Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[Alice Wiegand]

German, also.

Alice.

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 21.04.2017 um 19:25 schrieb attolippip :
> 
> and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions
> 
> Best regards,
> antanana
> 
> 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni :
> 
>> If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread?
>> Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :)
>> 
>> בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia"  כתב:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> ==Background==
>>> In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that
>>> helped us understand English Wikipedia readers better. (Presentation
>>> at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaMuWA84bY ). I talked about how
>>> we used English, Persian, and Spanish Wikipedia readers' inputs to
>>> build a taxonomy of Wikipedia use-cases along several dimensions,
>>> capturing users’ motivations to visit Wikipedia, the depth of
>>> knowledge they are seeking, and their knowledge of the topic of
>>> interest prior to visiting Wikipedia. I also talked about the results
>>> of the study we did to quantify the prevalence of these use-cases via
>>> a large-scale user survey conducted on English Wikipedia. In that
>>> study, we also matched survey responses to the respondents’ digital
>>> traces in Wikipedia’s server logs which enabled us in discovering
>>> behavioral patterns associated with specific use-cases. You can read
>>> the full study at https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05379 .
>>> 
>>> ==What do we want to do now?==
>>> There are quite a few directions this research can continue on, and
>>> the most immediate one is to understand whether the results that we
>>> observe (in English Wikipeida) is robust across languages/cultures.
>>> For this, we are going to repeat the study, but this time in more
>>> languages. Here are the languages on our list: Arabic, Dutch, English,
>>> Hindi, Japanese, Spanish (thanks to all the volunteers who have been
>>> helping us translating all survey related documents to these
>>> languages.:)
>>> 
>>> ==What about your language?==
>>> If your language is not one of the six languages above and you'd like
>>> to learn about the readers of Wikipedia in it (in the specific ways
>>> described above), please get back to me by Monday, April 24, AoE. I
>>> cannot guarantee that we can run the study in your language, however,
>>> I guarantee that we will give it a good try if you're interested. The
>>> decision to include more languages will depend on: our capacity to do
>>> the analysis, the speed at which your community can help us translate
>>> the material to the language, the traffic to that language, a couple
>>> of sentences on how you'd think the result can help your community,
>>> and your willingness to help us document the results for your language
>>> at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
>>> Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour
>>> (Quite some work will need to go to have readable/usable
>>> documentations available and we are too small to be able to guarantee
>>> that on our own for many languages.)
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Leila
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Leila Zia
>>> Senior Research Scientist
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,
congrats to the elected Board members. It’s great to see people stepping up and 
taking responsibility, especially in times where leadership is needed.

Jackie, may I ask for some elaboration on the subject of this thread? You say 
„most contended … election“ and I wonder what that means. In my understanding 
this is a nuance of controversial and I don’t get the point where it is more 
controversial than any other election. Maybe it gets lost in translation, maybe 
it’s me not having the complete insight of what has been discussed. 

Alice.





> Am 07.09.2021 um 20:10 schrieb Jackie Koerner :
> 
> Translations can be found on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedi 
> a_Foundation_elections/2021/2021-09-07/2021_Election_Results
>  
> 
> 
> Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 Board election. The 
> Elections Committee has reviewed the votes of the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation 
> Board of Trustees election, organized to select four new trustees. A record 
> 6,873 people from across 214 projects cast their valid votes. The following 
> four candidates received the most support:
> 
> 
> Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
> Victoria Doronina
> Dariusz Jemielniak 
> Lorenzo Losa
> 
> Waiting for the Board’s appointment
> While these candidates have been ranked through the community vote, they are 
> not yet appointed to the Board of Trustees. They still need to pass a 
> successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the 
> Bylaws. This process can be longer depending on the country of residence of 
> the candidates. The Board has set a tentative date to appoint new trustees at 
> the end of this month. The Board also has approved 
> 
>  a short extension to the terms of the exiting trustees to allow a smooth 
> transition.
> 
> Thanks to all the candidates
> Thanks to all candidates for their participation. They achieved a record in 
> the number of candidates and regional diversity, with more than half of the 
> 19 candidates from regions outside North America and Western Europe. This 
> election used Single Transferable Voting 
> 
>  for the first time. This system does not indicate a number of votes or 
> percentage of support. Rather, it shows in which round each candidate was 
> eliminated. You can review the full results on Meta-Wiki 
> ,
>  which document the order in which the candidates were mathematically 
> eliminated.
> 
> Thanks to all the election volunteers
> The Board of Trustees stressed 
> 
>  the importance of increasing diversity on the Board. Dozens of volunteers 
> supported by a team of multilingual facilitators promoted the election in up 
> to 61 languages. They hosted many conversations about the Board election in 
> more than 50 languages and encouraged community members to participate in all 
> areas of the election.
> 
> Statistics
> The 2021 Board of Trustees election broke new ground in several areas. The 
> Movement Strategy and Governance team will publish a report with the most 
> remarkable metrics soon. In the meantime, some statistics 
>  
> can be found on Meta-Wiki. Here you have some highlights.
> 
> Participation increased by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 
> 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more than in 2017.
> The highest participation among wikis with at least 5 eligible voters was 
> seen on the Hausa and Igbo Wikipedias. Both wikis had a participation of 75% 
> (6 of 8 eligible voters). Other high participation numbers were seen on the 
> Telugu, Nepalese, and Punjabi Wikipedias.
> The largest increase in participation among wikis with at least 50 eligible 
> voters was the Catalan Wikipedia, on which 36.3% of eligible voters voted (28 
> percentage points higher than in 2017).
> There were 214 wikis represented in the election. This is determined by the 
> wiki on which the account was originally created.
> A total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 produced voters in this 
> election.
> A total of 226 wikis had at least one eligible voter but produced no voters. 
> The largest electorate in this group was Cantonese Wikipedia, with 25 
> eligible voters.
> 
> In the upcoming days, an anonymized list of votes will be released that will 
> allow deeper inspection and publication of more metrics.
> 
> 2022 election
> The next Board of 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

[Alice Wiegand]

Thanks, Jackie! 
That is indeed different from what I understood and I’m glad about the change 
:-)

Alice.



> Am 07.09.2021 um 23:42 schrieb Jackie Koerner :
> 
> Hi Alice,
> 
> Thanks for asking! The way we are intending "contended" is that it was the 
> election everyone was waiting for. :) It was "pushed for" by the community 
> for more than a year and now we gladly announce: it happened and here are the 
> results!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jackie
> 
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:29 PM Alice Wiegand  <mailto:me.ly...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi all,
> congrats to the elected Board members. It’s great to see people stepping up 
> and taking responsibility, especially in times where leadership is needed.
> 
> Jackie, may I ask for some elaboration on the subject of this thread? You say 
> „most contended … election“ and I wonder what that means. In my understanding 
> this is a nuance of controversial and I don’t get the point where it is more 
> controversial than any other election. Maybe it gets lost in translation, 
> maybe it’s me not having the complete insight of what has been discussed. 
> 
> Alice.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 07.09.2021 um 20:10 schrieb Jackie Koerner > <mailto:jkoerner-...@wikimedia.org>>:
>> 
>> Translations can be found on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedi 
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedi>a_Foundation_elections/2021/2021-09-07/2021_Election_Results
>>  
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/2021-09-07/2021_Election_Results>
>> 
>> Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 Board election. The 
>> Elections Committee has reviewed the votes of the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation 
>> Board of Trustees election, organized to select four new trustees. A record 
>> 6,873 people from across 214 projects cast their valid votes. The following 
>> four candidates received the most support:
>> 
>> 
>> Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
>> Victoria Doronina
>> Dariusz Jemielniak 
>> Lorenzo Losa
>> 
>> Waiting for the Board’s appointment
>> While these candidates have been ranked through the community vote, they are 
>> not yet appointed to the Board of Trustees. They still need to pass a 
>> successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the 
>> Bylaws. This process can be longer depending on the country of residence of 
>> the candidates. The Board has set a tentative date to appoint new trustees 
>> at the end of this month. The Board also has approved 
>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/37IV7FRWIKM4YAK2WBTUTPJA7LKGOATI/#37IV7FRWIKM4YAK2WBTUTPJA7LKGOATI>
>>  a short extension to the terms of the exiting trustees to allow a smooth 
>> transition.
>> 
>> Thanks to all the candidates
>> Thanks to all candidates for their participation. They achieved a record in 
>> the number of candidates and regional diversity, with more than half of the 
>> 19 candidates from regions outside North America and Western Europe. This 
>> election used Single Transferable Voting 
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Single_Transferable_Vote>
>>  for the first time. This system does not indicate a number of votes or 
>> percentage of support. Rather, it shows in which round each candidate was 
>> eliminated. You can review the full results on Meta-Wiki 
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results>,
>>  which document the order in which the candidates were mathematically 
>> eliminated.
>> 
>> Thanks to all the election volunteers
>> The Board of Trustees stressed 
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/2021-04-15_Resolution_about_the_upcoming_Board_elections>
>>  the importance of increasing diversity on the Board. Dozens of volunteers 
>> supported by a team of multilingual facilitators promoted the election in up 
>> to 61 languages. They hosted many conversations about the Board election in 
>> more than 50 languages and encouraged community members to participate in 
>> all areas of the election.
>> 
>> Statistics
>> The 2021 Board of Trustees election broke new ground in several areas. The 
>> Movement Strategy and Governance team will publish a report with the most 
>> remarkable metrics soon. In the meantime, some statistics 
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Stats> 
>> can be found on Meta-Wiki. Here you have some highlights.

