Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Joining the WMF Communications team
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 mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group
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 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. If you do find yourself subscribed, I strongly urge you not to engage in any way. Report it to Google (not to me or the list) as an abusive subscription using the link at the bottom of the message, and leave it be. If you find yourself being impersonated or wrongly implicated in this latest round of troublemaking, don't fret. Nobody will hold it against you, and in fact you'll have everyone's sympathies. Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group
+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: 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 Wikimedia-l, the Wikimedia Foundation, me, or anybody you'd ever want to be friends with. If you do find yourself subscribed, I strongly urge you not to engage in any way. Report it to Google (not to me or the list) as an abusive subscription using the link at the bottom of the message, and leave it be. If you find yourself being impersonated or wrongly implicated in this latest round of troublemaking, don't fret. Nobody will hold it against you, and in fact you'll have everyone's sympathies. Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive :: নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব* Global User: Nhasive http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nhasive Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee http://www.wikimedia.org.bd fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: White House response to Aaron Swartz petition
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 2015 18:18:14 -0600 Mittente: The White House We the People *Response to We the People Petition on U.S. Attorney's Office Personnel Matters* Aaron Swartz's death was a tragic, unthinkable loss for his family and friends. Our sympathy continues to go out to those who were closest to him, and to the many others whose lives he touched. We also reaffirm our belief that a spirit of openness is what makes the Internet such a powerful engine for economic growth, technological innovation, and new ideas. That's why members of the Administration continue to engage with advocates to ensure the Internet remains a free and open platform as technology continues to disrupt industries and connect our communities in ways we can't yet imagine. We will continue this engagement as we tackle new questions on key issues such as citizen participation in democracy, open access to information, privacy, intellectual property, free speech, and security. As to the specific personnel-related requests raised in your petitions, our response must be limited. Consistent with the terms we laid out when we began We the People, we will not address agency personnel matters in a petition response, because we do not believe this is the appropriate forum in which to do so. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group
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 Wikimedia-l, the Wikimedia Foundation, me, or anybody you'd ever want to be friends with. If you do find yourself subscribed, I strongly urge you not to engage in any way. Report it to Google (not to me or the list) as an abusive subscription using the link at the bottom of the message, and leave it be. If you find yourself being impersonated or wrongly implicated in this latest round of troublemaking, don't fret. Nobody will hold it against you, and in fact you'll have everyone's sympathies. Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Joining the WMF Communications team
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 Senior Analyst. This is fantastic news. Congrats, Tilman! MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive :: নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব* Global User: Nhasive http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nhasive Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee http://www.wikimedia.org.bd fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WaPo Wikipedia's 'complicated; relationship with net neutrality
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 wikipedia zero's effect on the internet in the long term? There are clearly going to be both positive and negative effects. Denying either is silly. What can we do to strengthen the positive effects, and how do we mitigate the negative? At what thresholds would wikipedia zero be stopped in some country and at what thresholds promoted? Are there documents/analysis online? sincerely, Kim On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:07:02PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote: Washington post article http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-complicated-relationship-with-net-neutrality/ sincerely, Kim ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- [Non-pgp mail clients may show pgp-signature as attachment] gpg (www.gnupg.org) Fingerprint for key FEF9DD72 5ED6 E215 73EE AD84 E03A 01C5 94AC 7B0E FEF9 DD72 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group
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 in no way affiliated with Wikimedia-l, the Wikimedia Foundation, me, or anybody you'd ever want to be friends with. If you do find yourself subscribed, I strongly urge you not to engage in any way. Report it to Google (not to me or the list) as an abusive subscription using the link at the bottom of the message, and leave it be. If you find yourself being impersonated or wrongly implicated in this latest round of troublemaking, don't fret. Nobody will hold it against you, and in fact you'll have everyone's sympathies. Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Tilman Bayer joins Product Strategy Department
