Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome Delphine Ménard as WMF's Annual Plan Grants Program Officer

2016-06-20 Thread Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland
Excellent news! Looking forward to working with Delphine in her new role.

Sandra Rientjes
Directeur Wikimedia Nederland
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Op 21 jun. 2016 00:56 schreef "Katy Love" :

> Hi Wikimedians,
>
> Today WMF's Community Resources team is joined by Delphine Ménard as our
> newly appointed Annual Plan Grants
>  (APG) Program Officer. In
> that
> role, Delphine will support both funding streams included in the Annual
> Plan Grants program, including Simple Annual Plan Grants and the Funds
> Dissemination Committee's
> 
> (FDC) full process APG, with her focus on the FDC.  We are excited to have
> her join our team.
>
> Some of you may know Delphine as [[user:notafish]]. She's a longtime
> Wikimedian who has played many roles in our movement. She was WMF's
> Chapter's Coordinator many years ago, then a member of the Board of
> Wikimedia Deutschland, and most recently, a member of the Funds
> Dissemination Committee herself. Her wide array of experiences and roles
> will serve her well as the new APG Program Officer.
>
> In the weeks ahead, Delphine will be reaching out to the FDC-funded
> organizations and will also be leading the Board's recruitment to fill four
> open seats on the FDC. I know she is looking forward to working with all of
> you. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Katy Love
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome Delphine Ménard as WMF's Annual Plan Grants Program Officer

2016-06-20 Thread Ad Huikeshoven
Great news and congratulations to Delphine, your team and to yourself Katy.
I wish Delphine a lot of wisdom and strength in her new role.

-- Ad
Op 21 jun. 2016 00:56 schreef "Katy Love" :

> Hi Wikimedians,
>
> Today WMF's Community Resources team is joined by Delphine Ménard as our
> newly appointed Annual Plan Grants
>  (APG) Program Officer. In
> that
> role, Delphine will support both funding streams included in the Annual
> Plan Grants program, including Simple Annual Plan Grants and the Funds
> Dissemination Committee's
> 
> (FDC) full process APG, with her focus on the FDC.  We are excited to have
> her join our team.
>
> Some of you may know Delphine as [[user:notafish]]. She's a longtime
> Wikimedian who has played many roles in our movement. She was WMF's
> Chapter's Coordinator many years ago, then a member of the Board of
> Wikimedia Deutschland, and most recently, a member of the Funds
> Dissemination Committee herself. Her wide array of experiences and roles
> will serve her well as the new APG Program Officer.
>
> In the weeks ahead, Delphine will be reaching out to the FDC-funded
> organizations and will also be leading the Board's recruitment to fill four
> open seats on the FDC. I know she is looking forward to working with all of
> you. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Katy Love
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome Delphine Ménard as WMF's Annual Plan Grants Program Officer

2016-06-20 Thread Christophe Henner
Déjà vu!

Welcome to our movement, Delphine!

I hope you will get to like us, even though we are a crazy bunch, don't be
scared :)
Le 21 juin 2016 12:55 AM, "Katy Love"  a écrit :

> Hi Wikimedians,
>
> Today WMF's Community Resources team is joined by Delphine Ménard as our
> newly appointed Annual Plan Grants
>  (APG) Program Officer. In
> that
> role, Delphine will support both funding streams included in the Annual
> Plan Grants program, including Simple Annual Plan Grants and the Funds
> Dissemination Committee's
> 
> (FDC) full process APG, with her focus on the FDC.  We are excited to have
> her join our team.
>
> Some of you may know Delphine as [[user:notafish]]. She's a longtime
> Wikimedian who has played many roles in our movement. She was WMF's
> Chapter's Coordinator many years ago, then a member of the Board of
> Wikimedia Deutschland, and most recently, a member of the Funds
> Dissemination Committee herself. Her wide array of experiences and roles
> will serve her well as the new APG Program Officer.
>
> In the weeks ahead, Delphine will be reaching out to the FDC-funded
> organizations and will also be leading the Board's recruitment to fill four
> open seats on the FDC. I know she is looking forward to working with all of
> you. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Katy Love
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[Wikimedia-l] Welcome Delphine Ménard as WMF's Annual Plan Grants Program Officer

2016-06-20 Thread Katy Love
Hi Wikimedians,

Today WMF's Community Resources team is joined by Delphine Ménard as our
newly appointed Annual Plan Grants
 (APG) Program Officer. In that
role, Delphine will support both funding streams included in the Annual
Plan Grants program, including Simple Annual Plan Grants and the Funds
Dissemination Committee's

(FDC) full process APG, with her focus on the FDC.  We are excited to have
her join our team.

