Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Call for chapter peer review participation

2013-03-01 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi all, Speaking of chapter peer review, you might be interested in this great cooperation between WM DE and WM AR that might serve as a model: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/01/tutoria-in-buenos-aires/ Best regards, Bence On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Fae wrote: > In the light of Asaf's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Election for WCA Chairperson

2013-02-25 Thread Bence Damokos
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: > >> On Feb 25, 2013 9:41 AM, "James Alexander" wrote: >> > Err ok, I'm sorry but this actually moves to the realms of s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Election for WCA Chairperson

2013-02-25 Thread Bence Damokos
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On Feb 25, 2013 9:41 AM, "James Alexander" wrote: > > Err ok, I'm sorry but this actually moves to the realms of scary. > You > > require the new Council member to send in a statement ... pledging > loyalty > > essentially? I don't see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are chapters part of the community and board seats for affiliates?

2013-02-19 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Thehelpfulone wrote: > On 19 February 2013 13:48, Bence Damokos wrote: > > > To be perfectly fair, all the nominations for the 2012 selection were > > public, so this was less of a problem than in 2010 when they were not > > published.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are chapters part of the community and board seats for affiliates?

2013-02-19 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > All that said, the chapter selected board seat is related to the > communities the chapters are embedded in at a further step of remove > because of the way the process is conducted. (The list of candidates and > questions to th

[Wikimedia-l] Are chapters part of the community and board seats for affiliates?

2013-02-19 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, I'll separate this out as I think it is a really interesting conversation, and as I have heard the two arguments below repeated numerous times, it might be useful to think about it and the future shape of things a bit more. I think the fundamental question is how legitimate can an interest gr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: IRC Office Hours

2013-01-26 Thread Bence Damokos
As a reminder, this is still scheduled for next Monday at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours. Best regards, Bence On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Gayle Karen Young wrote: > Hello! > > I'll be doing an open office hours on IRC at #wikimedia-office on January > 28th. I'll talk abou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)

2013-01-10 Thread Bence Damokos
The correct link is vi.wikipedia.org This vi.wikipedAI.org domain should be checked out by Legal at WMF, though... Best regards, Bence On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Mono wrote: > On vi.wikipedai.org the non mainspaces are green - maybe just a tab like > that? > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapter reports WMNL

2013-01-06 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, Copying the text of the reports and announcing when new reports are available are a nice courtesy. The last two WMNL reports are worth the click, some interesting stuff in there about hackathons, glam, open office days, board and staff changes, etc.; the time spent on prolonging this discussio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-28 Thread Bence Damokos
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On Dec 28, 2012 7:12 PM, "Lodewijk" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > it should probably be emphasized that this organization was founded > against > > the advice of the Wikimedia Foundations' Affiliate Committee. It is not > > recognized at this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-28 Thread Bence Damokos
Thank you Ziko – your post is great! ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Thematic_Organizations#Scope_and_names_for_movement_entities ) Best regards, Bence (P.S. AffCom is still looking for new members ready to think about the hard questions that are raised there: http://meta.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Minutes of WMF Board: October 26-27, 2012, meeting

2012-12-09 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Geoff, Thanks for sharing these minutes (and on a Saturday, at that!) This is probably an error in the minutes, but was Arne present at the October meeting as a trustee? Best regards, Bence On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Geoff Brigham wrote: > Hi all, > > The minutes of the WMF board meet

[Wikimedia-l] New Board of Wikimedia Hungary

2012-12-02 Thread Bence Damokos
m were new editors, and 127 new articles created) and celebrated the 4th birthday of Wikimedia Hungary with a cake. Best regards, Bence Damokos Former VP Wikimedia Hungary [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/2013_Prog

[Wikimedia-l] (Press release) More than a hundred articles in Hungarian Wikipedia's literature contest

2012-11-28 Thread Bence Damokos
ently free knowledge. The association is planning a number of new contest for the year 2013. --- Best regards, Bence Damokos, Wikimedia Hungary ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

2012-11-02 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Bishakha, In my opinion, given the generally curious nature of our movement, it might be a good idea to make more preparatory material for the board meetings available publicly in advance. Not necessarily as a way to allow comments or input, but as a matter of transparency. Especially for propo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board vote on narrowing focus

2012-11-02 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi SJ, On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Hello Lodewijk, > > These are good questions. I expect effort will be required in the short > term to delegate effectively and help move to a narrower focus. A few > clarifying questions for you in return: > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 a

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Hungary Report for July, August, September

2012-11-01 Thread Bence Damokos
on in preparation. Best regards, -- Bence Damokos Executive Vice President, Wikimedia Hungary http://wikimedia.hu <http://wiki.media.hu/> @WikimediaHU ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposed Wikimedia Medicine Thematic Organisation

2012-10-14 Thread Bence Damokos
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Medicine#Liability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iridescent#arbitrary_break_2 (and above) Best regards, Bence On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Thanks for the notice. > > Bence Damokos, 14/10/2012 19:07: >

[Wikimedia-l] Proposed Wikimedia Medicine Thematic Organisation

2012-10-14 Thread Bence Damokos
Dear all, I wanted to update you on behalf of the Affiliations Committee that we are now considering the application of a proposed thematic organisation active in the field of Medicine. You can see the proposal at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Medicine We would like to invite you to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Survey, Feedback requested, and Office Hour

2012-09-14 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Jan-bart de Vreede wrote: > Hey > > So someone sent me the internal-l mail and I do think that the "zero > real-world" thing is taken out of context here. But a few points > > 1) Lets not have these discussions on internal-l, there is no reason to > not have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects

2012-07-29 Thread Bence Damokos
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 29 July 2012 22:57, Nathan wrote: > > Can your masters degree in mathematics point out where in Wikimedia's > > statement it said "all" or implied anything other than having met some of > > Portuguese Wikipedia's top contributors? Not su

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Hungary Quarterly Report 2012/2

2012-07-29 Thread Bence Damokos
zed a big community meetup in Budapest with roundtable discussions on a number of Wikipedia-related topics. Thirdly, a lot of behind the scenes work went into getting our administrative and accounting backlog and organizing our annual General Meeting" Best regards, -- Bence Damokos Exec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board appointments July 2012

2012-07-25 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Beria, 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 po

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Language links and double language links on the Wikipedias

2012-06-25 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Denny, This is a really interesting list. Looking at the Hungarian list, I find that in many instances the duplicate interwiki link is actually commented out (in the form of " or ), and not real duplicate links. (In some cases there are indeed duplicate links, where one concept covers two conce

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

2012-04-23 Thread Bence Damokos
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2012/4/23 Delphine Ménard : > > Top posting. > > > > This is getting a bit ridiculous. Frankly, while I see the need for > > *some* statistics, I don't see how the number of emails exchanged is > > in any kind of way relevant to the work this

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012/1 Quarterly Report of Wikimedia Hungary

2012-04-16 Thread Bence Damokos
/File:Wikimedia_Hungary_Quarterly_Report_2012-1-hu.pdf Best regards, Bence Damokos Executive Vice President, Wikimedia Hungary ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia

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