Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Dear Anna! You will be missed! Hope ypu the best in life! Anything you need, please here I am! Hugs El feb 9, 2016 3:24 PM, "Philippe Beaudette" escribió: > Anna, I'll never forget you walking up to me at a journalism conference and > asking for a job. > > Then I'll

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Dear Anna, There are too many to say. Farewell Anna. Best, Addis Wang On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Habib M'henni wrote: > Dear Anna, > > Thanks for all you did! I will miss your kind encouragements and helpful > advises. > Which the best for you <3 > > Habib > > Le

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

:( sorry to see you go, but wish you the best. It was always nice to see you at Wikimania and other events. Thank you so much for all you have done in the past years! Cheers, Katie On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Anna Koval wrote: > Dear friends, > > During the past

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movemen conferences/Wikimania

The best way to measure the value of Wikimania IMO is through stories. So here are a few of mine: 1) In Washington, DC a group of us meet regarding a new sister site. Partly from this, two editing communities working on travel content were brought back together and Wikivoyage was reborn as a WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Thank you, Anna, for whom you become for me and for us! Where are you going next? :) *--* *Vira Motorko* project manager, Wikimedia Ukraine +380667740499 Are you saving your documents in free formats? ;) Help save natural resources – please think twice before

[Wikimedia-l] Seddon joins the Advancement team

Hi All- I am happy to announce that Joseph Seddon (User:Seddon) has joined the Advancement team to lead up our Community Engagement! Many of you have been asking for us to add a position like this to our team and we are thrilled that Seddon agreed to join us because he has both a deep

[Wikimedia-l] Dead links/Wayback Machine bots?

HI everyone, I've asked the same question in other places last week, but this might have a better/different reach: Do you know of bots that handle dead links, especially if they in some way move them to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? I'm aware of bots on the English, German, French,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?

Andreas, et al James' now-released email is quite damning in many aspects. I am very concerned that James was essentially bullied by way of threat into voting in the affirmative by other members of the BoT. James, would you care to name those Trustees who did this? Given the recent Harassment

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Dear Anna, Thanks for all you did! I will miss your kind encouragements and helpful advises. Which the best for you <3 Habib Le 9 février 2016 18:49:18 CET, Anna Koval a écrit : >Dear friends, > >During the past three years, I have been privileged to be a part of >this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

Thank you for beginning this important discussion! I have the same concerns as others, especially around how this consultation fits into the decision making process. This sentence from the introduction makes it sound very serious indeed-- maybe this was a misunderstanding? [1] > The outcomes of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Seddon joins the Advancement team

Welcome Seddon. I'll start off right away with a request. (: Can you ask FR to share the methodology and assumptions that it's using to project WMF revenues for the next 3 years for purposes of annual planning? Thanks! Pine On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Lisa Gruwell

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

Interestingly, having them every other year would make it potentially viable for an entirely new community group to start putting on their own wikimanias, essentially forking the process. On 09/02/16 07:01, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, I positively HATE the notion that Wikimania will be once

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?

More on this from James Heilman and others in the current Signpost issue. From the editors: Help wanted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03/From_the_editors In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

Was there a "don't mess with the process, but also don't hold it in tiny towns while telling staff not to go because there's no room for them"? option in the survey? -- brion On Feb 8, 2016 2:54 PM, "Ellie Young" wrote: > The Community Resources team at the WMF recently

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

Yes I am also not a big fan of moving Wikimania to every two years. Meeting once a year on a global scale is important. I could see possibly keeping it smaller / capping funding. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

Hoi, When you cap Wikimania, who is not to come? Who is not relevant enough. We are a big movement and there is a reason for that. You care about health, what about mental health? How do you learn the lessons from the Malayalam source movement. There is more than we can do and you talk about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 at 14:54 Ellie Young wrote: > The Community Resources team at the WMF recently held a consultation > > on articulating the value of Wikimedia movement conferences overall, the >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

