Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

2014-04-10 23:20 GMT+02:00 Bence Damokos : > Hi all, > > It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations > Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served > as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the > committee for a o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

Thank you, Bence! And I am also glad you will remain in the AffCom. Congratulations, Carlos and Cythia. I really need to keep in touch with you for Korean Wikimedia user group. Kind regards, Cheol, Chair of Korean Wikimedia Chapter Preparation Committee 2014. 4. 11., 오전 6:20, Bence Damokos 작성

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

Thanks, Bence, for your work! And congrats Carlos and Cinthia! Looking forward to work with you. Patricio 2014-04-10 21:08 GMT-03:00 Gregory Varnum : > I have been incredibly impressed with Bence's leadership of AffCom (and I > don't offe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

I have been incredibly impressed with Bence's leadership of AffCom (and I don't offer that praise lightly). It was not an easy year to be chair, and he handled it with a level of grace and wisdom which I envy. I appreciate everything you continue to do for our movement. Carlos and Cynthia have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages

There's a tool for that: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/index.php Check the third row ("Top 1000 items with missing articles"). On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:47 PM, PiRSquared17 wrote: > On 4/10/14, Chris McKenna wrote: > > I'm no expert, but I would expect that finding which articl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

Congratulations Carlos and Cynthia, and thank you Bence for your work. El 2014-04-10 23:20, Bence Damokos escribió: Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair),

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

Congratulations to Carlos and Cynthia. :-) Bence, the decisions made by Affcom are not always easy or happy ones for volunteers, and I am grateful for the care you take bearing this responsibility. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

Bence! Thank you very much for all the valuable work that you did for the AffCom and for the movement as a whole in your role as a chair. And also for being such a helpful mentor and reliable friend when it comes to all those questions, ideas and discussions around all things Wikimedia. I am glad t

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: March 2014

*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org. *This

[Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the committee for a one year term ending in April 2015. I am happy to leav

[Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages

On 4/10/14, Chris McKenna wrote: > I'm no expert, but I would expect that finding which articles are and are > not present in a given set of Wikipedias would be an easy task now that > Wikidata handles all the interwiki links. > > Chris You are right. There is already even a request for a specia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Wikidata, because many people there wrote translations of articles, and > adding interlanguage links was easy and natural. Click "Add links", pick a > language, write the title, that's it. Two years ago I would have to explain > about square

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK monthly report, February 2014

Hi everyone, Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 28th February 2014. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog , join a UK mailing list, and/or follow us on Twitter

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

On 10 April 2014 16:23, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: ... > I do not think that decentralized funding is very good against corruption. ... I would add a far more common issue than fraud, and one that costs us far, far more money. Competent management. Our Foundation and Chapters make mistakes, all o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

hi, it is an interesting and worthwhile discussion. I do not think that decentralized funding is very good against corruption. It does have a number of advantages, but it is not one of them. Actually, I think that the risks of corruption increase with the number of entities and people able to comm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

Imo having a centralized funding model is very good against corruption (we had a couple of cases already and unfortunately we will some in the future) As a side comment, it would be nice if we could learn the total donations/country figures ( for example: Hungary 2013: $12,345.67) If this info is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Anders Wennersten wrote: > Thanks Ting for some very interesting thoughts and for giving a few ideas > of alternative set up of the movement. It ought to be a good input to the > session"re-imagine Wikipedia movement" on Saturday at the Chapter Meeitng > > My refl

[Wikimedia-l] Kadamba Dynasty

12th century  Kadamba Jayakesi I, Velliapura site in present day Velim,  South Goa .    There is lot of information translated by Kannada language experts  from ancient stone inscriptions on Velliapura of which they themselves don’t know the whereabouts of this place, as this place being under P

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

Hi, > Message du 10/04/14 15:28 > De : "Anders Wennersten" > A : wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure > (...) And I would be unhappy if the divergence between project became too big, POV paid editing etc we wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

Thanks Ting for some very interesting thoughts and for giving a few ideas of alternative set up of the movement. It ought to be a good input to the session"re-imagine Wikipedia movement" on Saturday at the Chapter Meeitng My reflection is that you are discussing a more decentralized approach,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

Thanks for this Ting. I won't offer an opinion but this is certainly food for thought and will no doubt generate discussion. When you say "Who remembers CHIP?", what are you referring to? I don't remember anything called CHIP but I was not very active in movement organisations before 2 years ago.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

Ting, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Ting Chen wrote: > Hello dear all, I believe you have sent this to the wrong list. I believe applications for the Executive Director position were supposed to be sent to j...@wikimedia.org ... but good luck with your application all the same ... some inte

[Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

Hello dear all, now the second mail Funding of international operating organizations is a very complicated issue. The Wikimedia movement is not the first and not the last one to face this topic. There are as many models on how this can be handled as there are international organizations. C

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

And I'd like to thank those who are working on making default settings saner, because at the last presentation I gave in March I could just tell them how easy it is for them to follow what happens to pages after their edits.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

With due thanks, I would like to specifically point to these two bugs, as I believe they're changing the style of talking unnecessarily. I would like you to see the potential for fixing these early. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49446 - Notifications: Linking a username in an E

[Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages (was Re: ELWP reaches 100000 articles)

I'm no expert, but I would expect that finding which articles are and are not present in a given set of Wikipedias would be an easy task now that Wikidata handles all the interwiki links. Chris On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Stevie Benton wrote: This is excellent news, well done to everyone involved!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles

This is excellent news, well done to everyone involved! It's actually got me thinking a little. I wonder if it would be possible to do a study of the, say, 50 largest Wikipedias and get a handle on which articles are shared across all of them. This could then be used to analyse where there are gap

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles

Outstanding. Well done everyone. On 10 April 2014 06:39, Nurunnaby Chowdhury wrote: > Wow..congratulations.. > > -- > Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive > Sysop, Bengali Wikipedia > Member, IEG Committee > Sent from my Android Tablet > On Apr 10, 2014 3:19 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" > wrote: > > > Callooh!