Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

[Nurunnaby Hasive]

 Congratulations to the Bulgarian User Group!

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Symonds <
> richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you?
> >
>
> Their Meta page, linked from the announcement linked from the top of this
> thread, is useful:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Bulgaria#Communication
>
>A.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

[rubin.happy]

Hello, Lisa.

Could you, please, provide us with more details?

- why did it happen just now though restrictions due to the US sanctions
were I'mposed quite a long time ago? Probably, you have received some
warning from authorities, haven't you?

- what is the exact problem and applicable legislative restriction? Have
your bank stopped processing of payments from Russia or have something else
happen?

- is it an indefinite stop of fundraising here (till the end of sanctions)?

You know, relations between Russia and the US are not in their perfect
state and this a sensitive question where we need maximum of information to
make readers believe that it is not a political campaign of US-based WMF .

rubin16
13 нояб. 2014 г. 6:46 пользователь "Lisa Gruwell" 
написал:

> Hello rubin16,
>
> We are not running fundraising in Russia at this time, but I want to assure
> you that this was not a decision motivated by politics.
>
> We take compliance with appropriate laws very seriously in everything we
> do. Out of an abundance of caution, we're not fundraising in Russia right
> now.
>
> Of course, the fact that we are not fundraising in Russia does and will not
> have any impact at all on how the WMF continues to support the Russian
> language Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Russian Wikimedian
> community.
>
> Thank you,
> Lisa Gruwell
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:44 PM, rubin.happy 
> wrote:
>
> > There were no recent changes in sanctions and I don't understand why this
> > turn off in donations happened just now.
> >
> > Ideas about SWIFT kick out are not relevant here, as it was just a
> > discussion some months ago but no such action happened.
> >
> > Furthermore, the sanctions were placed on particular companies and
> > individuals, there were no prohibitions against all financial relations.
> > So, I could understand if donations weren't accepted when they were sent
> > via a couple of banks under sanctions, but I want to repeat that there
> is,
> > for example, no prohibition to receive money from Russians.
> >
> > rubin16
> > 13 нояб. 2014 г. 4:01 пользователь "David Gerard" 
> > написал:
> >
> > > I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts
> > > of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity
> > > donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT
> > > network:
> > >
> >
> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system
> > > It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can
> > > actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better,
> > > but that won't change the fact.
> > >
> > > On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin 
> > > wrote:
> > > > I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another
> example I
> > > > think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter
> > > > *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the
> > > questions
> > > > started rolling in.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of
> > chapter
> > > > and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about
> > > > potentially controversial issues like this.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Craig Franklin
> > > > (personal view only)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon 
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the
> > > laws
> > > >> that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous
> and
> > > >> renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic
> > > sanctions
> > > >> and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present,
> I
> > > >> imagine this related to that.
> > > >>
> > > >> Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would
> expose
> > > the
> > > >> foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past
> > > relating
> > > >> to unrest.
> > > >>
> > > >> Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a
> precautionary
> > > >> measure.
> > > >>
> > > >> Seddon
> > > >>  On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" 
> > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48:
> > > >>>
> > >  We received some alerts from our users that donations are now
> > blocked
> > >  when user is from Russia:
> > > 
> > >
> http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371
> > >  84.png
> > > 
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by
> > > clicking
> > > >>> the "Russia" link in
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give
> > > >>> Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try
> sending a
> > > >>> wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a
> > > PayPal
> > > >>> donation?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Nemo
> > > >>>
> > > >>> P.s.: ROTFLOL "Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more
> > infor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[Risker]

Actually, as I recall, email alerts for changes in articles has never been
activated on English Wikipedia.

Risker/Anne



On 12 November 2014 22:53, Anthony Cole  wrote:

> Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we don't have a button at the top of
> articles making it easy for readers to enable email alerts. 99.999% of
> readers wouldn't know it was available. (This is something BLP subjects
> would appreciate too, I'm sure.)
>
> Anthony Cole 
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, svetlana 
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas!
> >
> > Anthony Cole wrote:
> > > Svetlana, presently we have
> > >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles
> > > which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as "of
> > > interest to WikiProjedt Medicine" (about 33,000 so far).
> >
> > This is a grand tool. Though
> > 1) it doesn't filter for new page creations (would it be nice to have a
> > "new page" tag?), and
> > 2) is not as grained as subcats would be (where people would be able to
> > pick a more narrow topic to watch).
> >
> > Anthony Cole wrote:
> > > I'd like all our
> > > medical articles to have a button at the top saying "email me when this
> > > article changes", so interested experts could easily adopt a few
> > articles.
> >
> > Yes, this is a watchlist thing, it's already there (interested people can
> > enable email delivery).
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[Anthony Cole]

Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we don't have a button at the top of
articles making it easy for readers to enable email alerts. 99.999% of
readers wouldn't know it was available. (This is something BLP subjects
would appreciate too, I'm sure.)

