Minutes:2005-08-27
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A meeting was held on IRC on August 27, 2005, to discuss various Foundation-related issues. The meeting was open to anyone. An agenda was published on Meta-Wiki.
The full transcript is available on Meta-Wiki.
Summary:
- Dutch Royal Librar
- Will go to them for more certain details about licensin
- non-commercial license is a non-starte
- no uploading of images until further clarification is achieved.
- Licensing of Wikinew
- PD not legal in some place
- need other license for Wikinews, cc-by for instanc
- all Wikinewsies should be made aware of these issues.
- Seed/demo/incubator wiki discusse
- committee to form, which will establish guidelines for inclusion and decide what to call i
- guidelines will be posted, debated, and made official once something resembling consensus is reached.
- Closing certain wiki
- Discussed who decides when a project is to be close
- creating a link page for people to grab dumps of closed project
- Sep11 to be proposed for lockin
- Wikispecies in a holding pattern pending development of WikiData.
- [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikicouncil|Wikicouncil]
- Purpose o
- is there any support fo
- who and how many persons involved, from what projects.
- Internal communication
- discussed mechanisms for sharing information across the communit
- decided a blog would be usefu
- then decided wikis would do just as wel
- follow-up meetings about this will be held soon.