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

e) orders of magnitude higher, and the involvement of staff this large > also makes a different organisational structure. > > Lodewijk > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > Depending on what all we learn as this goes forward, some action items > that > >

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

Depending on what all we learn as this goes forward, some action items that may emerge from this situation as it seems to be evolving so far: (1) the board may need to work on its communication strategies (2) this may be an opportunity for another discussion about Board composition and structure,

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

I am not so ready to throw stones (: Perhaps because I have had one-on-one conversations with a number of people involved in this situation, and I would like to believe that they are all good people. Reports that are rushed can lead to mistaken conclusions. I'd rather get a comprehensive report th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Board nominees

Hi Board folks and Boryana, Separate from the discussions about Doc James, can we get an update on the appointment of new members? Thanks, Pine On Sep 25, 2015 5:04 PM, "Boryana Dineva" wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As you may have heard, I joined the Wikimedia Foundation last Monday as the > VP

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

I am hopeful that the resolution, when it is published, will provide us with more information. IMO, speed is less important here than the completeness of the information. I'd prefer a more thorough explanation provided tomorrow than a hasty and potentially incomplete explanation today. Thanks, Pi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] “Reliable”, “Notable”, and “Encyclopaedic” Sources for Automated Solvers for FreeCell

Hi Shlomi, I would suggest posting those questions on the talk page of the article, and/or at WP:RSN. Pine On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > in case you don't know, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCell is a > single-player card game, that became popular after

[Wikimedia-l] Unreliable sources? Pay-to-publish science journals and too-trusting popular news outlets

Food for thought for those interested in the quality and reliability of references: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/28/410313446/why-a-journalist-scammed-the-media-into-spreading-bad-chocolate-science Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidel

[Wikimedia-l] Potential Christmas gift for a Commons contributor who uses Pentax

Hi Commoners, I have an excess "Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8 SP XR Di LD Aspherical (IF)" lens for Pentax. If you are a regular contributor to Wikimedia Commons, I might be willing to give this to you as your Christmas / New Year's present. Please email me off-list if you would like the lens, with: 1.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board approval of the FDC recommendation

> > With regards to the request for more community input in strategic and > annual planning of the Wikimedia Foundation, the Board and the Executive > Director agree that this is an important priority. Some steps have already > been taken and some are likely to still be worked out in partnership wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Question for the Wikisource folks: would Project Grants be a way to get resources for you? If you can design a project and find people with the right skills, that avenue might be beneficial for you. I have a software developer in mind who would probably like to work with you if resources are availa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Thank you Danny & Company! Pine On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Toby Negrin wrote: > No one asked for 10 more wishes? :) > > Thanks Danny and the Community Tech team. This is a great model for working > with our Communities. > > -Toby > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Nirzar Pangarkar < >

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

I like the new mini banner: "Find what you're looking for? Keep Wikipedia thriving." (: Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why are we so boring?

I think the term that I would use is "serious". Of course we're serious about the quality of our product. However that can involve plenty of stress and burn-out. We deal with a lot of serious issues: conflicts of interest, harassment, finances, legal compliance, reliability, privacy, safety, and mo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help decide Future IdeaLab Campaigns!

Hi Jethro, Two questions: (1) How are the results looking from the Gender Gap campaign in IdeaLab? (2) If WMF does this again, will the campaign be designed and resourced in a way that doesn't disrupt the other grants process flows? I have painful memories of what happened in the PEG process las

Re: [Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

Under the redesigned grants scheme, WMF Project grants might be able to help with this kind of software development work for Commons and/or Wikisource. I happen to know a developer here in Cascadia who might be interested, either as an individual or in association with a Wikimedia affiliate, in doi

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

over the > course of weeks. > > Also, we have a new banner running now – with a lightbulb graphic. Let us > know what you think. > > Thank you, > Lisa > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > Thanks Lisa. > > > > More directly on the topic o

