Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should the Foundation take a position on a general strike?

[Philippe Beaudette]

I could see the Foundation making reasonable preparations against what may
be inevitable - backing up servers, off-site contingencies, etc - but I do
not see this as an issue where the WMF should be a leader in driving
influence.  The issue of a general strike is a generalized protest
against .  I see this as
somewhat different from the SOPA/PIPA issue in that there is no clear and
delineated threat to the WMF's existence - there is certainly a danger in
the form of troubling policy, and I personally am gravely concerned that
such a threat to the WMF's existence may materialize, but I don't yet see
an immediate single incident/issue/law/case that the WMF should take a
leadership role in advocacy against.

I'm prepared to be convinced otherwise, however.



On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 8:01 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Should the Foundation take a position on a general strike?
> >
> > https://twitter.com/trevortimm/status/825395993789157376
> >
> > https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/825403294667436033
> >
> > I know this is an unusual question, but when is the last time that the
> U.S.
> > judiciary has deployed Federal Marshals against its own executive branch?
> >
> > https://professional-troublemaker.com/2017/01/29/
> federal-judge-sends-u-s-
> > marshals-to-prevent-trump-from-enforcing-muslim-ban/
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jim Salsman
>
>
> I'm alright with the WMF taking a position on issues when they're likely to
> have a serious impact on the core mission of Wikimedia.
>
> I fail to see how this is one of those things. The WMF is not a political
> advocacy organization.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wimedia on line?

[Philippe Beaudette]

​No problems here.​

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Peter Southwood <
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:

> I have been unable to access Wikipedia, Wikivoyage or Meta since last
> night. Maybe 8 to 10 hours ago. Are the servers on line? Other internet
> seems OK
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...

[Philippe Beaudette]

For three years, I reported to Geoff, along with my team.  I knew he was a
brilliant lawyer, even before I went into it. I did not know that he was a
brilliant manager. and he is. He challenged me and taught me skills that I
use daily. He set an exceptionally high standard and accepted nothing less.
But he always smiled and cared about each of us deeply.

YouTube is very lucky to get him. This movement will never be quite the
same. Stay in touch, my friend.

Philippe
(Former minion and lackey)

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, Kat Walsh <k...@mindspillage.org> wrote:

> Geoff,
>
> I remember having the great pleasure of welcoming you to Wikimedia and
> helping introduce you to the culture and challenges of a very unusual
> organization, and later having the great pleasure of working with you
> as you served as a keystone of its leadership.
>
> It would be impossible to thank you enough for everything you've
> done--all of the public work that has been justly recognized and
> applauded, and the iceberg of invisible work that comes with the role
> that will never be publicly recognized, but which deserves the
> recognition just as much. (And a particular thanks for all of your
> work with the board, which I know came with its own set of
> challenges!) The legal department is not always greatly loved in any
> organization, and frequently not one that gets to be a champion of the
> mission itself, but you have made this happen at WMF. Your insight and
> guidance, your legal experience, your leadership, and your dedication
> to the people and the principles of the movement have all been
> invaluable. And your commitment to building the organization and the
> people in it means you leave the legal department in good hands;
> congratulations to Michelle and Stephen on their new roles.
>
> And finally, for me personally, you have been a great mentor and a
> great friend. Best of luck in your new position; they are lucky to
> have you.
>
> -Kat
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Geoff Brigham <gbrig...@wikimedia.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Over the past five years, I’ve been honored to serve as the General
> Counsel
> > and Secretary of the Wikimedia Foundation. This job has been amazing, and
> > I’m grateful to everyone who has made it so rewarding. It's now time for
> my
> > next step, so, in the coming days, I will be leaving the Foundation to
> > pursue a new career opportunity.
> >
> > I depart with such love for the mission, the Foundation, the Wikimedia
> > communities, and my colleagues at work. I thank my past and present
> bosses
> > as well as the Board for their support and guidance. I stand in awe of
> the
> > volunteer writers, editors, and photographers who contribute every day to
> > the Wikimedia projects. And I will hold special to my heart my past and
> > current teams, including legal and community advocacy. :) You have
> taught,
> > given, and enriched me so much.
> >
> > After my departure, Michelle Paulson will serve as interim head of Legal,
> > and, subject to Board approval, Stephen LaPorte will serve as interim
> > Secretary to the Board. I can happily report that they have the
> experience
> > and expertise to ensure a smooth and professional transition.
> >
> > The future of the Foundation under Katherine's leadership is exciting.
> > Having had the pleasure of working for her, I know Katherine will take
> the
> > Foundation to its next level in promoting and defending the outstanding
> > mission and values of the Wikimedia movement. Although I'm delighted
> about
> > my next opportunity, I will miss this new chapter in the Foundation's
> > story.
> >
> > My last day at the Foundation will be July 18th. After that, I will take
> a
> > month off to recharge my batteries, and then I start my new gig at
> YouTube
> > in the Bay Area. There, I will serve as Director of YouTube Trust &
> Safety,
> > managing global teams for policy, legal, and anti-abuse operations. As
> with
> > Wikimedia, I look forward to learning from those teams and tackling
> > together a new set of exciting, novel challenges.
> >
> > For those who want to stay in touch, please do! My personal email is:
> > geoffrey.r.brig...@gmail.com <javascript:;>.
> >
> > With respect, admiration, and gratitude,
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

[Philippe Beaudette]

This is an example, in my opinion (as is most of the echo feature) an
example of the WMF doing an extremely fine implementation of a feature that
the community has dreamed of for years.  This is really fine.  Well done to
all involved.

pb

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this change related to the standard notifications pop-up window no
> longer working in Chrome (it just sits waiting to get painted), or was
> that an existing bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
>
> On 11 March 2016 at 07:07, Roan Kattouw <rkatt...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building a
> > cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other wikis
> in
> > the notification panel. We made this feature available on a small set of
> > wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it available on all
> > wikis as a beta feature.
> >
> > You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link [2]
> in
> > the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and enabling the
> > "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels (accessible
> > through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top right/left corner)
> will
> > now display an additional item telling you which other wikis you have
> > unread notifications on, and you can click this item to expand it and see
> > those notifications [3]. For more information, see the documentation on
> > mediawiki.org [4], with mostly complete translations in 13 languages at
> the
> > time of this writing.
> >
> > Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta feature
> on
> > one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki. However, you
> > only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki notifications on a
> > wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example, if you only enable the
> > beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will see notifications from the
> > French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia and the Upper Sorbian Wiktionary
> > even if you haven't enabled the beta feature on those wikis. In fact, if
> > you've had an account for a while, you are likely to see some very old
> > notifications from wikis you haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske
> > tweeted a screenshot of this yesterday [5].
> >
> > Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk page
> on
> > mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a bug,
> please
> > report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page.
> >
> > Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community liaisons
> > Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and Benoît Evellin (Trizek) for their work on this
> > over the past few months.
> >
> > --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope)
> >
> > [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and
> mediawiki.org
> > [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta features" tab
> > [3]
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-wiki_notification.png
> > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki
> > [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882
> > [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications
> > [7]
> >
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectPHIDs=Notifications
> > [8] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Collaboration
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disabe Media Viewer for non-logged-in users and logged-in users on Wikimedia Commons

[Philippe Beaudette]

Consensus can and should be ignored when it is detrimental to improving the
end product.  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ignore_all_rules is an
applicable cite, I think.  It's even categorized as global.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Vi to <vituzzu.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Same with consensus from logged-out users to implement MV.
>
> I have no strong feelings about the issue (anons shouldn't be affected by
> MV side effects but also MV is almost useless on Commons) but well,
> consensus cannot be ignored.
>
> Vito
>
> 2016-03-14 15:28 GMT+01:00 Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org>:
>
> > On 16-03-14 10:24 AM, Steinsplitter Wiki wrote:
> > > I request the Wikimedia Foundation to disable Media Viewer for logged
> > out users as well. There is consensus to do so. Please respect community
> > consensus.
> >
> > Really?  You have consensus from logged out users?  How did you
> > ascertain that?
> >
> > Or did you mean that you have consensus from a community that is
> > explicitly not affected by the feature to turn it off for people other
> > than themselves?
> >
> > -- Coren / Marc
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter: Issues needing addressing by the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees

[Philippe Beaudette]

It is deeply unsettling to have my WHAT?  I confirmed no such thing, and
your misrepresentations do you no favors.

One thing I have learned over the last few years is that it is impossible
to have a conversation in a spirit of openness when one party so wildly
misrepresents the statements of the other. That's not good faith dealing.

Therefore, I won't be continuing this discussion with you.

pb

On Wednesday, March 2, 2016, David Emrany <david.emr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Philippe
>
> There is no public evidence of your misleading statements re years of
> careful planning.and execution.
>
> What there is public evidence of is that the WMF has systematically
> evaded its enforcement responsibilities under the Terms of Use.
>
> To cite 1 specific instance, Sue Gardner was repeatedly informed about
> the pedo on-wiki grooming by User Demiurge1000
>
> "Who is responsible for child protection ?"
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sue_Gardner=10496213#Response_to_your_question
>
> It is deeply unsettling to have your confirmation that Sue Gardner sat
> on this for years and it was only Lila (an outsider with no great ties
> to the community) who could globally ban this user out.
>
> PS: You surely recall “I won’t allow the accusations that the anon is
> making to stand on my talk page. I’ve redacted them. Philippe
> Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:21, 12 January 2014 (UTC)”
>
> David
>
> On 3/2/16, Philippe Beaudette <phili...@beaudette.me <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Additionally, I believe Coren was referring to the expanded TOU as a
> whole,
> > not to that amendment alone.  And I agree with him, for the record.
> >
> > Lila's support in expanding the size of the CA team was useful in helping
> > to combat the abuses mentioned, but the vast majority of the systemic
> work
> > took place under Sue, and was the result of years of careful planning and
> > execution.
> >
> > pb
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter: Issues needing addressing by the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees

[Philippe Beaudette]

Additionally, I believe Coren was referring to the expanded TOU as a whole,
not to that amendment alone.  And I agree with him, for the record.

Lila's support in expanding the size of the CA team was useful in helping
to combat the abuses mentioned, but the vast majority of the systemic work
took place under Sue, and was the result of years of careful planning and
execution.

pb

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave, you're simply mistaken.
>
> The paid editing amendment was passed by the Board in April 2014 (before
> Lila was hired); it was merely *announced* in June.
>
> -Pete
> [[User:Peteforsyth]]
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 8:59 AM, David Emrany <david.emr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Coren
> >
> > I think you are mistaken. The paid editing amendment was added in 2014
> > (16th June) during Lila's term.[1] Lila took over the reins from Sue
> > on 1 June 2014.
> >
> > I'm appalled that you credit Sue for the steps taken (under Lila) to
> > widen the volunteer base by exposing many rotten apples, including
> > through better technology.
> >
> > I equally state with certainty that your claim re the WMF's not
> > preventing in any way the investigations is tremendously flexible with
> > the truth and is completely divorced from reality. The enforcement of
> > the Terms of Use lies exclusively with the WMF. There is no point
> > repeating here the legal defeats WMF has suffered in many
> > international courts during Sue's regime. We can discuss this
> > privately.
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Terms_of_Use=revision=98138=90463
> >
> > BTW, its unclear how someone "tangentially involved" can state facts
> > with "absolute certainty".
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On 3/1/16, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> wrote:
> > > On 16-03-01 03:57 AM, David Emrany wrote:
> > >> What nobody is prepared to acknowledge is that only under Lila's term
> > >> some of the most blatant and egregious instances of coordinated PR
> > >> socking and on-wiki abuses could come out.
> > >
> > > I was tangentially part of the investigation that led to many of those
> > > things being ferreted out and I can tell you with absolute certainty:
> > >
> > > (a) The Foundation did not in any way prevent those investigations for
> > > abuse in the past (before or after Lila), so saying that "only under
> > > Lila's term [they] could come out" is at best misguided.
> > >
> > > (b) The single biggest help we have had in being able that kind of
> abuse
> > > were the revised terms of use, that were put in place in 2012 and
> > > started being worked on at least a year prior.  As far as I know the ED
> > > had minor to no involvement in this - that was a long-overdue
> initiative
> > > from Legal.  But even *if* it had ED involvement, it would have been
> all
> > > Sue.
> > >
> > > (c) The foundation has always given volunteers support when we needed
> > > Legal/Comm help getting rid of significant abuse, for as long as I can
> > > remember (At least since 2008).  The help they were *able* to give at
> > > the time was more limited because the LCA team was tiny and overworked,
> > > but they always tried their best.
> > >
> > > So, nobody is "prepared to acknowledge" your assertion because it has
> no
> > > relationship with reality.
> > >
> > > -- Coren / Marc
> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] NY Times on Google team dynamics/success research

[Philippe Beaudette]

Jordan,

This is fantastic stuff. Thanks to you and to George for calling it to our
attention. This is my reading for the night...

Philippe

On Monday, February 29, 2016, Jordan Adler <jmad...@google.com> wrote:

> We've shared our findings here: https://rework.withgoogle.com/
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:50 AM George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Relevant to the discussion on Foundation issues...  The NY Times reports
> > on Google's research into what made some teams succeed and some fail.
> >
> > Short answer: Team norms to respect the individual members, for everyone
> > to get a chance to talk and contribute and be heard.
> >
> >
> >
> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?smid=tw-nytimes=cur&_r=0=https://t.co/m4sRhDftJz
> >
> > George William Herbert
> > Sent from my iPhone
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The right time is now!

[Philippe Beaudette]

the rest
> of
> > > > us in your and our common revolution.
> > > >
> > > > I imagine one democratic Wikimedia movement, based on solidarity,
> > > > common values and common culture. I imagine all of us have the same
> > > > goals and help each other to achieve them. I imagine us as the seed
> > > > for the future United Federations of Planets (and, yes, when I come
> to
> > > > San Francisco, I want you to show me Starfleet Command!).
> > > >
> > > > So, please, go back to your revolutionary cells, create your vision
> of
> > > > our movement while listening the input of the rest of us, present it
> > > > to us on Meta, lead the discussion, lead the revolution! You've shown
> > > > that you are capable to do that.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Katy Love to direct WMF Resources team

[Philippe Beaudette]

Congrats to Katy. She will be an excellent person for this role.

On Thursday, February 25, 2016, Maggie Dennis <mden...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello, all.
>
> I am delighted to announce that Katy Love has agreed to step into the role
> of Director of Resources in the Community Engagement department, picking up
> the baton so ably carried by Siko Bouterse before her. Katy has been with
> the Wikimedia Foundation since January 2013, beginning as the first program
> officer to work with the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC). I’m grateful
> to her for moving into this role and am looking forward to collaborating
> with her closely in WMF’s Community Engagement department.
>
> We will be hiring her replacement to oversee the FDC/full annual plan
> grants program in the weeks ahead.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Maggie
>
> P.S. Their page! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

[philippe]

I rarely like to add "me too" posts, but Dan buried the lead here... The most 
important thing he said, in the long term, was the last sentence, which I have 
quoted below.

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org>
> Date: February 21, 2016 at 5:03:01 AM PST
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT
> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> 
>  I
> certainly wish the level of discourse here would be less violent, because
> we have to look at ourselves in the mirror when this is resolved and build
> our future together.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Another goodbye

[Philippe Beaudette]

Wow.  What a loss. I will never forget your boundless enthusiasm for this
movement, and I loved our semi-regular walking meetings, Siko. I know you
will do so much for wherever you end up.  What a tremendous asset you will
be to them!  Your gifts are tremendous - almost as big as your heart.

