Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Annual report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

2018-02-20 Thread Biplab Anand
Fantastic report and Best of luck for 2018. Best Biplab On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Please find below the annual report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians/Reports

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Records Retention and Destruction Policy

2018-02-20 Thread Gregory Varnum
Hi Andy, Great to hear you are doing this work with Charity Navigator. Very cool! To answer your question about the Foundation’s 990, the policy you linked covers user data and does not apply to this specific 990 question. However, we do now have an internal policy. It was not finalized in time

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New board at Wikimedia Estonia

2018-02-20 Thread attolippip
Congratulations! And thank you for keeping us in the loop :) Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv 2018-02-18 17:07 GMT+02:00 Tanel Pern : > Dear friends, > > Wikimedia Eesti is happy to announce the election of a new board at our > yesterday's general assembly. The new board sees the return

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 14, Issue 3 – 20 February 2018

2018-02-20 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-02-20/News_and_notes Recent research: Political diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back http://en.w

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Annual report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

2018-02-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Please find below the annual report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians/Reports/2017 Thanks, Bodhisattwa ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia vs. NSA

2018-02-20 Thread Greg Varnum
Hello and thank you for the interesting question! While the Wikimedia Foundation does see mass surveillance as a violation of international free expression and privacy rights, we do not yet see many options for an international claim. Additionally given the requirement of many international cou

[Wikimedia-l] Records Retention and Destruction Policy

2018-02-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
I'm liaising with Charity Navigator, to import data about US charities into Wikidata. As an example, I've been looking at their page about the WMF https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11212 and note that their otherwise excellent rating of the foundation is redu