Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-02-25 Thread MZMcBride
g that "it would never be appropriate for the person who began a discussion to then also close that discussion," you replied that "English Wikipedia policies do not apply here." MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-02-26 Thread MZMcBride
mittee is intended to solve, and has now reneged on previous agreements to hold a final vote, presumably because there's a concern that a final vote would result in rejection of this policy. Bleh. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-02-26 Thread MZMcBride
g specific examples. I'd like to see links to Gerrit changesets and Phabricator tasks where this new policy and its committee would help. If you want to make claims of serious unacknowledged problems, substantiate them with evidence. This is exactly the same burden of proof you would expect from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Opening the 2016 Values discussion

2017-02-28 Thread MZMcBride
page: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Values/2016_discussion/Synthesis>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messag

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-03-07 Thread MZMcBride
onduct#Summary_of_criticisms MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-19 Thread MZMcBride
stat.pl?lang=www.mediawiki&page=T alk:Code+of+Conduct MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timeless: a grant proposal

2017-04-01 Thread MZMcBride
ter or worse, constantly saying "usability" was effective, because after all, who could be against ideas from a usability initiative? Perhaps this new responsive skin for MediaWiki wikis needs a similar marketing strategy. MZMcBride ___ Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

2017-05-21 Thread MZMcBride
pointed. * https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:James_Heilman_Removal * https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees * https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Former_Board_of_Trustees_members MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guid

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

2017-06-05 Thread MZMcBride
r "Tor onion service" in this context is equivalent to a Tor exit node. I'm fairly sure setting up the latter has been discussed previously on wikimedia-l and/or wikitech-l. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 11 June 2017)

2017-06-11 Thread MZMcBride
media wikis should allow us to make wiki markup less cluttered and should give a lot more flexibility to regular users to handle various device sizes and constraints using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). A big thanks to Anomie, Tgr, and others who are helping move this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] James Heilman joins the Board Governance Committee as a volunteer and advisory member

2017-06-16 Thread MZMcBride
rding his upcoming appointment? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Results MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New style banner - A heads up

2017-08-23 Thread MZMcBride
f behavior as extortive and pay-to-play. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org U

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

2017-09-04 Thread MZMcBride
user, have somehow been overlooked to date. The exact opposite is demonstrably true and you know this. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Identified users

2017-09-19 Thread MZMcBride
uot; and tag their contributions as being part of that group, instead of having "User:Herman" and "User:Herman (WMDE)" wiki accounts. GitHub does this pretty well. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: ht

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. design staff

2022-06-16 Thread MZMcBride
personally used Wikimedia sites and services for more than 15 years. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/W

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Inc. design staff

2022-06-17 Thread MZMcBride
over the course of many years to be even larger. We could be talking about $6M or $8M or more. That's a lot of money to spend and I'm struggling to understand what the return on investment is. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list --

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

2018-07-21 Thread MZMcBride
this access, but I'm curious to know why, given the company's role in selling an "Online Reputation Management" product. This looks bad to me. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/M

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

2018-07-22 Thread MZMcBride
ts range from large corporations like GEICO, the New York Times >and Marriott to startups you haven't heard of (yet). ((Hopefully you'll >be able to add Wikipedia here shortly)). > [...] MZMcBride > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, gu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread MZMcBride
teers, repeatedly raised objections to this decision to move to WordPress and they were ignored. I think this type of behavior by the communications department is really inappropriate, unbecoming, and inconsistent with Wikimedia's values. I also agree with Yair Rand that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: >Gregory Varnum wrote: >>After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the organization >>and movement, the Wikimedia Foundation's new website soft launched this >>week! >> >>You can check it out for yourself here (you may need to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

2018-08-08 Thread MZMcBride
tewashed its own site, removing "Wikipedia" from its list of "primary platforms that define your online reputation" at <https://gofishdigital.com/online-reputation-management/>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads

2018-12-10 Thread MZMcBride
evised or taken down as soon as possible. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the death of Wikipedia imminent?

