[Wikimedia-l] Re: Where to from here?

Maryana, Just wanted to thank you for this email. Your openness, transparency, and dedication to listening to the movement's needs are deeply appreciated. I truly enjoy reading these emails, as they summarize many ongoing initiatives and achievements that we may not always be aware of. Itzik On

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

When I realized the entire "voting" process was a hoax by the board a few weeks ago, I wanted to join other people in protesting against the board's behavior. However, I felt it would be pointless, as the board had already wasted far too much time, knowing it wouldn't accept anything other than its

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Arabic Wikipedia day of action

opic. > > Thanks, > Richard > (User:Pharos) > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 11:03 AM James Heilman wrote: > >> Itzik, this applies only to ar WP correct? Hebrew WP can of course take >> actions as they see fit. Each project is somewhat independent of others. >> &

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Arabic Wikipedia day of action

Unfortunately, not only did Arabic Wikipedia go dark, but also the entire movement. The day marks a sad day in the history of a movement that should be neutral and respect the movement's readers, volunteers and donors around the world. This was the day when one of our most important projects was ta

[Wikimedia-l] Deror Lin passed away

Dear friends, I'm sorry to update that our friend and colleague Deror Lin (user:Deror_Avi) passed away this morning. Deror was a truly Wikimedian in blood who poured his heart and soul into the movement in many ways, even in his final days. He joined Wikipedia in 2004 and was one of the founders

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland – Transition Team and Interim Executive Director

Thank you Tim for the update, and good luck Jan and WMDE with the transition. I know Jan and I'm sure he will do great work in the meanwhile. And also, huge thanks Pavel for your huge contribution to movement and to chapter in general! Good luck as well on your next role. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deprecating print-on-demand functionality

Any plans also to improve this module and make it work well also in Hebrew (and maybe other RTL languages)? On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Luca Martinelli > wrote: > > so the Book Creator will still be active, maybe under another name, >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiknic reports and photos

We also hosted Wiknic last Friday (to celebrate HEWP 11th anniversary): https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A5_2014/%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Israel received the Roaring Lion Award for the Hebrew Wikipedia 10th anniversary PR

; You can watch them the videos (translated to English) on our Youtube > > Channel: > > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQcXKjU3rwJ-TOL8lyru7oHvoufnWtED > > > > I wish to thank all the volunteers who take part m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lets delete everything from commons (was The tragedy of Commons)

Hi Geni, I wonder when was the last time you, or any other person who responded till now requested his government to make a public statement - in any issue, not only related to this issue, and the government so quickly done that, exactly as he way them to do so - without a long process which invol

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lets delete everything from commons (was The tragedy of Commons)

With all the good faith, and even with the good connections of WMIL with the Israeli government - lets don't forget this it is still, a government, and it is not kind of "lets ask them and they will do it just because we are Wikimedia Commons" issue. It was hard enough to explain them the ridiculou

[Wikimedia-l] Lets delete everything from commons (was The tragedy of Commons)

The story continues. WMIL uploaded a letter from the Ministry of Justice, addressed to the Commons Community, which confirm that the government don't have interest on this photos. And not surprising, he was deleted from Commoms by the same person who deleted all the photos so far: https://commons.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Thank you Sue Gardner

I want to join and say also, thank you Sue! Jan-Bart already mentioned your huge contribution to the movement, but I want to add one more thing: I know many professional managers. But to find people who are great mangers in a big organizations who are also warm and hearty for other, who don't put t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC recommendation round 2 announced

+1 I want to join Jat-Bart and thanks the FDC for the great work they did again. I'm also happy to see improvement in the process and to see that this round the FDC published more detailed feedback of their recommendations. I found their feedback of the WMF proposal as a very mature and profound,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel been accepted to the Google Grants program

see how > WMIL's scheme goes! > On 5 May 2014 15:35, "Andrew Gray" wrote: > > > Interesting! WM-DE and WMF have both had adword grants - looking at > > the mailing list archives, they seemed to use them for directing > > people to fundraising. Any other

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel been accepted to the Google Grants program

ampus in Tel Aviv (Hackathons and community meet-ups). P.S. Happy 66th Israel's Independence Day! *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowled

