[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Announcement] Establishment of Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group

[Subhashish]

I want to write with the spirit that I respect the co-founders of the
Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group (WAPAC) as individual volunteer
fellow Wikimedians. Still, I strongly disagree with creating this user
group. It seems like forming a new user group where three co-founders have
some conflict with Wikimedia Bangladesh. But instead of finding ways to
resolve those conflicts, they, all from Bangladesh, started a parallel user
group and called it Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group.

For context, the Asia-Pacific region includes over 45 economies and is home
to 60% of the world's population that speaks over 2,000 languages. I highly
doubt that forming a user group due to unsolved interpersonal conflicts is
a good idea. There is, of course, a lack of conversations with communities
of this large region and a lack of regional representation. Not to
mention, ESEAP, the organiser of Wikimania this year, had no clue. There
are many ways to solve interpersonal conflicts, but creating a user group
without a real reason is not one.

Subhashish


On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 3:00 PM Iftekhar Hossain Iftee <
i.h.ifte...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Note: my last mail was caught in moderation queue, I sent it before
> Aishik's last mail but it got approved after his mail.
>
> Iftee
>
> On Sat, May 27, 2023, 7:41 PM Aaqib Anjum Aafi 
> wrote:
>
>> I am not sure where is the disappointing stuff in this thread. You are
>> free to start a usergroup and work under an umbrella which adds more to the
>> diversity of the movement, and I suppose it should, in  your case, given
>> you plenty of valuable contributions. However, calling helpful and friendly
>> suggestions of others on certain errors that you made as "something
>> unconstructive" is just being dishonest. Most of the comments on this
>> thread are telling you constructively to engage with the larger community,
>> for instance, with regards to the name of the usergroup. I run a thematic
>> usergroup and I had to go through months of AffCom review: this thing
>> overlaps this thing and so on, even though I had not used any such name or
>> overlapped seriously with any specific community. However, the wider
>> community groups in India where consulted by AffCom before they approved my
>> usergroup application.
>>
>> The reason of me telling this to you is that most of the people
>> commenting here are sharing their experiences and telling you what should
>> be the correct step. You should invite all the communities that are in the
>> region with which the name overlaps and have their comments heard, and if
>> that doesn't reach any conclusion, you can opt for a different name that
>> could perhaps serve your ideas and goals better.
>>
>> I hope this makes some sense.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Chat GPT

[Subhashish]

Just to clarify, my point was not about Getty to begin with. Whether Getty
would win and whether a big corporation should own such a large amount of
visual content are questions outside this particular thread. It would
certainly be interesting to see how things roll.

But AI/ML is way more than just looking. Training with large models is a
very sophisticated and technical process. Data annotation among many other
forms of labour are done by real people. the article I had linked earlier
tells a lot about the real world consequences of AI. I'm certain AI/ML,
especially when we're talking about language models like ChatGPT, are far
from innocent looking/reading. For starters, derivative of works, except
Public Domain ones, must attribute the authors. Any provision for
attribution is deliberately removed from systems like ChatGPT and that only
gives corporations like OpenAI a free ride sans accountability.

Subhashish


On Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 4:41 PM Todd Allen  wrote:

