Please find on Wikimedia France position regarding chapter fundraising
in France in the coming years.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_France/Fundraising_letter_March_2012
Please keep feedback and comments for meta rather than lists.
Thanks
Florence
On 2/25/12 2:12 AM, Castelo wrote:
On 24-02-2012 07:48, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Leave the use of historical sources to historians, and then cite from
their books. That's what historians are for.
Kind regards
Ziko
Ziko,
there's a lack of historians writing books outside Europe/US, specially
on
On 2/23/12 7:29 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
On Thursday 23 February 2012 01:10 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Splitting this off, Achal, I hope that's OK :)
There's a discussion on at the reliable sources notice board, for
instance,
which highlights some of the interpretive problems you raise:
Indeed Yaroslav
I agree these are concerns and it is likely no solution will ever be
perfect.
I think the best way to limit (not avoid) such concerns is to make the
process as transparent as possible. This one is quite a challenge since
one of the key point in the process is that the name
On 2/13/12 8:45 AM, Mathias Damour wrote:
Why would both Associations and Affiliates both need to use
Wikimedia marks ?
Does OpenStreetMap need it if it gets some grants from the WMF ?
I hope that these models won't be used to softly downgrade (or threaten
to downgrade) chapters that would be
On 2/13/12 12:51 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Florence Devouardanthe...@yahoo.comwrote:
One benefit I can identify from this decision is that we could push
forward that
* partner organizations are ONLY recognized by Wikimedia Foundation
* whilst chapters could
On 2/13/12 3:56 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 14:54, Florence Devouardanthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
I take it you are aware that each chapter developped over time its own set
of partners (similar-minded organizations that have overlapping goals with
the chapters). These
On 2/13/12 11:04 PM, Joan Goma wrote:
From: Florence Devouardanthe...@yahoo.com
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012
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On 2/13/12 8:45
On 2/10/12 10:13 AM, franc...@africacentre.net wrote:
Dear Wiki colleagues,
I am excited to invite members of Wikimedia Foundation
Ah. Hum. Okay.
Thanks for the invitation, which I just forwarded to Wikimedia France
Florence
to participate in
the Wiki Africa project that will expand
I wanted to share an experience with regards to a future FDC.
During two years, I was a member of the comité de pilotage (which I
will here translate in steering committee) of the ANR (National
Research Agency in France).
The ANR distributes every year about 1000 M€ to support research in
Ah yeah. From what I understood, what I outline as a process is very
similar to any type of academic call of projects/funding in the USA,
such as NSF, NASA, NIH, DOE etc.
Most basic principle: peer review evaluation.
Florence
On 2/9/12 11:52 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
I wanted to share
On 2/2/12 12:26 AM, Risker wrote:
On 1 February 2012 18:17, Theo10011de10...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Riskerrisker...@gmail.com wrote:
In what way do chapter-selected seats improve the running of the WMF,
Thomas? The Board has no say in who is being selected, and
On 2/3/12 11:15 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
As in... Michael Snow ?
Who is a fabulous guy, ran in community election, and was turned down ?
Florence
Domas?
I do not think we respect him less because of that.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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On 10/9/11 11:57 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
* Sue Gardner wrote:
Please read Ting's note carefully. The Board is asking me to work with
the community to develop a solution that meets the original
requirements as laid out in its resolution. It is asking me to do
something. But it is not
On 9/19/11 11:24 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 01:45:18PM -0400, David Levy wrote:
Speaking of artwork, Fae mentioned the depictions of nude female
breasts contained therein. Do those count? What about photographs
of breasts taken in medical contexts? Are those equivalent
On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
controlled by Brazilians. At the same time I don't think there is any
On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
controlled by Brazilians. At the same time I don't think there is any
On 9/2/11 10:02 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
On 9/2/2011 12:11 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities
2011/8/11 Jimmy Walesjwa...@wikia-inc.com
On 8/10/11 8:51 PM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
I don't think chapters are being cut off I think they are being
centralized. Centralization, not lack of funding, is what I believe
will make chapters ineffective.
Chapters are not being centralized.
