Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

2013-06-12 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-06-11 14:09, Fred Bauder a écrit : There will always be humans maintaining the system who must, in order to do their work, have potential access to everything. A potential access to everything is a so vast and vague assertion that it practicaly denote nothing. Also, one could come

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH is hiring two new staff

2013-06-12 Thread Chris Keating
That sounds interesting! What does a Chapter's Chief Scientific Officer do? On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:05:45 +0200 Von:Chantal Ebongué

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH is hiring two new staff

2013-06-12 Thread Ilario Valdelli
https://www.wikimedia.ch/scientific-director Reporting directly to the board and working in close collaboration with the Chief Administrative Officer, the CSO will be responsible for all the free knowledge related projects conducted inside the association. He/she will work with the community,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee first progress reports

2013-06-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Katy Love, 11/06/2013 22:52: [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Staff_summary/Progress_report_form/Q1 Funny: «WMF notes [stats]», «WMFR claims [stats]». Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee first progress reports

2013-06-12 Thread Craig Franklin
Given that this is an assessment that is being performed by paid staff, I think it's unreasonable to think that the staff would issue more than very mild criticism (Your report is so great it makes everyone else look terrible!), even if the report was so poor as to deserve criticism. I'm not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies

2013-06-12 Thread J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
Alex 2013/6/6 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com Ziko van Dijk, 06/06/2013 15:00: I also think that it should not be seen as blasphemy when someone suggests to reconsider a Wikimedia project. (Remember Asaf's session in Milan.) Isn't Wikispecies not already redundant because in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee first progress reports

2013-06-12 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Katy, thanks for sharing. As a minor suggestion, to me it would be helpful if you could be a little more specific than 'we' in your responses. Are you in those instances speaking for your own (with your specific expertise), for a group of WMF staffers, for the FDC, for the whole Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Language Engineering office hour on 2013-06-12 at 17:00 UTC/10:00 PDT

2013-06-12 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Reminder: This office hour will be in a little over an hour from the time of sending. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: Event Details # Date: 2013-06-12 # Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT #IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

2013-06-12 Thread Samuel Klein
I encourage everyone to join the StopWatching campaign, individually. It also seems like the right thing for Wikimedia to stand for; our projects are among the more prominent supporters of anonymous and pseudonymous knowledge-work on the web. SJ On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Luis Villa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies

2013-06-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, A species database does not contain the same information you are likely to find in an encyclopaedia. When you want to be comprehensive in a database about species, you will include many revisions of genera, of species and more. When you care about such things, have a look at IPNI. Thanks,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiData and WikiSpecies

2013-06-12 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Ah, thanks for the information. And this encyclopedia of life, isn't that the project suitable? Kind regards Ziko Ziko van Dijk voorzitter / president Wikimedia Nederland deputy chair Wikimedia Chapters Association

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH is hiring two new staff

2013-06-12 Thread Mike Peel
Isn't that more program/project management rather than science? Thanks, Mike On 12 Jun 2013, at 10:53, Ilario Valdelli wrote: https://www.wikimedia.ch/scientific-director Reporting directly to the board and working in close collaboration with the Chief Administrative Officer, the CSO

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

2013-06-12 Thread Fred Bauder
Le 2013-06-11 14:09, Fred Bauder a écrit : There will always be humans maintaining the system who must, in order to do their work, have potential access to everything. A potential access to everything is a so vast and vague assertion that it practicaly denote nothing. Also, one could come

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH is hiring two new staff

2013-06-12 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I don't know exactly the selection of this definition, but I suppose that it has been due to the choice to don't be project manager because any project has its own project manager. He is project manager in some cases but for other projects is mainly a supervisor. About the projects I would