Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline announcements

2018-10-21 Thread Pine W
Hi Lodewijk, I want to encourage people to feel comfortable with posting in-scope and civil emails to WMF mailing lists, but my personal opinion is that the number of reminders is sometimes excessive and the related costs are non-trivial. My view is that excessive reminders about meetings have r

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline announcements

2018-10-21 Thread effe iets anders
Hi Pine, I would also suggest not to get overly bureaucratic with this :) If the public meeting you refer to requires a large attendance, the 14 days makes sense for example - but I cannot recall many meetings of that style. Rather, most meetings are either scheduled taking the availability of par

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to a "Wikimedia Café" casual online meetup

2018-10-21 Thread Pine W
Hi folks, The Wikimedia Café meetup for October will be on October 25. At this meetup I would like to have a brief discussion about Wikidata's increasingly prominent role in Wikimedia and in the broader world. If you would like to participate in the meetup and have another topic in mind for discu