Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about senior leadership of WMF's Talent & Culture team

Thank you Katherine for the e-introduction of Joady Lohr and Anna Stillwell for the amazing works. Kudos!!! Olaniyan Olushola Team Lead, WUGN Olaniyan Ishola Olushola|MD, Data Access Systems Ltd|Treasurer,FOSSFA|Skype:ozo734 Tweeter:@oluwanishola73|www.facebook.com/olaniyan.shola|Alt email :

Re: [Wikimedia-l] List management

Hi,is there a link where a generic subscriber can find a ("decently" updated) list of sysops? in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Administration  I find no specific information about that. Is this on purpose? Also how can we know what are their "usual time zones" if we want a profile

Re: [Wikimedia-l] List management

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Joseph Fox wrote: > Thehelpfulone hasn't died. :) He's been hugely busy in real life, is all. Please don't take my factual statement (sorry, law student) to be throwing shade on THO. He's a great guy, and I understand that of late he

Re: [Wikimedia-l] List management

Thehelpfulone hasn't died. :) He's been hugely busy in real life, is all. Joe. On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 21:25 Pine W wrote: > I regret seeing THO fade away. I found him to be likable, polite, and > competent. > > I think well of Shani, and as she already has some experience

Re: [Wikimedia-l] List management

I regret seeing THO fade away. I found him to be likable, polite, and competent. I think well of Shani, and as she already has some experience with moderation duties, I would like to second her (self-)nomination. Pine On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Austin Hair wrote: >

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement about senior leadership of WMF's Talent & Culture team

Hi everyone, I’m delighted today to share some news about the leadership of the Foundation’s Talent & Culture (HR) department. Joady Lohr and Anna Stillwell, the T team’s current senior leaders, will be assuming permanent senior leadership roles within the T team. As many Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] List management

Hi, Austin. Is the position reactive or is it proactive? What is the average time investment per month? * "A student rescued from juvenile hall by a counselor and his English teacher must learn to trust his new friends." Cheers! Wayne Calhoon {{u|Checkingfax}} On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:20

Re: [Wikimedia-l] List management

I can do it if necessary. Shani. On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Austin Hair wrote: > We've just had a bit of turnover of our list administrators. In order > to get moderation going smoothly again, I've added Asaf Bartov as an > admin. I don't think that decision will be

[Wikimedia-l] List management

We've just had a bit of turnover of our list administrators. In order to get moderation going smoothly again, I've added Asaf Bartov as an admin. I don't think that decision will be controversial. Richard has resigned for his own reasons, after putting in more than his fair share of work here.

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to participate at Wiki Loves Earth 2017

Dear Wikimedia colleagues, After four wonderful editions of Wiki Loves Earth resulting in over 300,000 new photos on Commons, we are happy to invite you to the 5th edition of Wiki Loves Earth international photo contest – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017 As a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

Hello Rover, I want to thank you and your team for so much work, and so much great work. This decision was difficult for everyone, and I am glad to see that it has come to a conclusion. I think it's important to know how to pause and breathe deeply sometimes. I am looking forward to seeing more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you for your service, Wikimedia Hong Kong

Hi Vito, yes it can. Basically, while there is space for just one chapter per country, if another group forms and decides to take up the role of Wikimedia HK, they can apply to be a chapter, since there is no chapter recognized any more. This happened with Wikimedia UK

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you for your service, Wikimedia Hong Kong

Personally, I am a big believer of a John Wooden quote, "Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be". So, all the best to the Wikimedians of Hong Kong. Thank you very much for all the good works that you have done in past. I am sure that you will stack all the odds in your favors and come

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you for your service, Wikimedia Hong Kong

Thanks Lodewijk for bringing this up and thanks a lot to Wikimedia Hong Kong. I have been in touch with WMHK and Wikimedians in Hong Kong since their application for Wikimania and have been at Wikimania and it was great. There has also been some other activities and efforts which we must

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

Thanks to everyone who's participated in WMHK and in particular everyone involved in Wikimania 2013! Thank you for your efforts and best wishes to those aiming to move things forwards again. On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Wong Rover wrote: > Hi all, > > On behalf of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you for your service, Wikimedia Hong Kong

Just a question: can a former chapter reapply for recognition? Vito 2017-02-08 16:13 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk : > As the chapter status of Wikimedia Hong Kong has come to an end, I would > like to thank the volunteers at Wikimedia Hong Kong for their incredible > work

[Wikimedia-l] Thank you for your service, Wikimedia Hong Kong

As the chapter status of Wikimedia Hong Kong has come to an end, I would like to thank the volunteers at Wikimedia Hong Kong for their incredible work over the past years. It is easy to start discussions about the validity of the decision, or to play a blame game - but lets at least agree some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

This particular decision has arguably been a long time coming, but I am sad that it has indeed happened. My best wishes to all Wikimedians in Hong Kong with whatever their plans are for the future. KTC On 08/02/2017 02:19, Kirill Lokshin wrote: Hi everyone, Recognition as a Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

I am glad to see that the WMF is being rigorous in ensuring that the donors' money is being spent effectively and accountably by the affiliated organisations. Of course one does not expect a detailed narrative when the WMF deems it necessary to take action in this way since named individuals are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

Hi all, On behalf of WMHK, I would like to say something. Some may think it is pity that WMHK has been de-recognized. But the board of WMHK has actually already decided to disband the chapter. Although WMHK will cease to exist, I still hope the other chapters will continue to try their best in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

Could we have a confirmation from AffCom that the list of formerly active affiliates on meta is "official", i.e. the definitive public reference list, and is maintained? * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates/Formerly_Active_Affiliates If it is officially maintained,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

Thanks Kirill In my opinion this is reasonable. We need to have criteria for what affiliation with the movement means and what it requires from those affiliated. If the requirements are consistently not met than removing official affiliation until it is is simply common practice. James On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

​Agree the WMF staff dont always but the community/committee level does I have experienced it first hand, both personally and as a chapter there are policies written about not biting people so it happens all to regularly. Maybe there is also the influence of being isolated in Australia that we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

Hi Gnangarra, Unlike user groups, which can meet reporting requirements simply by providing an annual report of activities, chapters are additionally required to publish a complete set of financial statements annually. Further, chapters that receive funds from any Wikimedia Foundation grant

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Gnangarra wrote: > Observation: When we place trust within the projects and the community it > appears that we like to grab the biggest stick possible to whack people > with it with at the first opportunity. I am not going to comment on this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

was writing my comment at the same time as Manuel, there is a local legal dimension in his comment that hasnt been brought up here that is there may be no ability to scale back to a Usergroup model, those dimensions will be different for every country but we need to also recognise that they exist

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

trying to understand the process as well as the why here, what I see at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports is that they havent supplied the 2015-16 report they report on the period 1 Jul to 30 Jun (same as WMAU). On September 9 2016 they were asked to furnish this report and given until 1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Hong Kong

Salut Gilbert, a brief summary of the benefits, limits and expectations of chapters can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Chapter_Summary_Matrix Apart from that has every chapter a Chapter Agreement which has more details. On top of that additional