Some of you may know Delphine as [[user:notafish]]. She's a longtime
Wikimedian who has played many roles in our movement. She was WMF's
Chapter's Coordinator many years ago, then a member of the Board of
Wikimedia Deutschland, and most recently, a member of the Funds
Dissemination Committee herself. Her wide array of experiences and roles
will serve her well as the new APG Program Officer.

In the weeks ahead, Delphine will be reaching out to the FDC-funded
organizations and will also be leading the Board's recruitment to fill four
open seats on the FDC. I know she is looking forward to working with all of
you. :)

Cheers,
Katy Love
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43

2016-06-20 Thread risker . wp
Given the activities of the past year, I think it is fairly obvious that 
succession planning had not made it to the top of the priority list - there are 
interim leaders in several roles now, many of whom are stepping up in ways that 
were not planned.

Risker/Anne
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From: Pine W 
Sender: "Wikimedia-l" Date: Mon, 20 
Jun 2016 13:06:12 
To: Wikimedia Mailing List; Joady 
Lohr
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43

Hi Joady,

Can you comment on WMF's approach to succession planning? I am aware of a
few situations in which it would have been very helpful if succession plans
had been in place for managers in WMF, and if employees had been trained
accordingly so that when a position opened there was an easy and quick
transition.

Thanks,

Pine
On Jun 20, 2016 09:37, "Kevin Smith"  wrote:

> My takeaway from the executive summary of the article is that organizations
> should pay more attention to developing leaders within its ranks, so that
> when a vacancy does happen at the top, the best candidate to step up into
> it would come from inside. If an organization hasn't done that development
> work, and doesn't have a strong succession plan, then hiring from inside
> might not make sense.
>
> That is all in generic abstract terms. I am not in a position to say
> whether any of it should apply to the WMF right now. Hopefully whoever
> steps in as the permanent ED will put some effort into succession planning
> and leadership development as part of their work.
>
>
>
> Kevin Smith
> Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Peter Southwood <
> peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> > And hiring from outside may be a cause of bad management
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> > Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen
> > Sent: Monday, 20 June 2016 3:25 PM
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43
> >
> > Hoi,
> > Who says the WMF is in trouble.. A not so fine patch sure, but in
> trouble..
> > that is too much.
> > Thanks,
> >   GerardM
> >
> > On 20 June 2016 at 14:58, Stephen Philbrick <
> stephen.w.philbr...@gmail.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I would urge caution at reading too much into the A.T.Kearney study.
> > > It is quite plausible that companies in trouble may decide they need a
> > > turn-around specialist, almost certainly an outsider. While some will
> > > succeed, companies in trouble are almost certainly going to
> > > underperform those that were not in trouble. Thus, hiring a homegrown
> > > CEO may be a result of good management, not a cause.
> > > Sphilbrick
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:00 AM,
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to
> > > > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > > >
> > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
> > > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> > > > wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > > >
> > > > You can reach the person managing the list at
> > > > wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > > >
> > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> > > > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest..."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Today's Topics:
> > > >
> > > >1. Re: Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts
> > > >   right now (Peter Southwood)
> > > >2. somja (Gerard Meijssen)
> > > >3. Re: Invitation to “Engaging local Wikipedians” and
> > > >   “German Wikipedia” Workshop at Wikimania (Tanweer Morshed)
> > > >4. Recognition of Kentucky Wikimedians (Carlos M. Colina)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > Message: 1
> > > > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:56:30 +0200
> > > > From: "Peter Southwood" 
> > > > To: "'Wikimedia Mailing List'" 
> > > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED
> > > > search  starts right now
> > > > Message-ID: <01f701d1ca43$27ab1c80$77015580$@telkomsa.net>
> > > > Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="UTF-8"
> > > >
> > > > The Kearney report rings true for me.
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org]
> > > > On Behalf Of rupert THURNER
> > > > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:47 PM
> > > 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43

2016-06-20 Thread Pine W
Hi Joady,

Can you comment on WMF's approach to succession planning? I am aware of a
few situations in which it would have been very helpful if succession plans
had been in place for managers in WMF, and if employees had been trained
accordingly so that when a position opened there was an easy and quick
transition.