Best,
pb

On Thursday, February 11, 2016, Steven Crossin <cro0...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow Siko. This comes as a massive surprise. It was a pleasure working with
> you on dispute resolution on my time as a Wikimedia Fellow. I'll always
> remember the support you gave me and how I grew as a result. I consider you
> a great friend and I'll miss you a lot. I wish you all the best in your
> future endeavours. You will be sorely missed.
>
> Steve
>
> *Steven Crossin*
> *cro0...@gmail.com <javascript:;> <cro0...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>*
>
> On 12 February 2016 at 12:24, Siko Bouterse <sboute...@wikimedia.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Dear friends and colleagues,
> >
> > I’ve had the amazing privilege of serving this movement in a staff
> capacity
> > for the past 4 ½ years, but I’ve now decided to move on from my role at
> the
> > Wikimedia Foundation.
> >
> > Transparency, integrity, community and free knowledge remain deeply
> > important to me, and I believe I will be better placed to represent those
> > values in a volunteer capacity at this time. I am and will always remain
> a
> > Wikimedian, so you'll still see me around the projects (User:Seeeko),
> > hopefully with renewed energy and joy in volunteering.
> >
> > This movement has become my home in so many unexpected ways, and I’m
> truly
> > honored to have learned from so many of you. It was an amazing experience
> > to have partnered with smart, bold, and dedicated community folks to
> > experiment with projects like Teahouse, IdeaLab, Inspire, Individual
> > Engagement Grants, and Reimagining Grants. I’ve seen you create some
> really
> > incredible content, ideas, tools, programs, processes, committees and
> > organizations, all in the service of free knowledge.
> >
> > I expect my last day to be Thursday, February 25th. I have full
> confidence
> > in Maggie Dennis's abilities to lead the Community Engagement Department,
> > and I trust that my team will remain available to support the community’s
> > needs for grants and other resources throughout this time of transition.
> >
> > Much love,
> > Siko
> >
> > --
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> > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> the
> > sum of all knowledge. *
> > *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

[Philippe Beaudette]

Anna, I'll never forget you walking up to me at a journalism conference and
asking for a job.

Then I'll never forget harassing you into taking it, when you had a better
offer somewhere else.

I'm glad you did; your expertise added much to the WMF, and I know you will
be greatly missed.  However, I know that teaching was near and dear to your
heart... as you know, I told you once to follow your bliss, even if it
meant leaving the CA team, and I say the same to you now.  The Wikimedia
movement will be greater for having you around generally.

Best,
pb


On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Steinsplitter Wiki <
steinsplitter-w...@live.com> wrote:

> Anna, I will miss you! Thanks for all your excellent work. I always
> appreciated it. It was a pleasure to work edit you together at outreachwiki.
>
> I hope you will edit as volunteer :-)
>
> --Steinsplitter
>
> > From: ako...@wikimedia.org
> > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:49:18 -0800
> > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3
> >
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > During the past three years, I have been privileged to be a part of this
> > movement and this organization.
> >
> > I have been honored to be your colleague and to work with you in service
> of
> > the sum of all knowledge.
> >
> > In particular, I wish to note particular projects that have inspired me
> > very much.
> >
> >- Working with Philippe Beautdette, Maggie Dennis, James Alexander,
> and
> >Jan Eisfeldt to keep our community safe from threats of harm. [1]
> >- Working with Patrick Earley, Nick Wilson, Erica Litrenta, Sherry
> >Snyder, Oliver Keyes, and James Forester on the rollout of
> VisualEditor. [2]
> >- Working with Yana Welinder and Heather Walls to design a
> user-friendly
> >trademark policy. [3] [4]
> >- Working with Siko Bouterse to support Individual Engagement Grants
> and
> >movement diversity. [5] [6]
> >- Working with Jake Orlowitz to promote the Wikipedia Library and the
> >Wikipedia Adventure. [7] [8]
> >- Working with Jaime Anstee, Edward Galvez, Amanda Bittaker to
> encourage
> >evaluation and learning. [9]
> >- Working with Asaf Bartov to encourage regional cooperation in
> Central
> >and Eastern Europe. [10]
> >- Working with Floor Koudijs. Tighe Flanagan, Kacie Harold, Samir
> >Elsharbaty, Rodney Dunican, Sage Ross, Jami Mathewson, and LiAnna
> Davis on
> >the Wikipedia Education Program. [11]
> >
> > The Wikipedia Education Program is especially near and dear to my heart.
> It
> > is a means of educating readers, recruiting contributors, and creating
> > quality content. Since 2014, the number of education initiatives around
> the
> > world has increased by 36%. [12] [13] And 25% of all education programs
> are
> > in one of the regions that I directly supported. [14] I am so proud of
> what
> > they have accomplished. And I am enthusiastic about what great things
> they
> > have yet to achieve.
> >
> > I want to thank and compliment my current manager, Floor Koudijs. She is
> a
> > competent, considerate, conscientious leader, and her diplomacy skills
> are
> > unsurpassed. I am confident that the education team and the education
> > program will continue to excel under her leadership. They are in the best
> > hands.
> >
> > I want to thank and compliment my hiring manager, Maggie Dennis. She had
> > faith that, although I wasn’t an active community member, I could be
> taught
> > to be a good community advocate. I am so proud that I proved her right.
> She
> > taught me how to work in accordance with and to have the utmost respect
> for
> > the wiki way. [15]
> >
> > Wikipedia is a miracle, a monument to altruism. It is vital to the
> internet
> > ecosystem, and it is vital to the education system. I hope that more
> young
> > people especially will find their way to it and help out. And when they
> do,
> > I hope that they are met with wise mentorship from veteran community
> > members, just as I was.
> >
> > I intend to remain a Wikipedian even after I am no longer a WMF staff
> > member. And, with that promise, I’ll see you on the wikis. [16]
> >
> > All the best,
> > Anna Koval, M.Ed.
> >
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Threats_of_harm
> > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor
> > [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy
> > [4]
> >
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/29/designing-a-user-friendly-trademark-policy/
> > [5

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Changes to Community Engagement

[Philippe Beaudette]

Losing Luis will be a substantial loss to the WMF.  I sat across the wall
from him for a couple of years and watched him grow and adapt to the WMF;
his legal insight was welcome and targetted.  When he transitioned to CE,
he ably created that team and shaped it.  His loss will be a real hit.

However, with that said YAY MAGGIE!  I've watched her grow for several
years since I hired her as our first community liaison, and you could not
have come up with a better choice for an interim head of department.  She
always had my confidence and respect, and I have often thought her one of
the great under-utillized assets of the WMF.  Exceptional choice.

Best,
pb

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Lila Tretikov <l...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> I am sad to let you know that Luis Villa, our lead for the Community
> Engagement department, will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation. A year
> ago, Luis took on a big challenge, transitioning from the Legal Department
> to lead the newly created  Community Engagement organization. In that role,
> Luis and our teams were tasked with many recent community initiatives, such
> as the creation of the Community Tech team, gender-related and
> anti-harassment programs, and improved alignment of WMF annual planning
> with the Funds Dissemination Committee. Prior to that, as Deputy General
> Counsel he was responsible for a number of legal initiatives, including
> licensing, contracts, and product counseling. I’m grateful for his counsel,
> and his leadership in the WMF movement throughout these years.
>
> Later this month, Luis will transition out of his current position with the
> Wikimedia Foundation to pursue other opportunities. He will remain in a
> consulting role with the Foundation over the next few months, continuing to
> support our ongoing strategy and annual planning processes.
>
> I want to thank Luis for his commitment to the WMF mission, and for the
> inspired energy and contributions he has brought to our movement. I’m
> looking forward to his future accomplishments and staying in close touch as
> he grows in his career.
>
> Maggie Dennis will step in as the interim director for the CE team
> effective immediately. Her deep community background, passion for our
> mission, and outstanding teamwork are great assets in this transition. She
> will also continue to serve as Director of Support and Safety. Maggie is a
> respected leader, colleague, and community member. I am confident she will
> bring critical insights, especially now as we plan for our next year.
>
> The work of of the CE department will continue as planned, and the overall
> structure of the department (including the Community Tech team, which will
> continue to report into the Product organization) will stay on-course. Our
> goal is to ensure a smooth transition as we continue our progress to
> improve the WMF support for our communities.
>
> It is my priority that the WMF continues to build upon the initiatives we
> started in 2015 in support for the global Wikimedia community. Continued
> leadership of the Community Engagement department at executive level in the
> WMF is a part of delivering on those commitments. We will be looking to
> fill the Community Engagement leadership role with someone with a strong
> background in community programs, and an understanding of the Wikimedia
> movement. We will also look to engage with you to find the right person for
> this role. We will send an update on the next steps and the job description
> shortly, which will include a further discussion of the role on-wiki.
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Harassment Survey - Results Report

[philippe]

Maggie gave the answer:  "and cases where existing
pornographic pictures that were not the individual were selected and
misattributed as being them."

It isn't dependent on an actual published photo. You can take any old photo, 
slap "Philippe beau fete" on it, and run with it. (You CANbut please don't.)

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> On Jan 30, 2016, at 5:47 AM, Tobias <church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Maggie,
> 
>> On 01/30/2016 02:35 PM, Maggie Dennis wrote:
>> In the time I've worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, I have
>> (unsurprisingly, given its reported prevalence) come across this kind of
>> harassment in my work with Support and Safety (formerly Community
>> Advocacy). There have been cases where perfectly harmless pictures of the
>> individuals have been doctored to be sexualized and cases where existing
>> pornographic pictures that were not the individual were selected and
>> misattributed as being them. I have personally been involved in complaints
>> of this happening to both men and women.
> 
> thank you for providing further insights. That is really concerning.
> 
> At the same time, a great majority of users do not publish photos of
> themselves, and don't publish their name (which would allow others to
> find available photos elsewhere), so it is still a mystery to me how
> this very high percentage can be explained.
> 
> Tobias
> 
> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changes in the Board

[philippe]

I believe Kat says it well.

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> On Jan 27, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Kat Walsh <k...@mindspillage.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, Patricio.
> 
> And thank you, Arnnon. I am sure this must have been difficult for
> you, that you had every intention of bringing your best work to the
> role, and that your considerable experience and skills would have been
> valuable. I appreciate your willingness to step up to the task, which
> is not a small thing to ask of anyone, and now in light of the
> challenges and complications it would bring, your willingness to step
> down.
> 
> -Kat
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Patricio Lorente
> <patricio.lore...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> Throughout the discussion about the appointment of Arnnon Geshuri to the
>> Board of Trustees, the Board has carefully listened to you and discussed
>> internally. Earlier today, Arnnon decided to step down from the Board. To
>> paraphrase his words, he doesn't want to be a distraction for the important
>> discussions that the community and the Foundation need to face in the times
>> to come. We want to thank Arnnon for his ongoing commitment and for helping
>> us to move forward.
>> 
>> The Board Governance Committee is working to improve and update our
>> selection processes before we fill the vacancy left by Arnnon’s departure.
>> We are sorry for the distress and confusion this has caused to some in our
>> community, and also to Arnnon.
>> 
>> Patricio and Alice
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Patricio Lorente
>> Chair, Board of Trustees
>> 
>> Alice Wiegand
>> Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Offlist Re: In Support of Community

[Philippe Beaudette]

You called? :)

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ok, spot the idiot who can't send an offlist email offlist.
> On 13 Jan 2016 09:38, "Chris Keating" <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That's what the Googleplex wants you to think!
> > On 13 Jan 2016 00:56, "Asaf Bartov" <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > (perhaps it would be nice to stop wasting everyone's time with this.)
> > >
> > >A.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've written a guess on what Damon is hinting at. I will reveal this
> > > guess
> > > > at some later date, but for now here is the hash value:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> bd17ae9eef103aec4ce75c8e8ba0c0b9cb45bc63c7bb0b52145642b68b1c6bfb586ea67f18e07e6767b5522765a00e096cf29eceadc0450e8840a19bacb692f2
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [announcement] Ombudsman commission wider scope

[Philippe Beaudette]

This is excellent news, and has been years in the making.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Dariusz. As not all members of the Ombudsman Commission subscribe
> this list, I forwarded this to them :-)
>
>
>
> 2016-01-14 15:58 GMT+01:00 Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl>:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > I'm writing to you to bring the news that, after a while of work and
> > discussion, the Board has finally addressed the need to amend the scope
> of
> > our Ombudsman Commission, following the community consensus from a while
> > back [1]
> > <
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Commission
> > >
> > .
> >
> > The resolution was approved in November [2]
> > <
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
> > >
> > and
> > has been just published.
> >
> > As a former ombudsman, as well as an endorser of the proposal, I can say
> > that while this may not be a huge thing, it still is important and will,
> > hopefully, make our work easier :)
> >
> > best,
> >
> > dj
> >
> > The Ombudsman Commission is currently the body which investigates
> > complaints about violations of the privacy and access to nonpublic
> > information policies established by Wikimedia Foundation and which apply
> to
> > all Wikimedia wiki projects. The Ombudsman Commission was appointed on 23
> > July 2006 by the Wikimedia Foundation Board with the generally narrow
> scope
> > of investigating potential privacy violations performed by users having
> > access to the CheckUser interface (namely CheckUsers and Stewards).
> >
> > Over time, the Ombudsman Commission has received a growing number of
> > requests to investigate cases which are not clearly complaints about
> > individual CheckUser actions but may be potential or real violations of
> the
> > privacy policy. Following the 2006 Board Resolution's definition of the
> > scope, the Ombudsman Commission has consistently rejected these requests,
> > and the applicants remain unsatisfied as there is no other body in the
> > Wikimedia movement tasked to resolve these problems. Therefore, the
> members
> > of Ombudsman Commission, with help of the WMF legal team, asked the WMF
> > Board to redefine the scope of the Ombudsman Commission.
> > The Board of Trustees of the Foundation has accepted the community's
> > consensus and has authorized an expansion of the Ombudsman Commission's
> > scope to include two more tasks:
> > To review, upon request, local project CheckUser and Oversight policies
> to
> > ensure that they do not violate the respective global policies.
> >
> > To investigate, upon request, potential violations of the appropriate
> > global policies by local CheckUsers and Oversighters.
> >
> > Investigation of potential violations of local policies which are not
> > violations of the global polices remain the responsibility of the local
> > project and not within the scope of the Ombudsman Commission at this
> time.
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Commission
> > [2]
> >
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:25 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Also agree.
>
> I'd like to see strategic plan for the movement done first, and then
> one undertaken for the Foundation when the 'movement's plan is
> finished.
>
>

​That has long been one of my take-aways from the process.  Count me as a
+1 for this idea.

pb

PS - Yaroslav, few things make me happier than hearing that your children
are impressed by the iron barnstar.  I'd love to take credit, but that
credit belongs solely in my friend Eugene Eric Kim's camp - that was his
idea; I just had charge of execution, but I'm so very glad that it is an
idea that you liked.  Working with Eugene was an honor and a privilege, and
I learned a tremendous amount about coordination of a massive process from
him.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] How To Recover From Having Made A Mistake [a reminder]

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org>
wrote:

> On 2016-01-11 1:37 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
>
>> "I neglected to look at relevant data before deciding to fund
>> Wikimedia Antarctica"
>>
>
> But, but... the editathon at McMurdo Station was a resounding success!
>
> -- Marc


Plus I know of at least one donation made from Antarctica, that year i ran
the fundraiser...  If that isn't enough to justify chapter creation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you, Jan-Bart and Stu

[Philippe Beaudette]

t; > > seem to almost ignore the fact that two long time veterans are
> > > leaving
> > > > > the
> > > > > > Wikimedia Foundation board, as scheduled. Jan-Bart de Vreede and
> > Stu
> > > > West
> > > > > > have been around longer than many regular editors nowadays, and I
> > > think
> > > > > > there are not many people who can recall the days that the board
> > > didn't
> > > > > > have them on it. I have never had the pleasure to serve on the
> > board
> > > > with
> > > > > > them, but a little thank-you from our community side, would seem
> in
> > > > > place.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Stu joined the board already in 2008 (filling Michael Davis'
> seat),
> > > and
> > > > > has
> > > > > > been a solid power on the board's audit responsibilities (I
> believe
> > > he
> > > > > > chaired the audit committee for quite a while) and was a force
> > behind
> > > > the
> > > > > > accountability of movement affiliates. While we often strongly
> > > > disagreed
> > > > > on
> > > > > > affiliate issues, I appreciate the fact that he always remained
> > > > > > constructive and wanted to think about solutions rather than
> > > problems.
> > > > He
> > > > > > served both as treasurer and vice chair.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jan-Bart was on the board even longer, since early 2007, and I
> > recall
> > > > > > already working with him through Kennisnet (a Dutch foundation
> for
> > > > > > education and IT) before that. Jan-Bart is one of those rare
> people
> > > who
> > > > > > went to ALL wikimania conferences, and can be easily recognised
> > there
> > > > > with
> > > > > > his big smile. I can't remember a theme Jan-Bart didn't work on
> in
> > > the
> > > > > past
> > > > > > years (Affiliates, HR, searching a new Executive Director) and he
> > > > served
> > > > > > the board in many positions, including as chair.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm sure that the WMF communications staff and/or board has a
> nice
> > > > > thankyou
> > > > > > coming up - with a more accurate description of the awesome work
> > they
> > > > > did,
> > > > > > that I now made up from the top of my head. But in the mean time,
> > I'd
> > > > > like
> > > > > > to do it myself: Thank you Jan-Bart and Stu for all the time,
> > energy
> > > > and
> > > > > > effort that you poured into our movement. I know that not all of
> us
> > > > > > appreciate this as much as we perhaps should, and sometimes you
> may
> > > > even
> > > > > > have perceived us as hostile. I do sincerely hope that you had
> fun
> > > with
> > > > > us
> > > > > > though, and I'm confident that you made a big dent in our
> > impossible
> > > > > > mission of sharing the sum of all knowledge with everyone.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I hope to meet you again soon, at least in Italy at Wikimania,
> and
> > I
> > > > hope
> > > > > > to see you around in our movement in many different ways.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Best,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Lodewijk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic plan

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ​[Pete]​
>  editorializing, very briefly for now:
>
> This answer is very bizarre. Characterizing the 2010 process as having been
> "outsourced" or not involving staff is wildly inaccurate
> ​
>
-- 

​Quite.  The two people hired for that process (Eugene Eric Kim and myself)
had deep involvement with the Wikimedia community prior to being hired.  I
believe Lila was likely referring to the involvement of the Bridgespan
Group in the process, but I would hasten to point out that their
involvement was largely advisory, and deeply informed by the involvement of
the more than 1000 people who contributed to the development of the
2010-2015 plan.