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

Thanks Lisa. More directly on the topic of fundraising banners, I appreciate that the wording has been tweaked this year to address the major integrity concerns. I can appreciate that fundraising is necessary for Wikipedia. It would be nice to disrupt the user experience as little as possible, so

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

Trillium, in the "administrative set", I think you'll find that almost all of us produced content prior to our involvement in organizational matters. Those of us who have formal roles wouldn't be trusted with keys to the kingdom if we lacked track records of positive contributions to the encycloped

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Discussion

As good as having an endowment might be, I would like to see substantial improvements to WMF's budget transparency and annual plan process before the fundraising for an endowment starts. Pine On Dec 1, 2015 15:25, "Risker" wrote: > Heh. $100 million USD is just a little more than is raised (and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revision scoring as a service launched

Roughly, yes. March 2007: 50,996 "active" editors. October 2015: 30,482 "active" editors. Pine On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Anna Stillwell wrote: > Hold on, is this fact correct? > > "One motivation for the project is a significant decline in the number of > people considered active contrib

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub

According to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero_Template_Agreement and https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Open_Access/Programmatic_import_from_PubMed_Central, the answer appears to be yes that Wikipedia Zero now includes Wikisource. (It would be good to get clari

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub

A chronic problem for most of the movement is a shortage of human resources, both volunteer and paid. Hopefully the work of Aaron H. and company on revision scoring will help us to keep more of our good-faith newbies. I also think that the bitey-ness of some Wikimedians can be counterproductive, an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Discussion

That's a good question. Alternatives to private sector equity investments include public-sector bonds, as well as commodities and currencies. While I wouldn't recommend that WMF do either of the latter two, there might be some reasonable choices for WMF in the public sector bond market. In the pr

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

I think the 3rd party review might work, although it might be costly in terms of consulting fees. As a part of the 3rd party review, I hope that there would be an analysis of the costs and benefits of moving WMF to a more economical location than San Francisco. Pine __

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

I keep saying 14-15. The current and problematic plan is 15-16. Sorry about that. Pine On Nov 27, 2015 12:02 PM, "Pine W" wrote: > > The public discussion on the 14-15 Annual Plan was quite limited and the Board didn't publish their deliberations, so I don't believ

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

WMF annual plan. This could avoid the "circular" nature of > > Board->FDC->WMF and also provide us with another perspective from an > > organization that has a similar scale. > > > > Lila > > > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Dariusz Jemieln

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

position of reviewing the budgets of their colleagues elsewhere in WMF including the budgets of their managers. Pine On Nov 27, 2015 5:51 AM, "Dariusz Jemielniak" wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Pine W wrote: > > > Perhaps there should be a new Budget Committe

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

Perhaps there should be a new Budget Committee of the board, with a similar composition to the Audit Committee in that the membership would include some WMF board members and some community members. The Budget Committee could do FDC-like reviews of WMF's Annual Plan proposals each year. I personal

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

For historical reference: I felt that WMF made significant progress with the 2013-2014 budget by opening it to community review and FDC review. Then there was a significant regression with 2014-2015 both in terms of the review period and in terms of WMF's responsiveness to questions; some questions

[Wikimedia-l] Video: "Wikipedia, an introduction - Erasmus Prize 2015"

Beautiful video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8wFdnPfVw Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/list

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

ijs...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hoi, > > > > > So in essence one of the most relevant development project - > > Wikidata - > > > > > that is arguably already underfunded will be even more

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

Thank you FDC. Many of the small and midsized APG requests fared well in this round. That is nice to see. I find it concerning that the larger the organization, the more problems the FDC seemed to find with the org's budget and performance management practices. One would expect the larger organi

[Wikimedia-l] Museum v. WMF and WMDE in Commons copyright lawsuit

'Tis the season for a lawsuit: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/11/23/lawsuit-public-domain-art/ Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guideli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Design] 'Design team' in Wikimedia contexts

FWIW, Foundation staff members have told me more than once that they don't entirely understand WMF's org chart. My understanding is that the org chart is missing important pieces like consultants. Also, some users who are not native speakers of English have commented that the diversity of titles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community revitalization

