[Wikimedia-l] Offline Medical Wikipedia in Persian

Hey All Today we launched an offline version of Wikipedia's medical content in Persian. Thank's to the local community, Translators Without Borders, Wikimedia CH, and my colleagues at Wiki Project Med for bringing this about.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF C level hiring and retention

Pete, I'm intentionally anonymizing communications that happened in private. But yes, I agree that it would be best if there was public discussion about this subject from people who are more directly involved in it. If that needs to go through chain of command (up to Katherine if necessary) to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF C level hiring and retention

Pine, maybe so, but if that's what you're going for, your best move might be to privately urge the people who have talked to you to come forward publicly -- rather than you sharing their words without attribution or context. The information that came through from your message is, "Pine asserts

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF C level hiring and retention

Discussing an organization's strengths and weaknesses, transparently, should be the norm for how business is done. Keeping quiet about problems is sometimes necessary, but transparency should be the norm. Pine On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF C level hiring and retention

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Pine W wrote: > I agree that there can be a benefit to internal promotions in the sense > that less onboarding is required. On the other hand, sometimes a fresh > perspective is helpful, and at least one of the interim Cs has been >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF C level hiring and retention

If it is the case that normal C-level churn was significantly accelerated by the choice of ED (which makes sense to me; I had previously heard this explicitly only with regard to one former C) then this is another reason that I hope that there will be some reflection by the Board about what went

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF C level hiring and retention

+1 on train & promote. Vito 2016-08-14 4:38 GMT+02:00 James Heilman : > Only the CTO position is empty. All of the rest are filled with very > competent interims who may simply be transitioned into permanent. I like it > that people who prove themselves to be excellent can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF C level hiring and retention

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Pine W wrote: > > I am also wondering about what can be done to keep C levels after we get > them. The implicit assertion that this is a problem we generally suffer from is, I think, incorrect. We have generally not had difficulty