Re: [Wikimedia-l] Katy Love to direct WMF Resources team

2016-03-02 Thread Ruslan Takayev
be great to get some words from WMF recruitment, or whatever fanciful name they call themselves these days, on such issues. Is Boryana Dineva back from leave yet? Perhaps she could address this "new, open approach" to recruitment for us? Kind regards, Ruslan Takayev On Sun, Feb 28, 2

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: A conversation?

2016-03-09 Thread Ruslan Takayev
self a new jet? Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev ___ 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/listin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiwand

2016-04-03 Thread Ruslan Takayev
Wikiwand states: "Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license" WMF projects are available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Correct me if I am wrong, but these licenses are not interchangeable and therefore the entire Wikiwand site is a copyright violation? Warm regards, Rusl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open and recorded WMF Board meetings

2016-04-22 Thread Ruslan Takayev
ns satisfactorily needs to be taken as Jimmy and/or the Board hoping the issue will simply go away; in which case the whole lot of you should resign in order for real community healing to take place. Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why are articles being deleted?

2016-06-25 Thread Ruslan Takayev
or anything you have done on Wikipedia, or said on this mailing list, as you have shed some light on how Wikipedia fails on many levels with new editors. Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia

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

2016-01-11 Thread Ruslan Takayev
Dariusz, On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > > > I'm investigating with the BGC what went wrong with the whole process (that > some Board members did not have full information) and we're hoping to come > back with learning from this failure, as it was just one point of se

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message from Arnnon Geshuri to the Wikimedia Community

2016-01-26 Thread Ruslan Takayev
: 1) Why did you do it? 2) Would you do it again? 3) What have you learned from you role in the scheme that has cost those companies hundreds of millions of dollars? And most importantly, 4) Why should we trust you? If you can't answer these questions, please resign. Warmest regards, R

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update from the Board

2016-01-27 Thread Ruslan Takayev
ur faces long before then. Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev [1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/wikimedia-board-official-responds-to-editors-geshuri-is-an-excellent-candidate [2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/editors-demand-ouster-of-wikimedia-board-member-involved-in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changes in the Board

2016-02-06 Thread Ruslan Takayev
rom the WMF, the BoT and yourself over the last month. Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/080987.html [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_comment/Vote_of_no_confidence_on_Arnnon_Geshuri/sig&diff=prev&a

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

2016-02-06 Thread Ruslan Takayev
ctual grant application from the WMF to the Knight Foundation? I am guessing that the devil will be in those details; details which thus far the WMF has kept completely under wraps. I look forward to you releasing the grant application at your earliest convenience. Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev O

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

2016-02-07 Thread Ruslan Takayev
n of proof is on them not on Lila > Lila could easily shut down these lines of questioning by publishing the grant application, as was originally requested by others. Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Chris Keating wrote: > > > > > > I have some

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

2016-02-09 Thread Ruslan Takayev
e you can explain why? I can feel a further rift and a vote of no confidence in both the BoT and WMF management coming on. Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > More on this from James Heilman and others in the current Signpost issue. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Katy Love to direct WMF Resources team

2016-02-26 Thread Ruslan Takayev
call for applications to fill Siko's position. TBH, this doesn't sound like a "new, open approach" towards recruitment at the WMF, but more of the same..."jobs for the boys". Comment would be welcome Maggie. Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev [1] https://lists.wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I am going to San Francisco

2016-02-26 Thread Ruslan Takayev
"knight in shining armor" routine, that frankly is too little too late. Warm regards, Ruslan Takayev On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:06 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > Here is a note that I just sent to the staff mailing list (stuck in a > queue at the moment, so some staff will see it here