I can only suspect that Lila's language here was imprecise - I don't think
that process could be legitimately thought of as "outsourced" in the common
usage of the word, nor do I believe that Lila thinks that.  I think she was
mostly operating on the fly and grabbed the wrong word.

But I've been wrong before. :-)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

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I don't believe that's "very clear" at all.  You yourself said "If what Ben 
said is true"  I think it's very possible - to the extent that Ben 
cautioned against it himself - that this may be a misunderstanding. 

In my nearly seven years at the WMF I never once saw corruption of the sort you 
suggest. Not once. And I think it's safe to say I was well connected. 

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> On Jan 2, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Comet styles <cometsty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We should probably start with our high and mighty leader, Jimbo, just
> like everyone else, He should now be 'elected' into the BoT, no more
> free seats..Wikimedia has now grown to an extent where we may no
> longer need him to run the foundation or to hold a deciding vote on
> issues where he has his own interests in..This problem of lacking
> transparency has leaked down to the lower levels of wikimedia as well,
> is that the example they are going to set? .. As I said before, the
> longer this drags on, the more likelihood of a 'manufactured' truth
> coming out..
> 
> People who do wrong need time to come up with a good lieeveryone
> knows this..James spoke the moment he was "fired" for which he was
> reprimanded by the same authority that 'fired' him...If what Ben
> Creasy said is true, then its definitely not James on the wrong here
> and I'd be really effing pissed if he was made a 'scapegoat' by the
> powers that be to save their own useless hide..Its very clear that
> there is corruption at the highest order at WMFthe question is..
> How deep does it go? ..
> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

[Philippe Beaudette]

Kevin,

I disagree with nothing you’ve said here.  What I disagreed with was the 
characterization that “certainly” something untoward had taken place.

pb


> On Jan 2, 2016, at 9:41 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Philippe -
> 
> I totally agree with you that none of my experiences with WMF suggest that
> such a thing is likely to happen.  Organizations and people change over
> time, though - similarly, this is the first time a sitting trustee has been
> dismissed.  Given the unusuality of the situation, in my opinion at least,
> given the *drastic* seriousness that something like deliberately
> withholding documents in such a manner under California state law (I can't
> speak with familiarity about Florida NPO governance,) and the fact that
> both the BoT and James could pretty easily give flat out answers to the
> question of whether or not they think it occurred, I think it's worth
> asking for those answers.
> 
> If James and the BoT agree that such withholding took place, I think it
> demands an outside review of WMF governance.  If James thinks it did, but
> the rest of the BoT disagrees.. given the general respect held for James'
> and the seriousness of the charge, I think an outside review of WMF
> governance is *still* probably reasonably necessary.  If neither thinks
> such withholding took place, then it settles a serious charge quite simply.
> 
> Best,
> KG
> 
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 7:01 PM, <phili...@beaudette.me> wrote:
> 
>> I don't believe that's "very clear" at all.  You yourself said "If what
>> Ben said is true"  I think it's very possible - to the extent that Ben
>> cautioned against it himself - that this may be a misunderstanding.
>> 
>> In my nearly seven years at the WMF I never once saw corruption of the
>> sort you suggest. Not once. And I think it's safe to say I was well
>> connected.
>> 
>> --
>> Philippe Beaudette
>> philippe.beaude...@icloud.com
>> 
>>> On Jan 2, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Comet styles <cometsty...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We should probably start with our high and mighty leader, Jimbo, just
>>> like everyone else, He should now be 'elected' into the BoT, no more
>>> free seats..Wikimedia has now grown to an extent where we may no
>>> longer need him to run the foundation or to hold a deciding vote on
>>> issues where he has his own interests in..This problem of lacking
>>> transparency has leaked down to the lower levels of wikimedia as well,
>>> is that the example they are going to set? .. As I said before, the
>>> longer this drags on, the more likelihood of a 'manufactured' truth
>>> coming out..
>>> 
>>> People who do wrong need time to come up with a good lieeveryone
>>> knows this..James spoke the moment he was "fired" for which he was
>>> reprimanded by the same authority that 'fired' him...If what Ben
>>> Creasy said is true, then its definitely not James on the wrong here
>>> and I'd be really effing pissed if he was made a 'scapegoat' by the
>>> powers that be to save their own useless hide..Its very clear that
>>> there is corruption at the highest order at WMFthe question is..
>>> How deep does it go? ..
>>> 
>>> --
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

[Philippe Beaudette]

again, i disagree with little (if any) of what you say that.  I don’t agree 
with the characterization, prior to any sort of investigation, that something 
was absolutely wrong.  We don’t KNOW what’s gone on, is my point.

So let’s not speculate until and unless an investigation is completed - and 
probably not then either.

pb


> On Jan 2, 2016, at 9:54 PM, Comet styles  wrote:
> 
> I'm quite aware of what James was trying to achieve
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Doc_James/Foundation) and I'm
> fully in support of his ideas so if whatever he did was related to one
> of those he mentions on the link, then its quite understandable why
> right now I'm on his side  and not on the the other side...5 of whom
> the community did not appoint (or trusts) and one who is there by
> 'default'
> 
> The issue is not what James did, it was the drastic step taken and
> above all the silence in relation to this from the 'BoT' which has
> become quite deafening..When you fire someone and them make a
> statement regarding it and why, we all would have accepted it  and
> possibly fought it if we had found it unjustified..but when you fire
> someone and then run back into the hole...what are we to assume?..Its
> too early to start an investigation since no one is forthcoming...so
> speculation and allegations are the only things left... I'm not angry,
> I personally don't care but I have seen too much nonsense by the
> hierarchy over the last 5 years to allow another one to be swept under
> the rug under the veil of "privacy" ...
> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

[Philippe Beaudette]

Quite right, I didn’t mean to imply (and in retrospect i understand a reading 
that would miss that detail) that the verbiage in question was yours.

It was not.

pb


> On Jan 2, 2016, at 9:56 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I know you probably realize this pb, but I just want to emphasize that the
> verbiage that certainly something untoward has taken place wasn't coming
> from me, and would like to stress that to the rest of the list.  It's just
> such a serious matter, that I believe outside investigation is almost
> certainly warranted, unless James agrees that there was no such withholding
> and additionally agrees that the degree of transparency with which his
> removal took place is in line with both the law and the values of the
> movement.  On the extreme end, under california NPO governance, there are
> certain situations where such intentional document withholding could
> actually risk eliminating the normal shield trustees enjoy for most of
> their actions and making them personally liable, so it's a situation that's
> weird enough that clearing it up with transparency and speed is in the best
> interests of the Wikimedia movement.
> 
> Best,
> KG
> 
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Philippe Beaudette <phili...@beaudette.me>
> wrote:
> 
>> Kevin,
>> 
>> I disagree with nothing you’ve said here.  What I disagreed with was the
>> characterization that “certainly” something untoward had taken place.
>> 
>> pb
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 2, 2016, at 9:41 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Philippe -
>>> 
>>> I totally agree with you that none of my experiences with WMF suggest
>> that
>>> such a thing is likely to happen.  Organizations and people change over
>>> time, though - similarly, this is the first time a sitting trustee has
>> been
>>> dismissed.  Given the unusuality of the situation, in my opinion at
>> least,
>>> given the *drastic* seriousness that something like deliberately
>>> withholding documents in such a manner under California state law (I
>> can't
>>> speak with familiarity about Florida NPO governance,) and the fact that
>>> both the BoT and James could pretty easily give flat out answers to the
>>> question of whether or not they think it occurred, I think it's worth
>>> asking for those answers.
>>> 
>>> If James and the BoT agree that such withholding took place, I think it
>>> demands an outside review of WMF governance.  If James thinks it did, but
>>> the rest of the BoT disagrees.. given the general respect held for James'
>>> and the seriousness of the charge, I think an outside review of WMF
>>> governance is *still* probably reasonably necessary.  If neither thinks
>>> such withholding took place, then it settles a serious charge quite
>> simply.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> KG
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 7:01 PM, <phili...@beaudette.me> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I don't believe that's "very clear" at all.  You yourself said "If what
>>>> Ben said is true"  I think it's very possible - to the extent that
>> Ben
>>>> cautioned against it himself - that this may be a misunderstanding.
>>>> 
>>>> In my nearly seven years at the WMF I never once saw corruption of the
>>>> sort you suggest. Not once. And I think it's safe to say I was well
>>>> connected.
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Philippe Beaudette
>>>> philippe.beaude...@icloud.com
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 2, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Comet styles <cometsty...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> We should probably start with our high and mighty leader, Jimbo, just
>>>>> like everyone else, He should now be 'elected' into the BoT, no more
>>>>> free seats..Wikimedia has now grown to an extent where we may no
>>>>> longer need him to run the foundation or to hold a deciding vote on
>>>>> issues where he has his own interests in..This problem of lacking
>>>>> transparency has leaked down to the lower levels of wikimedia as well,
>>>>> is that the example they are going to set? .. As I said before, the
>>>>> longer this drags on, the more likelihood of a 'manufactured' truth
>>>>> coming out..
>>>>> 
>>>>> People who do wrong need time to come up with a good lieeveryone
>>>>> knows this..James spoke the moment he was "fired"

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement

[Philippe Beaudette]

Dear friends,

Six years is a long time.  Over the last six years, I've been privileged to
be a part of so many things with you.  And I'm proud of what we've done
together.  For the last six years, I've been a part of things that will
excite me until the day that I die - the things that, together, we did in
service of that phrase - "the sum of human knowledge" - were magical.  I'll
never forget them, and I've been honored to be a part of this movement.

But it's time for me to move on.

As many of you know, for the last couple of years, I've struggled with my
health.  I've come to the unpleasant realization that for my own good, I
need to step back and focus on healing, and then look around for new and
exciting opportunities.

When Sue left, she said that her decision process included looking around
and taking stock of the people and the condition of the Foundation, and
asking herself "Is it safe? If I leave, is it safe?" and when she knew it
was, she began to consider the idea.

I've been doing the same, obviously focused on projects and programs that
are important to me.  And I look around and I know that with the
contributors that we have - brilliant, dedicated, passionate people and
the staff that we have - dynamic, talented, devoted, and fearless it's
safe.  So it's time for me to move on, and to leave it to them.

As a housekeeping note:  I've agreed with Luis that I'll be available until
9/15, though I'll be out on medical leave, so may be slow to answer
questions.  If I owe you something, please remind me so that we can get it
properly assigned out.

You can all reach out to me at any time... phili...@beaudette.me and
any time I see you will be a celebration.

With my deepest affection,

Philippe

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

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

 2. CA says that there are ...a (legal-approved) list of... event banned
 users, a protocol for appearance (or threat of it) at events by banned
 users and that it will Supply to Conference Coordinators for events
 beginning in Q1 (6/30). Here at Cascadia Wikimedians, I didn't receive the
 list or the protocol. I'm not sure that we need the list, but having access
 to the protocol would be helpful, and I suggest that it be circulated among
 the leaders of affiliate organizations which have in-person meetings even
 if they are not conferences, since we may want to use WMF's protocol as a
 basis for developing our own, keeping in mind that local laws may vary.
 This aligns with the general goal of having friendly spaces in Wikimedia,
 both physical and virtual.


Quite right - you haven't received it... because it was just finished
before Wikimania.  Give us a bit of time to breathe, please. :-)  It will
be circulated as necessary - meaning, we will likely not be providing the
list of names, except to event organizers.  I believe the current intent is
to share the protocol with those who are interested, but I'm honestly not
sure of this - while it was developed on my team, I honestly didn't have
day to day involvement with it, so I need to refresh my memory. :-)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Board of Trustees Chair and Vice Chair positions

[Philippe Beaudette]

Wonderful officer choices; welcome to the new Board, thanks to the
departings.

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Patricio Lorente 
patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thank you all for your nice words. Just to follow up Jan-Bart's email I'd
 like to add that today were officially apointed to the Board the recently
 elected Board members: Dariusz Jemielniak, James Heilman and
 Denny Vrandečić. Please, join me in congratulating them as well.

 And also to thank the work and continuous commitment with the Wikimedia
 movement of Maria Sefidari, Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein, who left
 today the Board but we all know that they will continue working along with
 our community.

 And thank you, Jan-Bart, for leading the Board in these past two years of
 changes and transition. You did a great work!


  Patricio

 El jue., 16 de jul. de 2015 a la(s) 7:37 p. m., Edward Galvez 
 egal...@wikimedia.org escribió:

  Congratulations!
 
  On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Katy Love kl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
   Congratulations Patricio and Alice!!
   Katy
  
   On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Christophe Henner 
   christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote:
  
Congrats Patricio and Alice.
   
Jan-Bart when are you buying rounds?
Le 16 juil. 2015 5:12 PM, Pierre-Selim pierre-se...@huard.info a
écrit :
   
 Congrats Patricio and Alice!

 And thank you Jan-Bart :)

 2015-07-16 17:08 GMT-05:00 Gregory Varnum 
 gregory.var...@gmail.com
  :

  Congratulations (and condolences) to Patricio and Alice! Good
 news.
   :)
 
  Thank you Jan-Bart for your service as Chair and for staying for
sticking
  around for the transition. :)
 
  -greg
 
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   On Jul 16, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede 
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   Hello Everyone
  
   I am happy to inform you that the Board has unanimously
  appointed a
new
  Chair and Vice Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
 Trustees.
  
   Patricio Lorente will be the new Chair and Alice Wiegand will
 be
   the
 new
  Vice-Chair. Both have several.years of experience on the board
 and
  we
are
  confident that they will help the board grow and be successful in
  the
  coming years.
  
   Personally I am looking forward to helping them get acquainted
  with
  their new role in the coming months as my time on the Wikimedia
  Board
 ends
  in December.
  
   I hope you can join me in congratulating them on their new
  position
and
  wish them success in the challenges facing them.
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] GLAM Mailing lists

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The canonical home for the list of lists is
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo.  While it is possible to have
a list hidden from there, it would be pretty unusual for a GLAM list, I
think.

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On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Bohdan Melnychuk bas...@yandex.ru wrote:

 Hi guys.

 Just how many GLAM lists do we have?

 Not counting regional ones, I know of GLAM, Cultural-Partners, Libraries,
 got to know about existence of some the paris group (not sure if it's
 even a mailing list technically, but in case it's not then it's weird even
 more). Perhaps there are some (or is it many?) others.

 Should they not be all listed in one place, e.g. on
 https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Mailing_lists with clear data
 about who manages them, what are their scope, rules and how you might joint
 them?

 Just having many is already confusing but when you can't even get a list
 of all of them it's confusing even more.

 I'm sorry if some of the lists I listed were intended as cabalish and not
 to be disclosed to others. I don't think cabalish lists are a good way to
 collaborate for wikimedians.

 Yours sincerely,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banner for voting board not displayed in Italian Wikipedia

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Hi there -

Just acknowledging that we've seen this and are checking it.

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On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 there is a strange behavior in the Italian Wikipedia. The banner for the
 vote for the WMF board is not visible.

