Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

2012-12-24 Thread Steven Zhang
I too am baffled. Sent from my iPhone On 24/12/2012, at 5:42 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Whereas I'm confused. On Monday, 24 December 2012, James Salsman wrote: Kat Walsh Chair Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation In accordance with your discretionary power to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] No access to the Uzbek Wikipedia in Uzbekistan

2012-12-24 Thread Anonymous User
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Is it enough to set the link rel=canonical, or is it also necessary to redirect? When I asked the nice folks at Google's search team, they answered me the following: * The best answer would for them to use

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

2012-12-24 Thread Deryck Chan
Wait, fundraising is finishing early this year? Last time I heard anything, the storytelling team is still desperately scrambling new appeals to try out within this fundraiser. Correct me if I'm misinformed. Deryck On Dec 24, 2012 6:00 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 24,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

2012-12-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ahem. :-) James Salsman, 24/12/2012 07:33: [snip] whereas because of their low levels of compensation, junior foundation technical staff are often unable to afford housing which does not involve a lengthy commute from unsavory neighborhoods;[11] (Only) this interested me. Too bad

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

2012-12-24 Thread Chris Keating
What an odd resolution to post. But Just on this point whereas because of their low levels of compensation, junior foundation technical staff are often unable to afford housing which does not involve a lengthy commute from unsavory neighborhoods;[11] [11]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

2012-12-24 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: What an odd resolution to post. Agreed. But Just on this point whereas because of their low levels of compensation, junior foundation technical staff are often unable to afford housing which does not involve

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

2012-12-24 Thread Anders Wennersten
Ahem 2 Federico Leva (Nemo) skrev 2012-12-24 12:46: Ahem. :-) James Salsman, 24/12/2012 07:33: [snip] sufficient staff can be added to the Education Program so that program article talk page templates can be provided with their correct academic calendar dates; the Wikimania

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] List admin

2012-12-24 Thread David Gerard
For en:wp-specific material, don't forget there's wikien-l. Filled with cranky old users with important advice to ignore! -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk Date: 24 December 2012 13:10 Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] List admin To: English Wikipedia

[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Local Event in Kosovo

2012-12-24 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi there, there is an upcoming local event in kosovo that I would ilke to tell you about. if anyone is interested in taking part in this , please tell me and or arianit. Also we are interested in getting swag from wikimedia as well for this. Arianit is organizing this. (website is coming) :

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

2012-12-24 Thread James Salsman
Federico, Thank you for your very helpful reply. I'm sorry, I didn't realize that Glassdoor.com results were client location specific. You can use a proxy terminating in the U.S. to read about Wikimedia Foundation employee satisfaction and compensation relative to other San Francisco technology

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

2012-12-24 Thread Thomas Morton
From a good governance point of view maximum is a bad idea. This motion would introduce so very poor governance ideas without clear aims. Tom On Monday, December 24, 2012, James Salsman wrote: Federico, Thank you for your very helpful reply. I'm sorry, I didn't realize that Glassdoor.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

2012-12-24 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
While I think I would definitely like to see WMF raise resources besides the year-to-year needs so as to gradually build an endowment fund (clearly it would have to be clear to the donors when contributing) I believe that trying to maximize the fundraising each year could be dangerous (jeopardize

Re: [Wikimedia-l] fundraising status?

2012-12-24 Thread Samuel Klein
James, Merry Christmas. I feel most of your points have already been addressed. Two quick comments, that others also asked about: * As Zack noted earlier this month, banners are down until the end-of-year push. This has not changed. From December 26 to Dec 31 we'll begin showing banners again