[Wikimedia-l] Re: Work needed from enthusiastic wikimedians

2021-05-12 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello Margaret Just in case... https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/140 Lovely pictures. Hope I get there one day ! Flo Le 11/05/2021 à 05:21, Margaret Donald a écrit : WLE 2021 in Australia is underway and so far has just 306 photos (with 77 being judged as outside the competition) There

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Florence Devouard
Child care is likely to be another answer ? Flo Le 11/05/2021 à 21:26, Mohamed ElGohary a écrit : Connectivity for starters, and owning devices that are capable of enabling a good summit experience. Not all volunteers are privileged to contribute to a virtual event in a comfortable way. The 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

2021-05-21 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello Julia I apology if I missed a step at some point. In this application, I read that "All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will cease to function with the implementation of the new grants strategy of the Community Resources Team effective from 1 July 2021. We

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

2021-05-21 Thread Florence Devouard
May 2021 at 08:33, Florence Devouard mailto:fdevou...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello Julia I apology if I missed a step at some point. In this application, I read that "All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) wi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

2021-05-25 Thread Florence Devouard
stions that have already been raised in this email thread. ಶುಕ್ರ, ಮೇ 21, 2021 ರಂದು 06:03 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard mailto:fdevou...@gmail.com>> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ: Hello Julia I apology if I missed a step at some point. In this application, I read that "All

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Update from the Wikimedia Foundation Board chair

2021-06-03 Thread Florence Devouard
Dear Maria, I would like to thank wholeheartedly for all those years of service. You provided great leadership and I am very grateful for all what you did. Receive many many thanks. Best - Flo Le 03/06/2021 à 21:39, María Sefidari a écrit : Dear All, There is one last bit of news I

[Wikimedia-l] [images in Africa] Re: Join the Africa Wiki Challenge Campaign!

2021-05-03 Thread Florence Devouard
We are slowly getting there Ziko. Since the launch of Wiki Loves Africa in 2014, we have collected 70k images of the African continent. Not Historical Monuments or Landmarks, but mostly everyday life pictures. Last year, we published an infographic to summarize the outcome of the photo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish! / Stepping down April 15

2021-02-04 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello Katherine, I like to thank you very much for all what you have achieved, stepping in the role at complicated time and really doing the job beautifully. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors. I will definitely miss you. I think many feel a bit orphans after the announcement.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Florence Devouard
Nice outcome. Congrats to all Anthere PS: yet a little bit sad though :( Le 01/04/2021 à 01:27, Amir Sarabadani a écrit : Hello, After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has been officially

[Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wiki Loves Africa 2021

2021-02-16 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello friends This is a short announcement to inform you that the latest edition of Wiki Loves Africa has launched ! The 2021 theme is "Health and Wellness" (surprised ?) and can include representations of/traditional or western medical interventions or personnel/,/healthy eating/,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wiki Loves Africa's 2021 Winners announced outside Wikimedia community

2021-08-30 Thread Florence Devouard
Thanks for your on-going support Camelia ! Cheers Florence Le 30/08/2021 à 16:43, Camelia Boban a écrit : Hi Isla & Florence & Ceslause, congratulations to the participants, you - the organizers - and the jury team. Are wonderful images. I will be happy to share that news on our social

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

2021-09-15 Thread Florence Devouard
Welcome Maryana I am pleased to hear about your joining us and I would like to send my thanks to the board and the transition committee. We have indeed a lot of expectations and hope. I look forward to have the opportunity to discuss with you during the Listening Tour ;) Florence / Anthere

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Summit 2022

2021-10-18 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello Thank you for this information Nicole. I think it is important for the other conference organizers to be aware of this change so that they anticipate with regards to calendar (right now... for example... wikiarabia, wikiindaba and wikiconvention francophone are already quite packed).

[Wikimedia-l] Women, Wikiquote, SheSaid Launch, and Nigeria Independence Day...

