Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Plea from Wikimedia Portugal

2018-10-12 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
I don't think there is little hope neither for WMPT, not for AffCom. WMPT is, by all accounts, an healthy chapter - or at least in frank recovery - which, for about one year is having intermittent problems with a single associate, in what can be well described as a growing pain. Since the long dor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Plea from Wikimedia Portugal

2018-10-12 Thread Pine W
I'm making some general comments, which I plan will be my last in this thread for awhile: * I think that a certain amount of compliance verification for WMF trademark agreements and affiliate agreements is understandable, and AffCom is one body that can participate in that verification. * WMF's

[Wikimedia-l] FloatableEditingButton

2018-10-12 Thread Ananth Subray
Dear All, I am here to inform you that Indic-TechCom had got its second request to create a javascript to create the floatable editing button[1]. The community members also mentioned that this tool may help them to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome. This script will give you an extra icon on the top ri

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Passing on praise/ISWC trip report

2018-10-12 Thread Pine W
Forwarding some good news. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) -- Forwarded message - From: Markus Kroetzsch Date: Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 12:30 AM Subject: [Wikidata] Passing on praise/ISWC trip report To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Dear all, I am

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Plea from Wikimedia Portugal

2018-10-12 Thread Chico Venancio
I am not surprised by the lack of follow through by Affcom. In the Brazilian case we were told a few times we met all requisites for chapter recognition, but the existence of another user group in the country was something they felt was enough to disqualify us until they figured out their rules. Up

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Plea from Wikimedia Portugal

2018-10-12 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Since the first reports about Vasconcelos from WMPT to AffCom, before the 15 April General Assembly, we were asking AffCom for legal support to deal with the situation caused by Vasconcelos, as we are all volunteers and, unlike AffCom, we have no easy access to lawyers - or at least are unable to p