[Wikimedia-l] Alex Roshuk / User:Alex756

2014-11-10 Thread James Forrester
I have learnt from Facebook that Alex Roshuk, old-time Wikimedian who helped set up the Wikimedia Foundation back in the day (including co-drafting the bylaws), has died. I've memorialised his user page and user talk on enwiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alex756

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alex Roshuk / User:Alex756

2014-11-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:36:35 + James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com wrote: I have learnt from Facebook that Alex Roshuk, old-time Wikimedian who helped set up the Wikimedia Foundation back in the day (including co-drafting the bylaws), has died. I've memorialised his user page and user

[Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor monthly newsletter is now multilingual

2014-11-10 Thread Erica Litrenta
(Apologies for cross-posting.) Hi all, I'm glad to announce that the *monthly VisualEditor newsletter* was recently marked for translation for the first time: we had received several related community requests. The issue for September and October [0] was delivered in 10 languages to the editors

[Wikimedia-l] WMVE Annual General Meeting and Board Elections

2014-11-10 Thread Oscar Costero
Dear all, This last weekend, Wikimedia Venezuela (WMVE) held its annual general meeting at Caracas, Venezuela. During our meeting, the members held the elections for seats in the Board, to be vacated by five (5) Board members through a period of 3 years. The results of the Board Seats election

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMVE Annual General Meeting and Board Elections

2014-11-10 Thread Asaf Bartov
Congratulations, WMVE! I look forward to hearing more about your plans, and to assist in any way I can. May I ask that some time be taken to keep [[m:Reports]] up-to-date with WMVE activities[1]? Note that the chapter agreement requires chapters to send WMF an annual activity report and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alex Roshuk / User:Alex756

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Snow
On 11/10/2014 5:36 AM, James Forrester wrote: I have learnt from Facebook that Alex Roshuk, old-time Wikimedian who helped set up the Wikimedia Foundation back in the day (including co-drafting the bylaws), has died. I am quite saddened to hear this news - in Wikipedia's early years and while

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMVE Annual General Meeting and Board Elections

2014-11-10 Thread Nurunnaby Hasive
Congratulation Wikimedia Venezuela! On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congratulations, WMVE! I look forward to hearing more about your plans, and to assist in any way I can. May I ask that some time be taken to keep [[m:Reports]] up-to-date with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-11-10 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Indeed, highly specialized tools for the cultural and education sector _are_ being developed and hosted inside Tool Labs or externally. Looking at the current OAuth consumer requests [5], there are submissions for a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

2014-11-10 Thread Josh Lim
I actually raised this when we were drafting the resolution. :P Josh Wiadomość napisana przez Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com w dniu 10 lis 2014, o godz. 20:27: PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders? Stakeholders or Stakeholders' would be correct. Stakeholder's implies there is