2021-10-01 Thread Florence Devouard
Good idea ! I have created two (very meager to be honest) entries on Wikiquote (in French and in English) about a Nigerian lady, Anie Akpe. (She has no Wikipedia article, just saying, maybe worth checking if she is notable enough ;) ) This is the perfect opportunity to promote the SheSaid

[Wikimedia-l] Photographic Contest Wiki Loves Africa 2022

2021-12-03 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello everyone Wiki Loves Africa launches again in 2022! Our 2022 theme will be Home + Habitat. Another amazing opportunity to submit photos, videos or audios that will this year celebrate Home+Habitat across Africa! To have a better idea of what can be covered by the theme, check out this

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Meta, WikiMedia, and the Hewlett Foundation partner with Africa No Filter

2021-12-08 Thread Florence Devouard
with Africa No Filter Date : Wed, 08 Dec 2021 23:00:15 +1100 De :Africa No Filter Répondre à :i...@africanofilter.org Pour : Florence Devouard Meta, WikiMedia, and the Hewlett Foundation are the latest partners to join Africa No Filter in shifting narratives about Africa

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month: We are back in 2022!

2022-02-24 Thread Florence Devouard
Thank you for your clarification Anton. I fully agree with your last statement and it is indeed worth pointing out that the articles related to Ukraine are likely to see a big increase in readership. Your effort is definitly very important. I hope everyone stays safe though. Those are very

[Wikimedia-l] Words from Wikiquotes... The wisdom of 2,432 women made visible via WikiQuote :)

2022-01-28 Thread Florence Devouard
We just published the results of the #SheSaid campaign ;tldr During the SheSaid Drive hosted end of 2021, nine different language communities created 1500+ entries about notable *women* on *Wikiquote*. + some entries improved. + Wikipedia articles created. We rock ;) All data, info, how to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Words from Wikiquotes... The wisdom of 2,432 women made visible via WikiQuote :)

2022-01-30 Thread Florence Devouard
Le 28/01/2022 à 15:52, Camelia Boban a écrit : Hi Florence, Isla and others, Thank you for the announcement. In the name of my affiliate, WikiDonne User Group, who organized the campaign in Italian Wikiquote, I want to thank the itwikiquote community which, for the second time, answered with

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia payroll and related (WAS: Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy)

2022-01-30 Thread Florence Devouard
WMF started in Florida in 2004 (no staff). First staff was probably in 2005 (Brion could confirm), with no office. We had a handful staff in 2006 (around 5-8), with a 2-3 rooms office (not all staff was over there). Around May/June 2007, we hired Sue for a 6 months term contract. After 6

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Whose Knowledge? User Group annual report 2020-21

2022-01-30 Thread Florence Devouard
Thank you for the report Mariana. I found it very useful to get a better sense of Whose Knowledge in 2021 ! And congrats for the great work done in spite of last year challenges. Looking forward to the State of the Internet's languages Flo Le 27/01/2022 à 17:28, mari...@whoseknowledge.org a

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing a new podcast, Inspiring Open

2022-04-11 Thread Florence Devouard
-Flood and Florence Devouard, produced by Rachel Zadok, and sound engineered by Jey at Melody Hub Studio, Accra, Ghana with portraits of each guest created by Candace di Talamo. The podcast was funded through the International Relief Fund for Organisations in Culture and Education 2021, an init

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki Loves Africa] 2024 Theme Suggestions

2023-09-05 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello I am going to comment on this one for I think it provides the opportunity to reflect on our global campaigns and collaborations-at-large. It is an excellent theme obviously. But one I would oppose we choose. There are several reasons. First, the initial reason why we decided to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki Loves Africa] 2024 Theme Suggestions

2023-09-05 Thread Florence Devouard
s for the first time. Communities dont have to come up with something new every year, the aim is about making it appealing to a new audience On Tue, 5 Sept 2023 at 22:30, Florence Devouard wrote: Hello I am going to comment on this one for I think it provides the opportunity to r

[Wikimedia-l] Publication of Wikimedians for Offline Wikis UG

2023-09-13 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello Please find our UserGroup annual report here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports/June_2023 If interested by this topic, please feel free to join our mailing list, continue the conversation, and/or add your name in the membership page. Best Anthere

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Africa Day Campaign 2023 Winners

2023-08-31 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello Engene This is very impressive. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all of the participants AND organizers ;) And happy to see a French speaker listed here ;) Flo Le 30/08/2023 à 17:55, Eugene Masiku a écrit : Hello everyone, The African Knowledge Initiative

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Hiba Abu Nada, RIP

2023-10-28 Thread Florence Devouard
I feel extremely sad by this news. During Wikimania, I attended the Learning Clinic : Networking for introverts. We were sitting at the same table, next to one another. During the session, we naturally paired and told one another about who we were, what our journey had been so far, and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Hiba Abu Nada, RIP