Anthony Cole 


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, svetlana  wrote:

> Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas!
>
> Anthony Cole wrote:
> > Svetlana, presently we have
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles
> > which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as "of
> > interest to WikiProjedt Medicine" (about 33,000 so far).
>
> This is a grand tool. Though
> 1) it doesn't filter for new page creations (would it be nice to have a
> "new page" tag?), and
> 2) is not as grained as subcats would be (where people would be able to
> pick a more narrow topic to watch).
>
> Anthony Cole wrote:
> > I'd like all our
> > medical articles to have a button at the top saying "email me when this
> > article changes", so interested experts could easily adopt a few
> articles.
>
> Yes, this is a watchlist thing, it's already there (interested people can
> enable email delivery).
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

[Milos Rancic]

What about a notice for users from Russia: "We are not able to process
money from Russia now, but you are welcome to donate to Wikimedia Russia by
using this bank account" -- if nothing more creative could be imagined?
On Nov 13, 2014 4:46 AM, "Lisa Gruwell"  wrote:

> Hello rubin16,
>
> We are not running fundraising in Russia at this time, but I want to assure
> you that this was not a decision motivated by politics.
>
> We take compliance with appropriate laws very seriously in everything we
> do. Out of an abundance of caution, we're not fundraising in Russia right
> now.
>
> Of course, the fact that we are not fundraising in Russia does and will not
> have any impact at all on how the WMF continues to support the Russian
> language Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Russian Wikimedian
> community.
>
> Thank you,
> Lisa Gruwell
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:44 PM, rubin.happy 
> wrote:
>
> > There were no recent changes in sanctions and I don't understand why this
> > turn off in donations happened just now.
> >
> > Ideas about SWIFT kick out are not relevant here, as it was just a
> > discussion some months ago but no such action happened.
> >
> > Furthermore, the sanctions were placed on particular companies and
> > individuals, there were no prohibitions against all financial relations.
> > So, I could understand if donations weren't accepted when they were sent
> > via a couple of banks under sanctions, but I want to repeat that there
> is,
> > for example, no prohibition to receive money from Russians.
> >
> > rubin16
> > 13 нояб. 2014 г. 4:01 пользователь "David Gerard" 
> > написал:
> >
> > > I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts
> > > of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity
> > > donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT
> > > network:
> > >
> >
> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system
> > > It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can
> > > actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better,
> > > but that won't change the fact.
> > >
> > > On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin 
> > > wrote:
> > > > I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another
> example I
> > > > think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter
> > > > *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the
> > > questions
> > > > started rolling in.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of
> > chapter
> > > > and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about
> > > > potentially controversial issues like this.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Craig Franklin
> > > > (personal view only)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon 
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the
> > > laws
> > > >> that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous
> and
> > > >> renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic
> > > sanctions
> > > >> and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present,
> I
> > > >> imagine this related to that.
> > > >>
> > > >> Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would
> expose
> > > the
> > > >> foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past
> > > relating
> > > >> to unrest.
> > > >>
> > > >> Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a
> precautionary
> > > >> measure.
> > > >>
> > > >> Seddon
> > > >>  On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" 
> > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48:
> > > >>>
> > >  We received some alerts from our users that donations are now
> > blocked
> > >  when user is from Russia:
> > > 
> > >
> http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371
> > >  84.png
> > > 
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by
> > > clicking
> > > >>> the "Russia" link in
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give
> > > >>> Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try
> sending a
> > > >>> wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a
> > > PayPal
> > > >>> donation?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Nemo
> > > >>>
> > > >>> P.s.: ROTFLOL "Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more
> > information
> > > on
> > > >>> how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation." In case
> > > someone
> > > >>> forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> ___
> > > >>> Fundraiser mailing list
> > > >>> fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> ___
> > > >> Fundraiser mailing list
> > > >> fundrai...@li

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

[Lisa Gruwell]

Hello rubin16,

We are not running fundraising in Russia at this time, but I want to assure
you that this was not a decision motivated by politics.

