Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] [Chapters] [Affiliates] Changes to current chapter and thematic organisation criteria

2016-08-25 Thread Salvador A
Thanks to everyone for all the feedback. AffCom will take on consideration all your inputs. As Delphine and Alice have said, the idea is not to create a summary procedure where an affiliate doesn't get a goal and inmediately the recognition is removed. Sorry if it sounded so strict but rules alway

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Changes to current chapter and thematic organisation criteria

2016-08-22 Thread Salvador A
I want to close the chapter of this discussion related to quantitative-qualitative criteria in order to call your attention to some consequences of this new criteria for existing affiliates. I want to be clear on this in order to avoid future missunderstandings. Romaine said that it's desirable to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

2016-06-23 Thread Salvador A
Congratulations Christophe and Maria! We hope to see great and new things from you in the BoT Thanks for your years of service Patricio. El jueves, 23 de junio de 2016, Samuel Klein escribió: > Thank you Patricio! It is great to see these updates. ×SJ > On Jun 23, 2016 19:34, "Tanweer Morshed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of María Sefidari to Wikimedia Foundation Board

2016-01-29 Thread Salvador A
¡Felicidades María! Happy to see you again in the Board. Thanks to the BoT and to the 2015 Elections Committee for all the efforts solving this problem. The diversity inside the Board gets many benefits with this appointment. I trust you María! 2016-01-29 9:44 GMT-06:00 Galileo Vidoni : > Congr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Affiliations Committee appointments, January 2016

2016-01-24 Thread Salvador A
Thanks to AffCom for the confidence! I want to remark that this will be the first AffCom that will have three women at the same time as members: Emily, Emna and Rosie. 2016-01-24 22:43 GMT-06:00 Saroj Dhakal : > Congratulations all ! > > Thanks, > Saroj > Wikimedians of Nepal > _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisonnets!

2016-01-16 Thread Salvador A
What a delight! For those who love iterations, the sonneto of Wikipedia itself: *Wikipedia* In many cases this is very far are written in a form that deviates from an assumption that conceptions are been sold for use in the United States. A "flagged revisions" system can prevent is: If thi

[Wikimedia-l] Princess of Asturias Awards pics

2015-11-06 Thread Salvador A
Hi community. I don't know if somebody already shared this. I remember some of you asked for photographs of the last Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony. You can find some in the next category in Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Princess_of_Asturias_Awards_2015_ceremony I wa

[Wikimedia-l] Princess of Asturias prize streaming now

2015-10-23 Thread Salvador A
Hi community I share with you the link to see (just now) the ceremony of the Princess of Asturias prize giving, to see it online. There's an option to hear the audio in English: http://www.rtve.es/noticias/premios-princesa-asturias/directo/ Congratulations to all! Enjoy! -- *Salvador Alcántar

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Portugal's Board

2015-07-09 Thread Salvador A
Congratulations WMPT! We are happy to hear you are starting to move forward. We are waiting to hear more from you in the future. Best! El jul 8, 2015 2:35 a.m., "Joao Miguel Vasconcelos" < mvasconcell...@gmail.com> escribió: > Dear members of the international Wikimedia Community, > > > I would

[Wikimedia-l] Cebuano and Waray-waray Wikipedias among Top 10

2015-07-05 Thread Salvador A
Hi! I just I noticed that Cebuano and Waray-waray Wikipedia are inside the list of the 10 Wikipedias with more articles.[1] It seems it happened during this weekend. Maybe in the case of Waray Wikipedia happened a little before. Somebody knows when did it was exactly? Did I miss a thread announcin

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

2015-06-16 Thread Salvador A
If the link doesn't work... http://sctj.tfjfa.gob.mx/SCJI/html/2015/junio/acuerdos/G-25-2015_VII-J-SS-191_865-09-EPI-01-1-YOTROS2-1752-14-PL-10-01.pdf 2015-06-16 18:39 GMT-05:00 Salvador A : > Hi folks! > > This month one mexican federal court generated an interesting case la

[Wikimedia-l] Mexican case law on Wikipedia reliability

2015-06-16 Thread Salvador A
Hi folks! This month one mexican federal court generated an interesting case law related to use of Wikipedia as source of knowledge on trials, specially in law resolutions. The tribunal that solved this was the "Tribunal Federal de Justicia Fiscal y Administrativa". This court is not the supreme c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of the Levant User Group

