[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2022-01-12 Thread Vi to 
OMG.
I've just committed a rightclickcide.

Vito

Il giorno gio 13 gen 2022 alle ore 06:07 Brion Vibber 
ha scritto:

> To make sure, is this the same guy?
>
> https://twitter.com/luisatlive
>
> -- brion
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 9:20 AM Nataliia Tymkiv 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Luis Bitencourt-Emilio to the Wikimedia
>> Foundation Board of Trustees. Luis was unanimously appointed to a 3-year
>> term and replaces a board-selected Trustee, Lisa Lewin, whose term ended in
>> November 2021 [1].
>>
>> Currently based in São Paulo, Luis is the Chief Technology Officer at
>> Loft, a technology startup in the real-estate industry. He brings product
>> and technology experience from a globally diverse career that has spanned
>> large technology companies including Microsoft, online networking sites
>> like Reddit, and a series of entrepreneurial technology ventures focused in
>> the USA and Latin America. Luis has led product and technology teams across
>> Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia. He is passionately
>> involved in building and promoting the entrepreneurial ecosystem for Latin
>> American-based startups.
>>
>> Luis has more than two decades of experience across product development,
>> software engineering, and data science. At Microsoft, he led engineering
>> teams shipping multiple Microsoft Office products. At Reddit, he led the
>> Knowledge Group, an engineering team that owned critical functions such as
>> data, machine learning, abuse detection and search. He was deeply involved
>> in Reddit’s growth stage and worked closely with Reddit’s communities in
>> that evolution. Luis also co-founded a fintech startup to help millennials
>> manage and automate their finances.
>>
>> His career has also been shaped by a visible commitment to recruiting
>> diverse leaders. At Reddit, Luis was a key member of the recruitment
>> efforts that achieved equal representation of women engineering directors.
>> Luis says his proudest achievement at Microsoft was building their
>> Brazilian talent pipeline by working closely with local universities to
>> place thousands of engineering candidates at Microsoft, as well as his
>> involvement in expanding global recruitment to markets including Ukraine,
>> Poland, Great Britain, the EU and Mexico.
>>
>> Luis was educated in Brazil and the United States, receiving a Bachelor
>> of Science in Computer Engineering with Honors from the University of
>> Maryland. He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. He is also a
>> proud father and dog lover.
>>
>> I would like to thank the Governance Committee, chaired by Dariusz
>> Jemielniak, for this nomination process as well as volunteers in our
>> Spanish and Portuguese speaking communities who also met with Luis or
>> shared their experiences.
>>
>> You can find an official announcement here [2].
>>
>> PS. You can help translate or find translations of this message on
>> Meta-Wiki:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/January_2022_-_Luis_Bitencourt-Emilio_Joins_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees
>>
>>
>> [1] Lisa Lewin served from January 2019 till November 2021:
>> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Renewing_Lisa_Lewin%E2%80%99s_Appointment_to_the_Board_of_Trustees,_2021
>>
>> [2]
>> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/12/luis-bitencourt-emilio-joins-wikimedia-foundation-board-of-trustees/
>>
>> Best regards,
>> antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
>> Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
>>
>> *NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal
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>> weekend. You should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off.
>> Thank you in advance!*
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2022-01-12 Thread Brion Vibber 
To make sure, is this the same guy?

https://twitter.com/luisatlive

-- brion

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 9:20 AM Nataliia Tymkiv  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Luis Bitencourt-Emilio to the Wikimedia
> Foundation Board of Trustees. Luis was unanimously appointed to a 3-year
> term and replaces a board-selected Trustee, Lisa Lewin, whose term ended in
> November 2021 [1].
>
> Currently based in São Paulo, Luis is the Chief Technology Officer at
> Loft, a technology startup in the real-estate industry. He brings product
> and technology experience from a globally diverse career that has spanned
> large technology companies including Microsoft, online networking sites
> like Reddit, and a series of entrepreneurial technology ventures focused in
> the USA and Latin America. Luis has led product and technology teams across
> Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia. He is passionately
> involved in building and promoting the entrepreneurial ecosystem for Latin
> American-based startups.
>
> Luis has more than two decades of experience across product development,
> software engineering, and data science. At Microsoft, he led engineering
> teams shipping multiple Microsoft Office products. At Reddit, he led the
> Knowledge Group, an engineering team that owned critical functions such as
> data, machine learning, abuse detection and search. He was deeply involved
> in Reddit’s growth stage and worked closely with Reddit’s communities in
> that evolution. Luis also co-founded a fintech startup to help millennials
> manage and automate their finances.
>
> His career has also been shaped by a visible commitment to recruiting
> diverse leaders. At Reddit, Luis was a key member of the recruitment
> efforts that achieved equal representation of women engineering directors.
> Luis says his proudest achievement at Microsoft was building their
> Brazilian talent pipeline by working closely with local universities to
> place thousands of engineering candidates at Microsoft, as well as his
> involvement in expanding global recruitment to markets including Ukraine,
> Poland, Great Britain, the EU and Mexico.
>
> Luis was educated in Brazil and the United States, receiving a Bachelor of
> Science in Computer Engineering with Honors from the University of
> Maryland. He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. He is also a
> proud father and dog lover.
>
> I would like to thank the Governance Committee, chaired by Dariusz
> Jemielniak, for this nomination process as well as volunteers in our
> Spanish and Portuguese speaking communities who also met with Luis or
> shared their experiences.
>
> You can find an official announcement here [2].
>
> PS. You can help translate or find translations of this message on
> Meta-Wiki:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/January_2022_-_Luis_Bitencourt-Emilio_Joins_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees
>
>
> [1] Lisa Lewin served from January 2019 till November 2021:
> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Renewing_Lisa_Lewin%E2%80%99s_Appointment_to_the_Board_of_Trustees,_2021
>
> [2]
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/12/luis-bitencourt-emilio-joins-wikimedia-foundation-board-of-trustees/
>
> Best regards,
> antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
> Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
>
> *NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal working
> hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. You
> should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you in
> advance!*
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-12 Thread Leila Zia 
Hi all,