We take compliance with appropriate laws very seriously in everything we
do. Out of an abundance of caution, we're not fundraising in Russia right
now.

Of course, the fact that we are not fundraising in Russia does and will not
have any impact at all on how the WMF continues to support the Russian
language Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Russian Wikimedian
community.

Thank you,
Lisa Gruwell

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:44 PM, rubin.happy  wrote:

> There were no recent changes in sanctions and I don't understand why this
> turn off in donations happened just now.
>
> Ideas about SWIFT kick out are not relevant here, as it was just a
> discussion some months ago but no such action happened.
>
> Furthermore, the sanctions were placed on particular companies and
> individuals, there were no prohibitions against all financial relations.
> So, I could understand if donations weren't accepted when they were sent
> via a couple of banks under sanctions, but I want to repeat that there is,
> for example, no prohibition to receive money from Russians.
>
> rubin16
> 13 нояб. 2014 г. 4:01 пользователь "David Gerard" 
> написал:
>
> > I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts
> > of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity
> > donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT
> > network:
> >
> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system
> > It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can
> > actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better,
> > but that won't change the fact.
> >
> > On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin 
> > wrote:
> > > I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I
> > > think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter
> > > *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the
> > questions
> > > started rolling in.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of
> chapter
> > > and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about
> > > potentially controversial issues like this.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Craig Franklin
> > > (personal view only)
> > >
> > >
> > > On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon 
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the
> > laws
> > >> that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and
> > >> renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic
> > sanctions
> > >> and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I
> > >> imagine this related to that.
> > >>
> > >> Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose
> > the
> > >> foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past
> > relating
> > >> to unrest.
> > >>
> > >> Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary
> > >> measure.
> > >>
> > >> Seddon
> > >>  On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" 
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48:
> > >>>
> >  We received some alerts from our users that donations are now
> blocked
> >  when user is from Russia:
> > 
> > http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371
> >  84.png
> > 
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by
> > clicking
> > >>> the "Russia" link in
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give
> > >>> Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a
> > >>> wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a
> > PayPal
> > >>> donation?
> > >>>
> > >>> Nemo
> > >>>
> > >>> P.s.: ROTFLOL "Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more
> information
> > on
> > >>> how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation." In case
> > someone
> > >>> forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA.
> > >>>
> > >>> ___
> > >>> Fundraiser mailing list
> > >>> fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> ___
> > >> Fundraiser mailing list
> > >> fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser
> > >>
> > >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

[rubin.happy]

There were no recent changes in sanctions and I don't understand why this
turn off in donations happened just now.

Ideas about SWIFT kick out are not relevant here, as it was just a
discussion some months ago but no such action happened.

Furthermore, the sanctions were placed on particular companies and
individuals, there were no prohibitions against all financial relations.
So, I could understand if donations weren't accepted when they were sent
via a couple of banks under sanctions, but I want to repeat that there is,
for example, no prohibition to receive money from Russians.

rubin16
13 нояб. 2014 г. 4:01 пользователь "David Gerard" 
написал:

> I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts
> of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity
> donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT
> network:
> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system
> It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can
> actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better,
> but that won't change the fact.
>
> On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin 
> wrote:
> > I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I
> > think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter
> > *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the
> questions
> > started rolling in.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter
> > and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about
> > potentially controversial issues like this.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Craig Franklin
> > (personal view only)
> >
> >
> > On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon  wrote:
> >
> >> I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the
> laws
> >> that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and
> >> renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic
> sanctions
> >> and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I
> >> imagine this related to that.
> >>
> >> Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose
> the
> >> foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past
> relating
> >> to unrest.
> >>
> >> Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary
> >> measure.
> >>
> >> Seddon
> >>  On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" 
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48:
> >>>
>  We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked
>  when user is from Russia:
> 
> http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371
>  84.png
> 
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by
> clicking
> >>> the "Russia" link in https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give
> >>> Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a
> >>> wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a
> PayPal
> >>> donation?
> >>>
> >>> Nemo
> >>>
> >>> P.s.: ROTFLOL "Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information
> on
> >>> how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation." In case
> someone
> >>> forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA.
> >>>
> >>> ___
> >>> Fundraiser mailing list
> >>> fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org
> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser
> >>>
> >>
> >> ___
> >> Fundraiser mailing list
> >> fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org
> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser
> >>
> >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

[Milos Rancic]

I think that this is extremely important moment in the existence of
Wikimedia and contemporary free content movement. The future of the concept
of free knowledge could depend on how Wikimedia positions itself in
relation to this issue and the future similar ones.

