Miscellaneous/other
- Are European domains registered? [15]
- new list summaries; en:wp Signpost restarted [16]
- Survey results? [17]
- Wikimedia leasing space from Wikia for the Stanton project: [18]
- (which strangely enough turns into): CIA development of MediaWiki [19]
- Stanton Foundation/Stanton Fund, which is it? [20]
- Open Knowledge Foundation: any Wikimedian involvement? [21]
- Planet Wikimedia scope: [22]
- Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is now licensed under the GFDL, being put on Wikipedia [23]
- ideatorrent brainstorming software: would it be useful for Wikimedia? [24]
- About printing posters from images [25]
- Sexual content on Wikimedia [26]
- Re: above, should we require model releases [27]