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: general assembly and new Supervisory Board

[Alice Wiegand]

Dear fellow Wikimedians,

On Saturday, May 14th, Wikimedia Deutschland held its 27th General Assembly in 
Berlin, the second in a hybrid format.  

Our members elected a new Supervisory Board, which consists of 7 elected 
members:

* Alice Wiegand (chair, re-elected, former deputy chair)
* Daniel Reisener (treasurer, re-elected)
* Nora Circosta
* Christina Dinar (re-elected)
* Jens Ohlig
* Valerie Mocker (re-elected)
* Kamran Salimi

Nora Circosa, Jens Ohlig and Kamran Salimi are new to the board, so please join 
mein welcoming them! 

I would like to wholeheartedly thank our departing chair Lukas Mezger and board 
members Sabria David und Kilian Kluge for the outstanding work and their 
commitment to Wikimedia over the past years.

Renate Duerr and Lenia Zinßer were elected as auditors. My gratitude to our 
departing auditor Sabine Zepp.

The General Assembly voted to change our bylaws to introduce term limits for 
the chair and the treasurer as well as to legally secure the operation and 
decision making for two or more Executive directors. Our members also approved 
changes in our travel expense policy, which is now better aligned with the 
Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant.[1] And the general 
assembly approved changes to our strategy and formally approved of the board's 
actions for the 2 year term and of the Executive Director's actions for 2021.

Another highlight of the day was the presentation, discussion, and adoption of 
Wikimedia Deutschland’s new set of values[2] with diversity, equity, free and 
open access, participation, respectful collaboration and sustainability being 
our six core values. It is based on values that have been lived in the 
association for years, as well as the latest developments in the Movement 
Strategy of the global Wikimedia Movement. As an association, we are guided by 
these values in our cooperation with the Wikimedia movement, communities, 
partners and interested parties. By living these values in its daily work, 
Wikimedia Deutschland promotes human rights in a digital world. All those who 
share these values are welcome in our association.

The new board will reconvene shortly to get started and I am very much looking 
forward to working together with the new team.

Kind regards,
Alice

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Environmental_Sustainability_Covenant
 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Environmental_Sustainability_Covenant>
 
[2] https://www.wikimedia.de/en/our-values/ 
<https://www.wikimedia.de/en/our-values/>




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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Jackie,
Thanks for sharing the result. Where can we find information about how many 
chapters/thematic organizations and usergroups have casted their votes?

Alice.

> Am 19.07.2022 um 19:32 schrieb Jackie Koerner :
> 
> You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. 
> 
>  Please help translate to your language 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> The Affiliate voting process has concluded. Representatives from each 
> Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ 
> statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the 
> candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The selected 2022 
> Board of Trustees candidates are:
> Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious 
> )
> Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak 
> )
> Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77 )
> Kunal Mehta (Legoktm )
> Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom 
> )
> Mike Peel (Mike Peel )
> You may see more information about the Results 
> 
>  and Statistics 
> 
>  of this Board election.
> Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate Representatives and Analysis 
> Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the 
> Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. These hours of volunteer work 
> connect us across understanding and perspective. Thank you for your 
> participation.
> Thank you to the community members who put themselves forward as candidates 
> for the Board of Trustees. Considering joining the Board of Trustees is no 
> small decision. The time and dedication candidates have shown to this point 
> speaks to their commitment to this movement. Congratulations to those 
> candidates who have been selected. A great amount of appreciation and 
> gratitude for those candidates not selected. Please continue to share your 
> leadership with Wikimedia.
> Thank you to those who followed the Affiliate process for this Board 
> election. You may review the results of the Affiliate selection process.
> The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period. 
> You may view the Board election timeline here 
> .
>  To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things 
> community members can engage with in the following ways:
> Read candidates’ statements 
> 
>  and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate 
> Representatives.
> Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their 
> video Q&A 
> .
> See the Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s 
> statement 
> .
> Propose statements for the Election Compass 
> 
>  voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.
> Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Movement Strategy and Governance
> This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the 
> Elections Committee
> 
> -- 
> Jackie Koerner (she/her)
> Communication Specialist, Movement Strategy and Governance
> Location: Midwestern US (UTC-5)
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[Wikimedia-l] Larissa Borck and Raimond Spekking appointed to the WMDE board

[Alice Wiegand]

Dear fellow Wikimedians,I am happy to announce that the  Wikimedia Deutschland supervisory board has appointed Larissa Borcka and Raimond Spekking as additional members to the board.Larissa is committed to the digital development of cultural institutions. As curator of digital development for the S?rmlands museum in Sweden, she is responsible for digitisation projects and cooperation with Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. On the board, she will bring the perspective of cultural institutions to Wikimedia projects such as Wikidata and Wikibase. Raimond has been a Wikipedian and a Commons photographer for many years, is active in the Volunteer Response Team and continues to develop the MediaWiki software. On our board, he strives to strengthen the community's perspective and contribute his expertise at the interface between content creation and technology. Both will be full members of the board until the next board elections at the general assembly in mid-2024 and we are very much looking forward to working with them.The Wikimedia Deutschland board consists of up to 9 members. Seven members are elected by the general assembly for a two-year term. After the election, the seven board members can appoint up to two additional members to the board. To complement the competences of the board after the elections in May, we were looking for two specific profiles: One in the field of "active Wikipedians"; a person who contributes content to Wikipedia and thus additionally strengthens this perspective in discussions and decisions. And one in the field of ?technology / open structured data?; a person with expertise and a feel for the developments and opportunities of open structured data in the digital ecosystem, ideally with expertise in Wikidata and Wikibase. I am delighted that with Larissa and Raimond we were able to attract two people with a lot of experience and passion for free knowledge to join our supervisory board.Please join me in welcoming Larissa and Raimond!Alice.Alice WiegandChair of the Supervisory BoardWikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0  https://wikimedia.deKeep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now.Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!https://spenden.wikimedia.deWikimedia Deutschland ? Gesellschaft zur Fo?rderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnu?tzig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt fu?r Ko?rperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.___
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations and community conversations launching next week

[Alice Wiegand]

I understand that the community conversation is planned to be conducted for 
around the next 6 weeks, it’s the discussion of the summary of that, which is 
planned for one week.

Alice.

> Am 14.01.2020 um 08:47 schrieb Todd Allen :
> 
> Surely longer than a week can
> be allowed for discussion of such a critical item.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Executive transition planning

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,
short update, as announced by Patricio:

Our organization needs stability, it needs a chance to rest for a moment
and to move on with the things that matter at the same time. That’s why the
Board  is aiming for a quick decision about the interim ED.

If you want to make a difference you need to act differently.

We know that our C-level team is doing a great job in managing the
day-to-day-operations and they all have a deep understandning of our
culture, challenges and needs. Who, if not them, knows better what is best
for the organization in this moment. The Board is not best suited to make a
decision about the interim which can quickly be established and accepted in
this situation.

Therefor the board empowers the entire C-level-team to come up with a
solution for the interim question. We leave it up to them how that
decisions looks like. We trust them to think traditional or outside of the
box as it fits to our organization, the Wikimedia Foundation. The
C-level-team needs some time to deliberate and decide. They will present
their result to the board which has to vote on it. We plan to finalize
until the end of next week.

Alice.

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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation ED search steering group created

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,

Finding the next Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director is a clear
priority for the Board. To address this challenge, the Board has created a
steering group tasked with crafting the actual job description, planning
and conducting the search, and finding ways to include community
perspectives. This steering group will be regularly consulting with the
Board throughout the search process.

Please see the ED transition team page on meta [1] to find more information
about the steering group, and get the latest updates. We have also included
three questions on the participation page to help us start forming a better
understanding of the community’s various opinions and expectations.

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director_Transition_Team/2016

Alice.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliate Selected Board Seats - Result

[Alice Wiegand]

Congratulations also from the Board, Nataliia and Christoph!
Thanks to the facilitators and all candidates for your commitment and for
sharing your thoughts about your new role with all of us in answering the
questions from the community.
We are looking forward to welcoming you at our Board meeting at Wikimania!

Alice.


On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Chris Keating 
wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> We are writing to let you know the result of the election for the 2
> Affiliate Selected Board Seats on the Wikimedia Foundation board.
>
> The successful candidates were *Christophe Henner* and *Nataliia Tymkiv.*
>
> A total of 40 chapters and thorgs voted - all except for the Macedonia and
> Macau chapters - which is a record.
>
> The number of first preferences received by each candidate was as follows:
>
> Christophe Henner (9.00);
> Siska Doviana (6.75);
> Jan Ainali (5.50);
> Osmar Valdebenito (5.50);
> Nataliia Tymkiv (4.75);
> Susanna Mkrtchyan (3.25);
> Lodewijk Gelauff (2.50);
> Maarten Deneckere (1.50);
> Kunal Mehta(1.25);
> Leigh Thelmadatter (0.00)
>
> As you know the election was conducted under the Single Transferable Vote,
> which meant that votes were redistributed between candidates to come up
> with the final result. In the 9th round of voting the final place, after
> Christophe was elected, was between Nataliia (16.09) and Siska (9.91). We
> will be putting the full count narrative on the Chapters Wiki so that
> others can verify it if they wish.
>
> We would like to congratulate Christophe and Nataliia and thank everyone
> who stood. It is the closest ASBS result for some time, and all candidates
> brought very valuable perspectives to the work of the WMF.
>
> Regards,
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now

[Alice Wiegand]

Hello all,

The ED search steering group has been soliciting input for a few weeks, and
while a few people were fairly vocal about what they were looking for in a
new ED, we decided that we needed more input from a broader range of people
and we want to hear more from our emerging communities. To that end, we
have written and published a survey [1] intended to help us both validate
and prioritize the good feedback we have already received.

