Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia France short update

The site visit report is disturbing, especially with respect to the potential for hundreds of thousands of euros to be missing or unaccounted for since 2015. How is it that the FDC provided any funds to WMFR while that issue was still unresolved? Was the FDC aware of the legacy payable from the cha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

The paper is at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 From page 35: "even with many conservative assumptions, dissemination through Wikipedia is ~1700x more cost-effective than traditional dissemination techniques" On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:39 PM, James Heilman wrote: > T

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Office Move

Hello, The Wikimedia Foundation’s lease at 149 New Montgomery is expiring this month. We announced our intention to move the Foundation to a new office space in our published 2017-18 Annual Plan and are now pleased to pass along some exciting news and important updates about our relocation to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Odisha Government's Social media accounts are now under CC-BY 4.0

Very exciting news Sailesh! Congrats on this wide-reaching collaboration. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Sailesh Patnaik < sailesh.patnaik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you, Katy!! > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 at 12:27 AM, Katy Love wrote: > > > Hi Sailesh, > > > > What great news!! What a remarkab

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF position on SESTA/ Sec 230?

Hi David and Patrik We're closely watching developments around SESTA. As we explain on the public policy portal , we strongly support intermediary liability protections, such as CDA 230, which are of existential importance to community driven

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Odisha Government's Social media accounts are now under CC-BY 4.0

Thank you, Katy!! On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 at 12:27 AM, Katy Love wrote: > Hi Sailesh, > > What great news!! What a remarkable achievement! Thanks for sharing this > with us. I really like the blog post, too. Congratulations!! > > Katy > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Sailesh Patnaik < > sailesh.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Identified users

> > Are you familiar with Twitter and Facebook's use of blue checkboxes for > "verified" accounts? Are you discussing something similar to that? It could visually be similar, but I'm mostly interesting in similar functionality. It would be similar in that it would only be some users that would ha

[Wikimedia-l] Visiting Wikimedian for the Wikimedia Conference 2018

Hi all, In preparation for the upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2018 – which will take place from April 20 to 22 in Berlin, Germany[1] – we again launch a call for a “Visiting Wikimedian”. This initiative aims to transfer practical knowledge from the German chapter to other Wikimedia movement affilia