Hi all,
The Board has published a QA document around the recently published
fundraising funds dissemination resolutions.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Board_FAQ
It's quite long -- sorry! -- but hopefully informative. Note that we
did this as everyone was
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with
the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the
meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which
a very poor record of
following through on our trials with proper evaluations and that is
because we never actually plan them out at the start. It is really
important that we don't make that mistake again here.
On 5 April 2012 18:35, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all
Dear all,
The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with
the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the
meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are published
here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions
* Recognizing models
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 March 2012 22:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
P.s.: It's a bit weird to focus so much on the reasons to oppose; why should
opposing be justified /more/ than supporting?
There's supposed to
During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on
Trustee voting transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency
asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees
with their votes for each resolution.
best,
discussing that end?
On 25 March 2012 18:33, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
The next WMF Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for March 30-31,
2012 in Berlin, held with the chapters meeting.
The agenda is now posted here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
Hi all,
The next WMF Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for March 30-31,
2012 in Berlin, held with the chapters meeting.
The agenda is now posted here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_meetings/March_30-31,_2012
Wikimedia Chapters Meeting information:
For another take on encyclopedias EB -- Karen Christensen, who is a
lovely person, fan of Wikipedia and the head of Berkshire publishing,
which publishes specialty encyclopedias, has a few blog posts up:
http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/
I thought this was especially interesting:
An
advocates of producing good
Wikimedia merchandise!
cheers,
phoebe
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Those of you who have been around for a few years may remember
user:Tlogmer, aka Ben Yates -- co-author with Charles Matthews and I
on How Wikipedia Works
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:22 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
replace my old set!) Future versions will be digital only.
http
Those of you who have been around for a few years may remember
user:Tlogmer, aka Ben Yates -- co-author with Charles Matthews and I
on How Wikipedia Works.
I got an email from his mother this morning with the very sad news
that Ben passed away yesterday. I do not know the details. He was in
his
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
replace my old set!) Future versions will be digital only.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Kat Walsh k...@mindspillage.org wrote:
...
Sorry to drag this out--there are definitely more interesting things
to talk about. But as someone who basically holds Phoebe's position on
the issue I'd like to say what I am thinking also.
I think, in fact, that I
2012/3/7 Juliana da Costa José julianadacostaj...@googlemail.com:
Andreas, you seem really maniac fixed to this theme. I am since 7 years in
Wikipedia and never saw this pictures.
For me are pictures from tortured persons, from war and weapons torn bodies
and shot heads a much more terrifying
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:32 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 March 2012 05:03, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I am sorry to say that unless you are prepared to put your foot down, and
represent the tens of thousands of people who expressed their views in the
Hi David,
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:50 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 March 2012 17:07, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:32 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
You do realise this has become a toxic electoral issue for the board
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 March 2012 00:57, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, in my opinion I haven't given much indication of what I
personally think on the issue at all, as I often explicitly ignored
speculation about my own
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:49 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
What happened with implementing software related to controversial content?
There was quite a bit of hubbub at some point, then Wikimedia pulled back a
little (and Sue visited Germany to give some assurances)... what's the
Hi Lodewijk,
In this board meeting we were trying to see if we had a general
consensus on the direction we wanted to go (rather than take a final
vote). There are still lots of aspects to be resolved, though -- what
the FDC looks like, what criteria are used for payment processing, and
many more
The Wikimedia Foundation Board is very pleased to welcome and approve
our 39th chapter, Wikimedia Kenya:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Kenya
Congratulations to all for your hard work!
-- Phoebe Ayers
WMF Board of Trustees Secretary
--
* I use
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Kat Walsh k...@mindspillage.org wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie derby_...@yahoo.com wrote:
Looks like a braindead law.
Does the foundation have a specific position
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your prompt responses, Beria. I have a few follow-ups.
On 31 January 2012 22:43, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
* Will the names of the candidates be published for the entire Wikimedia
community to see?
Someday, I can only aspire to be a Vice President of Pencil Sharpeners :)
Sidenote: indeed, on our board we use the terminology Chair
Vice-Chair, not president.
cheers,
phoebe
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Many organizations have dozens or
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie derby_...@yahoo.com wrote:
Looks like a braindead law.
Does the foundation have a specific position on OpenAccess?
