Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

[James Salsman]

My suggestion of Leonie Haimson as co-director was most certainly not
frivolous, and concern trolling on comments made in the spirit of fun
to try to sideline consideration of her is offensive.

Erik and others, what has Ting accomplished that would make him a
better Director or Co-director than a parent advocate in the education
field whose Foundation and goals have been seriously impacted by paid
advocacy editing abuses on Wikipedia?

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[Wikimedia-l] New Program Evaluation report: Other photo upload initiatives

[LiAnna Davis]

(again, please excuse cross-posting)

Hi everyone!

I posted the latest in the string of program evaluation reports on Meta
today. This week's installment is on other photo upload initiatives
(non-Wiki Loves Monuments ones):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/Other_photo_initiatives

Highlights include:
* The average photo upload initiative lasts 30 days and has 16 participants.
* A total of 50,386 images were uploaded to Commons for the six reported
events, and 3,456 (6.9%) images uploaded during these events were already
included in Wikimedia project pages.
* The average photo upload initiative generates more than 2,000 image
uploads to Commons with associated direct costs just over $0.60 USD per
image.

Questions are welcomed and encouraged ***on the talk page***.

On behalf of the Program Evaluation team,

LiAnna



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[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF January 2014 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, February 6, 19:00 UTC

[Praveena Maharaj]

Dear all,

The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
February 6, 2014 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as
a live YouTube stream.

The current structure of the meeting is:

* Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
specialized reports and analytic
* Review of financials
* Welcoming recent hires
* Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority
initiatives
* Update and Q&A with the Executive Director, if available

Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about how to participate.

We'll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.

Thank you,
Praveena

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[Wikimedia-l] Welcome 3 employees of Wikimedia Norway

[Erlend Bjørtvedt]

Wikimedia Norway has brought onboard it's Third employee from January 1.

We now have a team of 3 full / part time staff supporting the Chapter in
realizing ambitious objectives for 2014. They are all installed in Our New
Offices in Central Oslo.

https://no.wikimedia.org/wiki/About_us


Astrid Carlsen will direct the GLAM program co-ordination, and the
chapter's efforts to strengthen participation, recruitment and retention of
contributors. She has broad experience from the puvlishing sector and from
translation, and has lived and worked in Germany and Norway.

Jorid Martinsen will be a part-time Project manager With the main objective
to increase female participation. She has invaluable experience and
Networks as a recent student organizer at the national Level.

Tor Arne Bjerke will direct the outreach towards academia, and the
chapter's effort to enhance content quality. He will also specifically
develop film Projects and produce recruitment film. Tor Arne has more than
10 years experience from the film industry as a producer, and lectures fil
at a university college.


We are happy to have them all onboard at Wikimedia Norway!


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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Norway quarterly report Q2, 2013-14

[Erlend Bjørtvedt]

Below is the quarterly report providing Insights in the plans and results
of Wikimedia Norway in the October-December period.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/APG/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Norge/Progress_report_form/Q2


Kind regards


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Earliest known Wiki?

[Fæ]

On 30 January 2014 18:01, Fæ  wrote:
> Having just uploaded a photograph from the 18th century of Wiki, a

Oops, I meant *19th* century - photo taken in 1898.

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[Wikimedia-l] Earliest known Wiki?

[Fæ]

Having just uploaded a photograph from the 18th century of Wiki, a
Hopi priest, I'm wondering if this is the earliest record we know of
for the name Wiki? Presumably this the the earliest photograph of a
"Wiki", so it would be neat to celebrate him in some way on our
projects.

I came across this photo as part of one of my current batch upload
projects, in this case photos from the University of Southern
California.

Links:
* Wiki's photo:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki,_Chief_antelope_priest,_wearing_full_dress_of_jewelry_and_wampum,_at_the_pueblo_of_Walpi,_Arizona,_ca.1898_%28CHS-4654%29.jpg
* Post about the batch upload:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#1900s_History_of_California

Fae
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

[Claudia Garád]

+1

Thank you Erik.

A serious remark on the clone discussion: Instead of trying to copy a 
status quo I strongly suggest to move on and embrace the idea of 
something or someone new: change is not always easy - sometimes even 
scary - but change is inevtiable, necessary and good.