2023-10-28 Thread Florence Devouard
Oh gosh. What a relief !!! Flo PS: now, let's take time together when the war is over ! Le 28/10/2023 à 21:27, Butch Bustria a écrit : Oh my apologies for mixing the names since both are from Gaza. I hope the Nada we got in touch in Singapore would be in good hands and safe while the Nada

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-22 Thread Florence Devouard
I have read all the comments and discussed privately with a few people. There are some elements of answers that are purely in the hands of stewards, they have to discuss and find common grounds, in particular to implementing blocks, so that they limit damage on good people, whilst preserving

[Wikimedia-l] Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-20 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello friends Short version : We need to find solutions to avoid so many africans being globally IP blocked due to our No Open Proxies policy. *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/No_open_proxies/Unfair_blocking* Long version : I'd like to raise attention on an issue, which has been getting

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-19 Thread Florence Devouard
Le 17/04/2022 à 09:59, Amir E. Aharoni a écrit : > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 09:29 Strainu wrote: > > > > The correct question is: does it still do anything of value? > ‫בתאריך יום א׳, 17 באפר׳ 2022 ב-10:42 מאת ‪Jan Ainali‬‏ <‪ainali@gmail.com‬‏>:‬ > > Even with all output options broken it

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-26 Thread Florence Devouard
tps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vermont> on Wikimedia projects they/them/theirs (why pronouns matter <https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why>) On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 8:43 AM Florence Devouard wrote: I have read all the comments and discussed privately with a few people. Th

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Simplifying governance processes

2022-05-19 Thread Florence Devouard
+1 Florence (the WMF board elections Analysis Committee selection process... really... ugh) Le 19/05/2022 à 13:50, Peter Southwood a écrit : +1 P *From:*Samuel Klein [mailto:meta...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 18 May 2022 22:44 *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Simplifying

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-05-19 Thread Florence Devouard
I have not further commented because I did not feel I could help further at this point. But I wanted to point out that the issue is still on my "concerns" list :) I am looking forward to read your findings when process is completed. Flo Le 12/05/2022 à 01:02, Niharika Kohli a écrit : Hi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-01 Thread Florence Devouard
Hi Quim Will there be any notion of Single Login in the future (when/if it starts being hosted by WMF) ? Florence Le 31/05/2022 à 23:38, Quim Gil a écrit : Hello everyone, This is an invitation to all Movement Strategy participants and Wikimedians in general to try out a new platform

[Wikimedia-l] Episode 5 Inspiring Open Podcast episode is out

2022-05-16 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello The Wiki Loves Women team launched a podcast a few weeks ago. We have released 5 episodes so far, with a frequency of two episodes per month. All episodes are available on the usual podcast platforms, or may be accessed on Wiki Loves Women website with additional notes about each

[Wikimedia-l] Episode 7 Inspiring Open Podcast episode is out : Esra'a El Shafei

2022-06-07 Thread Florence Devouard
+0200 De :Florence Devouard Répondre à :Wikimedia Mailing List Pour : Wikimedia Mailing List Hello The Wiki Loves Women team launched a podcast a few weeks ago. We have released 5 episodes so far, with a frequency of two episodes per month. All episodes are available on the usual

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

2022-06-14 Thread Florence Devouard
Very happy to see you join the wikimedia world Selena ! Wishing you the very best in your new role. Feel free to reach out if needed. Florence / Anthere Le 13/06/2022 à 19:12, Selena Deckelmann a écrit : Hello! I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the many

[Wikimedia-l] Episode 9 Inspiring Open Podcast episode is out : Helen Turvey

2022-07-18 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello everyone I wanted to promote the episode #9 of the Wiki Loves Women Inspiring Open podcast. It features Helen Turvey, who is the Executive Director of the Shuttleworth Foundation. For those who do not know anything about this Foundation, it is an organisation set up in January 2001

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Nine Month Update & Foundation Leadership Team

2022-09-06 Thread Florence Devouard
Thank you for the update Maryana :) Flo Le 06/09/2022 à 21:16, Samuel Klein a écrit : Seconded — thank you for these continuing updates, and for always inviting conversation. Essential, even when it takes time for those seeds to sprout.  On Tue., Sep. 6, 2022, 7:11 p.m. Craig Newmark,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting period is now open

2022-08-24 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello There were a lot of improvements in that election process and I really think the compass system is an awesome tool and was usefully used during those elections. However, I am very unpleased by the very severe restrictions on candidates freedom of speech and on attempts of restriction

