Absolutely! If there would be some always available public interface to
check if a user has voting right then this could be used on other votes and
elections in various languages as well, a little like the German wikipedias
"stimmberechtigung". This then could later on be adjusted to consider code
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:29 AM, James Forrester
wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, some accounts are currently not unique across all our
> wikis, but instead clash with other users who have the same account
> name. To make sure that all of these users can use Wikimedia's wikis
> in future, we will be rena
hi Erlend,
I want to shortly comment on your letter, which raises legitimate concerns,
in my view, and I would like to address them.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Erlend Bjørtvedt wrote:
> However, the gap between the legitimate demands of a donation-backed
> funding process, and the resour
Will the affected users be given a one-time offer to have their accounts
renamed, or are they stuck forever with the "~" ones?
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:01 AM, James Forrester
wrote:
> On 29 April 2013 20:59, Fae wrote:
> > Thanks James, personally I'm comforted by your prompt reply.
>
> Happy
2013/4/29 Mathieu Stumpf
> Le 2013-04-26 20:27, Milos Rancic a écrit :
>
> OmegaWiki is a masterpiece from the perspective of one [computational]
>> linguist. Erik made the structure so well, that it's the best starting
>> point to create a contemporary multilingual dictionary. I didn't see
>> an
Thankyou Asaf, points 1.1 and 1.2 pretty much answered all my questions on
this.
If I might offer a humble suggestion though, might I suggest for the
purposes of determining grant eligibility, rather than saying that it is
"Confirmed" or "Not Confirmed", a third status of "Conditional Eligibility"
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 12:5
Craig - this is a very good idea!
best,
dariusz ("pundit")
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Craig Franklin
wrote:
> Thankyou Asaf, points 1.1 and 1.2 pretty much answered all my questions on
> this.
>
> If I might offer a humble suggestion though, might I suggest for the
> purposes of determi
hi Asaf,
a short comment on two things:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
> 1.4. It is my understanding, from reading the FDC recommendation (and
> without any "inside information" -- I was not part of the deliberations),
> that the FDC has reviewed the WMHK application with
Hey Deryck,
On Apr 29, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Deryck Chan wrote:
>>
>> But you say "we" … We refers to WMHK I assume, but did you do this after a
>> discussion with the Grants Programme, or did you decide this on your own?
>
> I work for the non-profit sector, and there is not way that any
>> orga
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
> ...
> I would like to stress that this is not a minor point of slight tardiness
> or some missing receipt -- this is actual mismanagement of funds (though
> not necessarily mis-use of funds, and NO ONE IS SUGGESTING BAD FAITH here
> -- we do no
James answered this in his original email:
> It will now only be possible for accounts to be renamed globally; the
> RenameUser tool will no longer work on a local basis - since all accounts
> must be globally unique - therefore it will be withdrawn from bureaucrats'
> tool sets. It will still
David Richfield, 30/04/2013 10:50:
James answered this in his original email:
No, that doesn't answer (see also talk page).
Nemo
It will now only be possible for accounts to be renamed globally; the
RenameUser tool will no longer work on a local basis - since all accounts must
be globall
On 30 Apr, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
> Will the affected users be given a one-time offer to have their accounts
> renamed, or are they stuck forever with the "~" ones?
Rename is still possible, similar to what we have now, but just on a global
level. So no, they are not stuck for
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Benjamin Chen wrote:
> ...
> One thing to note is the technical limitation on # of edits. If account has
> too many edits, he may not be able to get it renamed further.
> ...
It just needs to be done server side, The same way it already is.
_
Hey Florence
On Apr 30, 2013, at 1:12 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
> Le 4/30/13 12:04 AM, Nathan a écrit :
>>
>>
>> It's not logical to assume that because the WMF has funds it should in
>> some way equitably distribute those funds around the world.
>
> What happens to the idea according to w
Just a couple personal points:
Asaf Bartov, 30/04/2013 05:04:
[...]
1.5. In summary, I must protest against the narrative of Deryck's letter,
wherein WMHK's proposal was rejected by malevolent WMF staff with a secret
anti-WMHK agenda [...]
I didn't read anything like that in Deryck's letter.