> I'm not so sure Getty's got a case, though. If the images are on the Web,
> is using them to train an AI something copyright would cover? That to me
> seems more equivalent to just looking at the images, and there's no
> copyright problem in going to Getty's site and just looking at a bunch of
> their pictures.
>
> But it will be interesting to see how that one shakes out.
>
> Todd
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 11:47 AM Subhashish  wrote:
>
>> Not citing sources is probably a conscious design choice, as citing
>> sources would mean sharing the sources used to train the language models.
>> Getty has just sued Stability AI, alleging the use of 12 million
>> photographs without permission or compensation. Imagine if Stability had to
>> purchase from Getty through a legal process. For starters, Getty might not
>> have agreed in the first place. Bulk-scaping publicly visible text in
>> text-based AIs like ChatGPT would mean scraping text with copyright. But
>> even reusing CC BY-SA content would require attribution. None of the AI
>> platforms attributes their sources because they did not acquire content in
>> legal and ethical ways [1]. Large language models won't be large and
>> releases won't happen fast if they actually start acquiring content
>> gradually from trustworthy sources. It took so many years for hundreds and
>> thousands of Wikimedians to take Wikipedias in different languages to where
>> they are for a reason.
>>
>> 1. https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
>>
>> Subhashish
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 1:06 PM Peter Southwood <
>> peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>>
>>> From what I have seen the AIs are not great on citing sources. If they
>>> start citing reliable sources, their contributions can be verified, or not.
>>> If they produce verifiable, adequately sourced, well written information,
>>> are they a problem or a solution?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Gnangarra [mailto:gnanga...@gmail.com]
>>> *Sent:* 04 February 2023 17:04
>>> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List
>>> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Chat GPT
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I see our biggest challenge is going to be detecting these AI tools
>>> adding content whether it's media or articles, along with identifying when
>>> they are in use by sources.  The failing of all new AI is not in its
>>> ability but in the lack of transparency with that being able to be
>>> identified by the readers. We have seen people impersonating musicians and
>>> writing songs in their style. We have also seen pictures that have been
>>> created by copying someone else's work yet not acknowledging it as being
>>> derivative of any kind.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Our big problems will be in ensuring that copyright is respected in
>>> legally, and not hosting anything that is even remotely dubious
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 at 22:24, Adam Sobieski 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Brainstorming on how to drive traffic to Wikimedia content from
>>> conversational media, UI/UX designers could provide menu items or buttons
>>> on chatbots' applications or webpage components (e.g., to read more about
>>> the content, to navigate to cited resources, to edit the content, to
>>> discuss the content, to upvote/downvote the content, to share the content
>>> or the recent dialogue history on social media, to request
>>> review/moderation/curation for the content, et

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Chat GPT

[Subhashish]

Not citing sources is probably a conscious design choice, as citing sources
would mean sharing the sources used to train the language models. Getty has
just sued Stability AI, alleging the use of 12 million photographs without
permission or compensation. Imagine if Stability had to purchase from Getty
through a legal process. For starters, Getty might not have agreed in the
first place. Bulk-scaping publicly visible text in text-based AIs like
ChatGPT would mean scraping text with copyright. But even reusing CC BY-SA
content would require attribution. None of the AI platforms attributes
their sources because they did not acquire content in legal and ethical
ways [1]. Large language models won't be large and releases won't happen
fast if they actually start acquiring content gradually from
trustworthy sources. It took so many years for hundreds and thousands of
Wikimedians to take Wikipedias in different languages to where they are for
a reason.

1. https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

Subhashish


On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 1:06 PM Peter Southwood 
wrote:

