Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our problem with India

Milos, I hope this wasn't the participation you expected when you said you wanted to hear from Indian wikipedians. ;) While I know where Milos, Gerard and even Amir are coming from, I don't know about this talk of "lower-class". Unless you are not talking about economics and income level here,

[Wikimedia-l] Writing weeks about cultural heritage started

Hi all, Today the Dutch minister for education, culture and science opened the thematic writing week that started with the creation of a first article about a historic painting. On 8 Wikipedias already a project pages has been created, and anyone is free to write in their own language about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Direction] WMF Board of Trustees 2016 priorities

While I as much as any hope for positive developments in relation to the board, and certainly it's good to hear of enthusiasm and recognition of the need to improve the board, if I might inject a note of caution. Every trustee acknowledges that there's a clear need for the Board to > assume a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

Dear friends: Now that I am back home, I want to thank you all for your nice words. This has been a long journey, but I believe that we finally arrived to a safe place. I have a lot of confidence in Christophe and Maria, and of course, in Katherine's leadership. Let's commit to support and help

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

> > Was the investment in pound sterling? > The pound has been going down steadily over the last year. > And now we have a steep drop due to Brexit. Am not speaking from a position of particular knowledge on this, but the way I read original the email was simply that income was held in some kind

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Direction] WMF Board of Trustees 2016 priorities

Thank you Christophe for letting us know the key decisions from the Board meeting. We hope the Board would foster the movement in a way that it needs, considering the challenges of upcoming days. Best regards, Tanweer On Wednesday, June 29, 2016, attolippip wrote: > Dear

[Wikimedia-l] [FDC] Call for nominations for appointments to the Funds Dissemination Committee - 2016

Hello everyone, As foreseen by the FDC Framework[1], the mandate of current appointed members to the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) comes to an end, after two years of service. Four of them have terms that are ending, and we are therefore looking to appoint 4 members by September 2016. We

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

This site http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Chief_Executive_Officer_(CEO)/Salary States that a US American CEO salary would be from 70k up to 420k a year, for Ngo 83k less. You are asking where and why the wmf executive director is in this range Lodewijk? Rupert On May 31, 2016 10:21,