Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

Hi Isarra, thanks for the excellent questions. Here's my attempt to answer them: The purpose of the statement of purpose is to gain clarity and build trust within the design group and with their principle stakeholders. With the statement itself, we seek to gain clarity and shared understanding

[Wikimedia-l] Signing out with my official hat!

Friends, TL; DR After almost five years of professional engagement with the South Asian language Wikimedia communities, I have decided to step down from my current role. And I will remain a Wikipedian friend of yours who you can reach out in volunteer capacity on my talk page. —— I was about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Signing out with my official hat!

Thank you for your service, Subhashish. Nice to hear that you will be headed off to Mozilla. Warmly, /a On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < subhash...@cis-india.org> wrote: > > > Friends, > > TL; DR > > After almost five years of professional engagement with the South Asian

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Greetings, I wanted to take off my Wikimedia Foundation hat for a moment and offer some thoughts as a fellow volunteer. Without feeling physically/emotionally/mentally safe and free from prosecutorial persecution, it is nearly impossible to actively engage. Therefore, no goals can be achieved if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] storing IP addresses and their geolocations?

​Hi James,​ On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:23 AM, James Salsman wrote: > > I repeat my request that the IP and proxy information be anonymized > with a secure cryptographic has before being stored to nonvolatile > media, When you're ready to suggest a change, can you suggest

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Invitation to WMF November 2016 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, November 17, 19:00 UTC

-- Forwarded message -- From: Samantha Lien Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:32 PM Subject: Invitation to WMF November 2016 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, November 17, 19:00 UTC To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, The next

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Hoi, Right. I agree. It is vital for us to have a safe space where we have our conference. When we assess a place we should indeed do a risk assessment. This risk assessment is for all of us. It means that we have to be safe to do our thing at the conference, we have to be safe at our digs, we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

"Foreigners" are at an increased risk regardless of where they travel thats the reality of international travel, additionally each persons individual circumstances will affect those risks. What we shouldnt be doing is engaging in a contest as to whos circumstances gives them the greater risk and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Signing out with my official hat!

Hoi, It was good to work with you. You were part of a wonderful move towards more Wikimedia projects in India. It was a pleasure to see you in action and work with you. Thank you Gerard On 10 November 2016 at 22:06, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > > > Friends, > > TL;

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > You do not get it. Wikimania is first and foremost about spreading the word > about what we do and who we are. > {{citationneeded}} The reality is Wikimania is largely a community event first, with the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Hoi, In that case what is the point of Wikimania. Thanks, GerardM On 10 November 2016 at 14:25, Andrew Lih wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Gerard Meijssen < > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hoi, > > You do not get it. Wikimania is first and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

It is correct I have yet to attend a Wikimania conference, but was planning to after my positive experience presenting at WikiConference North America. Please note the "Muslim" and "LGBT" are not mutually exclusive. Same with any other marginalized groups you might name. FYI my preferred

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Hoi, Exactly. It is the whole community that meets and it is regularly in a different country because in this way we have been in all continents but Australia and it has been wonderful to see the different outlook from the local Wikipedians. When Wikimania is not about outreach we could have it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Hi there, Gerrad, you wrote ". Particularly women who wear a hijab will always be seen for what they are." This comment is puzzling! What are they? Could you please clarify? Best, Isaac Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -Original Message- From: Gerard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

I see the primary point of Wikimania as an opportunity for the community to meet in person once a year. Many important initiatives for our movement have grown out of Wikimania including but not limited to: Wikivoyage, the copyright detection bot, our collaboration with the World Health

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

Hello all, Over the past few months the Design team members at the Wikimedia Foundation (user experience [UX] designers, design researchers, user experience engineers, and communications) have been working with Arthur Richards from the Team Practices Group to identify the high-level themes that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

I'm going to ask this here since the talkpage on-wiki is a flow board and I find those very difficult to use, but I'm a bit unclear what the purpose of this is. All the things listed sound good in theory, but the language is ambiguous and very high level, to the point where it's hard to see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

Hoi, You do not get it. Wikimania is first and foremost about spreading the word about what we do and who we are. I have read Pax's original post. He did not go to Wikimania. He asks for consideration that any Wikimania will be in a place where he feels safe. It is OK for him to ask this but it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

+1 On 10 November 2016 at 09:00, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > You do not get it. Wikimania is first and foremost about spreading the word > about what we do and who we are. > > I have read Pax's original post. He did not go to Wikimania. He asks for > consideration

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer

Καλώς ήρθες Βικτώρια! Σιδηροκέφαλη  Κ. On Tuesday, 8 November 2016, Nikola Kalchev wrote: > I am very impressed. A great career until now, good universities, published > books. Victoria, I wish you plenty of success! Welcome! > Nikola / User:Лорд Бъмбъри >