The WMF as an entity doesn't have a specific position/policy, though
in general we are squarely in the camp of OA supporters; but as
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, En Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote:
Phoebe,
On this agenda, could you give more detail about the topic Paid editing
discussion? There is a current discussion on EN at the Village Pump
regarding, among other things, PR personnel who edit on Wikipedia in
Hi all,
The WMF Board of Trustees is planning our winter meeting for next
weekend. The draft agenda is posted here for comment:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_Meetings/February_3-4,_2012
This is a very full agenda, focusing on three main topics: the WMF
annual planning process
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Kat Walsh k...@mindspillage.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it
omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
MZMcBride, 21/01/2012 01:19:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies#Policies lists policies of
the
Wikimedia Foundation.
Would it make sense to sub-divide these policies into sub-lists? It seems
very
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
It's worth pointing out the discussion was open from 15 December to 16
January before any close.
No, there was informal discussion going back into
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Relatedly, where is the updated, latest discussion on what Wikimedia's
response (if anything) is going to be?
Presumably there is are several on-wiki debates, but because there are
different potential levels of blackout
Thanks Kevin :) Yes, I am a professional librarian who follows such
things (and listens to NPR!) and I somehow missed this story. I don't
think it is a well known or reported on event. Thank you for bringing
it to everyone's attention, it sounds like a tragedy. Following David,
if anyone has
A bit of context for those who haven't been following those pages -- a
draft of those principles (going hand in hand with funds dissemination
principles) was proposed by the WMF board and submitted for community
review and input. After a few months of this, the board is now voting
to approve a
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 December 2011 19:28, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Geni - You're being mean. On New Years Eve! Happy New Years!
Neither Geni's meanness or the date are relevant to the point he was
making. It
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:16 PM, MF-Warburg mfwarb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Incubator we have in this year for the first time compiled an
end-of-the-year review in order to inform people about what is going on on
Incubator / new wikis.
The version on-wiki can be found on
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette
phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
Just wanted to let you know that I got word a few minutes ago that today's
SOPA markup meeting will be using a new tool that allows for public input
into the markup. Shortly before 8:30, you'll see
Mateus, you misunderstood me. I am not saying we should only use it
after the bill is approved; that would indeed be pointless. I am
saying that this could be a very good time to strike, but it would
have to be right now, as we speak, this morning. And if the bill does
pass this vote, then it goes
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:08 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all;
Looks like Wikimedia Foundation is very worried about censorship and the
cut off of fundraising payment processors. Now.
What did WMF do when WikiLeaks domains were seized and its fundraising
payment processors (PayPal,
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote:
Hi,
*I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 2011 in Haifa are
now available on our channel in YouTube!: http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL
.*
Next week I will send a HDD with all the footage and the edited
All,
Minutes for the October 7-8 meeting of the WMF Board are now posted:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-10-07
Sorry about the long delay on getting these up.
best,
Phoebe
--
* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
at gmail.com *
--
* I use
Following up on last year's OSTP call for comments (which I also sent
to foundation-l), the US government is seeking public comment on more
technical questions (including policy, repository and standards
development) related to sharing federally-funded scholarly data and
publications. This process
So cool! Thank you, WMF reports team! I look forward to hearing how
the experiment works :)
Phoebe
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
as mentioned in last week's announcement of the September 2011
Wikimedia Foundation report, this time we published
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 9 October 2011 14:18, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 October 2011 13:55, Ting Chen tc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The majority of editors who responded to the referendum are not opposed
Of interest:
Benjamin Mako Hill is giving a talk at the Berkman Center on October
11, entitled: Almost Wikipedia: What Eight Collaborative Encyclopedia
Projects Reveal About Mechanisms of Collective Action
It will be webcast:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/10/makohill
cheers,
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/
Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take. Naturally, please
discuss
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:10 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
This seems like an over-hasty statement. There are many possible
categorization schemes that are neutral; the ALA in fact makes
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:53 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 September 2011 17:22, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:38:38AM -0700, Sue Gardner wrote:
I wrote the questions, with Phoebe and SJ, in Boston at the Wikipedia
in Higher Ed
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:01 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Fae wrote:
Fae wrote:
Is there a link somewhere to the total budget and actual staff costs
of the referendum?
This was asked very early on:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/Archive1#Cost
Sorry,
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Thanks Phoebe. I'm glad to hear that the WMF has used almost no
donated money in staff costs running this global referendum.
