2009/4/30 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
Should commons allow images which are biased?
Can an image be biased out of context?
Can text?
I suppose not - the same principles apply to Wikisource as apply to Commons.
Hello Phoebe,
yes three seats will be open.
Ting
phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi all,
I know it's still a couple of months out, but I've lost track. Are we
electing two people or three people to the Board this summer? Will all
of the community seats be open? (it looks like the terms of Kat and
Ting
2009/4/30 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net:
Anybody who wants to help the Wikimedia projects is invited to
participate. I expect that the primary activity will involve working
groups developing pieces of the strategy on-wiki.
How will these working groups be organised? Having a specific
Hi Phoebe and all,
We are electing three people to the board this summer.
The way things were designed the chapter seats (2) are appointed in
every EVEN year, and the directly elected seats (3) will be elected
every ODD year. Obviously we might have to make an exception this year
because
Hoi,
When 50% or our editors have English language skills it is certainly helpful
but it is not necessarily a good thing. It means that we are failing in our
efforts to get more editors who do not have English language skills. While
all the other languages get 57% of the edits we still have no
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
2009/4/30 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
Should commons allow images which are biased?
Can an image be biased out of context?
Hi!
Sorry for late answer - I visited the offline world (it had awesome
mountains with snowcaps, sky-blue oceans and tulip fields ;-)
So, the community is urged to do this work at the request of the
Board,
but the
Board itself is going to do virtually nothing (other than this
2009/4/30 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com:
In this case, as I mentioned above, nearly (over?) 100 community
members were met overall - so if we'd include that, the mean travel
distance would be way way lower - and the value of the meeting was
extremely high.
I believe there were about 50
Thomas,
I believe there were about 50 chapters people about about 100 devs.
I'm not sure why the mean travel distance would be lower if you
include everyone - there were people from all around the world there,
many having travelled further than the average board member.
Actually, I'd be
2009/4/30 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com:
Thomas,
I believe there were about 50 chapters people about about 100 devs.
I'm not sure why the mean travel distance would be lower if you
include everyone - there were people from all around the world there,
many having travelled further than
I agree that the turnout was impressive, and I was also impressed that many of
the wealthier chapters helped to fund travel for the less-wealthy.
I was also amazed by the volunteer devs, many of whom travelled long distances
on their own dime (e.g., Aude, and many others). I've spoken with
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote:
This is a rather unusual endeavor, as it is intended to be the world's
first completely open and collaborative strategy development project. We
aim to draw upon the experiences and knowledge of a wide range of
2009/4/30 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2009/4/30 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net:
Anybody who wants to help the Wikimedia projects is invited to
participate. I expect that the primary activity will involve working
groups developing pieces of the strategy on-wiki.
How will these
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote:
Actually, I'd be happy if you were right (and you probably are!) - it
shows, that lots of people had the motivation to come to this
excursion.
But yet you can't classify it as leisure?
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Alex mrzmanw...@gmail.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote:
Actually, I'd be happy if you were right (and you probably are!) - it
shows, that lots of people had the motivation to come to this
Anthony wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote:
Actually, I'd be happy if you were right (and you probably are!) - it
shows, that lots of people had the motivation to come to this
excursion.
But yet you can't classify it as leisure?
It may not
I would love more context for this (excellent, ambitious) discussion.
What timescales are to be considered? What range of scope
reassessment is appropriate?
A long-range planning section would be helpful, if only to provide
context for more immediate targets. For comparison, here is a brief
Michael Bimmler wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Alex mrzmanw...@gmail.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote:
Actually, I'd be happy if you were right (and you probably are!) - it
shows, that lots of people had the
2009/4/30 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org:
Having said that, we need some structure to ensure the work happens.
The trick will be trying to design a process that strikes a good
balance between total openness, and driving towards decision-making.
It's my responsibility to try to find that
2009/4/30 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some 300-year stances on
knowledge dissemination,
Did you mean 300 years? 3 years is hard enough in our line of work, 30
would be a real challenge, 300 is simply impossible. I'm assuming that
was a typo...
2009/4/30 Alex mrzmanw...@gmail.com:
Anthony wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote:
Actually, I'd be happy if you were right (and you probably are!) - it
shows, that lots of people had the motivation to come to this
excursion.
But yet you can't
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/30 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some 300-year stances on
knowledge dissemination,
Did you mean 300 years?
Yes. Considering the stakes and our capacity for
2009/5/1 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
2009/4/30 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some 300-year stances on
knowledge dissemination,
Did you mean 300 years?
Yes.
Samuel Klein wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
2009/4/30 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some 300-year stances on
knowledge dissemination,
Did you mean 300 years?
Yes.
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