I hope the Grants Retrospective comes up as one possible model for
evaluation. Its output had some useful features and side effects.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:48 AM, ENWP Pine wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:31:57 -0700
>> From: Frank Schulenburg
>> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Fae wrote:
> On 21 March 2013 00:32, Samuel Klein wrote:
> ...
> > +1. Thanks to all who commented on this thread.
>
> Nice to know you don't believe in marginalizing those commenting as
> "alarmist hippie crap".
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
>
That actually made me laugh.
Thomas, I agree with you that it would make sense to have a more
thoroughly defined reserve policy, but I also caution against
micromanaging the reserve. I believe that I said in my previous
email directed to Erik that I'm wondering what the downside is
of having some underspend for payroll due to
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:31:57 -0700
> From: Frank Schulenburg
> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Tomorrow: Office hour inside out (program
> evaluation)
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> Hi folks,
>
> Tomorrow at 17:00 UTC
Yes, I've seen the mentions in the FAQs. That doesn't constitute a reserve
policy and is very vague.
In the absence of a reserve policy, we must assume your policy is to have
the planned level of reserves. If you underspend and put the extra in
reserves, that means you have too much in reserves.
On 21 March 2013 00:32, Samuel Klein wrote:
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> +1. Thanks to all who commented on this thread.
Nice to know you don't believe in marginalizing those commenting as
"alarmist hippie crap".
Thanks,
Fae
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Heather Ford wrote:
> We're all, in our own way, trying to help Wikimedia grow and flourish. The
> truth
> is that we have different ideas about how to get there.
+1. Thanks to all who commented on this thread.
Tomasz Ganicz writes:
> this situation is unclear at the moment. I think this
> is a
Thomas:
Our plans for the reserve are included in the "WMF Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQs) for the 2010-11 Audited Financial Statements":
*The cash balance has increased from $12 million to over $21 million. What
is the *
*Wikimedia Foundation's view on its increasing cash reserve?*
*
*
*The Wi
SJ:
I have been asked by the Audit Committee to do a report on the Endowment
Issue and present the report at their next meeting, which will take place
in this summer.
Regards,
Garfield
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:53 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Isarra Yos 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 Mediawiki in t
Mathieu:
As I make progress on this issue, I will be reporting to the Wikimedia
Foundation Audit Committee. Any significant changes, on this topic, will
be included as part of the scheduled reports of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Regards,
Garfield
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mathieu Stumpf
On 20/03/13 21:09, James Alexander wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Isarra Yos wrote:
On the other hand, how hard could it be to just write an extension to
integrate a wordpress database and interface into a mediawiki? Call it a
new namespace on the mediawiki end, and... uh... horrible
Hi, Nathan-
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Nathan wrote:
> I won't argue the fact that there is value in protecting the
> iconography of the Wikimedia movement from abuse. What I argue with is
> the approach of the legal department
>
You're right that we could have communicated this better, a
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Isarra Yos wrote:
> On the other hand, how hard could it be to just write an extension to
> integrate a wordpress database and interface into a mediawiki? Call it a
> new namespace on the mediawiki end, and... uh... horrible things on the
> wordpress end...
>
> I
On the other hand, how hard could it be to just write an extension to
integrate a wordpress database and interface into a mediawiki? Call it a
new namespace on the mediawiki end, and... uh... horrible things on the
wordpress end...
I was going to say that if I had enough spare time I could pro
Hi folks,
Tomorrow at 17:00 UTC, I will be holding an office hour about program
evaluation on #wikimedia-office. The target audience for this office
hour will be chapter representatives and volunteers who are currently
running (or planning to run) programs and programmatic activities.
You'll find
couple years ago somebody did stay for a couple years ;) (altho that was
the chapters conference and there was a vulcano involved)
henna
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Petr Bena wrote:
> I have one question :) why the registration form is asking me which
> year and month I will depart? Are you
On 20 March 2013 02:06, K. Peachey wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Jay Walsh wrote:
>> We're really interested in wiki-fying the blog at some point too, or
>> at least marrying more of the technologies. I'd love to us to use a
>> wiki-based system, but that's a bit further down the pip
Hi Pine!