On 8/9/11 4:46 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
2011/8/9 Delphine Ménardnotafi...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Kirill Lokshinkirill.loks...@gmail.com
wrote:
Well, let's be clear here: in what sense are the chapters participating
in
the fundraiser, rather than merely being its
Someone just pointed me this link :
http://webmasterformat.com/blog/destroy-wikipedia-serp-ranking
Florence
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Here is a copy of an email I received today in my mail box. I saw it at
the ultimate proof of fame :)
--
Managing Partners
Clinton Barnes Solicitors Co
326-328 Old Street
London, EC1V 9DR
England
Dear Sir / Madam ,
I am Clinton Barnes , an attorney at law. A deceased client of mine,
On 6/10/11 3:30 PM, Yann Forget wrote:
Hello,
I also received one, with
{{GENDER:Yann|Cher|Chère|Cher/Chère}} Yann,
Well, is this an attempt to be politically correct for BTGL? ;o)
Regards,
Yann
Yes, this one was very cute :)
I also liked the
Le comité directeur est l'organe de
On 3/8/11 7:05 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
A pleasure to have him back.
+1
Anthere
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Thank you Veronique for taking on that tough job of straightening WMF
financial procedures from basically scratch to what they are today. I
with you and your family the best of luck !
Florence
On 3/3/11 9:41 PM, Veronique Kessler wrote:
Hi All,
I'll be leaving WMF at the end of June to
Bonjour François
En fait, wikiwix n'est pas un site miroir de Wikipedia (une copie).
C'est un peu plus compliqué.
Le lien sur lequel vous avez cliqué fait partie des liens de
références (c'est à dire des liens menant vers des sites web externes,
qui sont utilisés comme sources de l'article).
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:23 PM, MZMcBridez...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
As Daniel noted in his earlier e-mail to the list, Achal Prabhala is now a
Wikimedia Fellow.[1] I actually missed this announcement as it didn't hit
wikimediaannounce-l or this list (foundation-l), it apparently
Hm,
Well,
Thank you for your job at WMF Pete. I missed you on irc chan this
evening. Will be glad to chat with you about your next job :)
Ant
On 1/13/11 9:24 PM, Frank Schulenburg wrote:
Hi All,
This email is to announce that Pete Forsyth's year-long position with
the Foundation has
On 12/10/10 1:01 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
On 12/9/2010 3:28 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
Calling Jimmy Wikipedia founder was already incredibly close to crossing
the line. Calling Sue Wikipedia Executive Director clearly crosses the
line. From reading your posts today, I believe you agree.
While I
On 12/14/10 2:39 PM, KIZU Naoko wrote:
You can claim to call it Devouard's Law, if preferable.
Haha, no. It is far too similar to Godwin Law. It would be plagiarism
(#evil).
But I stand up by my claim. I would be curious to see how it evolves.
Any mention of censorship --- reference to
On 11/5/10 1:37 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
A memo to Wikimedia community, friends, staff, and other stakeholders.
On Monday, November 15, we will launch the 2010 annual fundraising drive for
the Wikimedia Foundation. As you know, our funding model relies on the
support of our friends and
On 11/5/10 3:21 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
On 11/5/10 1:37 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
A memo to Wikimedia community, friends, staff, and other stakeholders.
Arg. I just read your internal email. I should never read external
emails before internal news lists. My question is consequently
On 10/26/10 11:01 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
I'd love to see at least a
basic MediaWiki/Etherpad integration, it would give MW a huge
productivity boost for real-time note-taking and collaboration.
+ 1 !
Anthere
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Censorship !
:)
On 10/9/10 12:35 AM, Austin Hair wrote:
Peter has been placed on moderation as a preventive measure. If
future posts are still civil, irrespective of sanity considerations,
we'll let them through.
Austin
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Peter Damian
On 10/7/10 12:52 AM, Svip wrote:
On 7 October 2010 00:44, Florence Devouardanthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ok, maybe that's just me but I could not find us ! Where are we ?
(north west ? south east ? )
Between Troll Bay and Sea of Memes.
Heh, that felt silly to say.
ouarf. Well, yeah,
On 10/6/10 5:43 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
xkcd's updated somewhat-but-not-strictly-scientific map of social
communities, where the size of website territories is determined by
the size of their userbase activity, is out:
http://xkcd.com/802/
a) it's hilarious
b) look at how tiny wikimedia
On 7/31/10 5:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
I am thinking about making Wikimania 2011 as awesome as possible and
here's a little something that bothered me.
Wikimania 2010 was my first. It was a lot of fun to meet Wikimedians
from around the world. I also think that a lot of new ideas were
Thanks for the quick answer Sue.
I'll comment afterwards when I get Veronique further comments next week.
