[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 44 -- 12 November 2014

2014-11-16 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; ''Bluebeard's Castle'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-12/In_the_media Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-12/Featured_content

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Your support is wanted: The WMF Board of Trustees is looking for a new Board member

2014-11-16 Thread phoebe ayers
cross-post. -- Forwarded message -- From: Maria Sefidari Date: Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 3:09 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Your support is wanted: The WMF Board of Trustees is looking for a new Board member To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear all, The Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

2014-11-16 Thread Milos Rancic
On Nov 14, 2014 10:00 PM, "rubin.happy" wrote: > > That's not the first, and even not the 10th attempt of our authorities to > create own Wikipedia, own YouTube and so on. > > They will talk about it, they could even spend some budget but it's not > likely to result in something that will be susta

Re: [Wikimedia-l] fundraising blocked in Russia

2014-11-16 Thread Gerd Juergensen
Let me try to explain if you just excuse my foul language: RussiaToday is a sovereign democracy who may decide that western pedophiles like Pyotr Ilyich Czajkowski or Vladimir Nabokov or Reaganist AIDS weaklings like Rudolph Nureyev may be demonized as Unrussian and must not be depicted nonnegative

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

2014-11-16 Thread Balázs Viczián
Hi all, what Rubin says I think is that when the decision was made, WMF did not notify WM RU. The complete lack of communication. NOT what was discussed above; that was a complete misunderstanding of his words. What Rubin says in my reading is that once WMF made the decision, they should have