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Joe Anderson | 3 Aug 2009 14:33
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Election notice: 2009 Engish Wikinews Arbitration Committee elections

Nominations are now being accepted for the Arbitration Committee.

The deadline for nominations is Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 23:59 UTC. 
Elections will commence on Monday, August 10, 2009 and close on Monday, 
August 17, 2009 at 23:59 UTC. The new Committee will be appointed on 
Tuesday, August 18, 2009.

Please see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Arbitration 
Committee/2009 elections

Please circulate this notice.

Thanks,

Computerjoe
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Philippe Beaudette | 3 Aug 2009 22:41
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Wikimedia Strategic Planning Office Hours

Hi folks:

This is just a reminder: Eugene and I will be having our regular  
weekly office hours to discuss strategic planning.  The time for this  
week is:

Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 1-2pm PDT or  
Tuesday, 4-5pm EDT.

The office hours will be held in #wikimedia on the IRC freenode network.

You can get more information at:  http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Office_Hours

Hope to see you there!

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Milos Rancic | 5 Aug 2009 04:08
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Re: Weather bot

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Brian
McNeil<brian.mcneil <at> wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals/Weather_tracking
>
> I propose we ask to get this done properly - rather than abusing MediaWiki
> to store weather data.
>
> The proposal could do with some fleshing out.

I support this idea because it would solve weather issues not just for Wikinews.

However, I found that it is useful to have not just current weather
data. I have low blood pressure and if there is lower weather
pressure, I have to sleep much more than usually. So, it is very
useful for me to compare those data.

And with assuming that I want to know what was the pressure yesterday
morning, it is questionable how such data may be presented more
efficiently than having a page for weather conditions for that day.
Probably, other data would be, also, interesting: like ultra-violet
radiation is.

I see that the most important achievement of making extension for
MediaWiki would be a special variable {{WEATHER TEMPERATURE
2009-12-03}}, which would be possible to be used as {{WEATHER
TEMPERATURE {{CURRENTDAY}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}.

Also, note that it is possible to build an article around particular
weather data: if weather conditions is so, what is the best for
particular age/health groups. Of course, if we assume that there are
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Tris Thomas | 11 Aug 2009 21:00
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ArbCom Elections

Just like to remind everyone that voting has commenced for the 2009 
elections-http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Arbitration_Committee/2009_elections

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Philippe Beaudette | 12 Aug 2009 20:51
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Election Results

The Wikimedia Foundation's Board Election Committee has concluded the
board selection process, and is pleased to announce that the
candidates ranked as follows:

  Final ranking

1 	Ting Chen (Wing)
2 	Kat Walsh (mindspillage)
3 	Samuel Klein (Sj)
4 	Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
5 	Domas Mituzas (Midom)
6 	Thomas Braun (Redlinux)
7 	Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (Cimon Avaro)
8 	Steve Smith (Sarcasticidealist)
9 	Dan Rosenthal (Swatjester)
10 	José Gustavo Góngora (Góngora)
11 	Brady Brim-DeForest (Bradybd)
12 	Lourie Pieterse (LouriePieterse)
13 	Adam Koenigsberg (CastAStone)
14 	Ralph Potdevin (Aruspice)
15 	Beauford Anton Stenberg (B9 hummingbird hovering)
16 	Gregory Kohs (Thekohser)
17 	Kevin Riley O'Keeffe (KevinOKeeffe)
18 	Relly Komaruzaman (Relly Komaruzaman)

A full pairwise defeats table will be posted shortly.

These names have been respectfully submitted to the Board, which has
moved to seat the top three candidates.
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Jon Davis | 12 Aug 2009 23:41

All en.wn Editors now have Rollback permission

Per bug #19815 and the discussion on the Watercooler, all users who have the "Editor" group (You know the one that lets you sight edits), also now have the ability to roll back.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19815
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/technical#Rollback

Just an FYI

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Philippe Beaudette | 17 Aug 2009 23:32
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Strategic Planning Office Hours

Strategic Planning office hours happen tomorrow - Tuesday - at Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT; 4-5pm EDT.

We're going to try having this conversation in #wikimedia-strategy instead of taking over #wikimedia.

Hope to see you there!





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Philippe Beaudette | 17 Aug 2009 23:40
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Re: Strategic Planning Office Hours

Correction - this will be at #wikimedia-strategicplan



On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

Strategic Planning office hours happen tomorrow - Tuesday - at Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT; 4-5pm EDT.

We're going to try having this conversation in #wikimedia-strategy instead of taking over #wikimedia.

Hope to see you there!





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Wikimedia Foundation



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Jon Davis | 18 Aug 2009 01:35

Who controls the Feedburner RSS?

Who's the owner for the Feedburner RSS?  I've got some questions for you.  Ping me off list or in IRC.

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Terin Stock | 18 Aug 2009 04:26
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Re: Who controls the Feedburner RSS?

I think I have the password for the feedburner. Is there something I can help you with?

#Terin


On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Jon Davis <wiki <at> konsoletek.com> wrote:
Who's the owner for the Feedburner RSS?  I've got some questions for you.  Ping me off list or in IRC.

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