Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wiki Loves Women explainer video

! This is so cool! We should work closer to improve in Spanish African women in Wikipedia :) Let's talk? Hugs! 2017-03-08 11:37 GMT-03:00 Florence Devouard : Hello everyone Wiki Loves Women is officially launching its presentation video today. Please check it out here and tell us what you

[Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wiki Loves Women explainer video

Hello everyone Wiki Loves Women is officially launching its presentation video today. Please check it out here and tell us what you think : https://vimeo.com/207432965 It is also on Commons : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_loves_Women_-_English_WebM_-_Final.webm This video wa

[Wikimedia-l] Occupation of Women on WikiData

This is a tool done by Envel Le Hir using WikiData and published today. I actually inspired him the idea during a conference, when talking of my desire to get generic data about women professionnal occupation. My main argument is that I felt many of the added biographies about women were about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

Le 03/03/2017 à 00:26, Zachary McCune a écrit : Craig, first, thank you. I am honored to be here and to be answerable.[1] SJ, Florence, George, you are right. We need better, deeper collaboration for brand projects like the Annual Report. And I would like to help meet that challenge. We are act

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

Verifiability [2] http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/nope-rs-2000-note-does-not-have-a-gps-nano-chip-inside-it/ [3] http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2017/02/28/lutte-contre-les-fausses-informations-le-monde-partenaire-du-projet-crosscheck_5086731_4355770

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

Le 02/03/2017 à 01:15, Erik Moeller a écrit : On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: For example... the message "one in six people visited another country in 2016"... illustrated by "SeaTac Airport protest against immigration ban. Sit-in blocking arrival

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

I must say I also find the political message behind this a bit too heavy. It lets me a bit unconfortable. That most of the themes reported here are not Mr Trump cup of tea is quite obvious. That the whole page is a message against the president, I get it. But in some cases, I think it is rea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon? Anthere #16WikiWomen Le 20/02/2017 à 11:10, Florence Devouard a écrit : In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translation drive #16WikiWomen. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

nt scope. Please, correct me if I am wrong. Best, Isaac Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -----Original Message- From: Romaine Wiki Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:46:12 To: ; Wikimedia Mailing List Cc: Florence Devouard Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #1

[Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translation drive #16WikiWomen. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to make translate the Wikipedia biographies

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation notice

Same in French... Le 13/02/2017 à 12:35, John Erling Blad a écrit : It is common to refer to those that cooperated with the Nazis during WWII as "kollaboratører" (kollaborators) in Norwegian too. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollaborat%C3%B8r Translating between languages are fun! =) John 13

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: Abraham Taherivand appointed permanent Executive Director

Congratulations to Abraham for the new responsibility ! Florence Le 30/01/2017 à 16:57, Tim Moritz Hector a écrit : Dear Wikimedians, It is our great pleasure to announce that during last weekend’s Board retreat, we voted to appoint Abraham Taherivand as Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutsch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exciting update about development of structured data on Commons

Wow ! Awesome ! Florence Le 09/01/2017 à 20:48, Wes Moran a écrit : Hello Wikimedia community, It’s our delight to inform you that we received a US$3,015,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation [1] to expedite development of stru

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipack Africa call for application open

conceptualised and conceived by Florence Devouard and Isla Haddow-Flood. The project is run in partnership with Wikimedia CH and the Orange Foundation and is primarily implemented by Florence, Isla, and Emmanuel Engelhart (the Kiwix master

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Victoria Coleman as Chief Technology Officer

Excellent news. Welcome Victoria ! Florence Le 02/11/2016 à 19:49, Samantha Lien a écrit : This press release is available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_welcomes_Victoria_Coleman_as_Chief_Technology_Officer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

With all due respect Pax... whilst I am fully in agreement with the concept of selecting a country with the safety of ALL participants in mind, I totally disagree with the concept of selecting a country based on "high human records" generally. We are not serving the part of humanity that has t

[Wikimedia-l] Africa Destubathon launched

What : Africa general stub elimination contest launched on the English Wikipedia. Thousands of stubs are listed for your interest... Though a general content improvement contest, this contest is also being run in partnership with WikiProject Wiki Loves Women and WikiProject Women in Red to de

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for the admin of CentralNotice on meta

Le 14/10/2016 à 21:55, Gergő Tisza a écrit : On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: Hello everyone I am looking for the admin of CentralNotice on meta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Request Anyone knows who that might be ? Please ? Are you looking for

[Wikimedia-l] Looking for the admin of CentralNotice on meta

Hello everyone I am looking for the admin of CentralNotice on meta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Request Anyone knows who that might be ? Please ? Thanks Florence ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...

