Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Philippines

2017-04-24 Thread James Heilman
Hey Josh Thanks for sharing the other side of the issue. If you were actively working towards compliance agree having the chapter status pulled is concerning. Government bureaucracy is horribly slow. Anything we as the wider movement can do to help? Has affcom given you guidance regarding how to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Philippines

2017-04-24 Thread Josh Lim
Hi James, Towards the end of the process, and I will admit I was guilty of this as well, we have been so demotivated by the process that we felt it wasn’t worth it to continue communicating with the Affiliations Committee further. Over the last year, we had been working to return to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Philippines

2017-04-24 Thread James Heilman
Hey Josh So where was the missed communication? Were there extenuating circumstances regarding why Wikimedia Philippines was not able to produce the required documents? Was active communication between Wikimedia Philippines and affcom ongoing? James On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Josh Lim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Philippines

2017-04-24 Thread Josh Lim
If you folks seriously think that we weren’t being “accountable”, then I have serious doubts about how this process will remain sustainable. I’m sorry, but this process has been exceedingly demotivating for everyone involved. I’ve been trying to keep myself composed throughout the entire

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] New guide for organizing Edit-a-thons at science conferences

2017-04-24 Thread Dario Taraborelli
For those of you who are not familiar with the Simons Foundation: - they are one of the funders of the Wiki Education Foundation's Year of Science [1], via their "Science Sandbox" program [2] - they are also financially supporting the WikiCite event in Vienna in May [3] - they are among the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Presentation Code of Conduct Committee candidates and community review

2017-04-24 Thread Christophe Henner
Congratulations and many many thanks to all the members and auxiliary members to the committee!!! Really glad to see this moving forward, many thanks to everyone who worked and collaborated to create the code of conduct for the Wikimedia technical spaces :) Christophe HENNER Chair of the board

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Philippines

2017-04-24 Thread Chris Keating
Hi Amir, I have a request and/or question. I've got the idea from "Incident report". > When things don't go as planned in servers, we write an incident report and > try to learn from lapses happened. Now my question is. Has something > similar done for chapters that get de-recognized? Do you want

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Presentation Code of Conduct Committee candidates and community review

2017-04-24 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, The community review period for the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces Committee candidates is over, and we haven't received any feedback challenging the candidates proposed. Therefore, all they are confirmed now. Congratulations! Committee members: - Amir Sarabadani