Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments

2019-02-21 Thread Mardetanha
congratulations to both of you Mardetanha On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:41 PM Shani Evenstein wrote: > Thanks both of you and good luck to new members! I'm hopeful that together > you can help march AffCom forward and help with the obvious workload. > > Best, > Shani. > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2019

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Inisghts from a meeting with NGO representatives

2019-02-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
בתאריך יום ב׳, 18 בפבר׳ 2019, 13:04, מאת David Cuenca Tudela ‏< dacu...@gmail.com>: > Hi Amir, > > > *How can the Wikimedia movement be more truly international * > Participants reported that the current definition of knowledge by Wikimedia > projects is narrow-minded and does not fit the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Inisghts from a meeting with NGO representatives

2019-02-21 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
Hi Mark, Benjamin and me we had a Skype conversation about this topic. Maybe he can elaborate with his insights? Regards Micru On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, 19:11 Mark Rousell, wrote: > On 18/02/2019 11:04, David Cuenca Tudela wrote: > > the current definition of knowledge by Wikimedia > > projects is

[Wikimedia-l] Iberoconf 2019 - Declaration of Santiago regarding affiliates' rights and responsabilities

2019-02-21 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
Hello friends, I would like to share with you the declaration made by most of the participants in the last Iberoconf meeting in Santiago, hosted by Wikimedia Chile between February 8-10th. The meeting had representatives of 13 affiliates from Ibero America and Italy, plus Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changed plus next steps

2019-02-21 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Hello, Chris Keating escreveu no dia quinta, 21/02/2019 à(s) 21:43: > (...) be fair the voices on the Meta page > were a relatively narrow slice of the overall Wikimedia community. > The so called "WMF gap" is a recurrent issue, and was the theme of a "working group proposal" (?) in a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changed plus next steps

2019-02-21 Thread Chris Keating
The way I'm making sense of the timeline is: Last summer the Board remembered that the ASBS was coming up (in among all their conversations about the strategy). Probably in July they discussed it for the first time and they asked AffCom to look at a way of including User Groups. At the November

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changed plus next steps

2019-02-21 Thread Strainu
În joi, 21 feb. 2019 la 16:59, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel a scris: > > No, you aren't missing anything. The timeline is strange. > > As Antanana wrote, *"The conversation about how User Groups may participate > in this process has been on for years, it is not a new topic [4]." * > So if it isn't a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments

2019-02-21 Thread Shani Evenstein
Thanks both of you and good luck to new members! I'm hopeful that together you can help march AffCom forward and help with the obvious workload. Best, Shani. On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:26 Paulo Santos Perneta Satdeep & Tanvir stepped down, 2 reappointments, and 3 new appointments - > 13-2+3=14 :

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments

2019-02-21 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Satdeep & Tanvir stepped down, 2 reappointments, and 3 new appointments - 13-2+3=14 : Apparently AffCom has just expanded to 14 seats. Paulo Farah Jack Mustaklem escreveu no dia quinta, 21/02/2019 à(s) 18:10: > Hi everyone, > > I'm pleased to announce that Reda Kerbouche, Manavpreet Kaur, and

[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap 2019

2019-02-21 Thread Mia Jacobsson
WikiGap 8 March 2019 WikiGap is an initiative taken to close the gender gap and other gaps relevant for diversity of Wikipedia. The initiative is made possible by a cooperation between Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Swedish embassies and Wikimedia affiliates,

[Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments

2019-02-21 Thread Farah Jack Mustaklem
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that Reda Kerbouche, Manavpreet Kaur, and May Hachem have appointed to the Affiliations Committee as new members. In addition, two incumbent members -- Kirill Lokshin and Camelia Boban -- have been re-appointed for an additional term. Please join me in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Inisghts from a meeting with NGO representatives

2019-02-21 Thread Mark Rousell
On 18/02/2019 11:04, David Cuenca Tudela wrote: > the current definition of knowledge by Wikimedia > projects is narrow-minded and does not fit the relationship with knowledge > that exists in other parts of the world. This sounds intriguing. Can you expand on it? -- Mark Rousell

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changed plus next steps

2019-02-21 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
No, you aren't missing anything. The timeline is strange. As Antanana wrote, *"The conversation about how User Groups may participate in this process has been on for years, it is not a new topic [4]." * So if it isn't a new proposal, why the board jumped to do this change so close to the election