This is not about our personal political opinions, this is about very real
consequences, which could define would we have united movement as we know
or just fragments of once great idea. All the lamest Wikipedia edit wars
could look like quite decent past.

Imagine any of our past conflicts. And that could look like a childish game.

This is also the question of how mature our particular and broader
movements are. Are we really a global movement or we are just a sum of
people with good will, strictly determined by our citizenship?

During the last six to seven years we lost few opportunities to become
significant stakeholder on the global stage (cf. contemporary significance
of Facebook). We lost the momentum few times and now we are absolutely
irrelevant as the movement. And if we don't want to lose the movement
itself, we have to be extremely pragmatic from now on.

One very good fact is that it is not anymore a heresy to talk about the
movement instead of data. Yes, our movement is the most important thing to
preserve. Capacity of hard disks and links improved that much, that
preserving data is just a matter of decent organizational work.

Our movement is not just the most important thing to us. In my opinion, our
movement is the best chance of our species to build the future. There were
no and there is no comparable movements.

We have to take this moment extremely seriously and start to work together
on solving numerous obstacles which we'll find in the future.

Our worst-case scenario is to disappear in irrelevance. It will start with
inactive chapters. Formal organization is the most expensive thing to us.
Our events will become less diverse.

Our declining editor community will become less diverse, as well.
Eventually, one by one, Wikipedia in particular languages will become less
important source of information than third party collaborative sums of
knowledge. (Keep in mind that Chinese Wikipedia is not the biggest and the
most useful encyclopedia in Chinese language.)

If we want to keep us as a movement, we have to fight hard for that. It's
not about one challenge, it's about constant challenges which we'll have.
This issue is just the first one.

Wikimedia Foundation's job is to do the best -- and I don't count
conformist answers as valid ones, as the time of plenty is behind us -- to
solve formal obstacles. If the servers have to go to Singapore, they should
go there as soon as possible.

Chapters have to cooperate. That's especially important in relation to the
chapters in the present and future conflict zones. I am aware that such
things are far from an issue presently. However, it could be much harder in
the future.

The rest of us have to take this moment seriously, as well, and do the best
in our personal capacities. That means writing Wikipedia and contributing
to other projects. That means introducing one friend per month into
contributing to Wikimedia projects. That means having active friendships
with people from the other parts of the world.
On Nov 13, 2014 2:01 AM, "David Gerard"  wrote:

> I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts
> of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity
> donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT
> network:
> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system
> It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can
> actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better,
> but that won't change the fact.
>
> On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin 
> wrote:
> > I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I
> > think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter
> > *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the
> questions
> > started rolling in.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter
> > and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about
> > potentially controversial issues like this.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Craig Franklin
> > (personal view only)
> >
> >
> > On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon  wrote:
> >
> >> I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the
> laws
> >> that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and
> >> renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic
> sanctions
> >> and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I
> >> imagine this related to that.
> >>
> >> Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose
> the
> >> foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past
> relatin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[svetlana]

Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas!

Anthony Cole wrote:
> Svetlana, presently we have
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles
> which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as "of
> interest to WikiProjedt Medicine" (about 33,000 so far).

This is a grand tool. Though 
1) it doesn't filter for new page creations (would it be nice to have a "new 
page" tag?), and 
2) is not as grained as subcats would be (where people would be able to pick a 
more narrow topic to watch).

Anthony Cole wrote:
> I'd like all our
> medical articles to have a button at the top saying "email me when this
> article changes", so interested experts could easily adopt a few articles.

Yes, this is a watchlist thing, it's already there (interested people can 
enable email delivery).

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[Anthony Cole]

Thanks Kirill, James and all involved.

