Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preventing conflicts of interest in Wikimedia organizations' employment and financial relationships

2020-05-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 20:21, Pine W wrote: > For example, is there any monitoring of the bank accounts of board > members and executives I very much hope not. That would be an outrageous intrusion. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk __

[Wikimedia-l] Preventing conflicts of interest in Wikimedia organizations' employment and financial relationships

2020-05-20 Thread Pine W
Awhile back I saw a joke that when reading a newspaper someone had difficulty distinguishing between the business section and the crime section. These days, the politics section could cause similar confusion. Recently I have wondered about the extent to which WMF and the affiliates take steps to pr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons

2020-05-20 Thread Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
To be honest, I actively discourage newbies to edit but also to upload on Commons when they start. I prefer it when they focus on something else. If needed, I can find enough files because of my expertise and that's a decent starting point. Of course, I am active and soon or later uploading is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New portal about Gender Gap on meta

2020-05-20 Thread Alex Wang
Thank you so much Florence and Alacoolwiki! The updates took a lot of work and are super useful. I haven't looked into all the tabs, but will do so soon. Thank you! Alex On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 1:03 PM Camelia Boban wrote: > Thank you for the wonderful work Florence and Alacoolwiki 😍. I will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons

2020-05-20 Thread Strainu
My2c on the original question: Commons does a lot to discourage people from uploading to Commons. Everything from not allowing non-free formats (even automatically converted to free equivalents) to asking for cross-wiki uploads to be disabled and repeatedly proposing the same file for deletion is d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] May 20, 2020: Human in the Loop Machine Learning

2020-05-20 Thread Janna Layton
May's Research Showcase will be starting in 30 minutes! On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 1:04 PM Janna Layton wrote: > Hi all, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, May 20, at > 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. > > This month we will learn about recent research on machine learning syst