*We overtly recruit outside of SF. I think our latest hire was from Texas!
Last year 23% were remote employees, and that percentage has increased to
31% this year. Of that 31%, 17% live abroad. **As of February 2013, 27% of
staff is female, 28% minority, 34% are foreign nationals, and 69%
On Mar 19, 2013, at 7:06 PM, "K. Peachey" wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Jay Walsh wrote:
>> We're really interested in wiki-fying the blog at some point too, or
>> at least marrying more of the technologies. I'd love to us to use a
>> wiki-based system, but that's a bit further down
Daniel,
On Mar 19, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Daniel Zahn wrote:
>>> BTW, why is WMF looking for a WordPress Developer?
>
> So is it just design or is it developing? If it is actual software
> development, i'd have to think
> who is going to review and maintain that code after the super
> short-term con
Hoi,
There is no why, it is just that it is unlikely to be done this
year.
There are other *athons that take place, have a big impact and are not
reproduced elsewhere. I have seen large groups of people localise the
MediaWiki software in Pune for instance... This happened this year for a
second
Hi Mathieu,
Debian's Open Use Logo policy is a good example to consider.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Mathieu Stumpf
wrote:
Attribution correction : the quote below is from Marc P.
> Le 2013-03-19 19:59, Samuel Klein a écrit :
<< [On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 12:32 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:]
>>
Le 2013-03-19 23:12, Gerard Meijssen a écrit :
Hoi,
Getting some experience first makes sense.. Going global is something
that
can be done the next year ??
Thanks,
GerardM
Why? Just ask the community to spread the word and organize their own
local part of the event.
On 19 March 20
Le 2013-03-19 19:59, Samuel Klein a écrit :
Making sure nobody can use a mark for bad reasons *means* having to
okay
proposed uses. If you want something "everyone can use without
asking
for any reason", you'll get something everyone *will* use for reasons
you wish they wouldn't -- and then ha
On 20 March 2013 12:05, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> It is not only how much we need for the English Wikipedia. We have many
> more Wikipedias, Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikisource
Most of the icons lists are not project-specific. The idea, as I
understand it, is to have a consistent set of ic
Hoi,
It is not only how much we need for the English Wikipedia. We have many
more Wikipedias, Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikisource
Really ... There are other people, applications who will be happy with a
large volume of icons.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 19 March 2013 23:48, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
Le 2013-03-18 21:45, Garfield Byrd a écrit :
Pine:
Our relationship with JP Morgan Chase is that they handle part of our
international banking. This is a separate division of the bank from
the
one that had the trading losses. I agree with you that this type of
news
report is not good news.
Le 2013-03-18 13:01, Fae a écrit :
I suggest you step away from the technology component before this
becomes a mantra. Given a span of 100 years, assumptions become
rather
large. We can start to assume that within one or two decades,
*everyone* on the planet is data-connected, we can assume tha
This is indeed why I dislike the whole trademark move. Not because I don't
understand the difference between trademarks and copyright, but probably I
have different goals in mind. It is a natural state for a legal team to
play defensive, and protect. I can't blame them for that, although the
commun
Congratulations to Marcus!
Tonmoy
On Mar 19, 2013 4:52 PM, "Lodewijk" wrote:
> Thanks Fae indeed for the hard work. It is a pity that things went as they
> went - and that you had to work under tough circumstances. Of course it is
> the council as a whole that bears responsibility, but when thin
2013/3/20 James Alexander :
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Nathan wrote:
>
>> I won't argue the fact that there is value in protecting the
>> iconography of the Wikimedia movement from abuse. What I argue with is
>> the approach of the legal department - to unilaterally, and without
>> notice,
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote:
> well put. I think that clearly WMF legal department assumed that having the
> trademark registered is such a good idea that it does not require a
> dialogue with the community,
My _general_ problem, however, that I have seen in the past
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