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

Congratulation Carlos! WMIL are proud of you! And thank you Bence for your long commitment till now! On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > Hi all, > > It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations > Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the ch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia has a new board

Congratulation to all the new board members, and especially for Andrea on the presidency role, and many thanks to the former board member for their huge contribution! On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > Hi all, > > yesterday April 6th, 2014, in Florence at "The Impact

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania Budget (related to chapters and WMF)

[cross-posting] -- Forwarded message -- From: Itzik Edri Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:37 AM Subject: Re: Wikimania Budget (related to chapters and WMF) To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, We are soon gon

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Purpose of WMConf ( was: Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014)

What the purpose of this discussion? The program committee already scheduled a session about the future of the WMCON. And as we are a week before, and I believe it's too late to cancel flights and hotels booking, nothing will probably going to be changed, even if there will be consensus about the p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

ll, and > > would > > > wonder what value there is in sending more than this along to the > > > conference on the dime of the donor. If it's acceptable for large > > chapters > > > with large reserves, it potentially puts smaller chapters at a > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

Sorry Nicole, but I'm unhappy with your answer. You are right, engagement on other topics is needed, but this is not means people don't have the right to ask questions and raise concerns. We didn't have this discussions last year, as none of the chapter sent more then 2+1. There were few people wh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

This is totally surprise for me. I checked the last years participation lists, and none of the chapters sent more than 2+1 representatives. The idea all this years was very simple: to keep the conference small as possible in order to have effective discussions, and to allow all the chapter to be eq

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

I don't think the costs are the issue here, neither if there is streaming or not (and I don't think we need to have one. It's WMCconf, not Wikimania). But we have strict rule - two representatives, 3 if you have ED. I also saw that some chapters have more than that, and I really don't know why. If

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Goodbye as the German president of the Dutch chapter

Thank you Ziko for your huge contribution to WMNL, to the chapters, and to the movement in general. בהצלחה (Good luck) on whatever you going to do next. On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge, > > After three eventful

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] (press release) Frank Schulenburg named executive director of new Wiki Education Foundation

Allow me first to congratulate Frank. I think he is a great choice and already proved how much he capable to do amazing things, so I have a great hopes in this new organizations. Saying that and moving to talk about the organization and the process, and not about the person, this grant and program

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board decisions on movement funding and approval issues

So as the discussion gotten off-track, as 100% volunteer for the past 7 years, I'll echo and support every line which Nicole, as a WMDE employee wrote. Thank you for summarize what many of us feel and think in a clear and detailed response. On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Nicole Ebber wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board decisions on movement funding and approval issues

What I can say about this new-old not surprising decision? When WMDE posted their feedback about the FDC, the responses from the board/fdc was "wait, we want to finish 2 years cycle and then talk about the it". Of course it didn't stopped the WMF, before having such a discussion, to decide and limi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMIL Board & members withdraw from international activities

re so that recipients of large > grant increases feel grateful instead of insulted, because it is an > obviously poor outcome if an institution receives two hundred thousand > dollars of donor money and is so upset that it announces it is all but > exiting the international community.

[Wikimedia-l] A call to Wikimedia Israel's community to "come home"

re impact and contributing to Israeli society, as it has in recent years, and even more. With best wishes, Wikimedia Israel Board -- Forwarded message -- From: Itzik Edri Date: 2014-02-03 Subject: קריאה למתנדבי ויקימדיה ישראל לעשות לביתנו To: ויקימדיה ישראל חברים ושותפים

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Extensive feedback from WMDE to the FDC process

Thank you Pavel and WMDE board, this is indeed a great constructive feedback and I strongly agree with most of the your arguments and concerns. Itzik WMIL On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Pavel Richter wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have just posted an extensive feedback from WMDE on the FDC p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most viewed articles of 2013, across languages

And as I wrote on ComCom, this data can be (easy) opportunity for chapters to get a great press cover by sending the list (and short analytics) to reports in their country. Here is the press cover WMIL got yesterday: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4471585,00.html http://www.calcalist.co.il

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

"Error: TinyURL redirects to a TinyURL." :) On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Erik Zachte wrote: > Here is notice that this issue has been resolved. > > > > A few days ago Christian Aistleitner patched webstatscollector to filter > bogus requests. > > After that I patched the raw data files since

