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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A related project's perspective on WMF

2013-01-09 Thread Jon Davies

Makes me nostalgic.

On 9 January 2013 13:02, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:

 I've noticed this discussion on the OpenStreetMap mailing list:

 http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-January/065624.html 
 onwards

 There's a few parallels being drawn there (both good and bad) to
 Wikimedia, to the way it's developed over time, and to what degree
 this should be a model for similar organisations like OSM, eg/

 http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-January/065648.html
 http://osm.gryph.de/2012/04/learn-from-wikipedia/

 Quite an interesting perspective!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] OTRS summaries and statistics report, 2012

2013-01-23 Thread Jon Davies

Do the response times get published?

On 23 January 2013 01:28, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:51 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
  Keegan Peterzell wrote:
 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012
 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS
 
  Nice. Thanks for putting this together. :-)
 
  MZMcBride
 

 +1, thanks, this is a great report! It's very cool to see these
 numbers. Answering 50K emails, many of which are complex and delicate,
 is a pretty massive undertaking -- as ever I am super impressed with
 the diligence of our OTRS'ers!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: [Chapters Association] Next steps from the WCA coordination weekend // 16-17 Feb

2013-02-19 Thread Jon Davies

It was a pleasure to host you all and glad you made progress. Will pass
your thanks on to Richard Nevell.

Jon Davies
CEO UK Chapter.

PS Hope you were all warm enough.

On 18 February 2013 18:38, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:

Dear fellow committed Wikimedians and Chapter enthusiasts,

Last weekend a number of Wikimedia Chapters Association Council
members, two trustees from the WMF board and some welcome guests,
worked together to review in detail the current progress of the
association and feedback given by the WMF board.[1][2]

A total of nine Council members took part with several being able to
join using video conferencing and etherpad. There were a number of
firm recommendations, along with a series of immediate actions. The
meeting minutes will be issued later this week and everyone can
preview all the notes taken during the meeting.[3][4] The meeting was
fully open and the Council will continue to use open public
communication channels, in preference to closed lists or meetings,
recognizing recent community feedback on how best to meet our shared
values of openness and transparency.

As the Council chair, I can summarize these points as follows, and
will be happy to refine and discuss these with an open dialogue on
meta[4]:
1) A small set of action teams have been agreed with a focus on
external deliverables including chapter peer reviews, providing advice
and analysing chapter practices. The time-frame is *three months* for
key deliverables and all are expected to be part of the Milan
conference in April.[3][6]
2) The recruitment of a Secretary General is parked until such a time
as the council is confident of securing a budget and there is a strong
consensus on the immediate necessity of such a role or its equivalent.
Legally incorporating the Association will also be similarly parked,
as the driving factor would have been the need to employ staff.
3) The previously planned elections for Wikimedia Chapters Association
Council Chair will be brought forward one month, to starting this
week. A separate note/email will explain the process of one week
calling for nomination statements, questions and a similar time for
the council vote.

Thank you to those who have engaged already with feedback and those
that were available to take part in the meeting last weekend. For
those Council members and interested Wikimedians who were unable to
take part, I welcome your feedback on this pragmatic way forward as
early as possible, and I encourage you to lend a hand with the action
teams, as they will benefit your chapter directly.

A special thanks to Wikimedia UK for offering to host the London
meeting, including Richard Nevell's support with practical logistics
all weekend, including much needed coffee and sandwiches. I look
forward to seeing many Chapters helping the action teams and future
activities of the Association, with suggestions and practical offers
of staff support. :-)

Links
1.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Chapters_Association#WMF_Board_letter_regarding_the_Chapters_Association
2.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Meetings/2013-07/Questionnaire
3.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Meetings/2013-07
4. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ep/pad/view/WCA/latest
5. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Chapters_Association
6. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2013

Thank you,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

2013-02-19 Thread Jon Davies

Mozart, being Austrian, was more discreet?

On 19 February 2013 07:27, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton 
rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote:

 sooo weird...

 Just some observations, my written English is bad, it is something I have
 to
 improve, however, my understanding, both read when listening are close to a
 native, and my oral production is excellent (:P). And honestly, I will not
 really use my writing ability in Wikimania or Hong Kong, but my English was
 evaluated for it.

 But I think the message should be have a level of English sufficient to
 follow the lectures, discussions and conversations

 And also I did not find that a good test for English, there's a maximum
 limit, but there is no minimum limit. I could say: I have a very
 restricted diet because I am Jewish and vegan, so my diet is restricted to
 that.

 I could say, or, I like almost everything, but I'm lactose intolerant, so
 I can do much poop if I eat things with milk. Until that can be
 interpreted only
 as something to check if I have dietary restrictions, as in previous
 questionnaires.

 And one of the advantages of being Brazilian, is that many of us find it
 easy to understand other Latinos, the reverse is not true, I would not find
 it strange to see some lectures in Interlingua, or even, Italian or
 Spanish.

 But as the Wikimania is itinerant, lectures in the local language could be
 very interesting, and even a form of local people interact more, I
 know that English
 is present among the HK natives, but I do not see why not have a lectures
 in
 Cantonese to appreciate local culture...


 On 19 February 2013 01:09, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org
 wrote:

  Le lundi 18 février 2013 à 21:09 +1100, Liam Wyatt a écrit :
   Yes, I think that writing I will bring Stroopwafels gives you an
   automatic extra 10points in the scholarship assessment ;-)
  
   wittylama.com
   Peace, love  metadata
 
  Goddamn[1], why do you tell that only now!
 
  [1] Of course you should have read le Mariage de Figaro to understand
  this subtle reference :
  {{fr}} http://monsu.desiderio.free.fr/bibliotheque/goddam.html
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big Fat Brussels Gathering

2013-02-28 Thread Jon Davies

A very slow reply to this proposal.

I agree wholeheartedly with this approach and know a little about how
important 'Brussels' is and how we need to have a united, well researched
and persuasive voice there.

I am not sure who our key person would be to support this but will ask
around the community.

Jon Davies.

On 23 February 2013 15:09, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:

Christophe Henner, 20/02/2013 12:07:

Agreed, that was my hidden message. But for such endeavour to succeed
paid time and paid time in Brussels will be needed :)

We also have some additional experiences to learn from.
I liked this: https://digitalegesellschaft.**de/2012/06/how-to-build-an-**
anti-acta-campaign/https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2012/06/how-to-build-an-anti-acta-campaign/

Nemo

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Question: How much does administration in Chapters cost the Wikimedia movement?

2013-04-25 Thread Jon Davies

An answer might be to have common criteria included in the FDC bids?

On 25 April 2013 00:29, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
alexandrdmitriroma...@gmail.com wrote:

Forwarding from a non subscriber.

Alex

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ad Huikeshoven a...@wikimedia.nl
Date: 2013/4/24
Subject: Question: How much does administration in Chapters cost the
Wikimedia movement?
To: wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi Fae,

Great question Fae. For a fundraising charity a breakdown in program,
fundraising and administrative cost is natural, and in compliance with
accountanting standards. As far as I know WMF reports according to FAS 117,
see

http://www.fasb.org/cs/BlobServer?blobcol=urldatablobtable=MungoBlobsblobkey=idblobwhere=1175820923228blobheader=application%2Fpdf

In the UK the standard would be SORP. Wikimedia Nederland adopted Richtlijn
650 which is mandatory for getting a certificate from CBF, see

http://www.rjnet.nl/Documents/Uitingen%202011/034578_RJ-Uiting%202011-1%20dd%2031-01-11.pdf
and http://www.cbf.nl/CBF-Beoordelingen/criteria-keur.php.

The accounting standards give guidelines about what can be allocated to
program costs, what should be included in fundraising cost and what are
administrative cost. FDC entities are required to produce audited financial
statements. The external auditor will review allocation of cost and
transparency of explanatory notes.

International charity guideline is to have
program:fundraising:administrative cost ratios according to 75:10:15,
noting the 10 and 15 are maximums. A source for these ratios is
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.viewcpid=48

Costs of evaluating impact of programs. Would you include those cost in
administrative costs? Could costs of impact evaluations be part of program
cost. If not, why not? If yes, what is your rationale?

Greetings and regards,

Ad Huikeshoven
Treasurer Wikimedia Nederland
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Effectiveness of meetings (Was: Affcom ...)

2013-05-14 Thread Jon Davies

I have sat through so many meetings that wasted time in various degrees
that I thought of a football referee system where people could hold us
yellow or red cards if they thought the meeting should be 'warned' or 'sent
off'.
More than two cards and the meeting gets abandoned or sorts itself out.

On 14 May 2013 18:16, Mathias Damour mathias.dam...@laposte.net wrote:

Le 14/05/2013 13:39, Lodewijk a écrit :

(...)

Based on these desired outcomes, you can estimate up front if the meeting
is likely to be 'worth it'. If not, you can reduce the costs, increase the
outcomes (different setup) or cancel all together.

2013/5/14 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org

The second relevant question is, in my opinion, whether the WMF travel
policy
is good, proportional etc. This policy has mostly received criticism
from
two sides - some think it is too elaborate, and WMF should get 'less
luxury' (again fair discussion, but we should then focus on the whole
question) - another criticism is that it should be equalized for all
Wikimedia-sponsored trips, including individual engagement grants,
trips to the chapters meeting etc. When this question was brought up last
time, I
believe it was Sue who mentioned that this would simply result in much
less travel and participation. Again, a fair question.

this would simply result in much less travel !!! Well, less travel, not
only cost control, could be a justifiable objective itself.
I mean that to convert the donations to Wikimedia into burning vast
amounts of under-taxed kerosene is definitely not an environmentally
friendly and responsible way to run the Wikimedia movement.

I personally went to the chapter meeting in Milan rather than insist on
attending the next Wikimania in good part because I could get there by
train.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] State of the Map US, San Francisco June 7-10

2013-05-24 Thread Jon Davies

Re OSM future strategy:
I would be happy to talk to them and perhaps look for synergies.
Jon

On 24 May 2013 09:51, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:

 Of possible interest to WMF staff and others in San Francisco, State of
 the Map US is happening in a few weeks.

 http://stateofthemap.us/

 Schedule: http://stateofthemap.us/schedule.html

 They are discussing a wide variety of things which have crossover to
 Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects including use of OSM in secondary
 and higher education, technical matters including building the new editor,
 vector maps, imports and operations, data analysis, community and social
 issues. Looks like fun.

 The main State of the Map conference this year is in Birmingham, England
 in September. http://2013.stateofthemap.org/

 In terms of governance stuff, the OSM Foundation is going through a
 similar process of long-term strategy as Wikimedia did many years ago:
 trying to decide whether to stay small or expand, how to work with
 community members, businesses who use OSM data, developers and so on. In
 these discussions, frequent reference is made to Wikimedia as a big sister.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Simple English hits 100k this week

2013-05-30 Thread Jon Davies

Or for people who like clear English!

On 30 May 2013 12:10, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

 On 30 May 2013 03:36, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:

  Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning
 how
  to speak English.

 And for people with a learning disability.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] PRISM, government surveillance, and Wikimedia: Request for community feedback

2013-06-15 Thread Jon Davies

Speaking as an individual and not on behalf of the chapter (and not as an
American obviously) I think this seems a proportional response but would
encourage everyone in the UK community to share their thoughts.
I think it would be naive to think this was not aimed at US citizens as
well, despite denials, but it certainly has implications for our freedoms
in Europe.

Jon Davies


On 15 June 2013 00:59, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Note:  German (Deutsch) and Spanish (Español) versions are below.

 ***English***

 Hi all,

 We want to direct your attention to our blog post (
 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ )
 about the PRISM situation involving government intelligence
 surveillance on the Internet.  We are asking for Wikimedia community
 feedback on a proposed course of action (
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM ). In short, we are inclined to
 recommend that the Wikimedia Foundation collaborate with organizations
 including Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free
 Software Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology.
 These groups have now prepared an open letter to the US congress
 (https://www.stopwatching.us/ ), calling for transparency,
 investigation, reform, and accountability, and have asked other
 organizations (including the Wikimedia Foundation) to join them in
 their efforts.

 We ask you to read the blog post for more details, and encourage you
 to tell us your views on this.

 Many thanks,

 Geoff and Luis

 Geoff Brigham
 General Counsel

 Luis Villa
 Deputy General Counsel
 Wikimedia Foundation

 Note:  We expect to have a couple more translations of this
 announcement in the next couple of days.  We would like to ask the
 international Wikimedia community to help translate the blog posting
 and feedback page (which are almost the same) as well as people’s
 feedback given throughout the course of this consultation period.  Due
 to tight time limits, we hope to have professional translations for
 these documents posted by next Tuesday for at least German, French,
 Spanish, and Japanese.

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 ***Deutsch***

 Hallo,

 Wir würden eure Aufmerksamkeit gern auf unseren Blogeintrag (
 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ )
 zur PRISM-Situation und geheimdienstlicher Überwachung des Internets
 lenken. Wir bitten die Wikimediagemeinschaften um Rückmeldung zum
 vorgeschlagenen Vorgehen. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM)

 Kurz zusammengefasst tendieren wir dazu zu empfehlen, dass die
 Wikimedia Foundation mit Organisationen wie Mozilla, der Electronic
 Frontier Foundation, der Free Software Foundation und dem Zentrum für
 Demokratie und Technologie zusammenarbeitet. Diese Gruppen haben einen
 offenen Brief an den Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten
 (https://www.stopwatching.us/) vorbereitet um Transparenz,
 Untersuchung der Vorgänge, Reform sowie Rechenschaftspflicht
 einzufordern und haben andere Organisationen (einschließlich der
 Wikimedia Foundation) darum gebeten dieses Vorhaben zu unterstützen.

 Wir bitten euch den Blogeintrag mit den zugehörigen Details zu lesen
 und uns eure Meinung zu dem Vorschlag mitzuteilen.

 Vielen Dank,

 Geoff und Luis

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 General Counsel

 Luis Villa
 Deputy General Counsel
 Wikimedia Foundation

 Hinweis: Wir würden die internationale WIkimediagemeinschaft gern
 darum bitten bei der Übersetzung des Blogeintrags und der
 Feedbackseite (die beiden sind fast identisch) sowie der Rückmeldungen
 aus der Community während der Konsultationsperiode mitzuhelfen. Durch
 die kurze Vorbereitungszeit hoffen wir bis Dienstag zumindest
 professionelle Übersetzungen für die Dokumente zumindest in Deutsch,
 Französisch, Spanisch und Japanisch zu haben.
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 ***Español***

 Hola,

 Queremos dirigir su atención a nuestra entrada en el blog (
 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ )
 sobre la situación PRISM involucra la vigilancia de inteligencia del
 gobierno en Internet. Estamos pidiendo Wikimedia retroalimentación de
 la comunidad sobre un curso de acción propuesto. (
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM ) En resumen, nos sentimos
 inclinados a recomendar que la Fundación Wikimedia colaborar con
 organizaciones como Mozilla, la Fundación Fronteras Electrónicas, la
 Fundación para el software libre y el Centro para la Democracia y la
 Tecnología. Estos grupos han preparado una carta abierta al Congreso
 de EE.UU. (https://www.stopwatching.us/), exigiendo la transparencia,
 la investigación, la reforma y la rendición de cuentas, y han pedido a
 otras organizaciones (entre ellas la Fundación Wikimedia) a unirse a
 ellos en sus esfuerzos.

 Le pedimos que lea el blog para más detalles, y le animamos a decirnos
 sus puntos de vista sobre esto.

 Muchas gracias,

 Geoff y Luis

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 General Counsel

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 Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] PRISM, government surveillance, and Wikimedia: Request for community feedback

2013-06-15 Thread Jon Davies

The reporting in the UK is that it is aimed at 'foreigners'. I think that
is us! Of course that may be for domestic US consumption.

On 15 June 2013 17:56, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hoi,
 From my perspective ... I live outside the USA, PRISM only brings the
 American people the same surveillance the rest of the world has had for a
 long time. The only difference is that the pretence that the US populace is
 not watched is known to be a fiction.
 Thanks,
 GerardM


 On 15 June 2013 17:57, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

  Speaking as an individual and not on behalf of the chapter (and not as an
  American obviously) I think this seems a proportional response but would
  encourage everyone in the UK community to share their thoughts.
  I think it would be naive to think this was not aimed at US citizens as
  well, despite denials, but it certainly has implications for our freedoms
  in Europe.
 
  Jon Davies
 
 
  On 15 June 2013 00:59, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
   Note:  German (Deutsch) and Spanish (Español) versions are below.
  
   ***English***
  
   Hi all,
  
   We want to direct your attention to our blog post (
   https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ )
   about the PRISM situation involving government intelligence
   surveillance on the Internet.  We are asking for Wikimedia community
   feedback on a proposed course of action (
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM ). In short, we are inclined to
   recommend that the Wikimedia Foundation collaborate with organizations
   including Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free
   Software Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology.
   These groups have now prepared an open letter to the US congress
   (https://www.stopwatching.us/ ), calling for transparency,
   investigation, reform, and accountability, and have asked other
   organizations (including the Wikimedia Foundation) to join them in
   their efforts.
  
   We ask you to read the blog post for more details, and encourage you
   to tell us your views on this.
  
   Many thanks,
  
   Geoff and Luis
  
   Geoff Brigham
   General Counsel
  
   Luis Villa
   Deputy General Counsel
   Wikimedia Foundation
  
   Note:  We expect to have a couple more translations of this
   announcement in the next couple of days.  We would like to ask the
   international Wikimedia community to help translate the blog posting
   and feedback page (which are almost the same) as well as people’s
   feedback given throughout the course of this consultation period.  Due
   to tight time limits, we hope to have professional translations for
   these documents posted by next Tuesday for at least German, French,
   Spanish, and Japanese.
  
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   Hallo,
  
   Wir würden eure Aufmerksamkeit gern auf unseren Blogeintrag (
   https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ )
   zur PRISM-Situation und geheimdienstlicher Überwachung des Internets
   lenken. Wir bitten die Wikimediagemeinschaften um Rückmeldung zum
   vorgeschlagenen Vorgehen. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM)
  
   Kurz zusammengefasst tendieren wir dazu zu empfehlen, dass die
   Wikimedia Foundation mit Organisationen wie Mozilla, der Electronic
   Frontier Foundation, der Free Software Foundation und dem Zentrum für
   Demokratie und Technologie zusammenarbeitet. Diese Gruppen haben einen
   offenen Brief an den Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten
   (https://www.stopwatching.us/) vorbereitet um Transparenz,
   Untersuchung der Vorgänge, Reform sowie Rechenschaftspflicht
   einzufordern und haben andere Organisationen (einschließlich der
   Wikimedia Foundation) darum gebeten dieses Vorhaben zu unterstützen.
  
   Wir bitten euch den Blogeintrag mit den zugehörigen Details zu lesen
   und uns eure Meinung zu dem Vorschlag mitzuteilen.
  
   Vielen Dank,
  
   Geoff und Luis
  
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   Luis Villa
   Deputy General Counsel
   Wikimedia Foundation
  
   Hinweis: Wir würden die internationale WIkimediagemeinschaft gern
   darum bitten bei der Übersetzung des Blogeintrags und der
   Feedbackseite (die beiden sind fast identisch) sowie der Rückmeldungen
   aus der Community während der Konsultationsperiode mitzuhelfen. Durch
   die kurze Vorbereitungszeit hoffen wir bis Dienstag zumindest
   professionelle Übersetzungen für die Dokumente zumindest in Deutsch,
   Französisch, Spanisch und Japanisch zu haben.
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   Hola,
  
   Queremos dirigir su atención a nuestra entrada en el blog (
   https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia/ )
   sobre la situación PRISM involucra la vigilancia de inteligencia del
   gobierno en Internet. Estamos pidiendo Wikimedia retroalimentación de
   la comunidad sobre un curso de acción propuesto. (
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM ) En resumen, nos

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulations

2013-06-25 Thread Jon Davies

And to everyone who actually ran the elections - easily forgotten but not
if you work opposite one of them!
Well done.
Jon.

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 Hello,
 My warm congratulations to the people chosen to the WMF board, and to the
 FDC positions, and also my thankfulness to those who were candidates.
 Running for a public office is a lot of work and even more to invest time
 and energy in such a position. Without these people, things would be a lot
 less democratic in the world.
 Kind reards
 Ziko
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Erik Zachte on bot-generated articles

2013-06-27 Thread Jon Davies

I learnt yesterday that the Welsh Wicipedia does not have 'stubs'. It has
'Little Acorns' - so much nicer and more descriptive.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)

2013-07-05 Thread Jon Davies

I am an audience! Thanks and it really makes some broader points. We often
start from finding people who have a passion about a subject but don;t edit
yet. That at least solves the 'blank sheet of paper' fear. Liked the
discussion though.

On 4 July 2013 08:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks.
The problem of the blog post is IMHO that it's unclear what audience it's
directed to. The learnings and suggestions *might* be useful for some
en.wiki WikiProjects, but en.wiki is obviously the least suitable wiki for
such experiments. There are no learnings for other projects and I see no
answer e.g. to questions I had for a similar fr.wiki banner a few weeks
later. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Meta%**
3ARequests_for_help_from_a_**sysop_or_bureaucratdiff=**
5337142oldid=5337118https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta%3ARequests_for_help_from_a_sysop_or_bureaucratdiff=5337142oldid=5337118

It will be for next time then. :)

Nemo

P.s.: It's not particularly surprising, I see that I had already predicted
this failure. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Talk:**
CentralNotice/Calendaroldid=**5337147#Philippines_**
recruitment_for_two_weekshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CentralNotice/Calendaroldid=5337147#Philippines_recruitment_for_two_weeks

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter collaboration

2013-08-14 Thread Jon Davies

WMUK will do what it can to keep this important work going.
Jon

On 14 August 2013 08:14, Markus Glaser markus.gla...@wikimedia.de wrote:

Dear WCA Council Members, dear Wikimedians,

most of you are probably already aware of Ziko's and my resignation as
Deputy Chair and Chair of the WCA Council. I don't want to reiterate the
whole story, as many things have already been said [6][7]. The discussions
that followed when it became clear that WMFR was about to withdraw made it
obvious to both of us that our resources are better spent elsewhere:

* Support for the WCA within Chapters is very small.
* Chapters withdrew from the WCA long time ago by non-participation.
* The WCA is expected to do big things with no resources.
* It is virtually impossible to get rid of the structural debates.

Still, I firmly believe we need to continue the dialogue. There are some
projects (started by the WCA and others) that are very promising if they
get the attention they deserve. As a consequence, I will focus on working
on Chapter collaboration and the continuation of programmes. Here's an
(incomplete) list:

* Chapters Exchange [1] as a place of coordination for common projects.
* Boards Training [2] as a way of enabling good organisational work.
* Peer reviews [3] for learning from each other.
* Chapters Manual [4] as a sustainable documentation of the way Wikimedia
organisations work.
* Journal on Meta [5] for staying up to date.

Obviously, I need help for this :) So please participate, if you find
these projects useful. I suggest, for coordination, we gather around the
Chapters Exchange page on meta [1] for the time being.

Cheers,
Markus

P.S.: Thanks so much for the many kind words and your personal support.
That was really helpful during the course of these events!

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_**
Association/Chapters_Exchangehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Chapters_Exchange
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Boards_training_workshop_**proposalhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boards_training_workshop_proposal
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Peer_reviewhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Peer_review
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Association/Journal#WCA:_**Difficult_Sleeping_Beauty_**
waiting_for_Prince_Courageoushttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Journal#WCA:_Difficult_Sleeping_Beauty_waiting_for_Prince_Courageous

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile image upload

2013-08-27 Thread Jon Davies

Even though I should have been clearing my in-box after a week on holiday I
had to try this- Well done! Will try the commons upload app next.

On 26 August 2013 16:20, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:

James
Thanks for sharing that and great to see the uploader is from Kerala India!

In terms of mobile editing arriving... It's here!:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/25/edit-wikipedia-on-the-go/

Jon
On 25 Aug 2013 05:14, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:

Mobile image upload is a huge plus thus thanks to all who made it
happen. It is allowing those who might not otherwise have be able to
get involved to do so. Just saw this image come in through the mobile
site

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dirty_white_pseudomembrane_classically_seen_in_diptheria_2013-07-06_11-07.jpg

I have never seen diphtheria as it is exceedingly rare in my area of
the world. And technically this image is very hard to take. Look
forwards to mobile editing arriving.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who will host Wikimedia Conference 2014? Bidding process is open!

2013-09-18 Thread Jon Davies

Can we have it in that place that hosts Groundhog day?

Didn't we have all these discussions last year?

Is this a wiki tradition nobody told me about?

Jon


On 18 September 2013 14:31, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote:

 I agree.

 The work behind the organization is more than organizing a wiki-meeting to
 drink a beer.

 People have to consider the costs for travel, the booking of tickets and
 the accommodation plus visas.

 Yes, six months is a convenient timeline to start working on.

 regards



 On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com
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  On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Cristian Consonni
  kikkocrist...@gmail.comwrote:
 
   2013/9/18 Balázs Viczián balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu:
The thing is that you should start building from the bottom, not from
  the
top. A venue can be secured as late as 3 months before the event to
  give
everyone enough time to plan and get cheap tickets (and I mean first
minute, not last minute). Most airline and international train
 tickets
   are
the cheapest if you buy them ~3 months in advance. Not much later,
 nor
earlier, because both are being penalized by higher fees. We can
 find
   out
where to have the event as late as early January
  
   May I point out that if you want to be able to book tickets 3 months
   before event:date you should start working on event at the very
   least six month in advance. How can you tell the destination of your
   booking if you don't know where the event is going to be held?
  
   From WM-IT's experience with WMConf 2013 (which we are discussing to
   replicate) you have to start organizing it in November, no later.
  
   Cristian
 
 
  Plus, you're forgetting visas.
 
  Aubrey
 
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who will host Wikimedia Conference 2014? Bidding process is open!

2013-09-20 Thread Jon Davies

I think there is an assumption that it is needed and indeed welcomed. From
my two experiences it has been very valuable and,I would argue, in an
organisation like ours essential for developing good working relationships
and practices.

On 20 September 2013 05:53, Balázs Viczián balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.huwrote:

I think you miss my point: I see an event that is being pushed despite no
sufficient visible interest in it from those whom you are targeting with
it...

Sure you'll have more applications than vacant slots, it is pretty easy to
find people to travel for free virtually from an to anywhere in the world.
Also, everybody loves to talk. If you measure success that way, it will be
a 100% success.

Balázs
2013/9/18 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org

Balasz, you miss the point: certainly, conferences _can_ be organized in
any major city. That's not what this conversation is trying to
establish.
We are trying to get the deafeningly-silent majority of chapter/ThOrg
board members on this list to _participate_ in determining the location,
and later the program, of next year's WMCON.

If the level of interest expressed so far is a fair reflection of the
actual level of interest, and given WMDE has expressed interest in
hosting,
we could default to that and forego this whole bid process. The point of
the bid was to accommodate a perceived interest in sharing the burden
(and
joys) of hosting; if that perception is incorrect, we don't need this
process.

So which is it, dear colleagues? Is everyone else just happy for
Someonetm to handle this? Is everyone else just waiting for the
invitation to the actual event, and the program put together by others?

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Nicole Ebber
nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
wrote:

Hey Marc,

you can find all requirements on Meta.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference#Logistical_needs_for_the_annual_Wikimedia_Conference_2

Hope this helps,
Nicole

On 18 September 2013 19:19, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org
wrote:
On 09/18/2013 06:58 AM, Jon Davies wrote:

Can we have it in that place that hosts Groundhog day?

I fully intend to prepare a bid for Montreal to host this, once the
requirements are made slightly clearer. I already have all the
contacts
with venues and government levels from my organization of the 2011
Wikimania
bid and plan to use the success story of that conference to shore up
Montreal's bid to host a Wikimania. :-)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Welcome to Nathalie, our new ED

2013-10-01 Thread Jon Davies

Bienvenue-il ne sera jamais un moment ennuyant.


On 1 October 2013 16:07, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote:

 congrats and welcome :)

 pundit


 On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Christophe Henner 
 christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr wrote:

  Hi everyone,
 
  We have the great pleasure to announce Nathalie Martin is starting
  today as the new Executive Director of Wikimédia France!
 
  Her hiring is the tipping point of a process we started last January
  when we hired a HR firm to audit our organization and support us in
  finding the right person for this key role.
 
  With a background in political science and organizations strategy,
  Nathalie has a deep experience managing several associations of
  similar or bigger size as Wikimedia France. Even though she is not
  from the movement, we believe she'll adapt quickly to who we are.
 
  She came to Wikimania in Hong-Kong, and some of you may have had the
  pleasure to meet her. By coming to Wikimania she had the luck to
  experience in 3 day what Wikimedia is at large, to meet wikimedians
  from all around the world. I'm happy to say that she too suffered from
  PWD (Post-Wikimania Depression).
 
  If you need to contact her, her email address is
  nathalie.mar...@wikimedia.fr. Please keep in mind that it's her first
  day within our movement and she still will need few days to adapt to
  our awesomeness
 
  Please join us in welcoming Nathalie!
 
  Best,
 
  PS: please keep her in copy of your answers :)
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2014 location decision

2013-10-14 Thread Jon Davies

Perhaps next year in sunny Goa?  Dates?


On 13 October 2013 12:05, Steven Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote:

 Bulk of the chapters are in Europe, so it's generally seen as cheaper for
 most chapters, and more convenient for them. I agree with your sentiment.

 Sent from my iPhone

  On 13 Oct 2013, at 7:06 pm, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote:
 
  As one of the team for the India bid, I must say I'm a bit disappointed
 in
  this decision. It seems like this event will never leave Europe.
 
 
  On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Congratulations - Berlin is one amazing city. Some great bids were
 placed,
  too.
 
  Looking forward to it!
 
  -Sarah
 
 
  On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Thanks to all the team involved in the bidding and decision. We will
  have a
  very nice conference in Berlin.
 
  Regards.
  El oct 12, 2013 8:31 a.m., Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com
  escribió:
 
  Dear all,
 
  Following considerable deliberation it is with great pleasure that we
  announce that the Location Committee has selected Berlin as the
  location
  for the 2014 Wikimedia Conference.
 
  We received a total of four bids from Germany, India, Italy and
 Sweden.
  In
  selecting the Berlin location we have taken into consideration the
  experience and capacity of the team; the travel time and cost for
  attendees; the cost of hosting the conference; and the facilities and
  room
  configuration of the proposed venues.
 
  Throughout our deliberations we kept an open mind towards having the
  conference in a new location/country, and we have appreciated the
  compact
  solutions offered by having all participants close to each other or
  staying
  at the same lodging; however, we felt that the Berlin bid provides –
  by a
  small margin – the best combination of price, distance and experience
  this
  year.
 
  We thank all the organisations that have entered a bid for their time
  and
  effort and we hope that even if they were not selected this year, they
  can
  make use of the experience when they organise other meetings that will
  further the Wikimedia mission.
 
  In closing, we would like to thank all Wikimedia organisations for
  placing
  their trust in this process and committee, which was an interesting
  experience for all of us. In the hope that the Wikimedia organisations
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  the hosting choice an open process, we would like to propose a number
  of
  potential process improvements[1], and we would invite all the bidders
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  other interested parties to provide their own feedback.
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to force to enable Visual Editor

2013-10-15 Thread Jon Davies

Yes a problem I have encountered too and very annoying. Newbies really
appreciate it.
Jon


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 Dear all,

 In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we have
 the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor
 activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing.

 Is there a trick to force the activation of Visual Editor for a specific
 user?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to force to enable Visual Editor

2013-10-15 Thread Jon Davies

Thanks, but newbies shouldn't have to do all that - it should sit there as
an option.


On 15 October 2013 09:34, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:

 Under Preferences  Editing  Enable VisualEditor (only in the
 mainhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_namespace
  and user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_namespace
  namespaces)

 will do it iirc.


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  Yes a problem I have encountered too and very annoying. Newbies really
  appreciate it.
  Jon
 
 
  On 15 October 2013 08:58, Charles Andres charles.andres.w...@gmail.com
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   Dear all,
  
   In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we
 have
   the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor
   activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing.
  
   Is there a trick to force the activation of Visual Editor for a
 specific
   user?
  
   Thanks
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

2013-11-05 Thread Jon Davies

Is a bid for South London allowed next year?

On 1 November 2013 23:44, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com wrote:

 Forwarding for info.

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 Date: 1 November 2013 18:43
 Subject: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers
 To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) 
 wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org

 Dear all,

 Soon we will be kicking off the selection process for deciding where we
 will hold Wikimania 2015[0].

 The Requests for Proposals (RfP) is being written right now[1], and will be
 coming out soon, but in this e-mail we would like to invite volunteers to
 serve on the selection jury[2]. The jury will select the winning bid based
 on published criteria, reviewing the bids from January onwards until the
 final selection is made in April 2014.

 This is roughly 30-40 hours' work, and is key to us making Wikimania a
 strong, healthy community conference that we all can enjoy. The Wikimania
 Committee will select a jury that is a balanced representation of the
 community, from a diverse range of backgrounds, sexes, languages, cultures
 and regions of the world.

 The main criteria are as follows:

 * You want to help make Wikimania as great a celebration of the community
 as we can make it;
 * You can represent some of the Wikimedia community's varied projects and
 activities;
 * 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 the jury, please e-mail Florence Devouard
 (off-list) [[Wikipedia:User:Anthere]] at fdevouard @ wikimedia.org by 12
 November. We will announce the jury in two weeks' time.

