[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming a future Trustee to the Wikimedia Foundation Board

2023-11-02 Thread Christophe Henner
Thank you for the update! Thank you for your contribution all those years @Tanya Capuano ! It was great working with you all those years ago! Welcome Kathy, hope our movement will you give you back as much as you'll be bringing in with you :) -- Christophe On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 18:08, Shaba

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Osama and Ziyad

2023-10-08 Thread Christophe Henner
instances.Christophe On Oct 8, 2023, at 6:34?PM, Christophe Henner wrote:?Bassel was at a time when there was little to none activity on those topics.Since then the approach got professionalized.I understand the lack of information is frustrated, but most of the time any action taken has

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Osama and Ziyad

2023-10-08 Thread Christophe Henner
Bassel was at a time when there was little to none activity on those topics.Since then the approach got professionalized.I understand the lack of information is frustrated, but most of the time any action taken has to be confidential.Having been on the other side of curtain a bit, it?s one of the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing an update on the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund’s grantees

2023-08-16 Thread Christophe Henner
to where we draw the line, that would be a terrific strategic discussion but I don?t find where we had it.Sent from my iPhoneOn Aug 16, 2023, at 7:07 PM, Steven Walling wrote:?On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 12:34?AM Christophe Henner <christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote:Hi Steven,If I may,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing an update on the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund’s grantees

2023-08-16 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Steven,If I may, I have a different reading on the topic. Knowledge Equity is a topic because for centuries knowledges have been destroyed, banned, etc? as such, and with our current rules with written sources, funding any organisation empowering marginalised communities is critical.If we were

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Chat GPT

2023-02-04 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi,On the product side, NLP based AI biggest concern to me is that it would drastically decrease traffic to our websites/apps. Which means less new editors ans less donations. So first from a strictly positioning perspective, we have here a major change that needs to be managed.And to be honest,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Endowment, again

2023-01-27 Thread Christophe Henner
Thanks Caitlin!!!Sounds like that answers perfectly the original questions and things are going the way we were told, it just takes times :)Thanks again and have a good day!ChristopheSent from my iPhoneOn Jan 27, 2023, at 10:19 PM, Caitlin Virtue wrote:?Hi Christophe,This thread has circled

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Endowment, again

2023-01-27 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi, I have no idea how things are structured right now, but from the different FAQ and Foundation?s staff comments I read it as the endowment could be an independent org and the money managed by Tide.Which would mean:* Is the endowment an independent organisation? Yes.* Is the money managed by

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-28 Thread Christophe Henner
Am I the only one not shocked that in a time where there is a huge change happening in Movement governance (Global Council) the board is actually not committing to any sélection process? I mean in two years time the whole movement power structures and dynamics could be immensely different from

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia payroll and related (WAS: Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy)

2022-01-31 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi, I'm sorry but I feel that discussion is loaded and meant to create a heated debate and not provide good analysis data points. I was surprised by your claims, so I picked one example, not giving names to not single anyone out. First, you assume the first year is systematically a full year,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: 100$ million dollars and still obsolete

2021-10-16 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi, I will the whole first part of the discussion :) As for the product discussion. We should very mindful of what we consider our ProductS. We tend to talk a lot about the wikis. They are products that can be improved, and have been and still should evolve yes. And I agree it would be great if

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

2021-09-24 Thread Christophe Henner
I will answer to the end of your email only as it shocked me. Le ven. 24 sept. 2021 à 10:33 AM, Andreas Kolbe a écrit : > > No doubt the architects of this development will eventually leave the WMF > with résumés highlighting by how much they increased revenue over > such-and-such an amount of

[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] Re: News about some CTeam transitions in Wikimedia Foundation

2021-06-28 Thread Christophe Henner
Heather, you have been someone I have always loved to talk with. I have fond memories with you there, such as talking with you and Zack on Thanksgiving eve having beers in the Foundation office creating the Museums of Things People don't Want To Know. Or crafting my email in Esino Lario to

