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

Thank you, Andrea, Romaine, Lisa, and Luis. Lisa, if you're interested, I'm happy to brainstorm with you off-list about some alternatives to help WMF Fundraising meet its goals. Pine On Aug 30, 2015 1:21 PM, "Andrea Zanni" wrote: > Hello everybody. > I'm happy to announce that the Wikimedia Fou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising in the Netherlands, in Europe

Pinging Lisa about this email. Thanks, Pine On Aug 23, 2015 5:36 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote: > The Wikimedia Foundation is an "ANBI registered charity" [1]. It means that > Dutch people may deduct their gift from their income. > > In the Netherlands there is much more to tax deductibility, maki

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

Hi Lisa, This is kind of confusing. Can you explain why Fundraising can't alter its fundraising schedule for Italy in order to accomodate the WLM annual community activity? Thanks, Pine On Aug 18, 2015 11:42 AM, "Romaine Wiki" wrote: > Hi all, > > Sad news. > The title of this thread seems a bi

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

to be quiet for the moment so that others can have airtime. If you have additional questions for me about this thread, please contact me off list. Thanks, Pine On Aug 13, 2015 6:54 AM, "MZMcBride" wrote: > Pine W wrote: > >*Superprotection by stewards of legally or technicall

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

e person or group who > > authorises the action takes the responsibility. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > > -Original Message- > > From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > > wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine

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

A few legitimate use cases could be: *Superprotection by stewards of legally or technically sensitive pages, to prevent damage caused by a hijacked admin account. The theory here is that admin accounts are more numerous than steward accounts, so the liklihood of a successful admin account hijack m

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

s probably the prettied-up > interface so others can do it), and if there's a problem that serious it is > going to ahve to remain in a broader range of hands. > > Risker/Anne > > On 11 August 2015 at 17:27, Pine W wrote: > > > Most of the time, admins behav

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

Most of the time, admins behave as we would hope. Occasionally they don't, and on English Wikipedia when that happens often enough or seriously enough in the opinion of Arbcom, the offending admins are desysopped. I think that for legally sensitive pages, we'd be concerned about the possibility of

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

On 11 August 2015 at 22:14, Pine W wrote: > > > My preference would be to have stewards applying Superprotect rather than > > WMF. There are cases where Superprotect makes sense, but given WMF's > > history with it, I would prefer that it become a community tool. > &g

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

My preference would be to have stewards applying Superprotect rather than WMF. There are cases where Superprotect makes sense, but given WMF's history with it, I would prefer that it become a community tool. Pine On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > So maybe it could stay,

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WikiConference USA coming in October 2015

Hi Wikimedians, WikiConference USA 2015 will be held *October 9–11* at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C. Registration and scholarship applications are open. Session proposals may be submitted. Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org Pine _

[Wikimedia-l] NYTimes: "Right to be forgotten" may spread

There may be community and WMF interest in this: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/technology/personaltech/right-to-be-forgotten-online-is-poised-to-spread.html Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Shared learning in our progress report

Hi Nicole, Thanks for this update. The quantity of WMDE's documentation is impressive! I particularly appreciate that WMDE created learning patterns based on its experiences. These are more digestible than larger reports which sometimes have valuable lessons buried inside of tl;dr material. Than

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia UK's members elect new trustees

Congrats to the new board members and thank you for serving. Pine On Jul 27, 2015 7:30 AM, "Michael Maggs" wrote: > I am very pleased to announce that at our annual general meeting on > Saturday 25 July the members of Wikimedia UK elected three new trustees to > the board from a very strong slat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

Ziko, is that statement directed at me? If so, I would appreciate it if we could talk off list. In any case, I believe that I've attempted to do all the good that I can in this discussion at this time, so I'm signing off from this discussion for now. Pine _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

I had a roundtable discussion last night with some Wikimedians and other sympathizers, and was persuaded that the best way to handle this matter might indeed be for the community to delete the files in question and/or to block the uploader for alleged bad-faith behavior. This still leaves me wonder

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

propriate, and I for one would > appreciate if you'd stop doing that. > > Risker/Anne > > On 26 July 2015 at 17:45, Pine W wrote: > > > Pinging WMF Legal to ask about what WMF can do about this entire > situation. > > > > Pine > > On Jul 26, 2015 1:06 PM, &quo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

