LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009 July 1-15

• What is this? A summary of the topics discussed on the mailing list foundation-l, grouped roughly by topic & chronological thread.
• Time period: July 1-15, 2009
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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.
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Summary

1. Announcements and reports
   1. Commons gets $300K grant to improve uploading [1]
   2. "bookshelf" project manager job posted (in SF) -- apply before July 20 [2]
   3. Annual Financial plan (2009-10) posted [3]
   4. Wikizine # 110 [4]
   5. There are three new chapters: Portugal, Ukraine and Denmark! [5]
   6. still soliciting feedback about donation buttons: [6]
   7. Wikizine #111 [7]
   8. Wikimania and influenza-A [8]
   9. Announcing Eugene Eric Kim as Strategic Planning project manager [9]
   10. Announcing Philippe Beaudette as Strategic Planing facilitator [10]
   11. Wikimedia and NIH collaborate in wiki-workshop [11]
2. Chapters and community
   1. how do you fully consult the community consensus? [12]; jump: who manages this place anyway? [13]
   2. what kind of non-chapter chapter-like groups should we have? [14] jump: [15]
3. Commons and Gallery, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM) issues
   1. National Portrait Gallery (NPG, London, UK) suing a Wikimedia contributor [16]
   2. Permanent deletion on Commons? (jump from above) [17]
   3. GLAM partnerships in Holland [18]
   4. article about the issue of "Public domain art in an age of easier mechanical reproducibility" [19]
   5. more articles by authors of above: [20]
   6. has anyone been in touch with NPG? [21]
   7. discuss: why should GLAM orgs use Commons? [22]
   8. Wishlist from the National Library in Norway [23]
   9. discussions with Dutch museum ongoing [24]
4. Languages and localization
   1. mo.wikipedia not renamed (again). Answer: patience. [25]
   2. Meadow Mari Wikipedia founded [26]
5. Licensing
   1. Attribution on small devices? [27]
   2. translation questions about the licensing change: [28]
   3. Lingua Franca issues [29]
6. Miscellaneous/other
   1. Templates and programming languages in MediaWiki [30]
   2. HTML5 doesn't have <video>, <audio> default codecs [31]
   3. a proposal for Wikimedia Weather (see also: the wikiclock -- ed.) [32]
   4. Felipe Ortega's thesis, analyzing top-10 language editions of Wikipedia, is posted; got lots of media coverage [33]
   5. should we actively recommend Firefox to video users? [34]
   6. Jump from above: should we start instituting standards for help pages? [35]
   7. Google institutes image search by license, hurrah [36]