Re: [Wikimedia-l] New language code for Western Armenian language

2018-02-01 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
This is really great! Congratulations to this success to both of you,
Wikimedia Armenia and the Gulbenkian Foundation!

I really appreciate to see that creating and preserving Free Knowledge can
have such an influence on official language policies :)

Best regards
Cornelius

On 1 February 2018 at 00:00, Delphine Ménard  wrote:

> Congratulations to Wikimedia Armenia for those truly great efforts!
>
> best,
>
> Delphine
>
> 2018-01-31 11:39 GMT+01:00 David Saroyan :
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce that the efforts of Wikimedia Armenia to get
> > separate ISO 639-3 language code for Western Armenian [1] were finally
> > succeeded. SIL International, the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority,
> decided
> > to create the code element [hyw] for Western Armenian. [2]
> >
> > We initiated this process three years ago when we started the
> collaboration
> > with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation [3] in order to foster and
> improve
> > free content in Western Armenian. This resulted in "Western Armenian
> > project" where Wikimedia Armenia through different events and activities
> > started to disseminate and support the creation of Western Armenian
> content
> > with the help of local and diasporan Western Armenian community members.
> >
> > From the launch of the "Western Armenian project" we were challenged with
> > the problem that Western Armenian has no ISO 639-3 language code which
> did
> > not allow the community to split Western Armenian content into a separate
> > language Wikipedia. This problem made lots of  trouble for us, as hy.wiki
> > often had two versions of the same page.
> >
> > Wikimedia Armenia with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation eventually decided
> to
> > apply for code split. [4] This was done mainly with the help of Michael
> > Everson. [5] Besides WM AM and Armenian Communities Department of
> Calouste
> > Gulbenkian foundation there were also other parties involved, such as the
> > department of Armenian Studies of the Institut National des Langues et
> > Civilisations Orientales, Paris and other academic institutions.
> >
> > Today is a special day for Wikimedia Armenia and Western Armenian
> speaking
> > community as our proposal was accepted. Thanks all Wikimedians who
> > supported us in this work.
> >
> > Best,
> > Davit Saroyan
> > Program Manager
> > Wikimedia Armenia
> >
> >
> > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Armenian
> > 2.
> > http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/PastComments/CR_
> > Comments_2017-023.pdf
> > 3. https://gulbenkian.pt/en/
> > 4. http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2017-023.pdf
> > 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Everson
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation January 2018 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, February 1, 16:00 UTC (WMDE edition)

2018-02-01 Thread Gregory Varnum
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 26 January 2018 at 18:08, Nicole Ebber  wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> We are excited to host the January metrics and activities meeting next week
>> and invite you all to join! It will take place on Thursday, February 1, 2018
>> at 4:00 PM UTC (8:00 AM PST) in our office in Berlin. You can join in
>> person, tune in via a live YouTube stream[1] or via the IRC channel
>> #wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net.
>> 
>> During the January metrics meeting, we'll hear from different presenters
>> about past, present and future endeavours, each with a specific
>> movement-relevant angle. We will not only present successes but strive to
>> also talk about things that did not go so well – and what we learned from
>> these setbacks.
>> 
>> Meeting agenda draft (subject to change):
>> * Introduction and welcomes
>> * Coding da Vinci
>> * WMF topic (tba)
>> * Wikidata/Wikibase (tbd)
>> * Guest speaker (tba)
>> * To wiki or not to wiki
>> * WMCON sneak preview
>> * Wikilove
>> * Questions and discussion
>> 
>> Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
>> the meeting and how to participate:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities_meetings
>> 
>> We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Nicole
>> 
>> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFzqTxTfq2Y
>> 
>> 
>>> On 24 January 2018 at 02:09, Gregory Varnum  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> The currently-scheduled January metrics and activities meeting is
>>> scheduled
>>> to occur during the Wikimedia Foundation's annual meeting for staff and
>>> contractors (known as All Hands). Given this, we have a need to
>>> reschedule,
>>> and decided to use that change to experiment.
>>> 
>>> So, I am very excited to share that the January metrics and activities
>>> meeting will be hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland on February 1 from 16:00
>>> to
>>> 17:00 UTC (8:00-9:00 PT).
>>> 
>>> Please stay tuned for more details from Wikimedia Deutschland in the days
>>> to come! I hope that you will turn out and support our friends in Germany
>>> in this experiment as part of our ongoing efforts to make the monthly
>>> metrics and activities meetings representative of our global movement.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Greg and Sam
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>>> Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to the Wikimedia Foundation January 2018 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, February 1, 16:00 UTC (WMDE edition)

2018-02-01 Thread Nicole Ebber
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.