[Wikimedia-l] Conflict of Interest - Transition from Trustee to Staff

2021-06-27 Thread Christophe Henner
I am just forking this thread so the title reflects the needed discussion and we avoid derailling again to non directly / personal topics. Le dim. 27 juin 2021 à 9:55 PM, Katherine Maher a écrit : > Hi folks, > > Leaving aside everything else for a minute, I want to reply to Maggie’s >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-24 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, I feel the asynchronous discussion prevents from a meaningful discussion to happen. Given the situation, I feel it would be appropriate for the board and the general counsel, who is the executive responsible for governance (and seems to be the person at the top of this reporting

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish! / Stepping down April 15

2021-02-05 Thread Christophe Henner
Tl;dr This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Thank you for everything! Now the longer version... That was quite a run! A lot of your accomplishments have been shared here but one is missing. One that is capturing how brilliant you are, how facetiously crazy you are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

2020-12-13 Thread Christophe Henner
It is the endowment. Le dim. 13 déc. 2020 à 10:37 AM, Yair Rand a écrit : > No, the Wikimedia Endowment is a separate thing. > > -- Yair Rand > > ‫בתאריך יום א׳, 13 בדצמ׳ 2020 ב-4:18 מאת ‪Michael Peel‬‏ <‪ > em...@mikepeel.net‬‏>:‬ > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment ? >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

2020-12-08 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi, I consider a bike to be an amazing transportation tool, yet I haven't biked for months because it is not appropriate to how I commute. I am not sure invalidating someone's opinion based on its edit count is a good way to have that discussion . All the statistics I have ever seen on Visual

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sharing a new project: community resources platform

2020-11-02 Thread Christophe Henner
Remember how great my spanish is? ¡Impresionante! Thank you to everyone who worked on it, it is a great ressource. And the details, the dates of last use on the presentation ^^ Thanks! -- Christophe On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 13:51, Chen Almog wrote: > Hi Anna, > > This is really great!! Looks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moving the technical infrastructure out of the US

2020-09-30 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, Options to mitigate any risks are numerous, especially when it comes to content distribution (private/semi-private/public/delegated/federated/a mix of everything) but given the current context I would restrain from having this as a public / community discussion. We, community

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia

2020-07-02 Thread Christophe Henner
That is a great news!!! Congratulations :) Just so we are all on the same page, the last approved project was Wikidata right? And back then, one of initial core members of the project was someone called Denny Vrandečić too, right? Denny, I'm happy to say that is how patterns start... Stay safe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions 2018

2018-07-19 Thread Christophe Henner
ppoint María Sefidari as Chair and Christophe Henner as Vice Chair. After serving as Chair for two terms, I decided to step down and support María as Chair, hopefully as effectively as she served me and the organization when she was my Vice Chair. María and I both have a long history of invol

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions 2018

2018-07-19 Thread Christophe Henner
here on Commons <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Board_Recruiting_Candidate_Packet_May_2018.pdf>. Today the Board also voted to appoint María Sefidari as Chair and Christophe Henner as Vice Chair. After serving as Chair for two terms, I decided to step down and support

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lower page views

2018-01-25 Thread Christophe Henner
I will only answer for our discussions during the board meeting. This goes two fold: * we have many teams, including in tech and product, that are understaffed. Without pointing at one specifically, I raised that at work I have team I can compare to the Foundation's one, on the very same topic,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lower page views

2018-01-24 Thread Christophe Henner
All across the web there is a trend in less page views due to the increase of mobile. People on mobile tend to click on less links than on desktop. So you can witness increase reach in users and less pageviews in total. Le 24 janv. 2018 08:59, "Shlomi Fish" a écrit :

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board statement endorsing future resourcing and direction of the movement

2018-01-24 Thread Christophe Henner
, but what we have created is something that we should all be proud of -- for the process of how we got to this direction, as much as for the direction itself. On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Christophe Henner, Board Chair *** Statement At our most recent Board meeting

[Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, With the appointment of Raju to the Board of Trustees a couple of months ago, we were left with a remaining open vacancy to fill. I am thrilled to share that after several months of searching and discussions, we have made another important appointment. At our November Board Retreat,

[Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-10-16 Thread Christophe Henner
ledge that is accessed by more than 1 billion unique devices every month. This all makes Wikipedia one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. Christ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Diversity Award for the mentoring program of the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna

2017-10-06 Thread Christophe Henner
Congratulations, it is much much deserved! :) Christophe On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Alex Wang wrote: > Congrats! Creating ways for newcomers to feel more welcome and supportive > is awesome! > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Isaac Olatunde