Pinging WMF Legal to ask about what WMF can do about this entire situation. Pine On Jul 26, 2015 1:06 PM, "James Salsman" wrote: > If Harald Bischoff has defrauded Commons reusers by requiring stricter > attribution than the community requires, does the Foundation have standing > in Germany to r

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

Thanks Katherine! 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/listinfo/wikimedia-l,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

> value is of your insistence. > > When you talk about leadership, I hate such officiousness. For what, what > are the benefits, who will benefit and, yes this is a rhetorical question. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 20 July 2015 at 16:55, Pine W wrote: > > > I ag

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

at banned or otherwise problematic individuals > might show up, so as to ensure a consistent approach. > > Cheers, > Craig > > > > > > On 20 July 2015 at 07:15, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

> > James Alexander > Legal and Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation > +1 415-839-6885 x6716 > > > > On Jul 19, 2015, at 16:55, Pine W wrote: > > > > Hmm. It seems to me that having WMF create a policy for conduct that it > > imposes on non-WMF wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

hin wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > > > 1. Will the friendly-space "expectations" (policy?) for grants spaces on > > Meta be proposed as an RfC on Meta? The documentation on the rollout plan > > doesn't mention and RfC. My un

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

I appreciate the combined QRs. Questions and comments: 1. Will the friendly-space "expectations" (policy?) for grants spaces on Meta be proposed as an RfC on Meta? The documentation on the rollout plan doesn't mention and RfC. My understanding is that the right way to implement a policy change lik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] press edit in facebook to edit wikipedia, how many?

My understanding is this information has not been tracked. I think it would be good to do so and to think about how to recruit contributors through Facebook. Pine On Jul 19, 2015 6:03 AM, "rupert THURNER" wrote: > hi, > > for the first time i tried pressing edit in facebook and came out in > the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

My understanding was that there were two new engineering positions last year that were supposed to be dedicated to geolocation and mapping improvements. I get the impression that most of the improvements in the past year have been aimed at mobile platforms. I asked about the plans for geolocation

[Wikimedia-l] Slides from Lila's presentation at Wikimania

Courtesy of WMF Comms: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2015_presentation_by_Lila_Tretikov.pdf Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Un

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Future of Wikipedia

I agree that finding correct, accurate, current, and NPOV information can be a challenging task, and media literacy is an important skill these days. Good research tasks today go beyond the goal of finding just any book, magazine, journal or webpage that asserts a certain fact. Pine __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcoming Lucy Crompton-Reid as new CEO of Wikimedia UK

Thanks for this announcement, Michael. Lucy, welcome. I look forward to occasional collaborations with you across the Atlantic. Regards, Pine Executive Director Cascadia Wikimedians User Group (Oregon, Washington State and British Columbia) On Jul 13, 2015 10:44 AM, "Michael Maggs" wrote: >

[Wikimedia-l] Wikidata and OpenStreetMap

Informative presentation about Wikidata and mapping at at the 2015 "State of the Map US" national conference in New York, by Andy Mabbett: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/June_2015/Contents/USA_report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6pnDQcrtwQ Cheers, Pine __

[Wikimedia-l] MIT Technology Review: "Why Wikipedia + Open Access = Revolution"

An encouraging article in Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/539001/why-wikipedia-open-access-revolution/ Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changes in Engineering leadership

ngs. I'm sure HR welcomes feedback about > implementable improvements as well. They want to find best candidates > anywhere, and they know that Wikimedia itself is a good pool. But we cannot > hire the candidates that don't find us or that we cannot find... Which > brings us back

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changes in Engineering leadership

Another thought: perhaps more investment could be made in providing career development support for our volunteers of all kinds. It's relatively common in the United States for organizations with lots of volunteers to put some investment explicitly into helping the volunteers develop skills snd expe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changes in Engineering leadership

; > idea. (I hope not.) Perhaps having some people who have been volunteers > > actually in charge might help to bridge that disconnect. > > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > >> Todd, > >> > >> I'm not speaking for WMF or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changes in Engineering leadership