Thanks,

Pine
On Jun 20, 2016 09:37, "Kevin Smith"  wrote:

> My takeaway from the executive summary of the article is that organizations
> should pay more attention to developing leaders within its ranks, so that
> when a vacancy does happen at the top, the best candidate to step up into
> it would come from inside. If an organization hasn't done that development
> work, and doesn't have a strong succession plan, then hiring from inside
> might not make sense.
>
> That is all in generic abstract terms. I am not in a position to say
> whether any of it should apply to the WMF right now. Hopefully whoever
> steps in as the permanent ED will put some effort into succession planning
> and leadership development as part of their work.
>
>
>
> Kevin Smith
> Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Peter Southwood <
> peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
> > And hiring from outside may be a cause of bad management
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> > Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen
> > Sent: Monday, 20 June 2016 3:25 PM
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43
> >
> > Hoi,
> > Who says the WMF is in trouble.. A not so fine patch sure, but in
> trouble..
> > that is too much.
> > Thanks,
> >   GerardM
> >
> > On 20 June 2016 at 14:58, Stephen Philbrick <
> stephen.w.philbr...@gmail.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I would urge caution at reading too much into the A.T.Kearney study.
> > > It is quite plausible that companies in trouble may decide they need a
> > > turn-around specialist, almost certainly an outsider. While some will
> > > succeed, companies in trouble are almost certainly going to
> > > underperform those that were not in trouble. Thus, hiring a homegrown
> > > CEO may be a result of good management, not a cause.
> > > Sphilbrick
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:00 AM,
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to
> > > > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > > >
> > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
> > > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> > > > wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > > >
> > > > You can reach the person managing the list at
> > > > wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org
> > > >
> > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> > > > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest..."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Today's Topics:
> > > >
> > > >1. Re: Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts
> > > >   right now (Peter Southwood)
> > > >2. somja (Gerard Meijssen)
> > > >3. Re: Invitation to “Engaging local Wikipedians” and
> > > >   “German Wikipedia” Workshop at Wikimania (Tanweer Morshed)
> > > >4. Recognition of Kentucky Wikimedians (Carlos M. Colina)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > Message: 1
> > > > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:56:30 +0200
> > > > From: "Peter Southwood" 
> > > > To: "'Wikimedia Mailing List'" 
> > > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED
> > > > search  starts right now
> > > > Message-ID: <01f701d1ca43$27ab1c80$77015580$@telkomsa.net>
> > > > Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="UTF-8"
> > > >
> > > > The Kearney report rings true for me.
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org]
> > > > On Behalf Of rupert THURNER
> > > > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:47 PM
> > > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED
> > > > search starts right now
> > > >
> > > > hi,
> > > >
> > > > 2011 A T Kearney published a study saying that hiring a homegrown
> > > > CEO let a company outperform other companies. also price waterhouse
> > > > coopers Strategy& and RHR international come to similar conclusions:
> > > > *
> > > >
> > > >
> > > https://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/529727/Home-Grown_CEO.pdf/bb
> > > ba713e-1a54-421f-81f9-4299faad42aa
> > > > * http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news-archive/17975.html
> > > > *
> > > >
> > > >
> > > http://www.rhrinternational.com/sites/default/files/V25N1-CEO-Successi
> > > on-Makin_1.pdf
> 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now

2016-06-20 Thread Pine W
In the last ED selection, I had thought that experience in the private
sector would be good for the WMF ED to have. I was a bit disappointed with
Sue (I know that some people liked her on a personal level, but on a
professional level as ED she was also partly responsible for a variety of
initiatives that went wrong or underperformed), so I thought that someone
with more performance management experience would be good. Lila seemed good
at first but we know how that ended.

I am still underwhelmed with WMF's financial opacity and its double
standards with regards to how it treats the affiliates versus its own
practices, although there seems to be some improvement in the last 6
months. I still think that performance management experience would be good
for the WMF ED, along with a record of transparency and leading by example.
That doesn't necessarily need to come from the private sector; I am
familiar with some government agencies that are generally good about
transparency and performance management. Given our experience with Lila as
well as my own experience in the last few years, I feel that people skills
are also valuable (transparency to the point of bluntness can create
unnecessary hostility, and compromise and incremental change are OK
sometimes). Finding an ED who is good at all of the above would be ideal.
No one is perfect and we are all still learning, but let's aim high.