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

2017-08-11 Thread Christophe Henner
also been involved in establishing collaborations with several organizations, including Translators Without Borders and the World Health Organization, to improve Wikimedia’s coverage of medical content. James previously served on the Board of Trustees from July to December 2015. Christophe Henne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Presentation Code of Conduct Committee candidates and community review

2017-04-24 Thread Christophe Henner
Congratulations and many many thanks to all the members and auxiliary members to the committee!!! Really glad to see this moving forward, many thanks to everyone who worked and collaborated to create the code of conduct for the Wikimedia technical spaces :) Christophe HENNER Chair of the board

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of new Affiliations Committee advisors

2017-04-03 Thread Christophe Henner
Awesome! Congratulations :) Le 3 avr. 2017 11:10 PM, "Pierre-Selim" a écrit : > \o/ quite happy to see people with such experience joining the affcom as > advisors. > > 2017-04-03 22:56 GMT+02:00 Tito Dutta : > > > Welcome, Anasuya di, Patricio, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement from the Chairs regarding the Movement strategy process

2017-04-03 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Frans and chairpersons, Thank you to you and everyone that crafted and supported that statement. It feels really really great to see that Wikimedia organisations are supportive and participative of the movement strategy process :) Thank you very very much! Christophe HENNER Chair

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment Kick-Off: Changes to the Timeline

2017-03-18 Thread Christophe Henner
having. 4. Appointed seats "quality": yes we are looking for great board members. And that is also why we need more time than one could expect. Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen...@wikimedia.org +33650664739 twitter *@schiste*skype *christophe_henner* On Sat,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcoming 19 long-time Wikimedians as Coordinators for Movement strategy

2017-03-09 Thread Christophe Henner
gonna make it! :) Thanks for your help!!! Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen...@wikimedia.org +33650664739 twitter *@schiste*skype *christophe_henner* On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Yaroslav Blanter <ymb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks the coordinat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

2017-02-07 Thread Christophe Henner
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter wrote: > The > people who are loudest in their demands for consensus do not represent the > Wikimedia movement. > > > The voices loudest for the WMF doing something against the Trump > administration are not representative

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation receives $500, 000 from the Craig Newmark Foundation and craigslist Charitable Fund to support a healthy and inclusive

2017-02-06 Thread Christophe Henner
Hey, On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Lodewijk >> wrote: >> >> What I am curious about, is whether there are also efforts ongoing that >>> are >>> focused on influencing community behavior

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

2017-02-06 Thread Christophe Henner
But again, as a movement, we have the potential to have a huge impact on the world. That is not neutral, that is a force of change and change always is poltical. Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen...@wikimedia.org +33650664739 twitter *@schiste*skype *christophe_henner*

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

2017-02-06 Thread Christophe Henner
them. Oh and if I'm not answering after a few days, please feel free to ping me :) Have all a good day, [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen...@wikimedia.org +33650664739 <+33%206%2050%2066%2047%2039> twitter *@schis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Foundation's challenge to recent U.S. immigration executive order

2017-02-06 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Yair, Yes board was informed in the process. Plus when situation started a few days ago, board expressed full support stepping up against that specific EO. Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen...@wikimedia.org +33650664739 twitter *@schiste*skype

Re: [Wikimedia-l] News regarding Wikimania 2018

2017-01-10 Thread Christophe Henner
Congratulations everyone :) Le 10 janv. 2017 11:24 AM, "James Heilman" a écrit : A big congratulations to Douglas and looking forwards to coming to South Africa in 2018 :-) James On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Ellie Young wrote: > All, > > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where is WMF with pursuing companies that offer paid editing services

2017-01-02 Thread Christophe Henner
Heu To be fair it's a topic that isn't currently in our plate. So to be honest, from a board level, I can't really give you an answer right now. As said before, there might be legal constraints we can't foresee. I made a not to work on that topic, but it might take some time as the current

[Wikimedia-l] [WMF] Update regarding expiring Board terms

2016-12-23 Thread Christophe Henner
Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen...@wikimedia.org +33650664739 <+33%206%2050%2066%2047%2039> twitter *@schiste*skype *christophe_henner* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

