Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet Archive BOT

2020-06-23 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Pascal, all, this is being discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cyberpower678 THe last response was June 16, and it seems to focus on geo-blocking as the cause for blacklisting (in case anyone feels called to help out the developer). This bot performs incredible work and I h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread Gnangarra
I recognise and again apologise for confusing the actions of two different Board members that represent the "community". I have directly contacted Nataliia and apologised in person, and offered to do what she requests to make amends for the statement.I had no intention to participate in this a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread Pete Forsyth
I tend to agree with Nathan here. I don't know the history of the event described, so I'm not sure whether or not it would be fair to bring up even if it had been Natalia. But certainly, publicly identifying the incorrect person in an accusation is no small thing. Gnangarra, you have given yoursel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread Nathan
Considering the context, Gnangarra, I think you owe something a little more substantial. In the midst of tearing Nat down for misdeeds which you yourself acknowledge she didn't personally commit (that of Board miscommunication), and considering your opposition is based on Board directives that she

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emergency moderation ended

2020-06-23 Thread Benjamin Ikuta
Thanks, I appreciate the work you do. On Jun 23, 2020, at 3:03 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Just a handful of further responses on the racism thread. > > Specifically in case anyone wonders, no messages regarding the branding > project were suppressed. > > A. > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 00:5

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emergency moderation ended

2020-06-23 Thread Asaf Bartov
Just a handful of further responses on the racism thread. Specifically in case anyone wonders, no messages regarding the branding project were suppressed. A. On Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 00:54 Benjamin Ikuta wrote: > > > For the sake of transparency, how many messages were blocked? > > > > On Jun

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emergency moderation ended

2020-06-23 Thread Benjamin Ikuta
For the sake of transparency, how many messages were blocked? On Jun 23, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > We have ended the emergency moderation of the mailing list > > We did our best to process the moderation queue at least several times a > day, but are happ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread phoebe ayers
I second Jan-Bart; thanks to Nat for this letter. As someone who asked for a board statement, I appreciate this very much. And as someone who has also been on the other side, like Jan-Bart I am aware of how much work a statement like this likely took (and how difficult it is to balance many perspec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emergency moderation ended

2020-06-23 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Dear Asaf, Thanks for this update. I trust the judgement of the list moderators. Regards Isaac On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, 22:32 Asaf Bartov, wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > We have ended the emergency moderation of the mailing list > > We did our best to process the moderation queue at least several

[Wikimedia-l] Emergency moderation ended

2020-06-23 Thread Asaf Bartov
Dear Wikimedians, We have ended the emergency moderation of the mailing list We did our best to process the moderation queue at least several times a day, but are happy to return the list to regular operation. Asaf in behalf of the list admins

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread Samuel Klein
Brad: this was brilliant, thank you. I have been thinking about how to phrase this all week, and you touched it with a needle. The Foundation's one undelegable role is to protect the community identity through its marks. That is a foundation upon which all else rests. There are many ways we can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread Shabab Mustafa
Thank you, Nataliia, for stepping forward and clearing out some of the confusion. That helps. But not all the confusion gets cleared for me regarding the survey process. For example, X marks Option 1 as 'Disagree' and Option 2 as 'Strongly Disagree'. The score points for 'Disagree' is -1 and 'Stro

[Wikimedia-l] New members of the Board and Supervisory Committee

2020-06-23 Thread Wikimedia Armenia Board
Dear Wikimedians, On June 6-8, 2020 Wikimedia Armenia’s snap Assembly was held online, the agenda of which was the adoption of the new charter, the election of the Board members, and the Supervisory Committee. All this was done within the framework of the organization's reforms. The majority of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
And there never was any insult or anything close to that, just a misunderstanding, which I believe was clarified. A terça, 23 de jun de 2020, 08:56, revi escreveu: > Hi, > > > 2020. 6. 23. 14:13, Gnangarra 작성: > > > > Nat insulted an ESEAP > > affiliate because she wanted a European affiliate t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation for Education Office hours, June 2020

2020-06-23 Thread Sailesh Patnaik
Juhar everyone, In case you have missed the agenda for the Education office hours, you can bring any topic for discussion and share your work (mostly related to use of Wikimedia projects in education). This time we will be joined by the Reading Wikipedia [1] research fellows, know about the projec

[Wikimedia-l] Internet Archive BOT

2020-06-23 Thread Pascal Martin
HI, My native language is French, automatic translation into English. This message follows the numerous detection of false 404 links by the Internet Archive robot because it is blacklisted on a lot of servers. Small details concerning the archiving service of Wikiwix (  https://nl.wikipedia.org/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread Gnangarra
My apologies for that error On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 15:56, revi wrote: > Hi, > > > 2020. 6. 23. 14:13, Gnangarra 작성: > > > > Nat insulted an ESEAP > > affiliate because she wanted a European affiliate to endorse her > > nomination. > > Fact check: that was Shani Evanstein. > > > https://meta.wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
That one first, and second that it does not even matter. We should appreciate that Nat came up with this statement, which is written in her name, not even as a Board resolution, perfectly knowing that it would not be fully accepted by the active part of the community, and she woull be a target of a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

2020-06-23 Thread revi
Hi, > 2020. 6. 23. 14:13, Gnangarra 작성: > > Nat insulted an ESEAP > affiliate because she wanted a European affiliate to endorse her > nomination. Fact check: that was Shani Evanstein. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominations/Shani_Evenstein