I vividly remember the day we met, in Paris, before you joined the WMF. I am really glad you decided to join the aventure for so many years. You will be missed. Florence Le 13/07/16 à 23:25, Geoff Brigham a écrit : Hi all, Over the past five years, I’ve been honored to serve as the General C

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

hanks, Florence! I was aware of the WIGI research project (and have linked to it in the ==See Also== section of my page), but I was not aware of this page. Neat! So I won't need to update my own page. :) A. On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: Hello

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

Hello Asaf Just making sure that you knew about WHGI : http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html Do you know if there are differences in analysis between the two analysis ? I checked a few figures and it fits pretty well. Flo Le 16/06/16 à 21:14, Asaf Bartov a écrit : Hullo everyone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing WikiFundi and the Wikipack Africa

nternet is available? Phoebe On Jun 13, 2016 5:59 PM, "Florence Devouard" wrote: Hello everyone WikiAfrica has recently started a new project, the Wikipack Africa. The project amalgamates: * the coding of a software, WikiFundi, that provides an off-line editing environment that mimics

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing WikiFundi and the Wikipack Africa

Hello everyone WikiAfrica has recently started a new project, the Wikipack Africa. The project amalgamates: * the coding of a software, WikiFundi, that provides an off-line editing environment that mimics the Wikipedia environment. The software will be made available in French and English.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France board update

Le 30/05/16 à 12:18, Jean-Frédéric Berthelot a écrit : Dear fellow Wikimedians, As you may know Christophe Henner, the Chair of Wikimédia France, has resigned from the board, as he is moving on to his next challenge at the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. We won't even try to summa

[Wikimedia-l] Africa / Gender gaps (was Re: Gender gap on "classical" encyclopedias)

Hello Sorry for highjacking your thread, but reading your message, I wanted to share with you a small page I made a few days ago, to quantify the double gap Gender/Africa. http://www.wikiloveswomen.org/about-the-project/mind-the-gap/ If anyone has additional links or studies that could be us

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [recent changes]

Lot's of respect and lot's of sadness reading your email Denny. I understand your point. Thanks for explaining. Much regrets. Flo Le 08/04/16 20:17, Denny Vrandecic a écrit : I exchanged a walk on part in the war for a lead role in the cage. I find myself tied and limited in my actions and pro

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Hello Mr. ccc, Now you can have your own Wikipedia page

A relationship of mine received the email below and forwarded it to me. http://yourprmanager.com/ This company is known ? Flo = Début du message réexpédié : De: Britney Davis Objet: Hello Mr. ccc, Now you can have your own Wikipedia page Date: 6 avril 2016 14:34:27 UTC+2 À:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who runs the Wikimedia Shop ?

/Merchandise_giveaways On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: Is that directly run by Wikimedia Foundation staff or is that run by an independant company "paid" by WMF to manage the shop ? Who is behind the email address merchand...@wikimedia.org ? Thank you

[Wikimedia-l] Who runs the Wikimedia Shop ?

Is that directly run by Wikimedia Foundation staff or is that run by an independant company "paid" by WMF to manage the shop ? Who is behind the email address merchand...@wikimedia.org ? Thank you Florence ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

I concur Very useful feature. Thanks a lot ! Flo Le 13/03/16 22:16, Anna Stillwell a écrit : I enabled it last week and found two new messages. Thank you. Very useful. /a On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 6:31 AM, David Cuenca Tudela wrote: Finally it is here! Now I don't miss conversations that are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Wikimedia Foundation executive transition update

Excellent ! All my support Katherine ! Anthere PS: Hopefully the list will regain a bit of peace and be productive again ? Le 11/03/16 03:59, Katherine Maher a écrit : Thank you, Patricio. I want to thank the Board for this opportunity, and for their confidence in the Foundation. I also want

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

Le 09/03/16 16:00, WereSpielChequers a écrit : Don't be so hasty to rule out Donald. With Computers coming down in price and Artificial Intelligence programs steadily improving it should be perfectly possible to train an AI program with the decision making power needed to make CEO style decisi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] My posts going to spam

Le 01/03/16 05:11, Austin Hair a écrit : On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Michael Snow wrote: On 2/29/2016 5:37 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote: I'm switching to this email address for posting, because apparently there is some kind of weird problem between yahoo and google such that gmail users see all