We gave the option of accepting nominations in more languages some
more thought. I want to be very honest: I don't have a good solution
to accommodate more languages in this cycle. We considered the option
of allowing/encouraging nominations in other languages, and not doing
the broader search we do in English in those languages. However, even
this option is not really guaranteed to work because we consider
"scholarly publications" which can be papers of a few pages or books
that can be hundreds of pages. We cannot guarantee that we can
translate the scholarly publication (independent of its length)
in-time for the review.

Given the above, my suggestion to you is that if you know of a
scholarly publication that is in another language than English and you
think we should consider it, still nominate it. We will consider it,
even if I can't guarantee that we review it.

I'm sorry that I am not able to offer a better solution for this
cycle. We will continue thinking about this point for the future
cycles.

Best,
Leila

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:46 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
 wrote:
>
> Hi Leila,
> I have read it, that's why I'm confused.
> 
> From: Leila Zia 
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 9:40 PM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> Cc: wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org 
> ; Discussion list for the Wikidata 
> project. 
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation 
> Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations
>
> Hi Galder,
>
> Please see below.
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:26 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>  wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Leila, for answering the question raised.
>
> Anytime.
>
> > I'm a bit confused with this, I supposed that the Wikimedia Foundation 
> > Research Award was an initiative from the Research team of the WMF 
> > (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research), but I read in your 
> > answer that "WikiResearch is primarily in English and about research 
> > published in English". I understand that the main working language of the 
> > WMF is English, as this mailing list is, but I would assume that an Award 
> > promoted by the WMF should be multilingual.
>
> Sorry. Let me clarify. What I was referring to when I used
> WikiResearch in my email was the WikiResearch twitter account:
> https://twitter.com/WikiResearch . I did not intend to refer to the
> WMF Research team or Wikimedia Research community. And to repeat: this
> is one source we use to find research done on the Wikimedia projects.
> There are other sources as I mentioned in my response.
>
> > Me, as a Basque Wikimedians User Group member, I promote Wikimedia 
> > activities in Basque language, because that is our goal. But the WMF is not 
> > the English Wikimedians User Group, as far as I understand. Our designated 
> > lingua franca may be English, but the WMF can't exclude research that is 
> > not made in this language from an Award. I would understand if the 
> > (non-existing) English Wikimedians User Group created the "EWUG Research in 
> > English Award of the Year", but is not the case.
>
> I understand and acknowledge your point about inclusion. I hope some
> of the points I shared about our existing process in my other email
> can help you find possible solutions we can consider doing. :) On my
> end: I have a todo to come back to you all.
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Galder
> >
> > 
> > From: Leila Zia 
> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 8:04 PM
> > To: wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org 
> > 
> > Cc: Wikimedia Mailing List ; Discussion 
> > list for the Wikidata project. 
> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation 
> > Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations
> >
> > Hi all, Thank you for your feedback. I take your comments as a sign of
> > genuine care and I'm happy to engage and learn with you how we can do
> > better. (Note: I'm responding to all lists, though some of the
> > feedback has been sent only to wikimedia-l.)
> >
> > * Galder, Gereon, Xavier, Gnangarra, and Andy: thank you for your feedback.
> >
> > * Andy, I'll respond to your comment first. We do not require the work
> > to be published under a free license for us to consider it for the
> > award. However, if the work is shortlisted, we reach out to the
> > authors, tell them that it's shortlisted, and it can be considered for
> > the award if the work is at least made publicly available. At that
> > point, we also encourage the authors to publish under a free license
> > and share with them a few ways they may be able to (even if the work
> > is published somewhere already with restrictions). The issue of
> > licenses is on top of our mind and we actively look for ways to push
> > for more Wikimedia research work to be published under free licenses.
> >
> > * I am going to share with you some of my thoughts, and a possible
> > improvement we can make in the process.
> >
>

[Wikimedia-l] Re: RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

2022-01-12 Thread Lane Chance 
If you live in China or the USA, no payment system is guaranteed invisible
from state agents. There is no reason to believe that cryptocurrency
transactions going in or out of countries with sophisticated security
agencies could be any more anonymous or trustworthy than, say, an anonymous
payment using Paypal.

