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

2017-01-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
not a political > advocacy organization. > > Todd > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wimedia on line?

2016-09-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
fo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Philippe Beaudette phili...@beaudette.me 415-275-1424 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...

2016-07-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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, >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

2016-03-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
e...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote. > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New mes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disabe Media Viewer for non-logged-in users and logged-in users on Wikimedia Commons

2016-03-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
kimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Philippe Beaudette phili...@beaudette.me 415-275-14

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter: Issues needing addressing by the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees

2016-03-02 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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 plan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter: Issues needing addressing by the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees

2016-03-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
; > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] NY Times on Google team dynamics/success research

2016-02-29 Thread 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/ > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The right time is now!

2016-02-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > > __

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

2016-02-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
elines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.o

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

2016-02-21 Thread 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. -- Philippe Beaudette philippe.beaude...@icloud.com Begin forwarded message: > From: Dan Andre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Another goodbye

2016-02-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
be: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > ?subject=unsubscribe> > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

2016-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
his > > 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. > >

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

2016-02-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Philippe Beaudette phili...@beaudette.me 415-275-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Harassment Survey - Results Report

2016-01-30 Thread 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 r

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changes in the Board

2016-01-28 Thread philippe
I believe Kat says it well. -- Philippe Beaudette > 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Offlist Re: In Support of Community

2016-01-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
> > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [announcement] Ombudsman commission wider scope

2016-01-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
> > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

2016-01-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
as 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. ​ -- Philippe Beaudette phil

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

2016-01-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
on 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 ​ ​ -- Philippe Beaudette phili...@beaudette.me 415-691-8822

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you, Jan-Bart and Stu

2016-01-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > > Unsubscribe: > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic plan

2016-01-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
f 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. :-) pb​ Philippe Beaudette phili...@beaudette.me ___

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

2016-01-02 Thread philippe
tion 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, J

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

2016-01-02 Thread 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 wit

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

2016-01-02 Thread 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

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

2016-01-02 Thread Philippe Beaudette
nterests 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 >> characterizat

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement

2015-08-31 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ay 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 *Philippe Beaudette * \\

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

2015-07-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. :-) pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org

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

2015-07-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Wonderful officer choices; welcome to the new Board, thanks to the departings. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewiki https://twitter.com/Philippewiki On Thu, Jul 16, 2015

Re: [Wikimedia-l] GLAM Mailing lists

2015-06-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415

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

2015-05-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi there - Just acknowledging that we've seen this and are checking it. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewiki https://twitter.com/Philippewiki On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:49

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

2015-05-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
OK, I think the banner is back on for it now. Not sure exactly WHY it happened, but it's fixed. *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewiki https://twitter.com/Philippewiki On Thu

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

2015-05-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I'm getting it on Spanish. *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewiki https://twitter.com/Philippewiki On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Santi Navarro santiagonava

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

2015-04-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Foundation-l] Single login - decision 2004

2015-04-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Eloquence~metawiki Geekpoints, +2 *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewiki https://twitter.com

[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Office hours on strategy

2015-03-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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, pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community

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

2015-03-21 Thread 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. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643

[Wikimedia-l] Office Hours with Lila re: NSA suit - 23 March 2015 18:00 UTC / 11:00 PDT

2015-03-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
. 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 *Philippe Beaudette

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

2014-11-24 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It should. As I recall, the idea came from their work. :-) (Don't quote me, but pretty sure I'm right.) *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewiki https://twitter.com/Philippewiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

2014-09-12 Thread 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? *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415

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

2014-09-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
. __ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia

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

2014-08-12 Thread 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 . pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org

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

2014-08-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
not to be used lightly but it is a tool in our belt. Philippe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

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

2014-05-28 Thread Philippe Beaudette
#Legal_and_Community_Advocacy *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome

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

2014-05-28 Thread 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 *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885

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

2014-05-28 Thread Philippe Beaudette
*Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Chad Horohoe choro...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:08 PM

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

2014-05-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
What's the intended use? I may have one that will work. Write me offlist with details. :) pb — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On May 25, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Yves Z zyzz...@outlook.com wrote: Hello, Where can I find recent presentations

Re: [Wikimedia-l] general strategic goals

2014-05-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
is grossly misleading through the absence of context. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki ___ Wikimedia-l