 Also from Switzerland I do not see it but I see the banner of Wiki Loves
 Earth.

 The behavior is that I see the banner of WLE more or less 40% of the time
 and in the remaining 60% of time I do not see any banner.

 It seems that the timeslot dedicated to the banner of WMF board is taken by
 an empty banner.

 I have checked the configuration of the centralnotice and it seems OK.

 May someone check it?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banner for voting board not displayed in Italian Wikipedia

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OK, I think the banner is back on for it now.

Not sure exactly WHY it happened, but it's fixed.


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 Hi there -

 Just acknowledging that we've seen this and are checking it.

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 wrote:

 Hi all,
 there is a strange behavior in the Italian Wikipedia. The banner for the
 vote for the WMF board is not visible.

 Also from Switzerland I do not see it but I see the banner of Wiki Loves
 Earth.

 The behavior is that I see the banner of WLE more or less 40% of the time
 and in the remaining 60% of time I do not see any banner.

 It seems that the timeslot dedicated to the banner of WMF board is taken
 by
 an empty banner.

 I have checked the configuration of the centralnotice and it seems OK.

 May someone check it?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banner for voting board not displayed in Italian Wikipedia

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I'm getting it on Spanish.


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On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Santi Navarro 
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 Actualy I didn't see it on Spanish Wikipedia, but yes on other=20
 projects.

 Santi Navarro

 El 2015-05-21 13:12, Philippe Beaudette escribió:

 OK, I think the banner is back on for it now.

 Not sure exactly WHY it happened, but it's fixed.


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  Hi there -

 Just acknowledging that we've seen this and are checking it.

 pb


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 wrote:

  Hi all,
 there is a strange behavior in the Italian Wikipedia. The banner for the
 vote for the WMF board is not visible.

 Also from Switzerland I do not see it but I see the banner of Wiki Loves
 Earth.

 The behavior is that I see the banner of WLE more or less 40% of the
 time
 and in the remaining 60% of time I do not see any banner.

 It seems that the timeslot dedicated to the banner of WMF board is taken
 by
 an empty banner.

 I have checked the configuration of the centralnotice and it seems OK.

 May someone check it?

 --
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation

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That would be Kim Gilbey, who has been guiding us through the consultation
and the development of the strategic priorities.  We had a meeting about it
this morning, in fact.  Further information is coming soon, I hope.

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Anthony Cole ahcole...@gmail.com wrote:

 Who has been tasked with summarising the themes in the feedback from the
 2-week community consultation that was held in February/March?

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Strategy/Community_consultation

 Anthony Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Foundation-l] Single login - decision 2004

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Eloquence~metawiki


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[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Office hours on strategy

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Just a reminder that we're going to hold an office hours on the Wikimedia
Foundation strategy development process in about 15 minutes.  Usual place
and stuff... #wikimedia-office on freenode. :-)

More info on meta at [[IRC Office hours]]

Thanks,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

[Philippe Beaudette]

Likewise, I adore this project.  I'm so delighted to see this, and love
that it happened just before 3/21, 330 years after the birth of JS Bach.
Thank you, Amir, for sharing this.

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Gayle Karen Young gayleka...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Listening to this right now with joy. Thanks!


 On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Ricordisamoa 
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  Il 20/03/2015 14:39, Amir E. Aharoni ha scritto:
 
  My personal thanks to the people who develop Pywikibot, thanks to which
  uploading 48 huge files to Commons was easy (and indeed, possible - one
 of
  them is over 100MB).
 
 
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[Wikimedia-l] Office Hours with Lila re: NSA suit - 23 March 2015 18:00 UTC / 11:00 PDT

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hello everyone,

We’ll be holding IRC office hours on Monday, March 23 at 18:00 UTC / 11:00
PDT to discuss the Wikimedia Foundation’s decision to file suit against the
NSA http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/. Wikimedia
Foundation Executive director Lila Tretikov will be there to answer
questions about why we decided to file suit, the importance of this action,
and to hear your thoughts on the issue.

The office hours will be held in #Wikimedia-office on the Freenode network.
You can find information on how to get online, including a link to a
webchat option if you don't have an IRC client, on the meta office hours
page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate.
You can also find a time converter for the start of the start of the hour
here
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=IRC+Office+Hours%3A+Wikimedia+Foundation+and+NSA+Complaint+iso=20150323T11p1=224ah=1.
Note that the U.S. has just switched to Daylight Savings Time, so you may
want to double check for the time in your location.

Like most of our public office hours, this one will be publicly logged and
will be posted on the meta office hour page shortly after it's conclusion.

Due to the legal issues surrounding this topic, this will be a moderated
session and Lila will not be able to comment on specific legal arguments or
theory. We are currently finalizing the selection of a moderator and will
update the meta office hours page prior to the office hours.

Also, tomorrow (Friday, March 20), Jimmy, Lila, and ACLU attorney Jameel
Jaffer will be doing a Reddit AMA at 4:00 PM UTC to answer questions about
this topic. Anyone who would like to join can do so via this link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA.

Thank you,

Philippe

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Using list moderation as censorship

[Philippe Beaudette]

It should.  As I recall, the idea came from their work. :-)   (Don't quote
me, but pretty sure I'm right.)


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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:58 PM, MF-Warburg mfwarb...@googlemail.com
wrote:

 Looks like Extension:MoodBar aka FeedbackDashboard, which was enabled on
 enwiki for some time.
 Am 24.11.2014 22:26 schrieb svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au:

  Think I can run an instance of https://github.com/mozilla/fjord on Labs
  and have various Wikimedia projects (Wikis and Chapters) point to it in
  their sidebar. A universal Leave Feedback link.
 
  It would take people to a page similar to
  https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback, with an appropriate
 disclaimer:
  If you need help or have a problem with Firefox, please visit Firefox
  Support. We could be able to customize it for each project to fit our
  needs. (Include aggressive pointers to OTRS queues and village pumps for
  each project, as appropriate).
 
  Thoughts?
 
  --
  svetlana
 
 
  On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, at 08:19, svetlana wrote:
   I maintain that I would love to have a formal universal feedback
 channel
  for Chapters work. It has to be drama-free, but transparent, and not
  moderated.
  
   Feedback is occasionally not negative, and may contain thorough project
  ideas.
  
   --
   svetlana
  
   On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, at 18:03, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
As there is this constant call for more paper work for chapters, it
  has to
be understood that this is exactly what kills the productivity of
  chapters.
There are always more people with their opinion why this that or the
  other
is amiss. They all have their arguments why they think they are right
  and
consequently contribute to the noise level that is already way too
  high.
   
If anything we should look for ways of appreciating the effect of
  chapters
that does not make them beholden to every John Dick AND Harry and at
  the
same time gives them equal space to move as effectively as the
  Wikimedia
Foundation itself.
Thanks,
  GerardM
   
On 23 November 2014 at 23:02, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au
  wrote:
   
 To clarify: I would like to see a more strong mechanism for review
 of
 Chapters work. This includes thorough feedback channels about how
  Chapters
 communicate, how they spend their funding. Including means to
  dissolve a
 Chapter if a large chunk of people believes it is not working well
  (such
 as, providing inadequate support to the Wikimedia movement).

 This feedback channel is probably not here, but I feel this list
  could be
 an appropriate place to discuss how the above could be implemented.

 On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, at 08:28, svetlana wrote:
  I disagree, the question raised is relevant to the Wikimedia
  movement as
 a whole.
 
  On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, at 02:37, Austin Hair wrote:
   Fae,
  
   Please do not drag this list into whatever trouble you've found
   yourself in on another. Wikimedia-l is neither a court of
  appeals for
   Wikimedia-related lists nor a bullhorn for your personal
  grievances.
  
   Austin
  
  
   On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Darcy,
   
I am concerned at what appears to be deliberate suppression
 of
questions raising governance related issues from the
 wikimedia
  UK
email list. The email below is an example. The list was
 always
intended to be independent of the UK chapter, though one of
 the
moderators is one of your employees.
   
Could you please confirm that neither you, nor your
 employees,
  are
manipulating this public list to your political advantage.
   
Thanks,
Fae
   
-- Forwarded message --
From: Fæ fae...@gmail.com
Date: 18 November 2014 at 19:24
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcome ro D'Arcy Myers
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list 
  wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: geni...@gmail.com, Harry Mitchell hjmitch...@ymail.com
   
   
It would be nice to hear from the board how this was
 discussed
  before
offering the interim position. After all, in the several
  interviews I
took part in for WMUK staff, pretty much the first basic
  question was
along the lines of 'have you ever edited Wikipedia?' as a way
  of
assessing what the candidate knows about Wikimedia; so I can
  not
believe this would come as a surprise considering how
  sensitive the
board is on COI and its perception by our community.
   
Fae
   
   
   
On 18 November 2014 19:13, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
wrote:

 I suggest we use 'the Oompa Loompa discussion meeting' and
 be done with it.


Ah, but what COLOR are the oompa loompas?


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

[Philippe Beaudette]

 On Sep 1, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 That's contradicted by, among other things, ACTRIAL as mentioned above. The
 en.wp community came to a clear consensus for a major change, and the WMF
 shrugged and said Nah, rather not.

That's... Not exactly what I remember happening there. What I remember was that 
a pretty good number (~500) of enwiki community members came together and 
agreed on a problem, and one plan for how to  fix it and asked the WMF to 
implement it. The WMF evaluated it, and saw a threat to a basic project value. 
WMF then asked what's the problem you're actually trying to solve?, and 
proposed and built a set of tools to directly address that problem without 
compromising the core value of openness. And it seems to have worked out pretty 
well because I haven't heard a ton of complaints about that problem since. 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

[Philippe Beaudette]

All,

I just want to call your attention to Lila's statement at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LilaTretikov#On_a_Scale_of_Billions
.

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com
wrote:

 On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Henning Schlottmann 
 h.schlottm...@gmx.net
 wrote:

  On 12.08.2014 16:57, Magnus Manske wrote:
   German Wikipedia had 1.1 billion page views in June [1]. ~300 votes
 (~2/3
   against MediaViewer) do not represent the readers, IMHO.
 
  Claiming to speak for a perceived silent majority will not help you much
  in this discussion.
 

 I do not make any such claim. All I say is that the 300 (is there a movie
 plot here?) do not necessarily speak for it, either.


 
  There is a common pattern in the conflicts between WMF and several
  communities over software developments during the last few years. As I
  wrote two weeks ago to Rachel:
 
  | Decision making seems to be focused on reader experience, including
  | winning readers to become authors, but existing authors and their
  | experience (in both meanings of the word) is ignored. Even by people |
  like Eric, who once was a prolific author himself
 
  | Authors see themselves as the single most important group in the
  |Wikimedia universe. Without their content, there would be nothing: No
  | readers, no fundraising banners, no donations, no employees, no
  | foundation. On the other hand, WMF seems to see the readers (and
  | donors) as their main target audience. Of course WMF knows, that all
  | the projects need content and authors, but in my opinion most of them
  | fail in appreciating the existing authors and focus too much on
  | winning readers to become authors, by simplifying the entry.
 
  This is serious. WMF really needs to appreciate the expertise of the
  author community and accept their experience a important and valid. If
  authors tell the WMF and particularly the devs, that a particular
  function is necessary, then the devs really, really need to think.
 

 I do agree with this. Visual Editor (which works much better these days)
 and MediaViewer are not aimed at the experienced editor. They aim to make
 the reader more comfortable, and try to ease the first steps into editing.
 Winning new editors has been deemed a priority, somewhat at the expense of
 WMF-made support for the power user. This is a judgement call the
 Foundation has to make.


 
  If the community tells the devs, that a particular idea is a bad one, a
  feature is too buggy to be rolled out (as default) or is unsuitable for
  a project at all, this warrants more than just a cursory thought.
 
  A formal RfD must not be taken lightly, overruling it by creating a
  whole new user class, and crippling the elected admins is inpermissible.
  WMF has broken trust again and this time in a unprecedented way.
 

 As Erik pointed out, WMF had made it quite clear that they reserve the
 right to overrule the community in that specific matter, before the
 Meinungsbild was done. WMF then acted as announced, and refused to be
 hacked out of their own servers. An unfortunate escalation on both sides,
 but since they never promised to accept the Meinungsbild (quite the
 opposite!), it was not a breach of trust.


 
  Until this event, I thought the dev process to be broken, not just the
  communication around devs. But now I believe the conflict runs deeper.
 

 It points out an issue we (community and WMF) should discuss, in a more
 general sense. What should the decision process be for technical changes?
 When does the Foundation get precendence, and when should the community
 have the last word? What weight should small-scale votes of editors have?
 Should random polls be done, and included in such votes? Etc.

 The MediaViewer affair itself gets blown out of proportion IMO.


 Cheers,
 Magnus
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

[Philippe Beaudette]

 On Aug 11, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 like suppression, it should be
 used only by stewards and community approved functionaries.


I'm confused. Are you suggesting that suppression is not used by staff?  

Super protection can be used by staff, and was. Suppression can be used by 
staff as well, and regularly is. (For instance, if legal were to ask me to 
suppress an edit, under court order). It (suppression) is not a tool we use 
without careful consideration, but it is one we use. I should think the same 
would be true of superprotection- it's not to be used lightly but it is a tool 
in our belt. 

Philippe
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome Rachel diCerbo, Director of Community Engagement

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi Nathan,

Succinctly, at a 30,000 foot level:

The Community Engagement team (staffed with Community Liaisons and the
Director of Community Engagement, Product) leads the efforts to engage the
community around the development and deployment of new tools and
product/features for the projects.

The Community Advocacy team (staffed with Community Advocates and the
Director, Community Advocacy) leads engagement with the community around
strategic change management and major policy rollouts (Terms of Use,
Privacy Policy) and serves as an entry point for things related to
governance functions (Arbcoms, Checkusers and Oversighters, etc).

The descriptions of the work of each team can be found in more depth in the
appendix to WMF's FDC submission. [1].

Best,
pb


[1] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form/Ongoing_work_areas#Legal_and_Community_Advocacy


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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:

 Welcome Rachel!

 Erik (or someone else), is there a succinct description of the mission of
 the Community Engagement and Community Advocacy departments, and/or
 especially a summary of the difference between their roles? Your e-mail
 from December included some of this information, I'm just curious if it has
 been codified in a way that would allow an outsider to quickly grok the
 split.

 Thanks!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome Rachel diCerbo, Director of Community Engagement

[Philippe Beaudette]

Right, we did that last year.  It occurred to me after I sent that that it
wasn't up to date on that section, but you're quite correct.  That work has
now transitioned to the CE team  :)

pb


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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:

 Philippe Beaudette, 28/05/2014 19:27:

 The descriptions of the work of each team can be found in more depth in
 the
 appendix to WMF's FDC submission. [1].

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/
 2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form/
 Ongoing_work_areas#Legal_and_Community_Advocacy


 «We support the rollouts of major Foundation initiatives - such as
 software changes or site policy updates [...] among them the VisualEditor
 beta launch»
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/
 2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form/
 Ongoing_work_areas#Community_Advocacy

 Nemo


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Child Protection and Harassment Policy

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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Chad Horohoe choro...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:08 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:

  I just want to chime in here that I really enjoyed reading Molly and
  John's recent posts in this thread. Simply fantastic posts.
 
  I also loved posts from Thomas, Erik, and Milos in other threads from
  the past day. I think this month of wikimedia-l has made me more
  appreciative of some of the wonderful people in the Wikimedia movement
 and
  I'm grateful for that.
 
 
 This.



Yep.



  And for anyone feeling discouraged about where we are right now, you need
  only consult https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/ for
  memories of bumpy times past that ultimately turned out pretty great. (I
  got curious the other evening... check out June 2007 for Florence's
  announcement of Sue's arrival to the Wikimedia Foundation and November
  2007 and December 2007 for her transition to Executive Director. It's
  pretty good reading and it made me feel a bit better.)
 
 
 2007 was...oh man.

 I was such an immature asshat. How the heck did I never get banned?


What surprises me is how many of the names on the June 2007 archive are
people we still hear from.  Here's to old-timers.  :)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Slide deck about Wikimedia?

