Re: [Wikimedia-l] Subject for Wikimedia Hackathon(s) 2014-2015: CoSyne

Le 09/07/2014 14:33, Romaine Wiki a écrit : As a subject of one/more hackathons I would like to recommend CoSyne [1]. CoSyne is translation and multilingual synchronisation tool. The project was set up by Wikimedia Netherlands together with several universities and other partners, including

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF non-disclosure agreements and non-disparagement clauses

Le 13/03/2016 03:09, Andreas Kolbe a écrit : > things like standard boilerplate language to be signed by >> > all employees doesn't strike me as something in and of itself to be kept >> > private - there is a valid interest in showing that our policies are >> > fair and humane for employees,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FLOSS for operations equipment

Le 22/03/2016 07:04, James Salsman a écrit : > >> >... as far as I know, high-end networking hardware is not >> > available with Libre OSes > Are the FreeBSD-based pfSense C2758 series in the Foundation's throughput > tier? > > https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#c2758 > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

Le 16/02/2017 à 11:31, Vi to a écrit : > Dealing with staffs they are way so close to more serious stuffs than the > mediawiki user interface, so I wouldn't care about their on site accesses. > Root access to db, squid data, mailman, physical access to residuals of old > identification system,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Apple Pay donations

On 15/11/16 02:12, Steven Walling wrote: Given that payments on mobile are such a huge headache and declining desktop traffic to Wikimedia properties, it might be an interesting pilot to explore nonetheless. Hello, Going out of topic sorry. Regarding mobile and desktop traffic declining,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's go gender neutral

Le 05/04/2017 à 12:52, Fæ a écrit : > I'm taking that further by > proposing that we stick to a neutral gender for all our policies and > help pages. In practice this means that policies avoid using "he or > she" and stick to "they" or avoid using a pronoun at all. As a non native English

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Status of the Code of Conduct for technical spaces

Le 08/03/2017 à 20:02, Pine W a écrit : > I am not sure that I agree with that closure. There have been several > concerns mentioned in the talk page and in email threads, and it's not > clear to me that the document should be moving forward without an RfC on > the whole document. If I had time to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Maps for Haiti

Le 08/03/2017 à 10:19, Gerard Meijssen a écrit : > Hoi, > A lot of effort has gone into getting ready to support OSM in our projects. > > What I want the Wikimedia Foundation is to allow the use of OSM maps in the > Haitian Wikipedia because existing maps are largely not in sync with the >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 11 June 2017)

Le 11/06/2017 à 22:51, Pine W a écrit : > > What's making you happy this week? I have been using Wikipedia for 7 700 000 minutes. The French wikipedia about [morse code] is an article I have stubbed years ago. I am very happy with it is state nowaday:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

On 21/08/2018 21:01, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> The text I cited has now been changed to "All text on Wikimedia sites >> is available as Creative Commons material". >> >> This does not resolve the issue I raised above; as my first bullet >> point applies not only to media files, but also to numerous

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

On 22/08/2018 13:01, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> So your concerns will be acknowledged once they make their way to >> Phabricator. You can login there with your wiki account. > Were I to perform that redundant clerical task, perhaps they would. > >> Until you do so, your concerns will stay under the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation joins the global climate strike

On 23/09/2019 18:41, Bence Damokos wrote: In fact, there are countless offset projects in the $1-$15/tonne range, as well:https://offset.climateneutralnow.org/allprojects The total offsetting budget would not need to be too enourmous, yet it could be impactful. Best regards, Bence Hello

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

On 01/10/2019 17:46, Samuel Klein wrote: From a Harvard biology list, via my friend Chris: a newly named species of Viola ! /SJ == Forwarded message === Many of you may use Wikipedia. Here is a plant name (*Viola Wikipedia*), which

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF work environment

On 03/10/2019 12:47, Antoine Musso wrote: [wmf-staff-and-contractors] * https://github.com/thcipriani/wmf-staff-and-contractors [official website] * https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ As a follow up, note that this source of data is most probably inaccurate. The website

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF work environment

On 02/10/2019 22:09, Pine W wrote: Hello, Something I am sensing from multiple sources, sometimes more through implication than specific statements, is that there is a sense of turmoil in WMF. I think that some amounts of internal politics and staff turnover are normal, but over the past few

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moving the technical infrastructure out of the US

On 30/09/2020 13:55, Pascal Martin wrote: Hi all, Maybe one way in France : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renater I could contact them if it s possible, and more particularly the criann he would only charge for electricity. At the same time this allows to be able to save energy for users who

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

On 30/12/2021 15:36, Andreas Kolbe wrote: [...] WMF salary costs have increased further since 2019. The 2020/21 financial statements[5] released earlier this month gave a "Salaries and wages" figure of $67,857,676, an increase of 22% over the year prior. Assuming a total of around 300

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

On 14/01/2022 02:01, Luis Bitencourt-Emilio wrote: I was born and grew up in Brazil, under vastly different circumstances than today. There was a critical moment in my life when my father placed me, at 8 years old, in a BASIC programming course which I would practice on our x286 hidden away

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license?

Le 30/08/2022 à 17:47, The Cunctator a écrit : I think the official WMF stance that it is functionally powerless is the wrong one to take. WMF should be much more aggressive, even if Google is a major donor to WMF. Hello, When someone or an organization reuse the Wikipedia content without

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 9:06 PM geni > wrote: ... It has: https://diff.wikimedia.org/ ... Le 03/01/2023 à 15:32, The Cunctator a écrit : > Pretty amusing that it's incredible opaque who edits it. > Hello The Cunctator, I am

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2021-2022 now on-wiki

Le 10/05/2023 à 11:01, Paulo Santos Perneta a écrit : Hello, I'm a bit lost on this, probably because I'm not familiar with US Work laws. Why did Katherine Maher received $623,286 on severance pay? Was she fired? Hello Paulo, When an employee leaves, you would always get a statement on the