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

Le 27/02/16 22:41, SarahSV a écrit : On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: Removing a COI is not the only issue at stake Sarah. Would WMF get involved into such a process, it would also possibly change its legal reponsibility. Right now, WMF does not get involved in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

examples would help. Anthony Cole On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: Le 27/02/16 00:37, SarahSV a écrit : On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: However, if the core interest (as Sarah suggests) is to create paid opportunities for those who excel at W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

Le 27/02/16 00:37, SarahSV a écrit : On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: However, if the core interest (as Sarah suggests) is to create paid opportunities for those who excel at Wikipedia writing and editing, those opportunities exist, and are increasingly available. The mon

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I am going to San Francisco

Le 26/02/16 16:46, Theo10011 a écrit : Hmm. I wonder if Jimmy is going to be named the interim bosssomeone has to be. Speechless... Finding an ED is a long painful process, something that is bound to get more difficult after Lila and Arnon. The only question is, if the board brings back s

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

+ 1 Brad. And I would like to say thank you Lila for your efforts and best of luck for the future. Flo Le 25/02/16 20:01, Brad Patrick a écrit : Best of luck to the Board moving forward with this process. You have a lot of work ahead. Brad On Feb 25, 2016, at 1:50 PM, Patricio Lorente

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transition plans for WMF leadership - Board Reform

Le 25/02/16 13:13, Milos Rancic a écrit : On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Denny Vrandecic wrote: - the Board members have duties of care and loyalty to the Foundation - not to the movement. If there is a decision to be made where there is a conflict between the Movement or one of the Communiti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transition plans for WMF leadership

Le 23/02/16 04:00, Sydney Poore a écrit : On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Pine W wrote: I also hope that the current Board members will thoughtfully consider whether it's in the best interests of the Wikimedia Foundation and the larger Wikimedia movement for them to continue as Board members

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timeline of recent events at the Wikimedia Foundation

Le 22/02/16 13:20, GorillaWarfare a écrit : Recent discussion of the Knowledge Engine/Wikimedia Discovery project, issues with senior leadership, lack of transparency, and the like has been fairly well spread across several Wikimedia projects and mailing lists, as well as on Facebook, in the medi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why we changed

Le 22/02/16 11:03, George Herbert a écrit : I have been letting Lila's mail stew in my brain for a little while, and I am going to respond now having had time to think it over. I apologize in advance for the length. There are three main sections to my analysis and argument, and then some con

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What is the Board's HR Committee doing to stem the tide of staff resignations?

Le 18/02/16 21:38, Brion Vibber a écrit : On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: What is the board doing, going forward, to stem the tide of staff resignations? We have started with an engagement survey, and

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Africa 2015 results

Good evening everyone Another day... another announcement :) We closed yesterday the last vote session for winning pictures of Wiki Loves Africa 2015. We are happy to announce our winners https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2015/Winners First picture is a very relax

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15 days to create (at least) 15 biographies on notable African women!

: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Wiki_Loves_Women/Concours_d%27écriture/Résultats Congrats everyone ! Anthere Le 15/01/16 12:58, Florence Devouard a écrit : The Wiki Love Women writing contest is now officially open ! Please join in to celebrate Wikipedia 15 by participating to the bilingual

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Another goodbye

Le 12/02/16 02:24, Siko Bouterse a écrit : Dear friends and colleagues, I’ve had the amazing privilege of serving this movement in a staff capacity for the past 4 ½ years, but I’ve now decided to move on from my role at the Wikimedia Foundation. Transparency, integrity, community and free knowl

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Africa 2015 community picture vote

Hello Wiki Loves Africa 2015 will celebrate 4 winning pictures. 3 have already been selected by the jury. The 4th is to be selected by the community at large. Please help us decide and vote here : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2015/Community_Prize_Selection

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Changes to Community Engagement

Really sorry to hear about your departure Luis. You will be missed. I wish you the best and congrats for the little baby ! Florence Le 08/02/16 21:31, Luis Villa a écrit : Hi, all- This is a bittersweet email to send. I still, and will always, love this place and this movement, but it was also

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia at 15 & its African language editions

Couple of notes and pointers I have added the link to the blog post here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statistics_related_to_Africa#Use_and_knowledge_of_Wikipedia_in_Africa Please do not hesitate to drop information related to Africa in those pages. Thank you Don for the info. The wri

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changes in the Board

Le 28/01/16 07:18, Michael Snow a écrit : On 1/27/2016 1:44 PM, Kat Walsh wrote: Thank you, Patricio. And thank you, Arnnon. I am sure this must have been difficult for you, that you had every intention of bringing your best work to the role, and that your considerable experience and skills wou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Was the Wikimedia Foundation's removal of membership in 2006 legal?