Florence
On 7/23/10 10:37 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
Hi Florence,
I know Veronique plans to respond to your note, but I have two seconds
right now, so I will add a quick comment below.
On
, Christophe Henner
christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noeinprono...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 21/07/2010 01:57, Florence Devouard wrote:
This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in
various (french speaking
On 7/21/10 4:39 AM, Cary Bass wrote:
On 7/20/2010 7:27 PM, James Heilman wrote:
Not sure were to ask this...
A group of 20 of us from Wikiproject Medicine are working on a paper to
explain the usage of Wikipedia to the medical community. We were working on
it in Google documents but they
christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 21/07/2010 01:57, Florence Devouard wrote:
This decision was approved on the 24th of may and was advertised in
various (french speaking) venues
On 7/15/10 6:23 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
Perhaps in future (for say, Haifa) it would be an idea if any chapter-based
scholarships were put on hold until after the Foundation makes its choices?
That way the systems could mesh, with people who don't quite meet the
Foundation requirements/do but
On 5/11/10 8:26 AM, David Goodman wrote:
From my favorite author (paraphrased):
Young admirers to Samuel Johnson: We congratulate you on not including
any indelicate words in your dictionary.
SJ to young admirers: what, my dears! Have you been searching for them?
David Goodman, Ph.D,
On 5/9/10 3:16 AM, Casey Brown wrote:
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Mark Ryanultrab...@gmail.com wrote:
I have to agree with you, Anthere. It's starting to look like over
time the role of the board has evolved from broad guidance and
administration to some sort of twisted version of enwp's
On 5/8/10 12:15 AM, Ting Chen wrote:
What I can say to your questions is that Jimmy informed the board about
his intention and asked the board for support. Don't speaking for other
board members, just speak for myself. I answered his mail with that I
fully support his engagement.
Personally,
On 5/9/10 1:42 AM, Svip wrote:
On 9 May 2010 01:01, Florence Devouardanthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 5/8/10 7:31 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
I'm not defending such a criterion, and I do not believe that such a
criterion informed Jimmy's actions. Jimmy can speak better than I can on
what he was
On 4/21/10 6:43 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Dear world: Help wanted. Plz send a rowboat and a few paddles.
mode throwing ideas in the basket
Have you thought of setting up a travel in balloon such as Jean-Louis
Etienne
http://www.jeanlouisetienne.com/generali_arctic_observer/en/
and asking
I'll engage myself on all of them (GFDL presumed)
I am tagging the 370. Already did 200 today. Will finish the last 170 by
hand tomorrow. That's a fascinating job.
Ant
On 2/20/10 6:54 AM, The Cunctator wrote:
Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other
Nathan wrote:
I wasn't there, but I'll echo Erik, Ting and Jerry - from everything
I've read, the organizers did a great job and really represented the
Wikimedia community well. Thanks for your hard work and
congratulations on a job well done.
Nathan
Kropotkine_113 wrote:
Thank you very much all of you (Brigitte SB, Ting Chen, Mickael Snow and
others).
To close my participation in this thread I just add three points :
...
- Even more important point is the cultural gap between Foundation's
intentions and communication, which are very
Ting Chen wrote:
Hi Thomas,
one year ago when I run for the board election I came with the same
proposal as you. Meanwhile I have changed my oppinion. The problem is
that this would not work out.
I totally agree with you that voting is the minor part of the board
decision making
Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
Hi everybody,
We're still in the process of getting up to speed, but I'm anxious to
start interacting with more of you and garnering some feedback as we
prepare to initiate this process. As a way to get to know each other
and talk about the process, Philippe and I
I can not help share this with you.
I was looking for the name devouard in a little tool I just discovered
today (TouchGraph).
And I was surprised to discover that the word devouard was highly
linked to the Hoggar plateau (Ahaggar) in Algeria. I consequently
clicked on the central point
Michael Bimmler wrote:
Dear all,
I would like to use this opportunity to say Goodbye to all of you,
because my involvement with Wikimedia is now coming to an end. I could
make this a long email, taking about my time here and giving my
opinion and advice about the state and future of the
effe iets anders wrote:
Hi Veronique,
thanks for posting this. In Part VI, question 82b, it is mentioned that
333,125 USD was donated in kind. Can you confirm that this does not include
the volunteer contributions to Wikipedia? (assume not, or at least hope that
it's not valued that low ;-)
Michael Bimmler wrote:
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
Why would you let this spam through?
