[Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Mohamed Ibrahim requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Srikant, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Mohamed Accept invitation from Mohamed Ibrahim http://www.linkedin.com/e/-t9tct-gpglc3s9-54/kEGYngBeZsro1F93qKeRGrJetgIrKFfJd2o_ToVctvnatuZm/blk/I54599208_75/pmpxnSRJrSdvj4R5fnhv9ClRsDgZp6lQs6lzoQ5AomZIpn8_djtve30OejARd3l9bP0Td6F5r5dEbPgMdzAPej4ScPcLrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/ View invitation from Mohamed Ibrahim http://www.linkedin.com/e/-t9tct-gpglc3s9-54/kEGYngBeZsro1F93qKeRGrJetgIrKFfJd2o_ToVctvnatuZm/blk/I54599208_75/0RdRYUc38VejkQdkALqnpPbOYWrSlI/svi/ -- DID YOU KNOW you can showcase your professional knowledge on LinkedIn to receive job/consulting offers and enhance your professional reputation? Posting replies to questions on LinkedIn Answers puts you in front of the world's professional community. http://www.linkedin.com/e/-t9tct-gpglc3s9-54/abq/inv-24/ -- (c) 2011, LinkedIn Corporation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
basically, how can someone register on linkedIn with foundation-l address? it was a linked account that caused this problem On 28 June 2011 11:42, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote: #mega #Fail dunno why the list is saved as a contact with that name Can we add something like Invitation to connect on LinkedIn in the filter so this kind of e-mail will be automatically discarded? Regards, -- Tanvir Rahman [[User:Wikitanvir]] On Wikimedia Projects ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Mohamed Ibrahim Architect Cell : +966 54 4680745 E-mail: arch.m.ibra...@gmail.com http://eg.linkedin.com/in/mohamedibrahims ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] About the catastrophy in Japan
I'm glad you're safe and hope that we get confirmation of the well-being of all wikimedians around Japan. please keep us informed. Best wishes, Mido On 12 March 2011 05:52, KIZU Naoko aph...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Juliana and Casey, I am safe. My family too. I'd love to appreciate all supports, concerns and courage expressed both publicly and privately from Wikimedians in all corners. All members of Wikimedians in Kansai are safe. I had contact with each of them. We are in a remote area from the epicenter, so not affected. Things however look really a mess and sorry to hear. I hope best in all in suffered areas, particularly in Tohoku region. As Casey said, all of confirmed info on individual Wikimedians in Japan are fine at this moment including Takashi Ota, Miya, Aokomoriuta, Kzhr and Carkuni. We have not heard from some active Wikimedians recently, but since troubles in public services including communications, electricity and public transportation are reported, it is understandable. I heard some personal troubles from the people in suffered areas and hoe them all the best. In general I think our curiosity need patience for a while: from my own experience in Kobe Great Earthquake it takes days to grasp the whole ongoing incidents. Thank you for your wishes and prayer, Japanese Wikimedians are so active to write on the quake and upload some photos to Commons. We need more time to handle things, but I hope we all are so fine that provide good reports on the quake. Best, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: 2011/3/11 Juliana da Costa José julianadacostaj...@googlemail.com: Hi, I am working temporarly with Aphaia from Kanzai and did not hear from her the last days. Naoko mentioned on another list that she was safe and that (I think) all of the other Japanese Wikimedians that they contacted were fine too. It's almost 08:00 JST, so I expect most of them to be coming online and giving updates soon. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- - Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/ Share your knowledge ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?
Hello all, Of course it's all over the news, Mubarak has stepped down and rebuilding Egypt has just started :) Wikimedians I'm a aware of is safe and were part of this great revolution, and we all thank you for your support. Another note, on Wael Ghonim who was widely credited as one of the main people who moved the protests in 25th Jan, he was also leading the Health speaks initiative from Google - enriching Arabic Wikipedia medical content- and was discussing over with the Wikimedians in Egypt the Wikipedia 10th anniversary event in Cairo sponsored by Google in part just few weeks before the revolution. I don't know yet the status of that but no matter what I promise that we will work even harder on spreading free knowledge to help building our country. and of course any help from the WMF will be most welcome. Again, I was never met with such solidarity from all over the world before, it really meant a lot to us. Thank you all Mohamed [[user:Mido]] On 29 January 2011 23:18, Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 15:34, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: the Wikimedia movement is like a big family. Even though we sometimes quarry with each other but especially in time like this we are all with you. In the last days I often think back of the hospitality from all of you to so many Wikimedians from all around the world back in Alexandria. Read your line about following TV ans Twitter also reminds me of June 1989 when I followed radio news hour after hour for every news through sleepless nights. Back then, very alone, without the community that gathered here. on 1/29/11 12:09 PM, Milos Rancic at mill...@gmail.com wrote: I have similar feelings... It is not the same when you are worried about people which you don't know personally; and people which you know. For the most of my life, the most of people which I know were living in Belgrade, but Wikimedia movement has changed my perspective. For the first time I've realized that people which I know may be in problem after L'Aquila earthquake. Then, a number of other events followed: Iranian protests and present Egyptian protests, but also big smoke in Moscow and recent Brisbane floods. Even financial crisis in Ireland makes me to think about my Wikimedian friend there. And whenever I hear about severe weather conditions somewhere in US, I am thinking do I know anyone there. I mean, it is not the same to me to hear about protests in Tunisia, Jordan, Egypt or Iran. I know Wikimedians from Egypt and Iran. From one point, it is burdensome. I don't care just about my close surroundings, but about thousands of people all over the world. But from the other, it makes happy to know that I have friends all over the world and that we care for each other. But, I would like that we don't stop here. I would like to see Wikimedia movement (WMF, chapters, Wikimedians) to be able to give real help to Wikimedians -- but not just Wikimedians -- all over the world in such circumstances. It is not just about keeping information free. Wikimedia movement has enough resources now to give some real help: it could be about organizing donations of laptops with Wikipedia on itself with OLPC; it could be about food. Mido, please, keep us informed! Ting and Milos, wonderfully said, and very warmly received. Thank you. Marc ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- - Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/ Share your knowledge ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?