Ting, Risker,
1. To share thoughts and feedback about the elections, you don't must 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 fro
hi Federico,
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:
> 1.5. In summary, I must protest against the narrative of Deryck's letter,
>> wherein WMHK's proposal was rejected by malevolent WMF staff with a secret
>> anti-WMHK agenda [...]
>>
> I didn't read anything like that in
Hello Itzik
yes, you are right.
But, and this is a very big but. You organized Wikimania yourself, you
know how much unseen and unthankable and unbelievable complicated and
unnecessary work behind all the shiny things. The election committee is
also a volunteer driven committee. It is a treme
Ting,
I don't think that Itzik has said anywhere that the election committee is
doing a bad job. I think he is simply saying that you shouldn't have to
commit to having a meeting every week since February just to have an
opinion on the topic that is taken seriously.
Cheers,
Craig Franklin
On 3
And to come back to the topic.
At least in the theory, if someone is blocked in a project, than he has
a serious problem with that community. And the reason that his block is
not lifted should be a serious one. And if someone has a serious problem
with more than one community, than it is quest
Global renames will be done by Stewards then, yes?
-Dan
Dan Rosenthal
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:17 PM, K. Peachey wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Benjamin Chen
> wrote:
> > ...
> > One thing to note is the technical limitation on # of edits. If account
> has too many edits, he may
On 30 April 2013 03:29, James Forrester wrote:
> Unfortunately, some accounts are currently not unique across all our
> wikis, but instead clash with other users who have the same account
> name. To make sure that all of these users can use Wikimedia's wikis
> in future, we will be renaming a num
In Milan we discuss about Chapters peer review as a tools that the WMF could
use in parallel if FDC assessment.
But in light of the discussion about who should or not apply to the FDC, it
seems that chapters peer review should be consider by chapter willing to apply
to the FDC as a preliminary
On 29 April 2013 21:28, Christophe Henner
wrote:
...
> In face of that situation, Wikimedia France board has asked WMF to
> stop being a payment processor in 2013
Hi Christophe, thank you for giving this difficult decision some
suitable context, and for doing so openly and promptly.
Could someon
Ting, you completely twisted things. I didn't criticize Election Committee,
or blamed them. Especially I didn't said they doing a bad job. I didn't
even mentioned them. I just raised the issue and said clearly that it is
something that has been around from the previous elections and wondered
whethe
On 30 April 2013 09:48, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
>
>
> Yes I read your reply, but you keep stating "we want", that is not that
> same as "together with the grant giver we agreed"… I cannot overstate the
> importance of the difference between the two…
>
> People don't instantly agree on everythin
2013/4/30 Charles Andres :
> In Milan we discuss about Chapters peer review as a tools that the WMF could
> use in parallel if FDC assessment.
>
> But in light of the discussion about who should or not apply to the FDC, it
> seems that chapters peer review should be consider by chapter willing to
On 30 April 2013 10:47, Ting Chen wrote:
> At least in the theory, if someone is blocked in a project, than he has a
> serious problem with that community. And the reason that his block is not
> lifted should be a serious one. And if someone has a serious problem with
> more than one community, t
On 30 April 2013 10:22, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
> Hey Florence
>
> On Apr 30, 2013, at 1:12 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
>
> > Le 4/30/13 12:04 AM, Nathan a écrit :
> >>
> >>
> >> It's not logical to assume that because the WMF has funds it should in
> >> some way equitably distribute those fu
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:08 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> (Remember that we've had an entire project,
> Wikiversity, pretty much taken over by disgruntled Wikipedia trolls.)
Very side note: I'm not sure if you're talking in the past sense or not
here but I did want to stick up for Wikiversity a b
On 30 April 2013 10:47, Ting Chen wrote:
> And to come back to the topic.
>
> At least in the theory, if someone is blocked in a project, than he has a
> serious problem with that community. And the reason that his block is not
> lifted should be a serious one. And if someone has a serious problem
Christophe,
About this "reconnaissance d'utilite publique" or "supercharity" concept;
is there a link to an analysis (preferable) or even just the text of the
law/provision/regulation? Even one in French only would be OK, I'm just
curious to know more about how it works in practice.
