Wikisource:News/2007-11-01

New policies
The board of trustees approved several new policies this week.
 * The Donor Privacy Policy concerns the use and release of data collected during Wikimedia fund raisers. It was used in the last fund raiser, but the board forgot to formally approve until this month.
 * The Travel Approval Policy concerns Foundation subsidy of travel costs by its employees. It complements the Travel Policy.
 * The Code of Conduct Policy sets standards of conduct for Wikimedia employees.

Executive Director Committee
The board also approved the creation of an Executive Director Committee, tasked with finding, monitoring and reporting on, and (if necessary) firing an Executive Director.

New admin, failed admin request, confirmations

 * Lar was assigned administrator access following a unanimous request.
 * Eclecticology's request for administrator access failed with 60% opposition (6 of 10 commenting users). This is the first failed such request since J.Steinbock in December 2005 (who was the first).
 * Jusjih (discussion), Yann (discussion), and Zhaladshar (discussion) had their access confirmed a second year until November 2008. The next confirmations are scheduled for December 2007.

Interesting mentions

 * Blogs
 * Lovecraft Online and the Old Rights Controversy (Grim Reviews, 15 October 2007)

MediaWiki

 * Administrators
 * Special:Undelete now includes 'diff' links to show changes between two deleted revisions.