Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] June 2017 agenda of the Board of Trustees

This is great; thank you, Stephen. It is good to see additional transfers to the endowment on the agenda. Regards, SJ On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Stephen LaPorte wrote: > Hi all, > > The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting on > June

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] June 2017 agenda of the Board of Trustees

I think that given how far in advance WMF Board meetings are planned, it should be possible to know the agenda and have the materials available for publication 2 weeks in advance. If some last minute item comes up, it can easily be amended to the agenda. Similarly, if for some reason an agenda

Re: [Wikimedia-l] James Heilman joins the Board Governance Committee as a volunteer and advisory member

Nataliia Tymkiv wrote: >The BGC believes that in case James is approved by the Board as a Board >member [3] it would also be a good onboarding opportunity for him. > >[...] > >[3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Bylaws#ARTICLE_III_-_MEMBERSHIP In case? Is there doubt regarding his upcoming

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] June 2017 agenda of the Board of Trustees

First of all: kudos to Stephen for getting the agenda more or less consistently out before the meeting - that's already an improvement compared to the past. Of course any advance time would be helpful - but only if the board would actually appreciate input. I believe the meeting schedule is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] June 2017 agenda of the Board of Trustees

Pine, I think the first step in this direction is for the Board to decide whether or not they wish to engage with the Community in this way – whether they have the time, energy and bandwidth to handle such communications, and whether they see the reward as commensurate with the investment. So

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] June 2017 agenda of the Board of Trustees

Hi Stephen, Can board agendas, as well as slides and docs which are not security or privacy sensitive, be published 2 weeks in advance of meetings, please? This will allow community members to provide comments and ask questions ahead of board meetings that the board can take into consideration

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

hi Alec, On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 04:12:49PM +0100, Alec Muffett wrote: > I'd love to know more about the security issues in particular. Do please > tell? I don't recall finding a specific vulnerability, but last time I had a look at EOTK a while ago, it generated an nginx config that performed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

On 14 June 2017 at 16:08, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > That part reminds me a bit of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156847, > which is about outputting different addresses in links for the mobile site > versus the desktop site. The same solution might work for both

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

On 14 June 2017 at 15:57, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > The EOTK stuff are interesting but not really an option for us -- they > rely on a edge (nginx) server performing content manipulation blindly, > which is a bad idea for many reasons, security amongst them. > Hi again

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Discovery Projects

Hi Jim, Determining the intent of a particular search is indeed very difficult, and is not really feasible to even attempt it at the scale needed for machine learning (unless you have an immense budget like some for-profit search engine companies). For our machine learning training data, we use

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Discovery Projects

Hi Trey, Thanks for your very detailed reply. I have a followup question. How do you determine search intents? For example, if you see someone searching for "rents" how do you know whether they are looking for economic or property rents when evaluating the quality of the search results? If

Re: [Wikimedia-l] James Heilman joins the Board Governance Committee as a volunteer and advisory member

Congratulations, James! Le 15 juin 2017 20:21, "James Heilman" a écrit : > Thanks :-) Looking forwards to working with everyone. > > J > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Tito Dutta wrote: > > > That's great. All the best James. > > > > On 15 June 2017

Re: [Wikimedia-l] James Heilman joins the Board Governance Committee as a volunteer and advisory member

James, That's great! Thank you very much for your involvement. Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President, Wikimedia Canada Lead Organizer, Wiki Loves Earth 2017 in Canada User:Amqui On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Rogol Domedonfors wrote: > James > > Do you have a position