[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Mexico. Report of Activities of April 2014

2014-05-06 Thread Carmen Alcázar
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of the month of April 2014 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
Jimmy Wales was recently asked, on Twitter: How do you collaborate with Universities? https://mobile.twitter.com/AarhusUni/status/460706953795502080 to which he replied: Right now mostly through our GLAM programs (galleries, libraries, museums).

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread Newyorkbrad
Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? Newyorkbrad On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.comwrote: I think this speaks to how little is known and how poorly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread
On 6 May 2014 15:28, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? Newyorkbrad Hi Brad, Yes, this is the purpose of https://outreach.wikimedia.org.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread Risker
On 6 May 2014 11:45, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 May 2014 15:28, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? Newyorkbrad Hi Brad, Yes, this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread geni
On 6 May 2014 15:28, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? Newyorkbrad The ones that are relevant to the english wikipedia can be found ad

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread LiAnna Davis
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: Is there one place, perhaps on Meta, where a Wikipedian/Wikimedian could find a summary/briefing on the various different programs that exist? For education specifically: You can also go to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 06/05/2014 16:24, Leigh Thelmadatter a écrit : (...) There is even the assumption on the part of many that this is the purview of chapters. Why shouldn't it be ? -- Mathias Damour https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Astirmays ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread Mathias Damour
Le 06/05/2014 20:15, Leigh Thelmadatter a écrit : Where chapter support is wanted and helpful, no problem. What I mean here is that universities should not be required to work under a chapter just because one exists. I mean that universities should be able to work with a chapter when it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread Leigh Thelmadatter
Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 20:46:23 +0200 From: mathias.dam...@laposte.net To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities Le 06/05/2014 20:15, Leigh Thelmadatter a écrit : Where chapter support is wanted

[Wikimedia-l] WikiConference USA - almost here!

2014-05-06 Thread Pharos
I am very pleased to announce that WikiConference USA is less than 30 days away! Over the last few months, Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC have been collecting curated submissions on a diversity of wiki and free/open knowledge-related topics (with tracks on Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

2014-05-06 Thread Pete Forsyth
Pine, I think you raise some important questions below. Obviously there has been a lot going on in the last week, so I'd like to give this a bump and add a couple points: On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:17 AM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Will the Foundation prohibit chapters and other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

2014-05-06 Thread Nathan
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote: I want to point out something that stands out to me. This is not an outright contradiction, but it's a puzzling contrast. In an unrelated thread on this email list, Executive Director Sue Gardner recently said:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

2014-05-06 Thread Pete Forsyth
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote: I want to point out something that stands out to me. This is not an outright contradiction, but it's a puzzling contrast. In an unrelated thread on