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[Ad Huikeshoven Blog] Ad Huikeshoven Blog: It is all about people, about people who care II: Eligible voters decide which specific partnering organization could be seen as of vital interest to the Wikimedia movement or the Wikimedia Foundation, or just plainly the community of eligible voters. My current paid daytime job is not within the broader movement in the widest sense.

[ReadWriteWeb] Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All Content: Although the proposal has not yet been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees, chairman Michael Snow wrote, "The volunteers who work on Wikimedia projects have very strongly supported making their contributions available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License in addition to the GNU Free Documentation License. Updating our license terms will support Wikimedia's charitable mission by making our projects legally compatible with others that have chosen the CC-BY-SA license.

[Windows Fanatics] Wikimedia Foundation Announces Important Licensing Changes ...: Wikipedia has historically been licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which was developed for software documentation by the Free Software Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman, with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users. At the time of Wikipedia’s inception in 2001, it was one of the few licenses available for works other than software which focused on granting freedoms to re-use and re-distribute information.

[ResourceShelf] ResourceShelf » Blog Archive » Wikimedia Foundation announces ...: The decision will result in all of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects moving from the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) to the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) as their primary content license. The GFDL, which has served Wikipedia since its inception, will continue to be supported where possible, but not to the detriment of interoperability.

[SJ's Longest Now] SJ's Longest Now » wikiboarding: I started the Meta translators network and the Wikimedia Quarto newsletter (in 5 languages) in 2004, and was secretary of the Special Projects Committee. I founded the Boston meetup group and helped run the first two Wikimanias, hosting Wikimania2006 in Boston.

[India Broadband Forum] Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia: The Wikimedia Foundation directly operates eight sister projects to the encyclopedia:Wiktionary (a dictionary and thesaurus), Wikisource (a library of source documents), Wikimedia Commons (a media repository of more than one million images, videos, and sound files), Wikibooks (a collection of textbooks and manuals), Wikiversity (an interactive learning resource), Wikinews (a citizen journalism news site), Wikiquote (a collection of quotations), and Wikispecies (a directory of all forms of life). Like Wikipedia itself, all these projects are freely licensed and open to contributions.

[FORA.tv - Program Feed] FORA.tv - Yochai Benkler and Jimmy Wales Discuss Cooperation: Yochai Benkler - Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School, he was Joseph M.

Creative Commons Hong Kong: Yesterday the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees passed a resolution to include Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) as the primary content licence while keeping GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL). This resolution follows a vote among the international Wikimedia community, where 88% of all voters who expressed an opinion supported the change.

[Cathy Davidson's blog] Wikipedia is Learning: Talking with Jimmy Wales | HASTAC: My conversational tour with Information Age visionaries continues today at Wikimedia Foundation and its co-founder and promoter, Jimmy Wales. I met Jimmy once before, when a MacArthur conference and his plane both ended up putting us at the same hotel in Newark, New Jersey, and Jimmy, danah boyd, and I ended up having a drink, and then riding the airport bus together. 

[CNET News.com] Wikimedia Foundation: Jimmy Wales 'absolutely' not out | Geek ...: David Gerard is basically a Jimmy Wales sycophant who calls a "troll" any legitimate critic of his Free Culture puppet-master. Just look at any mainstream media story that questions the integrity of Wales or the Wikimedia governance -- Gerard is typically right there in the Comments field, defending his life's cause and belittling professionals who hold themselves to standards that the Wikimedia Foundation and its culture can't even comprehend.

[David Gerard] David Gerard » Blog Archive » Sue and be damned.: I don’t think this is actually giving the NPG as much bad press as the WMF seems to hope it is giving them, and museums around the UK and Europe will be watching carefully, not only to the results of the case, but also to the way the WMF is handling the case, and it would appear that they are handling it with a “we don’t care about your countries laws, everything you have belongs in the PD and we can use it” not a good way to bring the museums in the UK/Europe into favour now, is it.

[The Blog Pirate] Wikipedia to Adopt Creative Commons License | The Blog Pirate: Because Wikipedia’s license was chosen by project founder Jimmy Wales when Creative Commons hadn’t yet been created, Wikipedia’s early commitment to free sharing and free re-use has actually worked against legal interoperability. Moreover, because the GNU FDL was designed for software documentation, some of its requirements (such as the requirement to include a copy of the license text with each copy) have encumbered re-use of Wikipedia content.

[Guillaume Paumier's weblog] To be or not to be (a candidate for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees): I know most of the staff already and as a former board member of Wikimedia France, I have a valuable chapter background. Since the foundation doesn’t seem to plan to hire me anytime soon, I guess I could offer the Foundation the benefit of my experience.

[All The Modern Things] All The Modern Things: WMF board election - who cares?: My own candidacy is to allow people to challenge my position and/or challenge what has been going on in the Audit Committee over the past year. And beyond Stu there is currently no one at the board that is financial literate, or has sufficient interest in reviewing financial plans and financial reports.

[HASTAC - Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory] Wikipedia Goes Creative Commons: Wikipedia has historically been licensed under the GNU FreeDocumentation License, which was developed for software documentationby the Free Software Foundation, a non-profit organization founded byRichard Stallman, with a worldwide mission to promote computer userfreedom and to defend the rights of all free software users. At thetime of Wikipedia's inception in 2001, it was one of the few licensesavailable for works other than software which focused on grantingfreedoms to re-use and re-distribute information.

[en.Wikizine.org] Year: 2009 Week: 27 Number: 110: [Fundraising 2009] - the Wikimedia Foundation is preparing for its next fundraiser and would like feedback from the community on some of the pages it has developed so far.  In addition to the creation of a new survey that they would like comments on, the Foundation is also trying to enhance the visibility of the donate button.

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