Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

2015-03-28 Thread Hasive Nurunnaby
Welcome, Kourosh!

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:

> I find the term "Advancement Department" has a somewhat Orwellian ring.
>
> The FAQ mentions that –
>
> The new role is focused on creating value for the Wikimedia movement and on
> supporting our ability to fulfil our mission. Value can be understood in
> many different ways. We believe that it can be about relationships with
> people, relationships with organizations, or in some cases, additional
> financial resources.
>
> Would it be possible to translate this into something more accessible? What
> sorts of "additional financial resources" are we talking about, and who
> would supply them to whom?
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

2015-03-28 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I find the term "Advancement Department" has a somewhat Orwellian ring.

The FAQ mentions that –

The new role is focused on creating value for the Wikimedia movement and on
supporting our ability to fulfil our mission. Value can be understood in
many different ways. We believe that it can be about relationships with
people, relationships with organizations, or in some cases, additional
financial resources.

Would it be possible to translate this into something more accessible? What
sorts of "additional financial resources" are we talking about, and who
would supply them to whom?
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

2015-03-28 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Welcome to Kourosh! Wikimedians around the world have already been creating
partnerships under various programs including GLAMs and with universities,
institutions etc. This is rational from the sense that this new department
(Strategic Partnerships) would address all these issues along with further
ways for improvement. Looking forward to Kourosh and his team's endeavors,
hope they bring meaningful and impact-driven partnerships for Wikimedia
movement. :)

Tanweer
Executive member
Wikimedia Bangladesh

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Shlomi Fish 
wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:17:20 +0100
> Cristian Consonni  wrote:
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> > Welcome, Kourosh!
> >
> > Cristian
>
> Welcome, Kourosh, and good luck!
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> Regards,
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[Wikimedia-l] function titles 'n stuff

2015-03-28 Thread Lodewijk
Hi,
Actually, not so much a personel org chart, but rather a general
description what the function titles mean (ED, Director, Manager, Chief,
Head etc.), which supposedly should be much more stable and therefore
easier to grasp? For someone not embedded in US company nomenclature this
is all quite confusing and the general description articles on enwiki are
not very helpful either...

Lodewijk

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:47 AM, MZMcBride  wrote:

> Lodewijk wrote:
> >In Wikimedian spirit, i would like to take the opportunity to ask the
> >silly question: is the structure of what all titles in Wikimedia mean,
> >described somewhere? Because to be honest, I'm getting all confused about
> >who ranks what in the structure of directors, vice presidents, chiefs,
> >heads, managers and seniors. I was, silly me, always under the impression
> >that a Vice President was basically just below the ED - on the C-level.
> >
> >I was looking for this info to be perhaps linked from the staff &
> >contractors page on wmfwiki, but i don't seem to be able to find it. Could
> >someone enlighten, and perhaps add it somewhere if not there yet? I recall
> >having asked this question also a few years back and that a list was made,
> >but I can't find it any longer...
>
> Hi.
>
> I think you're talking about an org chart here. The Wikimedia Foundation
> used to have one, but they're kind of annoying to maintain and any public
> version basically fell apart years ago. Last I saw, it was a tool on Labs,
> but it's been through several iterations. The page histories (of the
> article and the template) on wikimediafoundation.org will have references
> to it if you go back a few years.
>
> Re: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:Staff_and_contractors
>
> The template page includes a table of contents, which is not yet updated
> to reflect this new department, but is still really helpful for
> understanding the organization's structure nonetheless. Bonus: that page
> also auto-expands the sections for faster and easier searching. Viewing
> the template page instead of the article is a nice little hack for now.
>
> MZMcBride
>
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