Re: [Wikimedia-l] Leadership of Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department

2018-01-07 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi, Thanks for the good news, Katherine! Welcome Kui! Congratulations Heather! What it comes to “how to engage such a large a diverse movement”, I think the WMF communication people are already doing good job in here. The solid vision and the clear mission of the movement are the bases on

[Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 7 January 2018)

2018-01-07 Thread Pine W
Someone recently referred me to this page, which looks like a good place for new people to be introduced to Wikimedia software development: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers What's making you happy this week? Pine

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Annual report 2017 for MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group

2018-01-07 Thread Pine W
Forwarding to Wikitech-l and MediaWiki-l for the benefit of technical people who may be interested in this subject and not subscribed to the general WikimediaAnnounce-l. As has been the case for awhile, WikimediaAnnounce-l is not automatically forwarding to Wikimedia-l, so I'm forwarding this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Leadership of Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department

2018-01-07 Thread Scott MacLeod
Welcome, Heather and Kui! (And thanks for sharing this good news, Katherine! ... not sure I can congratulate to both of this lists). Cheers, Scott On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Katherine Maher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am excited to share with you all the results of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Leadership of Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department

2018-01-07 Thread Renée Bagslint
I'm glad to hear that as Chief Creative Officer, Heather will "oversee the organization and movement’s voice, tone, and visual assets, and how they are incorporated into everything from our recent awareness videos to our press statements." It would be good to know exactly who "we" are in this. It

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Leadership of Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department

2018-01-07 Thread Isaac Olatunde
I Wish you both the best in your new role. Regards, Isaac. On Jan 5, 2018 10:58 PM, "Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig" wrote: > This is great! Welcome Kui and Heather Congrats! I am excited about the > direction the team is taking and look forward to working with you both! > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy Phase 2

2018-01-07 Thread James Salsman
Anthony, I've been working on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_2030/Process_planning which is where I believe the Phase 2 process is starting from. I am particularly interested in your opinion as to whether survey metrics should be added to traditional metrics. Best regards, Jim On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Leadership of Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department

2018-01-07 Thread James Salsman
Heather, While I agree in large part with Sam Klein's expression (I would characterize my feelings as quintuple joy or above) I have to ask: will this allow you more or fewer time and resources to focus on my outstanding request of you at