Thanks Michal. I periodically use English Wiktionary and am pleased with it as a reader. I am wondering what it might take to increase our readership of Wiktionaries in general, perhaps by increasing the prominence of them in Google search results. Pinging Toby to see if he has any ideas on how to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

> > > In general I would like to see the Foundation communicate more clearly, > > > transparently and proactively about where the money goes, and what the > > user > > > benefits are. Reports like the one last year on improving access > speed[6] > > > ar

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

By the way, was there any follow up at WMF to Risker's suggestion from awhile ago that its budget get a peer review from a similarly situated organization? I've taken a peek at the discussions in the current round of FDC proposals. I have some concerns about WMF staff critiquing the budgets of aff

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris

For those who wish to read and/or contribute to Wikimedia's coverage of related events, here is the Wikidata item with links to Wikipedia articles in various languages: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21479779#sitelinks-wikipedia. Hopefully our volunteers are safe as well. Pine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Analytics] On toxic communities

We're discussing this on the Research mailing list, among others. (: Pine On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Very interesting read (via Brandon Harris): > > > http://recode.net/2015/07/07/doing-something-about-the-impossible-problem-of-abuse-in-online-games/ > > "the vast

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Princess of Asturias Awards pics

Nice photos. I'll see if I can squeeze a few into a Signpost gallery. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Orsolya Gyenes < gyenes.orso...@wiki.media.hu> wrote: > Thank you VERY much, these are great ones! > > I was the one who asked for it. :-) > > *~Orsolya* > > 2015-11-06 17:23 GMT+01:00 Salvador

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

I was happy to see increasing net assets and increasing revenue. The fundraising messages that WMF sends should to reflect the facts about where the money will go and about the current financial status of WMF. I've been told by someone whose history with the Wikimedia community is longer than mine

[Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Belissarius

Colleagues, The Wikipedia community has received news of the passing of User:Belissarius. He spoke Polish natively and English at a high level of proficiency. He wrote about himself on his Wikipedia user pages at https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Belissarius and https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

I'd rather see an honest onlinr fundraising campaign for a longer period of time than an ethically questionable one for a shorter period of time. On the cost side, I continue to have reservations about the WMF's location in San Francisco. I get the impression that the staff like the location, but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

(Sorry, something went awry with my mail client. Let's try this again to keep the thread intact). Besides what readers think when they're fully informed, I'm also concerned about the legal issues surrounding the fundraising. IANAL, but I have a feeling that consumer protection attorneys may take a

[Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

Besides what readers think when they're fully informed, I'm also concerned about the legal issues surrounding the fundraising. IANAL, but I have a feeling that consumer protection attorneys may take an interest if they feel that there is a meaningful disconnect between what messages FR conveys and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Agenda for the November 7-8, 2015 Board Meeting

Glad to see long term planning and endowment discussion on the Board agenda. Will the subjects of the long term planning discussion at the Board meeting be more or less the same as the discussion scheduled for Metrics on Thursday? Thanks, Pine On Nov 1, 2015 5:16 PM, "Stephen LaPorte" wrote: > H

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement: English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles

English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles. The community has written an open letter (which includes video): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_million_articles Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia - 3D Logo for printing

Hi Rodrigo, If you're referring to the large puzzle ball, you'll probably want to talk to Trademarks (cc'd here). You'll probably need a license from them, and they may know how to connect you with the specific source files that you want. Pine On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Rodrigo Padula < ro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

Thanks for following up. Regarding the topline number: given the issues that happened with the 2015-2016 WMF annual plan, I am wondering if WMF Finance can start planning early for 2016-2017 around with the following goals. These are some brainstorms, other people may want to add their own suggest

[Wikimedia-l] "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age"

Good news for open access: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/us/harvard-law-library-sacrifices-a-trove-for-the-sake-of-a-free-database.html?_r=0 I hope that Wikimedians will get access to the collection via TWL. (: Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, gu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

Fundraising folks, can we get an update in response to the concerns raised in this thread? Thanks, Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: ht