[Wikimedia-l] Release of WikiAfrica Hour #16 : Wiki Identity - stewarding Wikipedia and Wikimedia's brand ecosystem

2022-09-27 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello everyone I wanted to share the link to the youtube version of the last episode of WikiAfrica Hour : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLcuMNIhcQ The last episode took place last Friday, but a technical glitch broke the live session display on youtube :( We uploaded a new clean and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki Loves Africa] Invitation to episode 17 of WikiAfrica Hour

2022-10-28 Thread Florence Devouard
Pointing out that the correct date is the 28 (today). Not 29... Florence Le 24/10/2022 à 23:19, Ceslause Ogbonnaya a écrit : Dear all, It's my pleasure to invite you to episode 17 of WIkiAfrica Hour, titled "Wiki Loves Africa 2022: Winners". It's an episode focused on hearing from the

[Wikimedia-l] Annual Report Wikimedians for offline wikis posted for your attention

2022-09-19 Thread Florence Devouard
Here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports/June_2022 Thanks Florence ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and

[Wikimedia-l] Episode 13 Inspiring Open Podcast episode : "Life can be really, really hard. And I feel like we need to be deliberate about inviting pleasure in our life"

2022-10-04 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello everyone I wanted to promote the episode #13 of the Wiki Loves Women Inspiring Open podcast. It features Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, an advocate for African women's sexuality and sexual pleasure. Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is the author of the ‘Sex Lives of African Women’ a book which

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia UG Nigeria : Submission of our Annual activities and Financial Report for the Year 2021-2022

2022-11-28 Thread Florence Devouard
Thank you Shola Flo Le 24/11/2022 à 22:35, Olushola Olaniyan a écrit : Dear friends! Greetings from Lagos, Nigeria. As a requirement by the Wikimedia Affiliate committee, we are glad to inform you of the submission of our annual activities and financial report FTY 2021-2022 (1) (2). We

[Wikimedia-l] Launch of photographic contest Wiki Loves Africa 2023 : Grant requests (deadline December 1st)

2022-11-11 Thread Florence Devouard
THEME 2023 : Climate and Weather Wiki Loves Africa 2023 will be relaunched soon. More info will come soon. For the groups who need to make rapid grant requests, the deadline is DECEMBER 1st. Office hours next Tuesday and Wenesday in the evening. CHECK :

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Deror Lin passed away

2023-05-06 Thread Florence Devouard
I feel very sad as well. His joyful personnality, his energy and enthousiasm, and his erudition left me with very fond memories. As mentionned by others... a very documented visit of Jerusalem so many years ago... Wikimania in Haifa... the coolest projects... the 2022 award... and yes... his

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

2023-05-11 Thread Florence Devouard
Speaking of which... I was reading with a lot of interest the new policy regarding severance packages... I read on the diff (1) "The guidelines have also provided an opportunity to better align our processes globally when staff leave the Foundation. This includes a new standardized

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

2023-05-12 Thread Florence Devouard
#Submit_your_questions -LW On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:22 PM Florence Devouard wrote: Speaking of which... I was reading with a lot of interest the new policy regarding severance packages... I read on the diff (1) "The guidelines have also provided an opportunity to better align our proc

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Fwd: We went big in 2023. Here's some of what didn't work:

2023-12-18 Thread Florence Devouard
Excellent. Love it. Thanks for sharing Z. Flo PS: and it works. I opened my wallet a bit ;) Second time of the year actually... toss a coin guys Le 18/12/2023 à 00:36, Željko Blaće a écrit : Very interesting direction in communication to wider audience by acknowledging mistakes and failures.

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki in Africa job announcement / ouverture poste

2023-12-15 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello everyone I'd like to relay a job opening at Wiki in Africa. We are hiring a Program Facilitator, with two main roles : Live BroadCast Facilitator and Lead Ambassador for WikiAfrica Tools. Paid position, 50% of time, 100% remote Deadline to apply : 07th of January Starting : earliest

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Celebrating Alice Kibombo

2023-12-14 Thread Florence Devouard
Congratulations Alice ! Very well deserved ! Keep on the good work ! Flo Le 14/12/2023 à 16:47, Belinda Mbambo a écrit : Hello, Muli mutya! It’s no secret that librarians make amazing Wikimedians. Whether it is because of the shared passion for knowledge or superpowers in working with

