[teampractices] [FYI] Analysis of Public and Private email lists

2015-07-27 Thread Kevin Smith
Last month, I did a quick analysis of how Team Practices was using its public and private mailing lists. The results are here[1]. The nutshell summary is that TPG (during the period that was analyzed) used its private list much more than the public list. In many cases, we could have been more open

[teampractices] [FYI] Coloniality (a presentation from Wikimania)

2015-07-27 Thread Kevin Smith
While at Wikimania, I attended a talk titled "Coloniality of Power in Wikimedia". It was an intentionally provocative look at how the WMF, and the broader movement are treating the "Global South". Coloniality is a descendent of colonialism, and if I can paraphrase, refers to some powerful group as