As a member of the board you may want to consider what it means in
terms of operational accountability
understood? If so, it would
probably be helpful to link them from the minutes :)
Thanks,
Lodewijk
Am 12. September 2011 19:27 schrieb phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com:
FYI: the minutes from the August 3rd, 2011 Board meeting in Haifa (the
Wikimania meeting) are now posted:
http
FYI: the minutes from the August 3rd, 2011 Board meeting in Haifa (the
Wikimania meeting) are now posted:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-08-03
Regards,
Phoebe Ayers
p.s. Digression on minutes:
Since I recently had to learn the process by which board minutes are
written
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 05 September 2011 03:53 AM, Kim Bruning wrote:
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 11:54:44PM +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Yes, exactly! You're smart! :-)
Now, one definition of censorship is :
* Filtering on the basis
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, it seems that every year we choose locations that for one reason or
the other are likely not to be accessible to some groups or nationality (I
hear complaints every year about these issues)(no judgements, just a
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:20 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 August 2011 09:04, dgge...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 26, 2011 11:12am, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 August 2011 16:06, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote:
This labeling is proposed to be done on the
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:21:23PM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote:
Board was aware of that, as the first Robert Harris' report included
very similar text from Canadian librarian association.
I would then like to point
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
phoebe ayers, 04/08/2011 07:29:
The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
summary, meant to help share
Every time we've run an election of any kind with emails, to the best of my
knowledge, the email has caused a huge jump in participation. This time,
sending the email led to an additional 5000 votes overnight, which more than
doubled the total vote count. I don't have the numbers to hand, but we
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 01:17:15PM -0700, phoebe ayers wrote:
This week, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously
passed a resolution addressing the issue of controversial content on
the projects
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:58 AM, church.of.emacs.ml
church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 08/14/2011 11:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
I support the idea of language contact persons, or ambassadors, but
their appointment shouldn't be as rigidly regulated as the appointment
of
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.comwrote:
On 8/11/2011 7:08 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
Anyway, thanks for raising the importance of decentralization. The
Board agrees: there's a reason it was first in our list of principles.
To my mind decentralization
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
rom: phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l
That's really unfortunate :(
The best way I can think of to honor his recent contributions is to have a
look at his meta userpage:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alecmconroy
which is filled with all sorts of good and ambitious ideas about the future
of our projects, and begin to discuss
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 August 2011 18:29, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 August 2011 08:18, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 August 2011 05:13, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com
wrote:
This is all very true, and
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_accountability for discussion.
Note: for those currently at Wikimania, please feel free to ask us questions
in person as well as on the list or on meta.
best,
Phoebe Ayers
(2011-12 Board Secretary)
---
The Board of Trustees
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
On 8/5/2011 7:17 PM, Nathan wrote:
John's e-mail reads like a suggestion that the Foundation negotiated
in bad faith. I hope this isn't the case, although the references made
to consulting with outside auditors and
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
phoebe ayers wrote:
The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
summary, meant to help share our work
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:19 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
phoebe ayers wrote:
The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find
the
first report, covering May and June of this year
Dear all,
The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
summary, meant to help share our work with the community and movement, and
help make Board work and trustee activities more accessible
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:25 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a hard
time understanding why people think chapters are
Jan -- thanks for your work exploring systems -- I think it's
definitely worth trying out for a test and agree it's worth trying to
support participation. You note in the bug that there could be
different sections for the different projects -- I've also always
wanted a meta-focused QA site for all
Fwd'ing to F-l in case you did not read the Signpost this week... this
is WONDERFUL, thank you so much to the Signpost and to the Research
Committee.
The amount of research done on and about Wikipedia has grown
substantially over the last few years, and has gotten a good deal more
sophisticated
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:16, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
I receveid two mails:
1. To my main account (Beria) in portuguese.
2. To one of my bot accounts, in english.
So, i will guess that the language is chosen
Hi Andrew! Can you put the proposal on meta without including the
details about the case?
cheers,
Phoebe
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Billinghurst billinghu...@gmail.com wrote:
I also believe that there are special cases where there should be a policy
decision made
by the body that has the
Reminder: general meeting today in a couple hours (1800 UTC). Bring
your agenda items and topics for discussion with others, etc. (see
below for the original idea). Casual, moderated by Mono and myself.
freenode#wikimedia
best,
Phoebe
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:30 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 June 2011 15:42, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I think it's a fairly dangerous precedent to have the Wikimedia Foundation
involved in making individual decisions about who can and can't edit.
