Thanks Lodewijk for bringing this up and thanks a lot to Wikimedia Hong
Kong.
I have been in touch with WMHK and Wikimedians in Hong Kong since their
application for Wikimania and have been at Wikimania and it was great.
There has also been some other activities and efforts which we must
Salut Gilbert,
a brief summary of the benefits, limits and expectations of chapters can
be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Chapter_Summary_Matrix
Apart from that has every chapter a Chapter Agreement which has more
details.
On top of that additional
I want to congratulate everyone who has engaged in this election
process. It was for sure a very special one, in this special situation
which was also reflected by the number of candidates.
Thanks to the election committee and the candidates!
Nataliia and Christophe, I wish you a good hand in
Thanks a lot Denny for your honest and inspiring mail.
I kept stumm for the most part of the last month's controversy, as I
merely could have +1ed a lot of stuff that has been said and that's not
worth spinding bandwidth and people's time.
Now I want to take that time to say thank you, for your
Hi Erik,
thanks for your post, I was thinking of bringing this up as I was part
of that very discussion in August / September 2011 when the Wikimedia
overall governance model was discussed.
The idea that cristalized back then and which I still find very
appealing was to split today's WMF into
will be announced
by the end of 2014.
On behalf of the Wikimania Committee with regards,
Manuel
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Hi Pine,
you may want to evaluate CiviCRM.
It is not perfect but supports accounting (rather than just recording
donations as before) about a year.
The advantage of CiviCRM is the fact that it integrates membership
management, mailings, donors management and that it can be used
centrally by all
Hi Jan-Bart,
thanks for this statement.
Thanks to all on the board and Lila working on this, the improvement of
our website and trying to recover the trust of our community.
/Manuel
Am 14.08.2014 15:42, schrieb Jan-Bart de Vreede:
Some of you have asked the Board and its individual members for
in two weeks' time.
On behalf of the Wikimania Committee with regards,
Manuel
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Thanks for this message and welcome Lila.
May the expectations of the Transition Team, the Foundation, the
communities and chapters work out...
Not an easy job, with such heterogeneous groups and interests.
Forwarded the information in German to the Austrian, Swiss and German
community. I think
Dear all,
sorry for cross-posting but I just have sent all participants of the
Hackathon a PDF with travel information and a personalized public
transport ticket.
Should you plan to attend the Hackathon but have not received the Travel
Information mail, then please contact me.
Thanks and
Dear all,
as you all know the next Wikimedia Hackathon takes place in Zürich,
Switzerland. Registration is already open for a while and we already
passed the deadlines for scholarships and visa assistance. Thanks to the
WMF and several chapters we could assign 29 scholarships to participants
and
Dear all,
as you know the project Wikipedians in European Parliament will start
by Monday. Most participants are already on their way to Strasbourg and
will arrive Sunday evening. I am one of them and am looking forward to
this project.
As I did some preparation some last words from me:
* we got
Am 04.01.2014 14:45, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
Megan Hernandez, 18/12/2013 01:32:
Years ago, I would have to listen to my husband and sister-in-law argue
about who was right ALL THE TIME. Now, they just pull out their
phones, and
Wikipedia has all the answers. The bickering has come to an
Hi Geni,
Am 03.01.2014 18:19, schrieb geni:
On 3 January 2014 16:22, Olaf Kosinsky olaf.kosin...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
* has you chapter already decided about supporting volunteers participating
in this project?
Sending people to Brussels and Strasbourg for reasons other than to lobby
A preliminary page can be found on MediaWiki.org
More to come soon!
Feel free to contact us in case of questions!
Charles and Manuel
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Hi,
Am 05.12.2013 11:13, schrieb Jean-Frédéric:
Except that it appears the required Flash version is not available under
Linux, except if using the proprietary Chrome.
I only own Linux computers and BBB works perfectly here in Firefox
17.0.9 with Adobe Flash 11,2,202,310, just the standard
Am 03.12.2013 23:33, schrieb Tilman Bayer:
Note that this solution is still based on proprietary software, in that it
requires users to install a Flash plugin.
well, BigBlueButton is completely open source, including the flash
applets used.
While I am not in favour of Flash there is currently
Dear Bence, dear committee,
thanks for your work and decision! Finally we have made a big step forward!
/Manuel
Asaf Bartov, Bence Damokos, Arnau Duran, Itzik Edri, Mike Peel, Osmar
Valdebenito, Ilario Valdelli
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Hi Itzik,
thanks for your analysis and your thoughtful mail. I'd like to echo it!
I also had some discussions with my peers in several countries about
this report. Comments were made on the time of publication and the
aggressiveness towards chapters, the volunteers who worked their as***
off to
Tack Anders för din snabbt svar!
Am 04.10.2013 14:40, schrieb Anders Wennersten:
*Key is to balance the increasing bureaucratization of chapters with
spontaneity of the voluntary movement. As long as the chapters keep the
spirit alive, they are the core of our institutionalized activities. We
Dear Pavlo,
as that list is dedicated to chapter business, the chapter may decide
how to use that list.
For open discussions of the ukranian language Wikimedia projects there
is WikiUK-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiuk-l
If there is a real need for a seperate list to
Am 18.08.2013 17:47, schrieb Pavlo Shevelo:
is there any precedents known, when chapter Board do some alike rulings?
all precedence known to me have been much less restrictive actions, such
as the WikimediaCH-l list to become a closed list due to some issues we
had with private information
my congratulations and all the best!
/Manuel
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Thanks Bishakha for sharing this, I wasn't aware of this.
