Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations and community conversations launching next week

2020-01-17 Thread Pine W
Hi Nicole and Kaarel, Thank you for sharing your comments. A few points: * I realize that a lot of time and money has been spent in the strategy process to this point. I hope that there will be consensus on at least some of the recommendations. * Hopefully the discussions in the next few weeks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

2020-01-17 Thread Pine W
There are ways that Wikimedia rebranding consultations could be done collaboratively, politely, and with careful stewardship of donor's money. This is not one of them. I think that it's time for some people in WMF to move on. Without having access to WMF internal discussions, I don't know exactly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

2020-01-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 23:04, John Erling Blad wrote: > > This is out in several newspapers now. > > "Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" This edit made 10 January 2020, is relevant:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

2020-01-17 Thread K. Peachey
Domain Registered on: 2020-01-02 Linked Wiki page is still getting edits: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project=history On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 09:36, Pine W wrote: > > Umm. > > Looking at https://brandingwikipedia.org/, I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

2020-01-17 Thread Pine W
Umm. Looking at https://brandingwikipedia.org/, I wonder if this refers to WMF's ill-fated effort to rebrand Wikimedia as Wikipedia that I hope has been abandoned. I hope that WMF did not, without consulting the community or even having the courtesy to notify us, decide to launch another

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

2020-01-17 Thread John Erling Blad
Note that "Dagens næringsliv" printed the story Thursday, so they must have had information about it before WMF left the meeting with Snøhetta. This is no longer a breaking story. On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 12:04 AM John Erling Blad wrote: > > This is out in several newspapers now. > > "Snøhetta

[Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

2020-01-17 Thread John Erling Blad
This is out in several newspapers now. "Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" [1] A quick Google Translate dump The mission is the largest in the field of graphic design ever, writes Dagens Næringsliv. - For me personally, this is very big, but you see it in a larger

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Office hours for WMF/Research starting in January 2020

2020-01-17 Thread Leila Zia
A friendly reminder that the first joint Analytics and Research office hours will take place on 2020-01-22 at 17.00-18.00 (UTC). Bring your Wikimedia related research and data questions to us during these office hours. More at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours Best,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome back, Turkey

2020-01-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 01:13, Amanda Keton wrote: > Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our > efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from > over. Do we have a central log of these blocks; and steps taken to overcome them? -- Andy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome back, Turkey

2020-01-17 Thread Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
Great news and welcome back indeed, Natacha / Nattes à chat > Le 16 janv. 2020 à 19:25, Rupika Sharma a écrit : > > Thank for sharing the wonderful news Amanda! Welcome back Turkey!! > > Warmly, > Rupika > >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:51 PM Amanda Keton wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> My

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome back, Turkey

2020-01-17 Thread Eduardo Testart
Knowledge as a human right El jue., 16 de ene. de 2020 17:52, RhinosF1 - escribió: > Happy Brithday Wikimedia! > > What a great gift to celebrate! > > Welcome back Turkey and here’s to another 19 years of free knowledge > available in every corner of the world. > > RhinosF1 > Volunteer > > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Eduwiki] You're invited: Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting, Jan 28 at 18:00 UTC

2020-01-17 Thread Oby Ezeilo
Thanks for the notice , will bear that in mind On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, 6:48 pm Suyash Dwivedi, wrote: > Thanks for the invitation I will try to attend > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 02:17 Olushola Olaniyan > wrote: > > > Thank you for this information and the shared link, I will be so glad to > >