2018-12-29 Thread MZMcBride
should be open to a better future. The current model of having a very top-heavy Wikimedia Foundation Inc. headquartered in San Francisco is bad. While we never want to conflate change with improvement, there's plenty of room for the latter. MZMcBride _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-10 Thread MZMcBride
ract >a one-year block on this site only. Anything not serious enough for a >permanent global block by the WMF should be handled by the community or >ArbCom. We therefore need a fuller statement, signed by an individual, as >soon as possible. [.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community feedback and next steps on movement brand proposal

2019-09-12 Thread MZMcBride
and are seeking "support" and "feedback" to legitimize and validate that predetermined decision. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://met

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community feedback and next steps on movement brand proposal

2019-09-12 Thread MZMcBride
ns without community consultation, much less community endorsement, it becomes clear that at least one party is no longer acting in good faith. So, no, I don't think everyone is working toward the same goals here. Should we have a conversation about the neglected sister projects? Absolutely.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donating to Wikipedia

2019-12-19 Thread MZMcBride
ight misleading or wrong. How does tricking people into thinking that Wikipedia will stop surviving if they don't give $5 an acceptable practice? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_list

[Wikimedia-l] Multi-page advertising on Wikipedia

2020-04-15 Thread MZMcBride
ign listed at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

2020-04-15 Thread MZMcBride
ired agencies and consultants and wasted additional hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor money on this sham exercise. But don't worry, highly deceptive advertising is back on the projects, in mid-April, to ensure continued funding of this and other charades. MZMcBride __

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

2016-03-04 Thread MZMcBride
prepared with an answer to the most obvious question ("who will be the interim?") is pretty embarrassing and sad. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikim

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

2016-03-05 Thread MZMcBride
e problem. Yes, the tenants were the ones complaining for a new roof, but it's the landlord's responsibility to have the roof replaced in a professional and orderly way. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.w

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

2016-03-07 Thread MZMcBride
now noticed your use of community-selected here. I think sometime this year, we should hold a community straw poll on Meta-Wiki about changing the selection to an election. I think the Board of Trustees needs to hear from the Wikimedia editing community about this issue. MZMcBride

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

2016-03-09 Thread MZMcBride
Jimmy Wales wrote: >On 3/5/16 3:07 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> I don't see it as a sign of strength to abdicate your responsibility in >> this way. > >There are at least two things I disagree with about this remark - one >that seeking the advice and participation and bu

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

2016-03-09 Thread MZMcBride
Gergő Tisza wrote: >On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 7:54 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Removing a roof without also having a plan for an interim roof is a >>really amateur mistake. > >Not really if the roof was radioactive, and on fire. The roof didn't blow off in a storm; it was str

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [recent changes]

2016-04-11 Thread MZMcBride
ading and re-uploading our data to the Web, exactly as we mandated that anyone be able to do. With multiple copies of the data on the Web, we're better ensuring that the content lives on in perpetuity. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guide

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gender gap on "classical" encyclopedias

2016-04-20 Thread MZMcBride
campaign to write articles about female scientists >is only the most recent and prominent example illustrating that the >audience is there. This is somewhat tangential, but <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Temple-Wood> exists now. I personally find this to be both unfortunate and po

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

2016-05-03 Thread MZMcBride
r policy or most variations of it that a typical non-profit would enact would really be applicable here. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

2016-05-04 Thread MZMcBride
Tim Starling wrote: >On 04/05/16 12:02, MZMcBride wrote: >> My understanding is that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees >>sought out and then appointed a tech-minded chief executive, who came >>from a tech organization, in order to "transform" the Wikimedia &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board update

2016-05-04 Thread MZMcBride
ta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=15578608&oldid=15578561>. The reply is vaguely related to the vacant seats; I imagine its contents will be of interest to this list. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

2016-05-11 Thread MZMcBride
le "m." from our URLs and MobileFrontend from our servers. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Clarifications on 2014 Form 990

2016-06-07 Thread MZMcBride
eiving any >compensation from it. I can't help but think about the tempestuous past year that the Wikimedia Foundation has had, including issues with Sue's immediate successor. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Governance Committee update

2016-06-27 Thread MZMcBride
Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: >this is an update on the work of the Board Governance Committee over the >last months that some of you have requested. > >[...] Thank you for this update! MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guideline

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report just published

2016-10-19 Thread MZMcBride
breakdown of donations? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why don't we have a warrant canary?

