Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

We will check on both. On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:17 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: > Lila, would you be able to somehow contact the Russian government? > On Nov 23, 2015 18:25, "Samir Elsharbaty" > wrote: > > > Some suggestions of things we can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

All the best brane!! On Nov 23, 2015 18:43, "Samir Elsharbaty" wrote: > Brane, > > I didn't have the pleasure of meeting you but I heard a lot of nice > stories, so, please get well soon because I would like to have this > pleasure! > > -- > Samir Elsharbaty, >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Lila, would you be able to somehow contact the Russian government? On Nov 23, 2015 18:25, "Samir Elsharbaty" wrote: > Some suggestions of things we can do: > > 1. The list of signatories on the amnesty international website does not > include the WMF, the Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hoi, I was so afraid when I read that Bassel has been sentenced to death. I read it on the website of Amnesty International [1]. I blogged about him in the past [2]. I am sad to say that it is him. Bassel was active as a Wikimedian, he worked towards making information available about Palmyra.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

Hi Andreas, On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Moreover, I was somewhat surprised to learn the other day that, apparently, > over 80 percent of Wikidata statements are either unreferenced or only > referenced to a Wikipedia: > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Gnangarra wrote: > 5.People need to able to trust all data in WikiData, otherwise they just > wont use it because as Wikidata expands the same PR firms, interest groups > which have seen so many of WP issues will gravitate to the easier to >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

We fully acknowledge the issue with the shortened AP review this year and are committed to the 30 day review going forward. Since the overall issue has been noted since as far back as 2012 we are doing a review of our process in comparison to the FDC standards to build best practices going

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

Could you answer this question in plain language, please, as this answer feels like a "kiss off". > On Nov 23, 2015, at 8:27 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote: > > We fully acknowledge the issue with the shortened AP review this year and > are committed to the 30 day review

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

I likewise appreciate the strong language on the situation with the WMF; the general opacity and vagueness of public budget plans (especially considering the requirements for affiliate organisations in this area) is something that has been widely noted on this list and elsewhere, and to my mind

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

some resposnes to Leila comments 1. Its not a disaster but it is a serious concern, we know from past experiences that it goes to the heart of the projects long term credibility, Countless hours and funds have gone into redressing Wikipedias reputation and still after 8 years of doing this we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

Thank you FDC. Many of the small and midsized APG requests fared well in this round. That is nice to see. I find it concerning that the larger the organization, the more problems the FDC seemed to find with the org's budget and performance management practices. One would expect the larger

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

On 23 November 2015 at 21:04, Pine W wrote: > Thank you FDC. > > Many of the small and midsized APG requests fared well in this round. That > is nice to see. > > I find it concerning that the larger the organization, the more problems > the FDC seemed to find with the org's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

Hoi, To start of, results from the past are no indications of results in the future. It is the disclaimer insurance companies have to state in all their adverts in the Netherlands. When you continue and make it a "theological" issue, you lose me because I am not of this faith, far from it.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hoi, Sorry but in my opinion there seems to be a lack of urgency. An update to an old blogpost when someone is sentenced to death? Is that all?REALLY At this time we can make a big issue out of it by asking attention for Bassel from our Central Notice. It is after all the first time that a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

I had a go at simplifying: > We know spending less time on this is a problem, but we're going to try to do better. In order to help with this, we'll also be looking at what's happened in previous years in order to see where things fell short then, comparing that to what the FDC standards say

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Some suggestions of things we can do: 1. The list of signatories on the amnesty international website does not include the WMF, the Wikimedia community, any of our affiliations or any representation from the Wikimedia movement. I wonder if we can contact them and request adding any of the above

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Branislav Jovanovic, User:BraneJ in critical condition

Brane, I didn't have the pleasure of meeting you but I heard a lot of nice stories, so, please get well soon because I would like to have this pleasure! -- Samir Elsharbaty, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +20.100.944.3478 education.wikimedia.org On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:58

[Wikimedia-l] Museum v. WMF and WMDE in Commons copyright lawsuit

'Tis the season for a lawsuit: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/23/lawsuit-public-domain-art/ Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

This is such a sad news. I have been following news about him and i can't believe this. This is a black day in the history of Human Civilization. We can indeed do little things like sharing posts about him and writing about him because that is all we can do perhaps. Regards Satdeep Gill

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

Hi Samir and all, We are happy to continue posting about Bassel, with all our hopes that he emerges OK. We posted about this latest development when it was first reported a few weeks ago. This morning we updated our blog post and