In two hours (at 0500 CEST) and tomorrow (2100 Sunday), there will be a
community discussion of the proposed Wikimedia rebrand, organized by some
affiliates (not by the WMF). I'll be there.
We are meeting in part to confirm that there is no silent group of
affiliates who are enthusiastic about the change. [One of the early
statistics presented was of a large number of 'supportive' affiliates,
where the support seems to have been "sure, work through this process if it
is a sincere collaboration on finding good new names".]
Last post by me on this topic; back to regularly scheduled offlining,
SJ
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From: Pharos
Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 2:31 PM
Subject: [All-affiliates] June 21 All-Affiliates Brand Meeting
To: Wikimedia Affiliates
All Wikimedia affiliates are invited to join an urgent meeting on the Brand
Project in two sessions on Sunday June 21, regarding the most recent
developments. This has been proposed and discussed on the "Wiki User Groups
Affiliates" Telegram channel.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/All-Affiliates_Brand_Meeting
3:00 UTC (Asia-Pacific friendly time - https://zonestamp.com/1592708427)
https://meet.google.com/mff-bsiy-tvd
19:00 UTC (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly time -
https://zonestamp.com/1592766035)
https://meet.google.com/hjq-ptwx-aex
Please see proposed agenda, and sign up with your affiliate here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/All-Affiliates_Brand_Meeting
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 9:15 PM Samuel Klein wrote:
> Florence - yes, I see that.
>
> Emmanuel - No need to spend much time on this process; but a quick filling
> out of the survey indicating dissatisfaction with every option will help
> close off this possibility for creative use of statistics.
>
> For those who do want to discuss this briefly w/ other affiliates (rather
> than w/ staff), see my following message.
>
> Warmly, S
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 3:24 AM Emmanuel Engelhart
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Florence
>>
>> Thank you for keeping us up-to-date with this process.
>>
>> On 17.06.20 20:08, Florence Devouard wrote:
>> > So, the Brand Team is moving on and has announced a short list of
>> > proposals to rename Wikimedia Foundation, UG and such to remove the word
>> > "Wikimedia"
>>
>> I hope I'm properly informed, but AFAIK there is an extremely strong
>> majority (almost a consensus) within the community against replacing
>> "Wikimedia" with "Wikipedia" in our orgs naming. cf.
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Should_the_Foundation_call_itself_Wikipedia
>>
>> But it seems that the process continues without taking in account the
>> result of this survey. To me, this seems not fair.
>>
>> Considering that offline activities are booming, in particular because
>> of the Covid19 pandemic and therefore we have a lot to do anyway, I
>> wonder why exactly I should invest more time on this process?!
>>
>> Regards
>> Emmanuel
>>
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