Svetlana, presently we have
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles
which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as "of
interest to WikiProjedt Medicine" (about 33,000 so far). I'd like all our
medical articles to have a button at the top saying "email me when this
article changes", so interested experts could easily adopt a few articles.
(But we're getting a bit off-topic here.)

Anthony Cole 


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:34 PM, svetlana  wrote:

> Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> Wiki
> > Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2].
>
> Could be a good idea for wikiproject folks to work on a RSS feed of recent
> changes (and recent new page creations) within a category and its subcats.
> Sounds like a thing that'd increate all our participation in WikiProjects
> in the first place - and resolve plenty of user retention issues.
>
> Some previous (incomplete) notes on this field:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Means_for_watching_categories
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

[David Gerard]

I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts
of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity
donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT
network: 
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system
It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can
actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better,
but that won't change the fact.

On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin  wrote:
> I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I
> think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter
> *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions
> started rolling in.
>
> Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter
> and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about
> potentially controversial issues like this.
>
> Regards,
> Craig Franklin
> (personal view only)
>
>
> On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon  wrote:
>
>> I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the laws
>> that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and
>> renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic sanctions
>> and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I
>> imagine this related to that.
>>
>> Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose the
>> foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past relating
>> to unrest.
>>
>> Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary
>> measure.
>>
>> Seddon
>>  On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, "Federico Leva (Nemo)"  wrote:
>>
>>> rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48:
>>>
 We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked
 when user is from Russia:
 http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371
 84.png

>>>
>>> Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking
>>> the "Russia" link in https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give
>>> Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a
>>> wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a PayPal
>>> donation?
>>>
>>> Nemo
>>>
>>> P.s.: ROTFLOL "Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information on
>>> how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation." In case someone
>>> forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA.
>>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

[Asaf Bartov]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Symonds <
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

> Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you?
>

Their Meta page, linked from the announcement linked from the top of this
thread, is useful:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Bulgaria#Communication

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

[Craig Franklin]

I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I
think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter
*before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions
started rolling in.

Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter
and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about
potentially controversial issues like this.

Regards,
Craig Franklin
(personal view only)


On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon  wrote:

> I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the laws
> that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and
> renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic sanctions
> and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I
> imagine this related to that.
>
> Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose the
> foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past relating
> to unrest.
>
> Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary
> measure.
>
> Seddon
>  On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, "Federico Leva (Nemo)"  wrote:
>
>> rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48:
>>
>>> We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked
>>> when user is from Russia:
>>> http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371
>>> 84.png
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking
>> the "Russia" link in https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give
>> Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a
>> wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a PayPal
>> donation?
>>
>> Nemo
>>
>> P.s.: ROTFLOL "Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information on
>> how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation." In case someone
>> forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA.
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[svetlana]

Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki
> Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2].  

Could be a good idea for wikiproject folks to work on a RSS feed of recent 
changes (and recent new page creations) within a category and its subcats.  
Sounds like a thing that'd increate all our participation in WikiProjects in 
the first place - and resolve plenty of user retention issues.

Some previous (incomplete) notes on this field: 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Means_for_watching_categories

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline"

[Kim Bruning]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:04:11PM +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Kim Bruning, 12/11/2014 19:40:
> >
> > I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW
> >
> > http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/
> 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/63549/focus=63576


Oohhh, Interesting! :-)


sincerely,
Kim

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

[Richard Symonds]

Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you?

Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).

*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

On 12 November 2014 19:49, Tomasz Ganicz  wrote:

> Great :-)
>
> 2014-11-12 17:47 GMT+01:00 Tanvir Rahman :
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians
> of
> > Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of
> the
> > Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe.
> >
> > I would like to thank the fellow Bulgarian Wikimedians for their hard
> work
> > over the years. They have several projects running and a significant
> number
> > of talented contributors to those projects. We hope that they will
> continue
> > their hard work actively so we will get more contributors as well as
> > initiatives to make knowledge free and easily accessible in Bulgaria.
> >
> > Please join us to give them a warm welcome!
> >
> > Tanvir
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ResolutionsWikimedians_of_Bulgaria_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014
> >
> > --
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline"

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Kim Bruning, 12/11/2014 19:40:


I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/63549/focus=63576

Nemo

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[Wikimedia-l] "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline"

[Kim Bruning]

I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/

sincerely,
Kim Bruning

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

[Tomasz Ganicz]