Todd, I'm not speaking for WMF or Lila here, just repeating what I've heard in other circles: it's rare to find a software engineer or designer who's an experienced Wikimedia content contributor. More common, but still far from plentiful, are experienced engineers who've contributed to MediaWiki a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annual Plan FY15-16

s, we may not be able to respond to questions on Meta > until early next week. Thank you in advance for your patience. > > Lila > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Pine W wrote: > > > Thanks for the update. I've drafted some questions and comments about the > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annual Plan FY15-16

Thanks for the update. I've drafted some questions and comments about the new version. The updated plan is located on Foundation Wiki; can it be copied to Meta where it's more accessible to the community for discussion? Thanks, Pine Pine On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

Hello, July 1 is almost here. Can we get an update about the status of the draft revisions and the Board deliberations? Thanks, Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Unsolicieted email from "wikimedia research"

Hi, I appreciate people answering questions on weekends. After reading this thread, it sounds like this is a well-intentioned research project but there are opportunities for improvement. If someone (maybe Leila and Michelle?) could compile a timeline, a list of the issues raised in these email t

[Wikimedia-l] US affiliates (was: Re: WMF office location and remodel)

wrote: > The WMF will become a truly global organization when a Wikimedia US > chapter is founded ;-) > > Il 08/04/2015 06:58, Pine W ha scritto: > >> Hi Garfield, >> >> I'm asking this on Wikimedia-l because a number of Wikimedians have noted >> the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from "wikimedia research"

This issue is also being discussed on the Research mailing list. I have three questions: 1. Was this outreach method approved by RCom? 2. Email addresses are nonpublic information on-wiki unless they are proactively and publicly disclosed by users. Does the bulk collection of nonpublic email add

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thousands of images on Wikipedia and Commons in danger, action needed

her lobbying efforts On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Sam Klein wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Pine W wrote: > > > Are WMF and the European affiliates allowed to lobby regarding this > issue? > > > > The WMF could lobby or support lobbying on such an issue

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thousands of images on Wikipedia and Commons in danger, action needed

Are WMF and the European affiliates allowed to lobby regarding this issue? If so, what are they doing? Thanks, Pine On Jun 21, 2015 6:03 AM, "Romaine Wiki" wrote: > Hi all, > > This concerns all the editors and readers in the European Union and those > in other European countries as well (copyi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

You might want check if there is already a bug listed for this under https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit-(captcha-extension)/, and if not then create a new one. (: Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mexican case law on Wikipedia reliability

To the best of my knowledge, the US Supreme Court has yet to cite Wikipedia, but US Federal appeals courts have done so. Also, a state supreme court cited Wikipedia prominently in a decision about insurance coverage: http://abbottlawfirm.com/blog/2012/08/16/utah-supreme-court-cites-wikipedia-in-pub

[Wikimedia-l] Mark your calendars for Wiknic 2015

Hi all, Wiknic is Wikipedia's annual community picnic. For those of us who are in parts of the world where the current season is summer, we usually celebrate Wiknic in June or July. Wiknic started in the United States, and I'm told that the idea has spread to other countries with diverse languages

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

nd this report useful. > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:10

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

results have > been published but there might be some (rough) data available on this. > > Claudia > > Am 08.06.2015 um 21:26 schrieb Pine W: > >> I agree. I don't think WMF has an appreciation of the scope of this >> problem >> and how it detracts from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

I agree. I don't think WMF has an appreciation of the scope of this problem and how it detracts from the prigrammatic activities that they aim to support in addition to its effects on volunteer morale and motivation (which is a WMF global metric). I am hoping that some hard numbers might get them t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

Hi Michael, Thanks for this report. I was hoping to see information in the report about the financial costs of applying for and reporting about WMF grants; even better would be an estimate of time spent including volunteer hours, including FDC and GAC volunteer and staff hours. These costs are am

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Voting system (was: Results of 2015 WMF Board elections)

Regarding contents / geographic vs. cultural areas: I think either would make sense. One way of looking at cultural areas would be the ways that the affiliates spontaneously organized ourselves at WMCON, possibly with a few additions. Regarding differing population sizes: yes, but there will be im

