Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome to a new board member

2010-04-06 Thread H
Hello Bishaka! It is great to have a Good Listener as a trustee. From Wikiversity, H. On 5 April 2010 22:14, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Hi Bishakha, Welcome! I hope that you enjoy your new role. Could you share a little about your involvement with the Wikimedia projects before

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome to a new board member

2010-04-06 Thread H
[Sorry guys, my previous post got cut off in the middle, so let me resend it:] Hello Bishaka! It is great to have a Good Listener as a trustee. From Wikiversity, H. On 5 April 2010 22:14, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: Hi Bishakha, Welcome! I hope that you enjoy your new role.

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome to a new board member

2010-04-06 Thread Aphaia
Welcome aboard Bishaka, great to see a female activist and creator from Asia, I hope you enjoy your new role and feel comfortable in our community. Greetings warmly from Wikiquote, On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Michael and Ting. Look

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome to a new board member

2010-04-06 Thread Bishakha Datta
Thanks, all. Thought I would just introduce myself a bit more. Building on Michael (Snow's) email, for the last 12 years I have run Point of View (www.pointofview,org), a Mumbai-based non-profit that puts the voices and points of view of women in the public domain through media, art and culture.

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome to a new board member

2010-04-06 Thread Sydney Poore
Welcome Bishakha :-) From my perspective having more focus on women's related topics and issues in the WMF projects would be a good thing! So I welcome your involvement; including your perspective as someone who has encouraged and empowered women to contribute in the public domain on women's

Re: [Foundation-l] open letter by Wikiversity users to the WMF Board of Trustees

2010-04-06 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Signed: User:Jon Awbrey Jon Awbrey Among others. Talk about a red flag! And actually his contribution to English Wikiversity is impressive: More than a half of his edits over there are related to this open letter, and only one edit (typo corrected) is a contribution to the Wikiversity core

[Foundation-l] Productive output of English Wikiversity

2010-04-06 Thread David Gerard
On 6 April 2010 22:16, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: And actually his contribution to English Wikiversity is impressive: More than a half of his edits over there are related to this open letter, and only one edit (typo corrected) is a contribution to the Wikiversity core

Re: [Foundation-l] Productive output of English Wikiversity

2010-04-06 Thread Michael Snow
David Gerard wrote: Perhaps for a more positive outlook: What useful projects have been produced by en.wv or are in an advanced state of production? That is, what has it to show for itself? I would assume the place to start would be its featured content. At least, that's the kind of

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome to a new board member

2010-04-06 Thread phoebe ayers
I'm with Sydney :) Welcome Bishakha to our crazy projects and community. Wiki(mp)edia is diverse, huge, decentralized, a little overwhelming and full of some of the geekiest, most awesome people I know -- I hope you can make it to Wikimania to meet some of them! And as with all new board members,