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now

2016-06-20 Thread Brill Lyle
I have over 15 years experience working in the private sector at an
investment bank, much of it working in Mergers & Acquisitions where
companies and their leadership were the focus of evaluating companies.

I would hope that whatever information is in the A.T. Kearney report, or
anything coming from PricewaterhouseCoopers, that the information is viewed
within the framework of the conservative private business sector within
which these companies operate. I started skimming these links and it's all
pretty typical information for that sector.

Also notable: A.T. Kearney is a consulting firm, and PwC is a financial
services company -- both deeply intertwined with the finance sector.

Long way of saying that I would hope that any approach towards innovating
the leadership of WMF would NOT come from the world of private
multi-national businesses who are often above governmental regulation, a
sector where there are few women and a place where profit is the primary
concern.

Ideally, the search for WMF leadership would be guided by ethics,
innovation, regard for fellow humans, etc. Versus the approaches most of
the businesses evaluated in the report, etc. are utilizing.

My unasked for 2 cents, but there you go.

- Erika

*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle *

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 5:47 PM, rupert THURNER 
wrote:

> hi,
>
> 2011 A T Kearney published a study saying that hiring a homegrown CEO let a
> company outperform other companies. also price waterhouse coopers Strategy&
> and RHR international come to similar conclusions:
> *
>
> https://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/529727/Home-Grown_CEO.pdf/bbba713e-1a54-421f-81f9-4299faad42aa
> * http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news-archive/17975.html
> *
>
> http://www.rhrinternational.com/sites/default/files/V25N1-CEO-Succession-Makin_1.pdf
> * (de)
>
> http://www.finews.ch/themen/karriere/23186-korn-ferry-stefan-steger-ceo-nachfolge-wechsel-pwc-strategy?xing_share=news
> hiring an outsider CEO has the following effects:
> * higher compensation
> * greater risk profile
> * wrong expectations about business area and its specifics
>
> best
> rupert
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43

2016-06-20 Thread Kevin Smith
My takeaway from the executive summary of the article is that organizations
should pay more attention to developing leaders within its ranks, so that
when a vacancy does happen at the top, the best candidate to step up into
it would come from inside. If an organization hasn't done that development
work, and doesn't have a strong succession plan, then hiring from inside
might not make sense.

That is all in generic abstract terms. I am not in a position to say
whether any of it should apply to the WMF right now. Hopefully whoever
steps in as the permanent ED will put some effort into succession planning
and leadership development as part of their work.



Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation


On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Peter Southwood <
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:

> And hiring from outside may be a cause of bad management
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen
> Sent: Monday, 20 June 2016 3:25 PM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43
>
> Hoi,
> Who says the WMF is in trouble.. A not so fine patch sure, but in trouble..
> that is too much.
> Thanks,
>   GerardM
>
> On 20 June 2016 at 14:58, Stephen Philbrick  >
> wrote:
>
> > I would urge caution at reading too much into the A.T.Kearney study.
> > It is quite plausible that companies in trouble may decide they need a
> > turn-around specialist, almost certainly an outsider. While some will
> > succeed, companies in trouble are almost certainly going to
> > underperform those that were not in trouble. Thus, hiring a homegrown
> > CEO may be a result of good management, not a cause.
> > Sphilbrick
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:00 AM,
> > 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to
> > > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > >
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> > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
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> > >
> > > You can reach the person managing the list at
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> > >
> > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> > > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest..."
> > >
> > >
> > > Today's Topics:
> > >
> > >1. Re: Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts
> > >   right now (Peter Southwood)
> > >2. somja (Gerard Meijssen)
> > >3. Re: Invitation to “Engaging local Wikipedians” and
> > >   “German Wikipedia” Workshop at Wikimania (Tanweer Morshed)
> > >4. Recognition of Kentucky Wikimedians (Carlos M. Colina)
> > >
> > >
> > > 
> > > --
> > >
> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:56:30 +0200
> > > From: "Peter Southwood" 
> > > To: "'Wikimedia Mailing List'" 
> > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED
> > > search  starts right now
> > > Message-ID: <01f701d1ca43$27ab1c80$77015580$@telkomsa.net>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="UTF-8"
> > >
> > > The Kearney report rings true for me.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org]
> > > On Behalf Of rupert THURNER
> > > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:47 PM
> > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED
> > > search starts right now
> > >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > 2011 A T Kearney published a study saying that hiring a homegrown
> > > CEO let a company outperform other companies. also price waterhouse
> > > coopers Strategy& and RHR international come to similar conclusions:
> > > *
> > >
> > >
> > https://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/529727/Home-Grown_CEO.pdf/bb
> > ba713e-1a54-421f-81f9-4299faad42aa
> > > * http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news-archive/17975.html
> > > *
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.rhrinternational.com/sites/default/files/V25N1-CEO-Successi
> > on-Makin_1.pdf
> > > * (de)
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.finews.ch/themen/karriere/23186-korn-ferry-stefan-steger-ce
> > o-nachfolge-wechsel-pwc-strategy?xing_share=news
> > > hiring an outsider CEO has the following effects:
> > > * higher compensation
> > > * greater risk profile
> > > * wrong expectations about business area and its specifics
> > >
> > > best
> > > rupert
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Fæ  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thank you! Hopefully there will be a good range of viewpoints!
> > > >
> > > > I look forward to reading a summary of the feedback!
> > > >
> > > > Fae
> > > >
> > > > On 16 June 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43

