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

• 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

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]