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel elected new external board members

on. We have no doubt they will be a major force in the organizational development of WMIL and a great contribution to the movement in general. Regards, Itzik Edri Chairperson ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: htt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: FDC deliberations being hosted at WMF from October 17 - 21

Thanks Anasuya for this update and I wish the FDC and the FDC's staff good luck in this demanding process. Will Sue, Stephen, Frank and Asaf presentations will be shared with the community also? On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Anasuya Sengupta wrote: > tl;dr The FDC is meeting in San Francis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia DC Annual Plan for 2013-14

Very clear and well design annual plan. Great work WMDC! On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Kirill Lokshin < kirill.loks...@wikimediadc.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Wikimedia DC has released its Annual Plan for 2013-14. The plan can be > found on our wiki at http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

There is no one from the Maldives who want to bid maybe? :) I'm ok also with Hawaii On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: > Whilst we are at Sealand Principality... a head up... > > We now have received five (5) candidacies. Good ones. Which is great. > > I'd love to s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Funds Dissemination Committee: Report on first year of operations

ortal/Annual_report_on_the_Funds_Dissemination_Committee_process_2012-2013#I_would_like_to_response_to_some_of_the_points_you_raised Itzik On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Itzik Edri wrote: > Hi Sue, > > Thanks for this great and detailed report. Although that I thinks it was > worth to publish it a month before this cur

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Funds Dissemination Committee: Report on first year of operations

d this comment also on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Wikimedia_Israel/Progress_report_form/Q2#I_would_like_to_response_to_some_of_the_points_you_raised Regards, Itzik Edri Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Sue Gardner wro

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

בהצלחה! (Good luck) Nathalie! We will be happy to hear little more about you (past experience, and others funny things :)) Itzik On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Christophe Henner < christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We have the great pleasure to announce Nathalie Martin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who will host Wikimedia Conference 2014? Bidding process is open!

I singed up. I'll be happy to help with the Location committee. On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Balázs Viczián < > balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu> wrote: > > > would be nice to learn more about the "programme committee"; who are > they, >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia DC Q3 2012-13 Activity Report

Great design and a great report. Thank you Kirill On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Kirill Lokshin < kirill.loks...@wikimediadc.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Wikimedia DC has now published its activity report for the third quarter of > the 2012-13 fiscal year. The report is available on our w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] הודעה על מינוי מתאמת פעילות

And welcome to the Wikimedia universe, Michal. > > Looking forward to working with you. > > Cheers, > Nicole > > 2013/8/3 Itzik Edri : > > שלום חברים, > > > > קודם כל הרשו לי להתנצל על אי הזמינות שלי לחלקכם בזמן האחרון. בחיים > הפרטיים, > > העסקיים, וגם

[Wikimedia-l] הודעה על מינוי מתאמת פעילות

שלום חברים, קודם כל הרשו לי להתנצל על אי הזמינות שלי לחלקכם בזמן האחרון. בחיים הפרטיים, העסקיים, וגם בחיי העמותה, אני נמצא תחת עומס גדול (חלקו גם נובע מהעדכון הבא) ואני מנסה לתמרן בין כל המחוייבויות. במהלך השבת ניסתי להשיב לכל האימיילים הפתוחים, אם לא התייחסתי עד כה לנושא פתוח שהעלתם - בבקשה תזכרו

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kicking-off the Chapters Dialogue project

Great work Nicole and good luck with this project. I hopes that every chapter will do his best to support this project by interviewing, and share ideas, needs and goals. Itzik On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Nicole Ebber wrote: > Dear Wikimedia friends, > > we are now ready to kick-off the Chap

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status & IRC office hours

ncial > report<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2012_ShortFinancialReport.pdf > >for > the FDC process as WM France did, to reduce the impact of translating > a > larger document. > > Regards, > > Garfield > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:12 AM, I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status & IRC office hours

Hi Garfield, I must say I'm surprised from the new requirements. Eligible entities of last year now need to send by 15 September documents about 2012 - a year that is totally unrelated to the FDC process that started only this year? Why it been decided only now? We are not hiding a thing, but not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2013/2014 budget again (m/Oppenheim on YouTube)