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Voting system (was: Results of 2015 WMF Board elections)

I'm happy with S/N/O and with the election winners, but concerned about the diversity of the Board. I wonder if rethinking the entire board structure is in order, for example we could have: 1. One seat per continent, elected by the whole voting community 2. Two affiliate seats chosen by all affili

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

I felt that this year's elections went remarkably smoothly. I believe that we have the Elections Committee and its tireless leader Varnet, project manager James Alexander, and the SecurePoll devs to thank. There were a few technical issues but overall I feel that everyone did a very fine job. Pine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

Hi Luis, Aaron and all, Here's a list of possible metrics that we could use for measuring community health. Introductory notes: * I emphasized the number of unique contributors rather than number of contributions. * All of these metrics can be calculated over a variety of time-frames, although I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Wikipedia uses Wikidata for person data

Sounds like a reasonable idea to me. Another open source advocate in Seattle has encouraged cooperation between Wikipedia and DBpedia. What would it take to make Gerard's suggestion come to life? Pine On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > An argument rages about the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 10th year founding anniversary of Bengali Wikipedia

Thanks very much for this announcement, Hasive. I'd like to take a moment to refresh our collective memory from June of last year. The Wikimedians who organized the Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation made extraordinary efforts to found their chapter, and the chapter's approval under the Societies Reg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

Yes, I think that a disclosure up front would be appropriate, perhaps when someone first access the SecurePoll interface. By the way, my understanding is that the practice of generating a public list of voters who cast ballots, while keeping the nature of their votes private, is relatively common

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

Forwarding because of the significance of the change for bots. My understanding is that this affects all wikis, so please get this information out to relevant bot operators on all wikis. Translated messages may be very much appreciated. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: "Brad Jors

[Wikimedia-l] Community health (retitled thread)

Speaking of specialized lists, I'd like to suggest that this discussion would be well suited to Research-l, where many people who are interested in these kinds of questions read and write about them more frequently than they do on Wikimedia-l. I'm boldly adding that list to the recipients for this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

> > Since Wikimania is in July this year, perhaps we could do this there: > public review & discussion of the WMF plan, and using that as a point of > departure to continue the discussion of planning from WMCON. > > Sam > I would suggest not using this WMF proposed plan as a starting point for tal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

Hi Sam, That all sounds good. A couple of quick points: 1. What is meant by "excellent goals and plans" is open to interpretation and dependent on context. For example, an "excellent" annual plan for a new user group will look much different than an "excellent" annual plan for WMFR or WMF, and I'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

Perhaps in July we can have an office hour to discuss improvements to annual planning for all orgs including WMF? Annual plans for any organization are a pain to develop and involve some guesswork about what will happen during the year. However, given the natures of annual fundraising and grant cy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

Whichever body is chosen though, a longer feedback/comment period is > necessary. > > best, > > dj > > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > It does make sense to me that there would be at least a month between > > publication of the full draf

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

It does make sense to me that there would be at least a month between publication of the full draft plan, including the documentation that requested, and the closure of the comment period. In its current form the plan is too vague for me to support it as written. I think that the WMF audit commit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group

Welcome to the US affiliates, North Carolina Triangle. (: If you have not already done so, please join the Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (affectionately known as WALRUS) mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l I would like to talk wit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

Pine On May 26, 2015 7:46 PM, "Garfield Byrd" wrote: > Hi Pine, > > I have answered your questions in the text of your email. > > Regards, > > Garfield > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Pine W wrote: > > > Hi Garfield, > > > > Thanks f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

Hi Garfield, Thanks for this update. * Is this intended to be the last annual plan, as WMF shifts to a quarterly planning cycle? If so, how will Fundraising know how much money to raise each quarter/year? * Are SMART goals documented for each department? If so, where can we see them? * I see th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Building a "we" in the wikimedia movement

His MZMcBride, I agree with Micru on a number of points, particularly that it would be helpful to think of Wikimedia as a social movement, with all of the diversity and methods of interaction among ourselves making us a very complex social environment. I'm in the process of writing a piece for the

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wmcon15] What happened at pre-conference sessions?

