Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

2018-05-17 Thread Peter Southwood
This does not seem unreasonable. Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 4:47 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

2018-05-17 Thread Pine W
I have a difference of perspective on this with Philippe and Seddon. Records of personnel issues at many government agencies in the US are public records, and many of those government agencies seem to do OK with recruiting candidates. I have yet to hear any convincing reason why WMF should be *les

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Rob Speer wrote: > The result of this, by the way, is that commercial entities sell modified > versions of Wikidata with impunity. It undermines the terms of other > resources such as DBPedia, which also contains facts extracted from > Wikipedia and respects its Share-Alike terms. Why would anyone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-17 Thread Rob Speer
> As always, copyright is predatory. As we can prove that copyright is the enemy of science and knowledge Well, this kind of gets to the heart of the issue, doesn't it. I support the Creative Commons license, including the share-alike term, which requires copyright in order to work, and I've cont

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WMCON18] WMCON18: Movement Strategy Track report has been published

2018-05-17 Thread Nicole Ebber
Dear all, Thanks to the excellent work of Cornelius and the facilitators’ team, and all the WMCON participants who contributed to the Movement Strategy Track, the Movement Strategy Core Team can now work on the next steps of the Movement Strategy Process. The main outcome of the Strategy Track is

[Wikimedia-l] WMCON18: Movement Strategy Track report has been published

2018-05-17 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
*Dear participants of the Wikimedia Conference,Dear Wikimedians, I am happy to announce that we have just published the report for the Movement Strategy Track at WMCON.https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Documentation/Movement_Strategy_track