[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising: Pre-launch Update

2018-11-26 Thread Joseph Seddon
Hey Everyone, I wanted to send a quick reminder that on Tuesday, 27th November, at 16:00 UTC, we will launch our mobile and banner campaigns. We expect to run the fundraising campaign on English Wikipedia in 6 countries: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. You may notice some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-26 Thread Ilario Valdelli
History does not require a judge. It's the storiography to be judge. Here the problem is to give relevance to some sources and to neglect (completely) others. If a single not neutral source is considered as the Holy Bible, the same pillars of Wikipedia are infringed. Kind regards On Mon, 26

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-26 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I think that this case is so complicated that the admin or the steward sometimes are not prepared to face a big problem like this. They evaluate two opinions without having a background to define what is true and what is not. In this case the evaluation can be not neutral. Anyways the bias us

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-26 Thread Dennis During
Who is the judge? Are we going to join Facebook, Google, Twitter, et al as the new press barons? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-26 Thread Chico Venancio
Since no one is pure we should accept and embrace intolerant and hateful propaganda in Wikimedia projects? Is that the argument you are making, Dennis? Chico Venancio Em seg, 26 de nov de 2018 09:55, Dennis During It's a good thing that our thoughts and deeds are so pure that we have > become

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-26 Thread Dennis During
It's a good thing that our thoughts and deeds are so pure that we have become entitled to purify the thoughts and deeds of others. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l diversity and level of participation

2018-11-26 Thread Dakota Ross
I can't find a more formal way to word this message, so I'll hope something along the lines of a word vomit essay is alright. I think a major part of the problem you brought up is a lack of easily accessible resources to get involved. Sure, Meta tells users *how to get on mailing lists*, but

[Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-26 Thread stjn
This mailing list is usually positive, but we need to talk about something rotten. I was linked to this Meta RfC by my Russian colleague: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Administrator_abuse_on_the_Croatian_Wikipedia The author and commentators, with notable evidence, allege

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikipedia & Education User Group] Logo Challenge

2018-11-26 Thread Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Dear all, As a step forward to increase community participation in the user group activities, the Wikipedia & Education User Group is organising logo challenge to invite Wikimedians (even non-Wikimedians) to design and nominate a new logo for the newly formed user group. The nomination period

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikipedia & Education User Group] Logo Challenge

2018-11-26 Thread Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Correction: Nomination period starts from tomorrow i.e. 23 November 2018, and ends on 16 December 2018. In the earlier email it was mentioned as 2019. Sorry for the confusion. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Logo_challenge Thanks On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 9:21