[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

2024-07-19 Thread Ilario valdelli
 + affiliates who want not just the slice of the pie, but the pie itself + the usual suspects. -- Ilario Valdelli Skype: valdelli Tel: +41764821371 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Special Election to fill vacancies on the U4C

2024-07-16 Thread Ilario valdelli
0 (Not the U4C member nor WMF Staff) https://w.wiki/_zgcU ---- -- Ilario Valdelli Skype: valdelli Tel: +41764821371 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guide

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikisource-l] Google not indexing Wikisource for last few years now.

2023-08-01 Thread Ilario valdelli
nsubscribe send an email to wikisource-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skype: va

[Wikimedia-l] Re: activity around Wikimedia.ru

2023-05-26 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I know Medeyko as he started long time ago and may be it was also in the Affcom if I remember well. That time it was strange to consider how a person that basically was not able to communicate in English (or in other language than Russian) was part of a committee. What is strange is the time taken

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Ilario valdelli
imedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/WMGIBNPN5JNJGUOCLWFCCPD7EL5YN6KU/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikianswers Proposal

2023-05-15 Thread Ilario valdelli
Risker/Anne On Mon, 15 May 2023 at 12:19, Ilario Valdelli wrote: I like the idea. Sometimes people need a simple answer. At the moment to receive an answer from Wikipedia for some articles people need a Phd. A solution like that can give a smart and quick and understable

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikianswers Proposal

2023-05-15 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I like the idea. Sometimes people need a simple answer. At the moment to receive an answer from Wikipedia for some articles people need a Phd. A solution like that can give a smart and quick and understable answer. Kind regards On Mon, 15 May 2023, 11:48 Adam Sobieski, wrote: > Wikimedia, >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Chat GPT

2023-02-05 Thread Ilario Valdelli
There is a problem of incompatibility of examples of AI like ChatGPT. 1st: Wikipedia is not primary source, the references are important. In ChatGPT there are statements but not references to support the statements. 2nd: Bias. In Wikipedia all positions for a problem must be indicated. ChatGPT is

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Chat GPT

2023-02-05 Thread Ilario Valdelli
And this is a problem. If ChatGPT uses open content, there is an infringement of license. Specifically the CC-by-sa if it uses Wikipedia. In this case the attribution must be present. Kind regards On Sun, 5 Feb 2023, 08:12 Peter Southwood, wrote: > “Not citing sources is probably a conscious

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election

2022-07-23 Thread Ilario Valdelli
> GN. > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikim

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election

2022-07-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Considering this list, there is no sense to don't make public which affiliated has voted. Kind regards On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, 16:09 Jan Ainali, wrote: > I think that what was requested was which affiliates that voted, not which > individuals. > > But we should note, that the list of users who re

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election

2022-07-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
For transparency purposes there is no question to ask. Surely the list must be public. Is WMF a transparent organization? Kind regards On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, 06:14 Jackie Koerner, wrote: > Hi Alice and Adamw, > > Thanks for this question. This has been a question those of us on the team > suppor

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Affiliations Committee's standing on hubs and its role in the process

2022-07-17 Thread Ilario Valdelli
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Affiliations Committee's standing on hubs and its role in the process

2022-07-12 Thread Ilario Valdelli
perkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/JKTUL7UPO3U37WNFF4B4B5SNDTXFR62P/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Asso

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Three Month Update & Wikimedia Foundation Draft Annual Plan

2022-04-15 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Finally something that has a lot of sense. The question of increasing of budget is an important point also looking to the overlapping with affiliates. There are several activities done by WMF and by affiliates with the difference that affiliates do these activities in local languages. In a movem

[Wikimedia-l] Re: An Open Letter to Maryana Iskander

2022-04-12 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Hi Some comments here too. While in general the points are important and relevant, the 7 and 8 continue to be based on a geographical separation that it's almost updated and is itself discriminatory. If you base the discussion to the war between Europa and America vs remaining world or to White p

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open letter on negating race and ethnicity as "meaningful distinctions" in the UCoC

2022-04-09 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I think that the statement of UCoC wants somehow consider that the definition of racism and ethnicity has a different meaning in the current time and needs to be updated because the risk is to use outdated models that sometimes can generate more confusions than solutions. The statement of Whose Kn

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

2022-03-02 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I agree and I think that the best support is to offer a neutral and complete information against any kind of propaganda. This is what Wikimedia can do better. Kind regards On Tue, 1 Mar 2022, 23:21 Valentin Nefedov, wrote: > Thanks for your support! The best "sanctions" WMF can implement is ra

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

2021-05-23 Thread Ilario Valdelli
This is a good point. In addition some affiliates don't receive money from WMF (even big affiliates). I think that the rationale should be clarified because applied as is it's quite discriminatory. I understand that there should be a turnover but for grants the experience is the main value to as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

2021-02-23 Thread Ilario Valdelli
First point for security. What should be secure is the software AND the entity using it. In case there is a third entity managing the data, there is an additional level of insecurity to take care. When people "donate" you your data, they don't take care what is the software behind but who manage

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

2021-02-15 Thread Ilario valdelli
/Proposals#Use_of_off-wiki_surveys_using_third-party_tools Thanks Fae -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skype: va

Re: [Wikimedia-l] please NOT to Telegram as first or only communication channel (WAS: Wikimedia 2030: Mark your calendars! We are meeting on Nov. 21-22)

2020-10-23 Thread Ilario valdelli
kept "free" and there is no obstacles to use one or another solution because at the end the goal is the participation. Kind regards -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sos

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sexual harassment

2020-08-23 Thread Ilario valdelli
-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Ilario valdelli
/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports/Finalization_Change_Log_(January_-_April_2020) Best wishes, Nicole -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switze

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Ilario valdelli
. The writing team and the reviewers [9] worked tirelessly to revise and finalize the recommendations. Community and affiliate strategy liaisons facilitated countless discussions. Thank you all. -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

2020-04-11 Thread Ilario valdelli
lsharb...@wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skype: valdelli Tel: +417648213

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

2020-03-14 Thread Ilario valdelli
llaboration opportunities around other Wikimedia projects, such as Wikibooks. -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skyp

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations released, join the conversation

2020-01-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Hi all I agree on that point. I suggest to the community to organize themselves to give a feedback and to contribute to have better and widely supported reccomandations but this process must progress. Everything can be improved and can be better but what is important is to keep this goal of impro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-20 Thread Ilario Valdelli
That can be an output of the conference. Is not it? On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, 13:57 Gerard Meijssen, wrote: > Hoi, > How do you define diversity? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 13:44, Jon Harald Søby wrote: > > > Hi all, and apologies if you receive this email several times – I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2020 will be on August 5-9. Bangkok, Thailand.

2019-10-08 Thread Ilario valdelli
ct=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skype: valdelli Tel: +41764821371 http:/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation joins the global climate strike

2019-09-23 Thread Ilario Valdelli
en friendships that may > never otherwise have come about? I'm all about virtual, but there is value > in physical events, and I would say that we should make time and space for > both. > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 12:54, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > > > Yes > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation joins the global climate strike

2019-09-23 Thread Ilario Valdelli
and > registration fees. To check your eligibility, you can consult conditions of > eligibility on this page > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Policies/Scholarships>." > > Best regards > Gabe > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 1:14 PM Ilario Valdell

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation joins the global climate strike

2019-09-23 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Anyways this is perceived by the community. In Wikimedia CH we cannot give scholarships for Wikimania because people would not do long trips. IMHO the problem is these big events. For this reason we prefer to give more scholarships for regional wikicon than to Wikimania. This is the reason why

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-25 Thread Ilario valdelli
s://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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> -- Ilario Valde

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-25 Thread Ilario valdelli
-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario Skype:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-25 Thread Ilario valdelli
be: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-18 Thread Ilario valdelli
Hi Nicole, I suggest also to harmonize a little bit the reccomandations of the working groups too. I had a quick reading and I found several conflictual points among the different working groups. An example is the technology working group where the first reccomandation is about a decentral

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Some goodbye to all

2019-06-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https:/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Some goodbye to all

2019-06-20 Thread Ilario Valdelli
ng, talking and sharing your thoughts, I wish you > all the best! > > > Romaine > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-11 Thread Ilario valdelli
Hi Leila, I have put my own but the problem we have in Switzerland is connected to the multi-lingualism. Italian, for instance, which is one big language in WIkipedia, is at the opposite a minority in Switzerland. Any study is interesting, but if it could be country-based, it would be bett

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-26 Thread Ilario Valdelli
History does not require a judge. It's the storiography to be judge. Here the problem is to give relevance to some sources and to neglect (completely) others. If a single not neutral source is considered as the Holy Bible, the same pillars of Wikipedia are infringed. Kind regards On Mon, 26 Nov

