Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of volunteers. (Was: How many volunteers (not editors) ...?)

2014-07-02 Thread Pine W
Hm. If we're assigning some special status to Meta-level committees, there are many more of them in addition to the Board, AffCom and FDC. Just to name some of them: we have 4 grants committees that I know of, the board's Audit Committee which has some non-Board members, the Research Committee,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rethink of observability

2014-07-02 Thread Pine W
Hi Mingli, may I suggest that you post some of your interesting thoughts in IdeaLab so that others can work with them and build on them? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Idealab Pine On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the addendum. :-)

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia España (WM Spain) Report March and April 2014

2014-07-02 Thread Jorge Sierra
Dear fellows, Here is the Activity Report of Wikimedia España (WMES) for the months of March and April 2014. The report is also avaliable on this link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a/2014-03-04 Kind regards, -- Jorge A. Sierra Presidente

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering

2014-07-02 Thread Pierre-Selim
Hi Carlos, thanks for the press release. I just want to point out that as pictures are all CC-BY-SA it photographer should be credited in order to respect the licence (or other terms should be negociated with the copyright holder). It sounds weird to me that in a press release we open the gate of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering

2014-07-02 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi Pierre, Your point is well made. We often see a misunderstanding of fair use licensing in the media: they frequently don't license at all, and when they do, they often license incorrectly. Using niceties like Please consider is not meant to introduce ambiguity about whether licensing is

[Wikimedia-l] I just signed “FIFA: Build a memorial to honour the workers who lost their lives building the stadiums”

2014-07-02 Thread koteche mcintosh
Hi, I've just signed the following petition FIFA: Build a memorial to honour the workers who lost their lives building the stadiums and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name. Our goal is to reach 75,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I just signed “FIFA: Build a memorial to honour the workers who lost their lives building the stadiums”

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Ames
Off topic. Please don't send such mails to this list. Regards, Richard. On 03/07/14 07:26, koteche mcintosh wrote: Hi, I've just signed the following petition -- The greatest collection of shared knowledge in history. Help Wikipedia, participate now: http://wikimedia.org/