[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-02-07 Thread Ashwin Baindur
I agree with Butch Bustria. Considering that the WMF is not short of funds, and there appears to be adequate funds to establish fund deposits outside WMF and fund third party organisations not directly involved in the core vision of the Movement, i.e. to make the sum of human knowledge available

[Wikimedia-l] Feedback invited on proposed requirements for affiliates & user groups recognition changes

2024-02-07 Thread Nataliia Tymkiv
Dear all, I would like to share with you the outputs of the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliate Strategy process [1], and to invite you to give feedback on the proposed changes to requirements for all affiliates & to user groups recognition process (more below). The 2017 Strategic Direction

[Wikimedia-l] Sign up for the language community meeting on February 21st, 12:00 pm UTC!

2024-02-07 Thread Srishti Sethi
Hello all, The next language community meeting is coming up in a few weeks - *February 21st, 12:00 pm UTC*. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page: < https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Community_meetings#21_February_2024 >. This meeting

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-02-07 Thread Gnangarra
Hi I just like to highlight one point, that raises concerns; perhaps enabling other platforms/apps to use our content to make interactive or video materials there. While this sounds like an easy solution we run into a number of hidden costs. These are significant when we push for reusers to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-02-07 Thread Galder Gonzalez LarraƱaga
Thanks Marshall for your pointing out an official answer from the WMF, Let me say that this is not only disappointing, you are also presenting a false dichotomy where we can only "save a kitten" OR "plant a tree", while we have budget, staff and enough talented volunteers to do both. The