Coverage of the October 19, 2006 Wikimedia Foundation retreat in Frankfurt, Germany. Wikimedia board of trustees, chapter heads, and other Wikipedians of note will assemble to discuss the future of WMF. Fuzheado will be there, and to take advantage of the gathering of folks in one locale, we can any number of segments, focusing on:
The final phase in selecting the new logos for
Wikibooks,
Wiktionary and
Wikiversity has started, and will continue until October 31.
Larry Sanger's Wikipedia fork,
Citizendium, has been in the news of late, begins its pilot today. The currently invite-only project will apply a peer-review process to existing English Wikipedia content, and re-publish it under the GFDL. The text can therefore be shared between the two projects over time. Currently no public access is allowed to Citizendium, even read-only, to avoid overloading the servers during this period. Sanger said that the pilot will initially consist of "ten editors, three constables, six authors, and me."
In a
mailing list post on Sunday,
Jimbo Wales discussed a possible scenario—what copyrighted works would the Wikipedia community want purchased and released under a free license, with a budget of
US$100 million? Wales indicated that an anonymous donor might be willing to purchase a number of works and freely license them.
Coverage of the October 19, 2006 Wikimedia Foundation retreat in Frankfurt, Germany. Wikimedia board of trustees, chapter heads, and other Wikipedians of note will assemble to discuss the future of WMF. Fuzheado will be there, and to take advantage of the gathering of folks in one locale, we can any number of segments, focusing on:
The final phase in selecting the new logos for
Wikibooks,
Wiktionary and
Wikiversity has started, and will continue until October 31.
Larry Sanger's Wikipedia fork,
Citizendium, has been in the news of late, begins its pilot today. The currently invite-only project will apply a peer-review process to existing English Wikipedia content, and re-publish it under the GFDL. The text can therefore be shared between the two projects over time. Currently no public access is allowed to Citizendium, even read-only, to avoid overloading the servers during this period. Sanger said that the pilot will initially consist of "ten editors, three constables, six authors, and me."
In a
mailing list post on Sunday,
Jimbo Wales discussed a possible scenario—what copyrighted works would the Wikipedia community want purchased and released under a free license, with a budget of
US$100 million? Wales indicated that an anonymous donor might be willing to purchase a number of works and freely license them.