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10 May 2010

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Public policy, and books for all

Public Policy Initiative

This week, the Wikimedia Foundation announced its new public policy outreach initiative, funded by a grant from the Stanton Foundation. The new initiative focuses on working with faculty and students at universities in the U.S. to improve articles related to U.S. public policy. More information about the initiative can be found on the Outreach wiki.

The initiative is hiring five positions: a Campus Team Coordinator, a Communications Associate, an Online facilitator, a Research Analyst, and a Project Assistant. All jobs are one-year positions lasting from July 2010-September 2011. The first four jobs close on May 17; the project assistant job closes on June 2.

Books available to all

The Pediapress Books extension is now available to all users of the English Wikipedia, whether logged in or not. Starting May 6, the extension became available to all; previously users of the service on the English Wikipedia had to have an account and be logged in.

Briefly

A new mailing list has been formed for those interested in issues surrounding museums and cultural organizations and Wikimedia, called Museum-l. The new list is administered by Raul654 and Wittylama and all are welcome to subscribe.

Howie Fung has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as product manager.

A call for nominations for the Chapter-selected board seats has been made; nominations should be submitted by May 17. Anyone can nominate individuals for the two seats, which are then selected by the Chapters.

2010-05-10

Arbitration Report

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Open cases

Gibraltar (Week 9): The case was opened to address issues of ownership and nationalist warfare on articles related to Gibraltar. There is currently a motion to close.
Russavia-Biophys (Week 6): The case was accepted to expedite a complicated Arbitration enforcement issue concerning Russavia and Biophys. The case is in the evidence/workshop phase.
Transcendental Meditation movement (Week 12): The case was opened to deal with circumstances surrounding articles related to the eponymous movement, similar to the circumstances at issue in Scientology pages a year ago. The case is in the evidence/workshop phase.

Closed cases

Alastair Haines 2: The case was opened to address allegations of edit warring and other disruptive editing by Alastair Haines. As a result of the case, Alastair was banned for at least a year and (after that) must contact the Arbitration Committee and make a satisfactory promise that he will not threaten legal action. (ArbCom announcement)

Motions

Eastern European mailing list: The Committee passed a motion permitting Piotrus to bring up concerns with articles within his topic-banned area on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland.
Tang Dynasty: The Committee passed a motion requiring Tenmei to edit under mentorship and to abide by the sanctions levied on him in the original arbitration case.

Other

The Committee emergency-desysopped Tanthalas39 for wheel-warring and reversing a block on himself, and shortly thereafter reviewed and confirmed the desysop.
Wizardman resigned as an Arbitrator.
The Oversight mailing list's functions have been added to those of OTRS.

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