Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Ivory Coast

2014-02-01 Thread Samuel Klein 
This is absolutely wonderful - the entire story as well as the project.
Best wishes to Cyriac Gbogou and the initiative.

Sam
On Jan 25, 2014 2:09 PM, "Florence Devouard"  wrote:

> Hello everyone
>
> I am very happy to announce that we have found a wonderful person to be
> our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Ivory
> Coast. His name is Cyriac Gbogou.
>
> Born on the 02nd of September 1980 in Kpada (Soubré) village located in
> the south west of the country and the capital of Ivorian cocoa, Cyriac
> Gbogou runs for years a part of the African continent with his parents as a
> student-resident respectively in Senegal, Togo, Mali and Congo-Brazzaville.
> He finally returned to Côte d'Ivoire in 2001 and decided to pursue graduate
> studies in computer science. He holds an engineering degree in Computer
> Science.
>
> He gets married in August 2009. In 2010, he discovers the world of Web
> 2.0. That same year, Cyriac chooses to not follow his employer IBM which
> wanted to relocate its activities in Morocco because of the very sensitive
> period in Cote d'Ivoire. Loving risk and adventure, he stays to serve his
> country as volunteer in Akendewa (now former Secretary General). His
> passion for social networks has grown during the post-electoral crisis of
> 2011 working with other actors in the Ivorian web projects such as
> Civsocial #, # Wonzomai who have saved lives with the Internet use [1].
> Cyriac is the Chairman of the Association des Blogueurs de Côte d'Ivoire
> (A.B.C.I)
>
> Since September 2012, Cyriac Gbogou is an independent consultant, a job he
> does with passion, as an advisor, speaker and trainer. He was named by his
> peers "Village Chief" of the Ivorian web community.
> You can also follow him on his blog where he speaks freely on topics:
> www.cyriacgbogou.ci
>
> Whilst Cyriac is not (yet) a wikipedian, he is quite knowledgeable with
> open source and related projects : he was involved in OSM Ivory Coast
> mapping and coordinating mapping party or was involved in the jerry project
> (http://youandjerrycan.org) including in the set up of Afripedia on a
> jerry server.
>
> More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
> wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en#News
>
> Cyriac will have about two weeks to gain some familiarity with Wikimedia
> projects before heading to Cap Town for a month, to receive some training
> and start planning his activity in Ivory Coast.
>
> It would be great if some of you could welcome him on his (still red) talk
> page :) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Cyriac_Gbogou
>
> Florence/Anthere
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Invitation to Chapters and Photographers for the European Parliament Project 2014

2014-02-01 Thread Manuel Schneider 
Dear all,

as you know the project "Wikipedians in European Parliament" will start
by Monday. Most participants are already on their way to Strasbourg and
will arrive Sunday evening. I am one of them and am looking forward to
this project.

As I did some preparation some "last words" from me:
* we got 50 participants from 9 countries, speaking 19 languages
* the European Commission is also happy to see us - a bonus!
* Wikidata is important! I guess this is the first "Edit-a-thon-like"
project based on Wikidata. Not even one MEP has all important properties
filled in.

As an overview and summary of the work that should be done and the
achievements of this project, we have created a few pages on Commons:

Figures before / after this project:
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedians_in_European_Parliament/Evaluation

MEPs and existing photos:
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedians_in_European_Parliament/Lists_of_pictures

MEPs and existing articles / sitelinks:
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedians_in_European_Parliament/Lists_of_articles

MEPs and existing Wikidata statements:
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedians_in_European_Parliament/Wikidata

See you in Strasbourg or simply enjoy our work :-)

Thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation to support this project with a PEG
grant and the chapters to support their volunteers by paying for their
travel and lending equipment!

Regards,


Manuel
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 4 -- 29 January 2014

2014-02-01 Thread Wikipedia Signpost 
News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-01-29/News_and_notes

Traffic report: Six strikes out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-01-29/Traffic_report

WikiProject report: Contesting Contests
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-01-29/WikiProject_report

Arbitration report: ''Kafziel'' case closed; Kww admonished by motion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-01-29/Arbitration_report

Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content 
in its later years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-01-29/Recent_research


Single page view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single

PDF version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-01-29


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

2014-02-01 Thread Todd Allen 
I'm sure dismissively calling people's legitimate concerns "playing with
(a) toy" will help greatly in that regard.