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing Publication of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Child Rights Impact Assessment

2024-02-01 Thread Florence Devouard
, this and other human rights impact assessments, human rights-related resources, and other pages and documents that support the Foundation's work in meeting our human rights commitments. Thank you again! Ricky Gaines On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:51 AM Florence Devouard wrote: Thanks Ricky Would

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing Publication of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Child Rights Impact Assessment

2024-01-31 Thread Florence Devouard
Thanks Ricky Would it be possible that you somehow further connect the meta page and the commons document to this meta page (or set of pages...) to increase findability in the future ? https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Human_Rights_Policy I could drop a link there, but maybe it

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Africa Hour - Celebrate WikiWomen at 16:00 UTC. Today's the Day!

2024-03-08 Thread Florence Devouard
celebration dedicated to WikiWomen in honor of International Women's Day. Date:Today, Friday, 8th March Time:16:00 UTC Youtube link:click here <https://www.youtube.com/live/pqq-VWjO8mY?si=2BGRObC-kwAUOjZJ> Join us for an engaging discussion featuring our distinguished guests: *

[Wikimedia-l] About the Gender Gap portal on meta

2024-03-08 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello friends The opportunity of Women Rights Month lead me to remind everyone of the existence of the Gender Gap portal on meta. You may find there * knowledge, research, data, reports about the gender gap to better grasp the context * Learn about the different groups active in this space

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Dagbani Wikimedians User Group 2023 Annual Report

2024-03-11 Thread Florence Devouard
Abdul-Rasheed... I am so impressed by the quality of your annual report... and generally by the excellent maintenance of your UG pages on meta... it is not so frequent and it pleases me as I like it when things are clear and neatly organized. So I wanted to really underline my appreciation to

[Wikimedia-l] ISA Tool and Women Rights Month : improve the images description in [[category:Women in Art]]

2024-03-19 Thread Florence Devouard
Dear friends A few days ago, in a diff article (1), we told you the story on how we improved the ISA Tool (2) during a co-organized Hackathon (3). Key outome is... we are happy to announce that a new version of the ISA Tool is now available on toolforge for you to use. Whilst the tool would

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana

2024-04-16 Thread Florence Devouard
Excellent news Candy and team members :)  Flo Le 03/04/2024 à 23:11, Shaba 50 a écrit : Dear Jeffrey, I am thrilled to hear about the recognition of the Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana as a Wikimedia User Group. This is a significant milestone for the Wikimedia community in Botswana

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Niger

2024-04-16 Thread Florence Devouard
Toutes mes félicitations également. C'est une réjouissance. Anthere Le 07/04/2024 à 16:46, Affiliations Committee a écrit : Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Niger [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing 2 Community Fellows

2012-05-20 Thread Florence Devouard
I can not help (I am optimistic with lot's of faith :)) Does the fellowship status implies that the WMF pays for health or retirement benefits (as it would for a staff member) or does the fellow receive a lump sum and manages by himself to pay for taxes and benefits depending on the country

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing 2 Community Fellow

2012-05-21 Thread Florence Devouard
Thank you Siko for answering. That's a mix of curiosity (for the benefits, pensions and so on) and of concern (on the responsibility side of things). Wikimedia France received several legal complaints in the past few years and the frequency is increasing. The inventivity and the boldness of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC Eligibility Status

2012-07-25 Thread Florence Devouard
Just checking The meta page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_Round_1_Eligibility_Status outlines that amongst the obligations is the fact of providing financial reports in English What we have considered as 'financial reports' : financial reports in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-29 Thread Florence Devouard
On 7/28/12 5:58 AM, Tilman Bayer wrote: Hi all, the Wikimedia Foundation's 2012-13 Annual Plan has just been published at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf accompanied by a QA:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

2012-09-07 Thread Florence Devouard
To be fair, it's nice to see that they recognize their community has a value :) Flo On 9/6/12 4:40 PM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton wrote: \o/ Nice! and I'm wondering how they will sue for importing content that is on free license... On 6 September 2012 10:21, Alice Wiegand

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

2012-09-14 Thread Florence Devouard
On 9/12/12 4:14 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: Hey So I might have missed some mails on this thread (perhaps because they were not posted on this public list) but I highly doubt that Sue perform surveys that do not have a real-world impact on our operations. I know that the results of the

