Hi there,
If you have size restrictions on commons, use
http://www.archive.org/create/ it has no size restrictions.
thanks,
mike
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to update everyone about our progress in putting up WikiConference
India 2011
From: Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com
Why does the Board of Trustees think that WMF should raise the ?maximum
possible amount of money??
Why not ask for what is needed and nothing more?
I agree. A no profit association should raise the opportune amount
otherwise there a profit.
I am applying for a summer student to do a Wikipedia Medicine research
project through my department at UBC. One potentially project I am looking
it is having them review all the edits made to Wikiproject Medicine
articles. The student will go through each edit and a) determine if the
edit is okay
I am applying for a summer student to do a Wikipedia Medicine research
project through my department at UBC. One potentially project I am
looking
it is having them review all the edits made to Wikiproject Medicine
articles. The student will go through each edit and a) determine if the
edit
Agree that raise the maximum is a serious concern. Perception of greed
and money focus is one. The other problem is it mandates a specific
priority on the organizers of all fundraising events which may be
incompatible with the best interests of the project. For example I could
maximize fundraising
Agreed and congrats!
Jan-Bart
On 20 jan. 2012, at 22:45, Kat Walsh wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Philippe Beaudette
phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
I'm thrilled to announce that Maggie Dennis, our community liaison, has
agreed to transition to a permanent role with the
A new policy should always be announced on foundation-l; forwarding.
MZMcBride
-- Forwarded Message
From: Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:30:07 -0800
To:
Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the
policy and it now lives at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy
I don't think the Volunteer Development Coordinator (or any Wikimedia
Foundation employee) has the power
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 strange to place all of these policies next to each other in a single
list.
I thought
David Gerard wrote:
On 21 January 2012 22:50, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
If a policy makes good sense, we clearly need it, and feedback about the
text is mostly positive, then we should adopt it. Rejecting a good idea
because of process wonkery is stupid.
+1
David,
MZMcBride, 21/01/2012 23:32:
Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the
policy and it now lives at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy
I don't think the Volunteer Development Coordinator (or any Wikimedia
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 Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 19:38, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
I think it makes sense to better delineate what applies to different
groups.
Agreed. A good starting point is the navigation template for
Board-approved policies, which distinguishes between global policies
(like the
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I think it'd be difficult to have a
discussion about Wikimedia Commons with a rule like this.
Right now, the policy is pretty much framed around technical events
like hackathons, because that was what motivated its creation.
1]On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
David, I'm a bit surprised that you think a policy that includes the
language Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference
venue or talks. is a good idea. I think it'd be difficult to have a
Hi,
Has anyone made an analysis on what the license change would mean to
Wikipedia? Looking at the ODbL FAQ on the OSM website, it seems that
using maps would not be affected. But what about using data from OSM
in our articles? Also, my unterstanding is that reverse import of data
(that is from
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:32 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the
policy and it now lives at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy
Thank you for working on this,
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild)
pathosch...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 19:38, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
wrote:
I think it makes sense to better delineate what applies to different
groups.
Agreed. A good starting point is the navigation
Strainu wrote:
Has anyone made an analysis on what the license change would mean to
Wikipedia? Looking at the ODbL FAQ on the OSM website, it seems that
using maps would not be affected. But what about using data from OSM
in our articles? Also, my unterstanding is that reverse import of data
I fully supported this policy's development and feel volunteers impacted by it
were directly involved in its authoring.
Should the intro be modified to make it clearer this is for tech conferences?
Although I personally didn't find that confusing.
MZMcBride - I guess I'm unclear what the
Mr. Gregory Varnum, 22/01/2012 00:33:
MZMcBride - I guess I'm unclear what the purpose of this thread is. Just a FYI
or are you asking for something specific to be done? I'm not sure how you got
confused about its scope given the listserv you forwarded this from which
outlined all this in
So then perhaps we should modify the intro as I suggested below. :) Right now
the intro says and applies to Foundation-organized activities. - what's a
wording that would be more helpful to folks?
Also, I don't assume everyone is - I was speaking to MZMcBride.
-greg
On Jan 21, 2012, at
Actually, what is WMF technical events specifically? It would be helpful to
mention what those are.
Would this bleed over to Wikimania? That is the largest conference WMF
organizes. It is a bit unclear about the scope. It states that it applies
to Foundation-organized activities and then
Samuel Klein wrote:
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild)
pathosch...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 19:38, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
wrote:
I think it makes sense to better delineate what applies to different
groups.
Agreed. A good starting point is
phoebe ayers wrote:
It would be, though I'm not sure that's the most useful division --
I'd imagine what most people want to know is what policies apply to
all of the global projects vs what policies apply to just the WMF vs
what policies might apply to the WMF other wikimedia entities
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Would this bleed over to Wikimania? That is the largest conference WMF
organizes.
Strictly speaking, Wikimania is organized by a local organizing team/entity
(which, in recent years, has always been a chapter) rather than by
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Ting Chen tc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Following consultation with the Wikimedia community on meta, the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is now releasing the guiding
principles below, which are intended to govern Wikimedia fundraising and
funds
Dear all,
The Chapters Committee[1], the committee that is mainly responsible
for the preparation of approval of new chapters is looking for five
new members, and we are looking for candidates.
The main focus of Chapcom is to guide groups of volunteers in forming
chapters. We make sure that the
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