Am 30.01.2014 16:55, schrieb Steffen Prößdorf:

I absolut agree with all Erik said.

Steffen


2014-01-30 Erik Zachte :


I find it kind of sad to see how this thread after Ting reopened it
(surely after careful consideration) morphed into frivolity. So let me say
I deeply respect Ting's choice to reapply, and to do so, very on-topic, in
the open. That takes courage. I personally think Ting would be a great CEO.
It is not our call but I wish the committee all wisdom.

Erik Zachte

[..]

Could the WMF strategy extend to creating a Death Star to preserve all
of human knowledge?



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

[Steffen Prößdorf]

I absolut agree with all Erik said.

Steffen


2014-01-30 Erik Zachte :

> I find it kind of sad to see how this thread after Ting reopened it
> (surely after careful consideration) morphed into frivolity. So let me say
> I deeply respect Ting's choice to reapply, and to do so, very on-topic, in
> the open. That takes courage. I personally think Ting would be a great CEO.
> It is not our call but I wish the committee all wisdom.
>
> Erik Zachte
>
> [..]
> > Could the WMF strategy extend to creating a Death Star to preserve all
> > of human knowledge?
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

[Erik Zachte]

I find it kind of sad to see how this thread after Ting reopened it (surely 
after careful consideration) morphed into frivolity. So let me say I deeply 
respect Ting's choice to reapply, and to do so, very on-topic, in the open. 
That takes courage. I personally think Ting would be a great CEO. It is not our 
call but I wish the committee all wisdom.

Erik Zachte

[..]
> Could the WMF strategy extend to creating a Death Star to preserve all 
> of human knowledge?




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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

[James Salsman]

>... try to clone Sue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_Futurama_characters#Cubert_Farnsworth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_(2009_film)

> Could the WMF strategy extend to creating a Death Star
> to preserve all of human knowledge?

If Sue and Leonie Haimson were mutual co-directors of each other's
organization, that would be better than building a Death Star or
cloning either individually at this point.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of two new user groups

[Bence Damokos]

Hi Laura,

The Brasilian community has a long history with many twists. At one time
there was a proposed chapter that the  Board has recognized but was never
founded; and the Affiliations Committee has recommended the user group
route for the community in their current aspiration to form a chapter. I am
really glad that the community has accepted the recognition and opened the
way for a real Brasilian chapter to be founded in the near-future.

Best regards,
Bence


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Laura Hale  wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Michel Castelo Branco <
> michelcastelobra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unity was achieved two years ago for a Brazilian chapter. This user group
> > proposal is a condition imposed by AffCom for a future apply as a chapter
> > after1 year. The group accepted it in an open discussion. So, here we
> go...
> >
> > Michel Castelo Branco
>
>
> Did aff-comm initially recommend to the Wikimedia Foundation board that
> Wikimedia Brazil be approved as a chapter? Or did aff-comm talk them into
> becoming a usergroup before any approval?
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

[Tobias]

On 01/30/2014 02:22 AM, Steve Zhang wrote:
> Funnily enough the cost of doing so has been looked into:
> http://news.com.au/technology/lehigh-university-figure-out-how-much-it-costs-to-build-death-star/story-e6frfro0-1226275852491
> 
> In short, $8,100,000,000,000,000 and would take about 800,000 years.
> Probably not a viable solution :)

Also, I don't think that our community could agree on building a Death
Star, seeing that it's diameter is subject of a fierce dispute and edit
war on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars#Death_Star

I believe building the Infosphere is much more suitable given our
movement's mission:
  "The Infosphere is a massive […] memory bank created […] to catalogue
all the information in the Universe"
http://theinfosphere.org/Infosphere



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

[K. Peachey]

On 30 January 2014 11:22, Steve Zhang  wrote:

> Funnily enough the cost of doing so has been looked into:
>
> http://news.com.au/technology/lehigh-university-figure-out-how-much-it-costs-to-build-death-star/story-e6frfro0-1226275852491
>
> In short, $8,100,000,000,000,000 and would take about 800,000 years.
> Probably not a viable solution :)


Due to our focus on knowledge, The Library[1][2] might be a more preferable
option.

[1]. Silence in the Library <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_in_the_Library>
[2]. Forest of the Dead 
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