Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] A decision in Commons regarding URAA affected files

2014-04-04 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, Sorry, sent too fast. ;o) I think I need to explain the whole history of the issue. 1. On 22 February 2014, Alan started the Request for comment (RfC) on whether we should host URAA-affected files, and restored previously deleted ones (around 4,300 of them). [1] 2. On 28 February 2014,

[Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread
Proposal: Paid volunteers should take care to identify themselves on Wikimedia Projects and discussions related to Wikimedia Projects. Sue Gardner's initial report by the WMF into the Belfer case makes a key decision that there must be effective processes for escalation of employee activities

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Perhaps I'm just being obtuse, but I'm a little unclear on the definition of a paid volunteer. Could you possibly try rephrasing it so that I'm more clear? pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 |

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread Richard Symonds
A bit of unsolicited advice from a chapter staff member and long-time volunteer coming up. It doesn't represent my view on this proposal, but is, as I said, simply unsolicited advice! Feel free to ignore it if you want. Here we go... It seems to me that the term 'paid volunteer' is an oxymoron.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread Gryllida
On Fri, 4 Apr 2014, at 22:14, Fæ wrote: *Definition of paid volunteer:* Paid volunteers are employees, contractors or part time contractors of Wikimedia organizations or other organizations having agreements or partnerships with Wikimedia. The paid volunteer contributes to Wikimedia projects

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I can understand the sentiment and, it makes some sense. However, I do not like weasel words ... paid employees.. Bah They are not volunteering. They are on a job, have a mission. I think that employees of any organisations may work for the benefit of bringing the sum of all knowledge

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread
On 4 April 2014 14:05, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: ... It seems to me that the term 'paid volunteer' is an oxymoron. ... Yes, it is oxymoronic, many common terms are, though I am open to an alternative form of words. I understand that volunteers who are also employees

[Wikimedia-l] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on April 09, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC

2014-04-04 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
[x-posted] Hello, The Language Engineering team will be hosting the next monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, April 9 2014 at 1700 UTC at #wikimedia-office. We will be discussing about our recent work and provide updates related to changes in the translation file format (PHP to JSON) for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread
On 4 April 2014 14:33, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2014, at 22:14, Fæ wrote: *Definition of paid volunteer:* Paid volunteers are employees, contractors or part time contractors of Wikimedia organizations or other organizations having agreements or partnerships with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread Richard Symonds
Just a quick correction, you say that Even a paid researcher on a university project would not meet this definition, unless the project were part funded or in partnership with Wikimedia. This is not quite accurate: even a student on a university project would meet this definition if his

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread
On 04/04/2014, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Just a quick correction, you say that Even a paid researcher on a university project would not meet this definition, unless the project were part funded or in partnership with Wikimedia. This is not quite accurate: even a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread
Yann, the nuclear industry controversy was more the issue of control/ownership of content (which can happen on Commons, for example the news today about attempts to restrict reuse of Barack Obama's image). It is a tangent to this proposal. If you have other examples and think current project

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-04-04 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from Monday's quarterly review meeting of the Foundation's Analytics team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Analytics/March_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

2014-04-04 Thread James Salsman
Hi Geoff, Your link to http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=120703,00.html in [1], which is cited in turn at [2], is dead, and archive.org won't show me what it used to be for some reason. Do you please have a current link for the IRS regulations concerning political advocacy by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

2014-04-04 Thread Pete Forsyth
James, do we need to take Geoff's time up with something so thoroughly documented elsewhere? I'd suggest starting with this web site: http://www.clpi.org/ Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:17 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Geoff, Your link to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

2014-04-04 Thread Tilman Bayer
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:17 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Geoff, Your link to http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=120703,00.html in [1], which is cited in turn at [2], is dead, and archive.org won't show me what it used to be for some reason. Just on a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

2014-04-04 Thread James Salsman
Thanks, Tillman, I still get the error below and a timeout from archive.org, so a Wikimedia annotated copy would really help. I am specifically interested in which items in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-March/000420.html are precluded. We have redesigned the