[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

Hi, thank you for this conversation. It is especially important to hear more opinions from more people. If you are willing but still hesitating to add your perspective, please go ahead and comment here or in the channel you prefer. I will comment on the forum related points later today, but in

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: May 2022

*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

Just to change the subject for a short minute: This is a Board of Trustees election. It is supposed to be managed by the Elections Committee , a Board-appointed committee of community members. Their mandate was reviewed

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

Let's take the main argument here seriously for a moment: the Wikimedia movement needs a better platform for inclusive, public, multi-language, long-term discussion. We'll especially need this if we expect the Global Council to succeed and live up to our hopes for participation and transparency.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

Welcome Selena -- thank you for this kind introduction. I hope you find the Foundation and projects warm and welcoming, with ample humor and beauty in them (and in 'practice, not theory'!). SJ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list --

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

Hey all, I find myself mostly in agreement with Gergő. A reluctance to experiment is a problem in this movement which prevents meaningful change. The current state of MediaWiki is such that having discussions on it is very painful. We can do better. However, there've been quite a few different

[Wikimedia-l] Important updates about the submitted Wikimania program proposals

Hello Wikimedians! I hope this email finds you well. I am writing on behalf of the Wikimania 2022 COT to let you know that; 1. There is a little extra time extension window given *(up to Tuesday 14th June 2022 mid-night in all timezones)* for all people with open program

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

Congratulations Selena. Wishing you the very best in your new role. You are welcome! On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 18:35, Risker wrote: > Welcome to Wikimedia, Selena. It is very good to see this role being > filled by someone with your level of experience - especially your > experience in the open

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

Welcome to Wikimedia, Selena. It is very good to see this role being filled by someone with your level of experience - especially your experience in the open source and free knowledge communities. I am sure many people will be looking forward to meeting you and getting to work with you, even

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

Hello! I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the many people I’ve met on my journey to today’s announcement. Thank you for this opportunity to introduce myself! My grandfather was a TV repairman and I grew up watching him tinker and fix things, but college was when I

[Wikimedia-l] Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

Hi all, When I started in January, I shared with you that one of my top priorities coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

Thanks Nathan, I want to raise a point here. You say that "That's a reasonable pursuit for Quim, for instance, whose scope is managing the movement strategy process - not shepherding MediaWiki development strategy." and I must disagree. If Quim's (or whoever, this is not a complaint against

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 6:05 AM Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > Dear All, > > I thought I would just let it go, but I do not think the discussion > currently runs in a good direction. > > I do not think it is useful to advocate that Meta is a good discussion > platform. It is not. It is dead. At best,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 514, Issue 1

Hi Yaroslav, Meta already exists, it is included in Single User login and cross wiki notifications. It uses the same software as the talkpages on our various projects on Wikipedia, Commons, WikiVoyage etc. The cross wiki notifications in particular mean that everyone active in Wikipedia, Commons

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

Dear All, I thought I would just let it go, but I do not think the discussion currently runs in a good direction. I do not think it is useful to advocate that Meta is a good discussion platform. It is not. It is dead. At best, there are some announcements posted there, and there is a small group

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

Bon dia a tothom/Hi everyone, It's really difficult not to agree with Galder here. Happy to still read these persistent colleagues with key arguments. The same people that committed the big mistakes and failure with Wikimedia Space (that should have never existed and that even combined

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

Dear all I quite agree with Galder here. We should focus on making our own spaces more inclusive and easier to use rather than jumping to various external providers for this and that. Let's not forget that existing volunteers and staff also have to learn to use the new platform. The other issue