[Philippe Beaudette]

What's the intended use?  I may have one that will work. Write me
offlist with details. :)

pb

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 On May 25, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Yves Z zyzz...@outlook.com wrote:

 Hello, Where can I find recent presentations about Wikimedia and what each of 
 the main projects is for?  I visited outreach.wikimedia.org but didn't see 
 slides or overviews.  Thanks!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

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On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 3:02 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:

 There have been 64
 respondents from about nine people on three continents to
 http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft


I think it's important to point out that the survey you have created there
is without context.  That is, simply asking which of those things people
support *in a vacuum* is not informative.  It's also not the question at
hand.  What you intend to ask is which they would prefer *that the
Wikimedia Foundation*, an organization chartered for a particular goal,
adopt as action points.

Your survey is grossly misleading through the absence of context.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement regarding Host for Wikimania 2015

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote:

 it would be comforting to hear how we've assessed the bid
 regarding the safety issue, and how we're going to be prepared in case the
 worst (robberies, kidnappings) do happen.


Not a small concern.  But, I should point out, one that we've dealt with
before.  We had laptops stolen in Argentina, and physical safety concerns
in Alexandria, as I recall.  I say this not to put a panacea of oh, there
there, it'll be fine in place, but to assure people that this is something
that I know that Garfield and Elle, and the rest of the WMF team working on
this will consider and keep in mind. :-)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

[Philippe Beaudette]

Amir, this is the first time that one's been brought up.  I'll chat with
OIT about potentially changing moving forward.

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On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Amir E. Aharoni 
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:

 Silly technical remark: Everybody, please stop doing this with parentheses.
 It breaks in right to left languages. Gary-WMF is just as readable, and
 doesn't have this problem. Thanks for the attention.
 בתאריך 20 באפר 2014 02:17, מאת Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm:

  On a second thought, do we want to add an optional affiliation field to
  the signup form, so the affiliation goes at the end of username in
 braces?
 
  - DGarry (WMF)
  - Fred (DesignSolutionsInc)
  - David (MIT)
  - ...
 
  So the signup form would look like this:
 
   -
  | |
  | [ Username preview in large green font ]|
  | |
  | Username:   |
  |  ___|
  | Password:   |
  |  ___|
  | Password 2: |
  |  ___|
  | Email (optional):   |
  |  ___|
  | Affiliation (optional; if your editing is related to work): |
  |  ___|
  | |
   -
 
  I.e.
 
   -
  | |
  | [ Gryllida (FOO) in large green font ]|
  | |
  | Username:   |
  |  _Gryllida__|
  | Password:   |
  |  ___|
  | Password 2: |
  |  ___|
  | Email (optional):   |
  |  ___|
  | Affiliation (optional; if your editing is related to work): |
  |  _FOO___|
  | |
   -
 
  Gryllida.
 
 
  On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 1:25, rupert THURNER wrote:
   hi,
  
   could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way:
   1. it should knows groups
   2. allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their
 profile
   3. allow to select one of the groups joined to an edit when saving
   4. add a checkbox COI to an edit, meaning potential conflict of
  interest
   5. display and filter edits marked with COI in a different color in
  history
   views
   6. display and filter edits done for a group in a different color in
   history views
   7. allow members of a group to receive notifications done on the group
  page,
  or when a group is mentioned in an edit/comment/talk page.
  
   reason:
   currently it is quite cumbersome to participate as an organisation. it
 is
   quite cumbersome for people as well to detect COI edits. the most
  prominent
   examples are employees of the wikimedia foundation, and GLAMs. users
 tend
   to create multiple accounts, and try to create company accounts. the
  main
   reason for this behaviour are (examples, but of course valid general):
   * have a feedback page / notification page for the swiss federal
 archive
   for other users
   * make clear that an edit is done private or as wmf employee
  
   this then would allow the community to create new policies, e.g. the
  german
   community might cease using company accounts, and switch over to this
   system. this proposal is purely technical. current policies can still
 be
   applied if people do not need something else, e.g. wmf employees may
   continue to use sue gardner (wmf) accounts.
  
   what you think?
  
   best regards,
   rupert
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'm back

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hasn't been the same without you.  Welcome.


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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:09 PM, JP Béland lebo.bel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Welcome back.

 JP aka Amqui


 2014-04-17 15:07 GMT-06:00 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com:

  Welcome back Millosh! Luckily I feel like you never left, because your FB
  commentary is often so interesting :P
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

[Philippe Beaudette]

Perhaps I'm just being obtuse, but I'm a little unclear on the definition
of a paid volunteer.  Could you possibly try rephrasing it so that I'm more
clear?

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On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:

 Proposal: Paid volunteers should take care to identify themselves on
 Wikimedia Projects and discussions related to Wikimedia Projects.

 Sue Gardner's initial report by the WMF into the Belfer case makes  a key
 decision that there must be effective processes for escalation of employee
 activities that may not comply with Wikimedia local project best
 practice.[1][2] The WMF can direct their own processes for their staff, but
 a consequence for the wider community is that on our projects we should
 have policies that ensure there is simple and straight-forward transparency
 for who is a paid volunteer and may have interests related to their edits
 or their contributions to discussion. The current situation is that paid
 volunteers have no requirement to identify themselves and may contribute
 anonymously or pseudonymously in ways that obscure their interest, in fact
 this is current common practice.

 I am thinking of raising this proposal on meta, so initial thoughts and
 comments on this list would be welcome to decide whether this is worth
 taking forward as beneficial to our volunteer community.

 *Definition of paid volunteer:*
 Paid volunteers are employees, contractors or part time contractors of
 Wikimedia organizations or other organizations having agreements or
 partnerships with Wikimedia. The paid volunteer contributes to Wikimedia
 projects and discussions that influence the content of Wikimedia projects.
 This includes employees and contractors that may not be paid for their
 on-project activities, however their employer benefits from the content of
 the same projects.

 Links:
 [1]
 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-April/070827.html
 [2]

 https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Harvard_University_assessment

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

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During the last strategy plan, we struggled a lot with article quality.
Specifically, we struggled with how to MEASURE article quality... we don't
have a strong metric for it or a tool to do it.  AFT actually played with
that a little bit, as well as it's attempt to engage and convert readers
into editors but I haven't yet seen anything that measures article
quality very well.

I'd very much like to see that change.  I had actually hoped, as we
finished up that strategy, that there would be such a tool by this point.

pb


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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:13 PM, rupert THURNER
rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote:

 The more and more rules is also a concern i experience when discussing
 with newbies, but also with more experienced contributors. My main concern
 is that the terms of use are reflecting US law and English speaking
 countries worries. In this light they should be as slim as necessary for
 fulfilling legal requirements. Everything else should imo go to volunteers
 driven rules in the respective language editions.

 Rupert
 Am 25.03.2014 17:06 schrieb Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se
 :

  The discussion on the proposed amendment is now closed [1) and it is up
 to
  the Board will review the community comments. And with almost 5,000 edits
  in the discussion - with more than 2,000 editors and 320,000 words in
  various languages and with very different opinions on the subject, it
 will
  be a challenge for the Board to come to a common standpoint if it as all
 is
  possible
 
  Stephen LePorte writes: /The !vote is one strong indicator of the
  importance of addressing this topic/, in which I fully agree
 
  I would like suggest that the issue of paid editors should become one
 area
  to look when we start the work with the next version of our strategy plan
 
  In our last strategy it stated more editors which in reality became
  about the same number but where a few became semi-professional who make
 an
  increasing percentage of all edits. And I believe we should instead of
  more editors had stated more, better articles with higher quality and
  then been more open to means to reach that goal (where more editors could
  had been one mean)
 
  In the same way I would like something like more, better articles with
  higher quality to be a goal for next five year strategy plan and where
  paid edits could be one mean to reach that goal, but which then need to
 be
  supported with proper guidelines recommendations etc.
 
  Personally I am a bit concerned that we introduce more and more elaborate
  rules for qualified editing at the same time the base technique is
 getting
  more complicated (wikidata is great but it puts higher demand on skill
 for
  editors). I do not see that this trend necessary means higher treshhold
 for
  new beginner, as other tools like visual editors make it easier to start.
  But I do beleive the treshhold to become a qualified  a
 semi-professional
  editor IS becoming higher. And perhaps the receipt for last five years -
  more semiprofessional - is not a viable option for next five years
 
  Anders
 
  [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_
  contributions_amendment
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

[Philippe Beaudette]

I wouldn't know, Pete.  But as I recall, it was a manual process, wasn't
it?  And therefore quite difficult to scale and/or adapt for some usages?



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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:

 Philippe,

 The Public Policy Initiative produced strong validation for the Wikipedia
 1.0 approach to assessing article quality. Was Amy Roth's research ever
 published, and are there any plans to repeat it with a larger sample size
 etc.? I'd say we're closer than you think to having a good way to measure
 article quality.

 Pete
 [[User:Peteforsyth]]


 On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Philippe Beaudette
 phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

  During the last strategy plan, we struggled a lot with article quality.
  Specifically, we struggled with how to MEASURE article quality... we
 don't
  have a strong metric for it or a tool to do it.  AFT actually played with
  that a little bit, as well as it's attempt to engage and convert readers
  into editors but I haven't yet seen anything that measures article
  quality very well.
 
  I'd very much like to see that change.  I had actually hoped, as we
  finished up that strategy, that there would be such a tool by this point.
 
  pb
 
 
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  Foundation, Inc.
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  @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki
 
 
  On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:13 PM, rupert THURNER
  rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote:
 
   The more and more rules is also a concern i experience when
 discussing
   with newbies, but also with more experienced contributors. My main
  concern
   is that the terms of use are reflecting US law and English speaking
   countries worries. In this light they should be as slim as necessary
 for
   fulfilling legal requirements. Everything else should imo go to
  volunteers
   driven rules in the respective language editions.
  
   Rupert
   Am 25.03.2014 17:06 schrieb Anders Wennersten 
  m...@anderswennersten.se
   :
  
The discussion on the proposed amendment is now closed [1) and it is
 up
   to
the Board will review the community comments. And with almost 5,000
  edits
in the discussion - with more than 2,000 editors and 320,000 words in
various languages and with very different opinions on the subject, it
   will
be a challenge for the Board to come to a common standpoint if it as
  all
   is
possible
   
Stephen LePorte writes: /The !vote is one strong indicator of the
importance of addressing this topic/, in which I fully agree
   
I would like suggest that the issue of paid editors should become one
   area
to look when we start the work with the next version of our strategy
  plan
   
In our last strategy it stated more editors which in reality became
about the same number but where a few became semi-professional who
 make
   an
increasing percentage of all edits. And I believe we should instead
 of
more editors had stated more, better articles with higher quality
  and
then been more open to means to reach that goal (where more editors
  could
had been one mean)
   
In the same way I would like something like more, better articles
 with
higher quality to be a goal for next five year strategy plan and
 where
paid edits could be one mean to reach that goal, but which then need
 to
   be
supported with proper guidelines recommendations etc.
   
Personally I am a bit concerned that we introduce more and more
  elaborate
rules for qualified editing at the same time the base technique is
   getting
more complicated (wikidata is great but it puts higher demand on
 skill
   for
editors). I do not see that this trend necessary means higher
 treshhold
   for
new beginner, as other tools like visual editors make it easier to
  start.
But I do beleive the treshhold to become a qualified  a
   semi-professional
editor IS becoming higher. And perhaps the receipt for last five
  years -
more semiprofessional - is not a viable option for next five years
   
Anders
   
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_
contributions_amendment
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

[Philippe Beaudette]

Handy link for background:  https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quality
(quite old and outdated now, but still good).


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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:45 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.comwrote:

 If nothing else, the existing community quality rating system (i.e. FA, GA,
 etc.) should be used. It may not be perfect at the individual article
 level, but it does scale well.
 On Mar 26, 2014 6:36 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:

  Philippe,
 
  The Public Policy Initiative produced strong validation for the Wikipedia
  1.0 approach to assessing article quality. Was Amy Roth's research ever
  published, and are there any plans to repeat it with a larger sample size
  etc.? I'd say we're closer than you think to having a good way to measure
  article quality.
 
  Pete
  [[User:Peteforsyth]]
 
 
  On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Philippe Beaudette
  phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
 
   During the last strategy plan, we struggled a lot with article quality.
   Specifically, we struggled with how to MEASURE article quality... we
  don't
   have a strong metric for it or a tool to do it.  AFT actually played
 with
   that a little bit, as well as it's attempt to engage and convert
 readers
   into editors but I haven't yet seen anything that measures article
   quality very well.
  
   I'd very much like to see that change.  I had actually hoped, as we
   finished up that strategy, that there would be such a tool by this
 point.
  
   pb
  
  
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   Foundation, Inc.
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   @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki
  
  
   On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:13 PM, rupert THURNER
   rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote:
  
The more and more rules is also a concern i experience when
  discussing
with newbies, but also with more experienced contributors. My main
   concern
is that the terms of use are reflecting US law and English speaking
countries worries. In this light they should be as slim as necessary
  for
fulfilling legal requirements. Everything else should imo go to
   volunteers
driven rules in the respective language editions.
   
Rupert
Am 25.03.2014 17:06 schrieb Anders Wennersten 
   m...@anderswennersten.se
:
   
 The discussion on the proposed amendment is now closed [1) and it
 is
  up
to
 the Board will review the community comments. And with almost 5,000
   edits
 in the discussion - with more than 2,000 editors and 320,000 words
 in
 various languages and with very different opinions on the subject,
 it
will
 be a challenge for the Board to come to a common standpoint if it
 as
   all
is
 possible

 Stephen LePorte writes: /The !vote is one strong indicator of the
 importance of addressing this topic/, in which I fully agree

 I would like suggest that the issue of paid editors should become
 one
area
 to look when we start the work with the next version of our
 strategy
   plan

 In our last strategy it stated more editors which in reality
 became
 about the same number but where a few became semi-professional who
  make
an
 increasing percentage of all edits. And I believe we should instead
  of
 more editors had stated more, better articles with higher
 quality
   and
 then been more open to means to reach that goal (where more editors
   could
 had been one mean)

 In the same way I would like something like more, better articles
  with
 higher quality to be a goal for next five year strategy plan and
  where
 paid edits could be one mean to reach that goal, but which then
 need
  to
be
 supported with proper guidelines recommendations etc.

 Personally I am a bit concerned that we introduce more and more
   elaborate
 rules for qualified editing at the same time the base technique is
getting
 more complicated (wikidata is great but it puts higher demand on
  skill
for
 editors). I do not see that this trend necessary means higher
  treshhold
for
 new beginner, as other tools like visual editors make it easier to
   start.
 But I do beleive the treshhold to become a qualified  a
semi-professional
 editor IS becoming higher. And perhaps the receipt for last five
   years -
 more semiprofessional - is not a viable option for next five years

 Anders

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Ah. Yeah. The job of the Community Advocacy bit of Legal and Community
 Advocacy is, as I understand it, to advocate for the community's need
 within the Foundation, and act as a conduit to the community for legal
 stuff. Their job is not to advocate for reduction in public school class
 sizes or more steeply progressive taxation. Indeed, these things are not
 the job of anyone at the Foundation, and never should be. I'm kind of
 bemused as to why these are even being brought up.


That.  :)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement for the police about the fundraising?

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi Alex,

I have checked with Legal.  Our deadline for the response was Friday, and
our response was indeed filed yesterday.  We received an email confirmation
from the authorities that the document had been received and we called them
as well to confirm safe receipt.  It might of course have been that the
writer of the article contacted the authorities before we filed the
document.  We are taking steps to correct this inaccurate report.

Best,
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On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Alex Monk kren...@gmail.com wrote:

 Apparently they got no response:

 http://www.finlandtimes.fi/national/2014/03/01/5137/Wikipediafailstomeetdeadlineonpolicerequest


 On 10 February 2014 15:41, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote:

  Yes, he would definitely have enjoyed this one
 
  2014-02-10 9:51 GMT+01:00, Leinonen Teemu teemu.leino...@aalto.fi:
   On 8.2.2014, at 13.51, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote:
   I love this thread - it make me think of Matti Wuori in the movie The
   man without a past
  
  
   Heh :-) These days, I also miss Matti Wuori. :-'(
  
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Wuori
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Link to Wikimedia Shop now included in the English Wikipedia sidebar

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I'm confused.  That link has been there, like, forever, hasn't it?  Or for
quite a long time?  Or am I misremembering that?