At the same time, the Wikimedia Foundation has legal and ethical
obligations to not benefit from the proceeds of crime nor use its donations
to fund crime, human rights abuse, or terrorism. Though it can choose to
respect the anonymity of donors as requested during the donation process it
is required to cooperate with US legal investigations which may make
complete anonymity impossible especially for large donations or large
projects that it provides money or chooses to invest its slush fund in.

It would be great if the Wikimedia Foundation made a clear and measurable
statement about its financial policies beyond vague statements that human
rights are nice, or that money laundering is bad.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 12:37, Nickanc Wikimedia 
wrote:

> I am honestly shocked about how the whole discussion does not touch the
> fact that for many people in many countries supporting wikimedia is
> politically inconvenient and doing so in a very transparent way such as
> through the banking system might result in a backslash from the authorities.
>
> We should first of all be neutral towards our readers on the question "do
> you trust the state?", if their answer is no, a covert zero-trust way to
> donate should be available.
>
> Il Mar 11 Gen 2022, 04:25 GorillaWarfare <
> gorillawarfarewikipe...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have created an RfC at Meta to discuss no longer accepting
>> cryptocurrency donations. You can read the proposal, discuss, and vote at
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations
>> .
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Molly White (User:GorillaWarfare)
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare
>> she/her
>>
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2022-01-12 Thread Nataliia Tymkiv 
Dear All,

Please join me in welcoming Luis Bitencourt-Emilio to the Wikimedia
Foundation Board of Trustees. Luis was unanimously appointed to a 3-year
term and replaces a board-selected Trustee, Lisa Lewin, whose term ended in
November 2021 [1].

Currently based in São Paulo, Luis is the Chief Technology Officer at Loft,
a technology startup in the real-estate industry. He brings product and
technology experience from a globally diverse career that has spanned large
technology companies including Microsoft, online networking sites like
Reddit, and a series of entrepreneurial technology ventures focused in the
USA and Latin America. Luis has led product and technology teams across
Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia. He is passionately
involved in building and promoting the entrepreneurial ecosystem for Latin
American-based startups.

Luis has more than two decades of experience across product development,
software engineering, and data science. At Microsoft, he led engineering
teams shipping multiple Microsoft Office products. At Reddit, he led the
Knowledge Group, an engineering team that owned critical functions such as
data, machine learning, abuse detection and search. He was deeply involved
in Reddit’s growth stage and worked closely with Reddit’s communities in
that evolution. Luis also co-founded a fintech startup to help millennials
manage and automate their finances.

His career has also been shaped by a visible commitment to recruiting
diverse leaders. At Reddit, Luis was a key member of the recruitment
efforts that achieved equal representation of women engineering directors.
Luis says his proudest achievement at Microsoft was building their
Brazilian talent pipeline by working closely with local universities to
place thousands of engineering candidates at Microsoft, as well as his
involvement in expanding global recruitment to markets including Ukraine,
Poland, Great Britain, the EU and Mexico.

Luis was educated in Brazil and the United States, receiving a Bachelor of
Science in Computer Engineering with Honors from the University of
Maryland. He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. He is also a
proud father and dog lover.

I would like to thank the Governance Committee, chaired by Dariusz
Jemielniak, for this nomination process as well as volunteers in our
Spanish and Portuguese speaking communities who also met with Luis or
shared their experiences.

You can find an official announcement here [2].

PS. You can help translate or find translations of this message on
Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/January_2022_-_Luis_Bitencourt-Emilio_Joins_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees


[1] Lisa Lewin served from January 2019 till November 2021:
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Renewing_Lisa_Lewin%E2%80%99s_Appointment_to_the_Board_of_Trustees,_2021

[2]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/12/luis-bitencourt-emilio-joins-wikimedia-foundation-board-of-trustees/

Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

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[Wikimedia-l] new board for Wiki Project Med Foundation...

2022-01-12 Thread Lane Rasberry 
Hello,

I am writing to share that Wiki Project Med Foundation has elected a new
board.