2016-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
ational Security Letter.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 15:55, 8 January 2016 (UTC) --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_199 MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guide

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor safety and anonymity: ending IP address exposure?

2016-11-12 Thread MZMcBride
. There are some notes here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/?curid=428113>. Any effort to expand these notes would be welcome. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Ne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How should security of Wikimedia accounts be better?

2016-11-12 Thread MZMcBride
ttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/?curid=156161 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29242 MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Update - Big English Fundraiser

2016-11-16 Thread MZMcBride
ntain this for the English campaign. This was an excellent reply and read. Thank you! MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Discussion about proposed Technical Code of Conduct (TCC)

2016-11-21 Thread MZMcBride
ot; section?" on the talk page, I suppose: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft>. It's plain to see in discussions like this that every support vote came from Wikimedia Foundation employees or employees of another Wikimedia affiliate (WMDE and WMFR). The opposing v

[Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

2016-12-19 Thread MZMcBride
he previous Executive Director resigned after being forced out by her staff. In the context of the recent history, this resolution is all the more puzzling. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

2016-12-22 Thread MZMcBride
policies across Wikimedia wikis and the Board of Trustees has now greatly expanded the group of people who can alter global policies. This is a pretty big and sudden shift. To Lodewijk's point about consultation and notification, was/is the Board of Trustees planning to an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Keeping historical documents related to Wikimedia

2017-01-14 Thread MZMcBride
hese files away from the people so intent on deleting them. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] news events impacting the Foundation's ability to hire and its employees' ability to travel

2017-01-31 Thread MZMcBride
oderators? Richard? Thehelpfulone? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

2017-02-02 Thread MZMcBride
at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Public_policy>. At least the recent blog post was signed by Katherine. That's better than some of these other essays. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

2017-02-02 Thread MZMcBride
ikely inappropriate for this mailing list. Your recent medium.com, cnbc.com, and aol.com links all fail this test. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

2017-02-03 Thread MZMcBride
Andy Mabbett wrote: >On 3 February 2017 at 00:00, MZMcBride wrote: >> I guess this is referring to >> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/>. > >There were speakers and delegates at Wikimania 2012, in Washington DC, >who would not have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] De-Recognition of Affiliates with Long-standing Non-Compliance

2017-02-05 Thread MZMcBride
to keep track of them. These two templates are decent attempts: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Affiliates> and <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Affiliations_Committee>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, gu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] MediaWiki project

2017-02-06 Thread MZMcBride
rtal:Wikimedia_Labs>. The Wikimedia Foundation already hosts over 800 wikis. Maybe you can explain why you feel you need your own wiki instead of using an existing one or setting up your own test wiki on Labs or using a service like Wikia? MZMcBride ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation official response re Daily Mail issue

2017-02-09 Thread MZMcBride
dresses listed at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_committee>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New mess

Re: [Wikimedia-l] banner proposals

2017-02-12 Thread MZMcBride
it's time for dessert. And even when many people do agree that it's time for dessert, not everyone agrees with having pudding. Or the flavor of the pudding. Or the means used to make and eat it. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mai

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday

2015-08-12 Thread MZMcBride
siness of trying to retroactively justify this misfeature's existence, in my opinion. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday

2015-08-13 Thread MZMcBride
ing completely implausible and absurd scenarios. In the case of a compromised admin account, did you seriously just suggest that stewards would try to go around randomly super-protecting pages instead of simply removing admin rights from the compromised

[Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

2015-09-01 Thread MZMcBride
Forwarding this to wikimedia-l as it doesn't seem to be very technical in nature, but definitely seems worthy of discussion. MZMcBride Danny Horn wrote: >For a while now, the Collaboration team has been working on Flow, the >structured discussion system. I want to let you know

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

2015-09-01 Thread MZMcBride
alternately, a good explanation for why the previous work has failed and what will be better next time. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

2015-09-04 Thread MZMcBride
ilure to deliver. Consequently, it seems most prudent to be asking what went wrong and how it will be better next time. The underlying reality is that we still need a better on-wiki discussion system and it now looks like neither LiquidThreads nor Flow are going to be it. MZMcBride _

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

2015-10-05 Thread MZMcBride
case, saying that planning for Montreal started in 2010 for an eventual 2017 bid. However, you continue on to write that it's wasted effort if a bid fails in a particular year. Wouldn't failed bids be re-usable in subsequent years? My guess is that sponsors a

