Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] July 15, 2020: Medical Knowledge on Wikipedia

2020-07-13 Thread Janna Layton
Hello all, Reminder that this very topical Research Showcase will be happening on Wednesday. On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 12:26 PM Janna Layton wrote: > Hi all, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, July 15, at > 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. > > Wikipedia is one of the most

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New essay on the ambiguity of NC licenses

2020-07-13 Thread Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
I would probably never try to convince somebody about NC license. It sounds pushy and almost never works, it's like optimizing a process that has a 0.1% output. of course I can spend less time to do so, and maybe double the effect, but it's still a limited output. I prefer to agree with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikitech-l] CI and Code Review

2020-07-13 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Apologies for the cross-post, but doing so because the thread was forwarded, also apologies for the length. On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 5:01 PM Maarten Dammers wrote: > Of interest to the wider community. I really hope this is not part of a > larger pattern of the WMF ignoring community. > > "Never

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee 2020 Mid-Term Election results

2020-07-13 Thread Rajeeb Dutta
I congratulate all the elected members. Best Regards, Rajeeb. (U: Marajozkee) (Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity) > On 13-Jul-2020, at 2:58 AM, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight > wrote: > > Subject line: Affiliations Committee 2020 Mid-Term Election results > > Dear everyone, > > We are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New essay on the ambiguity of NC licenses

2020-07-13 Thread Pete Forsyth
Erik, thanks for posting the essay here. Glad to see the interest in this topic. I wrote this because I have found that when somebody asks me about the NC provision, I often want to point them to a simple webpage (rather than "reinventing the wheel" every time it comes up). There are some pages