Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 1:15 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: > and at least my wish would be that people who > donate their time by sending code patches to software considered > essential to run the site are included. > In the 2011 election, anyone active with commit access (that is, the ability to cha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

agreed - I actually don't see a reason why the elections should not be limited to Wikimedia editors with some edit count. I would assume that if there are people in other categories currently eligible to vote, who would lose this privilege if they were required to do some minimal amount of editing,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

also agree to simplify the rules. what i'd really love would be to better standardize and with it simplify "volunteer community", for all elections and votes. and at least my wish would be that people who donate their time by sending code patches to software considered essential to run the site are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Jan Eissfeldt joins Wikimedia Foundation as Community Advocate

Yep. Meta. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On Apr 27, 2013, at 1:12 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" wrote: Philippe Beaudette, 25/04/2013 22:39: The community advocacy

[Wikimedia-l] Google Summer of Code 2013 - Project Proposal (Centralized Search Engine)

Hello, I have proposed a project to WikiMedia through Google Summer of Code 2013 internship program. The project is based on Central Search Engine having capability to bind all the WikiMedia services till the date and showing the results of search term on a common place with best possible res

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

Also agree with Nathan. Those chapter board members who are not active on the projects already have a far greater relative weight in selecting the chapter-selected board seats. A. On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Nathan, 27/04/2013 21:34: > > I would go the ot

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia CH staff changes in 2013

Thomas Dalton, 10/04/2013 18:05: According to the UK Charity Commission we are in the case where Ilario " has had no significant involvement with the trustees’ decision to create or retain the post, or with any material aspect of the recruitment process" It isn't written very clearly, but fro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMIL new Executive Director

Itzik Edri, 09/04/2013 21:58: Meet Dorit Shafir Dyamant: Over the last decade she mainly worked at NGO's in a variety of roles: from marketing through projects management and producing conferences. She have MA degree in nonprofit management from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and B.A in lit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Train Wikiexpedition in Poland

hahaha ... sure. about 400'000 of these are sold for 3000 eur every year, having a population of 8'000'000. and this number includes the ones used by people not living in switzerland like yours as well ;) rupert. On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Manuel Schneider wrote: > Am 26.04.2013 19:05, sc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

Thehelpfulone, 17/04/2013 22:30: Last week I noticed a nice design for the list info page of the WLM-US mailing list that I tweaked for this mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-l I don't quite get the point of this style, is it about adding the Wikimedia vision in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Jan Eissfeldt joins Wikimedia Foundation as Community Advocate

Philippe Beaudette, 25/04/2013 22:39: The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up the Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects [...] Never heard this claim before, is it documented anywhere? Nemo ___ Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

Nathan, 27/04/2013 21:34: I would go the other way, and limit the participants in the election for the community seat to people who are members of the volunteer community. Presumably that would include most members of most organizational boards, but only include those staff and other paid workers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Train Wikiexpedition in Poland

Am 26.04.2013 19:05, schrieb Fae: > "Polish Railways will provide us free tickets" excellent negotiation! > > Hey, train enthusiasts everywhere else (including the UK and USA) here > is an incredibly tough target for the rest of us to try and beat. :-D In Switzerland 90% of the population has a G

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

I would go the other way, and limit the participants in the election for the community seat to people who are members of the volunteer community. Presumably that would include most members of most organizational boards, but only include those staff and other paid workers who also participate as vol

[Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation elections is approaching. As always, the voters will be the community, developers, current board member and.. WMF staff and contractors. Nothing changed. same as two years ago. But I wonder - we had this policy when the chapters and others recognized Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours about upcoming account creation and login redesigns

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > Hey all, > > As you might know, the Editor Engagement Experiments team spent several > weeks in > 2012-13 testing changes to the account creation page, aiming to make > it easier for new editors to join our projects.[1] > > Soon you'll see w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [org] Reunió comunitària pel xat

That's true. My apologies :) anyway since I sent it let me explain, we (Amical) are having a monthly meeting with Catalan Wikipedia community editors via IRC chat. I think it's a good practice that you all can put in practice in your respective wikis. Sorry again! El 27 d’abril de 2013 17.17,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [org] Reunió comunitària pel xat

Em sembla que no ho has enviat a la llista adequada :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2013/4/27 Arnau Duran > > Hem convocat una nova reunió oberta a tothom via IRC per l'*1 de mai

[Wikimedia-l] [org] Reunió comunitària pel xat

Hem convocat una nova reunió oberta a tothom via IRC per l'*1 de maig a les 22h*. Hi esteu tots convidats. apunt a Viquimedia.cat *Arnau Duran Ferrero *arnaudu...@gmail.com | www.arnauduran.net Telèfon personal: (+3

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The case for supporting open source machine translation

Just the thought of synchronizing Wikis makes me shudder. I think this was also the reason that no Wikipedian editors were attracted to the CoSyne project, though as it was explained to me the idea was that only sections of a "source" Wikipedia article would be translated that did not exist yet in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Train Wikiexpedition in Poland

I thinkk that it's a reallay good idea. Personally I invited Polish people to share their experience of wikiexpeditions and I think that this opportunity may be a real way to spread it. regards On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > Hi, > > We are about to organize a wikiexpe