[Wikimedia-l] reasonable compensation near the mid-point of the tech sector

2013-07-09 Thread James Salsman
Gayle, Page 26 of the 2013-4 Annual Plan says that you have optimized Wikimedia's value proposition [with] reasonable compensation near the mid-point of the tech sector. How much of a change to previous compensation scales pegged to the nonprofit sector does that represent in percentage terms?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] reasonable compensation near the mid-point of the tech sector

2013-07-09 Thread Tomasz W. Kozlowski
James Salsman wrote: How much of a change to previous compensation scales pegged to the nonprofit sector does that represent in percentage terms? If I understand correctly, it's been requested that questions are asked at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget#2013-14, so

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Advocacy Advisors] WMF response to PRISM?

2013-07-09 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:07 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Luis Villa wrote: ... I'll probably post some more details on the talk page in the next day or two, but suffice to say that we continue to listen for options that are aligned with our values and likely to have an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2013-07-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Answer came in the annual plan: «Product and Engineering will be split into two departments, to bring additional leadership strength to the organization and to rebalance the senior team so one person doesn’t need to represent both disciplines. We will invest further staffing resources in both

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2013-07-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Tilman Bayer, 09/07/2013 07:00: Hi all, the Wikimedia Foundation's 2013-14 Annual Plan has just been published at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2013-2014_WMF_Plan_As_Published.pdf accompanied by a QA:

[Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

2013-07-09 Thread Tomasz W. Kozlowski
content copyrighted by others. RIA Novosti has more information on the subject: http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130709/182150416/Russian-Wikipedia-Faces-Ban-Due-to-Anti-Piracy-Law--Director.html I'm CC-ing the advocacy advisors mailing list because this lies within their area of expertise; when

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

2013-07-09 Thread Fred Bauder
://en.ria.ru/russia/20130709/182150416/Russian-Wikipedia-Faces-Ban-Due-to-Anti-Piracy-Law--Director.html I'm CC-ing the advocacy advisors mailing list because this lies within their area of expertise; when responding to this e-mail, please make sure to include both lists. -- Tomasz

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

2013-07-09 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 07/09/2013 08:37 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: How is that not theft that we are facilitating? Because theft, is to deprive, temporarily or absolutely, the owner of it, or a person who has a special property or interest in it, of the thing or of his property or interest in it. In some jurisdiction,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

2013-07-09 Thread Fred Bauder
On 07/09/2013 08:37 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: How is that not theft that we are facilitating? Because theft, is to deprive, temporarily or absolutely, the owner of it, or a person who has a special property or interest in it, of the thing or of his property or interest in it. In some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

2013-07-09 Thread Risker
Well, not wanting to wade into that pirates' little helpers snarkiness, but it takes 30 seconds from anywhere on the web to find a copyright violation. Maybe a bit longer if you have a slow connection. Risker On 9 July 2013 23:36, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: On 07/09/2013 08:37

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

2013-07-09 Thread Fred Bauder
On 9 July 2013 23:46, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Well, not wanting to wade into that pirates' little helpers snarkiness, but it takes 30 seconds from anywhere on the web to find a copyright violation. Maybe a bit longer if you have a slow connection. Risker True

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

2013-07-09 Thread Phil Nash
- Original Message - From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again On 07/09/2013 08:37 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: How is that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

2013-07-09 Thread Fred Bauder
- Original Message - From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again On 07/09/2013 08:37 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: How is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

2013-07-09 Thread Phil Nash
- Original Message - From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 6:01 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again - Original Message - From: Fred Bauder

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Advocacy Advisors] WMF response to PRISM?

2013-07-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Luis Villa, 09/07/2013 21:41: I discussed this a bit yesterday in the talk page and will flesh that out more, but the specific concern (raised here, on the blog, and in the talk page) is that stopwatching is too US-focused. [...] Have WMNYC and WMDC considered supporting it? It's unclear to me