2016-12-21 Thread Christophe Henner
and the thinking behind the chosen process a little better. Basically I'd have liked the discussion in this thread to have been part of the considerations, rather than a response to the resolution. Thanks, Lodewijk 2016-12-21 4:45 GMT+01:00 Christophe Henner <chen...@wikimedia.org>: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

2016-12-20 Thread Christophe Henner
a.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ Board_Governance_Committee Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen...@wikimedia.org +33650664739 <+33%206%2050%2066%2047%2039> twitter *@schiste*skype *christophe_henner* On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmai

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

2016-12-20 Thread Christophe Henner
quest to the Executive Director or as required by law. Approve Christophe Henner (Chair), Maria Sefidari (Vice Chair), Dariusz Jemielniak, Kelly Battles, Guy Kawasaki, Jimmy Wales, Nataliia Tymkiv, and Alice Wiegand --- I wonder how much of this resolution is formalizing what was alr

[Wikimedia-l] Statement by Wikimedia Board on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces

2016-12-08 Thread Christophe Henner
, Christophe Henner, Board Chair María Sefidari, Board Vice Chair [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Harassment_survey_2015 Statement by the Wikimedia Board on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces At our Board meeting on November 13, and in Board meetings in September

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: Abraham Taherivand appointed Interim Executive Director

2016-12-08 Thread Christophe Henner
Congratulation Abraham. I'm not sure welcome would be appropriate, but welcome into our new role :) Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen...@wikimedia.org +33650664739 twitter *@schiste*skype *christophe_henner* On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Tim Moritz Hector

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMDE-update: Christian Rickerts might become Undersecretary of State

2016-12-05 Thread Christophe Henner
Congratulations Christian! That is an amazing news and recognition. Good luck in your new job! Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen...@wikimedia.org +33650664739 twitter *@schiste*skype *christophe_henner* On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Tanweer Morshed <wiki.t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee Recommendations for Round 1 2016-2017

2016-11-18 Thread Christophe Henner
Thank you everyone for the hard work and all the reading you had to go through :) Le 18 nov. 2016 10:19 AM, "Frans Grijzenhout" a écrit : > Hi Anne, thank you for this report and for sharing with us the > deliberations on the requests. We greatly appreciate the constructive

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal Update

2016-11-04 Thread Christophe Henner
. The Foundation has recently reviewed our conflict of interest procedures against other comparable non-profit organizations, and I'm confident that our system appropriately thorough and rigorous. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer

2016-11-02 Thread Christophe Henner
\o/ Welcome Victoria! Really really glad to have you joining us! Welcome again! And thank you to everyone that contributed to make this search successful! :) Le 2 nov. 2016 7:23 PM, "Katherine Maher" a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > I’m excited today to introduce the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia DC Board Members

2016-10-31 Thread Christophe Henner
I would definitly say congrats more than welcome as it wouldn't really appropriate :) So congrats to Kelly and Rosy and WMDC! Le 31 oct. 2016 8:40 PM, "Chris "Jethro" Schilling" < cschill...@wikimedia.org> a écrit : > Congrats to our DC chapter in addition to Kelly and Rosie! It is splendid >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thinking outside the box

2016-09-06 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Rogol, The weird thing in this discussion is I kind of agree with everyone. Yes more diversity would be awesome. But in my opinion diversity should be something we achieve organicaly. So, from my biased perspective, the key issue is for us to build room for people to emerge but also to feel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Changes to current chapter and thematic organisation criteria

2016-08-23 Thread Christophe Henner
that shows a > level of distrust and badt faith . As a group we need to get back to trust > and assuming good faith. > > > > Choose language carefully, use wording to promote not put down, create > criteria thats boosts the affiliates we dont need to pull each other down &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Changes to current chapter and thematic organisation criteria

2016-08-23 Thread Christophe Henner
group we need to get back to trust and > assuming good faith. > > Choose language carefully, use wording to promote not put down, create > criteria thats boosts the affiliates we dont need to pull each other down > to make things better because we just happen to find it easy to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Changes to current chapter and thematic organisation criteria

2016-08-23 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Gnangarra, This is not a discussion, and this is by design. As Carlos said, those are provisional criterias so that our movement can keep seeing new organizations blooming. But the discussion will not be only about those criterias, but on a much larger, and I believe more interesting and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 call for Board Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members [results]