 Please help us by translating this message and passing it on to your wiki's
 community for those that don't read these mailing lists.

 Thank you, and good luck to all Bids.

 [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015
 [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids
 [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_jury

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

2013-11-06 Thread Jon Davies

I'd be willing to put up with the heat, beaches and luxury hotels.


On 6 November 2013 13:24, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote:

 There is no one from the Maldives who want to bid maybe? :)
 I'm ok also with Hawaii





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  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
  within your linguistic communities.
 
  Thanks
 
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  On 11/5/13 8:25 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
 
  On 11/5/2013 11:01 AM, David Gerard wrote:
 
  On 5 November 2013 18:58, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
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  Yes if it's South enough to be in the middle of the Channel for best
  neutrality.
 
  Jersey 2015!
 
  That really ought to be Principality of Sealand instead. We already had
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC R1 funding recommendations are posted

2013-11-25 Thread Jon Davies

://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals

 [4]

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Appeals_to_the_Board_on_the_recommendations_of_the_FDC

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Qrpedia domain transfer

2013-12-21 Thread Jon Davies

Hi Nathan,

Re Q1 our legal advice was to set up a separate company in case anyone came
after QRcodes in some litigious fashion. This keeps it at arms length.

Q2 I am the only person associated with it at the moment - the AGM was a
rather solitary affair - but we need to add another director not least in
case I go under a bus.

Q3. There will be an agreement, it is being drafted.

Come into the office for a coffee and we could chat about it in more detail.

Jon Davies


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 Thanks Katherine, I just have a couple of questions if you have a moment...

 1) Why did WMUK choose to incorporate a new company to host the qrpedia IP?
 2) Who are the officers / trustees of Cultural Outreach Ltd and how are
 they chosen?
 3) Are there already or will there need to be cross agreements between WMF
 and other Wikimedia entities and Cultural Outreach Ltd?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Qrpedia domain transfer

2013-12-21 Thread Jon Davies

Totally. In fact I think this string demonstrates a little of why this has
taken two years one month and 21 days! But with good faith we got there!!!


On 21 December 2013 15:29, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote:

 Crossed wires I think.

 Jon was probably referring to the internal agreement between WMUK and its
 subsidiary Cultural Outreach whereby WMUK will pay the domain name renewal
 fees. That simply allows us to maintain a non trading status for Cultural
 Outreach which keeps legal fees to a minimum.

 QRpedia is and will remain free for use by anyone, without any need for an
 agreement or approval from WMUK.

 Michael

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  On 21 December 2013 09:02, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk
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  3) Are there already or will there need to be
  cross agreements between WMF and other
  Wikimedia entities and Cultural Outreach Ltd?
 
  Q3. There will be an agreement, it is being drafted.
 
  This seems to imply that QRpedia will no longer be freely and openly
  available for anyone to use, as it has been from inception. I hope
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WG: Invitation to Chapters and Photographers for the European Parliament Project 2014

2014-01-03 Thread Jon Davies

Could actually being there in front of UK MEP's could be one very effective
way of bringing our influence to bear?
Jon
PS Strasbourg slightly closer to London than Edinburgh!


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 On 3 January 2014 16:22, Olaf Kosinsky olaf.kosin...@gmail.com wrote:

  Happy New Year to Everyone!
 
  After the holidays I'd like to make another approach to you and your
  chapters about Wikipedians in the European Parliament.
 
  * have you already forwarded this invitation to your local community?
 

 I expect that has been done


  * has you chapter already decided about supporting volunteers
 participating
  in this project?
 

 Sending people to Brussels and Strasbourg for reasons other than to lobby
 on IP issues is not a good use of WMF donors money. You want 766 photos
 total. Find one person in Brussels (not Strasbourg even the majority of
 MEPs accept that Strasbourg is a bad idea at this point) and give them
 whatever support they need to get the photos.



  * have you - if you are interested - already signed up for participation?
 


 Of course not. Strasbourg is several hundred miles away across the English
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Visually impaired

2014-01-15 Thread Jon Davies

How about starting with what a 'ULS' is? That would help :)


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 Hoi,
 One obvious point to start is the functionality of the ULS. It already
 serves one function for people who have a handicap with their perception.
 It has the OpenDyslexic font for people with dyslexia. There are multiple
 ways functionality can be provided who have a visual handicap. The size of
 the characters can be increased, the colour scheme can be changed (some
 people only see yellow on white..)

 If there is one thing wrong with the ULS, it is not in the functionality
 but by the utter lack of visibility. ULS is a major component of MediaWiki
 and it is not given prominence, Truly how are people going to find
 OpenDyslexic... (we are talking about 7 to 10% of a population)...

 Work is done to get more support for webfonts on mobile phones.. It is
 being developed.
 Thanks,
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  Hi, would anybody of you have some starting points concerning wikipedia
 for
  visually impaired persons, both computer and mobile devices?
 
  Rupert
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Visually impaired

2014-01-15 Thread Jon Davies

WOW on toast! Thanks Amir.


On 15 January 2014 09:47, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote:

 ULS is short for the Universal Language Selector extension. This tool
 provides language selection, webfonts and keyboard layouts for different
 languages. It appears if you click the gear icon near the interlanguage
 links. Among other things, it provides the OpenDyslexic font for some
 languages written in the Latin alphabet, and it is supposed to be more
 comfortable to read for dyslexic people. So it can be considered and
 accessibility tool, but I don't think that it is relevant for
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 2014/1/15 Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk

  How about starting with what a 'ULS' is? That would help :)
 
 
  On 15 January 2014 08:50, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   Hoi,
   One obvious point to start is the functionality of the ULS. It already
   serves one function for people who have a handicap with their
 perception.
   It has the OpenDyslexic font for people with dyslexia. There are
 multiple
   ways functionality can be provided who have a visual handicap. The size
  of
   the characters can be increased, the colour scheme can be changed (some
   people only see yellow on white..)
  
   If there is one thing wrong with the ULS, it is not in the
 functionality
   but by the utter lack of visibility. ULS is a major component of
  MediaWiki
   and it is not given prominence, Truly how are people going to find
   OpenDyslexic... (we are talking about 7 to 10% of a population)...
  
   Work is done to get more support for webfonts on mobile phones.. It is
   being developed.
   Thanks,
 GerardM
  
  
   On 15 January 2014 09:26, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com
  wrote:
  
Hi, would anybody of you have some starting points concerning
 wikipedia
   for
visually impaired persons, both computer and mobile devices?
   
Rupert
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoucement from the Executive Director of Wikimedia Argentina

2014-01-28 Thread Jon Davies

Really sad to see you go.



On 28 January 2014 17:11, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.sewrote:

 Good luck in your future endeavors!

 And much thanks to you for the excellent job you with help of your
 colleagues have done, making WMAR a model for chapters

 Anders

 Osmar Valdebenito skrev 2014-01-28 17:59:

  Dear members of the Wikimedia Movement:

 In the past weeks, I've taken the decision to resign to my position of
 Executive Director of Wikimedia Argentina. This decision was presented to
 the Board of the chapter past Saturday and it was accepted.

 For personal and professional reasons, I've decided to return to my
 country, Chile, in the following weeks and start a new stage of my life.
 Two years ago, I was presented with the opportunity of living in Argentina
 and working for one of my passions. This was a big challenge for me: I had
 to leave my country and my family and work in a foreign country. These
 last
 18 months have been a unique experience and I've learnt a lot, becoming a
 better professional and a more mature person. However, at the same time I
 feel that I need to move on and continue with new projects and challenges.

 Certainly, this has not been an easy decision for me, because I'm very
 fond
 of this work, the people that have participated in our activities and the
 projects we worked on and we are still working on.

 I leave the Association in a very different position than when I took
 office. We have several ongoing projects and we regularized all the
 delayed
 paperwork. We became the first organization from a developing country to
 get an Annual Plan Grant via FDC and have been one of the best-graded
 chapters in both processes. We are now a reliable and serious
 organization,
 continuing a process of professionalization that can improve our programs,
 making them more efficient and more effective. Clearly, this has not been
 only due to my work, which is why I thank the Board of the Chapter that
 helped me in everything and to María Cruz, which has been a great
 colleague
 these months.

 My main interest is that Wikimedia Argentina continues to grow, which is
 why we have decided that my departure occurs at the end of March. This
 will
 allow us to work calmly to ensure the continuity of the ongoing projects
 of
 Wikimedia Argentina and the transfer of knowledge once the new Executive
 Director takes office. In any case, I will continue to participate as a
 member and Wikimedia volunteer, once this period expires. By request of
 our
 Board, I will also attend the next Wikimedia Conference, so I will be able
 to transmit the experiences of Wikimedia Argentina in the last year.

 I appreciate the trust placed in me by the Board and all the members of
 Wikimedia Argentina and their support all these months. I'm sure they will
 continue the great work we have done lately.

 Kind regards,

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

2014-03-31 Thread Jon Davies

Very sad to hear this - you have done so well. Hie to see you in London.


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 Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,

 After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
 yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.

 In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
 people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
 and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
 knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
 movement was achieved, though.

 Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
 coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
 average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
 was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
 And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
 literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
 members.

 But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
 nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
 custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.

 Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
 transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
 members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
 more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
 on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
 that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
 appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.

 Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
 whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.

 Kind regards
 Ziko

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-03-31 Thread Jon Davies

A few points.

There is no policy to restrict participation to three representatives.
Indeed, many chapters are sending more than three delegates as has been the
case in previous years.

For the record we have people going for four reasons:

   - CEO and Chair as standard
   - Two staff and one trustee who are invited to do presentations on areas
   of strength in the chapter.
   - Two trustees (we are guessing KR might actually be a misnamed Kate
   West) who will be using this as part of their induction as trustees - a
   great chance to meet other people and learn about the community.
   - Everyone can promote Wikimania London and learn about people's ideas
   and expectations.

I think this is a sensible use of our resources, (flights to Berlin are
cheaper than many train journeys to UK cities), supports our learning and
helps share our knowledge and understanding with other chapters.

And on a final point we will certainly not be going round in a sort of WMUK
gang trying to overwhelm small chapters - quite the opposite and I think we
have a good record at WMUK of supporting others.

*Regards, Jon Davies*


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On 31 March 2014 15:43, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:

 Gerard, et al

 On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen
 gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:

 
  My point is very much that it is for the chapter to decide if they
  spend their money wisely. It is for members of a chapter to question this
  at an appropriate time and at an appropriate place.


 Might I make a point here.

 It is not their money, but rather the money of donors -- i.e. the general
 public -- who are every year told that Wikipedia needs your help to
 survive.

 The movement, as you all like to refer to it, has a tendency to waste
 money on frivolous things such as travel and accommodation, as demonstrated
 last year by
 http://twkozlowski.net/how-40k-dollars-turned-to-petty-cash/and
 http://twkozlowski.net/saving-by-spending-according-to-affcom/

 The appropriate time to question such spending is BEFORE the funds is
 committed and spent. The place is unimportant, but here is as good as any.

 As a member of the movement, Fae has every right to ask such questions,
 and I believe he also has the right to be able to ask such questions
 without snide remarks such as Really Fae, as you are no longer the chair,
 why rule from the grave? being thrown at him . Unfortunately, there is a
 tendency in the movement when legitimate questions are raised, for a
 committed movementarian to deflect from that questioning with snide
 attacks.

 Now, Fae has asked some legit questions of UK chapter, and it is only fair
 that they answer them.

 Cheers,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-03-31 Thread Jon Davies

You are right - eight. as Chris is going as well. The reasons remain the
same.



On 31 March 2014 17:00, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 31 March 2014 16:23, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
 ...
  For the record we have people going for four reasons:
 
 - CEO and Chair as standard
 - Two staff and one trustee who are invited to do presentations on
 areas
 of strength in the chapter.
 - Two trustees (we are guessing KR might actually be a misnamed Kate
 West) who will be using this as part of their induction as trustees -
 a
 great chance to meet other people and learn about the community.
 - Everyone can promote Wikimania London and learn about people's ideas
 and expectations.

 I was going to step back from this, however a correction needs to be
 made here for the record, There are 8 people being funded not 7. Named
 as going are the CEO, 2 additional full time employees and 5 trustees
 representing Wikimedia UK at the conference.

 This excludes two other active members of Wikimedia UK who are
 representing the London Wikimania Programme and a member of the FDC.

 Fae

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-04-02 Thread Jon Davies

 the right to be able to ask such
 questions
 without snide remarks such as Really Fae, as you are no
   longer
 the
chair,
 why rule from the grave? being thrown at him .
   Unfortunately,
  there
is a
 tendency in the movement when legitimate questions are
   raised,
  for a
 committed movementarian to deflect from that questioning
  with
 snide
 attacks.

 Now, Fae has asked some legit questions of UK chapter, and
  it
   is
  only
fair
 that they answer them.

 Cheers,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles

2014-04-10 Thread Jon Davies

Outstanding. Well done everyone.


On 10 April 2014 06:39, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote:

 Wow..congratulations..

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 On Apr 10, 2014 3:19 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
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  Callooh! Callay! Congratulations to the language that gave so many other
  languages[1] the word Encyclopedia.
 
  [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5292#sitelinks-wikipedia
 
 
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  I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
 
 
  2014-04-10 0:13 GMT+03:00 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org:
 
   Dear colleagues,
  
   Please join me in congratulating our colleagues of the Greek Wikipedia,
   upon reaching 10 articles, a symbolic milestone for Wikipedias.
  
   Some of them are on this list, but a lot more people would see and
   appreciate your message on-wiki, so you can sign and (if you like) add
 a
   message in your language, here:
  
  
 
 https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:100.000_%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

2014-04-12 Thread Jon Davies

It always makes me happy when I find one of mine being used (a rare rhing
in reality) but would surely encourage retention of contributors.


On 12 April 2014 08:05, Mike Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:



  On 12 Apr 2014, at 08:45, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru
 wrote:
 
  On 09.04.2014 21:03, Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote:
  But I want to join you in thanking the people behind Echo; it's a
  feature I use virtually everyday, and one without which I cannot
  imagine discussing any issue on-wiki; I only wish more people used it
  so I wouldn't miss all those interesting debates!
 Tomasz
 
  Echo is an absolutely great thing, and I am a heavy echo user, however,
 I am not sure it is scalable. Getting one, two or even ten notifications
 per day is ok, but if I start getting dozens, I am not sure I would be able
 to handle them for example after a day off. So that I am not sure it would
 survive if everybody starts using it heavily.

 If notifications are batched, then I think echo would work well for this.
 For example, I'd love to see it giving notifications of when photos from
 Commons are used in the projects, along the lines of '10 of your photos
 were added to Wikipedia articles. Click to expand this notification/find
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback on the last 2 years

2014-04-12 Thread Jon Davies

Merci Christophe - very useful and echoes many issues WMUK experienced.


On 12 April 2014 20:38, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Hi Christophe,

 Thank you for these interesting emails. I'm cc'ing Anasuya on this
 discussion with the hope that what you've learned can be disseminated
 to other Wikimedia affiliates, especially new or aspiring chapters.

 Is the decision matrix that you use for your programs available in
 English? I
 would like to have a copy of it on Meta along with these emails.

 I am interested in this subject partly because of the discussion about
 WMF's
 Annual Plan and partly because there are occasional discussions about
 forming a new thematic organization or chapter in my region.

 Thanks,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Documentation of the Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-04-16 Thread Jon Davies

Thanks Cornelius (and everyone else for this and all you did at the
conference.
Great to share the learning so quickly. I have posted it on to our wiki.
Jon


On 15 April 2014 18:12, Cornelius Kibelka jckibe...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Wikimedians,

 on behalf of the Documentation Team of the Wikimedia Conference 2014 I'm
 happy to announce that we published all the minutes and photos of all
 sessions, as far as they were available and ready. Check them out on https
 ://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Documentation.

 We tried to summarise the sessions (too long, didn't read). However,
 sometimes this was not possible due to the most different opinions.
 Furthermore, you find most of the presentation slides and photos of the
 Conference on Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki
 /Category:Wikimedia_Conference_2014)

 Any comments, any questions, drop me a line.

 Best regards
 Cornelius

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

2014-05-01 Thread Jon Davies

Good luck and we look forward to meeting you as soon as possible certainly in 
London for Wikimedia



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 On 1 May 2014, at 20:48, Frans Grijzenhout fr...@wikimedia.nl wrote:
 
 Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to Jan-Bart
  the other members of the transition team. I will forward this great news
 to the Dutch board  community.
 Frans Grijzenhout
 
 
 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org:
 
 Dear fellow community members,
 
 On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
 announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
 be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
 most recently with SugarCRM.
 
 As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned to
 step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we spent
 some time working through the most critical requirements for the role. We
 decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering background,
 ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
 someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
 staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
 continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
 wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
 openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments, and
 with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with courage
 and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts to
 censor the projects.
 
 Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
 
 Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone, as
 a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in open
 source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
 career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
 technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director of
 development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data
 services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
 SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
 organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
 customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
 development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
 skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
 
 We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
 (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
 recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
 recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
 and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
 
 Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
 and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
 first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of
 the Wikimedia projects.
 
 I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
 appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
 Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
 Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
 Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
 Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
 and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of purpose,
 and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
 integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
 grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to rely
 on her support in the months and years ahead.
 
 In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and Lila.
 She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
 wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
 Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.
 
 The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
 outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
 helping

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

2014-05-28 Thread Jon Davies

My wife, thanks to Viisual Editor, now creates pages!


On 28 May 2014 16:21, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
everton.alvare...@okfn.orgwrote:

 Just a personal testimonial also to emphasize Marc's point and not
 necessarily when I did a work for WMF as a contractor, my previous
 girlfriend got interesting in Wikimedia projects after she saw somethings I
 worked on my spare time as a volunteer. She even began to write at
 Wikimedia Brasil mailing list and outreach Wikimedia projects. ;)

 In fact, she still does sometimes some outreach and have even participate
 of a Wikimedia meeting recently. (Well, better not say her opinion on
 Wikidramas, totally aligned with mine : )

 Tom


 2014-05-28 11:04 GMT-03:00 Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org:

  On 05/28/2014 08:59 AM, Fæ wrote:
   A curiosity that only manifested
   itself shortly after the public announcement of your employment by the
   Foundation board.
 
  In all fairness, Fæ, if my spouse had been hired as the leader of a very
  visible and significant business or nonprofit, I too would find myself
  interested in what it is, what its values are, and how it goes about
  things even if I had been previously unaware or uninterested in it.
 
  So that Wil's interest manifested around the time Lila was announced as
  the next ED seems to me to be perfectly natural, even if I have
  expressed serious concerns about *how* that interest was expressed.
 
  -- Marc
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The first three weeks.

2014-05-29 Thread Jon Davies

 education spending
 
  5. Public school class size reduction
 
  6. College subsidy with income-based repayment terms
 
  7. More steeply progressive taxation
 
  8. Negative interest on excess reserves
 
  9. Telecommuting
 
  10. Workweek length reduction
 
  11. Single-payer health care
 
  12. Renewable power purchase
 
  13. Increased data center hardware power efficiency
 
  14. Increased security against eavesdropping
 
  15. Metropolitan broadband
 
  16. Oppose monopolization of software, communications, publishing, and
  finance industries
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Input needed: Cooperation with zoos?

2014-05-30 Thread Jon Davies

Roger Bamkin has done some QR work with Sofaia zoo I think.

Roger Bamkin https://plus.google.com/u/0/115855705849960810419?prsrc=4
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On 29 May 2014 23:42, Balázs Viczián balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu wrote:

Hi,

I haven't heared any issues with animal treatment in Hungarian zoos
(moreover the news I can recall reports continous improvement, like
expanding getting renovated/modernised, etc.)

I have no idea about the Serbian ones or the rest of the world.

We've just completed a QR-project with a zoo in Hungary; it might be
interesting for you.

Find the documentation (google translator needed as it is in
Hungarian-only) here:

http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3AMiskolc-m%C5%B1hely%2FGLAM-ZOO

in short: 80 articles were (mostly significantly) improved plus 34 new
created (114 articles in total) and the same number of QR codes put out and
our cooperation won't stop here :)

If you're concerned about animal treatment, think about something else
then, for example botanical gardens :)

Also a QRpedia project, also recently completed, but not finished (as the
cooperation will continue beyond mainenance) with the country's largest and
most prestigeous botanical garden and also Hungarian-only documentation:

http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:N%C3%B6v%C3%A9nyek_m%C5%B1helye/V%C3%A1cr%C3%A1t%C3%B3t

Both were conducted by Wikipedia project groups thus both had a team of
editors behind them.

Cheers,
Balazs
2014.05.29. 23:45, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com ezt írta:

There is ongoing Microgrants project in Wikimedia Serbia. In brief, we
asked people to give us ideas, so we could talk about them. There are
some interesting ideas and a number of not so relevant.

We've got the offer to cooperate with one of the zoos from Serbia. At
this moment of time, there is just their idea, nothing more precise.

Before I proceed with the application (give suggestion to WMRS Board),
I want your input. In reality, I don't know that any zoo is perfect in
relation to the treatment of animals. In reality, it's likely
impossible to check that, as well as animal rights are not that well
protected in Serbia like the case is in, let's say, in the most of EU
countries.

So, I am interested in prevalent opinion. What's more important to us:
free knowledge or not cooperating with an institution which likely has
issues with the treatment of animals -- the question is just about the
level.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-06-02 Thread Jon Davies

There is no intention to hide the costs to the chapter of the Chapter's
involvement in the Wikiconference Berlin, but it is not a simple
calculation.

One person was asking for trustee expenses, others are asking how much we
(WMUK) spent on the entire conference (including staff, volunteers,
speakers, trustees etc). I hope to clarify this here.

So for trustee expenses: not all of the board went as trustees, as two (at
least) were invited as speakers - reporting that as a trustee cost wouldn't
be accurate. As to staff – I attended as the Chief Executive, but the other
two staff were also invited speakers. One of the staff had some costs paid
by the Foundation.

As to the cost mine was probably on the low end, as I booked my flight
early and always use public transport or bicycles, but from recollection
(and I have to sign off all trustee expenses) the total cost to the chapter
is close to £2600. My expenses are here
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expenses_2014-2015 and give a good baseline.

The trustees are discussing how best to itemise expenses in a way that
ensures an appropriate level of transparency at the board meeting this
Saturday.