Great :-)

2014-11-12 17:47 GMT+01:00 Tanvir Rahman :
> Dear all,
>
> It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of
> Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of the
> Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe.
>
> I would like to thank the fellow Bulgarian Wikimedians for their hard work
> over the years. They have several projects running and a significant number
> of talented contributors to those projects. We hope that they will continue
> their hard work actively so we will get more contributors as well as
> initiatives to make knowledge free and easily accessible in Bulgaria.
>
> Please join us to give them a warm welcome!
>
> Tanvir
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ResolutionsWikimedians_of_Bulgaria_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48:

We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked
when user is from Russia:
http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc237184.png


Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by 
clicking the "Russia" link in 
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give
Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a 
wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a PayPal 
donation?


Nemo

P.s.: ROTFLOL "Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information on 
how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation." In case 
someone forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA.


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

[Anasuya Sengupta]

Apostrophe or not (as another pedant, I appreciate its removal ;-)) -
congratulations!

a-

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Gregory Varnum 
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> No worries - it happens.  :)  I apologize that we did not bring it up
> sooner. To be fair, someone on AffCom (Josh) did ask earlier and I'll
> admit, I thought at the time it was intentional so did not bring it up in
> our desire to get things approved for the group.
>
> I will make sure the updates are completed later today.
>
> -greg
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Mark A. Hershberger 
> wrote:
>
> > Gregory Varnum writes:
> >
> > > We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it
> > > sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > I apologize for the confusion and extra work.
> >
> > Mark.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

[Anasuya Sengupta]

Thanks Tanvir/AffCom. Congratulations to the Bulgarian User Group, looking
forward to working with you all!

Warmly,
Anasuya

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Tanvir Rahman  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of
> Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of the
> Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe.
>
> I would like to thank the fellow Bulgarian Wikimedians for their hard work
> over the years. They have several projects running and a significant number
> of talented contributors to those projects. We hope that they will continue
> their hard work actively so we will get more contributors as well as
> initiatives to make knowledge free and easily accessible in Bulgaria.
>
> Please join us to give them a warm welcome!
>
> Tanvir
>
> [1]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ResolutionsWikimedians_of_Bulgaria_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[Anasuya Sengupta]

Thanks for this news, Kirill/AffCom! Congratulations Wiki Project Med. :-)

a-

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki
> Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2].  The group is working to
> promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects.
> Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates!
> Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med
> [2]
>
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[Wikimedia-l] fundraising blocked in Russia

[rubin.happy]

Hello, guys!

We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when
user is from Russia:
http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc237184.png

The only WMF comment I received in #wikimedia-fundraising was that "we
don't run fundraising in Russia at the moment". Russia is now blacklisted
like Libya, like Congo, like Iraq.

I always though that WMF is free from politics and tends to be transparent,
but why such a decision was made? And why nobody informed us (at least,
Wikimedia RU) about it?

Now we are starting to receive negative feedbacks from users and readers
who treat WMF as a politically motivated organization, not a non-profit
organization promoting free knowledge.

And as we got no comments from Fundraising team and have no idea what
happened, we at Wikimedia RU are not able to cope with such negative
publicity.

It's now late evening in Russia, but the messages were already posted to
some top websites of Russia, and this will be promoted quickly via social
networks: so, tomorrow will be a bad day for wiki-movement in our country.

WMF, I want to thank you a lot for your transparency.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO

[Erik Moeller]

Jon --

Thank you all the hard work for the movement, and for building a great team
and great foundations!  Hope to see you in different corners of the
movement & globe.

Warmly,
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

[Tanvir Rahman]

Dear all,

It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of
Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of the
Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe.

I would like to thank the fellow Bulgarian Wikimedians for their hard work
over the years. They have several projects running and a significant number
of talented contributors to those projects. We hope that they will continue
their hard work actively so we will get more contributors as well as
initiatives to make knowledge free and easily accessible in Bulgaria.

Please join us to give them a warm welcome!

Tanvir

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ResolutionsWikimedians_of_Bulgaria_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[Lila Tretikov]

Congratulations!

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive  wrote:

> Great! Congratulations team Wiki Project Med!
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vishnu  wrote:
>
> > Congratulations team Wiki Project Med!
> >
> > Best wishes.
> >
> > Vishnu
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> >> Wiki
> >> Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2].  The group is working to
> >> promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects.
> >> Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates!
> >> Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee
> >> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med
> >> [2]
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[Alex Wang]

Congrats! A very exciting project!