2015-05-21 Thread Salvador A
Welcome. Let us know if we can do something for you in Mexico. Regards! 2015-05-21 19:44 GMT-05:00 Wong Rover : > Congratulations :) > 2015年5月22日 上午8:32 於 "Habib M'henni" 寫道: > > > Welcome to the new user group! > > Best wishes. > > > > Habib > > > > Le 21/05/2015 19:10, Carlos M. Colina a écri

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF November 2014 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, December 4, 19:00 UTC

2014-12-04 Thread Salvador A
Hi Asaf! I was reading the presentation on metrics and the point about Mexico's decreasing of views on Wikipedia called my attention. From your answer to Scott I read that those are only statistics from enwiki, do you know if the same happened in eswiki or, conversely, eswiki grow the number of v

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Salvador A
Welcome Giuliana. WMMX desires you a lot of success in this new appointment. Congrats to WMIT! Extra point for you for getting a ED with understanding of Spanish :P Auguri! 2014-12-02 23:31 GMT-06:00 Asaf Bartov : > Congratulations to WMIT! And it is heartwarming to learn of this final act > o

[Wikimedia-l] New AffCom members

2014-11-03 Thread Salvador A
Dear wikimedians, On behalf the Affiliations Committee and as a result of the call of candidates made on past September [1] is my pleasure to announce you that 5 new voting members have been appointed to join us for the next two years and to serve to Wikimedia affiliates. [2] The new members are:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alessio Guidetti, Cotton

2014-10-18 Thread Salvador A
Sorry to read that. Besides our condolences on Alessio passing, WMMX wants to show its support to every member of WMIT in these hard moments when one loses a colaborator and friend. A hard hug for everyone. 2014-10-18 12:49 GMT-05:00 Shlomi Fish : > Hi Andrea, > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:24:58 +

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Wikimedia Serbia Executive Director

2014-10-15 Thread Salvador A
Great news! Congratulations! I hope WMRS could tell us how was the experience and difficulties of choosing a new ED. Such kind of storytelling might be the basis for future best practices on getting staff. Welcome Ivan! 2014-10-15 4:20 GMT-05:00 Cristian Consonni : > 2014-10-12 0:47 GMT+02:00 F

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Insights of the Chapters Dialogue are online!

2014-08-01 Thread Salvador A
Thank you Nicole. Great work! The document will be my on-flight reading in my way to London. 2014-08-01 15:28 GMT-05:00 Nicole Ebber : > Dear Wikimedia friends, > > I am happy to announce that we have finally released the documentation > of the Chapters Dialogue project. > > You might probably

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New website for the New England Wikimedians user group

2014-07-15 Thread Salvador A
Congratulations Kevin and all New England Wikimedians. We will pendant of your activities and news. 2014-07-14 12:38 GMT-05:00 Alex Wang : > Great to see the website and read about upcoming events! > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Jon Davies > wrote: > > > Great photo - hope to see lots

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free online course on open knowledge

2014-05-31 Thread Salvador A
Thanks for share Bishakha. I joined. 2014-05-31 1:16 GMT-05:00 Bishakha Datta : > I signed up out of interest, so sharing. It's free and begins 3 Sept. > > > http://online.stanford.edu/course/openknowledge-changing-global-course-learning?utm_source=email%20broadcast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational development for the Wikimedia movement

2014-04-28 Thread Salvador A
If a topic merge regularly only means that is an overwhelming worry that must be solved. I don't see Chris' proposal as "reinventing the wheel" but as a new attempt to give answers to an inconclude question. If past attempts have failed that doesn't mean that this one must do it either. Non sequit

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Mexico. Report of Activities of March

2014-04-24 Thread Salvador A
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of the month of March done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. Best regards on behalf our chapter. Salva

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil

2014-04-23 Thread Salvador A
Yei! That's something that must be replied in many countries. Congratulations Brazil. 2014-04-23 17:20 GMT-05:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga < everton.alvare...@okfn.org>: > Now YES we can celebrate. > > > http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Announce] WMMX's assembly and new Board

2014-03-26 Thread Salvador A
El martes, 25 de marzo de 2014, Cristian Consonni escribió: > 2014-03-24 8:33 GMT+01:00 Salvador A > >: > > As results of that assembly we have a new board which is definitive and > > will serve two years, that is, till March 2016. > > [...] > > Hahaha. Have yo

