[Wikimedia-l] Jamal Khashoggi's call to action

2018-10-17 Thread Erik Moeller
Up until recently, Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi worked for the Washington Post. What happened to him? I couldn't say it better than Wikipedia: [1] (begin quote) On 2 October 2018, Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents related to his

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board of Trustees July 2018 meeting minutes

2018-10-17 Thread Chris Keating
An interesting read! Thank you Charles (and indeed the Board) for a significantly more substantive set of minutes than has been the practice in the past - I don't know how recent that change is but it's very welcome Chris On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 9:36 PM Chuck Roslof wrote: > > Hi all, > > The

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board of Trustees July 2018 meeting minutes

2018-10-17 Thread Chuck Roslof
Hi all, The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has approved and published minutes from its meeting on July 18-19, 2018: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes/2018-07-18,19 The minutes from the June 12 meeting are also available, which I believe I neglected to announce to this list

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: September 2018

2018-10-17 Thread The 'This Month in GLAM' team
*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Wednesday October 17, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

2018-10-17 Thread Janna Layton
Just a reminder that this event will be starting in about 30 minutes. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJrJLWuNvXo As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline announcements

2018-10-17 Thread Strainu
Pe luni, 15 octombrie 2018, Pine W a scris: > Hi Wikimedia-l and Wikitech-l, > > Keeping in mind the large numbers of subscribers on some Wikimedia email > lists, the endless valuable uses for the time of knowledgeable volunteer > Wikimedians, the significant financial costs for the time of many

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group

2018-10-17 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Congratulations everyone from Kerala! Frederick, you can find the process and other important info about user group here: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups Subhashish > On Oct 17, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Frederick Noronha > wrote: > > Congrats, guys! We are just 800 kms

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group

2018-10-17 Thread Frederick Noronha
Congrats, guys! We are just 800 kms north of you, and are trying to build a Goa Wikipedia Group (focussing on local content in all languages, including and specially Konkani http://gom.wikipedia.org ) I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to the URL which lays down the procedure for forming

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedistas de Bolivia User Group

2018-10-17 Thread Dennis Tobar
Felicitaciones amigas y amigos de Bolivia por este logro.  Saludis El 16 oct. 2018 16:47, "Kirill Lokshin" escribió: Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] the Wikimedistas de Bolivia User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group

2018-10-17 Thread Nabin K. Sapkota
Congratulations!!! Nabin, Wikimedians of Nepal On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:10 PM Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:41:09 -0400 > Kirill Lokshin wrote: > > > Hi everyone! > > > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized > > [1] the Wikimedians of Kerala

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group

2018-10-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:41:09 -0400 Kirill Lokshin wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized > [1] the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The > group will be working on various Wikimedia projects related to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedistas de Bolivia User Group

2018-10-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:47:10 -0400 Kirill Lokshin wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized > [1] the Wikimedistas de Bolivia User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. > The group aims to collect, gather, develop and disseminate