> From what I have seen the AIs are not great on citing sources. If they
> start citing reliable sources, their contributions can be verified, or not.
> If they produce verifiable, adequately sourced, well written information,
> are they a problem or a solution?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> *From:* Gnangarra [mailto:gnanga...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 04 February 2023 17:04
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Chat GPT
>
>
>
> I see our biggest challenge is going to be detecting these AI tools adding
> content whether it's media or articles, along with identifying when they
> are in use by sources.  The failing of all new AI is not in its ability but
> in the lack of transparency with that being able to be identified by the
> readers. We have seen people impersonating musicians and writing songs in
> their style. We have also seen pictures that have been created by copying
> someone else's work yet not acknowledging it as being derivative of any
> kind.
>
>
>
> Our big problems will be in ensuring that copyright is respected in
> legally, and not hosting anything that is even remotely dubious
>
>
>
> On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 at 22:24, Adam Sobieski 
> wrote:
>
> Brainstorming on how to drive traffic to Wikimedia content from
> conversational media, UI/UX designers could provide menu items or buttons
> on chatbots' applications or webpage components (e.g., to read more about
> the content, to navigate to cited resources, to edit the content, to
> discuss the content, to upvote/downvote the content, to share the content
> or the recent dialogue history on social media, to request
> review/moderation/curation for the content, etc.). Many of these envisioned
> menu items or buttons would operate contextually during dialogues, upon the
> most recent (or otherwise selected) responses provided by the chatbot or
> upon the recent transcripts. Some of these features could also be made
> available to end-users via spoken-language commands.
>
> At any point during hypertext-based dialogues, end-users would be able to
> navigate to Wikimedia content. These navigations could utilize either URL
> query string arguments or HTTP POST. In either case, bulk usage data, e.g.,
> those dialogue contexts navigated from, could be useful.
>
> The capability to perform A/B testing across chatbots’ dialogues, over
> large populations of end-users, could also be useful. In this way,
> Wikimedia would be better able to: (1) measure end-user engagement and
> satisfaction, (2) measure the quality of provided content, (3) perform
> personalization, (4) retain readers and editors. A/B testing could be
> performed by providing end-users with various feedback buttons (as
> described above). A/B testing data could also be obtained through data
> mining, analyzing end-users’ behaviors, response times, responses, and
> dialogue moves. These data could be provided for the community at special
> pages and could be made available per article, possibly by enhancing the
> “Page information” system. One can also envision these kinds of analytics
> data existing at the granularity of portions of, or selections of,
> articles.
>
>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adam
>
>
> --
>
> *From:* Victoria Coleman 
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 4, 2023 8:10 AM
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List 
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Chat GPT
>
>
>
> Hi Christophe,
>
>
>
> I had not thought about the threat to Wikipedia traffic from Chat GPT but
> you have a good point. The success of the projects is always one step away
> from the next big disruption. So the WMF as t

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Manavpreet Kaur's role in AffCom's issues

[Subhashish]

I echo SJ's words. This is ad hominem, especially against someone who has
been a part of the Wikimedia community much before being a part of WMF,
continues to remain a part of her home community in volunteer capacity, and
has expanded her volunteerism to contribute to global roles. That, IMO, is
a full-time contribution to the Wikimedia movement in both personal and
professional capacity. It's shameful that the title of this email includes
Manavpreet's name and goes into with character assassination. Won't it be
better to frame, if you doubt the process, the process as faulty and cite
reasons rather than attacking an individual Wikimedian? It would be useful
to fix a faulty process rather than attacking an individual based on
circumstances which might dissuade them? Not to mention, this movement is
already struggling with low participation of women, LGBTQ+ individuals,
people with disabilities and indigenous members/groups. Such a behaviour
would only help grow that gap further.

Subhashish


On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 7:16 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> Michal,
>
> Don't be absurd.
> *Do not use this list for personal attacks*.
>
> You seem to be forum-shopping an ethical disagreement
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedians_of_Slovakia/Reports/2018/en>
>  with
> others at WMSVK, and now extending that to attacking anyone who has
> interacted with you about it.
>
> Manavpreet is a saint and an excellent communicator, who we are fortunate
> to have in our movement. She no doubt responded to your concerns with
> kindness -- unlike those who steered clear. For you to attack *her*
> character as a result is ridiculous. When you come to your senses you owe
> her an apology.
>
> We must all take care of ourselves in mentally trying times.
> Find ways to cope that do not involve lashing out.
>
> SJ
>
> (PS - Since this subject line is itself unkind targeting -- if anyone
> wants to comment further on-list, please use the previous thread, 
> "*Investigation
> of possible AffCom*...")
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

[Subhashish]

I totally agree with Rajeeb too. A Wikimedian who is otherwise volunteering
and would like to share their findings/observations with others over an
online event would already be extending their volunteer hours just for
applying and preparing for a conference. Asking them to pay is not fair
whatever the reason is, and especially when many developing countries are
grappling with huge health and economic disasters (not to mention the
environmental disaster that recently hit the eastern coast of India or what
Indonesia and the Philippines face on a regular basis). This is precisely
the reason some volunteers are disbursed for their internet expenses when
they participate in a discussion series in some of the events. I know it
might not be easy for an edu institution that might already be struggling
with funding to organize an event, but this event is focused on the
Wikimedia movement and is special for many. Exclusion for financial reasons
should be seriously thought about.

