Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimédia France

2017-08-07 Thread Natacha Rault
Dear All, More than a quarter of Wikimedia France’s members have requested that several topics be added and voted upon at he next general assembly to be held in september in order to reflect on the current governance issues. The board has just confirmed that the minimum of members requested to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy

2017-08-07 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Can we access this article with no pay wall anywhere? JP On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 9:49 AM Gnangarra wrote: > to quote, worth a read before even considering policies being global > http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23901/abstract > > This article explores the relationship between ling

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy

2017-08-07 Thread Gnangarra
its the cultural differences that influence the policy, so who's culture is more significant than everyone elses that will dictate the policies. On 8 August 2017 at 08:14, John Erling Blad wrote: > Yes there are cultural differences between wikipedias on _content_, but > there should be no diffe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy

2017-08-07 Thread John Erling Blad
Yes there are cultural differences between wikipedias on _content_, but there should be no differences on _policy_ about that content. Note also that there are some differences on use of _facts_ that are highly troublesome, and that comes from relaxed core policies. Armenian genocide for example.

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia 2030: Sharing the draft strategic direction / (#24!)

2017-08-07 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi everyone, TL;DR A draft of the Wikimedia movement’s strategic direction[1] is on Meta. Everyone is invited to read and discuss on the talk page! At the beginning of this year, the Wikimedia movement began a remarkable global discussion to consider our collective future, under the name Wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy

2017-08-07 Thread Gnangarra
to quote, worth a read before even considering policies being global http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23901/abstract This article explores the relationship between linguistic culture and the > preferred standards of presenting information based on article > representation in major Wi