Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amendment would affect Wikimedia projects

2013-12-09 Thread Samuel Klein
haciendo http://es.wikipedia.org. * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Samuel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Where to redirect m.wikipedia.org?

2013-12-06 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: I agree with James. I'd like to m.wikipedia land up at a portal with a language list and selector. +1 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beta Features Launch Worldwide

2013-11-22 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikimediafoundation.org coup: six months later

2013-11-20 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: maybe – as suggested by Luis in a copyright-related discussion[2] – they could make some interns assess their content (what can become public, what needs to stay private to the same group of people, what can be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Some sad news

2013-11-20 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-19 Thread Samuel Klein
Aside @Fae: the tineye crew are curious quite pro-freeculture, I bet they would be glad to help design a bot that uses their API to check image copyvios. On Nov 13, 2013 6:48 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 November 2013 07:40, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: ... Our biggest issue

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikimediafoundation.org coup: six months later

2013-11-18 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello MZM, The wiki continues to clutter up That's not quite apt. I see no backlog of requests for admin action, such as pages proposed for deletion. The number of admin actions of any sort has been low for years. The change in admins was a shift in policy, and resulted in some regular editors

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Standing Election Committee proposal

2013-11-10 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

2013-11-06 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Beta Features

2013-11-04 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikimedia-related contributor Kickstarter?

2013-11-01 Thread Samuel Klein
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEducator] Creative Commons community issues policy statement in support of fundamental copyright reform

2013-10-24 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Education] How to force to enable Visual Editor

2013-10-16 Thread Samuel Klein
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEducator] Creative industries not harmed by digital sharing, report finds

2013-10-12 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia

2013-08-19 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:57 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Predicted demographics: 95% women from the global south :) (-: I am personally hesitant about automatic translations, and whether we can achieve the coverage (in language pairs) and the quality (of Wikipedia). But that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata-l] Meeting about the support of Wiktionary in Wikidata

2013-08-09 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello, On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:13 PM, JP Béland lebo.bel...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. We also need to include the Omegawiki community. Agreed. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: Why? The question of moving them into the WMF fold was pretty much no,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Collaborative machine translation for Wikipedia -- proposed strategy

2013-07-27 Thread Samuel Klein
David - thanks for this proposal; it is something that deserves attention, and our projects are already used as one of the raw sources for machine translation efforts. On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:18 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:30 PM, C. Scott Ananian

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day!

2013-07-26 Thread Samuel Klein
Thanks to all the people who have built and maintained infrastructure for the Wikimedia movement over the past twelve-plus years, no matter where you worked. Hear, hear! SJ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate: Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere

2013-07-25 Thread Samuel Klein
The Berkman Center just came out with a report on the public discussions surrounding the SOPA-PIPA actions; drawing on the Media Cloud work by Yochai Benkler and others. It provides context for the discussions on the English Wikipedia, and captures the differences between the grassroots and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] (Announcement) Ana Toni Announced as New Wikimedia Foundation Board Member

2013-07-17 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status IRC office hours

2013-07-17 Thread Samuel Klein
Briefly: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: Thanks Anders for sharing this update. Out of curiosity, was this already shared elsewhere? The details, including the idea that WMF would not get FDC review for our 2013-14 plan, were news to me. Currently

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status IRC office hours

2013-07-16 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: Please could you explain why was this message only sent to Internal-l, given the discussions on this list in April about shutting down Internal-l? Hello THO, if you check the original message again - I believe it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2013-07-14 Thread Samuel Klein
Presumably yes. That's the usual procedure for other wikified or translated docs. On Jul 14, 2013 8:31 AM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Presumably the official plan (the master) would remain as the PDF version as approved by the board? Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2013-07-13 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: The Annual Plan is not really meant to be freely editable. Many WMF documents that are not meant to be editable exist in wiki form. Wiki pages integrate nicely with commons and our localization tools, generate

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for new ideas in the Grants:IdeaLab

2013-07-11 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2013/2014 budget again (m/Oppenheim on YouTube)