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Mexico report of February

2014-03-24 Thread Salvador A
Dear community, By means this mail I want to announce you, on behalf Wikimedia Mexico, our monthly report of February. You can read it online on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Mexico/February_2014 In spanish in our wiki: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/

[Wikimedia-l] [Announce] WMMX's assembly and new Board

2014-03-24 Thread Salvador A
Hi folks, Sorry for crossposting. In past days Wikimedia Mexico had its first general assembly of members. In that assembly we elected a new board for our non-profit association, therefore we want to introduce you the new authorities. In advance, I tell you that Ivan Martínez is WMMX president ne

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Mexico. January report

2014-02-17 Thread Salvador A
Dear community: By means of this mail and on behalf WMMX Board and volunteers i share with you the monthly report of our chapter corresponding to January 2014. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Mexico/January_2014 We suffered a delay in translating our past rep

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Welcome to Nathalie, our new ED

2013-10-01 Thread Salvador A
On behalf of Wikimedia Mexico: Welcome! ¡Bienvenida! And congratulations to WMFR for this new step as chapter. El oct 1, 2013 4:15 p.m., "Gryllida" escribió: > Bienvenue > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Argentina report: August 2013

2013-09-10 Thread Salvador A
Thanks for share it Osmar. I liked your activities of this month. 2013/9/10 Osmar Valdebenito > Dear Wikimedians, > > Here is the monthly report of Wikimedia Argentina for August 2013. > You can read the full report (in Spanish and English) here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Arg

[Wikimedia-l] WMMX August 2013 report

2013-09-06 Thread Salvador A
Dear members of Wikimedia community: On behalf of Wikimedia Mexico's board and volunteers is my pleasure to make public our first monthly report of activities in english. This one include the activities done during the past month of August: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Agosto_2013/en W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Legal victory for Wikipedia in Italy

2013-06-26 Thread Salvador A
It's pretty remarkable that Italian Court is keeping in mind the real nature of Wikipedia as a sui generis collaborative project and not like a web site in a traditional sense. This new legal definition might influence other courts or laws. The most of law traditions in Latin America follow closely

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of Wikimedians of Nepal user group

2013-05-30 Thread Salvador A
Congratulations! Welcome to Wikimedia affilliates family. Count with Wikimedia Mexico as colaborator and with me as friend. Well done! El may 30, 2013 1:54 p.m., "Dennis Tobar" escribió: > Yay!, Congrats to Wikimedians from Nepal! > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Arnau Duran wrote: > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-26 Thread Salvador A
Also, it's in Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Un_mill%C3%B3n_de_gracias,_de_Wikipedia_en_espa%C3%B1ol.webm 2013/5/26 Salvador A > To celebrate this milestone, Iberocoop chapters have made this video that > we share with you: > > http://www.youtube.com/wa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-26 Thread Salvador A
To celebrate this milestone, Iberocoop chapters have made this video that we share with you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SLw_Z8w604 Enjoy it! Regards! 2013/5/17 ENWP Pine >Felicitaciones a la española Wikipedia! > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fogos_artificiais.jpg > > Pine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-17 Thread Salvador A
> > https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Anuncio_del_art%C3%ADculo_1_000_000 > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > *Osmar Valdebenito G.* > > > > ** > > > > Director Ejecutivo > > > > A. C. Wikimedia Argenti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread Salvador A
In fact, was a technical mistake for which the counter was not taking into account ~20,000 lists articles wich in spanish Wikipedia have a special name space (Anexo:...). Was a surprising also for us when that bugg was fixed today and true was revealed. However, the fact is today we have 1,000,000

[Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread Salvador A
Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas Thanks and congratulations to al

[Wikimedia-l] [Video] WMMX Puebla's Edit-a-thon

2013-04-03 Thread Salvador A
Hi folks! I just wanna share with you a nice video made by one of our cultural partners (Atrolabio). Is about our chapter last Edit-a-thon in Mexico, the first in the city of Puebla. You can watch our chapter president Iván Martínez and two board members: Carmen Alcazar and Gustavo Sandoval giving

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mexican government signs ACTA

2012-07-13 Thread Salvador A
In fact, it is not a copyright issue. Wimedia and Wikipedia is not against copyright. It is a issue about legal control. The current redaction of ACTA would bind to a signing country to create jurisdictional tools for closing and censoring pages only with "presumption" of copyright violation. For