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

2014-04-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
, and the rest of the WMF team working on this will consider and keep in mind. :-) pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

2014-04-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Amir, this is the first time that one's been brought up. I'll chat with OIT about potentially changing moving forward. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'm back

2014-04-17 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hasn't been the same without you. Welcome. *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:09 PM, JP Béland lebo.bel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia paid volunteers

2014-04-04 Thread 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? pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili

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

2014-03-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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 *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy

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

2014-03-25 Thread 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? *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org

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

2014-03-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Handy link for background: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quality (quite old and outdated now, but still good). *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com

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

2014-03-17 Thread Philippe Beaudette
. 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. :) pb *Philippe

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

2014-03-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
that the writer of the article contacted the authorities before we filed the document. We are taking steps to correct this inaccurate report. Best, pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Link to Wikimedia Shop now included in the English Wikipedia sidebar

2014-02-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I'm confused. That link has been there, like, forever, hasn't it? Or for quite a long time? Or am I misremembering that? pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps

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

2014-01-15 Thread 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 Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy On Jan 15, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

2014-01-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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? pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

2014-01-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

2014-01-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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 — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

2013-12-29 Thread 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

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

2013-12-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
/Use_of_Foreign_Works_Restored_under_the_URAA_on_Commons --- like that? pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Some sad news

2013-11-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Corrected link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jackson_Peebles *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Jake

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

2013-11-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
at this a couple of years back - it's just not simple, and there are complex challenges. *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | : @Philippewikihttps://twitter.com/Philippewiki

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

2013-10-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
queries like yours, they aren't accidentally muddying the waters further. More soon. pb — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On Oct 25, 2013, at 9:19 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Again I ask: Can the WMF either publicly

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

2013-07-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T : 1-415-839

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF unclaimed Google Docs

2013-07-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Election results

2013-06-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi folks, I'm forwarding this message, written by Risker, for the election committee. ~Philippe ___ 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

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing four new Community Liaisons (Product)

2013-06-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
, 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! pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: New Privacy Policy - Call for Community Input

2013-06-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Forwarding an important message from WMF legal counsel Michelle Paulson. ___ -- Forwarded message -- 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:

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

2013-06-16 Thread 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. :) ___ Philippe

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

2013-05-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Previous account, Nemo. :) — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc 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

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

2013-05-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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 — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On May 12, 2013, at 10:06 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com

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

2013-05-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Elections 2013

2013-05-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
This is fixed, thank you. :-) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Takashi OTA supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com wrote: I have been working

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

2013-04-30 Thread Philippe Beaudette
, 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. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org

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

2013-04-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Yep. Meta. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On Apr 27, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Philippe Beaudette, 25/04/2013 22:39

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

2013-04-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
to the Foundation, though he's been a part of the movement for years! pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l

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

2013-03-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
See also: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote: On 14 March 2013

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

2013-03-14 Thread 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

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

2013-03-07 Thread 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). pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking back at the London Conference

2013-02-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
, that requires a new (and differently configured) list. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote: yeah, I was going

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

2013-02-18 Thread Philippe Beaudette
{{Support}} ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org 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

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

2013-02-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Srsly. Cool. Really. ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Robson

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours with Sue

2013-01-18 Thread 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, PB — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On Jan 17, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Maggie Dennis mden...@wikimedia.org wrote

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

2013-01-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
This is what happens when you people get an empire, isn't it? :-) — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc 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

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

2012-12-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It would. And Fellows, etc. ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org 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

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

2012-12-21 Thread 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! PB — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On Dec 21

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser causing confusion

2012-11-28 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. :) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

2012-11-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415

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

2012-11-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org

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

2012-10-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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 :) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415

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

2012-10-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
They're up for me... ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:44 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know why Wikipedia and Commons have

[Wikimedia-l] Travel Guide Naming poll open

2012-10-02 Thread Philippe Beaudette
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_Process. Thanks, pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Naming for the Travel Guide project

2012-09-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
. Thanks, pb [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_straw_poll/en ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Naming for the Travel Guide project

2012-09-27 Thread 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, pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Travel Project - Next Steps

2012-09-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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. pb ___ Philippe

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

2012-07-30 Thread 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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