2013-07-07 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org wrote: SJ: As we may be very close to having a Board of Trustee approved budget, I suggest we wait until we can release the full Annual Plan document on July 1, so that there is context for the Wikimedia Foundation spending

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

2013-07-07 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Oona Castro ocas...@wikimedia.org wrote: For now, it's worth mentioning the Portuguese Wikipedia community has been working on this antivandalism project http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia_Discuss%C3%A3o:Projetos/AntiVandalismoin order to build

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Privacy Policy - Call for Community Input

2013-06-20 Thread Samuel Klein
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: First public peek at Daala, next-next-generation video codec from Xiph

2013-06-20 Thread Samuel Klein
amazing, and is worth a read: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml Sam. -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2013/2014 budget again (m/Oppenheim on YouTube)

2013-06-14 Thread Samuel Klein
the preferred way of communication between the WMF and its donors/community members? -- Tomasz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] PRISM, government surveillance, and Wikimedia: Request for community feedback

2013-06-14 Thread Samuel Klein
on a Friday is a Very Bad Idea[TM].) -- Tomasz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee first progress reports

2013-06-14 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: Thanks SJ for these thoughts, it's gratifying and encouraging that we have a WMF trustee on the case :-) The Board FDC liaisons are putting more thought into this than I am; I'm just brainstorming quickly on the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funds Dissemination Committee first progress reports

2013-06-14 Thread Samuel Klein
will share their thoughts even if they are not one of the parties involved. SJ On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: Thanks SJ for these thoughts, it's gratifying and encouraging

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

2013-06-12 Thread Samuel Klein
, or staff members in their personal capacity. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish!

2013-06-07 Thread Samuel Klein
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Recognition of Amical Wikimedia

2013-06-06 Thread Samuel Klein
is similar to that for chapters. A list of groups considering becoming thematic orgs can be found on Meta. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thematic_organizations http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/Thematic_Organizations -- Samuel Klein w:user:sj @metasj

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo

2013-06-01 Thread Samuel Klein
it was about a core logo, but it took two years to resolve completely and was a real pain. Sam. -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of Wikimedians of Nepal user group

2013-05-31 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki goes to radio: Möebius at Ibero 90.9

2013-05-31 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffComs $40,000 Hong Kong junket

2013-05-17 Thread Samuel Klein
Thank you Bence, for your thoughtful replies to this thread, here and on Meta. Lodewijk writes: I think there are two relevant discussions to be had: First of all, whether there should be an AffCom meeting at all. I've seen excellent work come out of long-form committee meetings. Though these

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Report concerning appeal (FDC round 2)

2013-05-17 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med Foundation Newsletter: The Stethoscope

2013-05-16 Thread Samuel Klein
/Newsletter Cheers, Jake Orlowitz Wikipedia: Ocaasi http://enwp.org/User:Ocaasi ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

2013-05-16 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The case for supporting open source machine translation

2013-04-26 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoe...@gmx.net wrote: * Erik Moeller wrote: Are there open source MT efforts that are close enough to merit scrutiny? Wiktionary. If you want to help free software efforts in the area of machine translation, then what they seem to need most

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New account creation and login ready for testing on all projects

2013-04-25 Thread Samuel Klein
+1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The case for supporting open source machine translation

2013-04-24 Thread Samuel Klein
das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: [WCA][Governance] Training for chapter and thematic org. board members

2013-04-23 Thread Samuel Klein
As you say, the WMF and a few chapters do have such an induction process already. Perhaps we can coordinate those existing processes with whatever is developed for the rest of the affiliates. For instance, there might be a few of these workshops each year; at least one of them at Wikimania. The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning

2013-04-23 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello again, A few comments inline: Leslie Carr writes: As someone who works for the foundation and has had to deal with budget issues in engineering (though this is my personal opinion) the budget process is already incredibly long, drawn out, and stressful. This is a problem that we should

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning

2013-04-23 Thread Samuel Klein
It's good to see so much interest in this thread. The purpose of transparency is not feedback. It is valuable in its own right. It reduces surprise and supports planning discussions elsewhere in the movement. And any information shared in a lookahead document would be at a high level; not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic plans of the Wikimedia entities: could you link your strategy, please?

