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

Congratulations to Ohio Wikimedians! Isaac, Wikimedia UG Nigeria Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -Original Message- From: Sydney Poore Sender: "Wikimedia-l" Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:35:21

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

Thank you for the welcome all! Looking forward to connecting Ohioans and hosting our future events :) Kevin Payravi W: www.kevinpayravi.com E: kevinpayr...@gmail.com P: (330) 554 - 3397 On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Biplab Anand wrote: > Congrats!!! > > Cheers >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Elections Committee

Sorry to post twice -- I spoke too soon with "single greatest opportunity." An acknowledgment of community members' positive role in addressing the Superprotect debacle is another important opportunity that should not be missed. -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Pete

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

Congrats!!! Cheers Biplab Anand On 26 Jul 2016 18:20, "Sydney Poore" wrote: > Congrats and welcome to the neighborhood! :-) > > Sydney Poore > User: FloNight > Kentucky Wikimedians User Group > > On Jul 26, 2016 7:30 AM, "Carlos M. Colina" >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suggesting moderation

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Adrian Raddatz wrote: > Considering how horrible on-wiki dispute resolution can currently be for > all involved, I'm OK with keeping this in private here. > > Fair enough. My comment was meant to rather point out that we don't have rules of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suggesting moderation

Considering how horrible on-wiki dispute resolution can currently be for all involved, I'm OK with keeping this in private here. Adrian Raddatz On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Thanks for the input, folks. > > So, it looks as though there's a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suggesting moderation

Thanks for the input, folks. So, it looks as though there's a preference for keeping it off-list, at least until a moderation decision is made, and possibly thereafter too. I shall proceed in that way. For the record, following Dariusz's remark, I will point out that that is *not* how we do it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suggesting moderation

Generally, it is better to discuss it privately with the list admins. This prevents the worst side of mailing lists: a one-sided dogpile on an individual, who, disruptive or not, should get a fair hearing by the person(s) whose job it is to moderate. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suggesting moderation

I was on a very active music mailing list for over 10 years and I was grateful it was not moderated. Moderation can inhibit discussion, even when there are disruptors, and it also requires moderators donate a lot of volunteer hours. Which I think within the Wikimedia family community is already

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Elections Committee

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:22 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pine has a point. We all know that the founder seat will go eventually. > Whether it goes on the death or incapacity of the founder or earlier is a > valid question for the board and the community. I'm not

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

Congrats and welcome to the neighborhood! :-) Sydney Poore User: FloNight Kentucky Wikimedians User Group On Jul 26, 2016 7:30 AM, "Carlos M. Colina" wrote: > Dear all, > > On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am glad to announce the > recognition of the newest

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Ohio Wikimedians User Group

Dear all, On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am glad to announce the recognition of the newest Wikimedia User Group in the United States: Ohio Wikimedians User Group [1]. Their focus of activities is in the state of Ohio, supporting and helping develop the local community of

[Wikimedia-l] Board structure (Was: New Elections Committee)

Dear all, As Christophe mentioned, BGC has discussed Board composition issue and decided that the best way is to wait for the results of the governance review. It was mentioned in the minutes, by the way [1] If you have relevant arguments and think that it would make sense for other people to be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suggesting moderation

Should the very first step be contacting the person involved? Maybe even if this last attempt of private moderation fails, you can both agree that discussing in public about the problem is no problem for him/her.  Il Martedì 26 Luglio 2016 10:40, Tomasz Ganicz ha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suggesting moderation

Maybe the best model would be such: #1 A person willing to switch on moderation on someone contact an admin - good reasons for moderation is required #2 If admin decides not to moderate - inform proponent about it. End of story. #3 If admin decides to moderate - inform about this both proponent

[Wikimedia-l] Suggesting moderation

A meta-question: I am wondering whether, if one thinks a user on this list should be moderated, it is better to discuss it privately with the list admins (who, if convinced, could announce the moderation publicly, or not), or publicly on this list (explicitly inviting more opinions, being

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Elections Committee

Pine has a point. We all know that the founder seat will go eventually. Whether it goes on the death or incapacity of the founder or earlier is a valid question for the board and the community. I'm not convinced that an elections committee should be deciding which posts to elect, and even if such

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Elections Committee

Maybe so, but that is your opinion and is not necessarily shared by others. I will second Pine's request. -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 7:30 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WikiVoyage Europe available on Android

I think the people at Kiwix would be happy to have more people helping them make ZIMs. James On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Roland Unger < roland.un...@soziologie.uni-halle.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > of course, offline Wikivoyage is a really nice tool. You can use > it everywhere -- for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Elections Committee

Hi Gerard, I agree with you that there are many important issues, and as you mentioned one of them is the quality of our products and services. However, I am keenly aware of governance issues at WMF and how they affect the rest of the ecosystem. WMF is a single point of failure (an issue which I