Our survey is currently open in the top 10 wiki languages. A sample of
editors from various languages have been invited to participate and we are
also sending an invitations to anyone here and through our networks. Please
participate in the survey and help us to shape the new ED’s profile.

On behalf of the ED search steering group

Alice.


[1] - ED Search Survey:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5hVS2mJTcJNCxBX


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now

[Alice Wiegand]

Update: The survey is still open!
In order to hear from more people, the search team decided to hold the ED
search survey [1] open until Friday, June 17. If you haven’t already,
please take a few minutes to fill it out before then.

Thank you for your participation!

[1] - ED Search Survey:
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Nikola Kalchev 
wrote:

> As a patroller on my homewiki I can say that 15 of the 50 most active
> editors according to stats.wikimedia.org would be capable of answering the
> questions in one of the ten languages. Those are the people who translate
> articles from the ten languages of the survey (13 from English, 2 from
> Russian). Ask a few more patrollers from other communities, multiply by the
> number of very active editors on those wikis and divide by the number of
> asked patrollers :). It is not impossible to get a rough estimate.
>
> Best regards,
> User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola Kalchev
> Wikimedians of Bulgaria, a Wikimedia CEE Spring international organiser
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak 
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Nikola Kalchev  >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dariusz, thank you for your clarification. I understand that
> translations
> >> take time.
> >>
> >> Would you please elaborate on the assumption that the most important
> >> principle of the ED search committee was speed and not, e.g.
> participation
> >> of a larger part of the community? What would the bad effects of a 2
> months
> >> longer search on the WMF be?
> >>
> >
> > The assumption is that any organization under an interim leader is
> > basically frozen. An interim leader is unlikely to make any change. Also,
> > one of the gripes of the past was a long (way over a year) process of ED
> > searching. The ED search team wants to avoid repeating this.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I fear that user groups will be underrepresented again (another notable
> >> example is the number of representatives at the WMCON with chapters
> having
> >> up to four participants and user groups exactly one). There are 59 user
> >> groups and (as well as I could count) only 10 of them will be able to
> >> participate at the survey in their own language. Why was the opinion of
> 49
> >> user groups considered less worth that a delay of two months?
> >>
> >
> > I think the main assumption may have been that there will be decreasing
> > differences - that is, the differences between the views expressed in the
> > 10 major languages will not be big in general. Of course, we will see
> > whether there are significant differences within these 10.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter 
> >  wrote:
> >
> >> Whereas I fully understand and partially share the sentiment, may I
> >> please repeat the question I asked on this list in relation to a similar
> >> topic some time ago. Could we estimate a number of active community
> members
> >> (whom we would reasonably expect to participate in the survey) who do
> not
> >> speak any of the languages to which the survey was translated, to the
> point
> >> that their ability to fill in the survey would depend on the others? If
> >> this is a considerable number, or if it is less significant but
> >> considerably compromises on the representation, which languages do these
> >> community members speak?
> >>
> >>
> > Yaroslav's question is a good one - I don't know from the top of my head
> > how to estimate this easily. However, let me repeat: we are asking
> general
> > questions, and the results are not binding. It is not an issue of
> > representation. I doubt if there will be huge cultural differences to the
> > extent that the questionnaire would bring different results if 10 more
> > languages were added, mainly because I think that wiki-world is quite
> > hermetic and has a culture of its own.
> >
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > dj
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Changes to current chapter and thematic organisation criteria

[Alice Wiegand]

I agree with Delphine. And I think it's worth to mention that the immediate
termination is for "serious and urgent cases" only and that there is a more
partnering process for less serious cases.

Alice.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Delphine Ménard 
wrote:

> On 24 August 2016 at 22:50, Michael Peel  wrote:
> >
>
> > This process seems to be very harsh as written. For example, it says:
> > "an organization’s recognition may be terminated immediately
> according to the group's agreement (without Board review or appeal)"
> > There's no mention of any sort of ombudsperson, or appeal process in
> this document. Presumably this is delegated to the individual group
> agreements, but it would be good to see that explicitly mentioned in this
> process document. There are other examples elsewhere in the process that I
> won't go into here. But I think this process needs rewriting to make it
> fairer to all parties.
> >
>
> I don't think it's harsh. Experience proves that "trying to get in
> touch" and "trying to put together a plan" is a very lengthy process,
> and takes months, if not years. In short, every attempt I have seen at
> actually making sure a chapter / group was really inexistent before
> entering the last phase of derecognition has been more than thorough
> (from many emails to activating personal contacts to everything you
> can think of to get in touch with people). You do have to draw the
> line somewhere though, and at some point get "harsh" and have hard
> deadlines. An appeal process would mean having someone at the other
> end of the line. More often than not, this is not the case. I think
> it's important that we know to "terminate", because dormant entities
> often prevent new people from rekindling motivation and starting anew.
>
> Best,
>
> Delphine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'll be moving on

[Alice Wiegand]

With the choir:
Thank you for your long time committment, Jan.

Alice.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Jane Darnell  wrote:

> Jan,
> Thanks for all of your work. The Swedish Wikipedia is a very inspiring
> project for me as a Dutch Wikimedian and I have been following (somewhat
> jealously) how the WMSE community responds to new innovations. Under your
> leadership I think your Swedish Wikipedia community looks quite healthy (as
> least it does to me, as an outsider).
>
> good luck with any future plans you have,
> Jane
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jan Ainali 
> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > For the last three years I have been the Executive Director for Wikimedia
> > Sverige. Before that I have been Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary of the
> > board (at different times) and have been involved since the founding of
> the
> > chapter in 2007. It is perhaps even an understatement to say that the
> > chapter has been a big part of my life. I have had the opportunity to be
> > part of a fantastic journey from starting the first chapter’s activities
> to
> > today, with stable strategic activities, seven people in the office, and
> a
> > diversified board. It has been an awesome time in my life and I have met
> > and worked with some truly wonderful persons along the way, and I am
> > thankful to all of you that have made it so inspiring. But now, as my
> > contract is about to come to an end, I feel that it is time for me to
> move
> > on to new endeavours. I am confident that the chapter is already in good
> > hands, with a professional board and an office with experienced staff
> > members and functional processes, but I’ll be around until at least the
> > beginning of January to make it a smooth transition.
> >
> > I will obviously always be a wikimedian at heart and probably pick up on
> my
> > editing again and I will also stay subscribed to most mailing lists. If
> not
> > earlier, I’ll see you in Esino Lario.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > *Jan Ainali*
> > Executive director, Wikimedia Sverige <http://wikimedia.se>
> >
> >
> >
> > *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till
> mänsklighetens
> > samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
> > Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Agenda for the December 9, 2015 Board Meeting

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Lodewijk,

yes, it is. The Board is bridging the time between in-person-meetings since
2014 with monthly hangout meetings. We started with a bimonthly rhythm
after Wikimania in Mexico City and decided to have monthly meetings again
at our meeting in November in San Francisco.

Alice.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Lodewijk 
wrote:

> Hi Zhou,
>
> Thank you. Just curious, as the previous board meeting is not too long ago
> and this agenda is very last minute: was this a scheduled board meeting?
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Zhou Zhou  wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting is
> > now available on Meta Wiki:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_meetings/2015-12-09
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Board nominees

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Pine,
sure, this is where we are:

We completed the search for two appointed Board members successfully and we
plan to fill the two board positions in the first week of January. We are
in the process of final on-boarding steps and will be ready to announce on
or before January 5th with regards to the holidays.

Alice.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Pine W  wrote:

> Hi Board folks and Boryana,
>
> Separate from the discussions about Doc James, can we get an update on the
> appointment of new members?
>
> Thanks,
> Pine
> On Sep 25, 2015 5:04 PM, "Boryana Dineva"  wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > As you may have heard, I joined the Wikimedia Foundation last Monday as
> the
> > VP of Human Resources. I am so excited to be here and help to the best of
> > my abilities.
> >
> > One of the projects that I am currently focusing on is adding two members
> > to our board of trustees. I wanted to reach out to you and ask you to
> > nominate candidates that you think should be considered.
> >
> > I am attaching a role description that will provide more insight into
> what
> > the ideal candidates for these two board slots would be. If someone you
> > know comes to mind, please send the name of the candidate including some
> > information regarding why you think they would be great. Also let me know
> > if you know that person is interested in the position and can afford the
> > time commitment the role will require or if it’s someone you think may be
> > great but are unsure if they are interested or would have time to commit.
> >
> > Please email nominations to board-nominati...@lists.wikimedia.org by
> next
> > Wednesday, Sept 30th. I understand that this is a short notice and not
> much
> > time to nominate, but we need to find someone that can start in Nov and
> we
> > need to contact, screen, interview, etc before then.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your nominations and have a wonderful weekend!
> >
> > Warmest regards,
> > Boryana
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

[Alice Wiegand]

My experiences with discourse in a non-Wikimedia context is great.  Worth a try.

Alice.

- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -
Von: "Samuel Klein" 
Gesendet: ‎15.‎01.‎2016 02:46
An: "Wikimedia Mailing List" 
Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

On Jan 14, 2016 8:35 PM, "Luis Villa"  wrote:
>
> I agree that thankspam is somewhat irritating, but it is also a good way
to
> make people feel welcome and appreciated. An alternative is to consider
> moving wikimedia-l to a tool like discourse.org

Thanks for that idea. Discourse looks great.  Maybe worth testing out
casually for some wiki* discussions before deciding whether or not to try
replacing a particular list.

Sj
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[Wikimedia-l] Update from the Board

[Alice Wiegand]

Dear all,
the Board has read your messages and is discussing the concerns you have
raised about Arnnon Geshuri’s appointment. We need to consider all
information and we have conversations among ourselves. Arnnon and the board
are listening to your worries and talking with community members,
considering people's opinions and his own next steps.

In the recent round of appointments, the Board identified that we needed
support and expertise in two areas: financial oversight and planning, and
human resources. Kelly and Arnnon were identified through the process,
reviewed alongside other nominees, and selected as finalists based on their
expertise and backgrounds. We all agreed they were excellent candidates and
people, and supported their progress as finalists.

We understand this conversation will continue, and we will continue to
monitor it. However, we want to be clear that the Board approved Arnnon
unanimously and still believes he is a valuable member of the team.

Please see this as a brief update. We owe you a more detailed response, and
we plan to come back to you with more information soon.

Alice.



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

[Alice Wiegand]

Is this really a discussion about the name of a conference or is it more a
discussion about inclusion and exclusion with the underlying question if
this conference, which once was set up as a meeting for the organizations
within the Wikimedia movement, should be open for non-organized Wikimedians
as well. Which would probably be a different conference.

Alice.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Nathan  wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Bence Damokos  wrote:
>
> > The name could be changed if the participants/organisers want to change
> it.
> > As I tried to point out, I don't see the name as the underlying problem
> > people really have, and changing it will not solve the problem of
> exclusion
> > people see.
> >
> > We can make a conference that has a participants list that involves
> people
> > that *should *or at least the people that really *want* to be there, we
> can
> > also rename the conference for the people that *are *currently there and
> > forget about those that want and should be there. I'd rather focus on the
> > former.
> >
> > Regardless, I do feel an emotional connection to the name and I expect
> many
> > people that have participated or organised it might feel this and I
> > appreciate that those who have not been there can see it as a minor thing
> > that can be changed without any cost. It might not be perfect, but it
> does
> > have history and I do contend that the people that first started using it
> > are Wikimedia, and they should not feel guilty about having come up with
> > the idea first. Indeed, at this time, resources have been invested into
> the
> > name and confusion is ebbing around the "Wikimedia Conference" name due
> to
> > the years of history behind it.
> >
> > But in closing, I will once again point to my statements that names are
> > symbolic and they can be changed. If the participants change the name
> that
> > sends a totally different vibe than if the change is imposed on the
> > participants, even if the end result is the same new name.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bence
>
>
> If the as-yet undetermined organizers choose to name it Wikimedia
> Conference, then I suppose no one will act to force them to stop. But we
> are Wikimedia as much as the organizers and participants are, as much as
> hundreds of thousands of volunteers are. In a "Wikimedia Conference" you
> might expect it to be open to those Wikimedians. With a  narrower theme of
> governance, I doubt the prediction of it morphing into a second Wikimania
> would come true.
>
> And while I accept your assertion that the name has history and meaning to
> those who have participated there, I remain skeptical at the power the name
> holds for you and others. It is, as you'll agree, a fairly generic name.
> And less than a handful of events over as many years does not a venerable
> tradition make. So I would hope that the organizers, whoever they turn out
> to be, will make the simple gesture of adding a single word to the name of
> the event. It is still Wikimedia; it's just aimed at affiliates, those who
> organize and have attended the event up through now.
>
> Indeed, the conference of affiliates that you've attended in the past is
> valuable and worthy. I'd suggest you allow others interested to attend if
> resources permit, but I wouldn't ask you to fundamentally alter the nature
> of the event. Merely make it clear whom you represent, so that others don't
> feel you claim to represent them when you do not -- as Ilario seemed to
> with his "principle of delegation" comment.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Individual Engagement Grants Committee membership appointments

[Alice Wiegand]

Hey, great news. Hope you'll deal with a lot amazing and inspiring project
ideas and applications!

Alice.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Pine W  wrote:

> The Individual Engagement Grants Committee (IEGCom) is pleased to announce
> that the following contributors are appointed as new members of the
> Committee:
>
> Calliopejen1
> Kirill Lokshin
> Poupou l'quourouce
> Rjensen
> Thepwnco
>
> For the Committee,
>
> Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

[Alice Wiegand]

Great news!
While the title of the Logo in the blogpost links to the unported version,
you link to the US version of cc-by-sa 3.0 when you mention it first in the
text (in the second paragraph). A mistake?

Alice.


On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Vishnu  wrote:

> Thanks! A much needed and appreciated move!!
>
> Cheers,
> Vishnu
>
>
>
> On Monday 27 October 2014 11:21 PM, Yana Welinder wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce that we are re-licensing the Wikimedia logos on
>> Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0:
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/24/wikimedia-logos-have-been-freed/
>>
>> I would really appreciate your help with replacing the {{Copyright by
>> Wikimedia}}
>> [1]
>> templates on the logos with the {{Wikimedia trademark}}
>> [2] and
>> {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} > org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0>[3]
>> templates. But we don't want to replace templates on the MediaWiki
>> [4] and the
>> Community
>> [5]
>> logos, which were originally released under free licenses.
>>
>> There are also some pages on Commons, like this one
>> [6], that may need
>> to
>> be updated based on the re-licensed logos.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Yana
>>
>> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Copyright_by_Wikimedia
>>
>> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikimedia_trademark
>>
>> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0
>>
>> [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki.svg
>>
>> [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo.svg
>>
>> [6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award

[Alice Wiegand]

Wohoo!
Congrats to Wikidata and congrats to all who have taken part in developing
it. Thank you all!

Alice.


On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Hey everyone :)
>
> I forgot to send this to wikimedia-l this morning as well...
> I'm incredibly happy to share the news with you that Wikidata has won
> the Open Data Award of the Open Data Institute in the category
> publisher. The world is starting to notice that we have something big
> with Wikidata.
>
> http://opendatainstitute.org/news/first-odi-open-data-awards-presented-by-sir-tim-berners-lee-and-sir-nigel-shadbolt
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
>
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> Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:53 AM
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>
> Hey everyone,
>
> Wow! We won! \o/ This is incredible. I am so happy to see this
> recognition of all the work we've put into Wikidata together. Magnus
> and I had a blast at the award ceremony yesterday night. Here's a
> picture of us on stage with Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim
> Berners-Lee: https://twitter.com/opencorporates/status/529721444549550080
> Here's Wikidata written in huge letters above the heads of the
> audience: https://twitter.com/marin_dim/status/529721419580854272 And
> here is Magnus and me with the price:
> https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/529723778558083074
> I am delighted that they especially recognized the breath of topics
> Wikidata covers and that it has been developed in the open since the
> beginning. This award is for everyone in this community. We should be
> proud! This is a perfect start into year 3 of Wikidata :)
>
>
> Cheers
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France board handbook

[Alice Wiegand]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:47 AM, "charles andrès (WMCH)" <
charles.andres.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot Wikimedia France,
>
> Another good exemple why we need to improve the Translation system on-wiki
> and allow to start from non-english source.
>
> Charles
>


So true!

Alice.




>
>
>
>
>
> > Le 11 déc. 2014 à 10:39, Claudia Garád  a
> écrit :
> >
> > Thanks for sharing Emeric and Jean-Fred!
> >
> > I would love to see a translation of this important resource and I'm
> sure it could be useful for others as well. :-)
> >
> > Best
> > Claudia
> >
> > Am 11.12.2014 um 07:20 schrieb Emeric Vallespi:
> >> Hi, and thanks for your support :)
> >>
> >> Sure Winifred, I will add a learning pattern, actually it's on my to-do
> >> list!
> >>
> >> In order to improve our sharing with the movement, we are thinking about
> >> translate some of documents we produced. Let us know if you think useful
> >> to translate the WMFr Board Handbook, even if others already exists in
> >> english.
> >>
> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Thinking about the WMF Board composition

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,

during our last meeting the WMF Board started to discuss its composition
and how to ensure diversity and bringing in the necessary variety of voices
and minds to serve our mission and to support the Wikimedia Foundation.

We want to listen to your thoughts and ideas about Board composition before
we take the dicussion further with concrete bylaw changes. Please take a
look at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Thinking_about_the_WMF_Board_composition
where you find our first thoughts and comment, amend and discuss.

This discussion is independent from the upcoming community election, which
will be prepared soon.

Regards
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Quarterly Report, October-December 2014

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Tilman,

I like the focussed view and the compact information. On slide 4, the beta
scorecard, it would be helpful to know and see (especially for further
usage) which projects are base for the numbers.

