[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Registration now open

Dear Wikimedians, We are delighted to announce that the registration for the Wikimedia Conference 2018 [1], which will be held in Berlin from Friday, April 20, through Sunday, April 22, is now open! Following Abraham’s invitation, we would like to provide you with important information regarding

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Finland's new board

Congratulations! Hasive WMBD On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Tia Kangaspunta wrote: > Wikimedia Suomi, the national Wikimedia Chapter of Finland, is happy to > announce the board for 2018. Continuing members are Minna Turtiainen, Teemu > Perhiö and Tero Toivanen.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia mocks expert contributor

Hi Renee and all, On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 17:49:39 + Renée Bagslint wrote: > A recent Signpost piece, "Good faith gibberish", > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-11-24/Humour=811658169 > chooses to mock the claimed

[Wikimedia-l] First content made for Wikipedia in space!

As some of you may have seen on social media already, the first ever content made specifically for Wikipedia, in space, was uploaded to Commons today, and is now in use on Wikipedia articles. ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli made recordings of his speaking voice in English and his native Italian, as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Finland's new board

Congratulations. On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 5:47 AM, Nadine Le Lirzin wrote: > Congratulations! > > Nadine Le Lirzin > WMFr > > > 2017-11-27 10:57 GMT+01:00 Tia Kangaspunta : > > > Wikimedia Suomi, the national Wikimedia Chapter of Finland, is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Finland's new board

Congratulations!! :) --- *Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ "* Community Advocate, Access To Knowledge Program Centre for Internet and Society Phone: +91-7537097770 *LinkedIn* : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4 *Twitter*: @saileshpat On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:08 PM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First content made for Wikipedia in space!

Really interesting, thanks for sharing. Thanks Tito Dutta Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me over email or phone call. On 29 November 2017 at 21:28, Andy Mabbett wrote: > As some of you may have seen on social media

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First content made for Wikipedia in space!

Andy, So cool! Thank you for the hard work and for sharing it. I loved reading the blog this morning and hearing of your efforts and impact. /a On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Tito Dutta wrote: > Really interesting, thanks for sharing. > > > Thanks > Tito Dutta > Note: If

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia mocks expert contributor

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Renée Bagslint wrote: > > So there we have it. A Wikpedian-in-Residence makes it clear that "experts > are scum". It is remarkably inappropriate for you to put this phrase in quotation marks giving them impression that it is an exact

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First content made for Wikipedia in space!

This is story is so cool in so many ways! Thanks, Andy, for all the work you did and for sharing the story. On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Anna Stillwell wrote: > Andy, > So cool! Thank you for the hard work and for sharing it. I loved reading > the blog this morning

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Finland's new board

Congratulations! Nadine Le Lirzin WMFr 2017-11-27 10:57 GMT+01:00 Tia Kangaspunta : > Wikimedia Suomi, the national Wikimedia Chapter of Finland, is happy to > announce the board for 2018. Continuing members are Minna Turtiainen, Teemu > Perhiö and Tero Toivanen.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First content made for Wikipedia in space!

Thank you so much for letting us know, it was really interesting. it would be great to have some workshops just to record voices. Nattes à chat > > Le 29 nov. 2017 à 21:01, Chris Keating a écrit : > > Glad to see that the final frontier is falling to Wikipedia!

[Wikimedia-l] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

Saluton ĉiuj, I forward here the message I initially posted on the Meta Tremendous Wiktionary User Group talk page , because I'm interested to have a wider

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

Dear all, The Board Governance Committee (BGC) has been working on finalizing another potential candidate [1]. The results of the process were successful and the Board has unanimously appointed the candidate the BGC has recommended. The announcement is planned for December 1, 2017, so in two days

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Finland's new board

Welcome and congratulations! Eileen Hershenov General Counsel On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 3:48 PM Tia Kangaspunta wrote: > Wikimedia Suomi, the national Wikimedia Chapter of Finland, is happy to > announce the board for 2018. Continuing members are Minna Turtiainen,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

On November 29, 2017 at 3:33:47 PM, Scott MacLeod ( worlduniversityandsch...@gmail.com) wrote: Dear Lydia, Mathieu, Nicolas and All, I'm seeking a clarification here to "An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0" re the implications of CC-0 licensing for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia mocks expert contributor

Robert Fernandez thinks it is "remarkably inappopriate" to put the phrase "*experts **are scum"* in quotation marks as if it were a quotation from the Signpost. No. This is a quotation, which perhaps he did not recognise, from a rather long-standing and well-known essay,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia mocks expert contributor

You're right, my mistake. Sorry I did not get your allusion, just as you didn't get the entire point of the Signpost piece. These things happen. On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Renée Bagslint wrote: > Robert Fernandez thinks it is "remarkably inappopriate" to put

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

Thank you all for the thoughtful search & updates. On Nov 29, 2017 7:14 PM, "Nataliia Tymkiv" wrote: > Dear all, > > The Board Governance Committee (BGC) has been working on finalizing another > potential candidate [1]. The results of the process were successful and the >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First content made for Wikipedia in space!

Glad to see that the final frontier is falling to Wikipedia! Lovely blog post Andy. This reminds me that (entirely separately) there was an initiative to send copies of Wikipedia into space, does anyone know if that every happened? Chris Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Andy Mabbett Sent: