The Signpost

News and notes

New board member, flagged revisions, Eurovision interviews

Two Wikimedia Foundation board members picked

On 22 May, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced the selection of two Wikimedians to fill the chapter-selected seats on the board. Pending formal approval by the board, these community seats will be held by Michael Snow, who currently holds a temporary appointed seat and is Chair of the board, and Arne Klempert, who is new to the board.

The Board of Trustees was restructured and expanded last year, with plans to have a ten-member board. According to the new structure, half of the board would be chosen by the community—three seats by election, and two chosen collectively by the local Wikimedia chapters—with an additional board-appointed "Community Founder" seat reserved for Jimmy Wales and four "specific expertise" seats to be chosen by the board. However, no process was specified for choosing the chapter-selected seats, so only now have the chapters made their choices.

From the announcement:

Flagged revisions update

Related articles
News and notes

Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature
26 March 2012

Studying German flagged revisions, French library agreement, German court case
12 April 2010

Financial statements, discussions, milestones
8 March 2010

BLP deletions cause uproar
25 January 2010

Flagged revisions petitions, image donations, brief news
28 December 2009

Vibber resigns, Staff office hours, Flagged Revs, new research and more
28 September 2009

WikiTrust, Azerbaijan-Armenia edit wars
31 August 2009

An extended look at how we got to flagged protection and patrolled revisions
31 August 2009

Misleading media storm over flagged revisions
31 August 2009

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
24 August 2009

New board member, flagged revisions, Eurovision interviews
25 May 2009

End of Encarta, flagged revisions poll, new image donation, and more
30 March 2009

Commons, conferences, and more
9 March 2009

Flagged Revisions, historical image discovery, and more
16 February 2009

Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia's future, WikiDashboard, and "wiki-snobs"
8 February 2009

Wikipedia in the news: Flagged Revisions, Internet Explorer add-on
31 January 2009

Jimbo requests that developers turn on Flagged Revisions
24 January 2009

News and notes: Flagged Revisions and permissions proposals, hoax, milestones
10 January 2009

Sighted revisions introduced on the German Wikipedia
12 May 2008

Page creation for unregistered users likely to be reenabled
29 October 2007

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
2 April 2007

The Seigenthaler incident: One year later
4 December 2006

Wikipedia in the news
2 October 2006

Single-user login, stable versioning planned soon
7 August 2006


More articles

Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature
26 March 2012

Studying German flagged revisions, French library agreement, German court case
12 April 2010

Financial statements, discussions, milestones
8 March 2010

BLP deletions cause uproar
25 January 2010

Flagged revisions petitions, image donations, brief news
28 December 2009

Vibber resigns, Staff office hours, Flagged Revs, new research and more
28 September 2009

WikiTrust, Azerbaijan-Armenia edit wars
31 August 2009

An extended look at how we got to flagged protection and patrolled revisions
31 August 2009

Misleading media storm over flagged revisions
31 August 2009

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
24 August 2009

New board member, flagged revisions, Eurovision interviews
25 May 2009

End of Encarta, flagged revisions poll, new image donation, and more
30 March 2009

Commons, conferences, and more
9 March 2009

Flagged Revisions, historical image discovery, and more
16 February 2009

Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia's future, WikiDashboard, and "wiki-snobs"
8 February 2009

Wikipedia in the news: Flagged Revisions, Internet Explorer add-on
31 January 2009

Jimbo requests that developers turn on Flagged Revisions
24 January 2009

News and notes: Flagged Revisions and permissions proposals, hoax, milestones
10 January 2009

Sighted revisions introduced on the German Wikipedia
12 May 2008

Page creation for unregistered users likely to be reenabled
29 October 2007

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
2 April 2007

The Seigenthaler incident: One year later
4 December 2006

Wikipedia in the news
2 October 2006

Single-user login, stable versioning planned soon
7 August 2006

Wikimedia Chief Technical Officer Brion Vibber gave a short update on the prospects for implementing a flagged revisions trial, which the community approved at the beginning of April in the form of "Flagged protection and patrolled revisions":


Wikinews features Eurovision interviews

During this year's Eurovision contest, Wikinews conducted a "Eurovision special," interviewing 13 past contestants, 6 of whom were past winners. The project also got freely licensed photos of the singers when possible. According to User:Mike Halterman, who conducted the interviews:


















Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-05-25/News_and_notes