Dear Ting, I would like to thank you very much for these kind words and support. Mido On 29 January 2011 17:34, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Dear Mido, the Wikimedia movement is like a big family. Even though we sometimes quarry with each other but especially in time like this we are all with you. In the last days I often think back of the hospitality from all of you to so many Wikimedians from all around the world back in Alexandria. Read your line about following TV ans Twitter also reminds me of June 1989 when I followed radio news hour after hour for every news through sleepless nights. Back then, very alone, without the community that gathered here. For me it showed again how important it is to have neutral and free informations. And I hope that everything turns out good, and everyone will be safe at the end. with my thoughts with you and all our friends there Ting On 28.01.2011 22:49, Mohamed Ibrahim wrote: Unfortunately all communications are down till now, I hope they are all fine. I'm currently out of the country and following only through TV and twitter. We're all waiting for the internet or at lease cell networks to be back. Thank you all for your comments, and yes I do not support shutting down Wikimedia projects for any incidents of that kind. I think we should work more on spreading free information Mido On 28 January 2011 22:41, Milos Rancicmill...@gmail.com wrote: We have fellow Wikimedians in Egypt. Any news about them? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- - Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/ Share your knowledge ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?
Unfortunately all communications are down till now, I hope they are all fine. I'm currently out of the country and following only through TV and twitter. We're all waiting for the internet or at lease cell networks to be back. Thank you all for your comments, and yes I do not support shutting down Wikimedia projects for any incidents of that kind. I think we should work more on spreading free information Mido On 28 January 2011 22:41, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: We have fellow Wikimedians in Egypt. Any news about them? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- - Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/ Share your knowledge ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles
On 25 August 2010 23:01, Muhammad Yahia shipmas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of experts, mostly from similar linguistic backgrounds, handing down judgements about the rest of the world's languages from their overwhelmingly European ivory tower. It seems we as a community of people who care deeply about the future of potential new languages and the success of existing language versions within our Wikimedia community have no choice but to watch from the sidelines as they do what they please. -m. +1 Add to that the fact that a portion of their discussion archives is deliberately hidden from the public as if they are debating state security issues. So even after a decision is taken, we only have a patchy view of the process that led to that decision. -- Best Regards, Muhammad Yahia ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l I agree with what Muhammad and Mark has said it's a pity that such resolutions that affect the whole community is controlled like this.. resulting in such projects that really make Wikimedia looks like a host for childish projects that's written in a funny language never seen written before in any respectable scientific book, website, etc.. -- - Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/ Share your knowledge ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles
On 25 August 2010 23:42, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Erm ... huh? 1) If you're interested in helping, and have experience/knowledge of languages, then get involved with the committee. 2) They're getting things achieved - they're fostering the development of new language projects, making decisions, getting the projects started, and doing this in a very effective way. Compare this with the ineffectual procedure for starting an entirely new project in any language, which hasn't gotten anywhere in the last 3(?) years. I agree the committee did a good job in their mission and I'm not generalizing my critique, I misworded my comment. 3) Please point to _recent_ examples where they've made a bad choice (i.e. Klingon doesn't count, as that was before their time). I'm not aware of any. I'm not willing to open a long discussion on something that most people are not willing to reconsider and I respected that and left the newly-opened project to see what will happen. However, the main point that triggered my comment was that I was just browsing through and found really a poor standard of language and articles that I even felt uncomfortable that the Wikipedia logo was over there. I just hope that in the future the process will be more transparent and considers all sides of the matter. I hope no one were offended as I didn't mean it this way, and if in anyway I could help I won't hesitate to step in. I agree that it's not good that they have a hidden discussion forum; as much as possible of the discussion leading up to a new project should be public, and i can't see a reason for secrecy. Apart from that, though, I don't understand these (somewhat bitchy) comments at all... Mike On 25 Aug 2010, at 21:21, Mohamed Ibrahim wrote: On 25 August 2010 23:01, Muhammad Yahia shipmas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of experts, mostly from similar linguistic backgrounds, handing down judgements about the rest of the world's languages from their overwhelmingly European ivory tower. It seems we as a community of people who care deeply about the future of potential new languages and the success of existing language versions within our Wikimedia community have no choice but to watch from the sidelines as they do what they please. -m. +1 Add to that the fact that a portion of their discussion archives is deliberately hidden from the public as if they are debating state security issues. So even after a decision is taken, we only have a patchy view of the process that led to that decision. -- Best Regards, Muhammad Yahia ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l I agree with what Muhammad and Mark has said it's a pity that such resolutions that affect the whole community is controlled like this.. resulting in such projects that really make Wikimedia looks like a host for childish projects that's written in a funny language never seen written before in any respectable scientific book, website, etc.. -- - Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/ Share your knowledge ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- - Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/ Share your knowledge ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