[Wikimedia-l] Paid editing language wide

2012-09-19 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello Is there a place (I looked on meta and saw nothing) where the situation with regards to paid editing or more generally the practices toward declaration of conflict of interest in all linguistic versions of Wikipedia summarized ? For example, I more or less know that the English

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Under block threat on fr.wp because of request on meta

2012-11-04 Thread Florence Devouard
If it ain't broken, don't fix it. It is disruptive to propose the removal of actual checkusers whilst there is no procedure in place to replace them on the spot, leaving an obvious and unsuitable vacuum. It is disruptive to request the immediate removal of all actual checkusers whilst not

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

2012-11-06 Thread Florence Devouard
On 11/6/12 3:26 AM, Risker wrote: On 5 November 2012 20:01, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Bylaw changes are never housekeeping. This resolution does change the composition of the board. Two seats had a defined role, with clear responsibilities. Now they dont. Of course there is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Florence Devouard
On 11/26/12 8:10 AM, Zack Exley wrote: Hi all, We have some information on the fundraiser launch to share. We are still planning on launching Monday, November 26, but we're going to make a change this year in the timing of campaigns around the world. Every year, as we get closer to the launch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Florence Devouard
Ok Thanks Flo On 11/26/12 9:22 AM, Zack Exley wrote: No, sorry, that was an oversight in my message. We will not run campaigns in those countries (FR, DE, CH) in April. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote: On 11/26/12 8:10 AM, Zack Exley wrote: Hi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please have a look at the new list of successful grant applications!

2012-12-03 Thread Florence Devouard
For the lazy: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_grant_applications Practically, I think big tables should be limited to cases where there isnt a huge amount of text to read. The summary column is hard to read. Flo On 12/3/12 5:49 PM, John Andersson wrote: Hi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation restructure (Global Dev Engineering)

2012-12-08 Thread Florence Devouard
Looks fine by me Sue. I also agree that restructuration is good,if only to avoid getting stuck in habits :) @Mathieu You argued that if it work's, do not break it. Indeed, but precisely, the prior very wide focus of the WMF was not working so well. And some time ago, the board decided that WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reappointment of Bishakha Datta as WMF Trustee

2012-12-28 Thread Florence Devouard
Excellent decision ! Flo On 12/28/12 4:39 PM, Geoff Brigham wrote I am happy to report that Bishakha Datta has been reappointed as a Trustee on the WMF Board for another two-year term. The Board resolution may be found here:

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

2012-12-29 Thread Florence Devouard
On 12/29/12 1:15 AM, David Gerard wrote: On 29 December 2012 00:05, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes so Wiki Med Foundation Inc incorporated Dec 19, 2012 and we had our Isn't the name just a little prone to confusion with Wikimedia Foundation? - d.

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

2012-12-29 Thread Florence Devouard
On 12/29/12 6:05 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote: At the same time, Wiki is not a trademarked term and the term Foundation is a pretty usual one as well (in particular if it is indeed a Foundation...). You're correct

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Voice Intro Project

2013-02-08 Thread Florence Devouard
Gerard, Did not we record something sounding like merry christmas and happy new year several years ago ? Was it uploaded ? I could not find it ;) Flo On 2/8/13 5:24 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, There are several tools that allow you to record pronunciations. I have done many many in the

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

2013-03-18 Thread Florence Devouard
Congrats Markus Now, everyone is looking for future results ;) I'd like to also thank Fae for the good work he has done so far, in an environment which was not always easy. I appreciated your goodwill and ability to keep calm in all circonstances ;) Florence On 3/18/13 6:53 PM, Samuel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

2013-03-28 Thread Florence Devouard
Welcome again Ellie A question came to my mind when I read the description of the job. - making sure there is good continuity and knowledge-transfer as the conference moves to new hosts year-over-year. Yet, she is taking on the role as an annual contract. Is there not a contradiction here ?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal to use the internal wiki more

2013-04-04 Thread Florence Devouard
Incidently... given that most people would not be willing to publicly post their phone number and possibly other personal information... and that a wiki is actually not necessarily the best place to do such a thing, has it ever been considered to set up something dedicated to actually host

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal to use the internal wiki more

2013-04-10 Thread Florence Devouard
On 4/8/13 7:18 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: On 4 April 2013 13:16, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: Incidently... given that most people would not be willing to publicly post their phone number and possibly other personal information... and that a wiki is actually not necessarily

