LSS/foundation-l-archives/2008 October 1-17

• What is this? A summary of the topics discussed on the mailing list foundation-l, grouped roughly by topic & chronological thread.
• Time period: Oct. 1-Oct. 17, 2008 (roughly two weeks, Wed-Fri)
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Summary

1. Delphine stepping down as chapters coordinator; end of the discussion from last month [1], (Thank you from Michael Snow: [2])
2. Elections input and board member opinions, do we know what they are? continuing discussion [3]
3. Free file formats discussion:
   1. Freedom, standards and file formats -- continuing discussion about software formats, what Wikimedia should use to play files, etc. [4]; thread jump [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]
   2. "Play Ogg campaign" -- Wikimedia not on the FSF friendly sites list for the campaign [10]
   3. Greg Maxwell presents "Two tests for the freeness of activities related to project content" [11]
4. tail end of a degenerating discussion about the mailing list [12]
5. contining OT discussion about laws & Commonwealths [13]
6. tail end of small discussion about spam re: working on wikipedia [14]
7. The 100th edition of Wikizine has been published. Kudos to Walter. Also, he could use help. [15]
8. Digitization of newspapers going to distruction continuing discussion [16]
   1. cost of digitizing said newspapers? [17]
9. fair use on the Hungarian Wikipedia [18]
10. MediaWiki strategy document discussion [19], continued: [20]
11. sj wants to make a circular wiki cheatsheet [21]
12. Database rights, legal ruling in the ECJ and comments. [22], (thread jump: [23])
13. Hungarian chapter founded, woo [24]
14. Arabic dialect Wikipedias -- "Discussion of creation of wikipedias for languages/dialects/whatever-you-want-to-call-them that stem from Arabic", especially the Masry (Egyptian Arabic) project. Followon from discussions at Wikimania, perhaps? [25]
15. Wikimedia finances and the economy -- will we make any money during the fundraiser if the economy's in the toilet? [26]
16. Wikimedia disclaimers -- are they binding legal documents? [27]
    1. followon: sj encourages one to be careful when performing auto-appendectomys, and asks big questions about the disclaimers [28]
17. Report to the board, August 2008, from Sue Gardner [29]