Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google

2016-01-21 Thread Florence Devouard
I decided to support that vote. This has not been an easy decision because I find it *tremendously* painful to vote against a person and it hurts me in my feelings to do so. I hoped very dearly that the board would actually issue a statement that would have helped me understand the decision

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A page about new editors in different projects

2016-01-21 Thread Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
I love the idea! It makes newcomers immediately feel welcomed and valuable for the community. Also it helps us to listen to them. I really hope that maybe we could start something similar on Polish Wikipedia. Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska 2016-01-21 0:12 GMT+01:00 Risker : >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A page about new editors in different projects

2016-01-21 Thread Todd Allen
I'm sure there are plenty of people who would feel uncomfortable with that. So if something like that were to be done, people should certainly be asked first, and that only be done if they explicitly agree. Still, I think a lot of others would feel like their efforts are being noticed and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A page about new editors in different projects

2016-01-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
The whole point of that page is that they are _interviewed_ and the stories are published if they _want_ it. If they are uncomfortable with the attention, no story is published. I thank all the people who say that they like the idea :) My original intention was to try to find similar pages and

[Wikimedia-l] Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon 25-31 January 2015

2016-01-21 Thread Tito Dutta
Hello, CIS-A2K going to organize a multi-lingual edit-a-thon during 25-31 January 2015. The goal of this edit-a-thon is to create and improve Indian Geographical Indications articles. So far 7 Indic Wikipedia communities have shown interest to join this edit-a-thon If you want to participate or if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A common product development process (was Re: Profile of Magnus Manske)

2016-01-21 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > So yes, we need to talk but the talk does not happen in one place. When you > insist on one place, the confrontation is already in place. The solution is not to move all the communication to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour on January 21st

2016-01-21 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks :) > > I'll be doing another office hour to talk about all things Wikidata. > As usual I'll give an overview of the past 3 months and what's ahead. > It'll be in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. It'll

Re: [Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour on January 21st

2016-01-21 Thread Anthony Cole
lease see > > > https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17=00=0=21=01=2016 > . > > For anyone who could not make it: the log is now available at > http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20160121.txt > > > Cheers > Lydia > > -- >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google

2016-01-21 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/20/2016 09:36 PM, George Herbert wrote: There was a finding of civil, not criminal, liability in the case. Against the companies as a whole not individuals. Generally such never becomes individual liability or criminality. You're right that we shouldn't expect criminal charges of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

2016-01-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2016-01-19 16:58, Jens Best wrote: I like the idea of Wikidata. I like the idea of combining Encylopedia with structured data to enable understanding and easy re-use at the reader-side of Wikiprojects. So many things are imaginable there when the culture of conveying the needed individual

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

2016-01-21 Thread Isarra Yos
You just don't get it, do you? Even from the start this was all about social issues with rollouts, and still you are contributing to the very same social problems you so blindly condemned. -I On 20/01/16 14:16, Magnus Manske wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:58 AM Todd Allen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour on January 21st

2016-01-21 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lydia, could you please link to a log of that discussion? I already did ;-) But here it is again: http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20160121.txt Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintsch