Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Medicine: Changes in Board Compositions

[Jack Gleeson]

Congratulations Doug

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 07:02, Lane Rasberry  wrote:

> Lots of good news with medicine and wiki lately!
>
>- Wikimedia Medicine is established at the chapter rank!
>- stable leadership and membership in the organization for years!
>- lots of medicine + wiki + university partnerships!
>- ongoing medical content programs!
>- people are enjoying!
>- 20% of the Wikimedia Foundation board of Trustees are highly engaged
>in medicine
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 12:36 AM Rajeeb Dutta 
> wrote:
>
> > Congrats Shani & Doug Taylor and all my best wishes for your upcoming
> > future endeavour.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Rajeeb Dutta.
> > (U: Marajozkee)
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On 13-Aug-2019, at 4:43 AM, Shani Evenstein 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > If you've seen my post yesterday then you might have expected this this
> > > announcement as well; if you haven't -- as some of you may know, I will
> > > soon be joining the Board of Trustees (August 15), and am therefore
> > > required to resign my formal role as Chair of Wikimedia Medicine
> (a.k.a.
> > > WikiProject Medicine Foundation). This means a new vacancy in the board
> > has
> > > to be filled and a new Chair must be appointed.
> > >
> > > I'm happy to report that in an online board meeting earlier this month
> > the
> > > board chose *Doug Taylor* to serve as the new Chair for our newly
> > approved
> > > Thematic Organization. Doug has been part of WikiProject Medicine for
> > years
> > > now and has diligently served as the group's formal secretary. Doug not
> > > only has the institutional memory of the organization, but has actively
> > > taken part in a variety related activities in the UK and in
> collaboration
> > > with other countries. Doug also brings management skills to the board,
> > > experience from the board of Wikimedia UK, as well as a deep
> > understanding
> > > of the movement as a whole, which I have no doubt will allow the
> > > organization to grow and expand its activities around the world.
> > >
> > > As Doug transitions into his new position as Chair, *Dr. Stuart Ray*
> will
> > > be supporting him as Vice Chair and continue to serve as co-treasurer,
> > and
> > > *Mossab* will continue to serve as Membership Admin. A new secretary
> will
> > > be appointed soon, hopefully during the board's in-person meeting at
> > > Wikimania. The board will also soon co-opt a new board member to fill
> out
> > > the vacant spot, till the next election in 2022.
> > >
> > > I'll remain involved in the organization as an 'adviser to the board'
> and
> > > look forward to seeing this Thematic Organization grow, as well as to
> > > continue contributing to medical-related topics as a volunteer and
> > lecturer
> > > at the Tel Aviv University.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Shani Evenstein.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Video Wiki

[Jack Gleeson]

Awesome work!

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 16:20, Brion Vibber  wrote:

> That's pretty cool! I'll add some more notes on the wiki page later.
>
> -- brion
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 9:55 PM James Heilman  wrote:
>
> > Hey All
> >
> > We have a new project called Video Wiki
> >  which
> > allows:
> >
> >1. The easy creation of videos from scripts from Wikipedia and images
> /
> >short video segments from Commons
> >2. Scripts can have inline references and the text of the script with
> >references end up in the captions of the video with references. These
> >captions can be turned on and off
> >3. At the end of the video it automatically adds
> >   1.  the license for the text (CC BY SA license)
> >   2. attribution of those who have edited the scripts
> >   3. all the metadata for the references supporting the scripts
> >4. The final video version on Commons lists the files that the video
> is
> >derived from
> >5. Attribution for the images is automatically added at the bottom of
> >each image
> >
> >
> > Have started a discussion here on Wikipedia and would appreciate peoples
> > thoughts. Will be drafting a formal RfC about the use of such videos
> > eventually.
> >
> >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Video_Wiki
> >
> >
> > --
> > James Heilman
> > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference Russia 2018

[Jack Gleeson]

Congratulations on such a successful event!



On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 14:35, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
f...@yandex.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> This is just to let you know that this past weekend of 22-23 September
> we've successfully had our 12th Annual Wikimedia Russia Conference,
> dedicated to Wikimedia projects in the languages of Russia, as well as
> overall challenges of free knowledge creation and dissemination.
>
> This year's event was held in Saint Petersburg with live YouTube broadcast
> from the main hall (Opening, presentations, Wiki-award 2018 & Free
> Knowledge 2018 Awarding Ceremonies, brainstorming around round table
> results & closing). With 32 languages of Russia having their own Wikipedias
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedias_in_the_languages_of_Russia/Tables
> , we naturally use Russian as the working language of our cross languistic
> community events. You can watch the presentations & access the slides from
> the program page below
> https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Вики-конференция_2018/Программа/en
>
> The event happened to be quite interesting that we started even thinking
> about organizing simultaneous interpretation into English for foreign
> Wikimedians who don't speak/understand Russian.
>
> regards,
> farhad
>
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