[Wikimedia-l] Histography, a visualization of history powered by Wikipedia

2015-10-12 Thread MZMcBride
d self-updates daily with new recorded events. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiconference USA 2015

2015-10-17 Thread MZMcBride
volved in organizing and running this year's conference! I really enjoyed being able to have the National Archives as the venue and the conference itself was well-run and engaging. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect is gone

2015-11-05 Thread MZMcBride
at news to read that "superprotection" is dead! Erik brought an invaluable amount of good to Wikimedia, but that mis-feature was unequivocally bad. Personally, I think it was more of an albatross than a red herring. ;-) Good riddance. MZMcBride ___ Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

2015-11-19 Thread MZMcBride
he's been trolling a few Wikipedia-related IRC channels on freenode. Such productivity. :-/ MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsub

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

2015-11-20 Thread MZMcBride
Wil Sinclair wrote: >Thanks for bringing me up, MZMcBride; should get a lot more people to look >at those IRC logs I was hoping to bring to everyone's attention. I'm looking forward to your posts about the current and upcoming Wikimedia Foundation strategic plans. That'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

2015-11-24 Thread MZMcBride
ndertaken both >strategic and annual planning, and the WMF’s approach to budget >transparency (or lack thereof). Sort of inline with the first question, but perhaps more direct: what power does the Funds Dissemination Committee have over the amount of donor money allocated toward the Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

2015-11-25 Thread MZMcBride
tion asked. :-) Wikimedia Deutschland : Wikidata :: Wikimedia Foundation : Wikipedia, right? If one organization is expected to separate out costs for its largest technical project, shouldn't the other be as well? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

2015-11-26 Thread MZMcBride
Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: >On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >>Or from a different angle: how is the Wikimedia Foundation budget >>allocated? Does the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees currently do >>its own direct allocation, bypassing the FDC? > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

2015-11-28 Thread MZMcBride
Amir Ladsgroup wrote: >The subject is self-explanatory (also I have this suggestion for >blog.wikiquote.org and other projects as well) > >What do you think? Hi. Why? The request is self-explanatory, but the uses and use-cases are not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

2015-11-29 Thread MZMcBride
s culled in April 2015. Anyway, we certainly have the technical capacity and capability to add more redirects. We already support a ton of them (donate.wikipedia.org, careers.wikipedia.org, textbook.wikipedia.org, etc.), the question is whether we want to add a small number of redirects to t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner (again)

2015-12-01 Thread MZMcBride
s as >far as they could, then expand in-your-face banners as far as they can, >and only stop once their sites are quite difficult to use. It happens >gradually (I'm looking at you, Wikia ;) but the result is the usability >equivalent of linkrot. Let&

Re: [Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

2015-12-03 Thread MZMcBride
intrusive ads worse than having much smaller and faster paid ad campaigns? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikime

[Wikimedia-l] Fund-raising principles and strategy

2015-12-04 Thread MZMcBride
smarter use of volunteers, would go far toward a more sustainable fund-raising model. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsu

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

2015-12-28 Thread MZMcBride
the person likely able to speak most freely about this removal and probably is more familiar with it than most. For now, he seems to have chosen not to say very much. Others involved in the removal likely can't (or maybe won't) say m

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

2015-12-28 Thread MZMcBride
ut discounting the unsurprising vote, it was a nearly unanimous decision (8 to 1). I have a good deal of respect for many of the current Board of Trustees members and I have no doubt that all of them understand and appreciate the gravity of removing a colleague. This wasn't a close vote and to

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

2015-12-29 Thread MZMcBride
st of whom are long-time trusted and respected Wikimedians and all of whom take their role seriously. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Something

2016-01-03 Thread MZMcBride
nt Grants (IEG). Luckily Meta-Wiki again comes to the rescue: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IEP> and <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IEG>. Maybe we should start selling decoder rings. Acronyms and abbreviations are fine, especially in a long document, but at minimum the first r

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

2016-01-06 Thread MZMcBride
r-chapter that's unreasonably and unmanageably large. It's time to treat the Wikimedia Foundation as we would Wikimedia California or Wikimedia United States and hold the Wikimedia Foundation to the same standards as we hold Wikimedia DC, Wikimedia DE, and all the others to. MZMcBride __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Knight Foundation grant for search and discovery

