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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

Samuel Klein — 2013-05-17T04:46:34

This was a wonderful idea.  Thank you both for organizing it.  SJ

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Theo10011 <de10011< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Reminder: Meeting is today for the provisional boardselection

Laura Hale — 2013-05-04T06:00:50

Just a reminder that the meeting is today for selecting the provisional
board.  It is on irc on freenode in the room #wikinews-group .  It will
start at 13:00 UTC (23:00 Sydney time).  It should take no more than an
hour, and the selection process will largely be consensus driven based on
those who signed up already as supporters of the group.

Re: wikinews.com redirecting

Federico Leva (Nemo — 2013-04-12T11:51:56

By the way, the list of squatted Wikinews domains is on internal wiki, 
if you're interested. A few chapter members are keeping it up to date.
There's also a few dozens unregistered wikinews domains.

Nemo

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Re: wikinews.com redirecting

2013-04-12T11:05:40

Yay!

There was some "rant, rant, rant" after I asked counsel to pursue the  
domain. I don't recall what prompted me to look, but it was when I saw  
a "parked 'for sale'" sign that I brought the issue up.

I don't know the order between counsel serving notice, and the domain  
being renewed and stuck back to it's 8+ year-old "Coming soon", but  
glad that's done with now.


Quoting Brian Wolff <bawolff< at >gmail.com>:





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Re: wikinews.com redirecting

Laura Hale — 2013-04-07T06:54:53

Very nice news indeed. :)

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Brian Wolff <bawolff< at >gmail.com> wrote:

wikinews.com redirecting

Brian Wolff — 2013-04-07T05:00:11

I happened to be reading the server admin log, and noticed these
entries for April 4:

#  23:17 mutante: wikinews.com now redirects to wikinews.org
# 23:11 mutante: DNS update - adding wikinews.com

So looks like wikinews.com now redirects. Personally that make me rather happy.

Cheers,
Bawolff

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Mark Rauterkus — 2013-03-31T13:52:13

Purpose matters

I oppose the proposed closing of WN for many reasons, but consider the real
world purpose on the news capacity. Sure, WN is not robust as many would
desire. However, light use also means lighter strain on resources too. That
disqualifies one third of the justification to close WN, as it is not a
resource hog. As the marketplace provides decent news sources, then WN is
but a sidebar or safety net. Frankly, society should have the luxury of a
news safety net and its use should be sporadic. But do not remove the WN as
one would not wish to remove the net to high flying acrobats. Finally, a
single WN journalist, or a few WN reporters can change the face of history.
The right person at the right time with the right story can prevent a war,
take down a President, turn the tide of suffering in epic ways. Volume and
magnitude and NPOV are necessary in the Wikipedia project and fully
unrequired in WN. Greatness in WN can come from a lone voice. To judge news
with the same scales (pun) as Wikipedia go

Re: Proposal to close all language Wikinews

cirt tric — 2013-03-31T03:43:07

Agreed.


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Re: Proposal to close all language Wikinews

Laura Hale — 2013-03-30T23:33:35

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki< at >gmail.com>wrote:


They have floated similar proposals.  The thing was picked up by English
Wikipedia Signpost (which does not concern itself with verifiability,
newsworthiness or neutrality) presented it like it was an official
proposal.  It seems likely, given that we dealt with an English Wikinews
closure proposal in late November, this was a test run for an actual
proposal.  Thus, making it clear this is not acceptable is a probably a
good idea.

Sincerely,
Laura Hale

Re: Proposal to close all language Wikinews

Federico Leva (Nemo — 2013-03-30T22:33:29

cirt tric, 30/03/2013 16:04:

Didn't the proposer state that it't not yet a proposal?
Surely it's not an official proposal as it doesn't follow process.

Nemo

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Re: Proposal to close all language Wikinews

Laura Hale — 2013-03-30T21:03:36

Catalan Wikinews was informed at
http://ca.wikinews.org/wiki/Viquinot%C3%ADcies:La_cantina and Spanish
Wikinews was informed at
http://es.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinoticias:Caf%C3%A9#Propuesta_de_cierra_de_todas_las_wikinoticias_desde_Meta.

Sincerely,
Laura Hale

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 4:04 PM, cirt tric <cirt.wik< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Proposal to close all language Wikinews

cirt tric — 2013-03-30T15:04:53

Dear Wikinews peoples,

I posted a notice at
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/policy#Proposal_to_close_all_language_Wikinews

There is a proposal on Meta to try to simultaneously close down ALL
language Wikinews sites.