Hello Gerard, I believe the topic of capping costs is a reasonable one because, simply put, there are not unlimited resources within the movement. Some of us have the financial wherewithal to attend "on our own dime", but many of our colleagues from around the world are not in that position. Your

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

> > ​ > On behalf of the Wikimania Committee, I would like to thank everyone who took part and the Community Resources team for organising this discussion. The Committee will consider these recommendations and will then come back > with some changes to our processes. > ​Ellie started the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Risker wrote: > Hello Gerard, I believe the topic of capping costs is a reasonable one > because, simply put, there are not unlimited resources within the movement. > Some of us have the financial wherewithal to attend "on our own dime", but

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey

Dear all, It is my pleasure to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the recognition of a new member of the family of affiliates, this time in the Middle East: Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey [1]. Among their many interests, is the development of projects with educational

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dead links/Wayback Machine bots?

Hi everyone, I am Pascal Martin from Linterweb, my english is not better than in the past :) We have storage all the links ( dead or not ) in real time since 2008 from all the project of French wikimedia, and Hungarian and Romania wikipedia and probably English Wikipedia. We could make

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dead links/Wayback Machine bots?

Hello Everyone, I am Pascal Martin from Linterweb, and my English is not very good, so please forgive my mistakes. Since 2008, we have a real-time storage service for all the links (dead or not) placed in all Wikimedia Projects in French, Romanian, Hungarian and also in the English

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Maithili Wikimedians User Group

Great. Congratulations. On 10 February 2016 at 02:29, Carlos M. Colina wrote: > Dear all, > > On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am honoured to announce the > recognition of a new Wikimedia User Group in South Asia: Maithili > Wikimedians User Group [1]. Their

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Maithili Wikimedians User Group

Dear all, On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am honoured to announce the recognition of a new Wikimedia User Group in South Asia: Maithili Wikimedians User Group [1]. Their main focus is the development of free content in Maithili, a language spoken by over 30 million people in Nepal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Maithili Wikimedians User Group

Welcome to the family Olaniyan Olushola Team Lead, WUGN Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Tito Dutta Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 10:00 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Reply To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Maithili Wikimedians

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Your presence was one of few really good things I could remember about WMF. I hope you indeed stay an active volunteer wiki(p|m)edian and we can collaborate again. It was a pleasure :) --Base > Dear friends, > > During the past three years, I have been privileged to be a part of this >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movemen conferences/Wikimania

It absolutely makes sense to have a named week/end each year where everyone tries to get together. I don't know if it needs to have a primary physical venue, certainly there are already thousands of people who are only able to participate online, and find ways to do so, including a few satellite

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Maithili Wikimedians User Group

Congratulations to Maithili Wikimedians User Group. Best, Olatunde Isaac, Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Nigeria Phone: +2348166620737  Email: reachout2is...@gmail.com  User page: Wikicology  Facebook: Olatunde Olalekan Isaac. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

Chris, calling me out on transparency, really? I'm more than a little bit creeped out by your personal "interest". If you insist, I'll publish everything of interest since 2011 that involves both of us, and everything about me you have been interested in tracking, but I'll do it on my own blog

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

On 2016-02-08 5:53 PM, Ellie Young wrote: The Community Resources team at the WMF recently held a consultation I will join my voice to the chorus expressing concern and dismay at the completely ridiculous interpretation of that minor discussion - it clearly does not resemble a mandate to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Dear Anna, Thank you for your work, I enjoyed seeing some of it in Mexico. All the best for the future! Kind regards Ziko 2016-02-09 21:21 GMT+01:00 Vira Motorko : > Thank you, Anna, for whom you become for me and for us! > > Where are you going next? :) > > *--* > *Vira

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

> The communications failure and lack of any public consultation before > throwing away the community driven bidding process, was a very good > moment to appoint a new Chair of the Wikimania Committee. The > suggestion at the time was ignored.[1] How can the community force > real changes, if the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Anna, I will miss you! Thanks for all your excellent work. I always appreciated it. It was a pleasure to work edit you together at outreachwiki. I hope you will edit as volunteer :-) --Steinsplitter > From: ako...@wikimedia.org > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:49:18 -0800 > To:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

