[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group

Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized the Hindi Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to advance the work of the Wikimedia movement in the Hindi language. Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

Hi Robert, > > > > Simply highlighting the ~1 page of arguably controversial stuff in a 67 > > page document is also unlikely to be optimal, because it creates a biased > > and misleading impression of the whole document, and gives the impression > > (accurately or not) that one's main interest

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

Hello Rogol, > > > > Whether the staff concerned feel it's a good use of their time to respond > > in detail on Meta or on this email list, who knows. There is always a > > judgement call to be made about what it's helpful for staff to spend > their > > time replying to. However, if I was in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 4:20 AM, Chris Keating wrote: > > > Simply highlighting the ~1 page of arguably controversial stuff in a 67 > page document is also unlikely to be optimal, because it creates a biased > and misleading impression of the whole document, and gives

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

Chris On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, you wrote: > > Whether the staff concerned feel it's a good use of their time to respond > in detail on Meta or on this email list, who knows. There is always a > judgement call to be made about what it's helpful for staff to spend their > time replying to.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Publicpolicy] Wikimedia Sverige vs. the Visual Copyright Society in Sweden (BUS)

Well bummer. I hope that you can figure out a good lobbying next step. Cheers, Alex On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:41 AM, John Andersson wrote: > Today we received some bad news in Sweden. The Swedish Patent and Market > Court ruled against Wikimedia Sverige in a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

Dear Rogol, On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Rogol Domedonfors wrote: > > 1: Surely the audit is of interest to those with whom the Foundation wishes > to communicate, which includes the donors, who are paying for it, and the > volunteers, whose work is being presented to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

Chris Your points 1: Surely the audit is of interest to those with whom the Foundation wishes to communicate, which includes the donors, who are paying for it, and the volunteers, whose work is being presented to the world at large in ways that might not always be consistent with their values and