Re: [Wikimedia-l] FY1819 Fundraising Report

Hi Philip, We do not publish country-level fundraising numbers. My colleague Stephen discussed why on this list a few years back, so rather than paraphrasing his previous email I'll just provide a link to it: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-November/085576.html Best, Chuck

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Huhall] Viola wikipedia

Hello, I am not able to access referenced PDFs right now, assuming it's authoritative enough. I hope it's not a prank, specially considering its name... El 1/10/19 a les 17:46, Samuel Klein ha escrit: > From a Harvard biology list, via my friend Chris: a newly named species of > Viola

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF work environment

A surprising amount of staff turnover, and the relation between WMF and the communities extremely eroded by a row of bad moves and general bad attitude. I was told I'm too new to this, and it was worst during superprotect, but it's still mind-boggling why what was supposed to be a symbiotic and ha

[Wikimedia-l] WMF work environment

Hello, Something I am sensing from multiple sources, sometimes more through implication than specific statements, is that there is a sense of turmoil in WMF. I think that some amounts of internal politics and staff turnover are normal, but over the past few months I am sensing an increase in inter

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Outcomes of the Harmonization Sprint in Tunis

Hi Henry, Apparently things have changed since then: " *The timeline will shift and we are looking into options for another round of community input.*" (Nicole) These are promising news from the core team, I hope this new round of community input goes forward. Best, Paulo Henry Wood escreveu n

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Outcomes of the Harmonization Sprint in Tunis

Hello, I hope that we can be candid about problems without becoming deeply cynical. I think that there are many problems in WMF, but I also don't want to demoralize good WMF board members, staff, or contractors (imagine what would happen if the good ones all quit) or any strategy working group con

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Outcomes of the Harmonization Sprint in Tunis

I'm not sure I could design a process more guaranteed to result in complete resistance from the community if I tried. It's gobsmacking that far more effort was made on putting together a nice little junket to Tunisia than any sort of effort to seek community-buy-in. The working groups had next-to-n

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How does Wikimedia handle non-US requests for user information?

As a follow-up, it would be helpful for those community members in the EU to know how the Foundation handles GDPR requests. Henry On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 07:29, David Gerard wrote: > > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_user_information_procedures_%26_guidelines > > What do you tel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Outcomes of the Harmonization Sprint in Tunis

Paulo, There is nothing more for us to do, since community input closed on the 15 September. The community will next be consulted on the implementation of the recommendations after they are finally agreed. Henry On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 18:08, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > > " A second iteration

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Vad glädjer dig den här veckan? / What’s making you happy this week? (Week of 29 September 2019)

At the 30th of September Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece received the Silver Award in the category of Education for its volunteer work, in the VoluntaryAction Festival held by Skywalker.gr and the Municipality of Athens. Congratulations are in order for our educators Xristos Nasios,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Outcomes of the Harmonization Sprint in Tunis

That's helpful. Volunteers are repeatedly shut down asking questions on this list and on wiki project noticeboards, by being told they should ask questions on these more obscure and hard to find meta talk pages. So it's good to know that when we are redirected this way, it's fair to say that those

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Outcomes of the Harmonization Sprint in Tunis

Dear Paulo and Ziko, Thanks for your interest and your questions. Regarding the second iteration of the recommendations: We posted them for your information, to provide insights into how different strands of input have been progressed so far. We are not in a structured open consultation phase at