2016-06-20 Thread Peter Southwood
And hiring from outside may be a cause of bad management
Cheers,
Peter

-Original Message-
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
Gerard Meijssen
Sent: Monday, 20 June 2016 3:25 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43

Hoi,
Who says the WMF is in trouble.. A not so fine patch sure, but in trouble..
that is too much.
Thanks,
  GerardM

On 20 June 2016 at 14:58, Stephen Philbrick 
wrote:

> I would urge caution at reading too much into the A.T.Kearney study. 
> It is quite plausible that companies in trouble may decide they need a 
> turn-around specialist, almost certainly an outsider. While some will 
> succeed, companies in trouble are almost certainly going to 
> underperform those that were not in trouble. Thus, hiring a homegrown 
> CEO may be a result of good management, not a cause.
> Sphilbrick
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:00 AM, 
> 
> wrote:
>
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> >1. Re: Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts
> >   right now (Peter Southwood)
> >2. somja (Gerard Meijssen)
> >3. Re: Invitation to “Engaging local Wikipedians” and
> >   “German Wikipedia” Workshop at Wikimania (Tanweer Morshed)
> >4. Recognition of Kentucky Wikimedians (Carlos M. Colina)
> >
> >
> > 
> > --
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:56:30 +0200
> > From: "Peter Southwood" 
> > To: "'Wikimedia Mailing List'" 
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED
> > search  starts right now
> > Message-ID: <01f701d1ca43$27ab1c80$77015580$@telkomsa.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="UTF-8"
> >
> > The Kearney report rings true for me.
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] 
> > On Behalf Of rupert THURNER
> > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:47 PM
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED 
> > search starts right now
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > 2011 A T Kearney published a study saying that hiring a homegrown 
> > CEO let a company outperform other companies. also price waterhouse 
> > coopers Strategy& and RHR international come to similar conclusions:
> > *
> >
> >
> https://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/529727/Home-Grown_CEO.pdf/bb
> ba713e-1a54-421f-81f9-4299faad42aa
> > * http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news-archive/17975.html
> > *
> >
> >
> http://www.rhrinternational.com/sites/default/files/V25N1-CEO-Successi
> on-Makin_1.pdf
> > * (de)
> >
> >
> http://www.finews.ch/themen/karriere/23186-korn-ferry-stefan-steger-ce
> o-nachfolge-wechsel-pwc-strategy?xing_share=news
> > hiring an outsider CEO has the following effects:
> > * higher compensation
> > * greater risk profile
> > * wrong expectations about business area and its specifics
> >
> > best
> > rupert
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Fæ  wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you! Hopefully there will be a good range of viewpoints!
> > >
> > > I look forward to reading a summary of the feedback!
> > >
> > > Fae
> > >
> > > On 16 June 2016 at 11:25, Alice Wiegand 
> wrote:
> > > > Update: The survey is still open!
> > > > In order to hear from more people, the search team decided to 
> > > > hold the ED search survey [1] open until Friday, June 17. If you 
> > > > haven’t already, please take a few minutes to fill it out before then.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your participation!
> > > >
> > > > [1] - ED Search Survey:
> > > > https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5hVS2mJTcJNCxBX
> > > >
> > > > Alice.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Nikola Kalchev <
> > > nikola.kalc...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> As a patroller on my homewiki I can say that 15 of the 50 most 
> > > >> active editors according to stats.wikimedia.org would be 
> > > >> capable of answering
> > > the
> > > >> questions in one of the ten languages. Those are the people who
> > > translate
> > > >> articles from the ten languages of the survey (13 from English, 
> > > >> 2 from Russian). Ask a few more 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43