Alice.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Tilman Bayer  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As Erik announced in November [1], the Foundation has changed its
> reporting from the monthly cycle that has been in place since 2008 to
> a quarterly rhythm. A main reason being to better align it with the
> quarterly planning and goalsetting process that has been extended to
> the entire organization since Lila took the helm. The first of these
> new quarterly reports has now been published here, in the format of a
> slide deck suitable for a 90 minute presentation:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Quarterly_Report,_FY_2014-15_Q2_(October-December).pdf
>
> As discussed before [2], the main objectives and design principles for
> this report were:
>
> * Accountability: Help our movement and our supporters understand how
> we spend our effort, and what we accomplish.
> * Learning together: Highlight important internal & external data,
> trends and lessons.
> * Presentable: Anyone, from volunteer to the executive director,
> should be able to present the work of the WMF using this report.
> * Reasonable effort: Pull as much as possible from existing sources,
> e.g., quarterly review slide decks & minutes.
>
> Please refer to the linked PDF for the full report (I will see to
> provide a wiki version on Meta in the next few days, exploring the
> best technical process for this kind of conversion). But to offer an
> excerpt from the “Key insights and trends” part (slide 5):
>
> --
> * Readership: Globally, pageviews are flat. Mobile is growing, desktop
> is shrinking. Given a growing global potential audience, this means we
> need to invest in the readership experience, with focus on mobile.
>  We have learned that we can move at highest velocity on mobile apps
> due to their self-contained nature.
> * Beyond editing:  Inviting readers to perform classification tasks on
> their smartphone is showing promise; response quality is exceeding
> expectations.
> * Performance: The implementation of HHVM across Wikimedia sites is an
> engineering success story and demonstrates that dedicated focus in the
> area of site performance can pay off relatively quickly.
> * Fundraising: Mobile matters -- thanks to focused effort, we were
> able to increase the mobile revenue share from 1.7% to 16.1% (2013 vs.
> 2014 year-end campaign).
> --
>
> Be aware that in the interest of readability, the report focuses on
> the work done on a number of key priorities rather than attempting a
> comprehensive list of every team’s goals - for a more detailed view,
> consider referring to the documentation of that team’s quarterly
> reviews [3]. This being the first report in this new format, we will
> surely tweak format, content (including the choice of key metrics) and
> process for the subsequent issues. Comments continue to be welcome at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_reports .
>
>
> Regards, Tilman
>
>
> [1]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2014-November/001005.html
> [2]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076747.html
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Call for Election Committee candidates

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Everyone,

2015 is an election year for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia
Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees> as well
as for the Funds Dissemination Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee>.

As you may recall the Board has three directly-elected members who serve
for two years. Currently they are Phoebe Ayers (Phoebe
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Phoebe>), Samuel Klein  (SJ
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sj>) and María Sefidari (Raystorm
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Raystorm>). As in the past years we
rely on an effective election committee to coordinate the elections for us
along with staff support and a Board liaison. Not only do they guarantee
that the election is overseen by an independent body, but they also make
sure that the tremendous amount of work that needs to be done is taken care
of. My job, as this year's Board liaison, is to coordinate the formation of
this committee and to support them in their work while serving as the
primary point of contact with the Board regarding the process..

This is a call for volunteers to serve on the election committee. If you
feel that you can contribute to this committee, please email James
Alexander (jalexan...@wikimedia.org) and give a small summary of why you
think you would be able to help out with this process.

The Committee is responsible for planning and maintaining virtually every
aspect of the Board election. For example, the Committee plans the type of
voting, suffrage criteria, and criteria for candidacy, helps to draft and
organize all of the official election pages on Meta, verifies that
candidates and voters meet the criteria, audits votes to ensure there are
no duplicate votes or other problems, et cetera. You can expect that this
work will take an average 5-10 hours a week with a few periods of relative
quiet and a few periods of heavy work during and after each election (the
FDC and Board elections are planned to be separate this year).

If you decide to join the committee you will have to identify to the
Wikimedia Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_handbook/email_templates#Notification_that_identification_is_required>
because
of the personal information you have access too and must be at least 18
years of age. In addition you cannot be part of the election committee if
you are planning to be a candidate or are planning to support any candidate
publicly.

To ensure we get going as quickly as possible, committee members will start
to be seated as soon as we have 4-5 good candidates with an anticipated
first meeting of Friday April 10th (or soon after, depending on committee
availability). The deadline for volunteers, however, is Friday, April 17th
UTC 12:00.

The committee and staff will be setting up the election pages soon and the
call for candidates, led by a letter from the Board, which will be going
out shortly. If you're interested in running for either the Board or the
FDC, I encourage you to read up on prior elections
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013>and
the groups themselves to prepare your statements!

Regards,
Alice.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] GRAPH extension is now live everywhere!

[Alice Wiegand]

I miss a "thank you" or "like" button on this mailing list. Looks great.
Thank you!
Alice.

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Aleksey Bilogur 
wrote:

> Was this why it was offline on meta for a couple of weeks?
>
> Amazing! I have an immediate use for this on the en.wikipedia.
> On May 5, 2015 4:25 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan"  wrote:
>
> > Starting today, editors can use ** tag to include complex graphs
> and
> > maps inside articles.
> >
> > *Demo:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo
> > *Vega's demo:*
> http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/?spec=scatter_matrix
> > *Extension info:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph
> > *Vega's docs:* https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki
> > *Bug reports:* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ - project tag #graph
> >
> > Graph tag support template parameter expansion. There is also a Graphoid
> > service to convert graphs into images. Currently, Graphoid is used in
> case
> > the browser does not support modern JavaScript, but I plan to use it for
> > all anonymous users - downloading large JS code needed to render graphs
> is
> > significantly slower than showing an image.
> >
> > Potential future growth (developers needed!):
> > * Documentation and better tutorials
> > * Visualize as you type - show changes in graph while editing its code
> > * Visual Editor's plugin
> > * Animation  >
> >
> > Project history: Exactly one year ago, Dan Andreescu (milimetric) and Jon
> > Robson demoed Vega visualization grammar <
> https://trifacta.github.io/vega/
> > >
> > usage in MediaWiki. The project stayed dormant for almost half a year,
> > until Zero team decided it was a good solution to do on-wiki graphs. The
> > project was rewritten, and gained many new features, such as template
> > parameters. Yet, doing graphs just for Zero portal seemed silly. Wider
> > audience meant that we now had to support older browsers, thus Graphoid
> > service was born.
> >
> > This project could not have happened without the help from Dan Andreescu,
> > Brion Vibber, Timo Tijhof, Chris Steipp, Max Semenik,  Marko Obrovac,
> > Alexandros Kosiaris, Jon Robson, Gabriel Wicke, and others who have
> helped
> > me develop,  test, instrument, and deploy Graph extension and Graphoid
> > service. I also would like to thank the Vega team for making this amazing
> > library.
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New board Wikimedia Nederland

[Alice Wiegand]

Congrats and best wishes to the new Board! And a heartfelt "thank you" to
Ziko and Paul for your long lasting commitment.

Alice.



On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury  wrote:

> Congratulations all new board member.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
> > Likewise!  Thank you, Frans and all.  Sam
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Jane Darnell  wrote:
> > > Frans,
> > > Congratulations on your new role and I wish you and your team of
> > > boardmembers all the best,
> > > Jane
> > >
> > > 2014-04-07 22:26 GMT+02:00, Frans Grijzenhout :
> > >> It is with great pleasure that I present to you the new board of
> > Wikimedia
> > >> Netherlands (WMNL).
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> During our General Assembly of March 29, 2014 the following persons
> were
> > >> elected for a new term of 1 year.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>-
> > >>
> > >>Ronn Boef - new Board member
> > >>-
> > >>
> > >>Jan Anton Brouwer - Treasurer, board member since 2013
> > >>-
> > >>
> > >>Justus de Bruijn - new Board member
> > >>-
> > >>
> > >>André Engels - Secretary of the Board, new Board member
> > >>-
> > >>
> > >>Frans Grijzenhout - Chair, Secretary since 2013, Board member since
> > 2012
> > >>-
> > >>
> > >>Ad Huikeshoven - Board member since 2012
> > >>-
> > >>
> > >>Marlon Thé - new Board member
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> André en Ronn have been active Wikipedians for a long time and we are
> > glad
> > >> that they are willing to serve the community in a different role.
> > >>
> > >> Justus and Marlon are new to the Wikimedia community but both have a
> > track
> > >> record in serving volunteer organizations.
> > >>
> > >> The general meeting gave a warm applause to the two board members that
> > >> stepped down after serving the community for many years: Ziko van
> Dijk,
> > >> Board member and Chair since 2011 and Paul Becherer, who served as
> > >> Secretary of the Board and as Treasurer since 2010. They have led the
> > Dutch
> > >> chapter in an outstanding way during turbulent years.
> > >>
> > >> Frans Grijzenhout
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >> *Frans Grijzenhout*, chair
> > >> fr...@wikimedia.nl
> > >> +31 6 5333 9499
> > >>
> > >> Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
> > >> Postbus 167
> > >> 3500 AD Utrecht
> > >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback on the last 2 years

[Alice Wiegand]

Thank you, Christophe!
You demonstrate that the idea of sharing experiences is more than only
sharing success stories. And what sounds so easy is so hard to realize and
we all are not really experienced in it. You've shown how it can be handled
and we all can learn from you and follow your example.

Thanks,
Alice.


On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Jon Davies wrote:

> Merci Christophe - very useful and echoes many issues WMUK experienced.
>
>
> On 12 April 2014 20:38, ENWP Pine  wrote:
>
> > Hi Christophe,
> >
> > Thank you for these interesting emails. I'm cc'ing Anasuya on this
> > discussion with the hope that what you've learned can be disseminated
> > to other Wikimedia affiliates, especially new or aspiring chapters.
> >
> > Is the decision matrix that you use for your programs available in
> > English? I
> > would like to have a copy of it on Meta along with these emails.
> >
> > I am interested in this subject partly because of the discussion about
> > WMF's
> > Annual Plan and partly because there are occasional discussions about
> > forming a new thematic organization or chapter in my region.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

[Alice Wiegand]

Good news, Greg!
This is a great initiative which can provide a lot of support especially
for younger affiliations. I'm curious how it will be accepted and what's
the kind of support affiliations ask for. Please keep us in the loop.