I am thinking about it since quite a while and I guess the community
here could help me to get an opinion on it:
Wouldn't it be sensible for Wikimedia Chapters to become members of
their local ISOC chapters?
ISOC has chapters in many
Those oft you interested in Internet governance can follow the EuroDIG
conference in Lisbon right now via webcast:
http://www.eurodig.org/important/webcast-remote-participation
and / or follow the hastag #EuroDIG in Twitter.
Yesterday we had the General Assembly oft EURALO, the regional
Original-Nachricht
Datum: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:05:45 +0200
Von:Chantal Ebongué chantal.ebon...@wikimedia.ch
Dear all,
We are looking for two new staff members :
1. Chief Administrative Officer, 80-100 %, since 1.9.2013
2. Chief Scientific Officer, 80-100 %,
Am 07.06.2013 19:31, schrieb Milos Rancic:
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
== Unfinished projects ==
Oh, and I knew that there were three unfinished projects, but I forgot
the last one.
Wikimedia movement isn't staying well with formal diplomacy. No
Hi Milos,
thank you is the least we can say at this point. We can be happy to be
such a big movement, with so many people like you who further our vision
and goals. Some fluctuation is natural and it is totally natural that
after serving some time in our community to move on to new and other
Great initiative. Actually the first time I donated real money to a
Wikimedia project... sort of.
/Manuel
Am 05.05.2013 06:27, schrieb Victor Grigas:
My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to
buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and
Am 26.04.2013 19:05, schrieb Fae:
Polish Railways will provide us free tickets excellent negotiation!
Hey, train enthusiasts everywhere else (including the UK and USA) here
is an incredibly tough target for the rest of us to try and beat. :-D
In Switzerland 90% of the population has a
and a headset.
See the agenda of the meeting here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Meetings/2013-16
I hope it is running well, Wifi is very unstable and one need to
manually adjust the MTU to make it work properly.
/Manuel
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Am 05.04.2013 20:58, schrieb Yaroslav M. Blanter:
Do not they have Swiss, Canadian, and Balgian administrators to restore
the article?
The article actually was restored by someone outside France.
/Manuel
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Did you see this April's Fool Day comic on xkcd, with an interactivly
growing dog: The dog gains a pound for every $10 donated to the
Wikimedia Foundation via this link.
http://xkcd.org/
Is this real? How can it tell how much has been donated to WMF through
this comic? I see that there is a
Thanks Marc and Michael!
Am 01.04.2013 21:28, schrieb Marc A. Pelletier:
http://samarium.wikimedia.org/
My understanding is that this was done in collaboration with Randall,
but it has obvious general applicability.
thanks for this link, I didn't know about this site and data. This is
very
Am 01.04.2013 22:06, schrieb Benoit Landry:
Campaign unfuckingknown, with the medium being spontaneous. Perhaps it is
some sort of error handler, when a donation comes from a source the system
cannot determine due to some glitch, it puts it there? ;)
maybe it is possible to set your own
Dear Sue,
thanks for the honest and open mail. This is not a farewell mail either,
we still have much time to share.
But I'd like to reply to this point:
Am 27.03.2013 23:04, schrieb Sue Gardner:
And that’s what I want to do next.
I’ve always aimed to make the biggest contribution I can to
Hi,
Am 14.03.2013 06:48, schrieb MZMcBride:
I've started collecting notes about a possible Wikimedia or Wikimedia
Foundation endowment here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment.
thanks for collecting these links, they are interesting. Anyway, I
didn't fully understand the idea behind the
Thanks Andrew and Philippe for your explanation and links.
So that is a plan to build a reserve of funds that is so big that the
operation can be funded by the capital's gain - interest, dividends...
Sounds interesting, even though the endowment must be huge to cover our
yearly budgets. Another
Am 10.03.2013 20:45, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
Chapters have fees because associations have fees; they should follow
the laws and customs of their geography and a one-size-fits-all global
regulation would be a big mistake. (It might even be illegal in some
jurisdictions for some
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.
מישהו מעוניין?
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I'd like to point out that Wikimedia Österreich has good relationships
with OKFN Austria.
We had people from OKFN in our latest TV show (broadcast on March 4th,
19:30 CET on BR-alpha) and we are thinking about a joint-venture to set
up a public Open Data portal for Austria.
/Manuel
Am
Am 22.02.2013 10:46, schrieb Charles Andrès: Deployment is planned for
the next Wikimedia Conference in Milan.
In the meantime, people interested in getting access to the tools can
contact us by email at supp...@wikimedia.ch, with a simple description
of the project, an estimation of the number
Hi Fæ and all,
Richard already contacted me offlist concerning A/V equipment for
conferences, so I thought it makes sense to reply on-list (Richard's in
CC) to make this information available broadly.
Anyway, I am not claiming that I have the best solution nor the best
knowledge on this topic
The list already exists since several months but hasn't been used yet:
https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/wca-announce
/Manuel
Am 19.02.2013 21:09, schrieb Michael Peel:
On 19 Feb 2013, at 19:57, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19 February 2013 16:10, Ziko van
London Meeting is on!
We would like to remind you our agenda:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Meetings/2013-07
Please, join us on Google Hangout:
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/38ea423ec0e987450e09259bde4be1e52ce7f327
We are welcoming your input.
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Am 08.02.2013 18:53, schrieb James Heilman:
QRpedia is still owned by Roger Bamkin I think
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia The projects code appears to be
open source.
It is. You need to fiddle through it and find the right QR library which
is not included, though.
What does this mean
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