Subhashish

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 2:16 PM Mark SHUTTLEWORTH 
wrote:

> Thank you everyone for your comments. Just to confirm, we have reduced the
> registration fees very significantly since taking the decision to go
> online, and they are now as stated by Anne below. We hope that the new fee
> level will permit anyone to attend who would be interested to, although if
> need be I can also take Rajeeb's suggestion to the organising committee and
> see if it might be possible to provide some financial help where necessary.
> Anne, many thanks for your sponsorship suggestion, and if something like
> that were possible it would be really excellent.
>
> All best
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 21:48, Rajeeb  wrote:
>
>> Dear friends and colleagues,
>>
>> Hope my mail finds you all in the best of health and spirit. It is good
>> news that the conference is happening and not put off due to the pandemic,
>> I would like to thank the organizers for taking the conference to 100%
>> online.
>>
>> Though not happy as one needs to pay for the registration fee especially
>> when the event is online and due to pandemic people are and have lost jobs.
>>
>> I would like to request the organizers to give a thought on this matter.
>>
>> Namaste,
>>
>> Rajeeb.
>>
>> On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 13:45, Risker  wrote:
>>
>>> While I understand that this could be a concern if it was a large fee,
>>> it works out to about $13 USD/11 Euros for observer status, and double that
>>> for presenter status.  This does not sound outrageous; it pays for the
>>> equipment, software, staffing, technical support, and bandwidth, as well as
>>> the maintenance and storage of presentation materials.  Even online
>>> conferences have some costs, and those costs are often not being absorbed
>>> by sponsors to the extent that they have been in the past.
>>>
>>> It may be worthwhile for the WMF to agree to take a certain number of
>>> slots and pay for them, and then allot them to people with a significant
>>> history of translation on our projects on a first come/first served basis;
>>> honestly, they could support the registration fees for 25 editors for less
>>> than 500 USD.  That's a bargain, especially if they want to shift the focus
>>> to translation into smaller projects.
>>>
>>> I hope that the conference goes well.
>>>
>>> Risker/Anne
>>>
>>> On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 03:42, Željko Blaće  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also interested in contributing, but registration fee is something that
>>>> puts me off when approaching academic conferences, especially now when
>>>> online so much of the cost is reduced.
>>>>
>>>> Best - Z. Blace
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:22 AM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l <
>>>> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is really interesting. I take care of les sans pagEs community on
>>>>> fr-wikii and we translate a lot from English, a little from Spanish and
>>>>> Italian. I would keen to participate, thanks for sharing!
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Nattes à chat
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 27 mai 2021 à 07:47, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH  a
>>>>> écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear friends and colleagues
>>>>>
>>>>> Further to my message at the end of last month and the queries that
>>>>> on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing VideoCutTool version 0.4

[Subhashish]

Really cool tool. Thank you both! :)

I tried it myself yesterday -- it has a clean UI and is very
straightforward. It just takes really long even for small videos but
nevertheless a useful tool.

Subhashish


On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 6:03 PM Gopa Vasanth 
wrote:

> Apologies!
>
> There was a typo near the "Upload to Commons" button [1], We just noticed
> and fixed it. So those who tried out VideoCutTool
> <https://videocuttool.wmflabs.org> and couldn't upload the videos to
> commons can make it happen now :-)
>
> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275606
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:06 PM Gopa Vasanth 
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 4:55 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
>> galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Great news! I have tried today I couldn't upload a file, does it take
>>> some time to upload or is there a queue?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga!
>>
>> The videos which are present in the devices have to get uploaded to the
>> server and then processed for the editings, So this might take some time to
>> get upload and then processed. The uploading video time will depend on the
>> internet speed, the size, and the length of the video.
>>
>> If you notice the same again i.e if your video didn't get upload, please
>> feel free to create a ticket here:
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/videocuttool/ so we can see how we
>> can avoid them :-)
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>>
>> Gopa Vasanth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gopavasanth>
>> Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham <http://www.amrita.edu/> | Blog
>> <https://gopavasanth.wordpress.com/>
>> amFOSS <https://amfoss.in/@gopavasanth> | GitHub
>> <https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit
>> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth>
>>
>> “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
>>
>>
>
> --
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>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

