[Wikimedia-l] Què us fa feliç aquesta setmana? / What makes you happy this week? (Week of 17 June 2018)

2018-06-16 Thread Pine W
Below are some recent highlights from the wikiverse. Here is a Phabractor ticket regarding the showcase from Wikimedia Hackathon 2018 in Barcelona: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195219 Here is the Wikidata report from the May 2018 issue of *This Month in GLAM*:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

2018-06-16 Thread Dennis During
Yes. I think I am. I wouldn't have thought that WMF would be so driven by economics. I would bail from this project and find another that was less partisan, though fewer and fewer institutions seem nonpartisan to me. I expect that the WMF projects would be more to your liking without people of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

2018-06-16 Thread James Salsman
Dennis, Are you suggesting that public policy to support wikimedians outside of copyright and internet law would be outside of the basic remit as specified by the Mission? We should measure how much donors are likely to donate more or less for each of the issues. I would also like to know the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Open Call for Working Group members

2018-06-16 Thread Pine W
While that's a good step to see, I think that an average of five hours per week for nine months is still a lot to ask, and is not something that I'm likely to recommend to most people. However, I have the impression that WMF is trying to involve the community in this in a significant way, and I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Open Call for Working Group members

2018-06-16 Thread Lodewijk
I don't like to steal Kaarel's thunder here, but he actually changed the number of hours from minimum 5 per week to average 5 per week (which is a significant improvement): https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups=10598095=18129628=18125168