More at report in The Wikipedia Signpost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-25/News_and_notes

Discussion at Meta
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals_for_closing_projects#Close_Wikinews_completely.2C_all_languages.3F

Prior discussion from Meta just about English Wikinews, that failed:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_English_Wikinews

Please take a moment to read over the discussions and if you wish,
participate!

Thank you for your time,
Cirt

Re: ArbCom election

Glavkos Xaon — 2012-07-01T15:23:02

Οκ, Ι will make an announcement on our wiki's Village Pump ...

2012/7/1 pi zero <wn.pi.zero< at >gmail.com>

ArbCom election

pi zero — 2012-07-01T15:17:10

We need volunteers for the election committee
  *and*
nominations are now open, at
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Arbitration_Committee/2012_election
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2012-06-20T22:52:38

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Steven de Long — 2012-06-05T18:50:12

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WikiNews...no NOT Wikinews

Jason Safoutin — 2012-02-27T20:03:26

This is interesting. Upon my daily sift through Google News for agencies
that might post Wikinews articles, I came across this (A video from
WikiNews...no not Wikinews):http://vimeo.com/35988111  It was posted on
another site a week ago:http://www.vhx.tv/644528  I don't know who made the video.
All I know is this poses a potential threat to our project. I don't know enough
about copyright laws in regards to the use of Wikipedia's project names
or the use of logos. Regardless, this is not good and quite frankly
kinda scared me a little. So I am sending this message through Foundation-1 in hopes that someone might be able to explain this. Wikinews Water Cooler discussion
on this:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#WikiNews_makes_a_video...

Re: Al Jazeera photos

Brian McNeil — 2011-12-08T21:24:32

I've "spammed" this on-wiki:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/technical#Al_Jazeera_images_and_video

What Al Jazeera is offering is *not* to be sniffed at! Personally, I
would love if their "act of good faith" pays off. It's an extremely
shrewd move, but with some associated risks.

AP, Reuters, AFP, et-al, now have to deal with an upstart Mid-East-based
competitor who is *giving away* all but the cream of their photo/video
journalism work. It goes into relevant Wikipedia articles, a
million-and-one blogs, and proves that information=>knowledge=power.

Given my upbringing, I'd love to beat the BBC over the head with this
and force them to do the same. It, sadly, isn't about to happen.

I'll probably greatly upset some of my Wikinews colleagues on the
western side of the Atlantic, but I see a possibility of Wikinews
working with Al Jazeera. That provocative statement is based on the fact
that Al J. could readily put a few Western journalists in situations
where, alone, they

Call for image filter referendum

Casey Brown — 2011-07-01T19:55:22

/Please distribute this message widely/

*Call for referendum*:  The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of
the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether
members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in
personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen
particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly.
The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be
conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party.  Referendum
details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will
be posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum
shortly.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

[ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens

Guillaume Paumier — 2011-02-12T09:53:58

Greetings,

As you may know, the Wikimedia teach team has started to upgrade
MediaWiki on some wikis. MediaWiki is the software that runs all
Wikimedia wikis.

The most visible change for Wikimedia users will be the deployment of
ResourceLoader [1].

ResourceLoader optimizes the use of JavaScript in MediaWiki, speeding up
its delivery by compressing it sometimes, and cutting down on the amount
of unused JavaScript that gets delivered to the browser in the first
place.

The installation of ResourceLoader may cause compatibility issues with
existing JavaScript code.

Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw, the main developers of ResourceLoader,
will be available on IRC [2] on Monday, February 14th, at 18:00 (UTC)
[3], to answer questions and help fix issues related to ResourceLoader.

*If you maintain JavaScript code on your home wiki, please attend.*
Don't wait until your wiki's JavaScript is all broken.

Please spread this information as widely as possible; it's critical to
reach as many local JavaScript maintainer

Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

Philippe Beaudette — 2010-10-06T01:49:18

Hi everyone,

I wanted to take a moment to bring you up to date on the planning of  
the 2010-2011 fundraiser, and ask once again for your participation in  
the process.  Our updated meta pages (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010 
  ) will give you an overview as well.  There's a lot of information  
here, because we've made huge progress: I hope you'll take the time to  
read it and join in the planning for the fundraiser.

There's no doubt about it: the appeal from Jimmy Wales is a strong  
message.  We've tested it head-to-head against other banners, and the  
results [1] are unequivocal - especially when you also compare its  
performance last year and the year before.

But nobody wants to just put Jimmy up on the sites and leave him up  
for two months!

So we're issuing a challenge:  Find the banner that will beat Jimmy.

Data informed conclusions
Here's the trick:
We have to make our decisions based on the facts, not our instinct.   
Please read the summaries below for really important d