I do not know why anyone would call the conference a 'junket', that needs a
citation I'd think, but it was, as I have explained before in detail, a
productive working three days at a reasonable cost to the chapter. If you
think it was a junket then the whole conference could be judged a waste of
money and the previous ones as well - and they aren't. The reality is that
these are important working conferences where chapters and other
organisations meet to discuss best practice.
Jon Davies.



On 1 June 2014 12:22, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 
  I have read the links that you have provided and I find it totally
  unacceptable that an organisation can not provide costs for sending 8
  people on a junket to New York.
 
  When I have operated businesses in the real world, I have been able to
 pull
  up any financial information (expenses, revenue, etc) within a matter of
  seconds and with a click of a mouse. It is astounding that WMUK is not
 able
  to do the same thing.
 
  That Richard Symonds is saying that it is not a good use of resources,
 and
  basically putting it in the too hard basket, to supply the amount of
 donor
  dollars which have been spent on this controversial junket is, to use a
  great British colloquialism, total bollocks.
 
  WMUK is an organisation which blows its own trumpet on how transparent it
  has become in the last 2 years, so it seriously should not be too
 difficult
  to do this in a timely fashion.
 
  Cheers
 
  Russavia


 The conference was in Berlin, not New York.

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014

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[Wikimedia-l] Two special workshops before Wikimania.

2014-06-02 Thread Jon Davies

Hello fellow Wikimedians,

*Two special events just before Wikimania aimed at spreading good practice.*

 *Governance workshop 7th of August.*

Based on the successful board training workshop held in March this year, we
are organising another such workshop, this time coinciding with Wikimania
here in London. This workshop will be based on the successful March
training workshop, with largely the same material covered. It's intended
for people who are (or will shortly be) board members of Chapters or
Thematic Organisations. This session is planned for 7 August 2014, i.e. as
a pre-meeting to Wikimania.

For more details, including a provisional agenda and registration link,
please go to 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boards_training_workshop_August_2014.
Places are strictly limited, on a first come first served basis.

*Train the Trainers - two day course. 4th and 5th of August*

We are also hosting an international version of our successful  'Train the
trainers' workshop which we've advertised to you previously. The
application deadline for a place there is Sunday 15 June. More information
and registration is at 
https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=68reset=1. Don't
miss out on a place, especially if you have previously indicated an
interest in attending but have not yet registered.

Hope to see many of you in London in August,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-06-02 Thread Jon Davies

£2600, our current estimate, seems good value. Some bloke is charging me
£120 to come and tell me my dishwasher is broken


On 2 June 2014 14:35, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk
 wrote:

  There is no intention to hide the costs to the chapter of the Chapter's
  involvement in the Wikiconference Berlin, but it is not a simple
  calculation.
 
  One person was asking for trustee expenses, others are asking how much we
  (WMUK) spent on the entire conference (including staff, volunteers,
  speakers, trustees etc). I hope to clarify this here.
 
  So for trustee expenses: not all of the board went as trustees, as two
 (at
  least) were invited as speakers - reporting that as a trustee cost
 wouldn't
  be accurate. As to staff – I attended as the Chief Executive, but the
 other
  two staff were also invited speakers. One of the staff had some costs
 paid
  by the Foundation.
 
  As to the cost mine was probably on the low end, as I booked my flight
  early and always use public transport or bicycles, but from recollection
  (and I have to sign off all trustee expenses) the total cost to the
 chapter
  is close to £2600. My expenses are here
  https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expenses_2014-2015 and give a good
  baseline.
 
  The trustees are discussing how best to itemise expenses in a way that
  ensures an appropriate level of transparency at the board meeting this
  Saturday.
 
  I do not know why anyone would call the conference a 'junket', that
 needs a
  citation I'd think, but it was, as I have explained before in detail, a
  productive working three days at a reasonable cost to the chapter. If you
  think it was a junket then the whole conference could be judged a waste
 of
  money and the previous ones as well - and they aren't. The reality is
 that
  these are important working conferences where chapters and other
  organisations meet to discuss best practice.
  Jon Davies.
 
 
 It's a simple and basically fair question - how much did the WMUK spend on
 the Wikimedia Conference 2014? Whether a particular expense can be
 classified as staff, or trustee, or speaker, or etc. is interesting but not
 crucial to answering the question. Given the strained relationship with
 Ashley I can understand the reluctance to respond, but I don't think there
 is a strong moral basis for not providing the round total number.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-06-02 Thread Jon Davies

£2600 for everything.  Got to get on! Don't want to get accused of hogging
the lists!


On 2 June 2014 14:48, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk
 wrote:

  £2600, our current estimate, seems good value. Some bloke is charging me
  £120 to come and tell me my dishwasher is broken
 
 
 
 Perhaps I misunderstood - £2600 is the total for all WMUK expenditures for
 all attendees? Or just your own? (And your link, by the way, says £226 for
 yourself and the total for all listed expenses is around £2050).
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stop the New Privacy Policy until Lila is Thoroughly Briefed on It, Countdown 14 Hours

2014-06-06 Thread Jon Davies

+1 Not easy.


On 6 June 2014 18:52, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:

 +1... Well done Michelle!
 On 6 Jun 2014 18:46, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:

  Echoing Luis's shout-out to Michelle for such a colossal achievement.
 
 
  Dan Rosenthal
  
 
  P.S. Let me take this opportunity to again thank Michelle Paulson for
 her
  work leading this process; all told, it has been something like 18 months
  of work for her. And that is only the start for her - now that the policy
  is in place, she'll be working extensively with ops, analytics, the
  ombudsmen, and many others to ensure compliance and look for other ways
 to
  improve privacy. She deserves a big round of applause from every
  privacy-concerned Wikimedian for her tireless work on this issue,
 sometimes
  under literally thankless conditions. :)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please be considerate of everyone's time.

2014-06-17 Thread Jon Davies

At WMUK we are often approached by people wanting to improve content in an
area. We can offer edit training and support for events where people can
come together and improve or create pages.  Last week our editathon run by
volunteer Doug Taylor with Barclays was one such success:   *'There were
472 “saves” and 378 articles edited or created across 18 different language
Wikipedias'.*

Have a look at the blog
https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2014/06/a-global-editathon-teaching-wikipedia-to-barclays/

Jon Davies,


On 17 June 2014 07:14, edward edw...@logicmuseum.com wrote:

 On 17/06/2014 00:28, Kevin Gorman wrote:
 Hi Ed - I'm not sure what your area of specialty is offhand,

 This http://cuapress.cua.edu/res/docs/Fall-2014-Catalog.pdf#page=17 will
 be published in September this year, about the early philosophy of the
 medieval theologian Duns Scotus. My focus is on philosophy and logic,
 primarily of the middle ages (a period covering more than a thousand years)
 but also modern analytic philosophy and philosophy of language. Philosophy
 generally is an area that is very poorly covered on Wikipedia.

 There is the excellent Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
 http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html but that is not written for the
 general reader and even specialists in one area might have problems with
 articles in another area http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modeltheory-fo
 .

 There is a similar problem with Wikipedia mathematics and mathematical
 logic articles, by the way.  Unlike articles in my area, they seem to be
 correct, but they are not written in a style that is accessible to the
 general reader.


 On 17/06/2014 00:23, Steven Walling wrote:
 The Wikimedia Foundation does not write nor edit content on Wikipedia, nor
 does it dictate editorial policy.

 I am aware of that, but (a) does that have to be the case anyway? If the
 model clearly isn’t working, why not consider another model?

 And (b) isn’t the role of the WMF rather like that of the owner of a large
 plot of land to be used as a garden.  The owner doesn’t do the gardening
 directly, but is involved with supplies of fertiliser, weedkiller, pest
 control and so on.

 Or (c) perhaps the answer might be to help buy the land for other gardens,
 unconnected with the original one? I have recently been talking to the
 owners of other specialist sites, whose coverage is better than
 Wikipedia’s. Perhaps the Foundation could help them with software
 development, or even persuade them to use Mediawiki (which IMO is excellent
 for this purpose, but needs selling).

 Pretty much any article in my specialist area (which is actually not
 all that specialist) has serious problems is to invite you to edit it.

 See geni’s remark below. I can’t edit, and even if I could, it would not
 address the general problem of getting specialists involved. I am still in
 touch with some of the specialists in my area who used to edit Wikipedia.
 Recently I had lunch in London with Julie Hofmann (was, user:JHK, who was
 recruited by Larry Sanger and who left in 2002. They all say the same
 thing: Wikipedia is not a welcoming place for experts.  Pretty much
 everyone who was working in my subject has left a long time ago.


 On 17/06/2014 00:32, geni wrote:
 User:Peter Damian is currently subject to a community ban on the English
 wikipedia.

  ‘Community ban’ is a misleading term, implying the whole community, which
 it doesn’t. My ban was unconnected with the quality of the content I
 contributed.  And see my reply to Steven Walling above. One person is not
 going to make a whole lot of difference. The problem is with the garden and
 the soil, not a single plant.

 I don’t see why the WMF couldn’t provide help and advice here. If there
 really is an appetite for change – and it really is needed – then now is a
 good time to discuss it.

 Edward


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-26 Thread Jon Davies

Thanks Erik,
This is certainly something we are keen to work on. I was talking to Magnus
just last night and of course our experience with Europeana has taught us a
lot )I hope we have fully learnt the messages!).
We are undertaking a scoping review of our Development plans at the moment
and this will be part of the consideration.

Jon

On 26 June 2014 04:54, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi folks,

At the Zurich Hackathon, I met with a couple of folks from WM-CH who
were interested in talking about ways that chapters can get involved
in engineering/product development, similar to WM-DE's work on
Wikidata.

My recommendation to them was to consider working on GLAM-related
tooling. This includes helping improve some of the reporting tools
currently running in Labs (primarily developed by the illustrious and
wonderful Magnus Manske in his spare time), but also meeting other
requirements identified by the GLAM community [1] and potentially
helping with the development of more complex MediaWiki-integrated
tools like the GLAMWiki-Toolset.

There's work that only WMF is well positioned to do (like feeding all
media view data into Hadoop and providing generalized reports and
APIs), but a lot of work in the aforementioned categories could be
done by any chapter and could easily be scaled up from 1 to 2 to 3
FTEs and beyond as warranted. That's because a lot of the tools are
separate from MediaWiki, so code review and integration requirements
are lower, and it's easier for technically proficient folks to help.

In short, I think this could provide a nice on-ramp for a chapter or
chapters to support the work of volunteers in the cultural sector with
appropriate technology. This availability of appropriate technology is
clearly increasingly a distinguishing factor for Wikimedia relative to
more commercial offerings in its appeal to the cultural sector.

At the same time, WMF itself doesn't currently prioritize work with
the cultural sector very highly, which I think is appropriate given
all the other problems we have to solve. So if this kind of work has
to compete for attention with much more basic improvements to say the
uploading pipeline or the editing tools, it's going to lose. Therefore
I think having a cultural tooling team or teams in the larger
movement would be appropriate.

I've not heard back from WM-CH yet on this, but I also don't think
it's an exclusive suggestion, so wanted to put the idea in people's
heads in case other organizations in the movement want to help with
it. I do want WMF to solve the larger infrastructure problems, but the
more specialized tooling is likely _not_ going to be high on our
agenda anytime soon.

Thanks,
Erik

[1]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Report_on_requirements_for_usage_and_reuse_statistics_for_GLAM_content.pdf

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-26 Thread Jon Davies

Thanks Dab - downloaded. The 'night mode' or 'under the blankets' seems a
good idea.