Forwarding the email below with permission. Program leaders might want to look at the "further resources" sections in particular, on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/News/Pre-conference_workshop_day_for_Wikimedia_Conference . Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland - Fundraising Report

Hi Till, thanks very much. Would you please document these good fundraising practices in the Learning Patterns Library? Pine On May 11, 2015 2:12 AM, "Till Mletzko" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We just released our new WMDE fundraising report. See the detailed > report here: > https://meta.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness research for Wikimedia organizations

ions at the upcoming meetings in Berlin first to find out if the > learning center is even a useful idea at all and how we may want to improve > it moving forward before anyone invests a lot more time in curation up > front. What do you think? > > Cheers, > > Winifred > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness research for Wikimedia organizations

Hi Winifred, Thanks for this info. It looks to me like the information in the Learning Center could be integrated into the more Learning Patterns Library with the category "Organizational effectiveness". Is this integration planned, or are there reasons to keep the Learning Center separate from th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Invitation to WMF April 2015 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, May 7, 18:00 UTC

Hi, just some brief feedback on the meeting: * I liked the format. * Regarding the WMF quarterly performance single-page overview, I think that is a good basic idea and could use further development. WMF might find it helpful to consult with Wikimedia France which I hear does good self-evaluation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Evaluation by WMF of Wiki Loves Monuments is failing to understand the community

Hi, I wasn't involved in this evaluation, but I would like to say that, as someone who recently worked for WMF Learning and Evaluation, I believe that the L&E team is interested in producing useful and accurate reports. So, I am optimistic that feedback from the community about methodology and com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] userscript for authorship coloring

Thanks Fabian. I'm forwarding this thread to Wikimedia-l, because I think that this tool will be of interest to many Wikipedians. Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

Hi Micru, My understanding is that the thinking at WMF is that, if this campaign is successful, they may repeat Inspire with a different focus, perhaps global south, underrepresented languages, public health, or education programs. It could be very beneficial to involve affiliates in some of thes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Inspire Campaign Grantees

Hi Liam, I too am happy with many aspects of Aspire. However, the campaign scheduling and communications issues caused major headaches here in Cascadia, and was disruptive in other ways that I'd rather not document in a public list. The Community Resources and L&E teams are aware of the specifics

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Google rankings and mobile phone support`

Hi Gerard, Yes, I saw this news as well. Check out these results: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=www.wikipedia.org https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=en.wikipedia.org https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=commons.wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments

sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Pine W wrote: > > > Philippe is on vacation, so I'm forwarding this to Rachel. > > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments

t; Community Advocacy > > Wikimedia Foundation > > (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Pine W wrote: > > > > > Hi Pete, > > > > > > Philippe is on vacation, so I'm forwarding this to Rachel. > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments

Hi Pete, Philippe is on vacation, so I'm forwarding this to Rachel. Pine On Apr 22, 2015 11:59 PM, "Pete Forsyth" wrote: > Philippe, can you address what you were talking about here last fall -- was > the draft feature, and the way it directed new contributors toward the > Articles for Creation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

Personally, I'm less concerned about staff votes than I am about having only a relatively small number of community members vote. If there is a substantial turnout of community votes then the enfranchisement of staff is a non-issue. I think there would be more cause for concern if is only 1800 tota

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia community health: strategic opportunities and threats

Hi all, Since WMF is doing a strategy update (with which I'm not involved, but hope that the community can influence), I'm wondering what others thoughts are on Wikipedia's strategic opportunities and threats. I ask about this issue with the following two pieces of info as background. 1. The *Sig

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to find the Wikimedia Commons Android App form Google Play? (Mohammed BAchounda)

In defense of Yuvi, he is routinely extinguishing metaphorical fires and hunting gremlins in Tool Labs. He may just be overtasked at the moment. I suggest that you email him a reminder. Pine On Apr 16, 2015 3:44 AM, "Aleksey Bilogur" wrote: > Hmm. I was annoyed at Yuvi a couple of weeks ago beca

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A transition and a new chapter.

