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

2016-10-19 Thread MZMcBride
Joseph Seddon wrote: >Lodewijk: So just as last year, fundraising totals have been posted by >region but there is currently no public data for donations from each >country. It's felt that the regional breakdown at least provides a >compromise between providing a semi-decent view of where our donati

[Wikimedia-l] Creative Commons 4.0 IRC office hour #2 - October 21, 19:00 UTC

2016-10-19 Thread Joe Sutherland
Hello again, Following the office hour today, we are planning to hold another from 19:00–20:00 UTC on Friday, October 21 in the #wikimedia-office channel on IRC. The format and topic will be the same as today's. You can learn more about the license and join the discussion on Meta-Wiki: https://met

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

2016-10-19 Thread rupert THURNER
Joseph would you be able to elaborate on "privacy and other legal reasons" statement? Best, Rupert On Oct 18, 2016 19:25, "Joseph Seddon" wrote: > 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

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

2016-10-19 Thread Joe Sutherland
Thanks to all who attended. The logs are available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2016-10-19 We are looking to host another, for a later time in the day, very soon. I'll email again when we have more information. best, Joe On 19 October 2016 at 07:14, Joe Sut

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

2016-10-19 Thread Joe Sutherland
This is now underway, and will be for the next 45 minutes or so! If you can't (or couldn't) make it, feel free to chip into the ongoing discussion on metawiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0 Or add topics here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/ Crea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Tremendous Wiktionary User Group

2016-10-19 Thread Natacha Rault
This is really great news, and I hope this group will thrive! I have met represent ants of the fr:Wiktionary from Lyon, and I love this project (especially with regards to its remarkable contribution to non sexist language in French). Natacha Rault / Nattes à chat n.ra...@me.com Le 19 oct

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community review for the 9th round of APG applications - we need your input!

2016-10-19 Thread Chris Keating
For anyone interested in the continuing conversation about "how to define impact in the Wikimedia movement", I have pulled together a table of the different metrics that APG requestors are proposing for their programmes. this is the first year that organisations have been asked to submit their own

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Art+Feminism User Group

2016-10-19 Thread Carlos M. Colina
Dear all, I am honoured to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the recognition of another Wikimedia User Group, and the last one for the day: Art+Feminism [1][2] Art + Feminisim aims to improve the coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia, by organizing edit workshops and s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Tremendous Wiktionary User Group

2016-10-19 Thread Andrea Zanni
Kudos! User groups for sister projects really help for advocacy and coordination between different language communities, I'm happy the Wiktionarians chose this path. Aubrey On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Carlos M. Colina wrote: > Dear all, > > I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Affil

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of GLAM Macedonia User Group

2016-10-19 Thread Carlos M. Colina
Dear all, I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the recognition of a new Wikimedia User Group, the third one today: GLAM Macedonia User Group [1] As its name indicates, the group is composed of wikimedians, teachers and researchers interested in organizing projec

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Tremendous Wiktionary User Group

2016-10-19 Thread Carlos M. Colina
Dear all, I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the recognition of a new Wikimedia User Group: Tremendous Wiktionary User Group [1] The idea behind this new User Group is to promote and develop Wiktionaries, raise the awareness of this project and collaborate not

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Whose Knowledge?

2016-10-19 Thread Carlos M. Colina
Dear all, I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the recognition of a new Wikimedia User Group: Whose Knowlegde? [1] Our colleagues are organizing their efforts to correct the skewed representations of knowledge across the different Wikimedia projects and the inte

[Wikimedia-l] The Signpost – Volume 12, Issue 27 – 14 October 2016 (late announcement)

2016-10-19 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
All: I just realized we did not send our usual announcement to this list. We published the Signpost on Friday, October 14: News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-10-14/News_and_notes Discussion report: Cultivating leadersh