Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Joining the WMF Communications team

2015-01-07 Thread MZMcBride
Fabrice Florin wrote: I will also manage a range of movement communications tasks previously handled by Tilman Bayer, who is transitioning to the WMF Product team as Senior Analyst. This is fantastic news. Congrats, Tilman! MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group

2015-01-07 Thread Karthik Nadar
I think it will be better if most of us can Report the Group. Regards from Mumbai, Karthik Nadar. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the alert, Austin! Vishnu On 01/07/2015 11:56 PM, Austin Hair wrote: You may have already received a message

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group

2015-01-07 Thread Nurunnaby Hasive
+1 Karthik. Better to report the group. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote: I think it will be better if most of us can Report the Group. Regards from Mumbai, Karthik Nadar. On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote:

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: White House response to Aaron Swartz petition

2015-01-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
See https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:Response to We the People Petition on U.S. Attorney's Office Personnel Matters Data: Wed, 07 Jan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group

2015-01-07 Thread Vishnu
Thanks for the alert, Austin! Vishnu On 01/07/2015 11:56 PM, Austin Hair wrote: You may have already received a message indicating that you've been added to the Wikimedia-l Google Group; if not, you likely will soon. In case it's not clear, this Google Group is in no way affiliated with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Joining the WMF Communications team

2015-01-07 Thread Nurunnaby Hasive
Great to know. Congratulation Fabrice Florin Tilman! On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:30 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Fabrice Florin wrote: I will also manage a range of movement communications tasks previously handled by Tilman Bayer, who is transitioning to the WMF Product team as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WaPo Wikipedia's 'complicated; relationship with net neutrality

2015-01-07 Thread Kim Bruning
Found another article calling out Wikipedia. Are there also articles praising us? :-) https://medium.com/backchannel/less-than-zero-199bcb05a868 I do think that wikipedia zero is useful in the short term. I'm a bit worried about the long term though. Question: How do you predict

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group

2015-01-07 Thread Santi Navarro
Thnak you for your e-mail. I was added and now I've been unsuscribed. El 2015-01-07 19:26, Austin Hair escribió: You may have already received a message indicating that you've been added to the Wikimedia-l Google Group; if not, you likely will soon. In case it's not clear, this Google Group is

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Tilman Bayer joins Product Strategy Department

2015-01-07 Thread Erik Moeller
FYI :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:50 PM Subject: Tilman Bayer joins Product Strategy Department To: Staff All wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, It’s my pleasure to announce that Tilman Bayer is joining the

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Joining the WMF Communications team

2015-01-07 Thread Fabrice Florin
Hi folks, I am happy to announce that I will be joining the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications team as Movement Communications Manager for a period of six months. I have really enjoyed my work as product manager at WMF in the past 3 years, leading the development of new tools like

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is shutting down grantmaking for good projects for 3 months for no reason

2015-01-07 Thread rupert THURNER
Maybe the carrot is the site notice to advertise it, and the fear is that too many projects are being proposed? Which is good. But I am with lodewijk that this is not the way to go. It only exposes the main weakness of the current grant making process. It is global, central and has a lot of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor office hour for November and January

2015-01-07 Thread Erica Litrenta
2014-11-19 13:42 GMT+01:00 Erica Litrenta elitre...@wikimedia.org: Hi everybody, and apologies for cross-posting. This is a reminder that the VE office hour for this month is happening *today in a few hours, at 1600 UTC* [0]. James Forrester will be available to answer any questions about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is shutting down grantmaking for good projects for 3 months for no reason

2015-01-07 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 7 January 2015 at 00:06, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:17 PM, MF-Warburg mfwarb...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry if this was already answered and I overlooked it, but will there be something like a special form of advertising this campaign in order

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group

2015-01-07 Thread Austin Hair
Yes, it almost certainly is, and this isn't new to us. We dealt with this exact type of attack as recently as last month. Austin On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: This is probably related to a group that calls itself India Against Corruption.

[Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group

2015-01-07 Thread Austin Hair
You may have already received a message indicating that you've been added to the Wikimedia-l Google Group; if not, you likely will soon. In case it's not clear, this Google Group is in no way affiliated with Wikimedia-l, the Wikimedia Foundation, me, or anybody you'd ever want to be friends with.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group

2015-01-07 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
This is probably related to a group that calls itself India Against Corruption. A similar tactic was employed by them on the India Community. You may look up archives of Wikimediaindia-l and Commons-l. You could also read up on

[Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour

2015-01-07 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey folks :) I'll be doing another office hour for Wikidata on IRC next Friday at 18:00 UTC. It'll happen in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC. Everyone is welcome for discussions and question answering. Logs will be posted afterwards. For your timezone see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedian-In-Residence at NIOSH

2015-01-07 Thread Isabella Apriyana
It sounds awesome! Congratulations! On Jan 5, 2015 2:24 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Emily! Best, On 01/05/2015 06:03 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive wrote: Great! Congratulations Emily! On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com