[Wikimedia-l] Livestream and archive links for Wikipedia Teahouse presentation

Hi, y'all. Coming up tomorrow, Wednesday, December 21 at 6 p.m. PDT is the monthly Bay Area WikiSalon series. We will have a livestream and archive for the benefit of remote Wikimedians or those unable to attend for one reason or another. The topic will be the Wikipedia Teahouse and the presenter

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Christophe Henner wrote: > First, the resolution and its context. "Supervising" the ED is indeed a > board duty, but this supervision must not become micro-management. That > resolution provides staff the liberty to do their work more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

As frustrating as the drama was at the beginning of the year for us, I'd prefer to get one well considered story from someone like Dariusz, rather than a mishmash of uncoordinated replies that have some inconsequential contradictions in them for people to obsess over. Sometimes too much

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

Hi Pine, If you don't mind I will address your different points separately. First, the resolution and its context. "Supervising" the ED is indeed a board duty, but this supervision must not become micro-management. That resolution provides staff the liberty to do their work more efficiently. It

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

"My perspective is that the 2015 board was not particularly responsive to community (or WMF employees') questions or input, including questions and input regarding human resources and governance matters. (For example, I still haven't seen a good explanation of why WMF shouldn't undergo a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

Hi Christophe, I wish it was true that the Board is required to answer the community's questions, but that isn't the case. WMF isn't a membership organization, there isn't a policy that requires the Board to be responsive to community input and questions, and the community has limited ability to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Music industry threats to safe harbor?

I think it might be useful to focus on how any of the proposed changes to the law would affect Wikipedia/Wikimedia specifically, apart from the broader philosophical discussion. Is there a good link for exactly what changes to the safe harbor laws are being considered, as opposed to the more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Music industry threats to safe harbor?

The DMCA and safe harbours is certainly why Google makes so much and pays so little from YT. So much copyright violating material gets uploaded there they just sit back and say "If you want it taken down you either play whack-a-mole or you allow us to run ads next to it and pay you a fraction

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

Dear Marc, this is exactly the problem: focusing only on toddlers and on on-site solutions. when what parent need is focusing on the general problem of childcare wether on the site of wikimania or not. -Natacha > Le 11 nov. 2016 à 15:56, Marc-Andre a écrit : > > FWIW,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Music industry threats to safe harbor?

Well they might have a point. A recall that 18months ago in the wake of bad publicity Google vowed to do something about. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/24/google-youtube-anti-isis-push-inhuman-beheading-videos-censorship However it seems that once the bad publicity died down

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Berlin

Tenker på dere og de som ble berørt, det her var vondt å høre. Husk at dette er ikke religion, religion er kun brukt som en unnskyldning for vold. Thing about you and those involved, it hurts when I heard about it. Remember that this is not about religion, religion is only used as an excuse for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Music industry threats to safe harbor?

The Communications Decency Act of 1996, Section 230, mentioned in Todd's email, is the subject of a recent lawsuit: http://fortune.com/2016/12/20/orlando-shooting-google-facebook-twitter/ Ariel On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Todd Allen wrote: > What you posted there

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Berlin

Thank you for letting us know, Nicole. Warmly, /a 2016-12-20 5:02 GMT-08:00 Nicole Ebber : > Dear all, > > A lot of people reached out to us to ask if Wikipedians and > Wikimedians in Berlin are safe. Thank you to all of you who are > thinking of us right now! > > From

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quotes from WMF donors

Thank you, Pine. Reading the donor quotes is my favorite part of the fundraiser. It's a wonderful reminder of what a beautiful project the community has created and how much people love it. Here's a fresh batch from this year. Enjoy :) *When I am disillusioned with the state of human affairs

[Wikimedia-l] Berlin

Dear all, A lot of people reached out to us to ask if Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Berlin are safe. Thank you to all of you who are thinking of us right now! From what we know by now, everyone around us is OK. Our thoughts are with families and friends of those who have been affected by the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board approval of FDC recommendation 2016-2017- Round 1

The missing links: [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_approval_of_FDC_recommendation_(2016-17,_Round_1) [2]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

Hey, Basically it's making the legal team life's easier when they need to do small and/or quick changes. They don't have to go through the whole resolution process to change a comma. We're still informed and are talking with staff about those changes. As for responsibility, we decided to