[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

2022-03-12 Thread Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l
Thank you Maggie for your message. Let us know when the movement should communicate about this terrible news. I'm sure that a lot of affiliates would be happy to communicate on that topic, contact our governments and human rights NGOs, but we don't want to make things worse for Pessimist2006 and

[Wikimedia-l] New board of Wikimédia France

2020-11-30 Thread Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l
Dear all, The new board of Wikimédia France is almost the same as the last one. The only change is the departure of Benoît Deshayes. The board is composed of 10 people (4 women and 6 men). The list and our contacts are on meta:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

2020-05-04 Thread Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l
We should create a rule that state that each discussion on wikimedia-l will end with "it's the fault of WMF!" ;) The problem of viewing several banners at the same time happens because some community members still use Sitenotice. I think that it's a bad idea and that they should only use

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wiki Cemeteries User Group

2020-02-21 Thread Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l
Great news! We can do a lot of things in this area. For example, an app for the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The app is based on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons. I've started improving Wikimedia projects and then try to find a dev to write an app or a website. I was lucky to find a dev

[Wikimedia-l] First Diversity and Francophonie Projects Manager of Wikimédia France

2019-10-16 Thread Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l
Hi all, I'm pleased to announce a new position at Wikimédia France (WMFR): Diversity and Francophony Projects Manager. Adélaïde Calais [1], already working for us on WikiFranca and the French speaking Wikiconvention, is in charge on that. This new position contains 3 main areas: A. Support the