Garfield. any new with releasing the AP? Itzik On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Garfield Byrd wrote: > SJ: > > As we may be very close to having a Board of Trustee approved budget, I > suggest we wait until we can release the full Annual Plan document on July > 1, so that there is context for t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffComs $40,000 Hong Kong junket

Bence, I appreciate AffCom work, and everyone of the the committee volunteers that doing a great job. But I really don't like the excuse of sticking to WMF's policy. Without having to start discussing the WMF's policy, I think AffCom should be mature enough to adopt a similar policy behavior as th

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

Can we please give time to the Foundation to response and express their side before everyone starts to attack them? I think we had enough of that on Internal-l. After the first response, or at least 24h, I will understand everyone feelings about that. (And right now I'm also don't agree or underst

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

t is unfair > to stand out now and say you are doing a bad job. > > Greetings > Ting > > > Am 4/30/2013 11:24 AM, schrieb Itzik Edri: > >> Ting, Risker, >> >> 1. To share thoughts and feedback about the elections, you don't must to >> be >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

hen I made the call for volunteer earlier this year not > very many people responded. > > Greetings > Ting > > Am 4/30/2013 12:57 AM, schrieb Risker: > > On 29 April 2013 18:48, Asaf Bartov wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Itzik Edri wrote: >>>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

I agree. We should limit it to only community members, or to give equal right to everyone. Asaf, you right, but we are talking also about the FDC elections. a processes where we are not granting chapters and others organizations the right to vote but granting to the WMF. Giving only WMF staff, and

[Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation elections is approaching. As always, the voters will be the community, developers, current board member and.. WMF staff and contractors. Nothing changed. same as two years ago. But I wonder - we had this policy when the chapters and others recognized Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] WMIL new Executive Director

ext improvement, but as most of you can't understand Hebrew, it will not really change a lot for you :) (We will launch the English version in the next few weeks): http://www.wikimedia.org.il Regards, Itzik Edri WMIL Chairman ___ Wikimedia-l mail

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

Hi Salvador, thanks for sharing this video with us. Looks great. Who was the videographer? with which camera? On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Salvador A wrote: > Hi folks! > > I just wanna share with you a nice video made by one of our cultural > partners (Atrolabio). Is about our chapter last

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement *please read*

As others have wrote, it is still not a farewell email. But there is no doubt that Sue, despite past disagreements we had, is an asset to the foundation and our movement. And it's going to be a very big challenge to find someone who will replace her. I'll wait with the real farewell email :) Itzik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

Oops. Just noticed that I sent this email to Wikimedia-L instead of WMIL mailing list. Sorry! :) 2013/3/11 Manuel Schneider > מצטער, אני לא מדבר עברית. > > מנואל > > Am 11.03.2013 14:36, schrieb Itzik Edri: > > כתב מעיתון מוביל מבקש לדבר עם מישהו על בן הטבע.

[Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין

כתב מעיתון מוביל מבקש לדבר עם מישהו על בן הטבע. מישהו מעוניין? -- Forwarded message -- To: it...@wikimedia.org.il הי איציק, בהמשך לשיחתנו, אני מעוניין לדבר עם עורך שהיה שם מימיה הראשונים של ויקיפדיה העברית, ומכיר מקרוב את יהודה בלו, שערך בעבר תחת השם בן הטבע לפני שהושעה ונחסם.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Legal Blog Post: "WMF trademark practices for QR codes and wikitowns"

+1 to what Liam wrote and the disagreement. What about the uses of the W graphic mark? it is also forbidden? The restrictions refer to individuals uses or also partnerships projects by chapters? Itzik On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > Thanks for posting a definitive answer on

[Wikimedia-l] WMIL general assembly and board elections

to its board: 1. Itzik Edri (Chairman, Spokesman) (reelected to board, new chairman) 2. Shani Evenstine (reelected) 3. Lior Golgher 4. Yael Meron (Secretary) 5. Yan Nasonov The general assembly also selected two new audit committee members: 1. Oved Cohen (reelected) 2. Ido Ivri *** Yan is an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Chapters] Question: Plans for the Wikimedia conference in Milan

