Hello Amir,
I think what you are questioning is right. And it is necessary to ask
such questions. In my day job it is my duty to ask and discuss such
questions with my customers.
But, with the time I sort of see that these pure utilitarian questions
are not the only questions that we need
I cannot see malicious intention behind the use of the bot. If you don't
feel spoken to, just ignore it. Why is this a so huge problem?
Greetings
Ting
Am 29.12.2017 um 10:20 schrieb John Erling Blad:
Users on other projects are complaining about the welcome messages at
arwiki. A bot at
I am very shocked and deeply saddened. He is still very young. I believe
he is 10 years or more younger than me. This is indeed a very sad loss.
:'(
Ting
Am 18.12.2017 um 14:51 schrieb Asaf Bartov:
Dear Wikimedians,
I regret to have to inform this list that veteran Wikimedian and
Hello dear all,
at first I would object that the Foundation do such a thing, even as a
denkexperiment. This may be seen as an easy way to react on a crisis but
this opens doors for misuse of power. In a different situation, a
different time, with a different WMF board and ED, this can open a
Hi,
the Advisory Board, as it was, and so far I can see, as it probably will
be, does not have something like a structure or a channel. It is more
like a bunch of individuals that mostly the board, and in some cases the
WMF staff may (or mostly) may not approach on specific topics. The board
I think the Foundation and the chapters *must* make a statement that
decisively contradicts the reason of the block: That Wikipedia supports
terrorism. There could be further texts in the statement which stresses
our principle of neutrality and our goal to spread knowledge, but the
first and
Hello Gnangarra,
I joined AffCom in 2015, at that time the issue with Wikimedia
Philippines was already on the table. The AffCom and the WMF had tried
two years to get a settlement without a de-recognition with them.
Meanwhile it is 2017, I don't believe Josh could resolve the problem in
the
Hello dear all,
we try, and some times try very very hard to be nice and to protect
other people. But the world is some times not nice and some times really
really bad things happen. Just for the next time (and there will be next
times coming), my suggestion for the WMF and also for other
exclusively represents the WMF. Let there be trust and given
the way things are it does not show when you analyse things.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 5 February 2017 at 11:05, Ting Chen <wing.phil...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hello Gerard,
the chapters and thematic organizations are entrusted with c
Hello Gerard,
the chapters and thematic organizations are entrusted with certain
functions and authorities. For example a chapter enjoys regional (or
country wide) exclusivity in their operating region. They are perceived
in the public as if they are official representatives of our movement
Well spoken Mike.
Greetings
Ting
Am 04.02.2017 um 15:58 schrieb Mike Godwin:
I don't respond to Wikimedia-l discussion very often, but I think this
debate comes up often enough that it's worth it for me to explain and
elaborate on my own positions.
(1) I understand WP:NPOV to be a
I feel very sad reading this news. He was always friendly and fair. Had
always made me smile seeing him.
Expecting to meet him on a Mania is just natural. Knowing will never see
him there again is ... very strange.
I will miss him, very very much
Ting
Am 13.09.2016 um 18:00 schrieb Milos
Hello Geoff,
among many other things said already I think the most profound impact
you made on the whole movement was the reformation of the trademark
licensing policy and the introduction of legal assistance program. Both
immensely important for the community Also your contribution and legal
Congratulations to both WMF and Delphine, this is a very good move.
Just curious: Will Delphine and family now be moving to SF or will you
be working from remote mostly?
Greetings
Ting
Am 06/21/2016 um 12:55 AM schrieb Katy Love:
Hi Wikimedians,
Today WMF's Community Resources team is
Hello Asaf, hello Florence,
the inbalance is surely partly due to the cultural bias (both
contemprary as well as historical) of our world. Across the cultures in
before 18th century women found less notice in the historical
documentation. As far as I know about Japanese history, this bias was
affecting an initiative include the very trustee who
is (likely) the best informed and best placed to explain things to the
other trustees?
Anthony Cole
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Ting Chen <wing.phil...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hello Anthony,
in my opinion a board member should not foster hi
Hello Anthony,
in my opinion a board member should not foster his or her own pet
projects. The WMF board members are leading a global movement. When
everyone of them are fosting their own pet projects other projects may
suffer. The board members should be beyond the single projects and give
Hello Erik, hello Gerard, hello all,
while Erik raised a very important topic and I will go into some of the
aspects I agree with him later in this mail I want at first say that
Gerard also mentioned some very important points that I strongly agree.
Splitting WMF has merits but also has
Hello Sucheta,
for me this looks like a good restart for Wikiversity. For me beside of
providing university courses one of the target of Wikiversity is also
always to be actually do crowd sourced research works.
Best regards
Ting
Am 01/05/2015 um 02:30 PM schrieb Sucheta Ghoshal:
Hi all,
Hello dear all,
this is not a response to any specific mails on this thread, just a few
thoughts from my side.
I am not very heavily involved in the FDC process, what I did was, well,
as one of the board member decided to create this process and one of the
advisory group member observed the
Really cool, great work. Thank you very much.