[Wikimedia-l] NYTimes articles regarding low-cost Internet in India

I thought these articles were interesting. They may also be of interest to the Wikipedia Zero folks. It would be enlightening to hear comments from Wikimedians in India about these services, particularly about these services' current and potential usefulness for Wikimedia readers and contributors.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for July-September 2015

Thanks Tilman. I finally got around to skimming most of this. Questions & Comments below: Communications: seems to be firing on all cylinders. Team Practices: seems to be making a difference in supporting other individuals and teams. Some of the metrics chosen look great. Release engineering: gr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of new User Groups

If it's OK, I'd like to return to the subject of mentoring. I'm wondering if Affcom might be able to facilitate a kind of matchmaking process where some of the more established affiliates mentor some of the newer affiliates. We have some very informal ways that this happens now, and I'm wondering i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of new User Groups

*headdesk* Wikiconference USA, not Wikimedia Conference. Apologies to our friends in WMDE. On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Pine W wrote: > I think the issue is with the word "liability". That has a legal meaning > to me that perhaps it wouldn't to others. > > It&#x

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of new User Groups

ent club at a university. In other words, not all user groups are > alike. The level of liability is tied to the activities the group engages > in, not the affiliations model. > > -greg (User:Varnent) > Vice Chair, Affiliations Committee > > > On Oct 19, 2015, at 12:56 AM, Pine W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of new User Groups

Ilario, I agree that I would like to see more proactive mentoring and support. Some user groups may get born and die in ways that are fine. But others that are very promising for growth may wilt away due to lack of nurturing and support. I get the impression that Affcom itself is short on volunteer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of new User Groups

Hi Manuel, Can you clarify what you mean by "limited liability" for user groups? I think you mean limited responsibilities as far as WMF is concerned. As far as the United States authorities are concerned, we have plenty of paperwork that we're expected to deal with, particularly if we're handling

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of new User Groups

Ok, maybe more attention to user groups and small affiliates at WMCON is the way to go. I heard at WMCON 2015 that WMF was considering assigning more resources to supporting user groups, in addition to the community capacity development research. I would still like to see that happen, such as with

[Wikimedia-l] Number of new User Groups

It's nice to see the recent momentum in the formation of user groups. Can Affcom shed some light on what may be causing the burst of announced formations? Relatedly, I'm wondering if the number of UGs is now so high that the budget and/or programmatic capacity of WMCON will be a bit stretched to a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel survey among HEWP editors

Edward and Luis, Any chance of WMF running a similar survey on ENWP? Pine On Oct 16, 2015 9:31 AM, "Luis Villa" wrote: > Hi, Michal- > Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Some comments in-line: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Michal Lester > wrote: > > > We are pleased to share with you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

d not something we have promoted recently. My personal > hope is that this new broader list replaces that one over time, but that is > not something we can “force” as it’s not a resource we officially help > manage. > > -greg (User:Varnent) > Vice Chair, Affiliations Committee >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

Hi Carlos, Can you clarify how this list relates to the existing chapters mailing list? (Also, please see the discussion at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network#Mailing_list_request_for_comment ). Thanks, Pine On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Carlos M. Colina wrote

[Wikimedia-l] Please upload Wikiconference USA presentations to Commons

Hi presenters, Please upload your slide decks under https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_USA_2015_presentations . Video uploads from sessions that were in rooms other than the main room will likely happen sometime in the next 7 days. Thanks, Pine __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting - and helpful - blog post

Thanks for forwarding that post, which has passages that are relevant to discussions about volunteer motivation and positive reinforcement. The only significant downside that I see to the system described in the post is that this all-volunteer model relies on a leader to give up a huge chunk of tim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiconference USA 2015

n't want to > clash.) > > On that point, is there a central events calendar on Meta for planning and > publicising these kinds of events? > > On Sunday, October 11, 2015, Pine W wrote: > > > Andrew and I are trying some ad hoc solutions for video. Last night I >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel survey among HEWP editors