2016-08-17 Thread Christophe Henner
I hope nobody will mind, but I'll "Yay" with you too. Thanks and kuddos to Natalia for bringing the idea up, leading the process, and making it happen so quickly. And thanks to everyone who volunteered to join bgc on top of their other volunteers position :) Christophe On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF C level hiring and retention

2016-08-15 Thread Christophe Henner
Hey, As you said you've asked the question during the week-end ^^ Things are moving forward but I'll let Katherine answer the question as she'll be able a way better answer than me (I talk about that topic nearly every week with Katherine, it is a high priority topic for all of us). Please bare

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board level strategic planning?

2016-08-03 Thread Christophe Henner
*Governance > as Leadership*, is that it not uncommon for boards to end up spending a lot > of time on housekeeping small items (e.g., bylaws tweaks), which could be > relatively minor. > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Christophe Henner <chen...@wikimedia.org> > wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board level strategic planning?

2016-08-01 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi, I love to write long emails, but four in a row would too much. As said before we are taking up our leadership role. The strategy process *is* a black box right now. We (Katherine mostly) have been working on the process for a few weeks. We will share soon I hope, the first part of that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Elections Committee

2016-07-25 Thread Christophe Henner
ourse. > > Pine > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Christophe Henner <chen...@wikimedia.org > > > wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > The question is not on the table right now. > > > > We're working to perform a gouvernance audit, board composition w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] June minutes from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2016-07-22 Thread Christophe Henner
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Pine W wrote: > Christophe and Dariusz, > > Thanks for the comments. > > I feel that it's important that Board members be able to ask employees at > any level of the company how things are going. That is different from > providing direction,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] June minutes from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2016-07-22 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Pine, Short answer is yes we'll take responsability, but as wikimedians I do need to elaborate :) I believe the best way a board can support its ED is by providing legitimacy and guidance. Both needs for the board to make decisions and to be consistent. If we're making a clear decision

Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...

2016-07-14 Thread Christophe Henner
Hey, I've said that privately earlier this week, I'll reiterate publicly. Thank you so much for all the work and energy you've put into the movement. I'm sad we won't get to work much together but really happy you've Landes a great job at YouTube! Of course any time you come to France I'd be

[Wikimedia-l] [Direction] WMF Board of Trustees 2016 priorities

2016-06-28 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met in Esino Lario during Wikimania. The minutes will be published in the coming days, but we deemed it too important to wait to share the outcome of this really great meeting. During the meeting, the Board felt that it was important to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board appointment of Executive Director

2016-06-27 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, On top of the formal announcement, I’d like to share a few personal thoughts. Katherine Maher has been interim ED of the Wikimedia Foundation since March. In the past few months, we’ve had the pleasure to witness her ability to provide healthy leadership to Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome Delphine Ménard as WMF's Annual Plan Grants Program Officer

2016-06-21 Thread Christophe Henner
Oh yeah? Well that was à long time ago she's now way wiser I hope! On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Christophe Henner <christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Déjà vu! > > Welcome to our movement, Delphine! > > I hope you will get to like us, even though we are a crazy bun

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome Delphine Ménard as WMF's Annual Plan Grants Program Officer

2016-06-20 Thread Christophe Henner
Déjà vu! Welcome to our movement, Delphine! I hope you will get to like us, even though we are a crazy bunch, don't be scared :) Le 21 juin 2016 12:55 AM, "Katy Love" a écrit : > Hi Wikimedians, > > Today WMF's Community Resources team is joined by Delphine Ménard as our >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Spam] Re: Affiliate Selected Board Seats - Result

2016-05-10 Thread Christophe Henner
WMF > board > > > to steer through the current waters and whatever may come in the > future. > > > Also on behalf of the AffCom I hope for a good collaboration. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > > Manuel > > > > &

[Wikimedia-l] [Affiliate-selected Board seats] Christophe Henner candidacy

2016-02-29 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, A week ago I published my candidacy to the Affiliates-Selected Board Seats process : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations/Christophe_Henner I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have, including (but not only) funny ones, on the talk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Massive Online Open Course about Wikipedia

