Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems

2018-05-14 Thread FRED BAUDER
Very good. If any willing editor runs into trouble or is made to feel unwelcome or subjected to unfair criticism, that is the time to intervene. We are however not in a position to discourage women or minority editors from "recruiting" or encouraging other minority editors or women to edit. Any

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems

2018-05-14 Thread Romaine Wiki
Was it the first time I noticed this subject in the Wikimedia movement, no. It happens too many times that people get frustrated because the gender, color of their skin or native background is the key reason to ask someone, instead of the qualities that this person has. There are two main reasons

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nini kinakufanya uwe na furaha wiki hii? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 13 May 2018)

2018-05-14 Thread geni
On 13 May 2018 at 01:31, Pine W wrote: > What's making you happy this week? The Gaia data release 2 data is out. Gaia being an ESA spacecraft that is measuring the the position of about a billion stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(spacecraft) The most straightforward application is you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

2018-05-14 Thread James Salsman
On the original topic of technology advocacy representation on the Board, an we please get someone from the open source hardware community and Legal to tell us how much we could save in subpoena, hardware, and overhead costs by avoiding backdoors? Has anyone on the Board ever championed open source

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Rapid Grants Closure May 14 - June 30, 2018

2018-05-14 Thread Laurentius
On mar, 2018-05-01 at 15:51 -0700, Woubzena Jifar wrote: > 2. Regarding having a minimum of $500 for the rapid grants program, > this is something we’re experimenting with while we’re aligning to > the new strategic direction. Our preliminary data is showing that > this change will improve our abil