Alice.


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Gregory Varnum 
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Based on continuing changes to Wikimedia's approach to movement affiliates
> (chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups), input from the
> community, and discussions with WMF board and staff - the Affiliations
> Committee has begun work on expanding our support of affiliates once the
> recognition process itself concludes.
>
> An early step that we are taking is to provide each Wikimedia movement
> affiliate with at least one liaison from the Affiliations Committee to help
> with communications, finding resources, answering questions, and supporting
> successful contributions to the Wikimedia movement.
>
> Each member of the Affiliations Committee is assigned as a liaison to
> multiple affiliates. Each affiliate will be assigned a primary liaison, who
> will be their main contact, and a secondary liaison, who is available if
> the primary is not and able to help with more complex situations. While an
> affiliate's liaisons may change over time, they will always have at least
> one liaison assigned to them. We will soon be adding more members to the
> committee, so there are a few liaison assignments not yet filled.
>
> Liaisons will be making initial contact in the coming weeks - and will then
> be in contact periodically, or affiliates may contact them at any time. We
> welcome any feedback or ideas on how we can help support your chapters,
> thematic org, or user group moving forward.
>
> More info - including specific liaison assignments:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Liaisons
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unvisited App for easier photo collection

[Alice Wiegand]

Great, now I know where to go tomorrow!
Alice.


On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:23 PM, HaeB  wrote:

> There is more information at
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Unvisited_app .
>
> 2014-05-31 12:26 GMT-07:00 Kevin Rutherford :
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I realized at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin that many people do not
> know that there is a phone app that you can use on your phone that searches
> for places to take photos, and then provides walking directions for them.
> It’s still in a bit of the development stage now for the iPhone, but one of
> the local New England persons (Faolin42, aka John Phelan) has developed
> this app, and since many photography sessions are coming up all over the
> world, I figured it might be a good time to let people know outside of New
> England that this exists:
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mim1999.unvisited
> >
> > Let me know if you have any questions, as I would be happy to answer
> them. I have also cc’d John on this list if anyone wants to contact him
> directly.
> >
> > Kevin Rutherford
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ASBS results

[Alice Wiegand]

Thanks to the organizers and facilitators for setting up the process.
And congratulations to Frieda and Patricio. I wish both of you every
success, strength and support for your work on the Board!

Alice.



On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Frieda Brioschi  wrote:

> Wow, I'm breathless :-
>
> ..I've many to thank:
> * thank you voters for your choice, I'll do my best
> * thank you Wikimedia Italia for your support, it was really important to
> me
> * thank you Patricio, Alice and Anders, it was great sharing this
> experience with you
> * thank you Chris, Lorenzo and James for your work
>
> I'm looking forward to begin and I'll need your feedback, input and idea to
> make this adventure perfect.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Bangladesh has completed its local registration in Bangladesh

[Alice Wiegand]

Just great!
Thanks to all who kept on working to this important mark.

Alice.


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Anna Stillwell 
wrote:

> Wow. Thank you, Lane, for spelling out the difficulty of making this
> happen. It really places this accomplishment in context. It sounds like it
> is more than a free knowledge win, it's also a win for Bangladesh civil
> society.
>
> Well done all! What an accomplishment. Wow. Congratulations.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Lane Rasberry 
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Ali is being modest.
> >
> > Not only is Wikimedia Bangladesh among only the 5% who got NGO
> > registration, but they are also among the 1% to do it without paying
> anyone
> > a bribe. I have heard that they were asked for money many times to make
> > things go more quickly. Perhaps people outside the region do not know,
> but
> > there are a lot of desks that all want to stamp the registration papers
> > before giving the final approval. For a foreign-affiliated Internet
> > technology organization mostly run by younger people who have a
> > relationship to a major Internet property to be able to get a
> registration
> > without paying any bribe is probably unprecedented in the history of
> South
> > Asia. Getting a registration is something to be proud of, but getting it
> > completely honestly means that a lot of extra work went into the
> > registration just to keep a good reputation.
> >
> > I am thrilled with the good example this sets and not only is having the
> > registration a wonderful thing for the Wikimedia community, but also this
> > shows an excellent precedent for all Bangladeshi community activists
> > because they have a bright example in Wikimedia Bangladesh that paying a
> > bribe is not necessary to get an NGO registration. This is really
> something
> > to publicize, stress, and note as a point of pride. No one should forget
> > this as it really takes a lot of sacrifices to do this without bribing
> and
> > in terms of cost, it actually is cheaper to save time and pay the bribes.
> >
> > I hope that this encourages other organizations in Bangladesh to also
> file
> > their own NGO paperwork and accomplish whatever they feel ought to be
> done.
> >
> > Congratulations a thousand times!
> >
> > yours,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <
> nemow...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Tonmoy Khan, 10/06/2014 19:28:
> > >
> > >  less than 5 applications for registration as societies get
> > >> approved out of every 100. We submitted our application in May 2012
> > >>
> > >
> > > That's heroic, thanks.
> > >
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> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] How many volunteers (not editors) does the movement have????

[Alice Wiegand]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Benjamin Lees  wrote:

> Many of the people on those lists are not volunteers.


How's your definition of volunteers?

Alice.
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[Wikimedia-l] WMF Board skill grid 2014

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,

the WMF Board took another round of the exercise to create a Board skills
grid to get more clarity about what the current needs on the Board are and
how well they are covered. The Board will discuss the result and the
implications for the board composition at the Board meeting before
Wikimania in London.

We are interested in your thoughts and input for this discussion. Please
take a look at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Governance_Committee/Board_skills_grid_2014
and share your ideas on the talk page.

Regards,
Alice.


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[Wikimedia-l] Consultation opened for Bylaws change

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,

as Ting has announced in his earlier mail, the WMF Board prepared an
amendment for its Bylaws to clarify the wording and ensure its ability to
act especially in situations where a resignation reduces the number of
trustees to less than nine or an officer position is affected.

Please take a look at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/May_2013_-_Article_IV_Section_6_(Vacancies)and
leave your comments on the talk page. Tell us what you think about it,
your comments are welcome.

Regards, Alice.

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[Wikimedia-l] Ask your WMF Board member

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi,

On Sunday next week there will be an "open Sunday" with talks and
sessions, organized by Wikimedia Deutschland. [1]

As a Board member I take the chance to offer a session to "Ask your
WMF Board member". I collect questions in advance of this meeting, add
them to the questions in the meeting and publish the answers
afterwards.

If you have questions for me, maybe especially addressed to me as one
of the Chapters selected Board members, please feel free to add them
[2].

Probably I'm not able to answer all the questions because they are for
example part of the ED's job or because they relate to an area of
interest where other Board members know better. Then it may take a
little bit longer to get the answer, but the question will be heard.

I'm interested in what interests you and it would be wonderful to have
a wider range of questions including those of Chapters and individuals
from all over the movement.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Offener_Sonntag
[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Offener_Sonntag#Frag_dein_WMF_Board-Mitglied

Thanks,
Alice.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Questions for the WMF Board of Trustees?

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Lodewijk,
I like the idea of having more opportunities to talk and to try out
different approaches.
That was the reason for Patricio and me to offer a Chapters Lunch Meeting
on Sunday, where we want to talk about the role of Chapters Selected Board
members, expectations, limitations, and the relationship we have. I read
your suggestion like something similar, concentrating more on particular
issues and diving somehow deeper into the subject. And yes, I would be glad
to participate if it matches with my schedule.

Alice.



On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Bishakha Datta wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Lodewijk  >wrote:
>
> > Hi Phoebe,
> >
> > thanks for pointing to this!
> >
> > I see that this year we only have one hour of board Q&A. I have always
> seen
> > a lot of value in these board discussions, especially when it can come to
> > actually that: discussions. As there are several discussion sessions
> > scheduled, without a specific topic, would you and perhaps a few other
> > board members be willing to commit to use some of these sessions to dig a
> > bit deeper into a few specific topics? For example, would there be three
> > board members willing to have a round table discussion about transparency
> > and openness at a board level?
> >
>
> I'd be interested in participating in this one - but cannot take the lead
> on making it happen.
>
> Do let us know if this does get fixed during wikimania. Cannot make it 9
> Aug 2-4 when there's another meeting, but open to other times.
>
> Best
> Bishakha
>
>
> > 2013/7/29 phoebe ayers 
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Every year at Wikimania the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
> hosts
> > a
> > > panel where they take questions from the audience on the work of the
> WMF
> > > and the Board.
> > >
> > > In past years the board has also taken questions via IRC. This year
> we'd
> > > also like to provide the opportunity to leave questions on a wiki page
> > > ahead of time:
> > > http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Q%26A
> > >
> > > While there is only time to answer a few questions during the session
> > > itself, hopefully this will be a good way of getting questions from
> > > attendees as well as from those who can't make it. The board will also
> > take
> > > questions from the audience at Wikimania, as time permits.
> > >
> > > Remember the Board doesn't deal directly with work on or problems on
> the
> > > projects, and does not have a direct hand in how the WMF operates
> > > day-to-day. Rather, the board thinks about the big picture, and gives
> > > direction on strategy for the WMF. You can find out more about what the
> > > board does (and does not do) here:
> > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees and
> > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_handbook
> > >
> > > best,
> > > phoebe
> > >
> > > --
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[Wikimedia-l] Proposed bylaws amendment

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,

In 2013 the WMF Board of Trustees started to publish proposed bylaw changes
on Meta for consultation with the community. As we want to continue with
this new tradition you find a proposed change at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/January_2014_-_Amendment_for_Trustees_selected_by_Chapters_and_Thematic_Organizations

The Board Governance Committee (BGC) was commissioned by the Board to
prepare the resolution and the BGC present it to the Board at the same time
we publish it on Meta. Now a 10 day discussion phase starts after which the
Board starts voting.