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

2013-04-30 Thread Florence Devouard
responsibility for its contents.* On 30 April 2013 11:49, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: On 30.04.2013 01:12, Florence Devouard wrote: Le 4/30/13 12:04 AM, Nathan a écrit : In the past years, we have seen several times organizers of Wikimania plain disappear after the event

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The one-employee secretariat model

2013-05-01 Thread Florence Devouard
Le 5/1/13 2:50 AM, Asaf Bartov a écrit : On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:21 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Florence Devouard wrote: I was thinking of the numerous (quite successful) associations in France, which are simply made of entrepreneurs wishing to do things together (from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread Florence Devouard
On 5/11/13 8:01 PM, Seb35 wrote: Thanks a lot for this explanation. On the other side, wikis not only need content producers (here WMF) but also curators (wikignomes) who are sorting the pages, deleting and moving pages, typocorrecting, templating things, helping new users in formatting texts,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread Florence Devouard
On 5/12/13 8:13 PM, David Gerard wrote: On 12 May 2013 18:47, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: Alternatively, it might be good to really move as much as possible of the Wikimedia Foundation Wiki to meta (where at least, the community is in charge of who is admin and who

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread Florence Devouard
On 5/12/13 8:26 PM, Thehelpfulone wrote: On 12 May 2013 18:47, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: Alternatively, it might be good to really move as much as possible of the Wikimedia Foundation Wiki to meta (where at least, the community is in charge of who is admin and who

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread Florence Devouard
On 5/12/13 9:28 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: On 12.05.2013 20:44, Florence Devouard wrote: The multilingualism we hoped so dearly has always been an issue. It is poorly dealt with on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Poorly dealt with on the Foundation Wiki. Poorly dealt with on OTRS

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread Florence Devouard
On 5/12/13 10:45 PM, MZMcBride wrote: Philippe Beaudette wrote: You want an explanation? I'm sure that Gayle will offer one. But for the umpteenth time, I was the person pushing the button because someone had to be. Why did you feel compelled to act here when it wasn't your decision? Was

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread Florence Devouard
On 5/13/13 8:54 AM, Theo10011 wrote: Hi Casey First, I miss seeing you around, in case you are not omnipresent anymore. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Try and be a bit nicer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread Florence Devouard
On 5/13/13 9:27 AM, Heather Ford wrote: On May 13, 2013, at 6:57 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: You know, it's kind of the ultimate Wikimedian tempest: arguing over who gets to add users and delete pages on what is quite possibly the world's most boring wiki[1]... I would take a stab and stay that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread Florence Devouard
omg, he just admitted sockpupetting !!! On 5/13/13 12:35 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: Previous account, Nemo. :) — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On May 13, 2013, at 3:01 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Philippe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread Florence Devouard
on the issue once she gets back to the office. I think that this is quite a good way to deal with the problem. best, Exactly. Well put. Flo Dariusz (pundit) On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote: omg, he just admitted sockpupetting !!! On 5/13/13 12

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience

2013-05-15 Thread Florence Devouard
15, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: Just yesterday during a meeting, a working partner of mine said that he really could not understand why on earth we were insisting so much that wiki meant quick. Whilst the edit itself maybe done very quickly, it actually lead

Re: [Wikimedia-l] making tech journalism easier to read

2013-05-21 Thread Florence Devouard
On 5/21/13 5:45 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: When you're trying to write a blog.wikimedia.org entry or wikitech-ambassadors email about a technical topic, but you want to make sure nontechnical Wikimedians can read it, is there an automated check you can run through? I can not help making

Re: [Wikimedia-l] making tech journalism easier to read

2013-05-22 Thread Florence Devouard
Hi My main suggestion (valid for all posts, technical or not) would be to start with a clearly identified cap as summary. And put an extra effort so that this cap is written in simple and straightforward message. In that regards, this post is pretty good generally

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Recognition of Amical Wikimedia

2013-06-07 Thread Florence Devouard
It took time... but eh ! you did it ! Congrats ! Flo On 6/7/13 5:09 AM, David Cuenca wrote: Finally! It took us some years but I'm glad that it definitely happened! :) Congratulations to everyone that made it possible, and I hope the great work done in Catalonia extends to Valencia too :)

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

2013-06-07 Thread Florence Devouard
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 bit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

2013-06-10 Thread Florence Devouard
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] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

2013-07-31 Thread Florence Devouard
On 7/29/13 10:50 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se 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

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