[Wikimedia-l] Classical piano performances on Wikimedia Commons and WikiRadio

There is so much good content on Wikimedia that it's difficult to choose what to highlight, and I try to be mindful of my number of posts to email lists. I feel that this is worth a special mention because it's beautiful and unusual. Courtesy of User:La Pianista, we have good quality recordings of

[Wikimedia-l] Inspire Campaign on Addressing Harassment to Begin on May 31st

Hi everyone, We’ve had two Inspire Campaigns so far -- on the gender gap and on content curation & review -- to encourage ideas and grant proposals on challenging issues affecting the Wikimedia projects you work on. The third Inspire Campaign, starting on May 31st, will run for one month and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Blog post about new WMF affiliate-nominated trustees

If someone does translate the post, please ping me and I'll put it up as soon as possible. In particular, I'd love to have a French-language version of the post. Thank you! Best, --Ed On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Vira Motorko wrote: > Can be translated on Meta page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

My English Wikipedia talkpage is watchlisted by a surprising number of users that I have no cooperative or friendly editing relationship with. Some of them refer to themselves as "talkpage stalkers." Might it be possible for a user to prohibit such persons from watchlisting him or her? If it's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] April 2016 minutes for the Board of Trustees

hi, On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Ben Creasy wrote: > Last month, "Geoff and Stephen prepared a draft set of basic best-practice > recommendations [on governance]". These weren't released publicly as far > as I > am aware. "Maria and Dariusz were tasked with preparing a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] April 2016 minutes for the Board of Trustees

>Stephen LaPorte writes: > > Hi all, > > The Board of Trustees has published minutes from the Board meeting on April > 22, 2016. You can find the meeting minutes and accompanying documents on the > Foundation Wiki: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2016-04 So the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

Thanks Greg for the responses. As for the ED team, that answers part of my question. That Sue was appointed as special advisor, was indeed public knowledge - but for what duration was that? And was that a full time position (or anything near full time), given that her compensation was as high as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Greetings, > > Thank you to everyone for your questions and thoughts regarding the Wikimedia > Foundation's Form 990. > > Regarding Lodewijk's first question about the legal services (totalling > US$1.7M) which were

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Blog post about new WMF affiliate-nominated trustees

Can be translated on Meta page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Meet_the_Wikimedia_Foundation’s_two_newest_trustees:_Christophe_Henner_and_Nataliia_Tymkiv *--* ​user:Ата​ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] Museums of 100 masterpieces from Brussels

Hello all, In the past week the council of museums in Brussels started the project of 100 masterpieces in Brussels. Based on their list we have checked which museums have an article in Wikipedia and which not. On the Dutch Wikipedia we miss only one article at the moment, and someone started