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive  wrote:

> Great! Congratulations team Wiki Project Med!
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vishnu  wrote:
>
> > Congratulations team Wiki Project Med!
> >
> > Best wishes.
> >
> > Vishnu
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> >> Wiki
> >> Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2].  The group is working to
> >> promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects.
> >> Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates!
> >> Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee
> >> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med
> >> [2]
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/
> >> Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

[Gregory Varnum]

No worries - it happens.  :)  I apologize that we did not bring it up
sooner. To be fair, someone on AffCom (Josh) did ask earlier and I'll
admit, I thought at the time it was intentional so did not bring it up in
our desire to get things approved for the group.

I will make sure the updates are completed later today.

-greg

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Mark A. Hershberger 
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> Gregory Varnum writes:
>
> > We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it
> > sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe?
>
> Yes.
>
> I apologize for the confusion and extra work.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

[Mark A. Hershberger]

Gregory Varnum writes:

> We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it
> sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe?

Yes.

I apologize for the confusion and extra work.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO

[Anasuya Sengupta]

Thanks for all the work together, and the very best, Jon, for every
continuing adventure.

Looking forward to working with you as a volunteer,
Anasuya

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Jon Davies 
wrote:

> With some sadness I have to tell you that I will be leaving Wikimedia UK,
> as an employee, if not as a volunteer, at the end of the year. I have
> achieved what I set out to do and leave WMUK in a good state. I now need to
> look for new challenges.
>
> I was the first chief executive and it has been an amazing three years
> watching the chapter grow and develop. It has not always been smooth
> sailing but we have come through it together in good shape. Wikimania
> proved how professional we had become and the positive feedback from the
> participants makes all the work we put in worthwhile.
>
> My heartfelt thanks to everyone in the community, particularly the
> volunteers who are at the heart of all we do, my great colleagues at the
> Foundation and the loyal and hardworking staff at WMUK who have supported
> me so ably and with such good humour over the years.
>
> My best wishes go to my successor in all they seek to achieve.
>
> Cyhoeddiad gan Jon
>
> Gyda pheth tristwch rwy'n eich hysbysu y byddaf yn gadael Wikimedia UK, fel
> cyflogai, os nad
>
> fel gwirfoddolwr, ar ddiwedd y flwyddyn. Dw i wedi cyflawni'r hyn roeddwn
> wedi'i obeithio a dw
>
> i'n gadael WMUK ar delerau da. Edrychaf ymlaen rwan am sialensau newydd. Fi
> oedd y Prif Weithredwr cyntaf ac mae'r dair blynedd diwethaf wedi bod yn
> hollol anhygoel,
>
> wrth i mi weld y siaptr yn tyfu a datblygu. Doedd y daith bob amser ddim yn
> llyfn, ond daethom drwyddi'n y diwedd yn ddianaf! Profodd Wikimania inni
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>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

[Gregory Varnum]

We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it
sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe?

-greg

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lodewijk 
wrote:

> I cannot imagine fuzz will be made over that, whether it is official or not
> :)
>
> Lodewijk (not an affcom member any longer, so even more so a personal
> opinion :) )
> On Nov 12, 2014 4:09 PM, "Mark A. Hershberger"  wrote:
>
> > Quim Gil  writes:
> >
> > > PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders?
> >
> > I did send Gregory an email shortly after he notified me that we were
> > accepted when the problematic apostrophe was pointed out to me.
> >
> > We'd like to have the apostrophe removed, if possible.
> >
> > Mark.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

[Mark A. Hershberger]

Quim Gil  writes:

> PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders?

I did send Gregory an email shortly after he notified me that we were
accepted when the problematic apostrophe was pointed out to me.

We'd like to have the apostrophe removed, if possible.

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

[Lodewijk]

I cannot imagine fuzz will be made over that, whether it is official or not
:)

Lodewijk (not an affcom member any longer, so even more so a personal
opinion :) )
On Nov 12, 2014 4:09 PM, "Mark A. Hershberger"  wrote:

> Quim Gil  writes:
>
> > PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders?
>
> I did send Gregory an email shortly after he notified me that we were
> accepted when the problematic apostrophe was pointed out to me.
>
> We'd like to have the apostrophe removed, if possible.
>
> Mark.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[Nurunnaby Hasive]

Great! Congratulations team Wiki Project Med!

