Hi Garfield,
I must say I'm surprised from the new requirements. Eligible entities of
last year now need to send by 15 September documents about 2012 - a year
that is totally unrelated to the FDC process that started only this year?
Why it been decided only now?
We are not hiding a thing, but
Hi Itzik,
As far as I understand, the activity report is a requirement in the
chapters agreement, which the WMF is finally starting to take somewhat
seriously. (§8 [1])
But otherwise I agree that the FDC process requires quite a bit of time
spent on it throughout the year.
Best regards,
Bence
Hi Garfield,
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?
To everyone else on the list: I wasn't sure if any progress had been made
towards re-purposing the internal wiki, so started a
Hi,
Garfield correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember that WMF said that
even an automated translation of the annual report was fine, same was
for the financial report.
Is that still the case or do you need human translation?
As, as far as I know, most entities are already doing an annual
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote:
Hi Garfield,
I must say I'm surprised from the new requirements. Eligible entities of
last year now need to send by 15 September documents about 2012 - a year
that is totally unrelated to the FDC process that started only
Hi, I posted a report in the Spanish daily ElDiario.es about this theme.
http://www.eldiario.es/turing/Wikipedia-SOPA-Duma_0_152934722.html
Best regards.
2013/7/10 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
On 10 July 2013 21:20, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
I do not see any reaction
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
Hi there,
2013/7/15 Melanie Brown mbr...@wikimedia.org
Hello Everyone,
As for the insights on staff photos, thank you for your feedback. Yes, we
are in the process of creating some more consistency in our staff photos
for the Wikimedia Foundation
Absolutely, more consistency is
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
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
On 16 July 2013 16:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Samuel Klein, 16/07/2013 17:32:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Thehelpfulone wrote:
Please could you explain why was this message only sent to Internal-l,
given the discussions on this list in April about shutting
Dear members of the Wikimedia community:
On July 15, the Wikimedia Foundation published a list of Funds
Dissemination Committee (FDC) eligible entities [1] based the eligibility
criteria [2] established in the FDC framework. Entities that submitted
Letters of Intent [3] are categorized in 'Yes',
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Chris Keating
chriskeatingw...@gmail.comwrote:
(Rumor has it that HR is soon going to introduce a new caring and
loving penguin into the habitat. Perhaps the HR penguin can mediate
should matters escalate quickly.)
Erik - to be frank I think this would
resending, was bounced.
2013/7/16 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
Maybe this has been asked elsewhere already, apologies in that case, but
could someone clarify why the Wikimedia Foundation is not eligible any more
(and did not seem to send a letter of intent) for the FDC process? Does
Lodewijk, 16/07/2013 21:33:
2013/7/16 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
Maybe this has been asked elsewhere already, apologies in that case, but
could someone clarify why the Wikimedia Foundation is not eligible any more
(and did not seem to send a letter of intent) for the FDC process?
Dear friends,
In Hong Kong, the Wikimedia Chapters Association (WCA) offers a seminar for
Wikimedia Organizations. Chapters, thematic organisations, user groups -
everybody who is interested in the organisations is welcome!
On Wednesday, August 7th, the seminar will be asking for *input*. We try
FDC have on ongoing dialog and discussion with WMF and the Board on how
to handle WMF, as we in FDC want WMF to be handled a all other entities
as far as is reasonable, recognizing some unique differences between WMF
and other entities.
In this discussion that is still ongoing, we have agreed
I've seen that there is a new Wiki Adoption Request [1] for WeRelate [2],
a wonderful project that might help sourcing birth/death dates and hence
copyright status. I was wondering if there should be a standard procedure
for this kind of adoption requests. It is very easy to add a support for a
Did she get permission to use the trademark in that way by WMF legal? :-)
On 17/07/2013 1:41 AM, Steffen Prößdorf steffen.proessd...@wikimedia.de
wrote:
Hi there,
2013/7/15 Melanie Brown mbr...@wikimedia.org
Hello Everyone,
As for the insights on staff photos, thank you for your
David Cuenca, 16/07/2013 22:29:
I've seen that there is a new Wiki Adoption Request [1] for WeRelate [2],
a wonderful project that might help sourcing birth/death dates and hence
copyright status. I was wondering if there should be a standard procedure
for this kind of adoption requests. It is
Thanks for pointing that out, I have seen that there is a proposed process
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_process#Adopting_an_existing_project_into_Wikimedia
However it is not that clear what is the status of the SPCom... is it meant
to become a user group?
