[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: November 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: Vote for your favourite sound logo

Hello everyone, I, too, wanted to extend my gratitude to everyone who has been working on this project, as well as to all the community members who have already participated and voted. Seeking information and engaging with knowledge has become a more diverse experience globally, with sound being

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open Conversation with the Board of Trustees on December 15th

Hi everyone! Please join us for this call on Thursday. The agenda will be: - Updates from the recent Board meeting - Updates on the Foundation’s current banner fundraising campaign - Sound Logo and the vote happening now - Open Q Please register to join us in Zoom by emailing

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Long Reddit post laying out inner workings of English Wikipedia

Indeed, didn't want to sound ad hominem, but definitely some AN/I drama, the second most popular source of grandiose criticism after being the subject of a deleted bio. Vito Il giorno lun 12 dic 2022 alle ore 19:25 Dan Rosenthal ha scritto: > Man, that essay reads like someone spent a grand

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Long Reddit post laying out inner workings of English Wikipedia

Man, that essay reads like someone spent a grand total of 5 days reading Wikipedia policies, ventured into some politically fraught articles with a right-wing agenda, got taken to AN/I for it, and subsequently blocked or banned. Dan On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 6:41 AM Vi to wrote: > I don't know

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board: welcoming two community-and-affiliate-selected trustees

Congrats to Mike and Shani. Two excellent board members :-) J On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 10:36 AM Nataliia Tymkiv wrote: > Dear all, > > The Wikimedia Foundation Board has appointed the two > community-and-affiliate-selected trustees, so please join me in welcoming > Mike Peel to the Board of

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board: welcoming two community-and-affiliate-selected trustees

Dear all, The Wikimedia Foundation Board has appointed the two community-and-affiliate-selected trustees, so please join me in welcoming Mike Peel to the Board of Trustees [1]. I would also like to congratulate Shani Evenstein Sigalov on her re-appointment to the Board [2]. Their terms will run

[Wikimedia-l] How does the selection of WMF expert board members happen?

Given that the actual appointment is about a year ago, it may make sense to shift this conversation and these great questions into a more general domain: what is the current procedure the WMF follows when encountering a vacancy for an expert board member? I imagine we could rephrase some of these

[Wikimedia-l] WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign Edition

Hello Everyone, We are excited to share that we will be running the 2023 edition of the WikiForHumanRights campaign between April - June and will be having our first office hour on 16 January 2023 at 16:00 UTC (Zoom Registration

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

To add to the conversation, I'm wondering several things. 1. Was there actually an outreach strategy to recruit for this type of technologist profile? Was it communicated to the movement? We could have helped. 2. Why the decision on someone whose only relevant background as technologist is on

[Wikimedia-l] New WIKIMOVE Podcast #7: Growing Communities

Dear all, Our latest WIKIMOVE Episode on growing communities has just dropped! Check it out on our website and feel free to react to it on our meta page to continue

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Reminder – expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and 2025 (deadline December 16th)

Wikimania is fully funded by the WMF On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 at 19:38, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > I can't find any resource on budgeting. Is Wikimania fully supported, or > local organizers should have a big budget for the event? Would it be > possible to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Long Reddit post laying out inner workings of English Wikipedia

I don't know whether crossing the line "musk [...] fixing [...] Wikipedia" gives me more disgust or fear. Vito Il giorno lun 12 dic 2022 alle ore 05:12 reybueno1--- via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> ha scritto: > This just up in /r/trueunpopularopinion and YCombinator: > > >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Reminder – expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and 2025 (deadline December 16th)

Dear all, I can't find any resource on budgeting. Is Wikimania fully supported, or local organizers should have a big budget for the event? Would it be possible to find some information on this? Thanks Galder From: Iolanda Pensa Sent: Saturday, December 10,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Long Reddit post laying out inner workings of English Wikipedia

"Citations needed." Not saying it is all wrong, a lot of it is fairly obvious, but some of it is, or appears to be, somewhat biased. Could use a bit of copyediting in places. Also, does not seem to say anything new. Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: reybueno1--- via Wikimedia-l