They certainly can
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Scott MacDonald
doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote:
-Original Message-
From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-
boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Yaroslav M. Blanter
Sent: 03 June 2011 18:05
To: Wikimedia Foundation
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, everyone.
To those of you not (yet) following the Wikimedia Blog, let me point your
attention to my (first) blog post, introducing the Grant Advisory Committee:
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Briefly responding to a couple of points raised so far:
Yes, there is a need for a policy as otherwise the WMF would have no
long term operational archive plan. Self evident is insufficient in
order to budget and plan in a credible
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Risker, 02/06/2011 00:53:
I think the more important part of this announcement is the resolution on
images of identifiable people [...]
I agree. It's also the first time (if memory serves me well and if I
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:52 AM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:55 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2011 18:48, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:
In 2016 San Francisco has a major earthquake and the servers and
operational facilities for
, and special thanks
to Robert and Dory Harris for their hard work.
-- Phoebe Ayers, on behalf of the Board working group and the Board
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/01/2011 11:05 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
On 6/1/2011 2:03 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
Wikimedia projects are curated and edited collections, according to
certain principles: namely, we host only content that is both free and
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
I feel that basically _is_ the role of the board. I feel like my
dream board personified is a little like a judo master. When push to
rule on a dispute, usually they should pull that energy and
productively deflect
#June_4.2C_2011
best,
Phoebe
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Back in September we had an open community IRC meeting, where we
introduced the new Trustees and talked about various issues. It was
pretty successful and we discussed afterwards
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
So, just a quick thought for future reference - during maintenance is it
possible in future to update the error message to explain that maintenance
is ongoing?
I work with lots of (library) databases, and
developments?
Best,
Andreas
--- On Sun, 20/2/11, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content --
update
To: phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing
List
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Quim Gil quim@nokia.com wrote:
On 5/10/2011 4:13 PM, ext phoebe ayers wrote:
Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Joan and Анатолій have mentioned this already
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:13 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Originally
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I'd like to publicly welcome our colleagues at Wikimedia Macau on being
recognized as a Wikimedia Chapter.
congratulations to Macau!
May you create and share much knowledge!
:) We need to start
Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these
sites were:
catalan.wikipedia.com
chinese.wikipedia.com
esperanto.wikipedia.com
french.wikipedia.com
Hurray! Welcome Marjon to a new role, and congratulations to the Dutch
chapter :)
-- phoebe
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear friends,
Today is Marjon Bakker's first day in the office of the Dutch chapter,
our first paid coworker in Utrecht.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Quim Gil quim@nokia.com wrote:
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 14:50 -0400, ext Pharos wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
Perhaps it would be helpful if, when creating a new account, a user could
write a short message
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:36 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Risker wrote:
I'm particularly interested in policy simplification; I know our project has
far, far too many complex and even contradictory policies, guidelines, and
miscellaneous pages that result in alphabet soup messages
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 13:54, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
* how do I delete an article? and its counterpart: why was my
article deleted?
* how do I merge/split an article?
* hey, can I reference a blogpost
So cool!!! Thank you Wikimedia Italia :)
Phoebe
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote:
[sorry for cross-posting]
Hello everyone.
Wikimedia Italia is proud to announce you the release of the new WikiGuide,
a video tutorial dedicated to Wikisource.
The
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Mingli Yuan mingli.y...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, folks,
When I browsed Wikipedia this morning, I found all wikimedia sites were
blocked again in China.
And several others reported blocking by their ISP also.
Recently Ai WeiWei, a famous artist and activist, were
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Adrienne Alix adrienne.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Chapters,
Please find below the chapter report of Wikimédia France for July, August,
September, October, November and December 2010.
It is also available on Meta
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Stephanie Daugherty
sdaughe...@gmail.com wrote:
Funny, secret ballots are actually meant to discourage cabalism, voting for
favors and voter intimidation.
But yeah, with both lack of turnout and lack of information on candidates
they do tend to make things
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede
janb...@wikimedia.org wrote:
What Phoebe of course meant to say was:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_board_manual
Is a great document containing answers to all the topics you might need
;)
Jan-Bart
PS: If you have suggestions
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
I believe that we did this in... 2007, I think? (with open
endorsements). Anyway, it seemed to lead to cabal-ism and so was
dropped.
-- Phoebe
Don't take this personally, but who is we and who are the cabals? Who
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