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net
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 I wonder what next will we be offered to buy.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

[Philippe Beaudette]

Clarification:  while LCA would love to accept the compliment (and indeed, both 
the l and the ca sides are providing support for this process), it is 
Fabrice's initiative, not one of ours. 

pb

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 On Jan 15, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Or better yet... elaborate on your reasons on the RfC page. https://commons.
 wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video
 I think it is commendable that the WMF legal team is proposing this
 discussion in such an open and honest way. It is a discussion that has been
 bubbling away for a long time and it is perfectly sensible that we should
 address it formally every now and then. Even if we come up with the same
 answer it is important to revisit major policy decisions periodically in
 case the situation has changed.
 
 I think we can all acknowledge that this particular issue is a good example
 of where two of our deeply held principles are somewhat conflicting. On the
 one hand we hold firm to the idea that our purpose is to share information
 as widely as possible, and on the other we also are very committed to the
 principles of open source. These are both real, valid, principles and it is
 important that we look at the ways that we can balance the competing
 choices that these principles force upon us without pre-judging the
 outcome.
 
 - Liam / Wittylama
 
 
 
 On 16 January 2014 14:28, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
 
 On Jan 15, 2014, at 7:25 PM, Fajro fai...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 No.
 
I think you should probably include a reason why you feel this
 way.  A one-word answer doesn’t leave room for conversation.
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

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Barnstars mostly use a set of templates, right?  (At least, the 80% case).
 We could ballpark it fairly effectively by checking for that set, no?

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 On 13 January 2014 20:32, Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

   On Jan 13, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:
  
   we're getting almost 3,000 thanks
   actions a day, every day
 
  It would be interesting to know if that impacted the number of
  barnstars
 
 
 That would be difficult to track, but we can totally find out if there's
 been any change in, say, wikilove.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.orgwrote:


 Add to this the complexity that several barnstars are subst:ed rather
 than transcluded -- but not all -- and you end up with a completely
 intractable problem.


Bah humbug.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

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 On Jan 13, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 we're getting almost 3,000 thanks
 actions a day, every day

It would be interesting to know if that impacted the number of barnstars


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada 
emi...@gmail.com wrote:


  Naw, it's a great idea.  Let's switch to building our own ARM-based
  servers (by the way, which have already been a flop commercially),
  using only unproven, low-volume available motherboards and having to
  buy and assemble all of the rest of the components.  And then of
  course, we need to design our own cases... and since these have such a
  low performance, we'll need to have a lot more rack and datacenter
  space, of course which comes with a cost... and we'll have to figure
  out how to run our caching layers which require large amounts of
  memory... and our storage layers which require large amounts of disk
  space.  At that point we'll probably need to redesign those boards
  which are incapable of doing these things, so we'll need a team of
  hardware engineers, plus a deal with a manufacturing plant.
 
  So... I think with about a 100 million dollar per year research budget
  we can do this.  Who's ponying up? ;)
 
 
 Funny huh?

 If we use free software, I don't see why we can't move to open-source
 hardware ASAP.



Well, I think Leslie just listed a few, but I'll recap:
- low-availability
- Requires in house assembly
- Requires in house design capacity
- Substantially more rack and datacenter space required
- Insufficient for caching and storage layers
- Cost of manufacturing.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright URAA trolls on Wikimedia Commons

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On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.comwrote:

 But in the case of in the country of origin PD works which are foreign
 government works it is needed that the WMF clearly speaks out


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Use_of_Foreign_Works_Restored_under_the_URAA_on_Commons
 --- like that?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Some sad news

[Philippe Beaudette]

Corrected link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jackson_Peebles


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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote:

 User:Jackson Peebles is no longer with us, he passed away in late
 October. Jackson was a Western Michigan University Honors student
 studying behavioral science and biology. He worked as an ice hockey
 referreee and volunteered with the Red Cross. His Wikipedia efforts
 focused on counter-vandalism and adoption, greeting new users,
 encouraging civility, and [obsessively] reviewing recent changes.

 Jackson was a Teahouse host, an instructor in the Education Program,
 and the lead on a Video Tutorials Project through the WMF. User:Go
 Phightins! originaly adopted Jackson but he went on to run his own
 adoption school and facilitated a Western Michigan University course
 himself. Among his userboxes he said, This user is not a Wikipedia
 administrator but would like to be one someday.

 Jackson was born in 1992 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He graduated Mattawan
 High School and was Senior Class President there. At Western Michigan
 University, he was a 2011 Medallion Scholar. He worked at the Waldo
 Library at the reference desk and volunteered for the National
 Alliance for Mental Illness. He was one of three students in the
 nation invited to represent the US at the International Red Cross and
 Red Crescent’s Global Youth Conference in Vienna in 2012.

 Jackson had recently proposed a WMF Individual Engagment Grant called
 Reimagining Wikipedia Mentorship. I think this project is incredibly
 important and should be pursued, User:EpochFail wrote in an
 endorsement. The grant scored highly and looked likely to be funded.
 A very interesting concept...may become a 'keystone piece' in the new
 editor onboarding process. wrote one IEG committee member. Another
 wrote, Taking a 'Teahouse approach' in building sustained motivation
 and preventing editor dropouts is a wonderful opportunity to develop a
 true mentor-mentee support system that would increase the activity of
 new contributors. Finally, Proposers are highly qualified and driven
 mentors with a useful background in teaching new editors and
 understanding the learning process.

 He was excitedly planning a trip to Australia in the coming weeks.

 On Wikipedia, Jackson earned barnstars in Mentorship, Random Acts of
 Kindness and Resilience. Friends and teachers glowingly recalled his
 sense of humor and his hard work ethic.

 His last edit to our site was on October 21 2013, the day he died.
 Jackson welcomed an i.p. editor to Wikipedia: Thank you for your
 contributions, such as the one you made to Nikah mut‘ah. I hope you
 like the place and decide to stay.

 Please leave remembrances and condolences at
 http://enwp.org/User_talk:Jackson_Peebes. We'll try and contact the
 family and share your thoughts with them. You can read more
 reflections on Jackson's amazing life there. Donations to the
 Kalamazoo NAMI chapter would have made Jackson very happy and are the
 family's wish.

 --Ocaasi14:26, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Matthew Flaschen 
matthew.flasc...@gatech.edu wrote:

 A significant problem with TurnItIn is that is proprietary, and can not be
 customized by anyone in the movement.  The fact that it is proprietary also
 means it can never be port of the main infrastructure, nor run on Wikimedia
 Labs.


Another significant issue is the False Positive factor that is created by
our overwhelming popularity.  Frankly, we're mirrored all over the place.
And tools like Turnitin find the mirrors too.  It's not an easy problem to
solve.  I was on the team that looked at this a couple of years back - it's
just not simple, and there are complex challenges.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New access to non-public information policy, re-ID requirements and data retention

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi George -

I can tell you that I was in the room as this was being discussed
today. I'm fairly sure that Michelle is going to be following up on
this question shortly. It wasn't being ignored - we are just in that
territory where lawyers like to be certain that when they answer
clarifying queries like yours, they aren't accidentally muddying the
waters further. More soon.

pb

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 On Oct 25, 2013, at 9:19 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:

 Again I ask:

 Can the WMF either publicly or privately provide enough detailed assurance
 as to the digital medium storage plan for these IDs?

 This is or should be a no-go for requiring IDs (or at least allowing them
 to be transferred that way).

 I would be happy to contribute a free independent security audit to a plan,
 if there is a detailed plan to audit.  And do so under confidentiality
 agreement if you need that, as long as you let me share a non-exploitable
 summary with the community...




 On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:21 PM, George Herbert 
 george.herb...@gmail.comwrote:

 Going back to the 2011 discussions on otrs lists, a flag was raised that
 challenged whether the WMF had sufficiently secure servers to host copies
 of ID documents that might be electronically submitted, including
 sufficient firewalling and/or airgapping, internal access controls, etc.

 My impression was that once that was raised as a detailed concern, the
 push died off rapidly, but I may be misremembering.

 Let me now ask - Can the WMF either publicly or privately (I live in the
 SF Bay Area and can come over and talk) provide enough detailed assurance
 as to the digital medium storage plan for these IDs?

 This is enough data for someone to do an identity theft with.  The
 physical handling is relatively easy to ensure is proper (locked cabinet or
 the like requires a physical office intrusion).  The electronic...



 On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Rschen7754 rschen7754.w...@gmail.comwrote:

 Speaking for myself, I have no problems with the overall idea, and I
 doubt that a lot of the others who have signed the petition do either.

 The problem is in the details of how it is implemented, and that
 appropriate safeguards are not written into place to protect the privacy
 and legal rights of those who (re)identify. I know some European users have
 raised concerns about how the overall policy does not work for them and/or
 would cause them to break the law. I don't believe that they should have to
 stand alone.

 Thanks,

 Rschen7754
 rschen7754.w...@gmail.com



 On Oct 23, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:

 On 10/23/2013 07:01 PM, Newyorkbrad wrote:
 (I myself can
 think of one and only one, but am curious if there are others.)

 I can also think of exactly one off the cuff (and it is almost certainly
 the same); but I can think of a couple of scenarios where the dissuasive
 effect alone might have made a difference.

 But my understanding is that this is prompted by a more serious focus on
 accountability than over any particular incident.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of YouTube videos in fundraising banners

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 My thanks to everyone who made it happen - we actually had a player that
 would work on many (but not all) devices and it had the added benefit of
 open source closed captions, which I had never seen anywhere else. It was
 awesome, but the reality of it was that WMF just didn't have enough servers
 or bandwidth to support video on that scale - even if it was open source.
 Everyone in the engineering department who I spoke to agreed that it was
 impossible. I had to speak to the legal department about embedding a video
 from a third party (if that was even possible). I was told that if we were
 to have a link from a third party, on each and every video we would have to
 provide this disclaimer:



The other bit that Victor didn't mention (and I was in the room for these
meetings too) is that the links that were used were Youtube's privacy
enhanced mode links.  They don't actually store any user data unless the
user plays the video (and ours weren't set to play by default) - you had to
choose to play them, presumably after you read the disclaimer that Victor
mentions.  There was certainly informed consent there - I may be
misremembering, but I believe all the videos were also hosted on commons as
well, so that one could search and watch them there instead.  Victor could
confirm that, though.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF unclaimed Google Docs

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I can only speak for myself, and I don't know what the standard policy is,
but I have an archive of the google docs of everyone who worked for me,
prior to their departures.  I don't know if Office IT does that routinely
or not.

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On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:00 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:

 Only if you bulk transfer action before you delete the account otherwise
 no.

 And afaik (unless they changed it recently) no you can't list them all.

 Its only of the many reasons some people dislike google apps.

 On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
 nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
  I was wondering, does WMF still have access to Google Docs left without
  owners, e.g. created by or shared with employees who left (with the
  wikimedia.org Google Apps account, which gets disabled immediately it
  seems)? This may be the same as all documents ever created under the
 domain
  https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/ , perhaps. Alternatively, does
  someone at WMF have access to a list of all documents created under said
  domain?
  I'm worried about the information loss in the long term. Everything
 should
  be archived, in a way or another, especially as it's produced with
 movement
  money.
 
  Nemo
 
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Election results

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi folks,

I'm forwarding this message, written by Risker, for the election committee.

~Philippe
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The 2013 Wikimedia Board Election Committee has announced the results of
the 2013 Board Elections today for the three elected Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees positions. For the first time, the election also included
seats for the Funds Dissemination Committee and for the FDC Ombudperson.
These results were certified by the Board of Trustees.

The successful candidates are:

*For the Board of Trustees:*

Samuel Klein (Sj)

Phoebe Ayers (phoebe)

María Sefidari (Raystorm)

*For the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC):*

Delphine Ménard (notafish)

Cristian Consonni (CristianCantoro)

*For the FDC Ombudperson:*

Susana Morais (Lusitana)

The Election Committee certifies that the election was fairly executed and
there is no reason to doubt the results. There were 1927 entries into the
voter log. Of these, there were 13 struck votes (all of which were test
votes); 105 “greyed-out” or cancelled votes resulting from users submitting
a subsequent ballot; and 1809 valid votes. Additional, more detailed
statistical analysis will be available in the coming days and weeks.

The addition of the FDC and FDC Ombudperson has added several layers of
complexity to the election process for candidates, voters, Engineering
staff and the Election Committee. Several issues relating to the use of the
SecurePoll extension were identified, although none related to the security
of votes or reliability of results. The start of the voting period was
delayed by one week as the Committee could not verify that voter lists and
voting software were ready and functional on the scheduled starting date.

All levels of the community, including the Board, the candidates, the
voters, WMF staff and the Election Committee, are encouraged to participate
in thepost mortem discussion of the election process (at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Post_mortem).

The Election Committee extends its thanks to Sam Reed, Philippe Beaudette,
and James Alexander for their invaluable contributions and assistance.

*Risker, 2013 Wikimedia Board Election Committee*
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[Wikimedia-l] Announcing four new Community Liaisons (Product)

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Hi everyone,

Howie and I are pleased to announce the onboarding of four new community
liaisons for the product team.  Howie has generously allowed me to send
this email, since their initial tasking will be to VisualEditor and the
Change Management team, working with me.  At the conclusion of the
deployment of VisualEditor, they will be assigned as community liaisons to
other groups within the product team.

Please welcome four new contractors:  Erica Litrenta, Sherry Snyder,
Patrick Earley, and (a returning face) Keegan Peterzell.

These positions are temporary, contract-based positions, each with an
initial term of roughly 90 days.  Below, I've pasted below a brief summary
of each of the four so that you can get to know them.  I know you'll join
me in wishing them the best with their new work!
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*Erica / Elitre*
Erica will be initially primarily tasked with supporting the deployment on
Italian Wikipedia, but will also be helping out with other wikis as well.
She edits as User:Elitre https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Elitre on
the Italian Wikipedia.  Born and raised in Cosenza, Italy, she graduated
from Università della Calabria (with a Master's degree in Foreign Languages
and Literature), and now lives in Bologna.  Her favorite work experience so
far was last year with lettera27 Foundation, where she wrote case studies
for the WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge projects (go GLAMs!) and hunted for
more free contents and institutions to involve (She's been involved with
the Wikimedia Movement and has evangelized about our projects since 2005).
She's  fond of: playing life/construction and management videogames, taking
pictures, making cheesecakes, studying and writing about Italian folklore -
notably the Palio di Siena, listening to symphonic metal/rock.

She's in a romantic relationship with OTRS (yes, you read that right - she
was once dubbed romantic and dreadful because of this) since 2006 which,
she points out, is longer than her relationship with her boyfriend: she met
him later.


*Sherry / WhatamIdoing*
Some of you know her well, if nothing else, for her descriptive username (
WhatamIdoing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing).  She
writes:

*My name is Sherry Snyder, better known as WhatamIdoing on several
English-speaking projects.  My culinary quest for the summer is a low-sugar
chocolate peanut butter, which those of you with European tendencies should
interpret as like Nutella, only better.  (In response to this, my husband
says, POV-inline, dubious - discuss?)  I've been a Wikipedian since
2007.  I am a metapedian by nature and a typo fixer by compulsion.  I'm
still a little amazed that the WMF hired me for this project and happy to
be joining the team that is trying to make the transition to VisualEditor
be more successful and less surprising.
*

Sherry will be supporting the deployment on the English Wikipedia and
non-English speaking projects to be assigned still.  She was a huge help
during the development of the Terms of Use, and I'm looking forward to
working with her.


*Patrick / The Interior*
Patrick is from Kamloops, British Columbia (yes, another Canadian!), a
logging and cattle town in the Interior of the province.  He edits enwiki
as The Interior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Interior.  He
has studied library science and film, and has worked a variety of
interesting jobs so far, including wildland firefighting, documentary
filmmaking, treeplanting, sorting books at a second hand store,
cataloguing, screenwriting, teaching English in Taiwan and, now, liaising
for the WMF! He currently lives in Vancouver in the aptly named Mount
Pleasant neighbourhood.  He wishes to point out that he uses Canadian
spelling.  :P

Patrick has been a Wikipedia editor since 2008. He loves working on
geography and both natural and human history.  He has worked with the
Education Program, hopes to be more involved in GLAM projects in the
future, and is very interested in the Wikipedia/library interface.  Patrick
will be focused on non-English speaking wikis.

*Keegan*
Some of you will remember that
Keeganhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan previously
worked with us  on the 2010 Fundraiser.  He has been editing since 2005,
and has a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of
Tennessee-Chattanooga.  An English Wikipedia administrator, oversighter,
and CheckUser, he served a year-long appointment to the audit subcommittee
for 2011-2012.

