Re: [Wikimedia-l] Co sprawia, że jesteś szczęśliwy w tym tygodniu? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 19 Jan 2019)

2020-01-23 Thread Aron Manning
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 02:37, Clover moss wrote: > This week, I learned about Wiki Loves Monuments > . The wording kind of > sounded familiar at first, but I wasn't sure why. I didn't really know what > Wiki Loves Monuments was and now I'm

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café - Saturday 25 Jan 2020 4:30 PM UTC...

2020-01-23 Thread Lane Rasberry
Hello, I am writing to invite anyone to join the next online meeting of Wikimedia Café on Saturday 25 Jan 2020 4:30 PM UTC. Details for joining are at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café > (video room open at that time) https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt The agenda for this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The issue then is that diversity is seen as an issue with our collaborators and not so much as an issue of the needs of our audience. Having said that, has there every been done a study on how and where the lack of our diversity in our content exists and how it affects our audience? Thanks,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-23 Thread Marc Miquel
Hi Gerard, I agree it is a good practice to try to find a definition. In my understanding, diversity is the range of differences in a series of things, people, cultural traits, etc. So, diversity applied to Wikimedia, it can be understood as to how well the different profiles in society are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-23 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Perhaps the self-re-electing AffCom members can elighten us what the future of AffCom will look like in the light of the recommendations. On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 10:57, Chris Keating wrote: > To me the main surprise is that AffCom continues to exist despite being > obviously broken. > > It does

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-23 Thread Astrid Carlsen
Hi all, Thanks for the comments and questions. The community survey is about defining the scope of a possible Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020. I think the scope of the 2017 Diversity

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-23 Thread Peter Southwood
Hi Nick, That is quite a lot to read to try to find where the scope is mentioned, could you be a bit more specific? I do not want to read all about three events in the hope of finding where the scope is defined. It was not obvious in the places that I looked. Cheers, Peter -Original

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations released, join the conversation

2020-01-23 Thread Andrew Lih
The Wikimedia Strategy 2030 recommendations were published on January 20, 2020, but the language, size, and complexity can be a intimidating, even for native English speakers. I've attempted to summarize the recommendations into ONE PAGE, highlighting key concepts, structures and processes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-23 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
And the next big surprise, to me, is that so many of their members are genuinely good people, strongly engaged with the movement. Still, that committee is something close to a complete failure (if not a complete failure). It seems clear to me that the failure of AffCom most probably is not the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-23 Thread Chris Keating
To me the main surprise is that AffCom continues to exist despite being obviously broken. It does not fulfill its mandate, it never has done, everyone knows this, yet still the WMF is happy to have a non-functional committee. Chris On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:23 AM Alessandro Marchetti via