Editing-wise, I think that's right. We also have Damon and Luis who I believe have considerable open source credentials outside of Wikimedia. Also, at the director level, I like and respect Siko who has extensive experience coordinating Wikimedia community-facing projects. We also hope that the c

[Wikimedia-l] Editing Wikipedia for school community service hours

Hi all, Many schools in the United States encourage or require students to perform community service hours, such as by cleaning up parks, caring for the disabled, or tutoring younger students. Sometimes more specialized requirements apply, such as university schools of education or health which ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A transition and a new chapter.

Hi Erik, best wishes on your new journey. Two things I am grateful to you for are the development of VisualEditor into a very viable product, and the support of HHVM implementation. Lila, will all of Product and Engineering now report to Damon or are there plans to recruit a replacement for Erik?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Access to Private Information Policy: How Long Will This Be Left a Question Mark?

Trilium, My understanding is that the new policy is now active, meaning that identification documents are not required for checkusers and oversighters. I believe that identification documents are still required for WMF Board, FDC, Board Elections Committee, and Board Audit Committee appointments.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel

renew our > lease or move. The advantages of having good access to talented people and > organizations WMF interacts with far outweigh any advantages to moving to a > lower cost location outside of the San Francisco market area. > > Regards, > > Garfield > > On Tue, Apr 7

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel

ou wish. Finance for example don't travel > anywhere except the top management (1-2 ppl), so they can be in East St > Louis :) > > My British company where I work has its finance in the Czech Republic, and > its IT support in India for instance. > > Balazs >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Ask questions, give feedback on six annual plan grant proposals for the FDC!

dividual grantees in mind; and to think about transition points among grant types. I would love to talk with you more about this at the Wikimedia Conference if possible (: Pine On Apr 7, 2015 11:20 PM, "Luis Villa" wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Pine W wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Ask questions, give feedback on six annual plan grant proposals for the FDC!

Just noting that annual plans can go through APG or PEG, but the qualificattions and scope are different. Some chapers choose to continue with PEG funding becuase it is more flexible. The main limiter on PEG funding is that it will not pay for full time permanent staff; however according to Meta i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel

Postscript (sorry): this isn't a time-sensitive question, so please respond at your convenience. Thanks (: Pine On Apr 7, 2015 9:58 PM, "Pine W" wrote: > Hi Garfield, > > I'm asking this on Wikimedia-l because a number of Wikimedians have noted > the expensi

[Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel

Hi Garfield, I'm asking this on Wikimedia-l because a number of Wikimedians have noted the expensiveness of the San Francisco area including its high cost of living for staff, employer competition for engineering talent, and associated high salaries for WMF employees. I see on http://upload.wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [US media] Wikimedia on US television program 60 Minutes tonight

Very nice piece, if a little hazy on details. Katherine, how would you suggest that we thank _60 Minutes_? We can tweet to them, although there may be better ways. Cheers, Pine On Apr 5, 2015 11:30 AM, "Pine W" wrote: > Excellent, thanks Katherine. I'll check the 60 Minutes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [US media] Wikimedia on US television program 60 Minutes tonight

Excellent, thanks Katherine. I'll check the 60 Minutes segment to see if they have ideas that I can reuse for the video productions that some of us are working on this year. It sounds like their intended audience is different, more aimed at educating readers than educating potential editors or rese

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Not all pixels are created equals: introducing brand new Wikimedia France's metrics

Dear Pierre-Selim, I look forward to discussing this new metric at the Wikimedia Conference. I might even take photographs of the deliberations and upload them to Commons in order to improve my personal pixel metric. Have you figured out a way to translate pixels into multiple languages? I hope

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

Welcome Kourosh. (: Can you give us some examples of partnerships that you will be developing or supporting? It would also be really interesting to hear how your role relates to the kinds of institutional relationships that other departments have formed over the years. I'd love to hear an overvie

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing interim COO

Welcome Terry. Will we have a chance to meet you at the Wikimedia Conference? Is the COO role temporary for the duration of the strategy review or does interim mean indefinite pending a more expansive search for a permanent COO? Gayle, thanks for your resilience in the HR role. Good luck! Thanks,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

Hi Keegan, Just a thought: you could invite WMFers to have SUL finalization parties during a few lunch hours. Invite people out of their silos to work with you and interact with the community to answer account-owner FAQs, translate the Q&A, and interact with WMF's "customers". While this is a litt

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