On 26 January 2018 at 18:08, Nicole Ebber  wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We are excited to host the January metrics and activities meeting next week
> and invite you all to join! It will take place on Thursday, February 1, 2018
> at 4:00 PM UTC (8:00 AM PST) in our office in Berlin. You can join in
> person, tune in via a live YouTube stream[1] or via the IRC channel
> #wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net.
>
> During the January metrics meeting, we'll hear from different presenters
> about past, present and future endeavours, each with a specific
> movement-relevant angle. We will not only present successes but strive to
> also talk about things that did not go so well – and what we learned from
> these setbacks.
>
> Meeting agenda draft (subject to change):
> * Introduction and welcomes
> * Coding da Vinci
> * WMF topic (tba)
> * Wikidata/Wikibase (tbd)
> * Guest speaker (tba)
> * To wiki or not to wiki
> * WMCON sneak preview
> * Wikilove
> * Questions and discussion
>
> Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
> the meeting and how to participate:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities_meetings
>
> We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
>
> All the best,
> Nicole
>
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFzqTxTfq2Y
>
>
> On 24 January 2018 at 02:09, Gregory Varnum  wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> The currently-scheduled January metrics and activities meeting is
>> scheduled
>> to occur during the Wikimedia Foundation's annual meeting for staff and
>> contractors (known as All Hands). Given this, we have a need to
>> reschedule,
>> and decided to use that change to experiment.
>>
>> So, I am very excited to share that the January metrics and activities
>> meeting will be hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland on February 1 from 16:00
>> to
>> 17:00 UTC (8:00-9:00 PT).
>>
>> Please stay tuned for more details from Wikimedia Deutschland in the days
>> to come! I hope that you will turn out and support our friends in Germany
>> in this experiment as part of our ongoing efforts to make the monthly
>> metrics and activities meetings representative of our global movement.
>>
>> Best,
>> Greg and Sam
>> --
>> Gregory Varnum
>> Communications Strategist
>> Wikimedia Foundation 
>> gvar...@wikimedia.org
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>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] User Halibutt has passed

2018-02-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:24:09 +0100
Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska  wrote:

> I am sad to inform you that today Krzysztof Machocki (user:Halibutt) has
> passed away. With his passing our community loses a brilliant and
> passionate Wikimedian and Wikimedia Polska loses a valued spokeperson. But
> what is the most important - many of us lose a beloved, beloved friend.
> 
> Krzysztof was known for his joy and passion. For his faith in how Wikipedia
> makes the world better.
> We lose him but let us not lose that faith.
> 
> There is a memorial page on Polish Wikipedia. You can leave your
> condolences there and we will give them to Krzysztof's family.
> 
> https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Halibutt/Ksi%C4%99ga
> 
> 

Sorry to hear about that.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Duty of care

2018-02-01 Thread Robert Rohde
Hi Renee,

Not a real answer, but you might consider looking for different
terminology.  Using "duty of care" the way you do is more common in British
English.  On the American side of the pond, it is less common to talk about
a "duty of care" and more common to talk about specific issues, like health
and safety.  I don't know if there is a specific policy regarding the WMF's
relationship with volunteers, but if there is (and if it was drafted by
Americans), then it might well be framed and phrased differently without
necessarily referencing "duty" as such.

Good luck.

-Robert

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Renée Bagslint 
wrote:

> Looking at a couple of situations that have arisen recently on one of the
> projects, where the health and well-being of volunteers might have been
> affected by their participation, I wonder where we can find a clear
> statement of the Foundation's Duty of Care towards the volunteers?  I
> looked on Meta, but the search appeared to return only pages relevant to
> the Trustees duty towards the Foundation.  I was looking for something
> about the Foundation's duty towards the community?  Can anyone help?
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