FW: Request for organising a vote

Hi all,

 

A poll is being organised on the WikiStandards proposal 
which I mentioned at both TC meetings. Details of this are below and I would 
encourage you to support it.

 

A number of people also expressed interest in the LSGB 
mailing list which Tex has organised. Please go to the web page below to 
subscribe.

http://lists.internationalization-conference.org/mailman/listinfo/lsgb

 

I hope everyone has a good weekend.

 

Thanks,

 

Peter.

From: oscar [mailto:] 

Sent: 13 January 2006 13:37
To: Gerard 
Meijssen
Cc: Oscar; Sue Ellen Wright; DeCamp, Jennifer A.; Felix 
Sasaki; Tex Texin; ; ; 
; ; Alan K Melby; 
; ; ; 
; ; Reynolds, Peter; Louis, Thomas; 
; ; ; 
; ; ; 
; Tom Garland; ; 
; Kim Harris @ Textform; ; 
; ; ; 
; ; Sabine Cretella; 
; Erik Moeller; Board Wikimedia 
Foundation
Subject: Re: Request for organising a 
vote

dear gerard,

please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_for_standards#Poll 
where the requested poll starts at midnight to come.
i hope this is as 
requested and to your satisfaction.

warm regards,

oscar

On 1/12/06, Gerard 
Meijssen <> 
wrote:
*Hoi 
  Oscar,*
Would you be so kind and organise a vote for the "wiki for 
  standards" as
we discuss yesterday IRL. The proposal has been put forward 
  on Meta and
on the foundation mailing list, there have been no negative 
  remarks. 
This is to comply with the "new project policy"
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy 
  . This policy requires
that someone who is outside of the group that is 
  involved in the 
proposal must run the poll.

I have asked the 
  Wikimedia Foundation board for a fast track application
for the approval 
  for this project in anticipation of a favourable
outcome. As there is a lot 
  of enthusiasm for this wiki and it is best 
when we can realise it soon. I 
  hope they will agree to this on the next
board meeting.

*For the 
  people who were at the Berlin conference; *
The project policy requires at 
  least five translations of the major 
wikipedias. Given that many of you 
  are in the translation business, it
should be easy for you to come up with 
  the translations of the text that
can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_for_standards. 
  NB
as this text IS on a wiki, what I have put their /can /be edited by 
  you
as well :) .

I have found that the wikistandards.org and the standardswiki.org are
already occupied 
  by a Steven Crowley.
http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=wikistandards.org&type=domain 
  
I do not know this gentleman, he might hold it for the purpose of 
  a
Wikimedia Foundation Wikistandards project! I would appreciate it 
  if
someone could ask him nicely if the wikistandards.org can be handed over
to 
  the Wikimedia Foundation.

When this proves to be a problem, I am sure 
  we can come up with an
alternative for this domain 
  name.

Thanks,
   
Gerard