[Wikimedia-l] Berkman Klein Center: Will Wikipedia exist in 20 years?

2017-10-21 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Video featuring Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, in conversation with Harvard Law School Professor Yochai Benkler: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/luncheon/10/Maher The material in this video touches on many points related to the Wikimedia movement's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

2017-10-21 Thread Lodewijk
Well, someone announcing such a project could also be seen as a disclosure. And answering initial questions around such announcement/disclosure is something different from using this as the go-to place to ask those questions. The way you're phrasing this mostly leaves an impression that you're

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

2017-10-21 Thread
That's a useful distinction Isaac, thanks. If Jimmy uses this list to start another thread about Wikitribune, we should raise that with him. Sadly nobody thought to raise that issue when there were only super positive comments about what a great idea Jimmy's new company was. Thanks, Fae On 21

Re: [Wikimedia-l] October 12: Strategy update - Movement direction now posted for your endorsement consideration (#26)

2017-10-21 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello Sandra, Thank you for your mail. For me, this is not specifically about Guillaume. I referred to him as he has answered to me about "oral traditions", supporting them. I know that the way to this text was a long one; I have read papers on this way and was appalled. Now I find it difficult

Re: [Wikimedia-l] October 12: Strategy update - Movement direction now posted for your endorsement consideration (#26)

2017-10-21 Thread Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland
Hi Ziko, Just a quick reaction to the last sentence of your message where you express your concern about oral traditions as a source and say 'Guillaume emphasized that he still wants to go this way.' To some, this could give the impression that Guillaume is responsible for what went in the text

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

2017-10-21 Thread
On 21 October 2017 at 13:05, Isaac Olatunde wrote: > Hi Fae, > > Is there a possibility for you to contact Jimbo or any Wikitribune staff > member about this? I don't just think a thread here on what has happened to > Wikitribune serves any useful purpose. > > Regards, >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

2017-10-21 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Fae, Is there a possibility for you to contact Jimbo or any Wikitribune staff member about this? I don't just think a thread here on what has happened to Wikitribune serves any useful purpose. Regards, Isaac. On Oct 21, 2017 12:45 PM, "Fæ" wrote: > On 25 April 2017 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

2017-10-21 Thread
On 21 October 2017 at 12:44, Fæ wrote: > On 25 April 2017 at 22:59, Jimmy Wales wrote: >> >> Today I announced a new initiative, outside of my Wikimedia activities, >> to combat fake news. It is important to me that I share directly with >> all of you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] October 12: Strategy update - Movement direction now posted for your endorsement consideration (#26)

2017-10-21 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello Nicole, Thank you. I just wonder - if the rest is presented this way, people might think that it belongs to the direction, and what the relationship between both is. And I'm afraid, that later the Foundation will claim that the rest is important or an important (authoritative)

[Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

2017-10-21 Thread
On 25 April 2017 at 22:59, Jimmy Wales wrote: > > Today I announced a new initiative, outside of my Wikimedia activities, > to combat fake news. It is important to me that I share directly with > all of you information about this new initiative early on. > > The new

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-21 Thread Gergo Tisza
Thanks Srishti & DevRel team, that was interesting, and it's great to see that developer retention gets the organizational focus it deserves. Some comments on the document: We currently struggle to keep track of information about new developers > such as project they worked on, their contact