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Contents 1 Archives 2 Talk 2.1 Questions for Board candidacy 2.1.1 Dumps 2.2 Wikinews Bulletin 2.3 Templates 2.4 Wikimag 2.5 board election - question regarding Wikiversity

[edit] Archives

1. Start -> 26th March 2007
2. 27th March 2007 -> 1st Feb 2008
3. 2nd Feb 2008 -> 26th April 2008

[edit] Talk

[edit] Questions for Board candidacy

I appreciate that applications are still open, and the Q&A phase has not been started, but I want to bug you, and I'd invite other Wikinewsies to do so too.

• Do you feel you can genuinely devote the time to the board and not end up as a non-contributor on your home project?
• Are you in favour of more open (potentially radically open) communication between board and community?
• Do you believe that you can fairly represent projects you are not heavily involved in?

I'll be sticking these to all the candidates, so there is no rush to answer. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 08:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I did not know that there was a question period/phase, so I'll reserve that for later. Good luck! Cirt (talk) 08:58, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the questions, Brian. I will outdent here for formatting purposes. --Skenmy^(t•c•w) 15:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

• Do you feel you can genuinely devote the time to the board and not end up as a non-contributor on your home project?

I do honestly feel that I will be able to continue contributing to Wikinews in as many ways as I am already doing, if not more due to my further involvement with the Foundation and its' dealings.

• Are you in favour of more open (potentially radically open) communication between board and community?

Strongly. It was actually one of my original candidacy statements until I had to trim it to 1200 characters! I believe that having more radically open communication between the board and the community is absolutely imperative, and as a Board member I will strive to have this implemented.

• Do you believe that you can fairly represent projects you are not heavily involved in?

While I am not heavily involved in these projects, I believe I can understand their wants and needs. I am an avid reader of many of the mailing lists hosted by Wikimedia, and I often find myself browsing other project's policy pages to understand the unique needs of every project. As a community-elected board member, I want to be approachable - someone the communities can come to with the problems that require a board action, and act on their behalf - I'm not here to push my own agenda. My candidacy is based on the hope that I will be accepted as someone who can and will represent, fairly, the views of the communities behind me, whether or not I am an active contributor. We are all striving towards the same goals, at the end of the day, and it would be counter-productive to place the needs of one project (my home project, for instance) over another. --Skenmy^(t•c•w) 15:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dumps

• Do you wish to comment on the chronic lack of database dumps of the English Wikipedia? -- Cimon Avaro (talk) 03:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I am assuming this is a board candidacy question, so I will reply as if it is.

The lack of dumps is concerning, as it hinders outside projects from benefiting from the content that is included in Wikipedia. However, I am sure that the technical team are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it - i'm also aware that this is not the only problem that goes on around Wikimedia and so resources may be stretched elsewhere. --Skenmy^(t•c•w) 15:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews Bulletin

Here is the latest Wikinews bulletin. Enjoy!

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Administrators and Accredidations Since our last edition, Cirt (talk · contribs) has been given the mop and bucket, and Ryan524 (talk · contribs) (now retired) asked for adminship. No one has became an accredited reporter on Wikinews. There are no requests you can currently vote or comment on, although there are lots of De-adminship Requests. Featured Articles and News In Pictures No articles were promoted recently. Several candidates are waiting for your vote, including two exclusive interviews. Several images were featured on the main pages, which you can check out in the News In Picture archive. Several images have been featured on the Main Page .The latest of which is available below. - Credit: NTSB In the investigation of a fire on a Boeing 767 cargo plane at San Francisco International Airport last week, it has been revealed the operator received a threat the week before.  » Full story » Archive Original reporting Since our last edition, many articles have claimed original reporting. Here are the most recent: 4 July 2008: Chinese Wikipedia unblocked by government 3 July 2008: Hillary Clinton attends grand opening of the Erie Canal Harbor in Buffalo, New York 3 July 2008: 19th century stable in Buffalo, New York officially saved from demolition 1 July 2008: Libel case against Wikimedia Foundation dismissed 1 July 2008: Wikinews interviews Molossian president Kevin Baugh on his country's recent intermicronational summit 1 July 2008: New mall in Washington, US almost complete, traffic a concern 30 June 2008: 2008 Taiwan Designers' Week shows potential of innovations 29 June 2008: Wikinews interviews Kent Mesplay, Green Party presidential candidate 29 June 2008: Bobby Charlton launches anti-landmine campaign 28 June 2008: 2008 III IDEAS Show to showcase achievements of Internet industry in Taiwan Several others wrote stories based on television sources. The Wikinews Reports blog activity was mostly related to some of these stories. You can ask any of the blog authors if you want to help out on the blog.

Editor's note In the last few months activity on Wikinews has continued to decrease to an incredibly low level. There are hardly any new contributers joining and one of our best users, DragonFire1024 (talk · contribs) has gone on Wikibreak. However, some excellent articles are continuing to be written. Anonymous101 :) 12:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC) Site activity Brian proposes a new contest, and challenges everyone to get involved, donate something, or join! Try testing CSpurrier's new feed thingy. this may become the main wikinews feed at some point. Zach's new tool: Per category rss feed. Do a hard refresh, goto a category and click on the rss icon in your browser. New skin - Modern Settable in special:preferences, Wikimania call for participation We are now being syndicated by Wikipedia. RichardF convinced Misza13 to make Wikinews Importer Bot, which allows various wikiportals and articles to display headlines from Wikinews. (For example: w:Portal:Television, w:Film#External links) Recent RfAs: Ryan524 (twice) and Adambro (talk · contribs) (user did not accept nomination) Accreditation requests: none IRC activity Some of the IRC topics include Wikimedia Radio. ... (add more here if you know more...) Wikimedia News Candidate submissions for the 2008 Board Elections begin. Flagged revisions is now running on the German Wikipedia. There has been a large discusison on WN:RADIO There is a petition against the recent board restructure announcement.

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Anonymous101 :) 12:20, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

We included that text in the footer because, for the first two years, Wikinews as published as public domain content. It is possible to present content which is alternatively licensed. I'm not sure it's possible to present and use code that is alternatively licensed, but you have a valid point I would need to research. - Amgine | ^t 17:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

11. An obvious copyright violation that is a cut-and-paste exact or near-exact duplicate of content from a copyrighted source. Speedy delete does not apply for public-domain sources, when public domain reprint permission is granted from the original source and specified in the article talk page, or to articles with a third-party edit history.

Are you saying Wikipedia is not copyrighted? - Amgine | ^t 17:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

As for whether a template is a program, I suggest you ask the Devs if the template code constitutes a programming language. - Amgine | ^t 17:42, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Then I believe the templates constitute an exact or near-exact duplicate of content from a copyrighted source, that Wikipedia does not constitute a public domain source, and that permission from the original source to migrate the license to CC-by does not exist. - Amgine | ^t 17:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, as I said, that's a valid point. I'm not entirely sure it's possible, but it may be. I don't know. (I note the transferrer added text to that effect to one of the templates, today, after the noms.) - Amgine | ^t 17:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimag

Hello ! I contact you, to know if I can interview you for the Wikimag which is the equivalent of Sign Post on Wikipedia english. Like for User:Cspurrier. Thank you. - mik@ni 15:48, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] board election - question regarding Wikiversity

Hello Paul, since you seem more active in this Wikimedia project I wanted to ask you: since there are only a few days left until end of election I personally hope I still can see your response about this question regarding Wikiversity ? Thank you very much in advance, ----Erkan Yilmaz (evaluate me!, discussion) 15:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)