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vishnu  wrote:

> Congratulations team Wiki Project Med!
>
> Best wishes.
>
> Vishnu
>
>
> On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
>> Wiki
>> Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2].  The group is working to
>> promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects.
>> Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates!
>> Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee
>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med
>> [2]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/
>> Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[Vishnu]

Congratulations team Wiki Project Med!

Best wishes.

Vishnu

On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki
Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2].  The group is working to
promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects.
Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates!
Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med
[2]
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[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone,

I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki
Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2].  The group is working to
promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects.
Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates!
Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO

[rupert THURNER]

Hi Jon, it was always a pleasure and very constructive to work with you, as
one who always had open eyes for global or other countries challenges.

What are you up to in future?

Rupert
On Nov 11, 2014 10:11 AM, "Jon Davies"  wrote:

> With some sadness I have to tell you that I will be leaving Wikimedia UK,
> as an employee, if not as a volunteer, at the end of the year. I have
> achieved what I set out to do and leave WMUK in a good state. I now need to
> look for new challenges.
>
> I was the first chief executive and it has been an amazing three years
> watching the chapter grow and develop. It has not always been smooth
> sailing but we have come through it together in good shape. Wikimania
> proved how professional we had become and the positive feedback from the
> participants makes all the work we put in worthwhile.
>
> My heartfelt thanks to everyone in the community, particularly the
> volunteers who are at the heart of all we do, my great colleagues at the
> Foundation and the loyal and hardworking staff at WMUK who have supported
> me so ably and with such good humour over the years.
>
> My best wishes go to my successor in all they seek to achieve.
>
> Cyhoeddiad gan Jon
>
> Gyda pheth tristwch rwy'n eich hysbysu y byddaf yn gadael Wikimedia UK, fel
> cyflogai, os nad
>
> fel gwirfoddolwr, ar ddiwedd y flwyddyn. Dw i wedi cyflawni'r hyn roeddwn
> wedi'i obeithio a dw
>
> i'n gadael WMUK ar delerau da. Edrychaf ymlaen rwan am sialensau newydd. Fi
> oedd y Prif Weithredwr cyntaf ac mae'r dair blynedd diwethaf wedi bod yn
> hollol anhygoel,
>
> wrth i mi weld y siaptr yn tyfu a datblygu. Doedd y daith bob amser ddim yn
> llyfn, ond daethom drwyddi'n y diwedd yn ddianaf! Profodd Wikimania inni
> aeddfedu mewn modd proffesiynol a chafwyd adborth adeiladol gan y cyfranwyr
> ­oedd yn gwneud yr holl waith yn bleser.
>
> Carwn ddiolch o waelod fy ngalon i bawb o fewn ein cymuned, yn enwedig y
> gwirfoddolwyr sy'n sylfaen i'n gwaith, fy nghydweithwyr bendigedig yn
> Sylfaen Wikimedia a'r staff sydd wedi bod mor driw i mi, wedi fy nghefnogi
> mor effeithiol ac wedi gweithio mor arbennig o galed dros y blynyddoedd ­ a
> hynny gyda hiwmor iach. Dymunaf pob llwyddiant i f'olynydd ym mhopeth y
> ceisiant ei gyflawni.
>
> Jon.
>
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>
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[Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

Hello,

A reminder that Language Engineering's monthly office hour will be
happening later today at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below
for the original announcement, local time, and agenda.

Thank you.
Runa

Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==
# Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesday)

# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141112T1700)

# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office

# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me before the event)

-- Forwarded message --
From: Runa Bhattacharjee 
Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:05 AM
Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 12, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation ,
Wikimedia developers , Wikimedia Mailing
List 


[x-posted announcement]

Hello,

The next monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia Language Engineering team
will be on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office.
We will be taking questions and also discussing about the availability of
the new version of the Content Translation tool[1][2] and upcoming plans.

Please see below for event details and local time

Thank you.
Runa

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
[2]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/03/announcing-the-second-version-of-the-content-translation-tool/

Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==
# Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesday)

# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141112T1700)

# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office

# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me before the event)

-- 
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation




-- 
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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