LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009 June 15-30

• What is this? A summary of the topics discussed on the mailing list foundation-l, grouped roughly by topic & chronological thread.
• Time period: June 15-30, 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.
• P.S. list authors are not responsible for any clumsy summaries. Please edit if something is misrepresented. Suggestions? Comments? Please post at the LSS talk page.

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Summary

1. Announcements and reports
   1. Fundraising survey: [1]
   2. Sidebar donation buttons! Please comment [2]
   3. Licensing changes rolled out in all projects [3]
2. Chapters and community
   1. Commons governance, cont. [4], [5]
   2. Is Commons a service project? [6]
   3. Flagged revisions -- what's the status? [7]
   4. Wikisource as repository for legal scholarship [8]
   5. followup: Wikisource as any sort of open-access repository: [9]
   6. Wikipedians are grumpy, dissatisfied and closed to new ideas, says a study. ("grumpy", indeed, says your editor. Hmmph). [10] Followup: and foundation-l is hostile, too: [11]
   7. what Wikimedia activities do you want to see in the UK? Wikimedia-UK wants to know. [12]
3. Languages and localization
   1. Google Translate and Wikipedia articles, cont. [13]
   2. what happened to Langcom? Still alive? [14]
4. Licensing
   1. questions about reuse policy: [15]
   2. Official license rollout -- en:wp updated June 16 [16]
   3. Will we accept GFDL-only material after license change? Answer: not for text. [17]
   4. Projects must comply with US copyright law, or local law? (answer: US law) [18]
5. Miscellaneous/other
   1. someone should reserve the wiki*edia facebook URLs? [19]
   2. everyone ok in Iran? [20]
   3. Google Books ocr notes [21]
   4. do we or do we not have video editing? The media says yes! [22]
   5. Wikixray -- public repository of dumps of wp [23]
   6. techblogs were briefly down [24]
   7. why is it "Wikipedia" and not "the Wikipedia", anyway? The finer points of English grammar debated, foundation-l style. [25]
   8. Durova's looking for volunteers with access to museums with a particular etching [26]
   9. should Wikizine broadcast to foundation-l? Consensus: yes [27]
   10. is there open video subtitling software? [28]
   11. are images from the stats server copyrighted? [29]