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-11-26 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I think that this case is so complicated that the admin or the steward sometimes are not prepared to face a big problem like this. They evaluate two opinions without having a background to define what is true and what is not. In this case the evaluation can be not neutral. Anyways the bias us pre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Plea from Wikimedia Portugal

2018-10-11 Thread Ilario Valdelli
The best mistake you do is to consider the wikimedia chapter as a representative of the Wikipedia community while this statement is basically wrong. When you say that Vasconcelos had no Wikipedia editing experience and continue to support your position using this motivation, you probably have no c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FY1718 Fundraising Report now published

2018-10-01 Thread Ilario Valdelli
t; That's why I gave a long list of the factors that affect the potential > for > > fundraising in Asia, Africa and South America. Its a complex equation > > > > Regards > > Seddon > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 11:58 AM Ilario valdelli >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FY1718 Fundraising Report now published

2018-10-01 Thread Ilario valdelli
I agree in that point. Please be back to this millenium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) (updated to 2017). Three Asian countries are listed in the top 10. And the estimation is to have sooner a fourth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-26 Thread Ilario valdelli
This is true, but it's true also that the discussion is now restricted to few members and groups. I can personally say that the communities (and when I speak about communities I speak about people not being able to speak english or not following the international mailing list) are ignoring p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] De-recognition of Wikimedia user groups in Brazil

2018-04-08 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Hi Kirill It makes sense to explain a little bit about the conflict management and the position of both sides to define why both groups have been derecognized. At the opposite this decision will give the feeling that, to attack a local Group, it will be sufficient to create another local Group and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimédia France

2017-08-04 Thread Ilario Valdelli
4, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Ilario Valdelli wrote: In my opinion there is a little bit confusion. The audit is required by someone (in this case the board) and the audit reports to the entity requiring it (the board). To communicate or not depends on the board. If the board required it to have a clear

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimédia France

2017-08-04 Thread Ilario Valdelli
08/2017 à 11:45, Ilario Valdelli a écrit : Only an audit can answer. To switch from rumors to facts, this is the most appropriate solution. It seems that Wikimedia France had two audits (but it would be interesting to know if limited only to the financial aspects) and another by the FDC. The G

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimédia France

2017-08-04 Thread Ilario Valdelli
claim for an audit too, defining the auditing entity. Kind regards On 04/08/2017 11:27, Leigh Thelmadatter wrote: Assuming of course that a chapter actually follows its bylaws From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Ilario Valdelli Sent: Friday, August 4, 2017 1:34

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimédia France

2017-08-04 Thread Ilario Valdelli
to:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch ---

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimédia France

2017-08-04 Thread Ilario Valdelli
on is free to fund or not fund, to recognise or derecognise. But not to control. -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Tel: +4176482137

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

2017-06-19 Thread Ilario Valdelli
This is the correct approach. There are technical issues and there are social issues. It’s time to don’t mix them. Tor can be one solution, not exactly the best and there is no sense to mix the discussion. Kind regards Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Tim Starling Sent: 19 June 2017 07:1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] May 5: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#15)

2017-05-08 Thread Ilario Valdelli
> > zero? May be not, unless the issue of net neutrality is clearly > addressed. > > We need to remember that some countries had to ban different zero > services, > > as they clearly violated net neutrality and people were against them. > > > > Regards > > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] May 5: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#15)

2017-05-08 Thread Ilario Valdelli
In these cases the big advantage is the capacity to be cloned. A governement can block an ip or a domain but it would be hard to block internet. The good approach is to invite the web to host kiwix and zim files for downloading. That would be easier than cloning Wikipedia content. However that ap

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Philippines

2017-04-25 Thread Ilario Valdelli
list >> affilia...@lists.wikimedia.org >> <mailto:affilia...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/affiliates >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/affiliates> >> >> >> -- &qu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Concerns in general

2017-01-29 Thread Ilario Valdelli
wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch --- Quest

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

2016-10-16 Thread Ilario Valdelli
d conferences. Thank you. - Pax aka Funcrunch [1] http://funcrunch.org/blog/2016/10/12/making-connections-at- wikiconference-north-america/ [2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/ 1114259788621851/ -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association

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

2016-08-25 Thread Ilario Valdelli
tal. > > If all affiliates operated in the same conditions, that would be another > story. > > -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland -

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

2016-06-23 Thread Ilario Valdelli
served as the chapter’s Board > Treasurer, Vice Chair, and volunteer Executive Director. > -- > > > > ___ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-10 Thread Ilario Valdelli
nt Associate (Community Engagement)* > *Wikimedia Foundation* > ___ > 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] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-09 Thread Ilario Valdelli
In Switzerland is not expensive... Il 09 Mag 2016 20:33, "Michael Peel" ha scritto: > > > On 9 May 2016, at 18:36, Béria Lima wrote: > > > > My 2 cents :D > > > > 1. I can't see the banner (not using the link posted or going by > > CentralNotice) Could someone who can see it take a print please?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What can we learn

2016-04-11 Thread Ilario Valdelli
erard Meijssen" ha scritto: > Hoi, > Really more bureaucracy? As if that does not bring its own conflict of > interest? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 9 April 2016 at 10:20, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > > > What should be noted is that a personal declaration of C

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What can we learn

2016-04-09 Thread Ilario Valdelli
What should be noted is that a personal declaration of COI cannot be sufficient. Probably an evaluation of potential conflits done by a committee as neutral body can help the candidates to better evaluate the candidacy and to manage them better. Kind regards Il 09 Apr 2016 8:26 AM, "Anders Wenners

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [recent changes]

2016-04-09 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Hi Denny Your email is very interesting to understand the conflict you were experimenting to introduce innovation and good ideas in Wikimedia projects. In my opinion the biggest problem is the overlapping between direction and execution. Do you think that your action would be less efficient operat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a *volunteer* organization

2016-02-29 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Hi Leigh In general there is always a transparent hierarchy and an untasparent one self organized following the real leaderships. Problems happen when the gap between both increases. In this case the real decisions are made in front of a coffee machine and not in the right places. The solution is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

2016-02-29 Thread Ilario Valdelli
be a success for someone an insuccess for another one. They are indicators and not only measures. Kind regards Il 29/Feb/2016 14:58, "Brion Vibber" ha scritto: > On Feb 29, 2016 3:13 AM, "Ilario Valdelli" > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > in my opinion ther

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

2016-02-29 Thread Ilario Valdelli
___ > 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/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why we changed

2016-02-22 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Hi Kat This is good. But why not to look for a CTO? Designing a CTO's profile and putting it in a CEO's profile is a big challenge. This can happen but means also to have a big change of the vision of WMF. Kind regards Il 22/Feb/2016 19:12, "Kat Walsh" ha scritto: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:0

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why we changed

2016-02-22 Thread Ilario Valdelli
> 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/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-re

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

2016-02-20 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I like this email of Chris and what seems to me strange is that there is an evident lack of control of the board. I have read the emails of resignation without being shocked. They were expected. It's sufficient to use Mr.google and to reach Glassdoor to read the anonymous comments of former employ

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

2016-02-18 Thread Ilario Valdelli
& GAC. > ___ > 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/wikimedia-l, > <

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

2016-01-16 Thread Ilario Valdelli
subscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il

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

2016-01-09 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Yes but this list is public. Being in the shoes of an external I would have so much material to do a science fictional romance. Il 09/Gen/2016 13:21, "Yaroslav M. Blanter" ha scritto: > On 2016-01-09 13:14, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > >> Yes but this overlapping

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

2016-01-09 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Yes but this overlapping generates this kind of misunderstanding. For people being outside wikimedia community there are several changes too much complicated. Il 09/Gen/2016 13:08, "Yaroslav M. Blanter" ha scritto: > On 2016-01-09 12:54, Steinsplitter Wiki wrote: > >> That James was replaced wit

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

2016-01-02 Thread Ilario Valdelli
efully thought through. I also understand well the reasons of many Board members who voted as they did. -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008

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

2015-12-31 Thread Ilario Valdelli
by the Board itself, the Board retains the ability to manage its composition as necessary to maintain the working environment required to be effective. -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AWB & Ubuntu: Can really someone help?

2015-12-29 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On 29.12.2015 10:10, Petr Kadlec wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote: AWB is made in C#. C# runs in .NET. .NET is like a virtual machine to abstract the layer of the operating system. .NET runs in Windows doesn't run in Linux based OS. Not really. Apart

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AWB & Ubuntu: Can really someone help?

2015-12-29 Thread Ilario Valdelli
o: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des con

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

2015-12-28 Thread Ilario Valdelli
aybe won't) say much more, which of course just leaves everyone else to speculate. MZMcBride What is strange is that he votes and he votes in opposition. Did someone see an inconsistencyon that? Kind regards -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource technical issues (was Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!)