2013-04-22 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Question: How do we define lobbying?

2013-04-20 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tweet this page from some or all sites???

2013-04-19 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:24 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 April 2013 01:43, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote: First, note that most of the really popular social networking sites have boilerplate language in the Terms of Service that are incompatible with Worth a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Question: How much does administration in Chapters cost the Wikimedia movement?

2013-04-19 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Over the years I have always found extremely interesting how Wikimedia in general is extremely reticent to paying people to do things. It makes sense in a volunteer culture, even more sense in *our* volunteer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Question: How do we define lobbying?

2013-04-19 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] LangCom work now fully transparent

2013-04-17 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning

2013-04-17 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Amical Viquipèdia Report, March 2013

2013-04-17 Thread Samuel Klein
Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l -- Samuel Klein w:user:sj

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal to use the internal wiki more

2013-04-10 Thread Samuel Klein
Mike - fine points. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: There is information within the Wikimedia movement that can't be shared publicly. # Agreements, particularly those with global impact, and/or where they affect more than one Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMIL new Executive Director

2013-04-09 Thread Samuel Klein
in the next few weeks): http://www.wikimedia.org.il Regards, Itzik Edri WMIL Chairman ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Armenia

2013-03-27 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] open positions at WMF

2013-03-20 Thread Samuel Klein
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: Dogfooding our product is great but shouldnt' be done just because it should be done where the product makes sense for the task. Supporting more flexible designs - particularly in the realm of extensions - would be good for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)

2013-03-20 Thread Samuel Klein
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation

2013-03-19 Thread Samuel Klein
[Forwarding from the the toolserver-l branch of this thread] -- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Schwen li...@schwen.de Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia Toolserver

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-16 Thread Samuel Klein
@Denny, Gerard: I agree we need a single place to discuss wikidata / wiktionary / omegawiki futures. Perhaps a page on Wiktionary 2.0 that starts from the ideas on the OmegaWiki page (which is the most detailed and nuanced of the current summary pages) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OmegaWiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread Samuel Klein
is considering what an endowment might look like. Strong community support would speed that consideration. SJ -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread Samuel Klein
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:45 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: [Hosting...] Then various operational and administrative costs. My finger in the air estimate would be a total of about $4m-$5m. It is important to know how much money is going on essentials and how much on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Grants Program Retrospective 2009-2012 published

2013-03-14 Thread Samuel Klein
for the transparency here. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Grants Program Retrospective 2009-2012 published

2013-03-13 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Minutes from the February 1-2, 2013 Board Meeting

2013-03-08 Thread Samuel Klein
-to-Date_and_Lookahead_to_Planning_for_2013-14.pdfpage=10 Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Global Voices: #Wikimodernism: Catalan Modernism, from the Classroom to the Web

2013-03-05 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-03-05 Thread Samuel Klein
will kick in, as necessary. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Your support is wanted: The WMF Board of Trustees is looking for a new Board member

2013-02-17 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed there's nothing to be surprised of, m/Oppenheim has always been used. Actually, the last time we were looking for a new appointed Trustee we had a NomCom in place and worked with the recruiter Eunice Azzani -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community-Driven Video Production

2013-02-15 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-29 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote: On 12/29/12 6:05 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: At the same time, Wiki is not a trademarked term and the term Foundation is a pretty usual

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-29 Thread Samuel Klein
On Dec 29, 2012 2:22 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Samuel Klein wrote: It seems guaranteed to cause confusion. Wiki Med strikes me as the second most confusing possible name for an associated group. The most confusing would be a multimedia / news organization named Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] fundraising status?