On 25 June 2014 19:28, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 If you love Wikipedia and have an Android phone, you’re in for a treat!
 Today we’ve released a revamped Wikipedia for Android app, now
 available on Google
 Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.

 Our new features include:

- *Speed* – Our new, native app allows you to browse and edit Wikipedia
faster than ever before.
- *Editing* – You can edit Wikipedia on the app. Logged in or logged
out, we thank you for all your contributions.
- *Recent pages* – We provide you with your reading history, so you can
tap as many links as you like without ever getting lost.
- *Saved pages* – You can save select pages for offline reading and
browse them even when you don’t have a data connection.
- *Share* – Use your existing social networking apps to share in the sum
of all human knowledge.
- *Language support* – The app allows you to seamlessly switch to
reading Wikipedia written in any language.
- *Wikipedia Zero* – We’ve partnered with cellular carriers around the
world to provide Wikipedia free of data charges to users in many
 developing
areas.

 Coming soon:

- *Night mode* – We’ve gotten lots of great beta user feedback; one
feature people love is reading Wikipedia in darker environments. The
inverted colour scheme offered by night mode will make that much easier.
- *Discussions* – Talk pages are an important part of Wikipedia for both
new users and experienced editors alike. We’re bringing them to the app.

 This release is just the beginning! We’re still working hard on creating
 new features to make the app the best Wikipedia reading and editing
 experience out there.

 Please help us improve this app by sending a note to our mailing list,
 mobile-android-wikipe...@wikimedia.org.

 Thank you!

 Dan

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] Evacuation

2014-07-04 Thread Jon Davies

As ever thanks Magnus.


On 4 July 2014 05:48, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

 Nice work.

 Pine


 On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  David, thanks for posting that link here.
 
  Magnus, it looks like you've made (yet another) excellent tool, and
  described the problem it aims to alleviate in an eloquent and accessible
  way.
 
  Great to see a step forward in this area!
  Pete
  [[User:Peteforsyth]]
 
 
  On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:35 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   Thank you, Magnus!
  
   (add wikimedia-l to cc)
  
  
   - d.
  
   On 3 July 2014 21:47, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com
 wrote:
An attempt to alleviate the tensions caused by file deletions on
  Commons:
   
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=218
   
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiknic reports and photos

2014-07-07 Thread Jon Davies

Some party!


On 7 July 2014 14:16, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote:

 We also hosted Wiknic last Friday (to celebrate HEWP 11th anniversary):


 https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A5_2014/%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA


 On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

  Wiknic New York City 2014:
 
  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_one.jpg
  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_two.jpg
  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_three.jpg
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014_WikNYC_by_Elias_Friedman.jpg
 
  Wiknic Seattle 2014:
 
 
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_Wiknic_2014_minus_2_attendees.jpg
 
  I attended the Seattle event which featured 13 people, a quadcopter,
 foods
  based on recipes from multiple continents, and a wide range of
 intelligent
  and enjoyable conversation.
 
  Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] On historical event / WMRS Microgrants 2014

2014-07-16 Thread Jon Davies

Great work!


On 16 July 2014 16:31, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am finally able to share with you the biggest benefit of WMRS
 Microgrants projects for this year. It's about cooperation with one
 very old institution, and it was necessary to wait for their formal
 letter.

 But first about the side effects of the Microgrants project...

 When you are going outside and tell people that you are willing to
 support their projects, it could lead into interesting outcomes. It is
 important to understand possibilities which could be opened and catch
 them.

 We got one interesting proposal. It was about a long term project of
 making photos of one person. The project was very interesting, but it
 turned out that it's not suitable to be supported by Wikimedia, as
 well as the amount of needed money is so small, that I am able to fund
 it personally.

 However, that was not the end. That guy, an amateur photographer (with
 professional skills) is actually the top Serbian lector. He proofread
 the Orthography of Serbian language.

 He is also a lexicographer, working in Matica srpska [1].

 So, we met in my office. While drinking some alcohol, besides his own
 project, we were talking about the state of Serbian lexicography and
 culture in general.

 We were talking about Matica srpska, as well; about present financial
 state of the institution, which has money for salaries and the most
 important projects, but doesn't have for a number of projects.

 I had bold ideas, of course, but I was quite skeptical about rational
 possibility of cooperation between WMRS and Matica srpska. However, he
 convinced me that the president of MS is likely willing to cooperate
 and that we should talk about that.

 So he told me that he'll arrange the meeting with the president and
 that we should talk about that.

 Few weeks later I led WMRS delegation (our ED Mile and our program
 manager Ivana were in the delegation) to the initial talks with MS.

 I think we were talking two hours. And I am quite confident to tell
 you that on June 20th, 2014 happened one historical event, not just
 for Wikimedia Serbia, but also for Serbian culture and free knowledge.

 I wasn't able to talk about this till today, when we got formal letter
 from MS, which summarize our meeting and emphases their commitment to
 accessibility of knowledge to as much people as it's possible.

 If you are in Slavic culture in general, you should know what Matica
 srpska is. As the most of you are not, here is the story in short...

 MS is the oldest cultural and scientific institution in Serbia. They
 are the main lexicographical and encyclopedistic institution in
 Serbia. It isn't easily comparable with large cultures, but,
 basically, if we don't count independent institutions, 90% of
 dictionaries and the most important encyclopedias have been created
 inside of MS or with MS as the leader of the project.

 We share one important trait with the institutions like MS is. It's
 about long term goals. We want to start cooperation and develop it.
 So, we are starting with cooperation slowly. During the next year our
 goal is to liberate two dictionaries. One is ornithological, the other
 one covers dialects of Vojvodina.

 That's just the beginning, of course. Their editions are the main
 dictionaries of Serbian language and we'll discuss the next year about
 the steps toward liberating them. They are also in charge for creation
 of national encyclopedia, but it has its own Board and during the next
 months we should start talking with the Board, as well.

 The significance of this cooperation for Wikimedia is that we are at
 the beginning of the first close relations with one main national
 cultural institution, which focus is creating dictionaries and
 encyclopedias. They share our goals, as well as they want to cooperate
 with us.

 And it's not just about liberating content because we will help it
 financially. It's their commitment, as well. They want to share their
 content on Internet. With our (technological, licensing etc.) help,
 they will become the institution which shares their content by
 default, no matter if we are involved or not.

 I know that this story is not applicable in many cases. It's not
 rational to expect that the University of Oxford would do the same.
 However, I am sure that this story *is* applicable in many cultures of
 the similar size, like Serbian is.

 It is also important that the visibility of Wikimedia organizations
 all over the world is very important. You could get something very
 valuable if you show that you are friendly.

 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matica_srpska

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Volunteer Support Workshop - correction

2014-07-18 Thread Jon Davies

Dirk - I believe the meet up is now in the William Blake Pub  - you need to
change the location on the page.

http://www.thewilliamblake.co.uk/find-us/

Jon


2014-07-18 13:00 GMT+01:00 Dirk Franke dirk.fra...@wikimedia.de:

 Dear list readers,

 I apologize for the inconvience, but have to make a small correcton.

 The Volunteer Support Workshop will happen on

 Thursday, August 7(!)

 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pre-conference:_Volunteer_Support

 not the day before as previously stated.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Volunteer Support Workshop - correction

2014-07-18 Thread Jon Davies

We are friendly!


On 18 July 2014 17:13, Andy Cruz y Corro andyc...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi everyone!

 Wikimania 2015 staff here. I'd love to see you all and learn from you. See
 you Aug 7!


 On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Richard Symonds 
 richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

  For those interested in such things, the building is Wiki Loves
  Monuments-eligible, and has an article at
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  2014-07-18 15:58 GMT+01:00 Dirk Franke dirk.fra...@wikimedia.de:
 
   Dear list readers,
  
   and hopefully the last Pre-Wikimania Volunteer Support Meetup
 Correction
   mail. There is a room change. The workshop will happen at
  
   Wesley's Chapel and Leysian Mission
   49 City Road
   London
   EC1Y 1AU
  
  
 
 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pre-conference:_Volunteer_Support
  
   Thanks again for Wikimedia UK being attentive and acting so quickly.
  
   Best,
   Dirk
  
  
   Am 18. Juli 2014 14:00 schrieb Dirk Franke dirk.fra...@wikimedia.de:
  
Dear list readers,
   
I apologize for the inconvience, but have to make a small correcton.
   
The Volunteer Support Workshop will happen on
   
Thursday, August 7(!)
   
   
  
 
 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pre-conference:_Volunteer_Support
   
not the day before as previously stated.
   
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commonwealth Games

2014-07-22 Thread Jon Davies

Not that I know of.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Court Victory in Italy

2014-07-23 Thread Jon Davies

Great work Michelle, Geoff and the team.
Any special mplications europewide?
Jon


On 23 July 2014 06:35, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote:

 Wow..Great victory for Wikimedia Movement!
 Congratulation.


 On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Anna Stillwell astillw...@wikimedia.org
 
 wrote:

  Congratulations. Let's hear it for, paving the way for more robust free
  speech protections on the Internet under Italian law.
 
 
  On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Mateus Nobre mateusfno...@gmail.com
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   It's great. A great victory for Wikimedia Movement!
   I have an scientifc article written about The civil liability on
  Wikipedia
   Information, and this result directly comproves my thesis.
  
  
   On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Michelle Paulson 
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Hi All,
   
I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has won a
  significant
defamation lawsuit in Italy brought by Italian politician, Antonio
Angelucci, and his son, Giampaolo.
   
You can read more about this victory on the Wikimedia blog:
   
  
 
 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/22/victory-in-italy-based-on-freedom-of-users/
   
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

2014-09-08 Thread Jon Davies

+1

On 8 September 2014 16:43, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,

 a) This discussion actually belongs to a talk page on Meta or
 Mediawiki.org, for example :-)

 b) All my experience in teaching Wikipedia tells me that the talk page
 system is absolutely outdated and inappropriate. It is, sorry to use this
 word, *ridiculous* that you have to teach people how to communicate
 technically in Wikipedia. I never had to explain to someone how to do that
 on Facebook...

 As other people have pointed it out already, if you are already accustomed
 to the Wikipedia user interface for a longer time, you might find it
 difficult to fully understand what is the problem for newbies. And how big
 this is a problem, and how important it is to solve this problem.

 Kind regards
 Ziko



 Am Montag, 8. September 2014 schrieb Risker :

  Well, I think that the article editing project (i.e., VE)  has a huge
  potential for also resolving a lot of discussion space issues.  I don't
 see
  tacking on yet another UI as being a positive for new editor introduction
  or retention, and cannot think of another significant site that has two
  such wildly divergent interfaces (one very flexible and the other very
  rigid in structure), except perhaps in the mobile vs. desktop situation.
 
  I dunno, Marc.  There are different expectations about signature,
 depending
  on the target group.  We still have people being freaked out that article
  histories contain their username or IP (a form of automatic signature),
 so
  I'm not convinced that there's an expectation on the part of new users
 that
  anything they write anywhere will automatically be signed.
 
  Risker/Anne
 
 
  On 8 September 2014 10:24, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org
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   On 09/08/2014 10:18 AM, Risker wrote:
The most obvious one is automatic signing of comments, and it is
something that we have technically been able to impose for years;
  sinebot
didn't come into existence in a vacuum.
  
