among the highest-ranked results that we're not going to bother
including it in our index."
--Michael Snow
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I am Nicholas Perry, Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships at WMF. Following
up on Jorge's previous email to a
sync
with the movement. It's less about one or two specific leadership
positions, and more that every Wikimedia ED/CEO needs to surround
themselves with a variety of people who bring different pieces of
institutional memory with them.
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movement, or about anything) is essential to making it truly free. Raw
data with no context is free as the air, but lungs are required to
breathe. Thank you, Erik, for helping us appreciate how the wiki
breathes by showing its patterns and rhythms.
expire whenever they expire. As the end date
will depend on the agreement that formed the partnership, I expect there
is not a single universal date on which Wikipedia Zero ends.
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work better than purely volunteer activity, but I would be open to
seeing a trial. The essential thing is that we find translators who can
understand and apply standards of quality in their work, much like we
would expect if they were editors writing entirely new articles.
ready have a great deal of knowledge, it's a matter of
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Alors nous induisons les lecteurs/trices en erreur avec des pages comme
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Oui, c'est bien possible qu'on a des informations dépassé.
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pened while he was on the Board. Unless there's something about his
personal conduct or how he has used his position that uniquely
contributes to particular problems, this sounds more like advocating
change for the sake of change, not an actual solution
ng on selective quotations from 17 USC 203, they
at least review the entire section. I note that it also provides a
limitation on the effect of termination, specifically that derivative
works prepared before termination may continue to be utilized.
king about decisions that are "temporary" or
"preliminary" in nature. But as those experienced in this area know,
despite such designations these rulings have a powerful tendency to
create facts on the ground in a way that they can easily end up
determinin
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well in his new position, and he has my best wishes for all his future
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Jimmy's from the ymail account, appear to get bounced and never even
reach my spam folder, let alone my inbox.
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is not a small thing to ask of anyone, and now in light of the
challenges and complications it would bring, your willingness to step
down.
-Kat
If Kat can echo me, then I can echo Kat. Thank you to the Board, and
Arnnon in particular.
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and better ways of approaching this.
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On 1/26/2016 11:07 AM, Arnnon Geshuri wrote:
It has been almost three weeks since my appointment to the Wikimedia
Foundation Board and I have read the feedback and comments from
representative members of the community. My first reaction was how a
e grant project. I'm sure that the Discovery team has more things to
work on than just this one project, but the reason the Foundation would
accept this grant is presumably that it overlaps enough with what the
organization wants to do anyway.
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I'll pass that on. Also, if anyone has reports of being resubscribed
after unsubscribing (I've already seen two?) please let me know. Luis
Resubscribing happened to me both with this list and the list from the
previous cycle.
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lass of "data which could be used to carry out fraud". Rather,
because these are nearly essential to transactions being possible at
all, I believe the language is attempting to exclude them from the
restrictions that the report recommends for all other data which meets
the
/
(and likewise for payers making direct debit payments). It may simply be
that the fundraising team has been advised that this is more consistent
with providing the IBAN upon request, rather than posting it on the
website. Not to disparage what may be common practice at other
organizations, but t
On 11/30/2014 10:19 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
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One avenue for fraud that's facilitated by posting account numbers is
small payment fraud, usually involving stolen credit cards.
[.]
So what all this message have to do with IBAN?
As the re
between the two sides. I
certainly don't claim that the American system is necessarily superior,
but in the past when we've considered in which jurisdiction the
Wikimedia Foundation should base its operations, I think the financial
regime has bee
nsing obligations, and other legal issues. I'm glad
that I was able to meet him in person at Wikimania in Boston, when he
was still a somewhat active participant.
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somewhere?
There certainly would be usefulness, so I hope there would be equivalent
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ften the latter.
Fae, I don't know what you're trying to accomplish here, but if you
support the notion of improving gender dynamics in the Wikimedia
movement, you have an incredibly counterproductive way of going about
it. Or maybe you think things are just fine the way t
On 6/5/2014 11:11 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Michael Snow
wrote:
Pete's were again primarily social and community-based, but at this level
of discussion we should be looking at both social features and technical
ones.
YES YES YES!
However, the cu
n for the system
designer:
* Towards better content and community, what is the most important things
we want our user to observe?
Well put. This is a critical issue that we should work on answers for in
order to plan future development, both social and te
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ravel overland, they would be well advised to take careful precautions
as to safe routes and methods. I'm not sure how much assistance the
Mexico City team can provide in that regard, but it would be good to
identify resources that can help people plan their travels wisely.
