Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Creating a Wikimania Committee

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:17 PM, James Forrester > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > A small group of long-time Wikimaniacs have been working on the > > perrenial plan to produce a "Wikimania Committee" - a community group > > who would help ste

[Wikimedia-l] Creating a Wikimania Committee

Dear all, A small group of long-time Wikimaniacs have been working on the perrenial plan to produce a "Wikimania Committee" - a community group who would help steer Wikimania from year to year, advising each local hosting team and ensuring that the processes are open, transparent and community-led

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic plans of the Wikimedia entities: could you link your strategy, please?

Great idea. [2] I think WMF independent consultants that work in Brazil could add theirs and I invited my colleagues that support Wikimedia projects in Brazil to do the same. Tom On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Great idea, Ziko. I helped clean up that page a bit also.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic plans of the Wikimedia entities: could you link your strategy, please?

Great idea, Ziko. I helped clean up that page a bit also. If you are part of planning for the future of wiki Projects as well - such as Wikidata or Wikisource, please link to those docs (or just the collector-bugs listing their top-priority feature requests) as well. SJ On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning

Hello Tomasz, We did discuss it in our meeting. The draft plans that the board sees include some details that we would not publish, but we agreed that at a suitably high level we can be more transparent about sharing budget/plan overviews. I need to follow up with Sue this week about what this c

[Wikimedia-l] Strategic plans of the Wikimedia entities: could you link your strategy, please?

Hello, At the Wikimedia Conference in Milan several people have asked me about the strategy document of Wikimedia Nederland. We have the link on our chapter's page on Meta Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland Then, I looked up the Meta Wiki page "Strategy". It seems that the p

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: A "refreshing" change to the ConfirmEdit extension

Sorry for cross-posting, but I wanted to make sure more people are aware this before we deploy it (likely on Thursday the 25th). -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Walling Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM Subject: A "refreshing" change to the ConfirmEdit extension To: Coordina

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning

Tomasz W. Kozlowski, 22/04/2013 21:57: I had a look at the questions that were asked to you during the open meeting in Milan (), but I was unable to find any related to the budget issue. I confirm there was none, I noticed the l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Consultation opened for Bylaws change

Just in case others had problems with the links (thanks gmail...) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/May_2013_-_Article_IV_Section_6_%28Vacancies%29 Risker On 22 April 2013 16:54, Alice Wiegand wrote: > Hi all, > > as Ting has announced in his earlier mail, the WMF Bo

[Wikimedia-l] Consultation opened for Bylaws change

Hi all, as Ting has announced in his earlier mail, the WMF Board prepared an amendment for its Bylaws to clarify the wording and ensure its ability to act especially in situations where a resignation reduces the number of trustees to less than nine or an officer position is affected. Please take

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning

Hi Sam, thanks for the message, I appreciate hearing from a Board member at long last. I agree that it might be a good idea to collect feedback during the year (is there actually any page that could be used for this purpose on Meta?) — but I think that it also needs to be mentioned that it's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Wikimedia Conference feedback - Grazie mille!

Thank all of you in *WMIT* for your hard work and organization. It was Beautiful and inviting conference. I enjoyed very much all gatherings and found them very Interesting and informative. Milan is gorgeous! It was great to meet everyone. Till we meet again Dorit WM-IL 2013/4/21 Samuel Klei

[Wikimedia-l] Office hour with WMF researchers

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[Wikimedia-l] Request for Comment on Wikimedia "Video Tutorials" Grant Project

I am writing to request comment from Wikimedia users who can provide guidance on what projects and their components would benefit from receiving a video tutorial. Video tutorials are being developed by Jackson Peebles ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jackson_Peebles) and will be available in t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: [WCA][Governance] Training for chapter and thematic org. board members

I'm not talking about egalitarian values of political powers, but we are in the most adverse situations in completely different countries, cultures and unequal values. These are factors that should be taken into consideration, the world is not Europe, and in Europe there are many differences. O

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Resign due to COI and Application to the ED position

Hello dear all, I would like to add a few comments to my resign letter here to clarify a few things that is related to possible conflict of interest. Sue informed the board about her intention to leave the Foundation before she informed the staff and the general public with her letter. I dec

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Resign due to COI and Application to the ED position

Original-Nachricht Betreff:Resign due to COI and Application to the ED position Datum: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:45:31 +0200 Von:Ting Chen An: Board list Dear board, after intensive consideration and some sleepless nights I have decided to apply for the ED jo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

Any user on one of fifteen Wikipedias (English plus the fourteen new ones). I don't think it will be opt in on any others just yet, though hopefully soon! Andrew. On 22 April 2013 11:02, Deryck Chan wrote: > I think by opt-in, James means that any user from any Wikipedia can opt > themselves in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

I think by opt-in, James means that any user from any Wikipedia can opt themselves in from Thursday onwards. Is that correct? Deryck On 22 April 2013 07:14, Nasir Khan wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to > start the test earlier :) > > * > -- >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: [WCA][Governance] Training for chapter and thematic org. board members

On 22 April 2013 08:25, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton wrote: > I didn't like the idea, because, chapters are not equal. I believe the chapters are equal. Yes, yes, I'm a idealist dreamer. :-) Certainly all chapters (and in the future 'thorgs') have exactly one voice each, one vote each, one representa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: [WCA][Governance] Training for chapter and thematic org. board members

I didn't like the idea, because, chapters are not equal. Why you don't focus your energy sharing experiences in one open wiki, creating a cookbook (not a manual), and than another communities can use this material too... On 22 April 2013 03:41, Stefan Fussan wrote: > Very good idea. You can put