I'm happy to invite you to review and discuss the resolution draft. Please
share your comments on the talk page.

Regards,
Alice.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Declaring my candidacy

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Thehelpfulone,

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Thehelpfulone
 wrote:

> Given that
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Secretary-General
> is
> still in a draft format and hasn't significantly been touched since April
> 2012, I'm inclined to say that this is premature. In addition, there's a
> question related to this on the talk page,
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Secretary-General#Status
> that's
> been unanswered for just under a month. Where have recent discussions, if
> any, been taking place as I seem unable to find them on-wiki (and I don't
> think a WCA specific mailing list exists)?
...
> I don't intend to sound hostile
> and in no way am I opposing your candidacy, it's just your email has just
> brought up quite a few questions that don't appear to have been answered as
> of yet.

and if it would be only this - bringing process and discussion into
the public again - it is appreciated. Questions on Meta about the
state of the process remained unanswered and I as one of those who are
really interested but limited to the information published on meta,
this mailing list and internal-l, I am still unsure about the current
state of the WCA and I hope that discussions and reports will follow.
Rather here or on Meta than on closed mailing lists.

Regards, Alice.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Declaring my candidacy

[Alice Wiegand]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Theo10011  wrote:

>
> You would also have to accept that you are/will be part of the WMF board.
> You'd have access to less and in some case, more information, but not a lot
> besides what people choose to disclose. This interim time between the WMDE
> board and WMF board is transitory. So, I would only remind that you be
> patient for now, you will not be entitled to any more or less information
> than rest of the board, as much as all of us here are entitled to what the
> board has or will discuss. And I do recall when the calls were made last to
> ask what the board was discussing. Somehow the rest of the board seems to
> have subsisted on the available information.

Oh, I didn't realize that we were talking about the Board. Thanks for
showing me where my place is.

Alice.

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[Wikimedia-l] Information from the Board about the creation of a travel guide project

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,

the Board of Trustees held a discussion at its Board meeting this week
regarding the creation of a travel guide project. Based upon those
discussions and the current state of the RFC, we would like the
community to continue its discussions for at least 6 more weeks to
ensure all interested parties have an opportunity to express their
views.

During the meeting we discussed many things all of which are important
for the community to understand:

a) We are excited to see this proposal from the community, and hope
the wider community of editors can reach consensus on it.  We are
waiting for the conclusion of the RfC to take a decision on the issue.

b) We are committed to making knowledge freely reusable, and feel
there is room for multiple travel sites to coexist.

c) We feel it is important to be transparent with the community, that
should consensus be reached and a travel project created, the
foundation could support the initial creation of a travel guide
project, but could not provide a great deal of additional engineering
or staff support.  Further technical efforts would have to come from
the community.

Please leave your Comments at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide

Regards,
Alice

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Further resolutions from board meeting of 11 July 2012

[Alice Wiegand]

> Cristian Consonni, 21/07/2012 20:28:
>> The link to Mr. Weber's bio[*] is broken.
>> 
>> Cristian
>> [*]http://www.sloan.org/bio/item/13
> 
> It worked till a couple hours ago I think. :/

It's fixed.

Alice.


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[Alice Wiegand]

Hi,

as signalized during the session the questions to the board were
collected (thanks Phoebe) and are now published at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Board_Q%26A

I hope you find it helpful to have a look at the questions as soon as
possible, although we haven't yet answered them. This will be done
within the next days, not as "the board" but as individuals. So please
notice that the answers are not representing the view of the whole
board and feel free to comment.

Regards
Alice.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board appointments July 2012

[Alice Wiegand]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Arne Klempert  wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Bence Damokos  wrote:

>> I am sure Bishakha will give a more thorough answer if I am mistaken, but
>> from what I heard from Board members when I asked the same question: the
>> new board members fully participated in the meeting on the 11 July, but for
>> technical reasons and simplicity's sake, they only assumed the positions of
>> the outgoing board members at the very end of the meeting.
>
> That's correct. The transition took place at the end of the meeting on
> July 11th. We didn't want to leave a legacy of too much unfinished
> business (some resolutions had a history that started long before the
> new board members were selected), while allowing Alice and Patricio to
> get used to their new roles.

And it was organized in this manner with our full agreement. We were
involved in every discussion which made it very easy to feel like an
equivalent part of this body quite fast.

Alice.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Travel Guide RFC closing in 3,2,...

[Alice Wiegand]

And here's a very short note about the next steps:
The board is reviewing the RfC and its talk page over the next week.
We are going to share our thoughts with you soon on the RfC's talk
page. Please feel free to leave comments there, that's still possible
and will be read ;-)

Regards, Alice


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Kim Bruning  wrote:
> For those interested, a quick reminder:
>
> The travel guide RFC will (soft) close in 1 hour, 17 minutes as of the
> moment this mail is sent. (At 0:00, 23 August 2012 (UTC))
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide
>
> sincerely,
> Kim Bruning
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,

on behalf of the Board of Trustees I'm glad to announce the following
statement about the travel guide RfC
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide :


Through the RfC, it is clear our community has reached consensus in
favor of the creation of a travel guide. The Board supports the
community decision to create a dedicated project for the collection of
free multilingual travel resources. We believe there is an enormous
amount of space for multiple wiki-based projects with travel content
and welcome the contributions of community members from around the
world.
We look forward to having a project that can provide additional
content for other travel sites to reuse and benefit from, which we
believe this site will do.

As a project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, it will be subject
to the movement vision, mission, and values, as well as the Foundation
Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. However, like all other Wikimedia
projects, the community of contributors is responsible for the
management and creation of the content, policies, rules, and
governance of the new project. The community will be responsible for
organizing the travel guide project, and once they have put all of the
necessary pieces together and provided them to the Foundation staff,
the Wikimedia Foundation will make the necessary technical adjustments
to support the site. We look forward to a new project and appreciate
the community taking the initiative to make this possible.

As we have reported in a blogpost [1], Internet Brands has filed a
lawsuit against community members, and, in response, Wikimedia
Foundation has filed a complaint against Internet Brands [2]. This
lawsuit by Internet Brands is not going to intimidate the Foundation
or stop the process.

[1] 
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/05/wikimedia-foundation-seeks-declaratory-relief-in-response-to-legal-threats-from-internet-brands/
[2] 
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_complaint_for_declaratory_judgement_September_2012.pdf

Regards, Alice.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Recruitment process for Secretary General of the Wikimedia Chapters Association

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Fae,

thank you for moving this to meta. I'm very glad to see the WCA coming
from wherever back to the broader community, open for input and
discussion.

Alice.


On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Fae  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have created <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Resolutions/2012_SG_recruitment>
> for a resolution of the WCA Council Members to support a resourced plan to
> recruit the WCA Secretary General.
>
> Should you have questions, please raise them on <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Resolutions/2012_SG_recruitment
>>.
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Phoebe,
thank you for your thoughts. I must admit that I don't remember these
discussions and yes, I understand the frustration even more with this
background. Like Bishakha and Sam I will support to publish as much
information as possible before our meetings. I agree that this issue
would have been a good start to do this, and we missed to realize
this. Most of the changes are somewhat cosmetical (continuous
designations, adjustments on former decisions). The change for
secretary and treasurer are critical to get the best of the Trustees
where it is needed and not to waste lots of energy and concentration
on things that are originally grounded and better placed in the hands
of staff. (Personally, I'm just happy to have Bishakha involved as
much in our discussions as any other Trustee without the
responsibility to take notes at the same time.)

Since I've joined the board I've wondered how things are done. And
after having asked lots of questions, peeved my colleagues and found
several places with descriptions for the public but without concrete
directions for the board, I've decided to build a set of rules of
procedures for the board. Since this has to do with processes and
standards to ensure and hopefully improve the board's work the
creation of it will be led by the Board Governance Committee. The
committee has agreed to start with it in 2013.

There will be a Meta page with the BGC's agenda in the next days and
I'm glad to get more input from the community.

Regards, Alice.


