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
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,
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]]
*
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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
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)
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