Wiki Project Med Foundation is the Wikimedia community affiliate
organization which develops medical content in the Wikimedia platform and
related open projects. Information about the organization including a link
to join are at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med

The election was in November 2021. See this year's election page and
results at
https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Election/2021
The board is listed at
https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Board
General election rules are at
https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Election
Confirmation of results is at
https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:2021_Election_of_Board_Positions

I am not on the board of this organization, but I am a member, secretary,
and election organizer. Anyone with questions may post to the
organization's page on Meta-Wiki and ping me @bluerasberry. Thanks.

-- 
Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry
🟦🌀💙🌀🟦
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

2022-01-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen 
Hoi,
For what it is worth, I don't mind the WMF accepting crypto.. I do mind WMF
hanging on to crypto currencies. So when they get it and monetise it
immediately, all well and good.  The motto being: You do not look a gift
horse in the mouth ...
Thanks,
   GerardM

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 04:26, GorillaWarfare <
gorillawarfarewikipe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have created an RfC at Meta to discuss no longer accepting
> cryptocurrency donations. You can read the proposal, discuss, and vote at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations
> .
>
> Sincerely,
> Molly White (User:GorillaWarfare)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare
> she/her
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Re: Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

2022-01-12 Thread Strainu 
În mar., 11 ian. 2022 la 08:01, Kunal Mehta  a scris:
>
> So I think the status quo can be changed by just about anyone who is
> motivated to do so, not by trying to convince the WMF to change its
> prioritization, but just by doing the work. We should be empowering
> those people rather than continuing to further entrench a WMF technical
> monopoly.
>

Counterexample:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org/message/G2QTRJFAUKLE45SFTFUHOOTOBR6G3DP3/
(this was the situation that I quoted in my first email on this thread
as the WMF refusing to even do reviews).

Maybe it's just the multimedia part that it's in this desperate
situation, but I can totally see volunteer developers getting
discouraged quickly if their patches are outright ignored.

Strainu
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[Wikimedia-l] Just a few more days to go for the January #1Lib1Ref!

2022-01-12 Thread Satdeep Gill 
Hello fellow Wikimedians, librarians, and bibliophiles,

I hope you are doing alright and staying healthy in this new year. The
January round of the 2022 1Lib1Ref  starts on the
21st birthday of Wikipedia,15th January, and will run until 5th February.

I am thrilled to share that 2 more languages from the CEE region have been
added to the list of languages supported by the CitationHunt tool over the
holidays, which makes it a total of 9 new languages added for the upcoming
round of the campaign. Huge thanks for the volunteer efforts of Guilherme
Gonçalves  and Gorana Gomirac
.

As always, participation is pretty simple. All you need to do is add more
references to Wikipedia articles, type #1lib1ref in the Edit Summary. In
case you are a newbie and would like to learn how to add references to
Wikipedia articles, Open Foundation West Africa  is
hosting an online Citation Masterclass on 14th January at 4 PM UTC. Sign up
here .

If you are already familiar with editing Wikipedia and would like to
experiment a bit, we are piloting a couple of contribution methods for
advanced contributors

in the January 2022 round.



*If you are an organizer, remember to add your local events to the campaign
dashboard
,
so we can learn and track activities happening across the world.*

Check the blogpost for more information about the campaign :
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/16/1lib1ref-2022

See you all in a couple of days!

Regards

Satdeep

-- 


Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)

Program Officer

GLAM and Culture

Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

2022-01-12 Thread Vi to 
Implying the most common cryptos are actually safe by this pont of view.

Vito

Il giorno mer 12 gen 2022 alle ore 13:37 Nickanc Wikimedia <
nickanc.w...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> I am honestly shocked about how the whole discussion does not touch the
> fact that for many people in many countries supporting wikimedia is
> politically inconvenient and doing so in a very transparent way such as
> through the banking system might result in a backslash from the authorities.
>
> We should first of all be neutral towards our readers on the question "do
> you trust the state?", if their answer is no, a covert zero-trust way to
> donate should be available.
>
> Il Mar 11 Gen 2022, 04:25 GorillaWarfare <
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>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have created an RfC at Meta to discuss no longer accepting
>> cryptocurrency donations. You can read the proposal, discuss, and vote at
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations
>> .
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Molly White (User:GorillaWarfare)
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare
>> she/her
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

2022-01-12 Thread Nickanc Wikimedia 
I am honestly shocked about how the whole discussion does not touch the
fact that for many people in many countries supporting wikimedia is
politically inconvenient and doing so in a very transparent way such as
through the banking system might result in a backslash from the authorities.

We should first of all be neutral towards our readers on the question "do
you trust the state?", if their answer is no, a covert zero-trust way to
donate should be available.

Il Mar 11 Gen 2022, 04:25 GorillaWarfare 
ha scritto:

> Hello all,
>
> I have created an RfC at Meta to discuss no longer accepting
> cryptocurrency donations. You can read the proposal, discuss, and vote at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations
> .
>
> Sincerely,
> Molly White (User:GorillaWarfare)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare
> she/her
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