On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM Kunal Mehta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote:
> > It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting
> > involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon
> > instances to "join," There's a lot of legwork to be
> > done
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 6:11 PM Nathan wrote:
> I had the same reaction! Lots of old memories.
>
> I wonder, did we ever find out if the Lila-era WMF paid lots of
> ex-employees in exchange for non-disparagement?
>
> Reading through the thread, I find it very confusing how hard people
> worked t
gt;
>> Andreas
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 5:20 PM Philippe Beaudette
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What Luis said. In my time at the WMF we may have pulled some boneheaded
>>> moves (with the best of intent and lux
There are a *lot *of ex-WMF employees out there, many of whom have left the
Foundation on very bad terms and talked about it very publicly, including
me. They tend to be very open about talking about their bad
experiences *because
their loyalty is to the community well above and beyond the Foundati
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 10:33 AM Luis Villa wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 10:03 AM Todd Allen wrote:
>
>> Certainly, any "database rights" should already be considered waived by
>> the CC license ...
>>
>
> No.
>
> All from CC BY-SA 4.0:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 10:03 AM Todd Allen wrote:
> Certainly, any "database rights" should already be considered waived by
> the CC license ...
>
No.
All from CC BY-SA 4.0:
1.d:* "Copyright and Similar Rights* means copyright and/or similar rights
closely related to copyright including ... S
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 3:34 AM Dan Garry (Deskana)
wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 08:47, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
> galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I don't know if this already has a name, but I'm going to invent one: The
>> Great Circle of Excuse. It works like this: we have
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:54 PM Risker wrote:
> It has been a pleasure to work with someone from Product who "gets" the
> community and has taken feedback from the community seriously and used that
> feedback to improve the experience for editors and readers. This can be a
> big challenge, becau
This looks like a very thoughtful start on a very thorny problem, well done.
Given that we’re trying to diversify the board, and that Jimmy has recently
criticized FSF for having lifetime board appointments for founders,* I was
surprised not to see any mention in this document of sunsetting Jimmy’
Seemingly small but nevertheless terrific news.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 4:08 AM Alphos OGame wrote:
> Hello Amir, hello all,
>
> Fantastic news !
>
> Quick side question : whatever will happen to the passwords that we kept
> on post-it notes sticked to our monitors for lack of frequent use or go
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:46 PM Dariusz Jemielniak wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 5:36 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>
> >
> > Can we at least get confirmation that her performance working at the
> > Foundation will be appropriately weighted in her favor if we do have
> > another lengthy, expensive,
tl;dr: the board did not effectively perform one of their most important
roles (managing the ED); the board (and board candidates) should be talking
about how they will fix that.
[Also, see the very bottom for some relevant disclosures, since I've been
asked after previous postings to this list.]
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 5:44 PM Oliver Keyes wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:08 PM Antoine Musso
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> To the best of my knowledge such agreements are not public, but honestly
>
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:08 PM Antoine Musso wrote:
>
> To the best of my knowledge such agreements are not public, but honestly
> there is no conspiracy behind that. There are public clues though:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy
> https://wikitech.w
y way.
(and thanks, of course, to the many, many other people who have been in
touch with kind words. Katie gets an on-list response because this is an
important, topical issue I'd like to remain involved in.)
Luis
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> Hi, all-
> This is a b
g opportunities, flame
me for old time's sake, or just chat) I'm pretty easy to find: lu.is,
@tieguy on Twitter, LinkedIn, and of course on my enwiki talk page.
See you on the wikis-
Luis
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> I am s
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Luis
> Thanks,
> Pine
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Pine W wrote:
> >
> > > 2. You wrote, "This is a major step to help us prioritize the work of
> the
> > > Foundation begi
of the public discussion.
(For those who are curious for more details, I also addressed this somewhat
in my metrics meeting talk
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpZOx1Mzmuk&feature=youtu.be&t=19m34s>
last week, and the question
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpZOx1Mzmuk&fea
My experiences with discourse in a non-Wikimedia context is great. Worth
> a try.
>
> Alice.
>
> - Ursprüngliche Nachricht -
> Von: "Samuel Klein"
> Gesendet: 15.01.2016 02:46
> An: "Wikimedia Mailing List"
> Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better
er experience for
most people". Longer, but still very partial, list at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discourse#What_we.27d_gain_.28user_experience.29
I'll add more there at some point, but probably not today.
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a
> recommendation given by the FDC in November 2015, that the WMF should hold
> its own financial decisions to a standard similar to that expected of the
> organizations it funds.
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> Kudos to the FDC for taking the initial step, the WMF board for approving
> the recommendation,
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> Brief preview: the schedule has changed somewhat, because we wanted to
> take some more steps to be inclusive of staff feedback (has been underway
> for a few weeks) and community feedback (starting next week). The timeline
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Pine W wrote:
> Edward and Luis,
>
> Any chance of WMF running a similar survey on ENWP?
>
> Pine
> On Oct 16, 2015 9:31 AM, "Luis Villa&q
butors and newbies.
>
Please do keep us up to date on this; it would be very interesting to see a
model for transforming data into action. (My own department has been
thinking about this in light of our recent hire of a survey specialist;
hopefully something for us to keep improving on across the move
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Gerard Meijssen
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> Hoi,
> Luis I like what I read. What you can do to make it even more pleasing is
> establish better how this will benefit projects other than Wikipedia.
>
> For instance I blogged abut "red link" functionality that will easily
> enhance th
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Rogol Domedonfors
> wrote:
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>> The 2015 Call to Action identified the need to Support innovation &
>> new knowledge
>> * Integrate, consolidate, and pause or stop stall
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
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>> The 2015 Call to Action identified the need to Support innovation &
>> new knowledge
>> * Integrate, consolidate, and pause or stop stall
hat we're not particularly focused on creating new
forms of things from scratch, as Rogol's talk page suggests, but my
experience is that innovation is more effective when it comes from the
community and is then supported by WMF, rather than the other way around.]
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> >> 3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of
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which says the phrase was "adopted" in Palo Alto, but OSI's official history
<http://opensource.org/history> says "created". I'd edit the page to add a
citation, but I'm the author of the current OSI history so I'd rathe
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> On Feb 21, 2015 6:12 PM, "Luis Villa" wrote:
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> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Erik Moeller
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> > > Damon, Luis and members of their teams will need to weigh in on this,
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nt outside the
Foundation (though obviously there are lots of pragmatic difficulties -
code review, etc.) So, yes, as part of our broader review of how we support
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> On Oct 28, 2014 3:00 PM, "Luis Villa" wrote:
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>> Hi, Rupert-
>>
>> I think the movement as a whole should try to move consistently to 4.0 at
now.
Luis
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> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Karthik Nadar
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> > > I think it will be better if most of us can "Report the Group".
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ulently subscribed will help move that conversation along.
[Same applies to the fake gender-gap list.]
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>
Wiki Loves Cheese 2015?
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same article - no one seems to have independently confirmed that.
So I'll poke some folks but don't hold your breath :)
Luis
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someone will be stupid, and we'll win, and then we'll get our sixth star ;)
A big thanks goes out to Michelle Paulson, and several other folks on the
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Hope that clarifies a bit, given the relevant history.
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ime we issue
the same denial:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/18/wikimedia-foundation-letter-transparency-nsa-prism/
This is not to say that the http/https issue isn't important; like
Engineering, we think progress on that issue is important. But it is
important to keep "we don'
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> > that are aligned with our values
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aligned with our values and likely to have an impact on the discussion.
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