[Subhashish]

Agree about the privacy and security worries shared by some in the list.

>From a software maintenance pov, developing a new tool is sometimes easier
but maintaining and keeping up with the ever-changing internet standards
(and new vulnerabilities and security changes) is hard. That said, a
movement that actively uses surveys and forms does need to make the
personal data transactions secure. To be able to do that, using both open
source tools and (preferably self-hosted) platforms that use e2ee (which
provides better security except in some extraordinary situations [1])
should be preferred. I'd argue a proprietary platform that protects user
data in surveys and collects little metadata is far better than an open
source one that collects and saves user data in plaintext in cloud. But
open source helps to some extent as proprietary platforms could claim many
things when there is no option for public audit of proprietary platforms.
But just open source does *not* help. An additional level of security is a
must and should be the foundational layer when it comes to a survey
platform.

As far as possible solutions go, it would be a good investment to support
developers from the open source community for a survey tool that protects
the privacy of survey participants by the use of e2ee and can be well
integrated into MediaWiki (bonus if not a primary goal). The Foundation and
the larger community (including Chapters and User Groups) would be greatly
benefitted from this. But until a good in-house solution is there, it might
be useful to reach out to other friendly faces in the development world --
Access Now, Article 19, Amnesty International, etc. -- to check what works
for them now.

If and when a platform develops, registered users can then use their
Mediawiki auth for creating privkeys to sign. This would add a
non-repudiable logging mechanism in the backend to add more transparency
and accountability.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law/

Subhashish


On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 8:21 AM K. Peachey  wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, 7:18 am Valerio Bozzolan via Wikimedia-l, <
> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Apologies for my TL;DR
>>
>> Interesting topic. I'm recently working on making ethical surveys more
>> and more widespread, starting from here:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Italia/LimeSurvey
>>
>> Every hand is welcome.
>>
>> Warm wishes!
>>
>> --
>>
>> [[User:Valerio Bozzan]]
>>
>
> Did WMIT do any sort of security review before deploying lime?
>
> Security issues were found the previous two times wmf looked at from my
> understanding and that was without doing a full security review process
>
> Have any sort of privacy impact assessment (PIA) since surveys could
> potentially collect personally identifiable data (PIDs)
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

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Apart from the usual suspects [ a. I think whether a certain emoji is
religious is not a grave problem; b. civil society orgs survive on
donations and fundraising is important; c. as a movement we can't probably
ever have everyone agreeing on everything but pushing fundraising messages
that brings some decent buck cannot be stopped -- after all, the same buck
is used for maintaining servers or fighting oppressive regimes that pose a
threat to open knowledge ] a few things really need to be thought through
while designing fundraising messages:

-  How does the message look on a low-end smartphone used by someone who
lives in a place where data is expensive (say Vanuatu or a small island
economy)? Can the real goal of the movement -- furthering open knowledge --
be seriously hampered by displaying too much text/image in the fundraiser?

- Can the opt out message be displayed more clearly so that a user can
clearly see it and turn off. It has often been a real pain for me to turn
off the ads while trying to check something on Wikipedia when I am not
logged in and I'm on a private tab/using VPN.

- From an accessibility PoV a user should be able to identify that the ad
is different from the content. It's otherwise a pesky way to fool a user
who might at times confuse a fundraising ad as Wikipedia content. Probably
a different background color or a distinguishable border or a clear sign
would help.