Globally he is a volunteer response team leader (OTRS admin) and member of
the Communications committee.

He says that he's not an article writer, so he tries to give back in other
ways. Keegan will be reprising his role from the 2010 fundraiser, where he
was a workhorse in communicating with non-English wikis.
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: New Privacy Policy - Call for Community Input

[Philippe Beaudette]

Forwarding an important message from WMF legal counsel Michelle Paulson.
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From: Michelle Paulson mpaul...@wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New Privacy Policy - Call for Community Input
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi All,

I would like to direct your attention to a new blog post (available on
Meta
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy/Call_for_input_%282013%29and
the Wikimedia
blog
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/18/input-on-wikimedia-foundation-privacy-policy/
)
about updating our current privacy policy.  Our privacy policy has not been
updated since 2008, and we believe it is time to revisit the policy to
ensure that it reflects where the Projects are today and where they have
the potential to go in the future.

It is important to us that the new policy reflects community values, so we
are asking for Wikimedia community input throughout this process.  We would
like to hear from
you
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Call_for_input_on_WMF_privacy_policy
over
the next month about the privacy issues that matter to you.  Once we
have completed a draft of the new privacy policy (with the input we receive
from you over the next month in mind), we will then open a lengthier
community consultation period so that you have the opportunity to review
the draft and provide more detailed feedback.

We ask you to read the blog post for more details and encourage you to
participate in this important process.  We request that you leave your
input on the Meta discussion
page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy/Call_for_input_%282013%29
only,
so that everyone is equally aware of the topics being discussed and
has the opportunity to participate fully in the discussions that interest
them.

Many thanks,

Michelle Paulson
Legal Counsel

Note: We expect to have translations of this announcement in the next
couple of days.  We would like to ask the international Wikimedia community
to help translate the blog posting and feedback page (which are almost the
same) as well as people’s feedback given throughout the course of this
consultation period.

--
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski 
tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote:

 For future reference: I initiated the un-subscription process for
 Mary  contacted her off–list, so this will hopefully be resolved soon.


Just to confirm - I unsubscribed her.  :)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

[Philippe Beaudette]

Previous account, Nemo. :)

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On May 13, 2013, at 3:01 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:

 Philippe Beaudette, 13/05/2013 11:21:
 I actually was, Florence :-)

 Let's see... https://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=prevoldid=55625971
 First (registered user, non deleted) edit 28 May... so not 7 years yet? ;-)
 And of course answering on day counts is a very constructive way to address 
 Florence's points, congrats.

 Nemo

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

[Philippe Beaudette]

That is correct. Because despite your attempts to turn me into the
decision making authority here, I wasn't. You don't need to talk to
the worker bee who executed, you want to talk to the person who made
the decision. That's not me. And she is traveling.

And also, you know, I'm working brutal hours right now and yeah, I
wanted to try to not be posting this weekend. I had to deal with my
mistake in not removing Phoebes rights at the same time and I had to
deal with an elections thing. But was I anxious to come wading into a
situation where - despite you clearly being told that I wasn't a
decision maker - you continue to (for whatever reason) advance the
asinine position that someone must be pulling gayles strings and
therefore it must be me because I am evil?  No, you know, MZ, I didn't
come skipping gleefully to that conversation.

Let me be clear: I respect the work that you do. But I have zero time
for your distortions of the situation when you've been told that it
wasn't my decision.

You want an explanation?  I'm sure that Gayle will offer one. But for
the umpteenth time, I was the person pushing the button because
someone had to be. So lets leave my motivations out of this okay?  I'm
spending hundreds of hours per month fighting to support the volunteer
community here and your assignations to the contrary are insulting.

PB

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On May 12, 2013, at 10:06 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:

 Philippe has had time to go back and remove Phoebe's user rights and
 Philippe has had time to post to this mailing list about the upcoming
 Wikimedia elections, but he has chosen not to participate in this thread
 at all about his actions.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

[Philippe Beaudette]

So, I took Florence's excellent advice and went for a walk (beautiful day
in SF, by the way - absolutely perfect).

And I reflected on what I've seen since flipping the switch on things
last Friday.  Here's where I stand, and I haven't discussed this with
anyone else at WMF, including Gayle.

At the expense of sounding trite, I think I can safely say Mistakes were
made.  Gayle was trying to solve a real problem, and she got a lot of
advice on how to do that.  But the principle role of a staff member in a
role such as mine is to advise, I think, and I'm afraid that I didn't
offer good advice in this case.  I don't think I gave bad advice - rather,
I didn't give as good of advice as I could have.  What our leadership
should be able to expect from staff is that we look at things from a
different perspective, and I think I failed to get as far out of my own
head and into other peoples' to offer that varying perspective.  So when I
say that mistakes were made, I include my role in that, through commission
or omission, and I sincerely apologize for that.

With that said: I'm afraid we're headed toward a precipice.  What I'm
seeing scares me.  I see less and less good faith being offered toward the
WMF.  One of the arguments that doesn't work for me is seven years ago the
WMF didn't make these mistakes - because seven years ago the WMF was
paralyzed from lack of strategy and direction.  All of that has changed and
the WMF is out and aggressively trying things to arrest the editor decline
and improve the user experience.  And yet, when our talented engineers try
a data-driven tactic for something that needs to change, they're lambasted
for forgetting the existing community.  And yet everyone here knows that if
we don't change some things, things will get very very ugly, very very
quickly.

One of the things that must continue to change is the tone on the wikis,
and the tone (in IRC and by email) between staff and volunteers.  I know
that volunteers are individual and - in addition to several frankly abusive
emails I've received this weekend, I've also received absolutely wonderful
support from volunteers who reached out to make me smile, laugh, or just
remind me why I love this community.  But the abusive ones absolutely
*must*stop.  I have never once, in my entire time at WMF, sent an
email that
approaches the level of things that I see WMF staff subjected to routinely,
and I have to counsel over and over that it's okay, they don't speak for
the community, but I see the community tacitly support that behavior (or
fail to condemn it), and it's hard to say with a straight face that the
people sending abusive mail or making abusive statements in IRC don't speak
for the community.

So my challenge and my promise:  I promise to reflect on the experiences of
this weekend and figure out how I could have offered Gayle better advice,
given the circumstances, and given the fact that there are some things that
are not public about the decision, and unfortunately they can't be.  My
challenge to the community:  think about the tone of what you see happening
around you.  And if you wouldn't want to see your grandmother asked a
question like that, and if it would make you feel defensive to see her
questioned in that tone, then step in and make it clear that the tone is
unacceptable.  Staff members are people too.  How about finding one that
has done something you appreciate (come on, there must be ONE) and tell
them so?  You'd be shocked how much gratitude they'll feel, because you may
be the first community member EVER to tell them that.

Best,
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On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Gayle Karen Young gyo...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:
  This definitely feels like a bit of trial by fire.

 True dat. Now that you have received your initiation, there's nothing
 left to say but WELCOME TO WIKIPEDIA :)

 Cheers,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Elections 2013

[Philippe Beaudette]

This is fixed, thank you.  :-)

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On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Takashi OTA 
supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have been working on a translation of FDC Ombud election in to Japanese.

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/FDC_Ombudsperson_elections/2013

 In the section of How to submit your candidacy, it reads:
  If you are eligible, you can submit your candidacy by doing the
 following:
 
  Write a brief summary of no more than 1200 characters stating what you
 would do
  if you were elected to the Funds Dissemination Committee,

 Shouldn't it be if you were elected to the FDC Ombuds(person), not FDC
 itself?

 --Takashi OTA

 On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Nicole Ebber nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
 wrote:
  Hey,
 
  thanks for the announcement and all the work the election committee
  has done so far.
 
  I have written a kind of lengthy blog post about the elections and
  about how and why the communities can or should get involved. It's in
  German, but if anyone's interested in translating it, you are more
  than welcome to re-use and remix and build upon it (of course... ;)).
 
 
 https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/29/community-wahlt-hochstes-gremium-des-wikimedia-universums-board-of-trustees-der-wikimedia-foundation/
 
  Cheerio,
  Nicole
 
 
  On 2 May 2013 06:29, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
  I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are now being accepted
 for
  the 2013 Wikimedia Foundation Elections.  This year, elections are being
  held for the following roles:
 
 
 -
 
 Board of Trustees
 
  The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately
  responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we
 value
  wide input into its selection.  There are three positions being filled.
  More information about this role can be found at 
 
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Board_elections/2013
 .
 
 
 
 -
 
 Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
 
  The Funds Dissemination Committee
  (FDC)
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_the_Creation_and_Initial_Operation_of_the_FDC
 makes
  recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia
  movement http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia funds to eligible
  entities.  There are two positions being filled. More information about
  this role can be found at 
 
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/FDC_elections/2013
 .
 
 
 
 -
 
 Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud
 
  The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process,
  investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees,  and
  summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on
 an
  annual basis.  One position is being filled.  More information about
 this
  role can be found at 
 
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/FDC_Ombudsperson_elections/2013
 .
 
 
  The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 24 to 23:59
 UTC
  May 17. More
  information on this election can be found at  
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013.
 
 
  Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's
 village
  pump, or to translate it and distribute it on other Wikimedia movement
  mailing lists. Any questions related to the election can be posted on
 the
  talk page
  on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
  board-elections AT wikimedia.org
 
  On behalf of the Election Committee,
 
  Risker
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Yaroslav is not telling us about his experience on the bidding process,
 but about his experience about (not) feeling loved and appreciated for his
 effort and involvement.

 And boy... is that sad :(

 Flo


Agreed, and I'll say it:  to Yaroslav and everyone else who slaves away to
make Wikimania work... thank you.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Jan Eissfeldt joins Wikimedia Foundation as Community Advocate

[Philippe Beaudette]

Yep. Meta.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement

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On Apr 27, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
wrote:

Philippe Beaudette, 25/04/2013 22:39:

The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up the

Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects [...]


Never heard this claim before, is it documented anywhere?

Nemo
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[Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Jan Eissfeldt joins Wikimedia Foundation as Community Advocate

[Philippe Beaudette]

Dear all,

I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's
Community Advocacy team to include our newest hire, Jan Eissfeldt, whose
work will be focused on the German and Spanish language sites.  Jan, who
made his first contributions to the German language Wikipedia in early 2004
and works on modern philosophers on the Spanish language project, will help
us with his specialized academic background. Jan holds a German BA in
social science and philosophy with an intercultural profile.  His main
theme - carried over into MA studies - is argumentation theory. This
combination of being rooted in the editing community and providing
analytical skills will help us to better understand the German and Spanish
projects, and to serve our non-English language communities in general.
English language folks might have come across his name during 2012 as he
edited the Signpost's feature News  Notes.

The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up the
Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects, and facilitates
strategic change by providing knowledge and skills about communities that
the Foundation increasingly interacts with through the Engineering team's
frequent technical improvements, through grant-making, our legal work, and
the other activities of the Foundation.  In our attempts to learn more
about these communities, get their input during the formation of
initiatives, and figure out how best to deliver initiatives to them, Jan
will be joined by one more hire (soon to be announced, I hope).

Jan will work from his home in Germany, will report to me, and will also
work closely with Maggie, who will serve as his mentor and will help to
organize and lead our community advocates as they are hired.

Please welcome Jan to the Foundation, though he's been a part of the
movement for years!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

[Philippe Beaudette]

See also: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment



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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote:

 On 14 March 2013 08:09, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch
 wrote:

  thanks for collecting these links, they are interesting. Anyway, I
  didn't fully understand the idea behind the page, especially as a
  non-native speaker I have problems to come up with a proper translation
  / understanding of Endowment. I understand it as what WM(F) owns and
  it may refer to the right WM(F) expects to have on getting / using
  their donated money or may refer to the reserves WMF is currently
 building.
 
  Can you explain this a bit better for people like me, please? Maybe
  right on that Meta page would be good, so others can read it as well.

 Hi Manuel,

 The basic idea of an endowment is that it's a large sum of money
 collected to set up a charity - it then uses the income from
 investing this money to cover some or all of its operating costs,
 rather than just spending it over a long period of time. The Wellcome
 Trust is a pretty good high-profile example; it has a capital
 endowment of around fifteen billion pounds, and spends about six
 hundred million (4%) a year.

 (In the US context, they're very common for universities, but this is
 less so in Europe; here it's more traditional charities)

 I've given a quick outline on the meta page. Building up an endowment
 sufficient to run WMF would be tricky, of course :-)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:

 (Particularly looking at you, Philippe, given your work on
 both the strategic plan and the licensing vote. Gerard's Law and all. ;-)


For the record, I didn't do the licensing vote.  :)  Erik gets all the
sblame/s credit for that.  :-)

My feeling would be that the obvious first place to start would be the
Board of Trustees.  I'd probably start by emailing them and asking them
what they think.  It seems to me, if I were in your shoes (and I'm
carefully taking no position here, not because I don't have an opinion but
because I don't have a considered opinion), that the response to that
would drive the next set of actions.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] fiction: WMF policy of paying less than market

[Philippe Beaudette]

Can I ask that we not call people dumb and foolish?  Argue the idea, not
the person.

(And in this case, I think Jan-Bart agrees with you, so I'm not sure where
that came from).

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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Erwin Mulialim
erwin.mulia...@outlook.comwrote:

 Dear Jan-Bart,
 Hey, I think that you are the dumbest and most foolish people in this
 world! Since you already know that working for a nonprofit foundation or
 charity that absolutely should not be expecting a salary sufficient in
 terms of value! Because this job is having the social goals of humanity and
 is not intended for business, so it is proper you should not expect
 yourself to be paid according to the salary standardization of benchmark
 government regulatory policy. For jobs that have a social purpose of
 humanity like this, we should not be so demanding, but we first have to
 love the job ought to give all of the skills and talents that we have for
 this foundation, believe that sooner or later will certainly all of the
 goodness and your efforts will be avenged by God through His wonderful ways.

 May GOD Bless You Always!



 Best Regards,


 Claudius Erwin Mulialim
 
 Owner Q-Tech Computer - Ruteng
 (CV. Montée Vista Media Vision) in Ruteng - Flores, East Nusa Tenggara,
 Indonesia.

 -
  Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:43:06 -0800
  From: lc...@wikimedia.org
  To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] fiction: WMF policy of paying less than market
 
  On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:46 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com
 wrote:
   Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
  
  ... I do want to make sure you (and everyone else) realise that there
 is no FACT like the one that you mention.
  
   fact that the
   Foundation's policy of paying below market salary discriminates
   against potential hires with large expenses such as kids in college
 or
   a mortgage from 2007?
  
   because
   a)  there is no such policy
  
   So would you disagree with Erik Moeller's statement of 29 December
 2012?
  
   [WMF compensation is] below some companies that are
   similar to us, notably Mozilla which is structured as a for-profit
   owned by a non-profit and pays market-level compensation (sans
   equity). Wikimedia is above most non-profits that do tech work, and
   there's a fair bit of room to grow compensation-wise for an
   entry-level hire. It's not what people could make elsewhere, and
   that's understood by folks who make it through the process.
   --
 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-December/123272.html
  
   Finally I find the idea of restraining people to talk about salary
   almost comical
  
   Would you post the text of the non-disparagement clause referred to at
  
 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/April_5-7,_2008#Non-disparagement_and_confidentiality_agreement
 
  Talking about my salary isn't disparaging the company -- as referenced
  later, in the US employers can't prevent folks from talking about
  their salaries.
 
  Though I do feel that the WMF salary is discriminating against my
  right to fly first class everywhere.  My champagne glass won't refill
  itself, you know!
 
  Leslie
 
   and
  
 http://uk.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_coolerdiff=19657oldid=19653
   please, so we can see exactly what it says?
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking back at the London Conference

[Philippe Beaudette]

From Ziko's note about this:
 There will be a special list 'WCA-announcements. If you want to be
 informed about Bulletins and discussions, join the list and you will
 get links to Meta Wiki. It's a one-way-list, because the discussions
 are supposed to be on Meta Wiki. This is a WCA service for Council
 Members and non Council Members alike. In this way, nobody is obliged
 to be on a heavy traffic list such as Wikimedia-l.

That's not the way that wikimedia-announce is currently set up (it actually
refers all replies to wikimedia-l).  So if this is really the setup that's
desired, that requires a new (and differently configured) list.

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede 
jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 yeah, I was going to suggest the same thing, why make a different list
 with different membership?