Le 27/01/16 19:30, SarahSV a écrit : On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: I read you Sarah. Good point. Hmmm. But ianal... I am sure it was discussed back then, but I forgot the details. I contacted Brad on Facebook to suggest him to read the list. Perhaps he might be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Was the Wikimedia Foundation's removal of membership in 2006 legal?

Le 27/01/16 12:59, SarahSV a écrit : On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: Hi Adam The WMF has never been a membership based organization. ​Hi Anthere, The bylaws as of September 2004 said: [1] "​ This membership [ ​v​ olunteer active membership] shall consist o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Was the Wikimedia Foundation's removal of membership in 2006 legal?

Hi Adam The WMF has never been a membership based organization. Actually, what happened (roughly) is this. 1) WMF is created in 2003. Legal obligation is to have at least 3 board members. Jimmy create it and ask two people working with him at that time to join the board. Those were Michael Da

[Wikimedia-l] 15 days to (was Re: COI - was Re: [Board-l] Fwd: WMF etc.)

I did not know this list had an approval step when subscribing :) Sorry about that. Le 22/01/16 19:03, Austin Hair a écrit : And just so everyone's clear, Florence's new subscription has already been whitelisted. Austin On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Fæ wrote: Sorry you've had to change

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Board-l] Fwd: WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google

Le 21/01/16 20:05, Dariusz Jemielniak a écrit : hi Florence, Then I was astonished when I discovered that Dariusz, who has been a board member for over 6 months, was not aware of the existence of the Conflict of Interest Policy, which include a pledge of commitment and an obligation to disclos

[Wikimedia-l] COI - was Re: [Board-l] Fwd: WMF etc.

Le 21/01/16 20:05, Dariusz Jemielniak a écrit : hi Florence, Then I was astonished when I discovered that Dariusz, who has been a board member for over 6 months, was not aware of the existence of the Conflict of Interest Policy, which include a pledge of commitment and an obligation to disclos

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google

I decided to support that vote. This has not been an easy decision because I find it *tremendously* painful to vote against a person and it hurts me in my feelings to do so. I hoped very dearly that the board would actually issue a statement that would have helped me understand the decision and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

Le 15/01/16 14:31, Amir Ladsgroup a écrit : About the celebration in Tehran, I think this video is worth watching :) P.S. The hashtag we used for the celebration #wikipedia15fa is now being used widely by everyone \o/ Best Wonderful !!!

[Wikimedia-l] 15 days to create (at least) 15 biographies on notable African women!

The Wiki Love Women writing contest is now officially open ! Please join in to celebrate Wikipedia 15 by participating to the bilingual (English/French) writing contest to increase the number of notable African women that are covered on Wikipedia. The contest is also meant as a starting point o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge

Le 15/01/16 00:52, Juliet Barbara a écrit : This press release is also available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_celebrates_15_years_of_free_knowledge And as a blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/14/wikipedia-15-foundation-endowment/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

Le 10/01/16 16:40, Dariusz Jemielniak a écrit : On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Fæ wrote: Thanks for talking about it Dariusz. Could you please make a serious declaration of interests as is being discussed at [1]. This will help set a ethical model for the rest of the WMF board to follow wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google

Le 08/01/16 17:43, Kevin Gorman a écrit : I'm going to publicly second (or third, or fifth,) the idea that given Arnnon's role in an incident involving illegal anti-poaching agreements he should either be removed from the board with haste, or the board should publish an incredibly good reason as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation to explore new ways to search and discover reliable, relevant, free information with $250, 000 from Knight Foundation

Great news And... Just pointing out to the Privacy Policy in case, for memory. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy This is the list of WMF engagement with regards to the collection and use of our data. It should be printed and be the book next to the bed for the team in charg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing new Wikimedia Foundation Trustees

Kelly and Aronnon, I will be happy to meet you in meat space at Wikimania in Italy next summer. In a context where Stu is leaving the board, Kelly expertise will indeed reveal very precious. I am well aware a veteran financial expertise is one critical and difficult to find. I doubt not Stu wa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you, Jan-Bart and Stu

