Hello all, at first thank you all for take part in the election, especially to the volunteers on the Elections Committee. As most of organizing-an-event-job, there are always a lot of work that the attendees of the events don't necessarily see. I also want to thank everyone who take part in the voting. Whoever you have voted, it is an important feedback for us all, and an important feedback for our works in the past and our works ahead. Many thanks to the candidates who had competed in a very fair and civil manner. The exchange of ideas and views with all of you is very refreshing and gives me new impulses. A very special thank this time to Alec McConroy, who had put up very tough questions and as soon as I had caught breath (see below), I will continue our conversation on meta.
Actually in this year I got the news of the election result later than most of you. I was mostly on travel last week, and had visited Almaty, Kazakhstan. Something really remarkable is happenning there. Our volunteers there had started to organize a nationwide movement and had found support in the politics, companies and media. The Kazakh Encyclopedia had decided to put its up-to-date 16-band encyclopedia under a free licence. There are initiatives in the parliament to make the copyright law more clear and supportive in respect of free-licenses, and the biggest national welfare fund "Samruk-Kazyna" had decided to fund activities to build up the Kazakh Wikipedia. Our volunteers there are going to start ambassador programs in the universities in Almaty and had set the very ambitious goal to expand the Kazakh Wikipedia into 200k articles until December 16th, the 20th independance day of the Republic Kazakhstan, not by using bots, but by writing and translating qualified articles. That would mean about ten fold of the article amount than at the moment. It was on my way from airport back how when I got the first congratulations, before I got know the result. And tomorrow I am going to Den Bosch to celebrate with our volunteers in the Netherlands 10 Years Netherlandish Wikipedia. It is by chance that these two events lye so near by each other, but I also think that there is an intrinsic link between them. It is our work until now, and I mean really OUR, every volunteer, that inspire and attract new people from around the world. Our success hetherto shows how a world of sharing and a world of free knowledge could look like. It is really true, that we are building a heritage, a world heritage, recognized officially or not. It is a world heritage because so many people, from so many places, put their hands on it. All of us collected it, shaped it, byte by byte, section by section. And because of this, as in every of my speech, my best and sincere thank, goes to our volunteers, every single one of you. Greetings Ting On 17.06.2011 16:54, wrote Theo10011: > Results are out. > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Results/en > > > Theo > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Harel Cain<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I only want to rephrase what I said back at the beginning of the thread: >> it's perfectly understandable if things run late (huh, Wikimania taught me >> this first hand). It's just that little one-sentence update on the results >> page that was missing and would have spared us this thread. >> >> Now, some more patience - I'll go drink something :) >> >> >> Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem, >> >> Harel >> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 17:09, Austin Hair<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:05 PM, MZMcBride<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Domas Mituzas wrote: >>>>>> I'm told volunteers are capable of editing wiki pages and posting to >>>>>> mailing lists. I haven't been able to independently verify this, >>> though. >>>>> I'm told that some volunteers can be extremely obnoxious too. >>>> Eh, don't be so hard on yourself. Sometimes you have something useful >> to >>>> say. >>> Now, now, everyone be nice. The moderation button isn't that far from me. >>> >>> Austin >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >> >> >> -- >> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