2016-02-17 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, A quick update on this project, we've just crossed the 5 000 registered students. We'll see how much will complete the course, but so far we're really happy with this number :) Of course we'll share more insights once this program is over. Best, -- Christophe On 14 December 2015

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

2015-11-16 Thread Christophe Henner
> these are all important, and all worth working on, covering, building > upon. > > > > > > On 16/11/15 07:14, Pierre-Selim wrote: > > > >> Just +1 on the stfu. > >> Le 16 nov. 2015 7:53 AM, "Christophe Henner" < > christophe.h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris

2015-11-15 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, Thhank you all for your kind words. We've had confirmation from almost every wikimedians living in Paris that they're safe. The one we're waiting from are the one we don't have a way to reach them. At the same time, keep some thoughts for all the people in the Middle-East that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

2015-11-15 Thread Christophe Henner
I'm sorry but just shut the fuck up about "religion". They're bloodlusty assholes that wanted to kill and divide. Nothing more. It's not a religious thing (Paris isn't à holy city) or a cultural thing. It's hate. Simple and plain hate. They'd like us to say it's about religion and culture.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris

2015-11-14 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Everyone, Sorry didn't thought of coming here (long night for me had to work). Nathalie, WMFr ED, checked all staff in. From all we could gather over the last hours, so far all parisians wikimedians are ok. Can't be 100% sure as we have some who still have to answer but so far so good. Thank

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris

2015-11-14 Thread Christophe Henner
ncic" <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Christophe, thank you for the update! It's good to hear that all of you > > are well! > > On Nov 14, 2015 11:26, "Christophe Henner" <christophe.hen...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi Everyone, &

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia French] Summer of french cities and villages

2015-07-21 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, Just so you know, Wikimedia France is officially launching a new program: Summer of french cities and villages This program is aimed to increase outreach and to raise awareness that anyone can esaily contribute. That there are many things they can do, such as sharing their holiday

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Board of Trustees Chair and Vice Chair positions

2015-07-16 Thread Christophe Henner
Congrats Patricio and Alice. Jan-Bart when are you buying rounds? Le 16 juil. 2015 5:12 PM, Pierre-Selim pierre-se...@huard.info a écrit : Congrats Patricio and Alice! And thank you Jan-Bart :) 2015-07-16 17:08 GMT-05:00 Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com: Congratulations (and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Ask questions, give feedback on six annual plan grant proposals for the FDC!

2015-04-08 Thread Christophe Henner
Hey Pine, The Advisory group to the FDC actually made that very proposal. To have a body who would look At the grant system as a whole and not juste At one of its part. Not sure if that would ever be implemented sadly. Best Le 8 avr. 2015 8:34 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi Luis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Not all pixels are created equals: introducing brand new Wikimedia France's metrics

2015-04-01 Thread Christophe Henner
They are not free pixels. Only real free pixels deserve to be counted. Le 1 avr. 2015 23:00, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com a écrit : As always, every tool is developed thinking about Wikipedia and Commons, never all the other sister projects! What about those poor pixels? Are they

[Wikimedia-l] [FDC] Wikimedia France - Proofreading our proposal

2015-03-27 Thread Christophe Henner
best to improve it before Monday evening. Also, if you have any questions regarding our programs for next year, don't wait Tuesday to ask us questions about it. Thanks to anyone who will help us improve our proposal. All the best, Christophe HENNER | Président

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New ED of Wikimedia Norway

2015-02-23 Thread Christophe Henner
. :) I hope we will be welcoming you in Berlin in May. Best regards, Nicole (Sorry, Christophe, for copying your text. I suppose it was freely licensed anyway, right? :D) On 23 February 2015 at 09:48, Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Hi Erlend and Astrid

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New ED of Wikimedia Norway

2015-02-23 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi Erlend and Astrid, On behalf of Wikimedia France, congratulations Astrid for your new role in the movement. I hope we'll see you in Berlin in May! All the best, Christophe HENNER | Président --- › Mail : christophe.hen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: A new structure for WMF Community Engagement

2015-02-20 Thread Christophe Henner
I hate au revoirs. I feel like you've been around for a decade. Perhaps it's because you've bring to us a decade worth of insights, advices, experiences, etc. I do hope we have turned you into a hardcore Wikimedian and that you won't resist the appeal to stay among us. Thank you for everything