If someone's going to apply for a job where they'll be scrutinized by a
large volunteer community, it is not unreasonable to determine if they can
withstand that type of scrutiny by a real world test, nor to find whether
they'll be responsive and direct to concerns brought up when that happens.
The community has had enough of "diplomatic" null statements with lots of
words, and should be. Someone needs to give an answer, not just blather on
and wind up saying nothing concrete at all.

It is right for the community to be fed up with that and demand that a
candidate go through that process. Yes, it would be hard. Yes, it would
discourage some applicants. Those are the applicants we want to discourage.
We want someone who fits well with our particular project, and who will be
responsive and direct with our volunteer community. They are the
underpinnings of every project WMF undertakes.

Todd Allen


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Tony Souter  wrote:

> Folks: are we still playing with this toy?
>
> I've sat here and watched this discourse - variously frivolous, slightly
> insulting, and embarrassing - and said nothing in the hope it would just
> fizzle away.
>
> But amazingly, it's still here.
>
> We have to accept that while crowdsourcing is the genius of Wikipedia and
> a few of its sister projects, it's totally inappropriate for choosing the
> executive director of a big, prominent Foundation that lives in a
> competitive, complex, and often negative jungle. There's a bunch of reasons
> for doing this largely away from the gaze of the rest of the world. Do I
> really need to spell them out?
>
> It would be good to move on to more useful and practical topics.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 02/02/2014, at 1:32 AM, Benjamin Lees  wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:29 AM, ENWP Pine 
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Chad, I wonder if Rory has been considered. (:
> >>
> >>
> > Given his history of biting newbies, I'm not sure he'd be in a good
> > position to help solve the editor retention problem.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

2014-02-01 Thread Tony Souter 
Folks: are we still playing with this toy? 

I've sat here and watched this discourse – variously frivolous, slightly 
insulting, and embarrassing – and said nothing in the hope it would just fizzle 
away.

But amazingly, it's still here.

We have to accept that while crowdsourcing is the genius of Wikipedia and a few 
of its sister projects, it's totally inappropriate for choosing the executive 
director of a big, prominent Foundation that lives in a competitive, complex, 
and often negative jungle. There's a bunch of reasons for doing this largely 
away from the gaze of the rest of the world. Do I really need to spell them out?

It would be good to move on to more useful and practical topics.

Tony






On 02/02/2014, at 1:32 AM, Benjamin Lees  wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:29 AM, ENWP Pine  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Chad, I wonder if Rory has been considered. (:
>> 
>> 
> Given his history of biting newbies, I'm not sure he'd be in a good
> position to help solve the editor retention problem.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

2014-02-01 Thread Benjamin Lees 
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:29 AM, ENWP Pine  wrote:

>
> Chad, I wonder if Rory has been considered. (:
>
>
Given his history of biting newbies, I'm not sure he'd be in a good
position to help solve the editor retention problem.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ED qualifications

2014-02-01 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak 
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:52 AM, James Salsman  wrote:

>
> What if the tiny fraction of people who were open to examination of
> their merits were more aligned with the positions of the peer reviewed
> literature reviews? That seems very likely.
>

while agreeing to an open interview could definitely be an asset, it
definitely is not THE ONLY quality that is needed, while requiring it would
effectively make it a threshold criterion, severely limiting the poll.
Clearly, we're not in a situation of too many top quality candidates, by
far exceeding all other requirements. Thus I don't think it is reasonable
to narrow the possibilities that much. What Mike Peel wrote in the other
thread makes sense though and is an option that the Board may consider (if
they find it useful).

best,

dj "pundit"


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

2014-02-01 Thread James Salsman 
> How could you say no to a face like this?
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitty_meowing.jpg

Is that the same angst-offsetting kitten as on j.mp/heygooglers
?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

2014-02-01 Thread K. Peachey 
On 1 February 2014 18:29, ENWP Pine  wrote:
>
> Chad, I wonder if Rory has been considered. (:
>
> Pine


Who can say no to the HR penguin? <
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Stuffed_penguin.JPG>.

I wonder if She/He has been bestowed the privilege of a name?
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

2014-02-01 Thread ENWP Pine 
> How could you say no to a face like this?
> 
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitty_meowing.jpg 
> 
> Have a good weekend everyone :)
> 
> -Chad

Chad, I wonder if Rory has been considered. (:

Pine
  
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[Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

2014-02-01 Thread Chad Horohoe 
How could you say no to a face like this?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitty_meowing.jpg

Have a good weekend everyone :)

-Chad
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