 Jan-Bart (personally agreeing with mike's personal viewpoint… please don't
 take it personally)


 On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk
 wrote:

 
  On 19 Feb 2013, at 19:57, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  On 19 February 2013 16:10, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl
 wrote:
 
  There will be a special list 'WCA-announcements. If you want to be
  informed about Bulletins and discussions, join the list and you will
  get links to Meta Wiki. It's a one-way-list, because the discussions
  are supposed to be on Meta Wiki. This is a WCA service for Council
  Members and non Council Members alike. In this way, nobody is obliged
  to be on a heavy traffic list such as Wikimedia-l.
 
 
  Thanks Ziko, I'm happy to create this list for you on the Foundation
  servers, please follow the instructions at
  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Create_a_new_list to
 file a
  bug. I'd suggest WCA-Announce to match our similar announcement lists
 for
  MediaWiki, WLM, Toolserver etc and to keep it relatively short.
 
  Is there a reason why wikimediaannounce-l can't be used here?
 
  Thanks,
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  (Personal viewpoint)
 
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

[Philippe Beaudette]

{{Support}}

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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
 wrote:

  As a true Dutch, I shouldn't even consider to share... it is only to get
  through the days and survive without having to touch local cuisine...
  (French and Germans will probably be able to confirm this) :P
 

 Now, that's just being mean!

 If I had my way I would limit entrance for lodewijk from any future events
 until he deposits 10 stroopwafels as entrance fees. HK team should set
 their own lodewikj stroopwafel rates (LSR) for all dutch attendees, and
 blame him for hoarding.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Watchlists are coming to mobile

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Srsly.  Cool.  Really.

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com
 Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:44 PM
 Subject: Watchlists are coming to mobile
 To: mobile-l mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List
 wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org


 After a few months of development the mobile team is launching
 watchlists to the mobile site tomorrow. The feature to start with will
 give a simplified recent changes view a la the desktop site as well as
 a reading list view for users who are simply interested in keeping
 track of articles they are interested in reading.

 This change also brings in login and account creation functionality to
 all Wiki* projects.

 This from my perspective is one of the most exciting mobile
 developments so far as it makes the watchlist star a much more
 prominent figure in the user interface and will hopefully encourage
 new users to create accounts to use it, many of whom may be unaware
 that Wikipedia can be edited. The hope is these new users will find
 the feature useful and can be lured into the realm of becoming a
 contributor to our projects via mobile.

 Provided we don't run into any issues during deployment this should be
 deployed tomorrow.

 Please feel free to comment on this mail but if you experience any
 bugs in the aftermath please raise them here:

 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensionscomponent=MobileFrontend

 You can also try out the new feature a little early by opting into the
 beta here:
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileOptions

 Looking forward to all your feedback.

 Screenshot:
 http://imgur.com/jnl5XA4

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours with Sue

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi everyone,

This has been delayed one week. So there will NOT be office hours
tomorrow. Instead, they will be one week later.

Thanks,
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On Jan 17, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Maggie Dennis mden...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hello, all.

 Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director, is doing an IRC
 office hours on Saturday January 19 at 18:30:00 UTC. There is not currently
 an agenda set for the meeting, but I will update the particulars on Meta if
 that changes. Please see
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours for
 particulars.

 Thanks!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?

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This is what happens when you people get an empire, isn't it?  :-)

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On Jan 15, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

 There's GMT. That's not FAR off UTC. Maybe we can compromise there ;-)
 /joke
 On Jan 15, 2013 9:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 15 January 2013 21:07, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:

 maybe it would be good to consider at some point in the near future the
 timing of press releases, embargoes etc - keeping our international
 climate
 in mind. Unfortunately SF is quite at the far edge of timezone-land, and
 when we want to announce something on a certain date, that can indeed be
 confusing this way. We faced the same problems at Wiki Loves Monuments
 (where we mostly used European timezones, as the vast majority of the
 countries was in that), and some good thoughts about the general issue
 would definitely be welcome. Maybe not today though.


 There's a timezone other than UTC?


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF HR and leadership questions

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It would.  And Fellows, etc.

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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

  On 28/12/12 12:14, Gayle Karen Young wrote:
   *2d. Does WMF have a talent retention problem and if so what is
 being
   done about this?
  
  
   The short answer is No.
  
   The simplicity of this question is a bit misleading. I don't think we
  have
   a talent retention problem because we have amazing people working for
 us
   who have and will continue to. The reasons that people move on are
   sometimes but not always problematic. I think it's GOOD for people to
  leave
   the organization at various points - for their own career development,
   because the things that were more endemic to a start-up environment
 are a
   little less prevalent at our stage of organizational growth, etc.
 
  A count of office.wikimedia.org account deactivations suggests that
  about 59 people left the WMF in 2012, for whatever reason. To me, that
  seems like a lot of people. Maybe it's occasionally good for people to
  leave, but so many?
 

 Does that include interns? I know my interns get access to Office Wiki, so
 it might skew the numbers higher. I believe LCA has had at least 8-10 (?)
 interns cycle through in 2012. I've had a couple.

 -Matthew


 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request for consultation on proposed guidelines relating to potential conflicts of interest in requesting Wikimedia resources

[Philippe Beaudette]

Yes. From the linked page:We encourage international participation,
and, if more time is needed to allow for translations or comments, we
want to take that into consideration.

So please, yes!

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On Dec 21, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Mbingu Safidi mginbu.saf...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,

 is Wikimedia Foundation interested in involving communities that don't
 speak English in this consultation?

 Thank you,

 MS

 On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org 
 wrote:
 *Hi all, *
 *
 *
 *We are asking for community consultation on five proposed guidelines
 relating to potential conflicts of interest when people ask for resources
 belonging to the Wikimedia movement.

 For your review and comments, you may find more information, a proposed
 Board resolution, and the proposed guidelines here:
 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Guidelines_on_potential_conflicts_of_interest

 Please feel free to join the discussion on the talk page:
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Guidelines_on_potential_conflicts_of_interest

 Thank you for your time and expertise.

 *
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser causing confusion

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Not trying to be snarky, but like what?

We run a fundraiser.  It happens every year.  I'm pretty sure we have an
OTRS template about it.  :)

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On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote:

 I'm seeing a significant number of OTRS tickets along the lines of:

I was looking at Wikipedia and a big orange banner popped up
asking for donation Is this for real, or is it a scam?

 Can anything be done about this?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

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I'd actually like to clarify something about the way fundraisers work,
because it may not be readily apparent to everyone remember that the
date that the goal is hit is always fuzzy, because we actually don't know
it until it's viewed in retrospect.  There's money that comes in on a date
that isn't actually posted until later (for instance, check transactions,
which aren't posted the day they're received or transactions from payment
processors that may report on a 24 hour delay - I don't know if there are
any of these right now, but there used to be - or something similar).

So you actually don't know what date you hit the mark until you're quite
a bit farther down the line.  Systems are markedly better this year than
ever before, but I remember the year that I worked the fundraiser, we were
a week or more behind on posting checks.  That's just a manpower issue.

So while it's easy to talk about the date as though there's a magic total
board, there's not.  It's mostly good guesswork by Zack, his team, and the
payment processing chapters in approximating when it happens.

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:21 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org wrote:
  Thanks for the encouragement!  We're really sorry that this decision came
  so close to the fundraiser. But I think it's necessary and is going to
 make
  things so much better. I'm hoping that we can get the fundraiser down to
  something like 30 days this year (from 46 last year)

 Is that 46 day figure when the goal was reached and exceeded or when
 they were turned off, Since last year (and a few others if i'm not
 mistaken) those were two different dates.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

[Philippe Beaudette]

One thing that I really like here:  Terry specifically calls out past
projects (ArticleFeedbackTool, PageCuration, MoodBar), as things that his
team continues to support, though in a less structured/rigid/team-based
method (my own interpretation of what he said).  I want to say that this
has been a massive help to me - it's nice to know that features aren't
abandoned when deployed, and that - for the time they're out there - we
still support them.

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On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Sry, apparently this message gout bounced :-)

 Begin forwarded message:

  From: Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org
  Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org
 structure
  Date: November 7, 2012 11:47:56 AM PST
  To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
  Cc: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 
  Quim,
 
  On Nov 7, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi, am I the only one having difficulties understanding the proposal
 and what it implies?
 
You aren't the only one. It turns out we use a lot of industry
 terminology, without realizing that we are poorly communicating what that
 means to most people. For instance, I once introduced our Director of
 Product to someone and Howie got inundated with a request for help in
 getting them a Wikimedia T-shirt. :-D
 
 
  On 11/05/2012 07:03 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
  we need to split the current department into an engineering dept
  and a product dept in about 6-8 months.
 
  It is strange to see engineering and product side by side, since
 (as i understand them) these words belong to different categories.  :)
 
First of all, this will help greatly to the others (you already
 read it): http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors.
 
In this case, the current structure has three separate concepts
 under the banner of Product: they are product design (i.e. new software
 features http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_design), project
 management (getting those features out on a schedule), and
 user-interface/user experience/design (in this case, the pixels as the
 actual coding of the UX/UI is in Features).
 
On the Engineering side, there exists an amalgam of specific
 focused groups with their own directors. The focused groups are: Language
 (formerly i18n and Experimentation,
 internationalization/localization/globalization is a cross-cutting
 concern), and Mobile (formerly, Mobile and Special Projects: the mobile
 web, the mobile app, also including Wikipedia Zero). The area focused
 ones are: Operations (keeping the lights on), Platform (keeping the code
 working) and Features (ostensibly new features).
 
(In reality, taking my division, Features, as an example, I have
 teams working on the Visual Editor (actually three challenges: the visual
 editor, the parser, and integrating the two), FR-tech (engineering support
 for the Fundraiser), Editor Engagement (this year: Notifications and
 Messaging), and Editor Engagement Experimentation (i.e. post-edit feedback,
 account creation, new user flows, and analytics to support it), and
 normally Multimedia (Commons, video, UploadWizard). Plus there is stuff I
 haven't counted but take resources here and there: maintenance of existing
 stuff, being available for UI/UX for platform,
 ResourceLoader/ResourceLoader2, the Agora project for standardized UI/UX,
 previous and current Editor engagement projects (ArticleFeedbackTool,
 PageCuration, MoodBar), and MicroDesign.)
 
  Do you mean a platform team and product team, both filled with
 engineers and other profiles but each one focusing on different things? The
 MediaWiki (platform) team and the Wikimedia (product) teams, so to say?
 
  Or are you indeed referring to the classical separation between
 product managers + designers and developers + testers? The first ones
 defining requirements and the second ones implementing them?
 
I believe what is being talked about is more the latter, less the
 former: a separation of Product into distinct teams. Initially that will
 probably be splitting the product and project managers from the UI/UX
 piece. Already, Product works closely with Features (projects), Mobile, and
 Language providing the product management support and design. On doing
 this, it elevates Product Development as a whole to a higher level (along
 with Global Dev, Fundraising, Legal and Community, Finanace and
 Administration and HR, and distinct from Engineering). This does not mean
 that they are separate. For example, currently, Mobile (in engineering)
 works closely with mobile partnerships in Global Development on Wikipedia
 Zero, FR-tech in Features works closely with Fundraising (obviously), and
 none of us can do anything without Finance

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:07 AM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
 As it is this combined with the throttling feature made for
 quite a bit of disruption to a session where we had ten people having an
 introduction to editing.

By throttling feature, do you mean the account creation
restrictions?  If so, you know there are ways around that, right?
Email me offlist, so as not to clutter the list, and I'll give you a
pointer.

If you mean something different, disregard :)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please can someone put 50p in the meter

[Philippe Beaudette]

They're up for me...
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:44 AM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
 Does anyone know why Wikipedia and Commons have both gone down?

 WSC

 Writing from a slightly modified editing workshop in London
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[Wikimedia-l] Travel Guide Naming poll open

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi all,

The naming poll for the Travel Guide site is now open.  For the next 14
days, you may be eligible to vote for as many of the proposed names as you
wish.  For full details on voting criteria and other process notes as to
how the name will be selected, please see the voting page at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_Process.

Thanks,
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[Wikimedia-l] Naming for the Travel Guide project

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi all,

The straw poll [1] for the name of the new travel guide project has closed.
 While there's been strong support for the name Wikivoyage, there have also
been strong arguments expressing the desire for a more open-ended process
and no overall consensus to go forward without it. The Wikimedia Foundation
therefore would like to invite participation in an open process, which is
described at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_Process,
and begins immediately with the submission of suggested names (please note
the submission process).  Thank you for your participation.

Thanks,
pb


[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_straw_poll/en
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Naming for the Travel Guide project

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi Lodewijk,

Currently the process is that the suggested name must be owned by the WMF
or a volunteer who is willing to transfer it free of charge.  Any
exceptions would have to be worked out with Kelly and Erik.

Thanks,
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote:

 Thanks Philippe,

 just as clarification: do I understand correctly that people can only
 suggest names that are either owned by the WMF or they are willing to
 invest money to buy the domains for at least the .org and possibly some
 more? Or would the WMF also be willing to buy/reimburse the domains that
 would likely be serious candidates? This wasn't entirely clear from the
 page to me.

 Best,
 Lodewijk

 2012/9/27 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com

  Thanks for keeping this rolling, Philippe.
  It's great to see the names turned up already.
 
  SJ
 
  On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Philippe Beaudette
  phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
 
   Hi all,
  
   The straw poll [1] for the name of the new travel guide project has
  closed.
While there's been strong support for the name Wikivoyage, there have
  also
   been strong arguments expressing the desire for a more open-ended
 process
   and no overall consensus to go forward without it. The Wikimedia
  Foundation
   therefore would like to invite participation in an open process, which
 is
   described at
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_Process
  ,
   and begins immediately with the submission of suggested names (please
  note
   the submission process).  Thank you for your participation.
  
   Thanks,
   pb
  
  
   [1] -
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_straw_poll/en
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Travel Project - Next Steps

[Philippe Beaudette]

As Erik mentions, there is a straw poll regarding naming at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_straw_poll.

It is initially framed as whether the project shall be called
WikiVoyage.  This is just for simplicity's sake: the domain names are
already secured (obviously, by the extant site), owned and have a
history.  If the community prefers not to use that name, the
Foundation is perfectly happy to run an alternative naming process.

Please weigh in at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_straw_poll.  Your
voice is needed.

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Hello all,

 As recently announced [1], WMF will move forward in creating a
 Wikimedia travel project based on community request and support.

 We’re currently in discussions with the Wikivoyage community, who’ve
 expressed interest in joining Wikimedia’s project family as part of
 this launch. We’re coordinating certain practical issues, such as
 content migration, account reconciliation, and attribution, with them
 directly. Please note that the new project will be subject to
 Wikimedia’s terms of use, privacy policy, and licensing policy. Like
 with any of our projects, the bulk of content-related policies and
 practices will be designed and managed by the community.

 Launch discussions are continuing here:
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Travel_Guide

 An additional open question is the project name. Wikivoyage has
 offered to contribute its name.  So, we could stick with Wikivoyage,
 which is already established, and has a non-profit organization
 supporting it. We have also obtained a number of alternative domain
 names, as have individual community members. We’ll initially straw
 poll the Wikivoyage yes/no question as this seems like the simplest
 path forward if there’s wide agreement in favor; more on that in a
 separate note by Philippe.

 For the Wikivoyage content import and project launch, our current plan
 is to do an in-person sprint in San Francisco in late October to
 support the project launch (we may defer this based on everyone’s
 availability). There’s also plenty of work ahead of time. If you’d
 like to be part of the technical launch team, please sign up here:

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Technical_coordination

 We’ll also continue to monitor comments on
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Travel_Guide and will engage
 there as the process continues.

 For the time being, I am coordinating the overall project launch,
 supported by Philippe. Questions/comments welcome.

 I look forward to getting this project off the ground. :-) As we’ve
 said before, we don’t view ourselves in competition with other
 providers of free knowledge, nor do we encourage anybody to leave any
 other site. The beautiful thing about free culture is that anyone who
 wishes to contribute to the corpus of freely available information
 about travel (or indeed any subject) can do so anywhere, and both
 information and people can flow freely between projects.

 All best,
 Erik

 [1] 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hkwrote:

 Hire someone from the local Wikipedia community to do it.


Easily said, but... which local community?  All 280ish of them?  Wait,
that's just languages we're up to nearly 700 sites now, aren't we? :)

pb
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