Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
Thank you Katherine, We will be happy to see you in Tunis! Along with other reps of the WMF I hope, with the possibility of booking appointments with : - T - outreach - grant rep - tech rep Kind regards, Nattes à chat > Le 16 sept. 2019 à 23:54, Katherine Maher a écrit : > > Hi all, > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
Hi Jane, Thank you for your answer, but I think I did not make my point clear enough given the answer you made. On the francophone wiki there is not “local WIR”. There are a few sister projects like les sans pages of which I am the founder (so people might turn to me for questions) or

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: GSoC 2019 and Outreachy Round 18 are over! Call for projects and mentors for Outreachy Round 19 begins.

2019-09-16 Thread Srishti Sethi
Hello all, Just a reminder that the deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 24th. If you are considering to mentor a project via Outreachy, please reach out to me with a project idea before the deadline! Cheers, Srishti *Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi all, Just a quick note that I was invited to Wikiconvention on Friday 9 August by Wikimedia France. On Monday 12 August (delayed by travel to Wikimania!) I sent a note expressing my regrets, as I had a family wedding to attend during that same weekend as the Convention. I also asked at the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
Thanks for sharing this Leila! This is of course a useful angle. Nattes > Le 16 sept. 2019 à 21:51, Leila Zia a écrit : > > Hi, > > A different angle for looking at the question of WMF staff attending > community events which may help this conversation: > > As a staff member (and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Leila Zia
Hi, A different angle for looking at the question of WMF staff attending community events which may help this conversation: As a staff member (and acknowledging that my position is none of the ones Thierry called out in their first email on this thread), with the exception of a few community

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Earlier time! September 18, 2019 at 9:30 AM PT, 16:30 UTC

2019-09-16 Thread Janna Layton
Hello everyone, This is just a reminder that the Research Showcase will be this Wednesday, with Miriam Redi and Jonathan Morgan from the Foundation presenting. On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:10 PM Janna Layton wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Gereon, you clearly forget the whole Mediaviewer saga and attendance of WMF staff at the following WikiCon in Cologne ;-) But that was a long time ago :-) On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 01:53, Gereon Kalkuhl wrote: > Since 2010 we have the WikiCon for the German language communities with > more than

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Diane Ranville
Hi Gereon; "German communities are established and have strong chapters. I suppose the same applies to the French language communites." => Well, no. The situation is different because the WikiConvention Francophone is half African. African french-speaking affiliates are not strong, they are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Jane Darnell
As far as Art+Feminism goes, this project concentrates on biographies of female artists. The English Wikipedia project "Women in Red" is open 24x7 all year round and concentrates on biographies of women on English Wikipedia, period. So you can take all of your local Wikipedia questions about A+F