No one approved it (see headers, there is no Approved-on line). But I
found a legacy entry in the Always accept posts from these
non-members filter for
Robert Rohde wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
Michael Snow wrote:
This is the statement on trademarks mentioned earlier. It both states
the approach we want the Wikimedia Foundation to take and directs the
staff to carry it out. It basically
Someone asked me a question on the French wikipedia and to be fair, I am
not sure what to answer.
The CURRENT text of the licencing proposition gives a link to
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Whilst the text of the resolution adopted in december 2007
Florence Devouard wrote:
Someone asked me a question on the French wikipedia and to be fair, I am
not sure what to answer.
The CURRENT text of the licencing proposition gives a link to
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Whilst the text of the resolution adopted in december
Jim Redmond wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:11, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
By the way, is that completely normal that the site notice on the
english wikipedia is occupied by Wikimania scholarship rather than by
the change of licence ?
With all due respect to Wikimania
Sue Gardner wrote:
So .. that is my rough, quick recap of where I think we're at.
In terms of next steps – as I said, I'll be speaking about this issue
with the board in early April. This is just an interim note: Please
feel free to help me further my thinking on all this -particularly #1
David Gerard wrote:
http://xkcd.com/547/
- d.
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Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
i dont think the argument here is that people can make money from commons
and the pictures etc, its the fact (as i see it) that a commercial site
has
a link from the french wikipedia side bar to their site to make a profit.
what is the difference between this and
Michael Snow wrote:
Florence Devouard wrote:
For example, on meta, Wikimedia NYC is listed as chapters, not
subchapters. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City. And
the name does not clarify the difference either (it could have been
mandatory that names used be of the type
I was wondering myself.
I thought this information would be in the FAQ, but it is not.
Two questions.
First, the annual meeting.
We hold an annual meeting between all chapters and WMF.
Already, because of the number of chapters, it is recommanded that only
one representant of all chapters come
Guillaume Paumier wrote:
Hello,
[it might be useful to move this topic to a dedicated thread if it goes on]
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com
wrote:
We hold an annual meeting between all chapters and WMF.
Already, because of the number of chapters
Sebastian Moleski wrote:
Hi Florence,
First, when a meeting occur with say, 25 people, there is room for
discussions and work. When a meeting occur with 100 people, much less.
Last year was fine. This year will probably be okay in terms of figures.
But every year will become more and more
Ting Chen wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
The territofy for the Dutch chapter ends officially at the border between
Belgium and the Netherlands.
I don't see it necessary to be must so. As you have said, it is unlikely
that there would be a Belgium chapter. So if the community support the
Sebastian Moleski wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com
wrote:
I don't agree that that's necessarily the case. It's entirely within
the realm of possibility for a chapter (board) to appoint a
representative who can make decisions/vote on behalf
Delphine Ménard wrote:
[OT]
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 13:34, Sebastian Moleski seb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com
wrote:
It is interesting how the power distance thing is playing out here. :)
I'm not getting the reference. Can you
Mike Godwin wrote:
Florence writes:
The chapters has agreement with the WMF that they may in their area
negotiate with third parties on use of wikimedia project logos and
names.
Actually, that's a pretty optimistic view of the situation.
The very largest majority of chapters do not have
Nathan wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/1/20 Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de:
Not quite. One criteria is that the chapters should have well defined
geographical areas and they should not overlap. So an Amsterdam chapter
beside a Dutch chapter
Michael Snow wrote:
I've been assembling my notes from last week's board meeting to pass
along. The first set of items I have to report is business from the
chapters committee. All of these resolutions have been posted on the
foundation website.
We approved two new chapters, and there's
May it bring each of you happiness.
Ant
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Florence Devouard wrote:
May it bring each of you happiness.
Ant
Lodewijk pointed out (with reason) that I was much shorter this year
than last year.
I'd like to propose you a small and easy game.
New year, yet another year... you certainly do not have a LOT of time.
But you certainly
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Florence Devouard wrote:
Birgitte SB wrote:
I am strongly against collaborating with Westernish governments to help
make their censorship more effective. I personally don't think we should
help anyone make their censorship more effective. But if we
Sue Gardner wrote:
Hey folks,
Here is the RTTB for October. November will follow soon :-)
Enjoy!
Sue
Report to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Covering: October 2008
Prepared by:Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Prepared for:
geni wrote:
2008/12/8 Florence Devouard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A link
http://stats.grok.se/en/200812/Virgin_Killer
Ant
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