Thank you for this message Lodewijk ! I would like to join the messages already posted to thank both Stu and Jan-Bart. I was on the board when we ask them to join us and I have no memory of ever regretting that decision ;) I wish you both the best ! JB, can we expect to see you in Italy next

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation on the future of Wikimania

Le 03/12/15 20:21, Austin Hair a écrit : On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Ellie Young wrote: A lot of work has gone into preparing for the consultation.It will be going out December 14. We are looking forward to getting everyone's feedback in the weeks after and into early January. Is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'll be moving on

Sorry to see you go Jan ! Thanks for all the energy and work done. See you in Esino Flo Le 08/10/15 10:22, Jan Ainali a écrit : 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 dif

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

Le 04/10/15 21:03, Fæ a écrit : On 4 October 2015 at 18:48, Pavel Richter wrote: ... Let's face some truths here: 5. Dear Wikimania Committee: Your communication of thi s whole thing sucked , big time. Consider yourself scolded. Move on. BACKGROUND Well, yes Pavel, of cou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Biggest disappointment from Wikimania 2017

Le 06/10/15 06:25, Gnangarra a écrit : This has been going on for three days, yet not one person involved in this decision has take a moment to reachout personally to the people who worked on bids, They have tabled justifications on list discussions, they have changed the status of Meta pages but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

Le 04/10/15 16:15, Theo10011 a écrit : I thought the mandate of this committee was to facilitate and coordinate bidding, set up policy and best practices. The page on Meta still mention the same as its purpose[1]. When did a committee intended to facilitate an already established, open process m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

Le 04/10/15 00:13, Nathan a écrit : Evidently the Signpost has scooped the WMF by revealing that Montreal has been selected for the 2017 Wikimania host city in a secret process that completed this past August. [1] It seems like the community could have been looped into this new method before it

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Africa photo contest is back

Hi friends The photographic contest Wiki Loves Africa is back ! Wiki Loves Africa (http://www.wikilovesafrica.org) is a public annual contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons. WLAf is a two-month compe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Departure

Le 10/09/15 23:53, Garfield Byrd a écrit : All, For the last four years, I’ve led the Wikimedia Foundation’s finance, administration, and office IT teams. I've had the opportunity to work closely with many of you through collaboration with the Wikimedia affiliates. They have been remarkable expe

[Wikimedia-l] Vote for WikiLovesAfrica 2015 theme

Hello You are kindly invited to give your opinion on the selection of the Wiki Loves Africa 2015 theme. Please take a minute to come and vote here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2015_theme_ideas Bonjour Vous êtes cordialement invité à donner votre o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A transition and a new chapter.

Hello Erik I am going to join others and thank you for your work and involvement all those years. It is an odd chapter to turn in the book. I wish you the very best in the new problem spaces. Anthere Le 13/04/15 20:12, Erik Moeller a écrit : Hi all -- As Lila noted, since January 2008 I've

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Africa winners and call to participate to Community Prize

Hello The :Wiki Loves Africa photographic contest is reaching its end and the jury has decided the first three winners. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2014/Winners We wish to add a fourth prize that will be voted by the community. A selection of 20 images (the best of

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Africa : crowdfunding and contest last few days

Hello everyone This is crowdfunding season :) We are running the last few days of the Wiki Loves Africa Cuisine photographic contest. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa And we need your help in... three possible ways. First, feel free to contribute more pictures to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

I hope it is just a "goodbye" chapter-wise and will be happy to share a beer with you in London (not an English one ;)) Flo On 30/03/14 19:59, Ziko van Dijk wrote: Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge, After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda

<http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se> 2014-02-09 9:40 GMT+01:00 Florence Devouard : Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we just hired our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Uganda. Her name is Erina Mukuta Muhame. Born in 1988 in Jinga, Uganda, Erina Mukuta spent her fir

[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda

Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we just hired our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Uganda. Her name is Erina Mukuta Muhame. Born in 1988 in Jinga, Uganda, Erina Mukuta spent her first childhood years in a small village called kilembe and later mo

[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Ivory Coast

Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we have found a wonderful person to be our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Ivory Coast. His name is Cyriac Gbogou. Born on the 02nd of September 1980 in Kpada (Soubré) village located in the south west of the count

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

* You have some experience of community events, meetings, conferences, or want to learn; * You have some free time during the selection period, especially late March and early April; and * You are not closely involved in any bid (it's a conflict of interest). If you would like to serve on

