Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-15 Thread Erik Moeller
HR recently switched to an externally hosted applicant tracking system called Jobvite. It's sadly proprietary, but very feature-rich and used by many tech companies, including e.g. Mozilla. Basically the previous process was for candidates to be dumped in a shared inbox, where recruiters and

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-15 Thread Samuel Klein
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Robin McCain ro...@slmr.com wrote: I find it bizarre that inclusion of information of local importance is encouraged in the internationalized local language wikipediae but discouraged in the U.S. English wikipedia.  So events of local interest in a town in

Re: [Foundation-l] sad news

2012-03-15 Thread George Herbert
Very sad, I met him and he seemed to be a very good guy. Seems to be a bad week; a friend of mine from college passed on Sunday morning. Focus on big things and have fun while you're here. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2012, at 19:42, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-15 Thread geni
On 15 March 2012 06:34, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Whether the iframe is a good idea still remains to be seen. Jobvite makes it unnecessarily hard to link to JDs directly (because their ideology is that everyone should come through some social media funnel, I think), and the

Re: [Foundation-l] sad news

2012-03-15 Thread Mateus Nobre
=( _ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 From: george.herb...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:41:34 -0700 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-15 Thread geni
On 14 March 2012 16:34, Robin McCain ro...@slmr.com wrote: I find it bizarre that inclusion of information of local importance is encouraged in the internationalized local language wikipediae but discouraged in the U.S. English wikipedia.  So events of local interest in a town in Romania are

[Foundation-l] India Program - Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)

2012-03-15 Thread Anirudh Bhati
FYI. IRC Office Hours with Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs at 1530hrs UTC on #wikimedia-office@freenode. -- Forwarded message -- From: Hisham his...@wikimedia.org Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:03 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] *cross-post* India

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-15 Thread Fae
I am personally concerned that the WMF website is promoting Jobvite by allowing the in-house template to include generic links such as http://recruiting.jobvite.com (from the powered by Jobvite link) which leads the page with the number of the Jobvite sales hotline. Even if Jobvite are providing

[Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-15 Thread Joan Goma
From: Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books Message-ID:

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 11 -- 12 March 2012

2012-03-15 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Interview: Liaising with the Education Program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-12/Interview Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-12/Women_and_Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, , Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-15 Thread Robin McCain
On 3/15/2012 3:10 AM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Local events in western countries are pretty easy to cover within wikipedia's rules. A mix of local news and the local history mob usually sees that there are plenty of sources. On the other hand writing about Odek (Joseph

Re: [Foundation-l] sad news

2012-03-15 Thread phoebe ayers
I realize in my first note that I forgot to link Ben's meta page... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tlogmer a quick look at his contributions will remind some of us about the old fundcom, Wikimania 2006 designs, Associations of Wikipedians and the old store... Ben was one of the strongest

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-15 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: The rationale for the iframe is to automate the job listings on the WMF site and surface the various Jobvite features. Right. But any feature comes with an associated cost. :-) Yes, that means that the user's browser will contact hire.jobvite.com when loading the page

[Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?

2012-03-15 Thread Lodewijk
-crossposting- Hi all, we're well on our way getting started with Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! (feel free to forward) For those that don't know what Wiki Loves Monuments is all about, please read this blog post [

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-15 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: Indeed. I've commented out the iframe for now while discussion continues. Once there's a clearer understanding of the implications of using this code and whether this particular third-party's policy is compatible with Wikimedia's. I say compatible as it's a passive read

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

2012-03-15 Thread Gayle Karen Young
We're working on the privacy issue re: iframes. Just want to thank MZMcBride for working with us on a stopgap measure until we figure out how to post jobs in an automated way without compromising privacy. Warm regards, Gayle -- Gayle Karen K. Young Chief Talent and Culture Officer Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia financials - bank fees

2012-03-15 Thread Garfield Byrd
The actual bank fees for payment processing for the month of January were $84,237 on donation revenue of $3,695,574, which is an average of 2% of revenue in processing fees for Paypal and Global Collect for the month of January. We are beginning two projects to attempt to reduce payment

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia financials - bank fees

2012-03-15 Thread Garfield Byrd
The Wikimedia Foundation's does not currently pay any fees to send money via our bank. We do not use Paypal very often to send money and it is usually free for us to send money via Paypal. In the fundraising agreement, a payment processing chapter is not required to send money to our bank in the

[Foundation-l] Deadline for Wikimania submissions is Sunday

2012-03-15 Thread aude
Reminder to get your Wikimania program submissions in soon! The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at 11:59 (San Francisco) Pacific Daylight Time (or 06:59 UTC on 19 March 2012). We seek submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, and other types of sessions. Topics may include

Re: [Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-15 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote: The idea is that if they believe (or their marketing studies say) there is a market for an encyclopedia reviewed by professionals I think that this is not incompatible with free license. If it were published under a free

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses:, , Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-15 Thread geni
On 15 March 2012 15:23, Robin McCain ro...@slmr.com wrote: In that specific case you'd need a team of archeologists and war crimes investigators to collect raw data and analyze it. One Acholi speaking anthropologist would be enough. How much of this general lack of published information is