On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 7:16 PM, phoebe ayers  wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Lodewijk  wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't see how this validates the fact that you did not consult the
>> community on these changes. If the changes are fairly trivial and
>> legalistic, then the community will likely have little objection. But as
>> you noted, there was at least one significant change (I haven't been able
>> to check myself) and I'm having a hard time understanding why you (the
>> board) would /not/ want the input of the community on such decisions.
>
> Hi Lodewijk (and all),
>
> Here's my thoughts on this... and a little history.
>
> As I recall, the last time the Board revised the bylaws in 2010 the
> board also didn't notify the community, except via resolution after
> the fact, and I remember that you and I had a long conversation about
> it where you basically made this same argument, and I agreed with you.
>
> I brought your points up to the board at the time, and I believe
> (though my memory is flawed) I proposed something like a two-week
> notification period to notify the community for bylaws changes. I
> think at the time there was general agreement that the principle
> seemed good, though there were questions about how to integrate
> feedback and some discussion that the bylaws themselves don't require
> such notification. There may be other points that I'm forgetting.
> Nothing really happened though (nothing formal was drafted) and the
> issue didn't arise again during my term since we didn't need to make
> further bylaws revisions.
>
> So I totally understand your frustration, Lodewijk, because it must
> seem like you've been having this exact same conversation with the
> board for years. And this particular bylaws change is even more
> complicated -- it is difficult to know how best to refer legal changes
> to the community for review, when they need to be made for compliance
> reasons.
>
> Regardless, in the spirit of being constructive, I propose (as a
> community member) two changes to the Board and community at large:
> * a formal Board resolution that states the procedure for bylaws
> changes (mirroring the other procedural resolutions, such as voting
> transparency and deliberation rules).
> * a better (more public) standing rules/procedures type of document
> that lays out the procedure for how the board works -- i.e. what the
> best practice is for notification of meetings, etc. etc. Currently
> some of this information is in the board manual, some is in the
> bylaws, some is in resolutions and some is in informal private
> documents like the notes the secretary uses. It would be nice to bring
> that all together into one place on meta, and such a document would
> help future boards -- compared to many nonprofits, we have a lot of
> turnover on our board, and it takes a while for each member as well as
> each secretary to come up to speed. I'm imagining a document that is
> more like an English Wikipedia guideline, rather than policy -- best
> practices that the board follows unless there are good reasons not to.
>
> I guess now that I've made these suggestions I've also volunteered
> myself to work on them, huh :P
>
> cheers,
> Phoebe
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[Wikimedia-l] WMF Board portal drafted on meta

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,

not sure if I'm the only one. But too often I've gone mad while seeking for
essential information regarding the Board. If it's dates, composition of
committees, whatever. Some information is on meta, some on the foundation's
wiki, and some is well kept only in somebody's head (whoever that is). And
we are not really good in keeping our own history. It is so hard to find
former compositions, initiatives or fundamental discussions. Could be a
project of its own maybe.

The ongoing discussion started by Lodewijk reminds me of an older idea, a
starting point like a portal. And here it is:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_portal

It's quite ugly and only a rough draft yet. It needs helping hands to
become nicer and as informative as you want it to be. And I ask you to
help. Please let me know which information you want to find there. What is
missing, what needs more explanation. Help is appreciated, please feel free
to add items, edit, rearrange and reformat to make it smarter and nicer.

Resolutions, policies and charters as part of the organization's core
decisions are published on the foundation's wiki, and that's fine as far as
they are findable. A lot of other things can and will be done on meta. Both
parts can be collected on the portal and I hope it can help to provide
easier access to what is going on.

Regards, Alice.
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[Wikimedia-l] Board Governance Committee' agenda

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi all,

I've put the Board Govenance Committe's agenda for the next months on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Governance_Committee and would be
glad to see you joining discussions there and on the subpages which will be
created with the tasks we start.

There is one thing with some special urgency: we need to find a new board
member to fill one of the appointed seats. That's not easy and we will
reach out to the Advisory Committee, the community and externals to collect
nominations. But what needs to be first is to create a set of requirements,
skills and characteristics the Board needs. With the appointed Trustees the
Board has the opportunity to identify which of these are necessary in the
current composition to amend the Board's skills at a certain stage. Can we
find ways to get more overlapping in what is needed and what is wanted? I
Think in general it's important to find out more about expectations and
ideas of an "ideal Trustee". Help us get a broader picture, share your
thoughts on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Governance_Committee/Agenda_2012-2013/Appointed_seats/What_makes_a_good_Trustee%3F

Regards, Alice.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Board Agenda (Draft)

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi Nemo,
thanks for the note. Nothing exceptionally, this is just the way
things go. Before you set up the final agenda you collect proposals.
And that was the time I added the comments you mentioned.

Regards, Alice.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
 wrote:
> Geoff Brigham, 31/01/2013 08:14:
>
>> Please find below the draft WMF board agenda for the upcoming meetings on
>> January 31-February 2, 2013.
>
>
> I'm very glad that agendas are shared in advance like this.
> There are some more details in this diff:
> 
> At the time of that edit, "Term limits" and "Advisory board" were just
> proposals: I don't understand if they fall under some of the items mentioned
> here, but I don't see why they shouldn't so their inclusion is very welcome.
>
> Nemo
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[Wikimedia-l] Your support is wanted: The WMF Board of Trustees is looking for a new Board member

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi everyone,

as you know, we have one vacant appointed seat on the Board of Trustees. We
have asked m/Oppenheim Associates to assist us in finding a new board
member and and we are reaching out to the community for suggestions and
nominations.

The Board functions as a governance body that is ultimately responsible for
the Wikimedia Foundation and its activities, supervises the disposition and
solicitation of donations, and evaluates the organization’s Executive
Director who leads all Foundation staff. As arguably the most influential
and respected organization in the free knowledge movement, the Wikimedia
Foundation and its Board have a great responsibility for setting policy
deliberately and with due consideration for the diverse interests of a
truly global community. To find out more about the responsibilities and
workings of the board you can have a look at the Board
manual<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_board_manual>
.

As with any search process we will be communicating with a lot of potential
candidates to see if we are a good match. The Board’s objective is to use
this search to strengthen its competence with regards to board governance,
grantmaking, strategy, and expertise with regions where Wikimedia is trying
to make rapid strides in the growth of our projects.

Board terms are for a two year period. Compared to other boards the time
commitment is very significant. The Board of Trustees meets four times a
year, twice in San Francisco and twice in changing locations around the
globe. Meetings take two days and travel can add another two days to each
meeting. In addition, the Board communicates frequently by email and
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) as it navigates policy issues. This can absorb
4-10 hours weekly. Board members also regularly engage with the Community
through wiki pages.

We think that the WMF would benefit from a Board member who has experience
with organizations that have grown and evolved rapidly, and who understands
how boards can evolve to provide appropriate governance support in these
changing circumstances. Experience with international, community-driven,
consensus organizations is also important as the Foundation would not exist
without the community.

We would like to call upon you to help us out with finding the right
individual. A complete position description can be found
here<http://moppenheim.com/searches/links/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20-%20Board%20Member%20position%20description%20-%20final.pdf>and
additional information can be found at
www.moppenheim.com and www.wikimediafoundation.org. Your suggestions and
nominations are very welcome. Please feel free to reach out to your
networks and distribute this note as you deem appropriate.

Interested individuals should contact Lisa Grossman  li...@moppenheim.com

-- 
Alice Wiegand
Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia-l] Term limits for WMF board members?

[Alice Wiegand]

Hi everybody,
as proposed the Board discussed the issue of term limits at its last
meeting in San Francisco. You find the outcome on Meta:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Democratizing_the_Wikimedia_Foundation#Result_of_the_Board.27s_discussion_about_term_limits


Alice Wiegand
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Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Markus Glaser is elected Chair of the Wikimedia Chapters Association Council

[Alice Wiegand]

Congratulations to Markus, thanks to Fae!

whenever possible we should pursue the kind of exchange we started
with the London meeting to make the best of it for chapters,
affiliates and our mission.

Alice.


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive
 wrote:
> Congrtz Markus..
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Craig Franklin  wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Markus, I suspect that you have a difficult road ahead of
>> you but I'm confident that with the support of chapters you will do us all
>> proud.  Thanks also to Fae for his work as Chair until this point; while he
>> has operated under difficult conditions he's done quite well considering,
>> and I hope he'll continue to support Markus throughout 2013.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Craig
>>
>> On 18 March 2013 18:46,  wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:58:20 +0100
>> > From: Markus Glaser 
>> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
>> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Markus Glaser is elected Chair of the
>> > Wikimedia Chapters Association Council
>> > Message-ID: <514666ac.1020...@wikimedia.de>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > thanks for voting and thank you for your trust. Time will show if I can
>> > meet your expectations. Thank you, Fae, for all the work you have done
>> > so far. I assume I can continue to count on your experience :)
>> >
>> > In order to get things going, I totally depend on the help and support
>> > of the Council members. We also need to involve all chapters and
>> > affiliate organisations. Furthermore, I hope for very friendly relations
>> > to WMF and their organisations.
>> >
>> > In order to shape the future of the WCA, please approach me with all
>> > comments, criticism and suggestions!
>> >
>> > There's quite some work ahead of us! Our next milestone will be the
>> > Milan conference.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Markus
>> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New Supervisory Board

[Alice Wiegand]

Dear fellow Wikimedians,

On Saturday, June 22, Wikimedia Deutschland held its 29th General Assembly in 
Berlin, again in a hybrid format.  

Our members elected a new Supervisory Board, which consists of 7 elected 
members:

* Alice Wiegand (chair, re-elected)
* Friederike von Borries (treasurer)
* Jens Ohlig (re-elected)
* Kamran Salimi (re-elected)
* Larissa Borck (re-elected)
* Nora Circosta (re-elected)
* Valerie Mocker (re-elected)

I would like to wholeheartedly thank our departing treasurer Daniel Reisener 
and board members Christina Dinar and Raimond Spekking for the outstanding work 
and their commitment to Wikimedia over the past years.

Axel Zehrfeld and Andreas Ettwig were elected as auditors. My gratitude to our 
departing auditors Renate Duerr and Lenia Zinßer.

The new board will reconvene shortly to get started and I am very much looking 
forward to working together with the new team.

Kind regards,
Alice


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