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 Foundation’s Product Strategy department as Senior Analyst. I would like to thank Katherine Maher for supporting and helping to prepare this move from the Communications department. Tilman has been working with us since July 2011, and has been a Wikipedian since 2003. He is leading the development of the organization’s new quarterly report, and its integration with the quarterly review process. In his role in Communications, he has already coordinated our reports in their previous monthly format, and has kept detailed public minutes for the majority of quarterly reviews at WMF. He will continue to do so. He will ensure we not only continually refine and improve the quarterly goalsetting, review and reporting processes, but can also look for opportunities to highlight lessons learned - successes and failures - across the organization and the Wikimedia communities, so these can meaningfully inform our strategy. In addition, Tilman will bring his many years of experience as a volunteer and his insight into the many complexities and intricacies of the Wikimedia universe to bear with product-related research and analysis questions, supporting Product Managers and other team members as we dig into hard problems that benefit from his expertise, e.g. simplification of templates, translation tools, cross-wiki messaging tools, mathematics editing, etc. Tilman was previously responsible for many day-to-day communications responsibilities and supported or led key communications initiatives. These responsibilities will be transitioned to other Communications team members, including Fabrice Florin who is joining the team for 6 months (separate announcement to follow). Please join me in congratulating Tilman to this new role. Tilman - thank you for taking this on; I look forward to continuing our work together! Sincerely, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Product Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation -- Erik Möller VP of Product Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Joining the WMF Communications team
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 Notifications, Thanks, Beta Features, Media Viewer and other multimedia products [1]. One of the lessons I learned during that time is that 'better communications' are really important to make our movement more effective. I also think that growing a 'culture of kindness' is key if we want to engage a broader community [2]. I hope to support both of these goals in my new role. Starting this week, I will be working with the communications team on the Wikimedia blog and general WMF/movement communications. My focus for the blog will include improving contributor workflow for community members and WMF staff, and providing editorial guidance for contributors. I will also act as the main contact point for authors submitting new blog posts, and shepherd the publication process. Within movement communications, I will work to improve the availability, distribution, and timeliness of communications from the WMF to the broader community. 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. One of my new duties is managing this WikimediaAnnounce-l list. Because this list gets so much spam, we manually review all submissions several times per day, until a reliable machine filter can be implemented. Please contact me if you have an urgent announcement that needs to go out immediately, or if you have any issues about this list. I’d like to thank all my colleagues on the multimedia and product teams -- as well as our many community champions -- for being such wonderful collaborators over the past few years. I am proud of what we accomplished together, and I hope that the features we created can help many more people share knowledge productively in years to come. Special thanks to Erik Moeller for his thoughtful guidance throughout the past three years -- and for making this transition possible. Kudos as well to Tilman for being such a wonderful coach and getting me up to speed on tasks he used to handle so efficiently. :) I'm delighted to take on this new assignment, and look forward to more collaborations with you all in the coming year. Onward! Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation [1] Fabrice's user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) [2] 'A Culture of Kindness' blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/23/a-culture-of-kindness/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/23/a-culture-of-kindness/ ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is shutting down grantmaking for good projects for 3 months for no reason
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 administrative overhead attached to it, mainly driven by Anglo American policies difficult to understand in the rest of the world why they would be necessary at all. it leads to a bottleneck not necessary. The sitenotice is nice. But it could be used better if grantmaking is distributed like all the other content and community work, imo. Rupert On Jan 7, 2015 5:56 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 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 to attract many requests that propose to do something about the Gender Gap? Great question. Current thinking is to do the usual announcing on mailing lists, blog/social media, village pumps, etc, as well as experimenting with running Central Notice banners. Would like to attract folks from various wikis who have interest in this theme and ability to lead a project in their community, beyond the usual (relatively small) slice who regularly participate in lists like these or in the usual grantmaking discussions on meta-wiki. And although outside media could help bring total newbies to contribute ideas, discussion, and other forms of participation, it is pretty darn important to have at least 1 experienced Wikimedian on a funded team in order to lead and execute a useful community project, so in-movement (particularly on-wiki) promotion is a priority. Any thoughts/suggestions would be welcome! TL:DR I see the stick, but where is the carrot? [1] I understand from the explanations that the reason for not accepting any non-gender-gap focused grants for several months is because of the expected workload on the staff in reviewing applications and supporting the projects that do get funded. However, what I don't understand is what added incentive there is for people to submit grant applications on the chosen topic (in this instance it is gender-gap, but it could be other topics in the future)? Since it is already possible to submit a gender-gap focused grant, how does the refusal to accept other kinds of project submissions increase the number/quality/variety of gender-gap grants? I can see the unfortunate possibility for: - some grants to be re-written with a false veneer of gender-gap focus (pink-washing) simply to access the money - valid (but non gender-gap focused) grant applications having to wait until after the 3-month project, and potentially having to cancel altogether depending on the volunteer's availability. I think this is what Lodewijk was referring to when he called it a negative campaign - there is a DISincentive for other kinds of grant applications, but no apparent specific incentive for the desired type of application. I see the stick, but where is the carrot? Am I missing something? -Liam [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_and_stick ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor office hour for November and January