-Dan
Dan Ros
2013/4/30 Dariusz Jemielniak :
> Many members of the community (as it was confirmed in the discussions on
> Milan conference) are e.g. uncertain about part-time employment
> possibilities through GAC, as well as about professionalization efforts
> being funded through GAC scheme (both possible to
I wonder if it will be accepted to apply to GAC for temporary position
> for the person responsible for preparation of FDC application :-)
That's probably not as silly an idea as it sounds - having a local person
on the ground with relevant expertise who can assist the chapter not just
in prepari
On 30.04.2013 01:12, Florence Devouard wrote:
Le 4/30/13 12:04 AM, Nathan a écrit :
In the past years, we have seen several times organizers of Wikimania
plain disappear after the event. Burn-out. I do not think it is a good
outcome. For no-one.
And I do not think it is a good idea to slap a c
I think, perhaps, that the reform of the Wikimania bidding process could
use a new thread!
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th Floor,
On 28 Apr 2013, at 21:25, Andrew Gray wrote:
> I'm ambivalent about whether it's appropriate to have staff members
> (those who don't independently qualify as "community members") voting
> or not, but I think in principle Itzik has a very good point - either
> *both* WMF and Chapter staff should
On 30.04.2013 12:14, James Alexander wrote:
Very side note: I'm not sure if you're talking in the past sense or
not
here but I did want to stick up for Wikiversity a bit here in the more
presente tense. I don't think I've checked in the past couple weeks
but
I've trolled the recent changes the
Dariusz Jemielniak, 30/04/2013 11:34:
1.5. In summary, I must protest against the narrative of Deryck's letter,
wherein WMHK's proposal was rejected by malevolent WMF staff with a secret
anti-WMHK agenda [...]
I didn't read anything like that in Deryck's letter.
well, I think that this par
On 30/04/2013 11:49, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
My personal experience after being an active program committee member
on the 2010 Wikimania Organizing Committee was that my activity there
(and I believe in the end of the day we did a good job - for example,
we managed to accept all submissions
On 30.04.2013 13:23, Katie Chan wrote:
On 30/04/2013 11:49, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
My personal experience after being an active program committee member
on the 2010 Wikimania Organizing Committee was that my activity there
(and I believe in the end of the day we did a good job - for example
I think it is important to remember what is the main premise behind the
FDC: give resources to established chapter in some sort of "long term"
capacity. We are dealing with proposals of over 100k to more than 4m. I've
heard several times about how hard is to apply for the FDC, how terrible it
is...
AFAIK , WMDE and WMCH are the last ones. I do not remember an announce about
WMUK for the next fundraising.
but I don't understand what's the link with the FDC. In general I would
encourage to avoid to speak about paiement processing out of its specific
context, that's mean fundraising process
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Moreover, it's well known that the FDC decisions are based also on
> "context" i.e. private information not part of the proposals or discussions
> thereof.
> It's normal for people outside WMF not to understand them fully, and after
>
I think Jan-Bart did point out an interesting point
As I heard in Milan
Long time staffing, must go trough FDC
And we exactly know our weakness on transparency and management
(I already tried hard to push my rest of team when I was on the chapter
board
But what do you expect if they have day time o
Probably a smoother transition would be much more appropiate. A part-time
or temporary employee that can take care of the belated reports and
paperwork that you, as volunteers, can't do and probably establish some
basis for a future growth.
WM-AR, WM-RS and WM-IL have professionalized in the latest
hi Jeromy-Yu,
thank you for sharing this personal note.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan <
jerry.tschan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As we aware of problem, we are run out of way to improve, it is bottleneck
> we need to tackle. So the FDC decision suggests chapter like us s
On 29 April 2013 21:01, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> With 2 seats selected by the chapters and in future maybe the thorgs, and 3
> by the editing community, and 1 by the staff, more than half of the board
> members would be not directly coopted.
> Many other varieties are possible, of course. The staf
On 30 Apr 2013, at 14:30, Thehelpfulone wrote:
> On 29 April 2013 21:01, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
>
> With 2 seats selected by the chapters and in future maybe the thorgs, and 3
> by the editing community, and 1 by the staff, more than half of the board
> members would be not directly coopted.
>
Dear Readers,
the german mailing mist is suffering from
censorship by one of the list of
administrators:
Kurt Jansson, Daniel Baur, Arne Klempert.
I could not send several Mails to the list.
This is very irritating because of the
present
discussion about corruption in the
german chapter.