2016-01-06 Thread MZMcBride
a few months, maybe your team will have a better understanding of "user flows" and that will help... something. I certainly won't be holding my breath. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.or

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

2016-01-09 Thread MZMcBride
ikimedia Foundation's responsibilities, keeping the sites running fast, reliably, and securely, is being appropriately handled. The world continues to be able to read and contribute to our shared free content and for that I'm grateful. The rest is commentary, as they say. MZMcBride

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

2016-01-09 Thread MZMcBride
nted, by whoever takes the time to create a plan of action, write the necessary code, and get it deployed. But for now, it seems pretty silly to try to give credit for essentially having a group of people vote on Phabricator Maniphest tasks. MZMcBride _

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

2016-01-09 Thread MZMcBride
lso: --- I don't think this board has any unhealthy relationship with Google.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 08:02, 9 January 2016 (UTC) --- Source: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/699004139>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing l

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

2016-01-09 Thread MZMcBride
on't capture all of the information related to this removal, but it seemed remiss to omit an official statement from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on the subject, especially when we have already included a number of other statements f

[Wikimedia-l] Changing the subject line

2016-01-09 Thread MZMcBride
advice here, starting and continuing a tangential (meta-)discussion without changing the subject line to create a new thread. We'll all strive indeed. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What happened on the Board of Trustees?

2016-01-10 Thread MZMcBride
f Trustees member; * strongly urge the Board of Trustees to be more transparent and communicative, embracing the values that keep our projects running; and * evaluate the process for filling community-selected Board of Trustees seats, perhaps changing th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-16 Thread MZMcBride
esigned to give Apple a fast and dedicated stream for title prefix searches. Apple's built-in Dictionary application has been the primary consumer of this feed, though I believe it's open to anyone. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, gui

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

2016-01-16 Thread MZMcBride
st have a full accounting of the tangled web that's been woven. My suspicion is that if you or others put in the time to thoroughly document the connection between the two entities, you'd miraculously find more than a single concern about a failed project, as your reply suggested. MZMcBri

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advisory Board and Board-appointed seats (was: Beyond the Board)

2016-01-16 Thread MZMcBride
529#Advisory_Board>. I think it would be nice to get clarification on the current status of the Advisory Board before discussing ways to improve it. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Gui

[Wikimedia-l] Transparency of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2016-01-16 Thread MZMcBride
n_Weber>. By my count, the Board of Trustees has passed six separate resolutions to accommodate the Sloan Foundation's request to have a Board observer. I agree with you that the current lack of openness and transparency surrounding the Wikimedia Foundation Board o

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

2016-01-16 Thread MZMcBride
Yury Bulka wrote: >MZMcBride writes: >> A few years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation switched over to the Google >>Apps platform, which means that most e-mail sent on the wikimedia.org >>domain is now hosted by Google. >Are you sure? It doesn't look like wikimedia.org&#x

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

2016-01-22 Thread MZMcBride
understand what you are doing. Please take my vote >as a respectful record of my perplexity. > >(*)Citing community-born members only. Appointed members bring great >perspective, but I do not expect them to know it all about Wikimedia >community.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?

2016-01-28 Thread MZMcBride
surrounding this Knight Foundation grant? Or do you know who at the Wikimedia Foundation would be the best/most appropriate contact to figure this out? Geoff and the legal team? One of the grants-related staff such as Janice? Any help would be appreci

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?

2016-01-28 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: >Wes and Katherine: do you know what steps need to be taken in order to >release the documents surrounding this Knight Foundation grant? Or do you >know who at the Wikimedia Foundation would be the best/most appropriate >contact to figure this out? Geoff and the legal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?

2016-01-30 Thread MZMcBride
dation okay with the full grant agreement being published? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why take grants? (was: Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?)

2016-02-03 Thread MZMcBride
ties to spend on non-necessities. Does the Wikimedia Foundation need six legal counsels (not including the general counsel and two legal directors), eight community liaisons, or a mobile apps team? I'm sure these are all great people doing excellent work, but when I see how much the Wikimedia

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