[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki project hires 2 Wikipedians for Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire

Please find below a link announcement for the hire of two Wikipedians in Community (*). One candidate is meant to be working in Uganda whilst the other will be working in Ivory Coast. Positions are for one year :http://www.wikiafrica.net/call_for_wir_en/ If you know people/media associated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

H Rupert, The case you mention is unrelated to any copyright infringement (the book is explicitely published under cc by sa. So there is no copyvio). Its mention here is like hair falling in soup. Now, I think there is a developing personal feud between you and Iolenda. It sincerely sad

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recovering wikipedia.it: top 1 trademark priority per it.wiki poll

On 11/13/13 10:01 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Hello all (cc Yana, Michelle, Geoff, legal, board). In a formal poll[1] proposed by two admins, the it.wiki community has decided the following: «The Italian Wikipedia community considers that, among all the actions in defense of its name (as in

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Research position ... WikiAfrica's Kumusha Takes Wiki

fyi Florence Original Message Subject:Research position ... WikiAfrica's Kumusha Takes Wiki Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:39:14 +0200 From: Isla Haddow-Flood To: Research position ... WikiAfrica's Kumusha Takes Wiki Dear All The WikiAfrica project at the Afri

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

Whilst we are at Sealand Principality... a head up... We now have received five (5) candidacies. Good ones. Which is great. I'd love to see some more. Also please... we would need more geographical diversity (err, less primarily English speaking people). Help relay the call for volunteers wit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New access to non-public information policy, re-ID requirements and data retention

On 10/26/13 5:37 PM, Nathan wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: As for I, I have totally given up with the idea of preservation of confidential data when the US are somehow involved (if the NSA is already involved in recording German president phone conversations

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New access to non-public information policy, re-ID requirements and data retention

On 10/26/13 4:22 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: On 10/26/2013 10:00 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: 2) that WMF disclose private information about us (OTRS member for example) volunteers to other volunteers, who may not even be identified in the least (as in "arbitration committee members&qu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New access to non-public information policy, re-ID requirements and data retention

As for I, I have totally given up with the idea of preservation of confidential data when the US are somehow involved (if the NSA is already involved in recording German president phone conversations or French diplomatic department communications, who are we to hope that our every steps can be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki

- From: "Florence Devouard" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki Nod I was thinking that it could be an interesting idea to get in touch with local touristic agencies because it is certainly of their interest to make a littl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki

On 10/2/13 9:04 PM, Laura Hale wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: On 02.10.2013 14:03, Florence Devouard wrote: Dear friends It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a new project, "Kumusha Takes Wiki". Hi Florence, you may want to look at Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki

d it might encourage the contributors if they see that their work is appreciated by another project. We are particularly short of good images for African destinations. Cheers, Peter - Original Message ----- From: "Florence Devouard" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 5:11 PM Subje

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki

10/2/13 4:23 PM, Peter Southwood wrote: Hi Florence, How much of the information is likely to be usable in Wikipedia? Will there be any requirement for reliable references, NPOV and NOR? Will photo-uploads go to commons? Regards, Peter Southwood - Original Message - From: "Florence De

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki

On 10/2/13 3:29 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: 2013/10/2 Florence Devouard : The project was designed by Isla (South Africa) and I (France), with the support of Iolenda (Italy) (yea, three wikiwomens !) The correct spelling of her name is Iolanda (with an "i" and an &

[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki

Dear friends It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a new project, "Kumusha Takes Wiki". Kumusha Takes Wiki is a project that aims at activating communities across Africa to create and contribute freely-licensed information, texts, images and media about their communities (villages, tow

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

On 7/29/13 10:50 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jan Ainali wrote: I have not read the vision statement as it is the production of knowledge that need be availible to every human being, but the consumption. Actually, having co-drafted the Vision Statement (it was draf

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

Precisely, they could ask to have "CU" accounts... Flo On 6/10/13 4:53 AM, Benoit Landry wrote: What "information" could the WMF disclose that isn't already available to some volunteers anyhow? The IP addresses of logged-in editors are visible to volunteer CUs; deleted revisions and log entries

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish!

From time to time, I think of a wikimedian and say to myself "oh, we have not seen this one much around these days". Further checking, the person quietly slipped away, few noticed the departure and we had no opportunity to say "thank you and stay safe and happy in this other future". It is a bi

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