Subhashish

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 10:34 PM Joseph Seddon  wrote:

> Hey Michel,
>
> There are some other points that Fae raised particularly around user
> experience and technical implementation that are distinctly more complex
> tasks and we are going to need to discuss and plan our testing to work on
> them, and the team is at very limited capacity on a Saturday. (I myself had
> been out enjoying the rather brisk winter air that's visiting the UK). Due
> to their very nature, rolling back the emoji's in the messaging could be
> done immediately.
>
> I've already brought the feedback back to the team, and I'll be reviewing
> with the team on Monday and hopefully work on them this week.
>
> Seddon
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 4:36 PM Michel Vuijlsteke 
> wrote:
>
>> I don't quite think the emoji were the only thing people hated
>> about this.
>>
>> On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 17:09, Joseph Seddon  wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> To avoid burying the lead, the feedback is appreciated and we do listen
>>> whenever feedback is raised. I've just been coordinating with the team, and
>>> we've rolled back this change.
>>>
>>> For some background, the emojis in this messaging were a recent addition
>>> earlier this week. Emojis have become a core part of the way the world
>>> communicates, especially with younger demographics, practically becoming an
>>> ideographic language in and of itself. The team has been keen to see if
>>> there are ways we can leverage this, especially on mobile and we’ve been
>>> experimenting with them over the last couple of years in a number of
>>> campaigns.
>>>
>>> I want to recognise that we missed the mark on this one and that your
>>> feedback is heard, much appreciated and acted upon. The team really does
>>> care about the messaging and how it represents us, and the projects as a
>>> whole. Our processes on approving content have massively improved over the
>>> years and I think it reflects in the messaging we use. A number of people
>>> have noted that it has improved for the better over the years.
>>>
>>> At the same time I want to take some ownership of this misstep myself.
>>> I've been proactively working in real time with some volunteers, discussing
>>> concepts and gathering feedback on campaigns. This feedback has definitely
>>> shown that for such a new concept, I should have made sure to have
>>> highlighted and gotten more input on this.
>>>
>>> I'll be gathering input on how we use emojis in our messaging and I'd be
>>> happy to follow up with people about this. Just an additional note that if
>>> anyone wants to talk through any feedback with me I can be found on IRC,
>>> Discord, Telegram or send it through via email ( seddon at wikimedia.org
>>> ).
>>>
>>> My apologies but also my genuine thanks for the feedback.
>>>
>>> Seddon
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 2:24 PM Gnangarra  wrote:
>>>
>>>> tend to agree there should be a mobile friendly version, the article
>>>> should be visible at the same time. What wording is used it definitely
>>>> should no

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

[Subhashish]

Thanks for sharing this, Jorge. This is a news that is positive but not the
scary kind! WHO resources have been already used widely across communities
and have helped create localized resources. This initiative will strengthen
many Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects across the movement.