Just to add my thoughts on this. I think the whole discussion is quite a novel situation in WMF-Community relations, as we have never dealt with an issue quite like this before. Firstly the good (and even though this section is shorter, it's just as significant): 1) The WMF is consulting and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

You were a great personality to relate to, loved every bit of our chat and hope our roads cross again. Farewell and the best of lock in your next endeavor. Best regards, Felix On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:58 PM, attolippip wrote: > <3 <3 <3 > may you fare well > it was

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Thank you for your dedication to the wikimedia movement for the past 3 years. Best wishes for your next endeavor. Warm regards, Sydney On Feb 9, 2016 1:18 PM, "Felix Nartey" wrote: > You were a great personality to relate to, loved every bit of our chat and > hope our roads

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Anna, I'll never forget you walking up to me at a journalism conference and asking for a job. Then I'll never forget harassing you into taking it, when you had a better offer somewhere else. I'm glad you did; your expertise added much to the WMF, and I know you will be greatly missed. However,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

The communications failure and lack of any public consultation before throwing away the community driven bidding process, was a very good moment to appoint a new Chair of the Wikimania Committee. The suggestion at the time was ignored.[1] How can the community force real changes, if the Committee

[Wikimedia-l] Reducing the net cost of Wikimania

I found this the most interesting part of the recent IdeaLab discussion about changing the Wikimania framework. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Towards_a_New_Wikimania "*The total spend by WMF for Wikimania 2014 in London and 2015 in Mexico, including all travel,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Dear Anna! Thank you! Will miss you! -Hasive WMBD On Wednesday, 10 February 2016, Bohdan Melnychuk wrote: > Your presence was one of few really good things I could remember about > WMF. I hope you indeed stay an active volunteer wiki(p|m)edian and we can > collaborate again.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Changes to Community Engagement

Really sorry to hear about your departure Luis. You will be missed. I wish you the best and congrats for the little baby ! Florence Le 08/02/16 21:31, Luis Villa a écrit : Hi, all- This is a bittersweet email to send. I still, and will always, love this place and this movement, but it was also

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Changes to Community Engagement

Wow. Luis, I've had the pleasure of meeting you a few times and you'll be sorely missed. Maggie, I've known you for quite a while and can't think of anyone better to step into this role. I've no doubt you'll do great. Steve *Steven Crossin* *cro0...@gmail.com * On 10

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Dear Anna, I can’t thank you enough for all the work you’ve done to help us get to where we are today. We wouldn’t have an Education Program, nor would we have been able to effectively leverage our partnership with Smart Communications here in the Philippines, if it weren’t for your efforts.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Thanks Anna, It was great meeting you during Wikimania. All the best for your next venture. And glad that you'll remain a Wikimedian afterwards. Once a Wikimedian, always a Wikimedian! :) best, Subha On 2/10/2016 10:51 AM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) wrote: > Dear Anna! > Thank you! Will miss

[Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Dear friends, During the past three years, I have been privileged to be a part of this movement and this organization. I have been honored to be your colleague and to work with you in service of the sum of all knowledge. In particular, I wish to note particular projects that have inspired me

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

<3 <3 <3 may you fare well it was pleasure working together... you have inspired me a lot and I am thankful for all your work see you <3 warm regards, antanana Wikimedia Ukraine 2016-02-09 19:49 GMT+02:00 Anna Koval : > Dear friends, > > During the past three years, I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Anna, I will miss you! Your encouragement meant a lot to me. I hope that you will keep in touch. Regards and best wishes for your next steps, Pine On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Anna Koval wrote: > Dear friends, > > During the past three years, I have been privileged to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

Thanks for all your works. All the best. On 9 February 2016 at 23:19, Anna Koval wrote: > Dear friends, > > During the past three years, I have been privileged to be a part of this > movement and this organization. > > I have been honored to be your colleague and to work