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 recent improvements and to provide details about ongoing and planned work. It is also a pleasant occasion to share your experience; the team always looks forward to hearing from you. I'd also like to inform you that we are not going to have an office hour next month, so the next appointment to discuss VE is in *January, Wednesday 7th at 2200 UTC* [1]. Previous logs and other information, including how to participate, can be found at Meta [2]. Hope to see you in #wikimedia-office in a while. Best, Elitre (WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product) [0] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16min=00sec=0day=19month=11year=2014 [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22min=00sec=0day=07month=01year=2015 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Hi, a bit unusual reminder that the VisualEditor office hour for January is starting right now in #wikimedia-office, so you're welcome to join us there! Best, Elitre (WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is shutting down grantmaking for good projects for 3 months for no reason
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 to attract many requests that propose to do something about the Gender Gap? Great question. Current thinking is to do the usual announcing on mailing lists, blog/social media, village pumps, etc, as well as experimenting with running Central Notice banners. Would like to attract folks from various wikis who have interest in this theme and ability to lead a project in their community, beyond the usual (relatively small) slice who regularly participate in lists like these or in the usual grantmaking discussions on meta-wiki. And although outside media could help bring total newbies to contribute ideas, discussion, and other forms of participation, it is pretty darn important to have at least 1 experienced Wikimedian on a funded team in order to lead and execute a useful community project, so in-movement (particularly on-wiki) promotion is a priority. Any thoughts/suggestions would be welcome! TL:DR I see the stick, but where is the carrot? [1] I understand from the explanations that the reason for not accepting any non-gender-gap focused grants for several months is because of the expected workload on the staff in reviewing applications and supporting the projects that do get funded. However, what I don't understand is what added incentive there is for people to submit grant applications on the chosen topic (in this instance it is gender-gap, but it could be other topics in the future)? Since it is already possible to submit a gender-gap focused grant, how does the refusal to accept other kinds of project submissions increase the number/quality/variety of gender-gap grants? I can see the unfortunate possibility for: - some grants to be re-written with a false veneer of gender-gap focus (pink-washing) simply to access the money - valid (but non gender-gap focused) grant applications having to wait until after the 3-month project, and potentially having to cancel altogether depending on the volunteer's availability. I think this is what Lodewijk was referring to when he called it a negative campaign - there is a DISincentive for other kinds of grant applications, but no apparent specific incentive for the desired type of application. I see the stick, but where is the carrot? Am I missing something? -Liam [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_and_stick ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group
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. 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/India_Against_Corruption_sock-meatfarm 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. If you do find yourself subscribed, I strongly urge you not to engage in any way. Report it to Google (not to me or the list) as an abusive subscription using the link at the bottom of the message, and leave it be. If you find yourself being impersonated or wrongly implicated in this latest round of troublemaking, don't fret. Nobody will hold it against you, and in fact you'll have everyone's sympathies. Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group
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. If you do find yourself subscribed, I strongly urge you not to engage in any way. Report it to Google (not to me or the list) as an abusive subscription using the link at the bottom of the message, and leave it be. If you find yourself being impersonated or wrongly implicated in this latest round of troublemaking, don't fret. Nobody will hold it against you, and in fact you'll have everyone's sympathies. Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Warning: Wikimedia-l Google Group
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/India_Against_Corruption_sock-meatfarm 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. If you do find yourself subscribed, I strongly urge you not to engage in any way. Report it to Google (not to me or the list) as an abusive subscription using the link at the bottom of the message, and leave it be. If you find yourself being impersonated or wrongly implicated in this latest round of troublemaking, don't fret. Nobody will hold it against you, and in fact you'll have everyone's sympathies. Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour
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 http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18min=00sec=0day=16month=01year=2015 Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedian-In-Residence at NIOSH
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 wrote: Great news, Emily - congratulations! Looking forward to see NIOSH materials flow into Wikimedia projects, and to interactions between both communities. d. -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/ mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: Sort of - Ebola is definitely an occupational health hazard for health care people! ;) And of course, I always appreciate advice! I'm the second US Federal WIR as far as I can tell - Dominic was the first, and, unless someone has been very under-the-radar (or I've had my head under a rock), NIOSH is the first federal science/technology/medicine agency with a WIR. Thank you! -Emily On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 2 January 2015 at 21:00, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: I am excited to announce that I am starting today as the Wikipedian-in-Residence for NIOSH, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a subsidiary of the CDC. Congratulations! CDC - does that make you the Wikipedian in Residence for Ebola? ;-) I'm sure you'll do well, but please let me know if I can offer any help or advice - especially where the subject interests of NIOSH and the Royal Society of Chemistry (where I am Wikimedian in Residence) overlap. As a matter of interest, how many US federal WiRs have there been now - I know of Daniel at NARA; are there others? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- - Enock Wikipedian | twitter: @Enock4seth Sent via Mozilla Thunderbird ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
