[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

OMG. I've just committed a rightclickcide. Vito Il giorno gio 13 gen 2022 alle ore 06:07 Brion Vibber ha scritto: > To make sure, is this the same guy? > > https://twitter.com/luisatlive > > -- brion > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 9:20 AM Nataliia Tymkiv > wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Please join

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

To make sure, is this the same guy? https://twitter.com/luisatlive -- brion On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 9:20 AM Nataliia Tymkiv wrote: > Dear All, > > Please join me in welcoming Luis Bitencourt-Emilio to the Wikimedia > Foundation Board of Trustees. Luis was unanimously appointed to a 3-year >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

Hi all, We gave the option of accepting nominations in more languages some more thought. I want to be very honest: I don't have a good solution to accommodate more languages in this cycle. We considered the option of allowing/encouraging nominations in other languages, and not doing the broader

[Wikimedia-l] Re: RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

If you live in China or the USA, no payment system is guaranteed invisible from state agents. There is no reason to believe that cryptocurrency transactions going in or out of countries with sophisticated security agencies could be any more anonymous or trustworthy than, say, an anonymous payment

[Wikimedia-l] Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Dear All, Please join me in welcoming Luis Bitencourt-Emilio to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Luis was unanimously appointed to a 3-year term and replaces a board-selected Trustee, Lisa Lewin, whose term ended in November 2021 [1]. Currently based in São Paulo, Luis is the Chief

[Wikimedia-l] new board for Wiki Project Med Foundation...

Hello, I am writing to share that Wiki Project Med Foundation has elected a new board. Wiki Project Med Foundation is the Wikimedia community affiliate organization which develops medical content in the Wikimedia platform and related open projects. Information about the organization including a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

Hoi, For what it is worth, I don't mind the WMF accepting crypto.. I do mind WMF hanging on to crypto currencies. So when they get it and monetise it immediately, all well and good. The motto being: You do not look a gift horse in the mouth ... Thanks, GerardM On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Re: Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

În mar., 11 ian. 2022 la 08:01, Kunal Mehta a scris: > > So I think the status quo can be changed by just about anyone who is > motivated to do so, not by trying to convince the WMF to change its > prioritization, but just by doing the work. We should be empowering > those people rather than

[Wikimedia-l] Just a few more days to go for the January #1Lib1Ref!

Hello fellow Wikimedians, librarians, and bibliophiles, I hope you are doing alright and staying healthy in this new year. The January round of the 2022 1Lib1Ref starts on the 21st birthday of Wikipedia,15th January, and will run until 5th February. I am thrilled to share

[Wikimedia-l] Re: RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

Implying the most common cryptos are actually safe by this pont of view. Vito Il giorno mer 12 gen 2022 alle ore 13:37 Nickanc Wikimedia < nickanc.w...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > I am honestly shocked about how the whole discussion does not touch the > fact that for many people in many countries

[Wikimedia-l] Re: RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations

I am honestly shocked about how the whole discussion does not touch the fact that for many people in many countries supporting wikimedia is politically inconvenient and doing so in a very transparent way such as through the banking system might result in a backslash from the authorities. We