   I suppose that's a philosophical divergence between us then - that
   sinebot even needs to exist to me is demonstration that the system is
   broken.
  
   You say that discussion isn't all that much harder than editing
 content.
Even if I agreed with that (and I do not, edit conflicts in articles
   are much rarer than on talk pages - and usually easier to sort out),
   that's not a *good* thing!
  
   Participating in discussion should be much, *much* easier than editing
   articles: encouraging newbies to seek help and participate in the
   community *before* diving in anything but trivial article edits would
 be
   an immensely powerful retention tool!
  
   (Which isn't to say that editing articles doesn't *also* need a lot of
   help - but that's a different project).
  
   -- Marc
  
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group

2014-09-14 Thread Jon Davies

Great stuff, well done. You can count on WMUK support.

On 14 September 2014 02:51, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
 Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2].  The group is
 focused on developing the community of LGBT Wikimedians and LGBT content
 within Wikimedia projects, and plans to be active around the world.

 Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates!

 Regards,
 Kirill Lokshin
 Affiliations Committee

 [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT/Portal

 [2]

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Jessie's IDEO adventure

2014-09-19 Thread Jon Davies

Au Jessie revoir and thanks. xx

On 18 September 2014 18:43, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote:

 Jessie has been a tremendous help in the FDC process, and her
 professionalism will be difficult to replace. I hope she'll be back!

 Dariusz Jemielniak pundit

 On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org
 
 wrote:

  Dear friends and colleagues,
 
  Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for
 those
  who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and Evaluation
  team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's
  fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow.
 
 
  We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and integral
  part of WMF for the last four years, and demonstrated her initiative,
  insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here. For
  many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the
  consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and
  importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past year
 to
  do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our grants
 and
  programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation for a
  great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank you
  so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more: thank
  you for who you are, and the heart you’ve always brought to your team,
 WMF
  and the communities we support.
 
  We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this
  brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450
  applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact
 and
  strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be ramped
 up
  even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to lead
  the LE team soon, and keep you posted on it.
 
  Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions.
 
  Warmly,
 
  Anasuya
 
  [1] http://www.ideo.org/fellows
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2014 expenses

2014-09-29 Thread Jon Davies

Apologies - we have been dealing with literally hundreds of payments. We
has tried to prioritise volunteers in actual fact but if yours has not been
paid this needs to be remedied. It is possible that yours has been lost -
please contact me directly with the details and I will chase them.
Jon

On 29 September 2014 09:27, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:

 It's now over 50 days since I put in my (trivial) claim for £14 at
 Wikimania. Are other volunteers having a problem getting paid what
 they are due? Leaving volunteers hanging for their promised expenses
 for a couple of months seems almost careless.

 Hopefully speakers and trustees with significant expenses were paid
 more promptly.

 Thanks,
 Fae

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 Subject: Wikimania expenses
 To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org


 Hi,

 Checking my bank account I can't find any payment of my 14 quid of
 travel expenses from volunteering at Wikimania. Have other volunteers
 had payments yet?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2014 expenses

2014-09-29 Thread Jon Davies

PS We have checked, as we prioritised volunteer expenses naturally. We
cannot find your claim - how was it sent? Can you re-submit?

If anyone else has had problems let me know.

Jon

On 29 September 2014 09:41, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

 Apologies - we have been dealing with literally hundreds of payments. We
 has tried to prioritise volunteers in actual fact but if yours has not been
 paid this needs to be remedied. It is possible that yours has been lost -
 please contact me directly with the details and I will chase them.
 Jon

 On 29 September 2014 09:27, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:

 It's now over 50 days since I put in my (trivial) claim for £14 at
 Wikimania. Are other volunteers having a problem getting paid what
 they are due? Leaving volunteers hanging for their promised expenses
 for a couple of months seems almost careless.

 Hopefully speakers and trustees with significant expenses were paid
 more promptly.

 Thanks,
 Fae

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 From: Fæ fae...@gmail.com
 Date: 25 September 2014 09:08
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 Hi,

 Checking my bank account I can't find any payment of my 14 quid of
 travel expenses from volunteering at Wikimania. Have other volunteers
 had payments yet?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2014 expenses

2014-09-29 Thread Jon Davies

Fae,
In retrospect having a big box for the expenses claims was not the best
idea and that was one reason we did an email chase up a while back. I am
sure your claim will be dealt with properly and quickly. Please get it to
us ASAP.
Jon


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 Thanks Jon,

 I put my claim in to the box with all other expenses forms from
 volunteers in the Wikimania control room, I think on the day before
 the UK chapter AGM. It would be a remarkable coincidence if the only
 claim the chapter has lost, was also from the only volunteer in the
 history of Wikimedia UK who has had their membership payment rejected
 by you.

 I'll reconstruct my claim and email it in. As my original claim of £14
 was a friendly under-estimate of my travel costs, I expect this
 version will be larger.

 Fae

 On 29/09/2014, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
  PS We have checked, as we prioritised volunteer expenses naturally. We
  cannot find your claim - how was it sent? Can you re-submit?
 
  If anyone else has had problems let me know.
 
  Jon
 
  On 29 September 2014 09:41, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk
 wrote:
 
  Apologies - we have been dealing with literally hundreds of payments. We
  has tried to prioritise volunteers in actual fact but if yours has not
  been
  paid this needs to be remedied. It is possible that yours has been lost
 -
  please contact me directly with the details and I will chase them.
  Jon

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Best promo videos?

2014-10-22 Thread Jon Davies

+1 really inspirational and being in another language just adds to our
international feel.

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 I've seen the video Ivan refers to and agree that it is most excellent.

 Stevie

 On 22 October 2014 14:57, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:

  Dear Andy: our friends of Wikimedia Argentina produced this professional
  video about What is Wikipedia? with a nice production and a professional
  actress.
 
  http://youtu.be/tRbWDGbBAHA
 
  It is also available in Commons with subtitles. I can translate to
 English
  if you need.
 
  Cheers,
   El oct 22, 2014 7:41 a.m., Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
  escribió:
 
   [NB: cross-posted]
  
   I'm in need of a couple of short videos, promoting Wikipedia and its
   sister projects, to show at an event. It's surprisingly hard to find
   them!
  
   We have lots of videos in:
  
  
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_project_videos
  
   but many, while no doubt useful for their educational content, are not
   the kind of things to show to a lay audience - either the quality is
   not high enough, or the content is too specific.
  
   I'm looking for things with impact, like
  
  
  
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AOpen_Letter_for_Free_Access_to_Wikipedia_-_three_months_later%2C_MTN_responds.webm
  
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[Wikimedia-l] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO

2014-11-11 Thread Jon Davies

With some sadness I have to tell you that I will be leaving Wikimedia UK,
as an employee, if not as a volunteer, at the end of the year. I have
achieved what I set out to do and leave WMUK in a good state. I now need to
look for new challenges.

I was the first chief executive and it has been an amazing three years
watching the chapter grow and develop. It has not always been smooth
sailing but we have come through it together in good shape. Wikimania
proved how professional we had become and the positive feedback from the
participants makes all the work we put in worthwhile.

My heartfelt thanks to everyone in the community, particularly the
volunteers who are at the heart of all we do, my great colleagues at the
Foundation and the loyal and hardworking staff at WMUK who have supported
me so ably and with such good humour over the years.

My best wishes go to my successor in all they seek to achieve.

Cyhoeddiad gan Jon

Gyda pheth tristwch rwy'n eich hysbysu y byddaf yn gadael Wikimedia UK, fel
cyflogai, os nad

fel gwirfoddolwr, ar ddiwedd y flwyddyn. Dw i wedi cyflawni'r hyn roeddwn
wedi'i obeithio a dw

i'n gadael WMUK ar delerau da. Edrychaf ymlaen rwan am sialensau newydd. Fi
oedd y Prif Weithredwr cyntaf ac mae'r dair blynedd diwethaf wedi bod yn
hollol anhygoel,

wrth i mi weld y siaptr yn tyfu a datblygu. Doedd y daith bob amser ddim yn
llyfn, ond daethom drwyddi'n y diwedd yn ddianaf! Profodd Wikimania inni
aeddfedu mewn modd proffesiynol a chafwyd adborth adeiladol gan y cyfranwyr
oedd yn gwneud yr holl waith yn bleser.

Carwn ddiolch o waelod fy ngalon i bawb o fewn ein cymuned, yn enwedig y
gwirfoddolwyr sy'n sylfaen i'n gwaith, fy nghydweithwyr bendigedig yn
Sylfaen Wikimedia a'r staff sydd wedi bod mor driw i mi, wedi fy nghefnogi
mor effeithiol ac wedi gweithio mor arbennig o galed dros y blynyddoedd  a
hynny gyda hiwmor iach. Dymunaf pob llwyddiant i f'olynydd ym mhopeth y
ceisiant ei gyflawni.

Jon.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO

2014-11-13 Thread Jon Davies

Thanks Erik.

On 12 November 2014 17:42, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Jon --

 Thank you all the hard work for the movement, and for building a great team
 and great foundations!  Hope to see you in different corners of the
 movement  globe.

 Warmly,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO

2014-11-13 Thread Jon Davies

Where do we meet - is there a meeting room big enough?

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 Thanks Jon for your work with Wikimedia UK and welcome to the ex-EDs group
 :)

 2014-11-13 9:04 GMT-03:00 Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk:

  Thanks Erik.
 
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   Thank you all the hard work for the movement, and for building a great
  team
   and great foundations!  Hope to see you in different corners of the
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 136, Issue 47

2015-07-20 Thread Jon Davies

 Leonard raymond.f.leonard...@gmail.com
 To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG
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 CAOTiT=
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 Welcome to the Iranian Wikimedians User Group!

 Yours,
 Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray
 Cascadia Wikimedians User Group http://cascadia.wiki

 On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org
 wrote:

  On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 13:20:56 -0700
  Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
   Congratulations and much success!
  
  A.
  
 
  Congratulations, good luck, and welcome aboard!
 
  Regards,
 
  Shlomi Fish
 
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[Wikimedia-l] Au revoir Jan

2015-10-08 Thread Jon Davies

And welcome to the ex CEO club!  Come and see me in London soon!
Well done for all you did,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 139, Issue 44

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One of those amazing outcomes that any amount of 'bean counting' cannot
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> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:08:18 +
> From: Joseph Fox <josephfoxw...@gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting - and helpful - blog post
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> Hera is an awesome person. So happy to see her doing well!
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> Joe
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> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 at 22:56 Richard Symonds <
> richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
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> > All,
> >
> > I thought it would be helpful to share with you all this blog post from a
> > key volunteer at Wikimania 2014, who has gone on to launch a domestic
> > violence charity on a shoestring budget.
> >
> > It explains how she went about it, what their workflows are, how they
> > attract and keep volunteers, how they use open licensing to make a real
> > difference in a non-open-movement group. I've already got some great new
> > ideas from it, and it has ideas that could help all of us, from the WMF
> to
> > WMIE.
> >
> > Key reading, I think, for those who have even a small group of Wikimedia
> > volunteers and no budget!
> >
> > It's at
> >
> >
> https://medium.com/@hera/running-a-fluid-and-democratic-volunteer-run-organisation-3538e12c699e
> >
> >
> > Richard Symonds
> > Wikimedia

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