[Wikimedia-l] Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for projects and mentors

2018-02-12 Thread Srishti Sethi
Hello everyone, Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2018! We already have recruited six project ideas and mentors, but we are looking for a minimum of *14-15 ideas* more, as Google Summer of Code is a neat platform to bring new developers :)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Don Wikimedians User Group

2018-02-12 Thread Md. Ibrahim Husain
A warm congratulation to members of Don Wikimedians User Group. Cheers!!! Md. Ibrahim Husain Meraj ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Strategy Report Released: Wikimedia 2030: Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons

2018-02-12 Thread Caitlin Virtue
(Apologies for the formatting issues in the previous email.) Hi Everyone, On Thursday, we released an extensive research report [1] about Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons. The report was created as part of the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process, as the Foundation

[Wikimedia-l] Timeless grant resubmission

2018-02-12 Thread Isarra Yos
Hey all, As many of you know, the Timeless skin was deployed for testing across all Wikimedia projects in late November last year. I submitted a Project Grant proposal at the time seeking funding to more actively support for this deployment as well as enable further development based on user

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: January 2018

2018-02-12 Thread The 'This Month in GLAM' team
*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org.

[Wikimedia-l] Strategy Report Released: Wikimedia 2030: Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons

2018-02-12 Thread Caitlin Virtue
*Hi Everyone, On Thursday, we released an extensive research report [1] about Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons. The report was created as part of the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process, as the Foundation engaged research teams to examine awareness and usage of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours - Structured Commons - Tuesday 13 February

2018-02-12 Thread Keegan Peterzell
A reminder that this is occurring tomorrow, 13 February. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > Greetings, > > As the subject line says, there will be a Wikimedia Foundation-hosted IRC > office hours [0] this coming Tuesday, 13 February 2018, from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Don Wikimedians User Group

2018-02-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:40:30 -0500 Kirill Lokshin wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized > the Don Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group's > goals are the development and

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

2018-02-12 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized the Don Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group's goals are the development and dissemination of free knowledge about the Don region and Cossack culture, and the promotion of Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-12 Thread Sydney Poore
Very sorry to learn of his passing. He will be missed. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians, Co-founder WikiWomen User Group, Co-founder WikiConference North America Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Md. Ibrahim Husain

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Windows 10 lockscreen images

2018-02-12 Thread James Heilman
Anyone within the community can reach out to them and ask. Agree this is a good idea. J On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:09 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Following this up, from last August. Did anyone at WMF see it? I don't > think we had a response from anyone there. > > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RFC on wikimedia-l posting limits

2018-02-12 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Le 09/02/2018 à 22:57, Chris Koerner a écrit : As for the usefulness of this mailing list I can only speak for myself. I work remotely. I have conditioned into me from previous experiences not to send frivolous single-sentence replies. However in my experience within the movement, these sort

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Windows 10 lockscreen images

2018-02-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
Following this up, from last August. Did anyone at WMF see it? I don't think we had a response from anyone there. On 20 August 2017 at 00:08, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Those of you running Windows 10 will be familiar with the > regularly-changing "lockscreen" images

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

2018-02-12 Thread Dumisani Ndubane
He will be sorely missed. Condolences to his community members and family. *Dumisani Ndubane* Monitoring & Evaluation Strategist Wikimedia Foundation ✆ | +27 74 587 8616 ✉ | dndub...@wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/ *"Imagine a world in which every single