[Wikimedia-l] Reminder of Deadline to Participate in Future of Wikimania Consultation

Dear Colleagues, I’m writing to seek your feedback on the consultation to improve Wikimania, open until 18 January 2016. If you have already contributed, we are most grateful. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beyond the Board (was: WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google)

No, I think the questions of community representation on the Board and the creation of an independent body able to represent the communities are orthogonal. I do not see anyone suggesting that the Board should not have community representatives. But I see the need for a body representing the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beyond the Board (was: WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google)

David, thanks for that perspective. I agree that in theory the Foundation has the power you describe. But it is the same theory that lead to the implementation of Superprotect, and we know how this worked out. I do not think that the use of such a power would be accepted. Or am I wrong? Denny

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

Crikey, balance, spam, dont contribute, very little contribution, +1 pile on (though we dont see many -1 pile ons). we are society/community that works because we collaborate we assume good faith int he actions of others, we know that while we speak(email) in english many of us have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How To Recover From Having Made A Mistake [a reminder]

Thank you Ad! Hi everyone, I am Kelly : ) ! Seriously, very happy to be part of this amazing effort. Have lots to learn but committed to doing my best. Thank you everyone for giving me this opportunity. Happy New Year and here is to a great 2016! Best, Kelly On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Ad

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

Thankspam is not big a problem in my opinion. One or two seconds per message and you're done, then your mind will be full of good. What I find most annoying are long emails with few actual contents. You have to read them to find out they were not worth reading. Il 13/01/2016 12:11, Fæ ha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How To Recover From Having Made A Mistake [a reminder]

Thanks Asaf for sharing this (for last 3 days I am thinking to send this email) Hello Kelly :) On 14 January 2016 at 12:27, Kelly Battles wrote: > Thank you Ad! > Hi everyone, I am Kelly : ) ! > > Seriously, very happy to be part of this amazing effort. > Have lots to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

These days those messages are the best stuffs sent to this list, I'm definitely not bored by them. Anyone subscribing this list knows is a 500 emails/months list. Vito Il 13/01/2016 19:15, Milos Rancic ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Chris Keating

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

On Jan 14, 2016 8:35 PM, "Luis Villa" wrote: > > I agree that thankspam is somewhat irritating, but it is also a good way to > make people feel welcome and appreciated. An alternative is to consider > moving wikimedia-l to a tool like discourse.org Thanks for that idea.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [announcement] Ombudsman commission wider scope

This is excellent news, and has been years in the making. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > Thanks Dariusz. As not all members of the Ombudsman Commission subscribe > this list, I forwarded this to them :-) > > > > 2016-01-14 15:58 GMT+01:00 Dariusz

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

I agree that thankspam is somewhat irritating, but it is also a good way to make people feel welcome and appreciated. An alternative is to consider moving wikimedia-l to a tool like discourse.org that has (1) built-in likes, which communicate welcome and appreciation without creating noise and (2)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [announcement] Ombudsman commission wider scope

+1, very good news. -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] p.s. As an aside, the role of an "ombudsman" has come up in two other contexts (relating to actions of WMF personnel, rather than volunteer functionaries) on the Transparency Gap page started a couple weeks ago:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appreciation

Thanks for the kind words, Pete. For what it is worth, other details on our initial proposal to FDC are on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_2016-17_Annual_Planning_Recommendation Note that this was the initial proposal, and we are deliberately trying to keep it fluid, so some things will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge

Le 15/01/16 00:52, Juliet Barbara a écrit : This press release is also available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_celebrates_15_years_of_free_knowledge And as a blog post here:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Update

On 14 January 2016 at 18:41, Lisa Gruwell wrote: > > >The Wikimedia Endowment has been established as a Collective Action Fund >at Tides Foundation as a permanent, >income-generating fund to support the Wikimedia projects. Tides has >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

Nice to hear about it, Mardentanha. Great news! Bangladesh has planned to celebrate it in a few hours. :-) More later. Till then, keep celebrating people. T. Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia On 15 January 2016 at 00:30, Mardetanha wrote: > Dear Fellow

[Wikimedia-l] Appreciation

Today in the Metrics & Activities meeting, the WMF took a significant step toward improving its transparency and accountability -- something under much discussion in recent weeks. The cause of this was not the recent drama around the Board, but a recommendation given by the FDC in November 2015,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Update

On 14 January 2016 at 18:41, Lisa Gruwell wrote: > The Wikimedia Endowment has been established as a Collective Action Fund For those of us not familiar with US laws and terminology, what is a "Collective Action Fund? (I tried [[Collective Action Fund]], on

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: ** DATE CHANGE ** Invitation to WMF December 2015 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, January 14, 19:00 UTC

REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. -- Forwarded message -- From: Praveena Maharaj Date: Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:00 AM Subject: ** DATE CHANGE ** Invitation to WMF December 2015 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, January 14, 19:00 UTC To:

[Wikimedia-l] Endowment Update

Hi all- As you may have seen today, we announcing the Wikimedia Endowment as a part of WIkipedia’s 15th birthday. I want to thank everyone who engaged on meta to help us think through the initial decisions regarding the endowment. Here is a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Update

Thanks for this announcement, Lisa. This fits in nicely with the discussions some of us are having about strategic planning for the community and for WMF. Adding Pete to this email thread because he might want to take note of this announcement for the panel discussion that he is moderating on

[Wikimedia-l] [announcement] Ombudsman commission wider scope

hi, I'm writing to you to bring the news that, after a while of work and discussion, the Board has finally addressed the need to amend the scope of our Ombudsman Commission, following the community consensus from a while back [1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beyond the Board (was: WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google)

My issue with the current proposal on Meta is that it creates a body which works towards the Board. This is, in my opinion, a fundamental mistake: it perpetuates the idea that the Board is the major governing body of the movement at large. I would very much prefer an independent and strong body