If we arranging something, I'll be happy if we could do it on the day before the conference and not after. (1) from a personal reason, can't stay after (2) because it make sense to hold a meeting and to get into conclusion before we meeting the others and not after On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:59

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2012 Picture of the Year

Just want to congratulate and thanks everyone who been part of the committee this year. Last year I criticized the long process and the fact that we published the winners only in the middle of the year. This year the announcement came kind of the beginning of the year. So good job! On Fri, Feb 22

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Your support is wanted: The WMF Board of Trustees is looking for a new Board member

I don't understand. The board hired and pays to a company to find a board member? Have we tried before via our networks, chapters, and via our advisory board to find such a person (as been done until now?). On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Alice Wiegand wrote: > Hi everyone, > > as you know, we h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Loading remote resources on Wikimedia wikis

What about to embed Youtube in Privacy mode? http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=171780&expand=PrivacyEnhancedMode#privacy On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:45 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Hi. > > As I understand it, loading remote resources on Wikimedia wikis (such as > YouTube videos

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strange, surprising, bold and unnecessary - reply to the WMF board statement

I can write a long mail to response the board statement, but past shown me – it will be waste of time. Mean less time for my work, my chapter, and my personal life. Cause when the WMF and the Board deciding on something, this is last and final decision. They discussion is just for the record. So w

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use

cross-posting -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomer Ashur Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM Subject: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" Hi all, I am

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?

re we made > some error (such as not turning banners on for half the day). Even in a > country like Greece, where the economy is about as bad as it can get, we > saw something like a 300% increase compared the the equivalent first day of > the campaign last year. Therefore, we think we&#

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?

ising team did some interesting changes this year, which will be interesting to know their performances. Itzik. 2012/12/13 Till Mletzko > and: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012 > > Till > > > Am 13.12.2012 15:12, schrieb Theo10011: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?

Hi, Could we get some updates (or that I missed them?) about how the fundraising goes? WMF and Chapters will be great. Since we only focus on few countries this year, the discussions regarding it is very low, but it still very interesting to know how much we collect and how the banners works (and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia España patrocina el VII Concurso Universitario de Software Libre

Short translation in English will be recommended. - Sent from my mobile device On Nov 18, 2012 11:07 PM, "Lucien leGrey" wrote: > Wikimedia España es uno de los patrocinadores del VII Concurso > Universitario de Software Libre . > Este certamen es un concu

[Wikimedia-l] FDC Recommendations

Finally they are here... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2012-2013_round1 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs

The venue was given by the municipality as part of their sponsorship. The chapters just gave scholarships in 2011, not financial support. Itzik - Sent from my mobile device On Oct 12, 2012 3:07 PM, "Delirium" wrote: > On 10/12/12 12:40 AM, Itzik Edri wrote: > >> Just wa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs

s now finalizing their data and will publish it soon: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Budget On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Itzik Edri wrote: > Hi, > > Jessie started to work on a page that shown breakdown of the scholarships > given in 2012, by the WMF and the chapte

[Wikimedia-l] WMF core and non core expenses

Hi, As agreed, the WMF is also sending their non-core program to the FDC approval, you can see their proposal here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form But I'm asking myself, that's all what we consider as non-core? I didn't rea

[Wikimedia-l] FDC Proposals

Hi, Yesterday was the last day to submit proposals to the FDC for round 1 (and it strange that we didn't saw any reminder email about it..). I think it's a great opportunity to see (and give opinion about) the chapters & foundation (core) programs and budget plans for 2013 (although it seem like n

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

I didn't know WMF have so many domains :) On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Thank you very much for starting this discussion and publishing this. > In the past I've had a really hard time finding some data, e.g. for 2009 > all I found is this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/** > wiki/Wikimania_2009#Expenses

[Wikimedia-l] Transparency about Wikimania costs

Hi, Jessie started to work on a page that shown breakdown of the scholarships given in 2012, by the WMF and the chapters - and the cost. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/2012 I think it's great, but we need to share much more information about "how much Wikimania cost to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] No internet censorship in Hong Kong

+1. I totally agree with Nathan. On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Nathan wrote: > This is a similar argument to those made against Egypt or Israel etc. It's > a facile and false notion that holding Wikimania in a particular city is an > implicit political endorsement for the national government