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There isn't a legitimate basis for evaluating how the funds are spent
other than A's desires and intentions. It's still a restricted gift, we
can't pretend that this is money from general fundraising and decide
On 3/22/2014 2:04 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
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As such, it seems clear that the donor in question is in the
best position to evaluate whether the funds achieved their
intended purpose. We don't really have good information in
this case to do that for them, and imposin
restricted gifts from individual donors. Looking at this
from an audit committee perspective, the information so far suggests
that the foundation could more carefully screen such gifts for alignment
with our values, but at this point I haven't seen indications th
hy we should go out of our way to highlight that aspect for this one.
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mission in mind, not just the speed or
efficiency of a particular workflow. In certain situations, automation
that creates more work rather than removing it (such as by identifying
potential tasks and feeding them to editors) might be preferable. And
some of our tools already use su
al part of collaboration is, after
all, reviewing each other's work. From the terseness of the comment, it
might be alluding to either aspect or both.
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
On 10/30/2013 8:39 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 10/30/2013 11:20 AM, Risker wrote:
Just to clarify, since UTC is a confusing time for most of us
{{cn}}
I've heard that said very
say, 12:00 (is noon AM and midnight PM, or is it
the other way around?). However, it is definitely possible to overthink
things, and as this conversation demonstrates, of all the faults of
which our community is capable, overthinking things is one of the
easiest for us to fall into.
--Mi
good sign that the purpose of the materials is
really propaganda and indoctrination. Regardless of whether the
curriculum is suitably "balanced", the concepts are beyond what's
developmentally appropriate to be teaching at that level.
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certainly in how that material gets presented and contextualized in our
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of rhetorical shift is a favorite trick of conspiracy theorists, it's
how they get you to make those short hops to unwarranted conclusions.
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2013/7/29 Michael Snow
On 7/29/2013 1:50 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jan Ainali
wrote:
I have not read the vision statement as it is the production of knowledge
that need be availible to every human being, but the
nsumption, is sort of a
chicken-or-the-egg question about the origin of network effects.
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On 5/15/2013 12:26 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Michael, can you please copy this as is on Meta? [[Patience]] will be
a nice complement to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eventualism
Done. Feel free to share and circulate in any way that may be useful.
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On 5/14/2013 11:48 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 15 May 2013 07:45, Michael Snow wrote:
That last bit is critical; people have repeatedly suggested a certain
mistrust underlies the repeated flareups. Well, the reason that mistrust has
grown so much is because we are often impatient, and take
nately, it is simply a matter of maturity and self-control at
appropriate moments. I encourage us all to practice it.
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that the benefits of this change warrant effectively doubling the load
the process creates.
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n to facilitate xkcd
being able to pull the amount donated.In April Fool's terms, this is a
joke, not a prank (consistent with how we generally handle those
activities on Wikipedia as well, I believe).
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Sue has done that on an organizational scale, and impressively so. For
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I'm not sure why you would use traffic ranking for financial analysis,
even the envelope-and-napkin kind of analysis we're engaging in here. I'm
pretty confident that just because Google has bee
east one example of something
that can add pretty significant costs without having a material impact
on traffic (except in emergencies, of course).
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But the logic that may apply for a typical consumer doesn't necessarily
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information available. Keeping that in mind usually helps me as I
reflect on whether my own concerns are merely matters of personal taste
or something more important.
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difference between a toy that all the children want to play with (and
end up fighting over), and the lonely and neglected toy in the corner
that none of them show any interest in.
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I'm aware. The grants program
as a whole would naturally be under the purview of the FDC, but that's
at another level of the process, so individuals wouldn't be directly
participating in the FDC process in that sense.
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wasn't involved in preparing the statement, but in reviewing it there's
nothing that appears incorrect to me.
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king content as historical, I'm not sure that's really the best
use of the material. Many strategic questions do not really go away, and
they can and should be revisited as part of the next planning process. I
would favor refactoring and merging, it should become a living space
again, no
thing that regulates the community's autonomy.
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established knowledge; and lack of skill being applied to crafting
articles about core concepts in many fields. For that matter, a stronger
and more effectively utilized Wiktionary would help as well.
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James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that...
Congratulations, traitor!
Just wait until he starts speaking like an uhmurricun, I mean American.
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lerk position is created, I expect it can evolve fairly
naturally as the funds dissemination process itself gets more developed.
It's not that different from arbitration clerks, who have picked up
various tasks over time as it was deemed practical and helpful for them
to do so.
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