2016-06-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi,
Who says the WMF is in trouble.. A not so fine patch sure, but in trouble..
that is too much.
Thanks,
  GerardM

On 20 June 2016 at 14:58, Stephen Philbrick 
wrote:

> I would urge caution at reading too much into the A.T.Kearney study. It is
> quite plausible that companies in trouble may decide they need a
> turn-around specialist, almost certainly an outsider. While some will
> succeed, companies in trouble are almost certainly going to underperform
> those that were not in trouble. Thus, hiring a homegrown CEO may be a
> result of good management, not a cause.
> Sphilbrick
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:00 AM, 
> wrote:
>
> > Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to
> > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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> > wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org
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> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest..."
> >
> >
> > Today's Topics:
> >
> >1. Re: Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts
> >   right now (Peter Southwood)
> >2. somja (Gerard Meijssen)
> >3. Re: Invitation to “Engaging local Wikipedians” and
> >   “German Wikipedia” Workshop at Wikimania (Tanweer Morshed)
> >4. Recognition of Kentucky Wikimedians (Carlos M. Colina)
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:56:30 +0200
> > From: "Peter Southwood" 
> > To: "'Wikimedia Mailing List'" 
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED
> > search  starts right now
> > Message-ID: <01f701d1ca43$27ab1c80$77015580$@telkomsa.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="UTF-8"
> >
> > The Kearney report rings true for me.
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> > Behalf Of rupert THURNER
> > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:47 PM
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search
> > starts right now
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > 2011 A T Kearney published a study saying that hiring a homegrown CEO let
> > a company outperform other companies. also price waterhouse coopers
> > Strategy& and RHR international come to similar conclusions:
> > *
> >
> >
> https://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/529727/Home-Grown_CEO.pdf/bbba713e-1a54-421f-81f9-4299faad42aa
> > * http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news-archive/17975.html
> > *
> >
> >
> http://www.rhrinternational.com/sites/default/files/V25N1-CEO-Succession-Makin_1.pdf
> > * (de)
> >
> >
> http://www.finews.ch/themen/karriere/23186-korn-ferry-stefan-steger-ceo-nachfolge-wechsel-pwc-strategy?xing_share=news
> > hiring an outsider CEO has the following effects:
> > * higher compensation
> > * greater risk profile
> > * wrong expectations about business area and its specifics
> >
> > best
> > rupert
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Fæ  wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you! Hopefully there will be a good range of viewpoints!
> > >
> > > I look forward to reading a summary of the feedback!
> > >
> > > Fae
> > >
> > > On 16 June 2016 at 11:25, Alice Wiegand 
> wrote:
> > > > Update: The survey is still open!
> > > > In order to hear from more people, the search team decided to hold
> > > > the ED search survey [1] open until Friday, June 17. If you haven’t
> > > > already, please take a few minutes to fill it out before then.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your participation!
> > > >
> > > > [1] - ED Search Survey:
> > > > https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5hVS2mJTcJNCxBX
> > > >
> > > > Alice.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Nikola Kalchev <
> > > nikola.kalc...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> As a patroller on my homewiki I can say that 15 of the 50 most
> > > >> active editors according to stats.wikimedia.org would be capable of
> > > >> answering
> > > the
> > > >> questions in one of the ten languages. Those are the people who
> > > translate
> > > >> articles from the ten languages of the survey (13 from English, 2
> > > >> from Russian). Ask a few more patrollers from other communities,
> > > >> multiply by
> > > the
> > > >> number of very active editors on those wikis and divide by the
> > > >> number of asked patrollers :). It is not impossible to get a rough
> > estimate.
> > > >>
> > > >> Best regards,
> > > >> User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola Kalchev
> > > >> Wikimedians of Bulgaria, a Wikimedia CEE 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 147, Issue 43

