[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimania-l] Reminder - Wikimania 2021 Session Proposal Submissions

2021-06-02 Thread Martin Rulsch
e (User:Ms_Kabintie > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ms_Kabintie>), on behalf of the > Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team. > > > ___ > Wikimania-l mailing list -- wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email

[Wikimedia-l] Call for Scholarship Committee, Help wanted for new applicants and African community

2017-11-30 Thread Martin Rulsch
with the application form, finding the right level of presenting one’s activities, etc. Please reach out to us if you'd like to help. Many thanks, David Richfield <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Slashme> and Martin Rulsch <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/User

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 scholarship applications open

2017-01-11 Thread Martin Rulsch
Hi all, Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2017 which is being held in Montréal, Canada on August 11–13, 2017 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to “Engaging local Wikipedians” and “German Wikipedia” Workshop at Wikimania

2016-06-22 Thread Martin Rulsch
to 5:30 pm. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in the “Meeting” room! :-) Hope to see you around in Esino Lario. Best, Martin 2016-06-17 23:50 GMT+02:00 Martin Rulsch <martin.rul...@wikimedia.de>: > Hi Wikimaniacs! > > Wikimania is just around the corner and many

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to “Engaging local Wikipedians” and “German Wikipedia” Workshop at Wikimania

2016-06-17 Thread Martin Rulsch
-- Martin Rulsch Team Ideenförderung Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2016 scholarship applications open

2015-12-08 Thread Martin Rulsch
Thanks again, Dan Garry, for pointing me on this again-ill formatted mail. Cheers, Martin Hi all, Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC.

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania Scholarship committee and ambassadors

2015-11-19 Thread Martin Rulsch
, en-3, tr-2) * Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (USA, languages: en) * Ruslik0 (Russia, languages: ru, en-3) * Venus Lui (Hong Kong, languages: zh, zh-yue, en) * Federico Leva (Italy, languages: it, en-3, “Scholarships working group chair”) * Martin Rulsch (Germany, languages: de, en-3, es-2

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Call for candidates 2015 [UPDATE]

2014-09-04 Thread Martin Rulsch
Just what Risker suggested. ;-) (And I'd also support.) Cheers, Martin 2014-09-04 22:07 GMT+02:00 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Another option would be an open process on-wiki, along the same lines as the FDC board-selected seat nominations. Is there a need to keep applications

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

2014-08-19 Thread Martin Rulsch
Thank you, Erik, for your clarifications and understanding. Personally, I hope that most anger will calm down now although not everyone will agree with everything that was said or done (e.g. ignoring RfCs under some conditions, using superprotect instead of counting on local procedures to stop

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Martin Rulsch
The Board did not even consider to apologize for the rushed interference of WMF staff on de:MediaWiki:Common.js which caused so much trouble in the last days? No empathy for German Wikimedians who feel completely overruled and locked out from maintaining its display and implementing community

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiconference USA in the media

2014-06-08 Thread Martin Rulsch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Op-ed Martin 2014-06-08 12:35 GMT+02:00 edward edw...@logicmuseum.com: On 08/06/2014 11:28, Chris Keating wrote: It's interesting how much this thread reinforces what Sumana said in her keynote at the conference! Chris

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiconference USA in the media

2014-06-07 Thread Martin Rulsch
And what's the purpose of your question(s)? How does it help you to know what he said or not? Do you want to get an impression of his character? Then better start over with fresh questions than the tendentious ones the journalist asked him (but please off-list). Or do you want to hit on him (or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Chair of the Supervisory Board – the 14th WMDE General Assembly in retrospect

2014-05-27 Thread Martin Rulsch
Have a look at our Charter §§3–4, esp. §3 (3)–(5) http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Satzung/en : §3 (3) Active members have the right to elect and to stand for election as well as the right to file motions, vote, and speak at the Members Assembly. §3 (4) Sustaining members have the right to speak and file

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hackathon 2014 - Save the Date! May 9th - 11th 2014

2013-12-10 Thread Martin Rulsch
A preliminary page can be found on MediaWiki.org Obviously here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014 Cheers Martin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours for VisualEditor

2013-11-16 Thread Martin Rulsch
According to the road map, the Toolserver will not be shut down before June 30, 2014. Cheers Martin 2013/11/16 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com Martin Rulsch wrote: In German Nov 2, 24:00 equals Nov 3, 0:00. For further information have a look at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-13 Thread Martin Rulsch
Unquestionably, there are also many instances where the systems fails and where lots of copyrighted material gets uploaded. Back in 2005, we had a case similar to the one you described in German Wikipedia, where various IPs copied content from old books. It is a big mess to clean up, but it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours for VisualEditor

2013-10-30 Thread Martin Rulsch
In German Nov 2, 24:00 equals Nov 3, 0:00. For further information have a look at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noon_and_midnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Midnight_00:00_and_24:00 Cheers Martin 2013/10/30 Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours for VisualEditor

2013-10-30 Thread Martin Rulsch
As far as I know, just in German and about German topics: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:10_Jahre_Wikipedia/Wikipedia-Buch https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alles_%C3%BCber_Wikipedia_und_die_Menschen_hinter_der_gr%C3%B6%C3%9Ften_Enzyklop%C3%A4die_der_Welt; for an English abstract see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] is wikipedia zero illegal because it violates net neutrality?

2013-08-28 Thread Martin Rulsch
Schubert ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katina_Schubert ), “filed criminal charges against German Wikipedia […] for featuring Nazi symbols such as the swastika in its articles [… but] after criticism from other members of her party, Schubert withdrew her charges.” Best regards Martin Rulsch Btw

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Martin Rulsch
As far as I know, that's even planned by the Wikidata team. Cheers Martin 2013/6/18 Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl Hello, I am also unhappy with the mail from Hubertl, and also some remarks that good be understood as a criticism of the German Wikipedia editing community. Actually,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Martin Rulsch
Well, precisely to the bots. But we can congratulate the Swedish Wikipedians on more than 500k manually created articles: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/BotActivityMatrixCreates.htm Best regards Martin 2013/6/16 Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com Congratulations to the swedish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Gadgets

2013-04-07 Thread Martin Rulsch
Free give-aways are okay. But a shop where Wiki* stuff can be sold, might be a problem. Cheers Martin 2013/4/7 Balázs Viczián balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu I'd love to see this available to buy as a T-shirt: [1] and these posters [2] (here, in Hungary we have plans to do both) btw Wikimedia