Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

One of the basic tenets of health and safety, is that if you have a near miss incident, it should be analysed the same way that a fatal incident would be investigated. Not to apportion blame, even if it is due, but so that the same situation can be avoided in the future. Organisations that fail

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

I guess I'm not clear on whether you're asking about the Fundraising targets or the WLM/WMIT targets, or both. Can you clarify? My understanding from this email chain is that there will be a deconfliction of banner space via better scheduling next year. I think that someone suggested setting up a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

I was referring to the fundraising targets, which have been cited as a cause of the dispute. WMIT/WLM have explained at length their reasons for needing banners in September. I am in no position to comment on whether their analysis is correct or not . Fundraising has not been so forthcoming in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reimagining Wikimedia Foundation Grants

Hi again, Thanks to the 100+ people who have shared feedback via the survey and talk page discussion so far! Reminder: The consultation period closes on 8 September 0:00 UTC. This is the last weekend to add your thoughts to the conversation before we begin to analyze all feedback and plan next

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

Thanks for that perspective Amir. I hadn't even thought of the mobile aspect. It would be great to have improved collaboration tools for working on mobile. Pine On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2015-09-02 3:15 GMT+03:00 MZMcBride

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

2015-09-02 3:15 GMT+03:00 MZMcBride : > What I'm struggling with here is that Flow seems to have failed to > deliver. It hasn't met its goals of covering even basic talk pages and it > sounds as though further development work on Flow will now be suspended. > > From my

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 12:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >>Much more importantly, Flow very much does cover basic talk pages. You can >>write a title and an OP and get people to reply. This has been working for >>many months already. This is my definition of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

First, thanks to all of those who worked in good faith, with patience and care for each other to solve this problem. I appreciate the level of compromise and empathy that was required from teams at WMIL and WMF. Thank you! Second, I want to highlight that this is a *our* issue, we are a community

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 15 videos

Sorry for the crosspost. Thanks, -- Forwarded message -- From: Ivan Martínez Date: 2015-09-04 22:38 GMT-05:00 Subject: Wikimania 15 videos To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, the featured speakers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >Much more importantly, Flow very much does cover basic talk pages. You can >write a title and an OP and get people to reply. This has been working for >many months already. This is my definition of "covering basic talk pages". > >Even more importantly is that you can write

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

Who set the targets that will now not be met, how were they decided, and when were they set? I must assume that WLM annual project was not taken into consideration by these planners. Cheers, P -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

Yes, I think it is the case that Fundraising and other organizations (like the WLM coordinators, Wikimedia Italia, and Community Resources / FDC) were working from different playbooks. But now that Fundraising has agreed to change their plans, I think we should give them some breathing room,