Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

2015-09-24 Thread Pine W
Aha, this is what I get for missing office hours. For the record: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-09-18 On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:34 PM, John Lewis wrote: > I believe they already filled the position as they hired Karen about a week > ago (after the announceme

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

2015-09-24 Thread John Lewis
I believe they already filled the position as they hired Karen about a week ago (after the announcement). ca. Staff and contractors page and IRC office hour. John Lewis On Friday, 25 September 2015, Pine W wrote: > Speaking of Trust and Safety, is there going to be a back-filled position > in C

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

2015-09-24 Thread Pine W
Speaking of Trust and Safety, is there going to be a back-filled position in CA in light of Philippe's departure and Maggie's promotion? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

2015-09-24 Thread James Alexander
Hey Fae, As you know that I'm responsible for the spreadsheet that your bot is copying to make that spreadsheet (since you're one of the ones who asked me to make the process more transparent) I would have really appreciated a more private email before this public one. That said, yes there have

[Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

2015-09-24 Thread
Hi, I notice that the table on Meta of specially granted project rights for WMF employees has not been updated since June 2015.[1] Last year it was being amended at least a couple of times a month. Is this down to a technical problem or was there no need to change any employee rights on Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Invitation to WMF September 2015 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, October 1, 18:00 UTC

2015-09-24 Thread Praveena Maharaj
Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, October 1, 2015, at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream. At next month's meeting, we will: * Welcome recent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Departure

2015-09-24 Thread Alex Wang
Garfield, I have deeply appreciated your guidance, humility, and humor whenever I have come to you for advice. You respect for our communities and desire to support them no matter how crazy the situation has been inspiring. You could easily create and enforce rigid processes and rules, but instead

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] next Wikidata office hour

2015-09-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Checking against other sources is indeed a different thing. However when you are able to check against another source, what is the point of the primary sources tool in the first place for that source? Thanks, GerardM On 24 September 2015 at 20:35, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Thu, Sep

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] next Wikidata office hour

2015-09-24 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Tom Morris wrote: >> This is to add MusicBrainz to the primary source tool, not anything else? > > > It's apparently worse than that (which I hadn't realized until I re-read the > transcript). It sounds like it's just going to generate little warning > icons for "

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] next Wikidata office hour

2015-09-24 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > Thanks! Is there any more information on the issue with MusicBrainz? > > 17:26:27 sjoerddebruin: yes, we went for MusicBrainz first, > but it turned out to be impractical. you basically have to run their > software in order to use their dumps

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Departure

2015-09-24 Thread phoebe ayers
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Garfield Byrd wrote: > All, > > For the last four years, I’ve led the Wikimedia Foundation’s finance, > administration, and office IT teams. Four years but I feel like you've been a part of the movement forever! Thank you for everything. Your contributions include

Re: [Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour

2015-09-24 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey everyone :) > > We'll be doing the next Wikidata office hour on September 23rd at > 17:00 UTC. See > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17&min=00&sec=0&day=23&month=09&year=2015 > for your timezone. We'll be meet