[Wikimedia-l] Monthly Report Wikimedia Deutschland October 2012
Dear all, Wikimedia Deutschland's Monthly Report for October 2012 is out! Learn more about the conference on access to cultural heritage, Zugang gestaltenhttp://www.zugang-gestalten.de/english/ (Shaping Access), our new department International Affairs and how WMDE supported the community here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutschland/October_2012 Best wishes, Katja -- Öffentlichkeitsarbeit - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0 www.wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition! http://wikipedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Board Governance Committee' agenda
Hi all, I've put the Board Govenance Committe's agenda for the next months on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Governance_Committee and would be glad to see you joining discussions there and on the subpages which will be created with the tasks we start. There is one thing with some special urgency: we need to find a new board member to fill one of the appointed seats. That's not easy and we will reach out to the Advisory Committee, the community and externals to collect nominations. But what needs to be first is to create a set of requirements, skills and characteristics the Board needs. With the appointed Trustees the Board has the opportunity to identify which of these are necessary in the current composition to amend the Board's skills at a certain stage. Can we find ways to get more overlapping in what is needed and what is wanted? I Think in general it's important to find out more about expectations and ideas of an ideal Trustee. Help us get a broader picture, share your thoughts on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Governance_Committee/Agenda_2012-2013/Appointed_seats/What_makes_a_good_Trustee%3F Regards, Alice. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure
Thank you for the explanations. On 11/07/2012 11:47 AM, Terry Chay wrote: It turns out we use a lot of industry terminology, without realizing that we are poorly communicating what that means to most people. Actually I'm familiar with industry terminology, and also with the wrong assumptions and prejudices it carries many times. I know *you* get it right but a basic goal of any reorg is that *everybody* gets it right now and in the future. While it makes total sense to organize Product Management, Design and Analytics under Product Development, it feels old school and odd to leave out the software engineers fully dedicated to product development. It enforces the old vision that software development is something that comes apart and after the product definition. But being Erik (a software developer himself) the proposed VP in that area I don't need to insist in this point. The current proposal of having software developers working on products (Language, Mobile, Platform...) together with Operations (sysadmins, not directly involved in product development) feels just as old school and odd. The common denominator seems to be teams that know to code, the command line dudes, etc. I might be mistaken, but it feels as consistent as a VP of Presentations overseeing Marketing, Analytics, Design and other teams with high communications skills and able to produce great slides. :) And whoever leads the proposed Engineering team still would need to deal at a high level with two very different agendas: those from teams actually developing software features and those from the operations teams, the latter probably still complaining that they don't get as much attention at the top level. So... If the goals are narrowing focus + scale the dept, and take seriously our identity as a tech org (as stated by Sue) (Erik says) then why not flattening more all this tech structure? Something like - Product Management. - Design. - Software development. -- Features -- MediaWiki. -- Language. -- Mobile. - Operations. - Analytics. This would mean 5 tech managers (already leading their teams) where now you have Erik alone, 4 of them focused on product development + Operations. Erik himself could act as EVP overseeing the product development activities, since this is the narrowed focus now. He should focus on vision, strategy and glue between the tech teams and with the rest of WMF. The reporting and leadership of each team would be done by those 5 managers, now interacting with Sue non-tech managers more often. Doesn't this sound like a more flat and scalable org, with a clearer tech org identity? PS: yes, it's easy for an outsider to shuffle proposals without much background and knowledge of the day to day. :) But since you asked for feedback... I hope it's useful, regardless of what you decide at the end. Thank you for listening! -- Quim ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request: Location proposals for the Wikimedia Chapters Association
[off topic] On 10 November 2012 01:02, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote: ... On an incredibly picky Wikipedian side note: What are you meaning by the ':meta' notation? It seems like interwiki links but the colon is in the wrong location (a wikilink would obviously be meta:, m: or wikt: etc ). They were just a bit confusing to me, I may be missing something :). I tend to use this as my convention in emails as word: may be confused for being the start of some sort of list but :word would not be and if I use wmuk: I might mean the UK chapter but by :wmuk I always mean the UK chapter wiki. On wiki I often stick a colon in front of a link as I am used to this being the convention to link to images rather than embedding them. If left in by accident, the colon does not hurt any interwiki link as I believe it is always parsed out. For example [[m:Main page]], [[:m:Main page]] and [[::m:Main page]] all go to the same place. Cheers, Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