2015-12-17 Thread Ilario Valdelli
___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris

2015-11-14 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I have also checked yesterday through Internet and I was supported by all of your messages. I suppose that the hobbies of wiki*edians are safety hobbies (i.e.writing wikipedia). So the probability of an accident is low. Every time an accident happens we think to all people of the community living

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rodrigo versus Rodrigo (was Re: WLM Brasil 2015 - Winners / Numbers)

2015-10-31 Thread Ilario Valdelli
vernance is not strategy itself. For the PEG Padula has realized its project and reached the goals. This result cannot be combined with a discussion of the conflicts happening in the Brazilian community, which should be probably discussed in another place. Kind regards -- Ilario Valdelli Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WLM Brasil 2015 - Winners / Numbers

2015-10-31 Thread Ilario Valdelli
s. There is no success for a specific person on an individual and personal criteria. The user group of Brazil has not asked nothing special, this is a normal budget for any WLM or WLE in several countries. On 31.10.2015 18:20, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton wrote: quality of work. Again "

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WLM Brasil 2015 - Winners / Numbers

2015-10-31 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On 31.10.2015 12:12, Fæ wrote: On 31 Oct 2015 11:00, "Ilario Valdelli" wrote: On 31.10.2015 11:46, Fæ wrote: Hang on. Could I have an independent reality check; is that really $7 per photograph? Fae 30.000 is exact, but they are 30.000 Real which means 11.000 USD. Cool. So about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WLM Brasil 2015 - Winners / Numbers

2015-10-31 Thread Ilario Valdelli
means 11.000 USD. -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
mation, because you did not offer any argument that corroborates to your statement. Yes, I know, you do not understand. Anyway we can continue "ad libitum" for the sample reason that you don't like it but it's not up to me to support your dislike. Regards -- Ilario Valdell

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
ot;If you are member of a chapter, please ask internally to your chapter, not to me." just to border me. -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza liber

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
coherence, I would strictly comply with the topic of this thread. Kind regards On 21.10.2015 15:18, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton wrote: This do not answers any of my questions... opacity even in the talk, the via will not make any difference. On 21 October 2015 at 10:43, Ilario Valdelli wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats On 21.10.2015 14:09, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton wrote: " it's not good to give publicly comments on the candidates." Why is that so? And candidates? To what? On 21 October 2015 at 06:12, Ilario Valdelli wrote: Exact

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
with that many subscribers is, frankly, doing it in the wrong place. The existing chapters-l and internal-l mailing lists used to leak like sieves when they were in heavy use (and in addition the information that was leaked was often distorted and incomplete). -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verei

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-20 Thread Ilario Valdelli
avoid that there is the feeling that in some places are happening machinations or conspiracies. What is really missed is an "open" space where discussions about chapters can happen. Kind regards -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’ava

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-19 Thread Ilario Valdelli
his mean? I think it's pretty clear that broad-based private-access lists aren't serving any purpose. My preferred option would be to either ditch the Chapters mailing list or make it announce-only, scrap Internal-l entirely, and have an "affiliates" list that is open. Ch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of new User Groups

2015-10-18 Thread Ilario Valdelli
ll be served well by further dividing them. -greg (User:Varnent) Vice Chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerla

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

2015-10-05 Thread Ilario Valdelli
__ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

2015-10-04 Thread Ilario Valdelli
a decision is valid as soon it is communicated. At the moment it does not seem that the local communities were informed in order to know that the process was broken. Kind regards -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des

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

2015-08-18 Thread Ilario Valdelli
ides wrote: Given that they are going to take you banner time, maybe they would be possible to be convinced to include a small "WLM ad" in the donation page? -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre

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

2015-07-16 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Wow does it mean that I spoke in the lift with the new president 30 minutes after his election without knowing to speak with the new president? Il 16/Lug/2015 17:04, "Jan-Bart de Vreede" ha scritto: > Hello Everyone > > I am happy to inform you that the Board has unanimously appointed a new > Cha

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

2015-07-07 Thread Ilario Valdelli
The best evaluation is to understand the evolution and the trend. In the last months in waray for instance I have seen less than 10 edits in the overall project in one month. This is not revitalization. I agree with the enthusiasm of the community members but I am personally in favor of compariso

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

2015-07-07 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Thanks to have summarized my position. As speaker than more than one minor language I agree that there is no sense to inflate articles over the possibility of the small community to manage them. Not in opposition of automated generated articles but having in my hands the experience of project mana

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