Hi Michal, Thanks for that info. Can you share a copy of the survey itself? It might be interesting to run a similar survey on other language Wikipedias. Thanks, Pine On Oct 11, 2015 5:59 AM, "Michal Lester" wrote: > We are pleased to share with you the initial results of the HEWP editors > sur

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiconference USA 2015

Andrew and I are trying some ad hoc solutions for video. Last night I watched the videos that I took with my camera that's designed more for stills than video, and the video quality is disappointing IMO. Andrew's videos are probably better because he has equipment that is purpose-built for the job.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

Hi Toby, I asked several questions about this year's Annual Plan, only some of which received responses even after multiple pings from me, so I regret to say that I get the impression that community questions and input on the annual plan may be brushed aside. I wish that the situation was differen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates on WMF product leadership

Thank you for the announcement. Congrats to Wes. Pine On Oct 8, 2015 8:34 PM, "Lila Tretikov" wrote: > All, > > I want to share an update about the WMF’s product leadership. As of today, > Wes Moran has stepped into the role of Vice President of Product. In this > role, he’ll oversee the Foundat

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

Yes and no. Considering that I've been waiting for months for answers to questions about the WMF Annual Plan, I would say that there is much room for improvement in communications. On the other hand, the WMF Comms department itself seems to more or less ok, and I personally think we'll of WMF's ch

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

Yes, that too. Pine On Oct 4, 2015 12:02 AM, "Carlos M. Colina" wrote: > All of this could be read as "let's make a call for community input for > the sake of political correctness, so the community thinks their opinion is > important for usbut we have taken the decision several months ago >

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

matters like this are communicated is > clearly needed, because the current one doesn't seem to be working at all. > > Cheers, > Craig > > On 4 October 2015 at 13:25, Pine W wrote: > > > Sigh. Decisions being made behind closed doors and then being announced >

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

Sigh. Decisions being made behind closed doors and then being announced much later than they should have been is a bit of a WMF pattern that I would like to see addressed. My understanding is that Lila is putting some emphasis on improved communications in Q2, and I would be interested in seeing so

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017

Hi Filip, I would recommend directing these inquiries to Ellie Young (cc'd here). I have heard talk of process changes for future Wikimanias but have yet to hear of final decisions, or even of a public consultation, so it may be that the process changes are a work in progress. Pine On Sep 30, 201

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New WMF funding option for groups and organizations with annual plans

ote: > Hi Pine, > > There is a new committee proposed for these grants (see the second point of > the summary). FDC members are not eligible for the new committee, but I > guess GAC members could join and volunteer some more of their time :) > > Best regards, > Benc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New WMF funding option for groups and organizations with annual plans

Ok, so this is what I get for multitasking on mobile and missing the part of the email about a new grants committee. I hope that recruiting goes well. Pine On Sep 30, 2015 12:48 PM, "Pine W" wrote: > Hi Winifred, > > Thanks for the info. > > Which grants com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New WMF funding option for groups and organizations with annual plans

Hi Winifred, Thanks for the info. Which grants committee is reviewing these applications? My understanding from CR is that the grants committees have more work than capacity, so I'm curious as to who is involved in reviewing the simplified APGs and what the impacts will be on the capacities of th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Board nominees

Welcome Boryana. (: Will you be able to come to WikiConference USA in DC to mix with some of the community? This might net you some contacts that would be good for board candidates, employees, etc. moving forward. (From my perspective, we are sorely missing having the C-level engineering and techn

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

er the announcement). ca. Staff and contractors page and IRC office > hour. > > John Lewis > > On Friday, 25 September 2015, Pine W wrote: > > > Speaking of Trust and Safety, is there going to be a back-filled position > > in CA in light of Philipp

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

Speaking of Trust and Safety, is there going to be a back-filled position in CA in light of Philippe's departure and Maggie's promotion? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

Relevant to the conversation about how migrants can, and have, used technology to communicate and organize: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/world/facebook-groups-push-for-safe-land-passage-for-migrants-founders.html Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, g

