Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alexandra Wang joins the WMF Grantmaking team

Great news! Wish Alex all the best :) Ali On Jan 23, 2014 5:55 AM, "Samuel Klein" wrote: > Excellent news and artistry! Welcome, Alex. > > SJ > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Asaf Bartov > wrote: > > > Hi, everyone. > > > > I'm thrilled to announce that as of last week, WMF's new Project

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alexandra Wang joins the WMF Grantmaking team

Excellent news and artistry! Welcome, Alex. SJ On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > I'm thrilled to announce that as of last week, WMF's new Project and Event > Grants (PEG) Program Officer is Alex Wang. She will be supporting the PEG > program's scaling up

[Wikimedia-l] Alexandra Wang joins the WMF Grantmaking team

Hi, everyone. I'm thrilled to announce that as of last week, WMF's new Project and Event Grants (PEG) Program Officer is Alex Wang. She will be supporting the PEG program's scaling up, and will enable us to offer our grantees a much higher level of support in project management and frequent check

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours today on VE

Office hour at 2300 UTC ( http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=23&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=01&year=2014) to discuss VE. Please stop by, if you can make it! Maggie On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Maggie Dennis wrote: > Hi, guys > > I just wanted to shoot out a reminder th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Audio and video help for mobile users

I've added stub pages: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Media_help/iOS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Media_help/Android Please feel free to add relevant background links, or a link to the MP4 discussion on the iOS page which may be of interest. -- brion On Wed, Jan 22,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Audio and video help for mobile users

Android should "just work" but there are some regressions since I last tested it, from what I hear. Hopefully we can get these examined and fixed soon. There are some possible things we can do launching files in the VLC app for iOS; some clever JavaScript could make this experience smoother. I pla

[Wikimedia-l] Audio and video help for mobile users

[cross-posted] Following discussion at: , about the difficulty of playing Wikimedia audio and video on mobile devices, we've added red links to: for iOS an

[Wikimedia-l] Office hours today on VE

Hi, guys I just wanted to shoot out a reminder that later today there will be another office hour for VisualEditor, featuring James Forrester. This meeting is at 2300 UTC ( http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=23&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=01&year=2014 ) You can read more abou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

The 100% being reduced to at least 90% but, in fact, my wording was friendly to start a flame war. Sorry for that. Em 22/01/2014 11:27, "Katie Chan" escreveu: > Oh for heavens sake, what does that have anything to do with this thread? > > -- > Katie Chan > Any views or opinions presented in this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

Oh for heavens sake, what does that have anything to do with this thread? -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by. Experience is a goo

[Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour

Hey folks :) Adam and I will be holding another office hour on February 3rd at 5pm UTC. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+office+hour&iso=20140203T18&p1=37&ah=1 for your timezone. We will be meeting in #wikimedia-office on freenode IRC. The topics will be: * s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

Founder of a company that hosted the first wiki setup named as Wikipedia after someone else suggested it due to the failure of Nupedia. There is currently a Foundation where he is limited to the boy who sometimes talks to the press only after YEARS of internal wars, including press coverage of he

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

GerardM, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Class-size_reduction&diff=563977349&oldid=405118703 ...for starters. The editor from 2010 is a strident charter schools movement proponent who strongly prefers parochial education to public education in the U.S., which is a surprisingl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

Founder of the Wikimedia Foundation = One who founded/established the foundation? Sorry; I didn't get your question. Regards, Jee On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Fæ wrote: > Thanks for the assurance that the community "directly and indirectly > influences 100% of the board". > > Could someone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

Thanks for the assurance that the community "directly and indirectly influences 100% of the board". Could someone point me to where this happened for the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation? Thanks again, Fae On 21 January 2014 17:28, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > Hey > > I am sure it is technica

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

Hoi, Sorry I cannot parse this " suffering from a paid advocacy-introduced inaccuracy contrary to the peer reviewed secondary literature" Thanks, GerardM On 22 January 2014 11:29, James Salsman wrote: > Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > >... > > we are trying to reach potential candidates in a d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014/1/21 Jan-Bart de Vreede : > I am not going to debate the different kinds of movement representation in > the board, but I would argue that the community directly and indirectly > influences 100% of the board, as appointed members are appointed by > (s)elected members and the founder of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: >... > we are trying to reach potential candidates in a different way Does Leonie Haimson want to interview to be co-director? http://www.classsizematters.org/about-us/ She started editing in the past year, after suffering from a paid advocacy-introduced inaccuracy c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] European Commission Copyright Consultation

It will be ok if I change a currently signed answer to a more neutral text and later expand it? Em 21/01/2014 14:12, "Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov" < dimitar.parvanov.dimit...@gmail.com> escreveu: > > > > On the one hand, individual Wikimedians and EU chapters participating in > >> the Free Knowledg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

Hoi, As far as I am concernted the redlink IS touched; it is the only way to ensure potential disambiguation. Well actually we could do this in Reasonator but that has not been considered so far. The problem is that you refer to the "appropriate infoboxes", as far as I am aware they do not exist.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

Hoi, The mail I send is meant to be a warning in advance. If you are interested in the "Reasonator", it is in continuous development and information is provided on an almost daily basis. When you have read it, you may understand the potential it has. It will help you understand why it can have a p