Micru
On Tue, Jul 16,
Hi!
This morning I presented a submission (if you can call it that...) for a
Wikivoyage logo... actually it flies and it's alive :)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Logo_2013/Submissions#Option_19_-_Snake_on_a_magic_towel
It promised not to eat Rory nor Tux... yet :)
If only someone
winning!!
I think I overheard the legal department say something about this being
original and probably not infringing anyone else's marks :)
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
This morning I presented a submission (if you can call it that...) for a
I love everything about this.
On Jul 16, 2013, at 4:11 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
This morning I presented a submission (if you can call it that...) for a
Wikivoyage logo... actually it flies and it's alive :)
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I love everything about this.
I do, too. I was just afraid to say it.
-h
On Jul 16, 2013, at 4:11 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
This morning I presented a submission (if you can
I've had enough with these snakes on my magic towel... .
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I knew it! Not even a day and the Wicked Towel Organization already
complaining!
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:20 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
I've had enough with these snakes on my magic towel... .
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I just watched The Hitchhiker's Guide the Galaxy again this weekend
and the towel reminded me of that. Really Hoopy Froods always know where the
their towel is.
Maybe the snake's name is Hoopy.
On Jul 16, 2013, at 5:47 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
I knew it!
This snake is awesome! It can lay eggs of travel knowledge like Yoshi does for
Mario and it could strangulate and swallow foul editors alive.
On Jul 16, 2013, at 7:50 PM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I just watched The Hitchhiker's Guide the Galaxy again this weekend and
Hi,
it came to my attention very recently that a link to a YouTube video has
been included in our fundraising banners[1] last year, enabling people
by default to watch a video about Wikipedia loaded through a YouTube
iframe / element.
There's been a small discussion about this on IRC, and
From what I understand the technical limitations are actually real; mostly
they operate around throwing the number of donors (or potential donors) we
get at the video.
(Having said that, I'm neither opsen nor fundraising, and will promptly
cram it. But: to the best of my knowledge there is a lot
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski
tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote:
(such as their IP address) to an external website (because no one's going to
read the small information about YouTube privacy policy).
Except for the good people of tosdr.org:
http://tosdr.org/#youtube
Also, why the Wikimedia shop uses Shopify.com instead of the many FOSS
alternatives?
http://shop.wikimedia.org/
I have transitioned away from the shop (it's now moving to the fundraising
team) so the future of that is in their hands but I can say that the
biggest thing was that the FOSS
David Cuenca, 17/07/2013 00:36:
Thanks for pointing that out, I have seen that there is a proposed process
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_process#Adopting_an_existing_project_into_Wikimedia
However it is not that clear what is the status of the SPCom... is it
meant to become a user
On 17 July 2013 04:12, Fajro fai...@gmail.com wrote:
Youtube does not need free advertising on Wikipedia.
To be frank,[1] youtube has twice our annual unique visitors every /month/.
I would agree: they don't need advertising.
[1] my apologies to Frank - I'll be Oliver from hereonin
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Hi Tomasz everyone else,
I think it's appropriate I respond to this issue, since it was the video
that I directed that was used in the campaign last year that you talk about.
So last year at Wikimania in Washington D.C. (July 2012) my team conducted
a series of interviews with around 100
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
My thanks to everyone who made it happen - we actually had a player that
would work on many (but not all) devices and it had the added benefit of
open source closed captions, which I had never seen anywhere else. It
Hi Victor,
thanks for your e-mail, I does indeed provide a lot of valuable
background information!
I'm being told that the technical limitations I mentioned in my opening
e-mail are somehow related to Squid and Varnish (the caching software we
use) and our infrastructure being unable to
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