2012-12-27 Thread Samuel Klein
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:18 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote: Maximizing for us means raising our budget with as little negative impact on the projects as possible Where do you find that meaning or any

Re: [Wikimedia-l] bond funds? (was Re: Annual Audit of the Wikimedia Foundation)

2012-12-27 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] fundraising status?

2012-12-24 Thread Samuel Klein
will address all of them swiftly. Sincerely, James Salsman -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] deliberately lowered fundraising growth rate (was: Fundraising updates?)

2012-12-22 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:07 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: donors who expect the Foundation to prepare for contingency James, While your statistical comments were well-informed and helpful, your comments in this thread are less so, and your frustrated approach - while presuming

Re: [Wikimedia-l] deliberately lowered fundraising growth rate (was: Fundraising updates?)

2012-12-22 Thread Samuel Klein
James, I forgot that you are not able to edit Meta. I will migrate the relevant parts of the discussion here to the wiki, since a wiki is a useful place to break down ideas and refactor solutions; but please feel free to continue posting thoughts to the list. On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:25 PM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for consultation on proposed guidelines relating to potential conflicts of interest in requesting Wikimedia resources

2012-12-21 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?

2012-12-17 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

2012-12-12 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

2012-12-04 Thread Samuel Klein
Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: It's been clear to me, and seemingly other people, that Zack and the fundraising team take their task very seriously, and are extraordinarily thoughtful in all of their plans and interactions - with folks on the mailing list, with editors and other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

2012-12-03 Thread Samuel Klein
Thanks for the detailed thoughts, Zack! Did we run banners on the sister projects as well? It would also be great to experiment with running targeted banner messages and presentations on the sister projects, particularly Commons and Wiktionary, to see what the visitor response is like. We've

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

2012-12-03 Thread Samuel Klein
Brandon Harris writes: I, for one, think this is totally awesome news. It is indeed! Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is one of our opportunities each year to rejoice in the work of the projects, get feedback, and hold a large-scale barnraising for the coming year's work.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] putting profit before knowledge

2012-12-03 Thread Samuel Klein
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[Wikimedia-l] An interesting governance model: Camfed

2012-11-20 Thread Samuel Klein
The overview starting on page 10 of how they develop national and regional partnerships, and how they share and delegate governance work, is worth reading: https://camfed.org/media/uploads/files/Camfed_Linklaters_Accounting_to_the_Girl.pdf SJ ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-11-12 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: we were only able to import languages from Wikivoyage where dumps were prepared and pre-processed by the Wikivoyage-folks (who are, BTW, all volunteers and have done amazing work on this). So all the languages from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-11-10 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

2012-11-06 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-06 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote: To avoid fear and anxiety, and to make sure the plan makes sense, I want to start an open conversation now. If you think any of the below is a terrible idea, or have suggestions on how to improve the plan, I’d love to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board vote on narrowing focus

2012-11-02 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello Lodewijk, These are good questions. I expect effort will be required in the short term to delegate effectively and help move to a narrower focus. A few clarifying questions for you in return: On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: * PR support by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

2012-11-02 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

2012-11-02 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:46 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: My apologies. I read your previous suggestion during the travel guide discussion and the only real route for communicating with a Board member to solicit a proposal seemed to me to be private user-to-user e-mail. Are there

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Question for Board

2012-10-24 Thread Samuel Klein
On Oct 24, 2012 9:46 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: When you subsidize volunteers they a) are no longer volunteers and b) the same problem with paid editors: losing the power to walk away. Give me money to administrate Wikipedia and I give up my bit. The freedom to pick

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-16 Thread Samuel Klein
A great update. Thanks Erik! On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: We're basing the initial set on the languages which are ready for import from Wikivoyage. At this point, it looks like that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hours

2012-10-16 Thread Samuel Klein
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF core and non core expenses

2012-10-09 Thread Samuel Klein
A quick reply: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:38 AM, charles andrès charles.and...@wikimedia.ch wrote: If you consider the WMF financial reserves it's true, but for what I understand, the FDC should decide about the distribution of the forthcoming fundraising and so we can only guess that the

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