Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread James Forrester
On 9 February 2012 23:49, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org wrote: Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new department called the “Legal and Community Advocacy Department.”  This new alignment recognizes that we can combine the best of legal and community

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Maggie Dennis to continue with WMF

2012-01-20 Thread James Forrester
On 20 January 2012 19:55, 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 Wikimedia Foundation. Fab news. Congratulations, Maggie (or, rather, congratulations,

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Announcement of Jury and invitation to bid

2012-01-12 Thread James Forrester
Dear all, As promised, for Wikimania 2013[0] I hereby announce the Jury[1] to select the winning bid, and invite everyone to consider putting a bid[2] together: == Jury == * [[User:80686|Manuel Schneider]] * [[User:Beria|Béria Lima]] * [[User:Deror avi|Deror Avi]] *

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Announcement of Jury and invitation to bid

2012-01-12 Thread James Forrester
On 12 January 2012 20:03, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2012 19:52, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com wrote: To re-iterate my comment in November, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia community would love to see as many good bids as possible. There are already a few

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

2011-11-23 Thread James Forrester
Dear all, It's getting towards the end of November, which means it is time to run the Wikimania bidding process for 2013[0]. Given the traditional absence of a formal system, I'm putting myself forward as Jury[1] co-ordinator - a non-voting person who helps the Jury form and Bids get started up,

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

2011-11-23 Thread James Forrester
On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede janb...@wikimedia.org wrote: In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on different bids which never made it (even though they were pretty good). Could this be the year that we change this procedure and try to do things

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 - Request for Bids and Jury nominations

2011-11-23 Thread James Forrester
On 23 November 2011 19:31, Jan-Bart de Vreede janb...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 23 nov. 2011, at 20:17, James Forrester wrote: On 23 November 2011 19:07, Jan-Bart de Vreede janb...@wikimedia.org wrote: In the past years I have seen a lot of people spend a lot of time on different bids which

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Fabrice Florin and Oliver Keyes

2011-10-24 Thread James Forrester
On 24 October 2011 08:40, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Everyone, I am pleased to announce that we have two contractors joining the Technology team.  Fabrice Florin will be joining us for the next six months as Product Consultant, leading the development of the next version of the

Re: [Foundation-l] roadmap for WM affiliation ; a name for self-identified affiliation

2011-07-15 Thread James Forrester
On 14 July 2011 23:33, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: I can envision something like an Open Knowledge Project or some other umbrella initiative, aimed at forging links between like-minded organizations who wish to associate without losing independence or explicitly taking responsibility for

Re: [Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister?

2011-06-03 Thread James Forrester
On 3 June 2011 19:22, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 June 2011 13:11, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 3 June 2011 10:00, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I too would like to see the development of a process for global banning of users who have created serious

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia at events

2011-06-02 Thread James Forrester
On 2 June 2011 03:25, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Samuel Klein wrote: I'd like to see this for more than just the Foundation - any event where wikimedians have a presence - but this is a great place to start. I started a (very bad) page at Meta-Wiki for future events:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikisource and reCAPTCHA

2010-06-24 Thread James Forrester
On 24 June 2010 15:37, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: I love those proofreading features, and the new default layout for a book's pages and TOC.  Wikisource is becoming AWESOME. Ahem. Even more awesome, you mean. :-) Do we have PGDP contributors who can weigh on on how similar the

Re: [Foundation-l] Floating a notion: permanent Wikimania committee?

2010-06-17 Thread James Forrester
On 17 June 2010 23:48, susanpgard...@gmail.com wrote: (James Owen, not Forrester. I actually don't know if James Forrester is coming this year, although now that I think of it, maybe he is one of the train-travelling people?) I am, to both counts, and you can rely on me turning up

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 announcement

2010-05-12 Thread James Forrester
On 12 May 2010 20:18, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: Sue Gardner wrote: And thanks to the jury and its moderators: Mariano, Austin, Mako, Teemu, Delphine, James, Joseph, Stu, Phoebe, James Cary.  I know we all appreciate your hard work.  (James definitely had some late nights, and

Re: [Foundation-l] Why can't we have $12.5 million for Wikispecies?

2009-08-26 Thread James Forrester
2009/8/26 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Tisza Gergőgti...@gmail.com wrote: EOL is an encyclopedia, Wikispecies is just a raw taxonomy, which is totally useless to the average reader. It is also useless to most readers interested in taxonomies, because it

Re: [Foundation-l] Why can't we have $12.5 million for Wikispecies?

2009-08-26 Thread James Forrester
2009/8/26 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:41 AM, James Forresterja...@jdforrester.org wrote: I think the point is that the fundamental design of MediaWiki - around a single block of unstructured information - is not useful for a semantic project like WSp; there

Re: [Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

2009-08-25 Thread James Forrester
2009/8/25 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: membership organizations.  Wales was right when he said that the community is irrelevant. When did Jimmy say that? I rather suspect you are taking something he said out of

Re: [Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

2009-08-25 Thread James Forrester
2009/8/25 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:57 PM, James Forrester ja...@jdforrester.orgwrote: 2009/8/25 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: membership organizations.  Wales was right when he said

Re: [Foundation-l] Email list archives

2009-08-16 Thread James Forrester
2009/8/15 Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton...@gmail.com: We've, recently, discussed about this on WikimediaBR-l and someone pointed out Google Groups archiving solution. http://groups.google.com/group/wikimediabr-l/topics For me the main usability of using Google Groups is for making

Re: [Foundation-l] Positive mention of Wikimedia sites in a web privacy study:

2009-08-12 Thread James Forrester
2009/8/12 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com: Feature Request Aside : I would appreciate having a preference to turn on aggressive use tracking for myself -- to provide me with personal statistics about my own site usage.  Currently there's nothing other than a watchlist (or hand-created/edited

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-08 Thread James Forrester
2009/8/9 Kat Walsh mindspill...@gmail.com: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Now, if we really think of a _totally badass title_ before we get the business cards printed up I'm open to changing it, but honestly I like it and it fits the role I see for

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-07 Thread James Forrester
2009/8/7 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org: On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously when communicating with others. A Head Software Architect will probably be taken more seriously than a Senior Software Architect, since the

Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread James Forrester
2009/7/12 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com: What an insult, Derrick only rates a solicitor As opposed to a barrister? You're mistaken; solicitors would be involved in such matters before going to court. Barristers would only be instructed by the solicitors when they were going to court (or,

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Chapter Selected Board Seats

2009-05-22 Thread James Forrester
2009/5/22 Jan-Bart de Vreede janb...@wikimedia.org: [Snip] Please join me in welcoming Arne to the board and congratulating Michael on his re-appointment. On behalf of the board I would like to thank all those involved in facilitating the process and making these appointments possible.

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

2009-03-26 Thread James Forrester
2009/3/26 Casey Brown cbrown1023...@gmail.com: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote: My own suggestion would be to use individual blocks but to have them be like type pieces from a printing press. Though actual proposals for new logos will be accepted

Re: [Foundation-l] History splitting (main namespace)

2009-02-13 Thread James Forrester
2009/2/13 Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se: When we renamed [[en:Angola/History]] to [[en:History of Angola]] (after it was decided that subpages was a bad idea), we copied the text, because back then there was no way to rename a page. In the revision history, it looks as if I (user:LA2)