Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Milos Rancic
Brane died today. He read your messages and it mattered to him. I am content as we sent him the message while he was alive and able to feel it. Thanks to all of you who made him feel better during the last days of his life. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Asaf Bartov
What terrible news! I have started a condolences page here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BraneJ A. On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Brane died today. He read your messages and it mattered to him. I am > content as we sent him the message while he was alive

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Tito Dutta
Oops, terrible news. :( On 11 December 2015 at 16:42, Asaf Bartov wrote: > What terrible news! > > I have started a condolences page here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BraneJ > >A. > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > > > Brane died today. He read your

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Mardetanha
:(( Rest in peace Brane Mardetanha On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Tito Dutta wrote: > Oops, terrible news. :( > > > On 11 December 2015 at 16:42, Asaf Bartov wrote: > > > What terrible news! > > > > I have started a condolences page here: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BraneJ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Gregory Varnum
Tragic news. Condolences to all that knew him. -greg > On Dec 11, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Mardetanha wrote: > > :(( Rest in peace Brane > > Mardetanha > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Tito Dutta wrote: > >> Oops, terrible news. :( >> >> >> On 11 December 2015 at 16:42, Asaf Bartov wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Gnangarra
On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, Australian contributors and myself our condolences to all who knew him, thank you Milos for sharing our care & concern for Brane with Brane before he passed. -Gideon On 11 December 2015 at 21:59, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Tragic news. Condolences to all that knew

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Katy Love
Thank you for this very sad update, Milos. I'm so sorry to hear this news. My condolences to his family and all Wikimedians who knew him. Katy On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Brane died today. He read your messages and it mattered to him. I am > content as we sent him t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Richard Symonds
Terrible news - our thoughts are with his family and those who knew him. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Anna Stillwell
My thoughts are with his loved ones. Warmly, /a On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Richard Symonds < richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Terrible news - our thoughts are with his family and those who knew him. > > Richard Symonds > Wikimedia UK > 0207 065 0992 > > Wikimedia UK is a Company L

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Lila Tretikov
Thank you for your sad note, Milos. Our thoughts are with you and his close ones. On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Brane died today. He read your messages and it mattered to him. I am > content as we sent him the message while he was alive and able to feel it. > > Thanks to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Samir Elsharbaty
Sorry to hear such sad news! On Dec 11, 2015 8:28 PM, "Lila Tretikov" wrote: > Thank you for your sad note, Milos. Our thoughts are with you and his close > ones. > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > > > Brane died today. He read your messages and it mattered to him. I am >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

2015-12-11 Thread Katherine Maher
So sorry to hear this. My thoughts are with the Wikimedia Serbia community and Brane's family and friends. On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Samir Elsharbaty < selsharb...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Sorry to hear such sad news! > On Dec 11, 2015 8:28 PM, "Lila Tretikov" wrote: > > > Thank you for y

[Wikimedia-l] WMF Discovery Dept Office Hour, Thursday, 17 December 2015, 19:00UTC

2015-12-11 Thread Rachel diCerbo
Hello everyone, There will be an IRC office hour with members of the Discovery Department on Thursday, 17 December, at 19:00 UTC. This is an opportunity to talk with Tomasz Finc and other staff members in Discovery. You can read more about their work here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

2015-12-11 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi all, We thought you would want to see this story about Bassel, published in the UK's Guardian today. It quotes Jimmy, among others, and we spoke with the journalist ahead of publication. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/11/bassel-khartabil-fears-for-man-who-brought-open-internet-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

2015-12-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, If you are serious as a Wikipedian and, when you think that a Syrian can be a Wikipedian, you may appreciate the need to know at least about some Syrians and a little more about Syria. At the Erasmus award ceremony in a conversation with people from the Tropenmuseum the idea came up to do mo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

2015-12-11 Thread Sam Klein
The Guardian piece was really good, thank you. As was the personal history Joi published: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joichi-ito/mit-researcher-sentenced-_b_8760354.html Kerry's mention is promising; let's keep pushing for visibility at this level. Sam On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Katheri

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

2015-12-11 Thread Sam Klein
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > > If you are serious as a Wikipedian and, when you think that a Syrian can be > a Wikipedian, you may appreciate the need to know at least about some > Syrians and a little more about Syria... > > > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.n

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

2015-12-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:18 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote: > According to Denny, Wikidata, under its CC0 licence, must not import data > from Share-Alike sources. He reconfirmed this yesterday when I asked him > whether he still stood by that. > > In practice though we have Wikidata importing massive a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

2015-12-11 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Denny, I quoted your statement verbatim and in full in the op-ed. Moreover, your statement had a context. Alexrk2 had said,[1] ---o0o--- Read the above.. at least under European Union law databases are protected by copyright. CC0 won't be compatible with other projects like OpenStreetMap *or