1) The donations from the Wikimedia supporters do not have any strings
attached, they are given in good faith with no expectations of anything
back. There are many charities that donate to the WMF without any fixed
metrics/kpi about what the WMF is doing with the money. Given these two
precedents i
Its raining around Cape town including the catchment areas
On 27 May 2018 at 12:19, Pine W wrote:
> The Wikidata development team released to production the first version of
> Wikidata support of lexicographical data: https://lists.wikimedia.org/
> pipermail/wikidata/2018-May/012090.html.
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The Wikidata development team released to production the first version of
Wikidata support of lexicographical data: https://lists.wikimedia.org/
pipermail/wikidata/2018-May/012090.html.
A large issue of *The Signpost* was published with several
thought-provoking pieces:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w
every grant from the WMF or affiliates have fixed metrics/kpi(key
performance indicators) to ensure the grabt is doing what it set out to do,
failing to do that would negatively impact its charity status.
on the legal side the issue is centered around whether the wmf has any
editorial oversight, e
I have the feeling that we need to clarify what it means to be a "paid
admin" vs a "community-supported volunteer".
In my definition, a "paid admin" is a person who receives a salary to
perform a delimited function not necessarily aligned with his/her will.
There is a contractual obligation where
That is great news, congrats and thanks to all involved! Support of
Wikimedia/MediaWiki developers and software reusers has gone through a
quantum leap in the last year or so, and this is another solid step towards
creating a more healthy FLOSS ecosystem.
I'd also like to echo what Trey said: whil
Having paid admins would shift the WMF or an affiliate in to being legally
responsible for the content on Wikipedia, it would also potentailly expose
those editors to additional issue in their own countries, or during their
travel
On 26 May 2018 at 17:52, David Cuenca Tudela wrote:
> > it would
> it would be too controversial having paid administrators.
Controversial for who? So far nobody stepped into this conversation to say
that direct support of community members with community money is not ok for
whatever reason they might have.
Regards,
Micru
On Sat, 26 May 2018, 10:35 Anders Wen
My own reflection reading this discussion is that there is a difference
between vandalism and POV pushing.
For vandalism we have better routines in place and also tools like ORES,
and also a system of steward who can acts in cases of crosswikivandals
For Pov pushing and especially cross wiki
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:41 AM, James Salsman wrote:
> I'm not sure that's true. Whether it started as a game of Nomic or
> not, almost all of the admins have been elected through a certainly
> established process.
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That someone does an activity or that this person has been elected to
perform
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