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] WikiCheese crowdfunding - Let's photograph 'em all

2015-01-29 Thread Christophe Henner
Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@gmail.com: 110% !!! We bleu our first goal. Christophe, whether you are posting out of love for this awesome project or just for the sake of making puns, I cantal. A little humor on this thread may annoy some, but it's really a Brie of fresh air to me

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Creation of a scientific committee

2015-01-19 Thread Christophe Henner
and becomes actions. As usual if you have any question, feel free to ask. All the best, -- Christophe On 13 January 2015 at 12:56, Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pine, Yes that would be the best translation. I hesitated to use advisory board but wanted to keep a coherence

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Creation of a scientific committee

2015-01-13 Thread Christophe Henner
feedback on how it goes and if it's useful for Wikimedia France. The announcement in french is available on our blog : http://blog.wikimedia.fr/wikimedia-france-cree-son-conseil-scientifique-7059 If you have any question feel free to ask here or to Rémi and I off-list. All the best, Christophe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Creation of a scientific committee

2015-01-13 Thread Christophe Henner
* On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Hi everyone, First of all, I wish everyone a happy new year. Even if the first days of 2015 were tainted by violence, we also witnessed people shouting how freedom is important. I hope 2015

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] WikiCheese crowdfunding - Let's photograph 'em all

2014-12-03 Thread Christophe Henner
110% !!! We bleu our first goal. Pierre-Yves Beaudouin writes: I'm the project leader of WikiCheese. KissKissBankBank Christophe writes: Thanks again, I tried to remain brie-f I had a dream like this last week, full of smoke and gorgons. Kudos à Pyb, Christophe and all: this looks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Christophe Henner
On behalf of Wikimedia France, welcome to the mad house Giuliana :) We're a crazy but lovely bunch, and we enjoy lame puns. Best, -- Christophe On 2 December 2014 at 16:28, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Giuliana Mancini, welcome to the Wikimedia movement. :-) Sydney Poore

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] WikiCheese crowdfunding - Let's photograph 'em all

2014-11-25 Thread Christophe Henner
in. On 24 November 2014 at 18:22, Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Good news everyone, Cheese articles are gonna get improved! As french, it was dreadful for us to see so few illustrations of cheese on Wikipedia. This is about to change. A group of french

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] WikiCheese crowdfunding - Let's photograph 'em all

2014-11-24 Thread Christophe Henner
Good news everyone, Cheese articles are gonna get improved! As french, it was dreadful for us to see so few illustrations of cheese on Wikipedia. This is about to change. A group of french Wikimedians, lead by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, designed a project to photograph many cheeses, up to 200 for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On relationship gossip and appropriate conversation

2014-06-15 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi, I'm puzzled of those emails. Especially melting organisational discussions and private issues. Who sleeps with whom is of no importance actually. What you seem to describe is someone using a personal relationship with a leader of our movement to push forward its POV. This asks for an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] COI editing by WMF staff

2014-04-17 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, Just to share what we do at Wikimedia France. Employees are allowed to edit Wikimedia Projects from personnal accounts. When they do as Wikimedia France employees, they use their professional accounts, that stays they're employed by WMFr. We do not look at what they do on their

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback on the last 2 years

2014-04-15 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi, I will try to put up the matrix and its documentation in english on meta later this week. You can find the matrix itsel in english there on meta :

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ASBS sessions update

2014-04-14 Thread Christophe Henner
That could have been a solution, which I believe we lacked to think about sadly. However, I believe the questions were noted to be sent to some of the candidates, perhaps a good way would be to republish them and ask them to answer on meta ? -- Christophe On 14 April 2014 17:15, Fæ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ASBS sessions update

2014-04-14 Thread Christophe Henner
Awesome, thanks a lot Chris and Crisitian ^^ It's been a long time since we've been that efficient on this mailing list I believe... -- Christophe On 14 April 2014 17:50, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Il 14/apr/2014 17:48 Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com ha scritto:

[Wikimedia-l] [WMFr] Feedback on the last 2 years

2014-04-12 Thread Christophe Henner
, and some time make radical changes in order to improve things on the long run. If anyone has questions, please, feel free to ask them either on list or off list. We hope that sharing this will help some of you. All the best, Christophe HENNER | Vice-chair

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