Greetings
Ting
Am 10/27/2014 um 06:51 PM schrieb Yana Welinder:
Hi folks,
I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on
Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/
I
Hello Fae,
as far as I know there is no systematic data collection about volunteers
by the WMF, anyway, there is non that is known by the board at my time,
or ever mentioned on the board. In the first year when I joined the
board I mentioned in a mail that it would be desirable for the
Hello,
sad to learn that Bishakha will leave the board. Bishakha joined our
movement as an outsider and had gained the heart of our community in a
very short time. She is one of the most admirable person I know and
everytime I think of her I feel honored to have the chance to work with her.
Hello dear all,
one of the most memorable moment in my work together with Sue was one
evening in October 2011. As some of you may remember that the years 2010
to 2012 were especially difficult years in relationship between the
Foundation and the chapters. The Foundation experimented a few
Hello Milos,
welcome back.
Basically I agree with your attitude, with one difference:
I don't think that anyone can help languages survive. What we can do, is
to help conserve them.
Greetings
Ting
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Funding of international operating organizations is a very complicated
issue. The Wikimedia movement is not the first and not the last one to
face this topic. There are as many models on how this can be handled as
there are international organizations.
Hello dear all, hello Transition Team, hello dear board,
I am still willing to take the challenge.
Looking into the description of the search criteria:
citeKey to the success of the Executive Director will be a commitment
to understand and advance Wikimedia's core values./cite
- In many
Hello dear all,
I would like to be more cautious about the difference between the good
paid editing and the bad paid advocacy.
There are two reasons why I don't want to separate in this way.
First of there is no clear boundary between the good and bad like
black and white. There is a
:23, schrieb Peter Gervai:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote:
Wikipedia articles. So they pay 10.000 Dollar to Bryce DeWitt (I know, he is
dead, I just don't want to name any living people) to write about field
theory, or John Wheeler to write about general
:23, schrieb Peter Gervai:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote:
Wikipedia articles. So they pay 10.000 Dollar to Bryce DeWitt (I know, he is
dead, I just don't want to name any living people) to write about field
theory, or John Wheeler to write about general
Hello dear all,
I won't impose my standard to other people, I just want to tell you what
is the standard I setup for myself, and I will also tell you why.
I won't accept payment or gift exceeding a certain amount (means 20
Euro) or search for payment for my volunteer's work that is however
Great move WMIL.
This is I think an excellent example of great chapter work.
Greetings
Ting
Am 29.12.2013 06:19, schrieb Michal Lester:
Hi,
As some of you know, images are been deleted in the past month from
WikiCommons due to a change in the ruling of the United States Supreme
Court. (The
Hello dear all,
the following was one of the documents I created for my ED application.
It took me quite some time to create it and thus it was clear for me at
the beginning that I would publish it at some time point. I struggled a
long time with myself though about when to publish it. I
Hello dear all,
I happened to worked with a few biology interwikis on WikiData today and
saw the taxnomical data on it. Given that WikiData is growing and more
potential would not it be a good idea to merge WikiSpecies data into
WikiData and close WikiSpecies (hope now there will no stones or
Hello dear all,
I would also like to ask everyone who has made their thoughts on the
election to take part on the election committee themselves the next time.
Unfortunately when I made the call for volunteer earlier this year not
very many people responded.
Greetings
Ting
Am 4/30/2013
to be
volunteer in the committee.
2. I indeed thought about it only when I saw the centralnotice and read the
voting requirement, I may needed to raise it before. But it's still doesn't
mean we need to ignore from this issue
Itzik
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de
to be
volunteer in the committee.
2. I indeed thought about it only when I saw the centralnotice and read the
voting requirement, I may needed to raise it before. But it's still doesn't
mean we need to ignore from this issue
Itzik
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote
Oh yes, this would really be great. Just think about the money the
Foundation gives out meanwhile for translation, plus the many many
volunteers' work invested into translation. A free and open translation
software is long overdue indeed. Great idea Erik.
Greetings
Ting
Am 4/24/2013 8:29 AM,
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Dear board,
after intensive consideration and some
Hello dear all,
I would like to add a few comments to my resign letter here to clarify a
few things that is related to possible conflict of interest.
Sue informed the board about her intention to leave the Foundation
before she informed the staff and the general public with her letter. I
Hello dear Armenian friends,
it is a great joy for me to see this happen. Next time when I come to
Yerevan we need to record the traditional dances :-)
Greetings
Ting
Am 3/27/2013 9:26 PM, schrieb Bence Damokos:
Dear all,
I am happy to announce that the the WMF Board of Trustees have
Hello dear all,
at first thank you very much MZ for put this together. This is a quite
hot topic both for the board election, which is coming soon again, and
also on the board.
The following is my personal opinion why WMF should not build an
endowment. The rationale from me are the
are
interested in becoming a candidate, time to start preparing!
Regards
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Datum: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:13:06 +0200
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Hello all,
from August 31st to September 2nd the german
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Hello dear all,
at Mai 21st and 22nd I attended the 10
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