[Wikimedia-l] Re: Outreachy Round 23–call for projects and mentors now open!

2021-09-23 Thread Srishti Sethi
Hello all, This is the final reminder email :) We have recruited five cool technical projects to promote via Outreachy related to quality assurance, tool, and bot development. The deadline for mentors to submit projects has been extended to *September 29 at 4 pm UTC*. If you are still thinking

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-23 Thread phoebe ayers
Thanks Christophe, SJ and all! Lisa, agreed - it's taken a lot of work over the years from many people to get here. A big thanks to all of the endowment staff past and present and especially to you Lisa, who has been there as an advocate from the very beginning "what if we made an endowment?!"

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 19:27, The Cunctator wrote: > It's really disappointing to me that the Structured Data work has been used > to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft. 1. Your message has nothing to do with the endowment 2. You offer no evidence that "the Structured Data work has been used to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-23 Thread Vi to
Great now but now... (https://imgflip.com/i/5o0v9y if you don't want to download the attached picture) Vito ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and

[Wikimedia-l] NYT Interview with incoming Wikimedia ED Maryana Iskander

2021-09-23 Thread The Cunctator
Unfortunately (but not surprisingly) not a very in-depth interview, US-centric. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/technology/wikipedia-misinformation.html *Give us a sense of your direction and vision for Wikimedia, especially in such a fraught information landscape and in this polarized world.*

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-23 Thread The Cunctator
It's really disappointing to me that the Structured Data work has been used to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft. On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 1:20 PM Lisa Gruwell wrote: > Thank you, Christophe and SJ. You both were great supporters of this > effort when you were on the WMF board and it wouldn't have

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-23 Thread Lisa Gruwell
Thank you, Christophe and SJ. You both were great supporters of this effort when you were on the WMF board and it wouldn't have gotten off the ground without you. It takes a lot of vision and trust to do something long-term like an endowment. Thanks for giving that to us! Best, Lisa On Thu,

[Wikimedia-l] Join the UNLOCK Demo Day and get inspired by new projects for free knowledge

2021-09-23 Thread Kannika Thaimai
Dear all, This summer we kicked off the second edition of the Wikimedia Accelerator UNLOCK [1] with five project teams from across Europe (and one participant from India) and intensively accompanied them with coaching, mentoring and tons of input from expert within our movement and beyond that

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-23 Thread Christophe Henner
Congratulations Lisa and team, I know how much energy you pour into it! That is an amazing step. And great to see the endowment becoming its own organization. And "welcome" to the "new" endowment board members! :) Few people might know Doron, but he is not a stranger. He has been supporting the

[Wikimedia-l] Peer Support Networks in the Wikimedia Movement

2021-09-23 Thread Christel Steigenberger
Hello all, We are writing to invite you to take part in a new project that the Wikimedia Foundation Trust & Safety Team is creating. This project aims to maintain and expand peer-support networks within the Wikimedia communities, improve the working atmosphere on our projects, and aid in the