Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group

2018-06-11 Thread Bobby Shabangu
Awesome. Congratulations. On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:41 kayode yussuf via Wikimedia-l, < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Congratulations to the new usergroup. > Kayode Yussuf > > On Monday, June 11, 2018, 9:26:50 PM GMT+1, Derick N. Alangi < > alangider...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Volunteering and Appreciation (was: Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF)

2018-06-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You read me wrong. I am not happy because in contrast to you I find that meta is too much of a time sync. To follow the diverse conversations that are taking place it almost takes a full time job. When you add the animosity when you come with arguments that are not considered, it is too much.

[Wikimedia-l] Validbook idea in a nutshell. Looking for a public discussion.

2018-06-11 Thread Bohdan Andriyiv
I am looking for a public feedback/discussion on Validbook idea. Although Validbook is not wiki project, I am looking for feedback here as in spirit and in governance model Validbook is similar to Wikimedia projects. My original email about Validbook [1] to this mailing list contained a bit too

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group

2018-06-11 Thread KuboF Hromoslav
Big congratulations colleagues! You can make a HUGE change in Africa! Regards KuboF Hromoslav (Michal Matúšov) 2018-06-10 15:49 GMT+02:00 Kirill Lokshin : > Hi everyone! > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized > [1] Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group

2018-06-11 Thread Katherine Maher
Wonderful news, congratulations! On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:13 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Yea! Kudos to Baba Tabita, Kipala, Mohammed and all. > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 3:08 PM KuboF Hromoslav > > wrote: > > > Big congratulations colleagues! You can make a HUGE change in Africa! > > Regards

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Volunteering and Appreciation (was: Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF)

2018-06-11 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, 19:39 Gerard Meijssen, wrote: > When you add the animosity when you come with arguments that are not > considered, it is too much. > Lack of mutual listening is a constant in our movement that I would like to address one way or another. The animosity depends more on your

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group

2018-06-11 Thread Samuel Klein
Yea! Kudos to Baba Tabita, Kipala, Mohammed and all. On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 3:08 PM KuboF Hromoslav wrote: > Big congratulations colleagues! You can make a HUGE change in Africa! > Regards > > KuboF Hromoslav (Michal Matúšov) > > 2018-06-10 15:49 GMT+02:00 Kirill Lokshin : > > > Hi everyone!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF

2018-06-11 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
Aubrey, I promised you an answer, and here it comes finally. Sorry it took me a while :) Why do I want to be in this movement and not in another one? Because I find the people here as crazy idealist as I am. Because the tasks give us something to do that allows us to have something in common.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group

2018-06-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 10 June 2018 at 14:49, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > Jenga Wikipedia Is that the one where all the articles are in a big pile and we have to delete^W remove them one by one? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group

2018-06-11 Thread Derick N. Alangi
Hello, A big and wonderful congratulations to the *Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group. *Keep up the great work and enjoy your ride :) *Kind regards,* *Derick N. Alangi* *[image: https://twitter.com/AlangiDerick] *

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group

2018-06-11 Thread kayode yussuf via Wikimedia-l
Congratulations to the new usergroup. Kayode Yussuf On Monday, June 11, 2018, 9:26:50 PM GMT+1, Derick N. Alangi wrote: Hello, A big and wonderful congratulations to the *Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group. *Keep up the great work and enjoy your ride :) *Kind regards,* *Derick

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group

2018-06-11 Thread Felix Nartey
Congrats to the team behind this! Excited for new exploits in East Africa. Cheers, On Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 7:52 PM Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 10 June 2018 at 14:49, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > > > Jenga Wikipedia > > Is that the one where all the articles are in a big pile and we have > to delete^W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF

2018-06-11 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
Yaroslav, what do you mean by people working at the front? Do you mean that you would like some leadership in the movement? (understanding leadership as the capacity to listen to many voices, and challenge them) I never heard of any company where there are rotations of people who matter... in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF

2018-06-11 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
Hi David, I just repeated the formulation of James's proposal (our messages crossed, I did not react to your message). Concerning your earlier question on whether "people getting money to learn to listen" would work - well, it might. But than these people should be clearly distinguished from the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Volunteering and Appreciation (was: Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF)

2018-06-11 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
@Richard: Thanks for your words, they matter to me! I took a look to the page that you linked and I did some changes (I explained them on the talk page), I hope you are ok with them. In principle it is a good idea, but as always a group of people is needed to put it in practice, and it doesn't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Albania

2018-06-11 Thread Mardetanha
​ Hi Kirill Philip's concerns were not answered, would you please respond, I had the very same question. Mardetanha On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Philip Kopetzky wrote: > Hi Kirill, > > what's the difference/relationship between this group and the Wikimedians > of Albanian Language