[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming database purge on Freenode

Freenode occasionally purges its databases of "expired nicks, channels and accounts". If you have a nick, channel or account that you want to keep and haven't used recently, now is a good time to do so. See https://blog.freenode.net/2015/09/services-database-purge/ for more info. Please send any qu

[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming press release to celebrate 5 million articles on English Wikipedia

Dear colleagues, Aligned with discussions at the Wikimedia Conference about coordinating press releases around the world, I would like to invite you to participate in the drafting and upcoming publication of a community-written press release that celebrates English Wikipedia's milestone of 5 milli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Departure

Best wishes, Garfield. I was hoping to meet you at WikiConference USA and I'm sorry that we'll miss each other. Good luck in your new role. Pine On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:19 PM, K Anderson < kristin.ander...@wikimediadc.org> wrote: > You did so much to help us make Wikimania 2012 happen! > And

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in size of the core editing community

James, Yes, there is more to the story than can be told in the data that we have. On the other hand, it seems to me that it's a bit harsh to respond like that to WSC's attempt to share good news. Perhaps you can also think of positive ways to interpret the data, such as that the increased speeds o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

I think that access to open-access, easily accessible and editable maps might be quite helpful to refugees. Info about different countries' policies and practices toward migrants might also be helpful. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

Something that I would find interesting is a more detailed explanation of the reasoning behind the decision to put Flow into maintenance mode instead of continuing efforts to make it suitible for more diverse purposes. I'm not sure that Flow could ever fully replace all talk pages, but I tilt in fa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

Just a reminder that Siko and company are in the middle of a major refresh of Community Resources. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants Pine On Sep 8, 2015 3:27 AM, "Jane Darnell" wrote: > I think it is a a *very* good idea, but I think anything involving ha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

Just a thought: would the European chapters, or a single European chapter, be willing to fundraise for this project? Also, in Seattle we have at least one charity that provides or donates basic computer hardware. I imagine that other cities have similar charities. Perhaps a European chapter could

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

Thanks for that perspective Amir. I hadn't even thought of the mobile aspect. It would be great to have improved collaboration tools for working on mobile. Pine On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2015-09-02 3:15 GMT+03:00 MZMcBride : > > Wha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W > Sent: Friday, 04 September 2015 8:43 AM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in > Italy largely b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

ume that WLM annual project was not taken > into consideration by these planners. > Cheers, > P > > -Original Message- > From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W > Sent: Thursday, 03 September 2

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

I just want to respond to this point in particular: "Postponing the Italian fundraising campaign means for the first time in at least 4 years, the fundraising team will not be meeting a target. The team will pick up extra work in October to make up for work missed in September. It's not possible t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > I'm glad you like it. > > What about the project pages made you conclude it's not already > interfacing with L&E? Have you noticed the Resources sections, in > particular? > >A. > On Sep 3, 2015 12:21 A

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re : New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

In general I'm glad to see this project moving forward. I would encourage the project to interface with the ongoing work in L&E about toolkits, as well as the Learning Patterns Library. Thanks, Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://

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

If WMF decides to completely remove Superprotect and the Board's forthcoming policy prohibits the reintroduction of Superprotect without Board authorization, I won't object to that outcome. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

Finance perspective here. My understanding is that Lila slowed the development of Flow awhile back. If Flow was turning out to be a resource intensive project with marginal benefits, then ending its development is likely to be a good management decision. A retrospective on Flow's development and en

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement

Thank you, Philippe. Speaking of courage, I admire your ability to persevere through thick and thin, 24/7, and your going above and beyond the call of duty on more than one occasion. I hope that your rest is restorative. Wikimedia is better, stronger, safer, and more resilient because of your wo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

It would be interesting to contact DPReview and Flickr to ask if they'd agree to promote this campaign. Pine On Aug 31, 2015 12:36 AM, "Gergo Tisza" wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Craig Franklin > > wrote: > > > It has been my experience that site banners are the best way to reach >

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