Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appreciation shown on Wikipedia

[Kalliope Tsouroupidou]

Love this!! What a great way to show appreciation further than words.

K.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Romaine Wiki 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Past Saturday during the new year's event in Leiden, the Netherlands, the
> Dutch Wikipedia community reached the annual prizes for most valued
> contributions to this Wikipedia in 2016.
>
> In six categories users and projects were nominated by the community and in
> a closed voting they decided which of them should receive the physical
> appreciation.
>
> The most valued contributors received a stone statue of an owl, standing
> for wisdom.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiUilen_2016_(2).jpg
>
> See for more photos of the ceremony and statues at:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiUilen_
> ceremony_2016,_21_January_2017
>
> More information about the special awards can be found at:
> https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiUilen
>
> Congratulations to all receivers!
>
> Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appreciation

[Luis Villa]

Thanks for the kind words, Pete.

For what it is worth, other details on our initial proposal to FDC are on
meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_2016-17_Annual_Planning_Recommendation
Note that this was the initial proposal, and we are deliberately trying to
keep it fluid, so some things will inevitably change.

I would urge everyone to keep expectations in check: this process will be a
first at this scale for both us and FDC. As with any good experiment(s),
some will succeed and others will fail; hopefully we'll learn along the
way, of course.

Luis

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:

> Today in the Metrics & Activities meeting, the WMF took a significant step
> toward improving its transparency and accountability -- something under
> much discussion in recent weeks.
>
> The cause of this was not the recent drama around the Board, but a
> recommendation given by the FDC in November 2015, that the WMF should hold
> its own financial decisions to a standard similar to that expected of the
> organizations it funds.
>
> Kudos to the FDC for taking the initial step, the WMF board for approving
> the recommendation, and Luis Villa (who discussed the issue in some depth
> at the meeting) and everyone at WMF who worked toward implementing the
> recommendation. I'm sure many of us will be looking forward to the results.
>
> I have discussed this in a bit more detail on my blog:
> http://wikistrategies.net/fdc-recommendation/
>
> -Pete
> [[User:Peteforsyth]]
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