2016-06-20 Thread Stephen Philbrick
I would urge caution at reading too much into the A.T.Kearney study. It is
quite plausible that companies in trouble may decide they need a
turn-around specialist, almost certainly an outsider. While some will
succeed, companies in trouble are almost certainly going to underperform
those that were not in trouble. Thus, hiring a homegrown CEO may be a
result of good management, not a cause.
Sphilbrick

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:00 AM, 
wrote:

> Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to
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> than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>1. Re: Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts
>   right now (Peter Southwood)
>2. somja (Gerard Meijssen)
>3. Re: Invitation to “Engaging local Wikipedians” and
>   “German Wikipedia” Workshop at Wikimania (Tanweer Morshed)
>4. Recognition of Kentucky Wikimedians (Carlos M. Colina)
>
>
> --
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:56:30 +0200
> From: "Peter Southwood" 
> To: "'Wikimedia Mailing List'" 
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED
> search  starts right now
> Message-ID: <01f701d1ca43$27ab1c80$77015580$@telkomsa.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="UTF-8"
>
> The Kearney report rings true for me.
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> Behalf Of rupert THURNER
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:47 PM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search
> starts right now
>
> hi,
>
> 2011 A T Kearney published a study saying that hiring a homegrown CEO let
> a company outperform other companies. also price waterhouse coopers
> Strategy& and RHR international come to similar conclusions:
> *
>
> https://www.atkearney.com/documents/10192/529727/Home-Grown_CEO.pdf/bbba713e-1a54-421f-81f9-4299faad42aa
> * http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news-archive/17975.html
> *
>
> http://www.rhrinternational.com/sites/default/files/V25N1-CEO-Succession-Makin_1.pdf
> * (de)
>
> http://www.finews.ch/themen/karriere/23186-korn-ferry-stefan-steger-ceo-nachfolge-wechsel-pwc-strategy?xing_share=news
> hiring an outsider CEO has the following effects:
> * higher compensation
> * greater risk profile
> * wrong expectations about business area and its specifics
>
> best
> rupert
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Fæ  wrote:
>
> > Thank you! Hopefully there will be a good range of viewpoints!
> >
> > I look forward to reading a summary of the feedback!
> >
> > Fae
> >
> > On 16 June 2016 at 11:25, Alice Wiegand  wrote:
> > > Update: The survey is still open!
> > > In order to hear from more people, the search team decided to hold
> > > the ED search survey [1] open until Friday, June 17. If you haven’t
> > > already, please take a few minutes to fill it out before then.
> > >
> > > Thank you for your participation!
> > >
> > > [1] - ED Search Survey:
> > > https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5hVS2mJTcJNCxBX
> > >
> > > Alice.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Nikola Kalchev <
> > nikola.kalc...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> As a patroller on my homewiki I can say that 15 of the 50 most
> > >> active editors according to stats.wikimedia.org would be capable of
> > >> answering
> > the
> > >> questions in one of the ten languages. Those are the people who
> > translate
> > >> articles from the ten languages of the survey (13 from English, 2
> > >> from Russian). Ask a few more patrollers from other communities,
> > >> multiply by
> > the
> > >> number of very active editors on those wikis and divide by the
> > >> number of asked patrollers :). It is not impossible to get a rough
> estimate.
> > >>
> > >> Best regards,
> > >> User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola Kalchev
> > >> Wikimedians of Bulgaria, a Wikimedia CEE Spring international
> > >> organiser
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak
> > >> 
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Nikola Kalchev <
> > nikola.kalc...@gmail.com
> > >> >
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Dariusz, thank you for your clarification. I understand that
> > >> translations
> > >> >> take time.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Would you please elaborate on the assumption 

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Kentucky Wikimedians

2016-06-20 Thread Carlos M. Colina

Dear all,

It is my pleasure to announce the recognition of a new Wikimedia User 
Group in the United States: Kentucky Wikimedians [1]


Their efforts are focused on providing support to those in Kentucky who 
are interested in creating and expanding content in the different 
Wikimedia projects. They have already organized some meetups and plan to 
expand their activities in the state.


Welcome!

1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Wikimedians_User_Group


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junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."

Carlos M. Colina
Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | 
www.wikimedia.org.ve 

Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
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El logotipo y el nombre de Wikimedia, Wikimedia Venezuela, Wikipedia, Wikimedia 
Commons, Wikimedia Incubator, Wiktionary y otros proyectos relacionados son 
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