[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Shared Knowledge as a Wikimedia User Group

Dear all, The Affiliations Committee is glad to announce the recognition [1] of Shared Knowledge as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. They have been around for almost a year, and their main interest is to develop free knowledge and make it more accessible, especially in the Macedonian language.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Types of allowed projects for grant funding (renamed)

Hoi, I alone have contributed millions of edits thanks to Magnus's tools. The whole GLAM phenomenon relies on our volunteers and on the GLAM-wiki toolset. When you consider their proven importance it is difficult, if not impossible, to understand why all such tools have been given the Cinderella

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Renewal of Recognition to Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil

Dear Rodrigo, The requirements for WUGs are very simple and the Affiliation Committee has been working recently on making the process of renewing the recognition of WUGs as straighforward as possible, since it is something relatively new and we have seen there is plenty of room for

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Help fund a macro lens for a Commons contributor

Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto: [Commons-l] Help fund a macro lens for a Commons contributor Data: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:26:05 + Mittente: Tomasz W. Kozłowski twkozlow...@gmail.com Rispondi-a: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List common...@lists.wikimedia.org A:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding bot maintenance

I am a dev and am willing to replace a tool when it dies. I have a fairly large infrastructure of code that makes it fairly easy On Sunday, February 22, 2015, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: One of the areas that I would like to see the foundation putting in money is for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMCON15 - Registration Now Open

Hey Daniela, I saw that the prices on the Hotel website are cheaper (78 euro). Would you advise to book directly trough them? *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMCON15 - Registration Now Open

Hey Daniela, I saw that the prices on the Hotel website are cheaper (78 euro). Would you advise to book directly trough them? *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Types of allowed projects for grant funding (renamed)

Hi Luis, Thank you for agreeing to consider grant funding for software projects. It sounds like you also plan a broader review of funding for community needs and growth. I have a list of requests for changes, which boil down to removing policy barriers and greatly improving communications and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Types of allowed projects for grant funding (renamed)

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Luis, Thank you for agreeing to consider grant funding for software projects. It sounds like you also plan a broader review of funding for community needs and growth. Yes. The timeline is still somewhat up in the air,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding bot maintenance

WereSpielChequers wrote: One of the areas that I would like to see the foundation putting in money is for the running and maintenance of wanted orphan bots. I think specific examples might help here. If we're talking about category renaming bots or talk page archiving bots, I wouldn't mind if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: A new structure for WMF Community Engagement

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear Wikimedians, Among the WMF’s top priorities for 2015 is strengthening our engagement with Wikimedia editors and volunteers. Today we are taking the first step by bringing together the people who know our

[Wikimedia-l] RfC: Works which can't be freely licensed

As some of you know, we are working on the project [1] with Matica srpska [2]. Basically, that opens numerous possibilities and here is one of them. My professor, a Board member of Matica srpska and one of two co-authors of the Normative Grammar of Serbian Language wants to open the Grammar.

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia

Dear all, We are glad to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognised [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. They have been around for some time, working on disseminating free knowledge in Georgia, but they have decided to join forces. Among

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Works which can't be freely licensed

On Sunday, 22 February 2015, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: As some of you know, we are working on the project [1] with Matica srpska [2]. Basically, that opens numerous possibilities and here is one of them. My professor, a Board member of Matica srpska and one of two co-authors of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Works which can't be freely licensed

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm finding this a bit difficult to parse; am I interpreting it correctly if I read it as: because the project is to produce a prescriptive, normative grammar, there's a desired No Derivatives element of any adopted