Re
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Guillaume Paumier
wrote:
>
> * Google custom search: Waldir recently used Google Custom Search to
> created a search tool to find technical information across many pages
> and sites where information is currently fragmented:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/piperm
Complaining about blocks on mailing lists is rarely useful for anything
but taking something out of your chest, I suggest you complain on Meta
if you really need... oh wait, you're indef-blocked for harassment, too bad.
Nemo
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On 30 April 2013 01:01, Marco Chiesa wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:29 AM, James Forrester
> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, some accounts are currently not unique across all our
>> wikis, but instead clash with other users who have the same account
>> name. To make sure that all of these users can
On 4/30/2013 3:54 AM, Michael Peel wrote:
On 28 Apr 2013, at 21:25, Andrew Gray wrote:
I'm ambivalent about whether it's appropriate to have staff members
(those who don't independently qualify as "community members") voting
or not, but I think in principle Itzik has a very good point - either
On 30 April 2013 02:56, Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> Global renames will be done by Stewards then, yes?
Yes.
J.
--
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Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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Hey Dan,
Sure : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance_d'utilit%C3%A9_publique
and http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/associations/F1131.xhtml
In France all associations are, a priori, charities. The french fiscal
services can withdraw that status for many reasons. One of them is if
they bel
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:33 AM, phoebe ayers
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a question that came up during today's US GLAM consortium
> meeting:
> > what's the current status of the 'movement partners' affiliation?
> >
> >
> http:
Phoebe,
As Bishakha indicated, this is still actively being discussed amongst AffCom
and WMF folks. Most of what's being discussed is based on on-wiki comments -
but the actual conversations are happening via email (AffCom mailing list) and
face-to-face conversations. My understanding is this f
Dear Readers, dear Nemo,
in my last emails, which where objects
to censorship,
I did not complain about my
indef-blockage by
right wing student-groups in germany
(f.e. Frank Schulenburg),
which was taken as harassment.
But I did, do and will complain in
public about the blockage
of people,
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Romaine Wiki wrote:
> Hello Tilman,
>
> Thanks for composing the report and sending it.
>
> In section 9.2.6 I saw the Wikipedia Signpost. Perhaps it is also possible
> and interesting to add another newsletter that describes a mayor field of
> interest for Wikim
Hi, all-
As mentioned in a variety of places (mostly, it looks like, on Commons
Village Pump) Creative Commons is revising their licenses to produce a
new 4.0 version. The changes include a variety of things relevant to
Commons and other WM projects, most importantly attribution, but also
improved
Is there any (un)official policy/strong advice/anything against direct
hiring from WMF/FDC/whatever grants?
Balazs
2013/4/30 Dariusz Jemielniak
> hi Jeromy-Yu,
>
> thank you for sharing this personal note.
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan <
> jerry.tschan...@gmail
I have been giving some thought to Erik's proposal and while already
fascinating, I would like to put it in different terms.
Instead of asking "Could open source MT be such a strategic investment?", I
would ask "is there a way to have Wikimedia's technology and people
involved collaborate with MT s
Le 4/30/13 12:52 PM, Richard Symonds a écrit :
I think, perhaps, that the reform of the Wikimania bidding process could
use a new thread!
Yaroslav is not telling us about his experience on the bidding process,
but about his experience about (not) feeling loved and appreciated for
his effort a
Le 4/30/13 11:22 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede a écrit :
Hey Florence
On Apr 30, 2013, at 1:12 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
Le 4/30/13 12:04 AM, Nathan a écrit :
It's not logical to assume that because the WMF has funds it should in
some way equitably distribute those funds around the world.
Wh
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
> Yaroslav is not telling us about his experience on the bidding process,
> but about his experience about (not) feeling loved and appreciated for his
> effort and involvement.
>
> And boy... is that sad :(
>
> Flo
>
Agreed, and I'll say i
Florence Devouard wrote:
>I was thinking of the numerous (quite successful) associations in
>France, which are simply made of entrepreneurs wishing to do things
>together (from networking, to training, to visits, conferences etc.).
>Most of those associations have only one staff member, a long-term
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:21 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Florence Devouard wrote:
> >I was thinking of the numerous (quite successful) associations in
> >France, which are simply made of entrepreneurs wishing to do things
> >together (from networking, to training, to visits, conferences etc.).
> >Most
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