[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania goals, strategy, and resources

Hi Ellie, (Breaking this into a separate thread) 1. Thanks for the link to the evaluation criteria ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimania_2016_judging_

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Governance Committee: Board transparency/Status report

Thanks Natalia For taking these steps. J On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Nataliia Tymkiv wrote: > Dear all, > > I have prepared a status report on Board transparency and published it on > Meta: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ >

[Wikimedia-l] Board Governance Committee: Board transparency/Status report

Dear all, I have prepared a status report on Board transparency and published it on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Committee/Board_transparency/Status_report_October_2016 Please feel free to share your thoughts/comments/suggestions on the talk page.

[Wikimedia-l] How to grow our technical community - Wikimedia Developer Summit

How to grow our technical community? This is a main topic at the upcoming Wikimedia Developer Summit (San Francisco, January 11-13, 2017). There is a call for participation open until the end of this month (October 31). Your proposals for discussions related to this main topic are welcome! There

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Creative Commons 4.0 IRC office hour - October 19, 14:00 UTC

Hey all - just a poke about this. This will be happening tomorrow at 14:00 UTC. This tool can help you to identify what that is in your local timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Creative+Commons+4.0+IRC+office+hour=20161019T07=224=1 We hope to see some of you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report just published

Hey both, Apologies for the delay in responding,I have been meaning to respond to this. Lucas: So one of the biggest changes in Latin American was that the fundraising tech team integrated a new payment processor to accept both local currency and payment methods in a number of Latin America

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Pine W wrote: > Thanks Ellie. > > On the topic of event safety, I am wondering if there is a standard > checklist that WMF uses when narrowing potential sites for Wikimanias and > if you could make that checklist public. Perhaps it is public

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

With all due respect Pax... whilst I am fully in agreement with the concept of selecting a country with the safety of ALL participants in mind, I totally disagree with the concept of selecting a country based on "high human records" generally. We are not serving the part of humanity that has

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

We can share knowledge without meetings, we cannot share knowledge without our community. If some of our community cannot be safe well...who cares of meetings then? Vito 2016-10-18 15:26 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen : > Hoi, > For me safety is to a large extend secondary

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Gerard, this isn't about "holiday destinations", it's about human rights and dignity. That's why I emphasized in my original post that I'm concerned not only about the safety of conference attendees, but also about those living in the host country. The choice of a venue in a location with a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Hoi, For me safety is to a large extend secondary to what we aim to achieve. Our primary goal is to improve on our primary goal and it is "sharing in the sum of all knowledge". It is not for going to the perfect holiday destination. Thanks, GerardM On 18 October 2016 at 13:56, Fæ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Gerard, could you provide some tangible examples of how other safety aspects of Wikimania would be compromised if there is any specific attention paid to the safety of LGBT+ Wikimedians? I cannot imagine how such a thing could be true. Based on my reading, nobody in this thread has asked for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

IMHO we should divide criteria into two categories, reflecting two different kind of issue: *someone *cannot* partecipate because of a certain issue -> the proposal is rejected *someone may not feel comfortable in partecipating -> the proposal is somehow penalized In other words, if LGBT people

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania strategic review

Hoi, I have largely lost my appetite for Wikimania and "strategic discussions". With the USA finally having its house in order, the argument surfaced. We can do with regional conferences I am told and it is for me to argue otherwise. I do not want to argue. For me Wikimania has always been a proof

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Hoi, I do care that everybody can come to places where they are safe. All the specific LGBT attention to safety is however on many levels problematic when we prioritise this over other safety aspects. The big picture for me is that we need to go to places where bringing Wikipedia and what it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Ellie, thanks for the response. Could the criteria you mention be published on-wiki? Holding an open and transparent process for selecting host locations for Wikimania should be a requirement on the selection committee, so there ought to be nothing stopping this from happening. If the applied

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania strategic review

Ellie Young refers to a strategic review of Wikimania. It would be valuable to know how the community at large, and especially the 99% of content contributors or the 99.% of readers (all figures estimated) who do not currently go to such events, will be involved. Will there be any engagement