Subhashish


On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:02 PM Jorge Vargas  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Following up on my earlier thread about this, we are excited to announce a
> new collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation and the World Health
> Organization (WHO). The collaboration will initially focus on releasing WHO
> content such as public-health related infographics, videos, and other
> COVID-19 resources under a free license (CC BY SA 3.0) to be shared on
> Wikimedia Commons. We are hopeful that these resources will be useful for
> volunteers writing about COVID-19 across language wikis and further expand
> access to knowledge about the pandemic to people around the world.
>
> You  can read more about the collaboration announcement in the press
> release we published earlier today [1], and see the first batch of content
> uploads from WHO on Wikimedia Commons [2]. If you want to help share the
> collaboration news on social media, please retweet the Foundation’s account
> [3] or share your own post using this toolkit [4].
>
> I want to give a major thank you and shout out to the volunteers
> (including Doc James, Dr. Netha Hussain, John Cummings, and many others)
> who have been moving these conversations with WHO forward for years, as
> well as to the many Wikimedians providing accurate and relevant coverage of
> COVID-19 on the projects that this collaboration hopes to support. We are
> so excited to finally reach this milestone with WHO.
>
> In the coming months, Alex Stinson, from our Community Programs team, will
> be working with volunteers to continue sharing details of the WHO content
> available on Commons and collaborating with volunteers to understand how
> WHO resources might help address information needs and gaps about COVID-19
> on the projects. We need your help identifying the most useful content.
> Please join us on the project page on Commons to request WHO materials, and
> ask questions or give feedback on the project [5].
>
> We are excited to celebrate this important achievement in making more
> knowledge about COVID-19 freely available to everyone in such a critical
> time in the world. Thank you to all who made this possible!
>
> Feel free to reach out on this thread or to Alex and I directly in case
> you have further questions about this collaboration.
>
> Jorge Vargas
> Sr. Manager, Regional Partnerships
>
> [1]
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/10/22/world-health-organization-and-wikimedia-foundation-expand-access/
>
> [2]
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Health_Organization_COVID-19_Disinformation_Infographics
>
> [3] https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1319263874303037442
>
> [4]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCc0uXewzL5CUD2JPQYSYIDs3B63KxdLjprSBsn4kvA/edit?usp=sharing
>
> [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:World_Health_Organization
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:41 AM Zana Strkovska <777.z...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The same video translated on Macedonian language is on national television
>> in my country several days already.
>> Regards,
>> Zana
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, 19:30 James Heilman,  wrote:
>>
>> > I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos)
>> under
>> > open licenses since since Feb 2020.
>> >
>> > I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their
>> > collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc.
>> >
>> > They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seemed
>> too
>> > keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-(
>> >
>> > James
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
>> > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > >  Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious
>> but
>> > > we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of
>> Washington DC
>> > > and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their
>> central
>> > > office quickly in Geneva if necessary.
>> > > Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but
>> in
>> > > general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain some
>> > time.
>> > >
>> > > In the end, WHO changed their attitude on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group

[Subhashish]

Congratulations everyone from the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group!

--
Subha

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:28 AM Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> Very cool! Congratulations!
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> ‪“We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>
>
> ‫בתאריך יום ד׳, 14 באוק׳ 2020 ב-19:39 מאת ‪Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight‬‏ <‪
> rosiestep.w...@gmail.com‬‏>:‬
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
>> [1] Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>> The group aims to provide technical support to Indic Wikimedia projects and
>> community members"; technical support is provided in the areas of
>> user-scripts, gadgets, tools, extensions, Lua modules, templates, MediaWiki
>> core etc. On-Wiki support is the predominant focus of the group, however,
>> outreach activities are also taken up from time to time, such as MediaWiki
>> training, mentoring Google Summer of Code students etc.
>>
>> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
>>
>> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>>
>> [1]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_MediaWiki_Developers_User_Group
>> 
>> [2]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Indic_MediaWiki_Developers_User_Group
>> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Netha wins 2020 RedHat Women in Open Source Award!

[Subhashish]

Hope everyone is keeping safe and well in a difficult time like now. There
is a good news - Netha Hussain has won the 2020 RedHat Women in Open Source
Award. [1][2]

Congratulations Netha - this is such a proud moment for all of us!

Also, see WikiProject COVID-19, where Netha is a leader, for those who are
interested to contribute on coronavirus-related articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19

1. https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source
2. https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1255513602951430145

Subha
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] በዚህ ሳምንት እያስደሰቶት ያለው ምንድን ነው? / What’s making you happy this week? (Week of 20 October 2019)

[Subhashish]

What's making me happy this week is the news about 21 dictionaries in 21
indigenous languages being relicensed under CC licenses.

On October 17, 21 dictionaries in 21 indigenous languages of the Indian
state of Odisha were relicensed by online education portal Odisha Virtual
Academy under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>.

https://globalvoices.org/2019/10/19/the-indian-state-of-odisha-publishes-online-dictionaries-in-21-indigenous-languages/

https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/118456594683293

This opens up a whole new world of opportunities—from enhancing Wiktionary
entries in the respective indigenous languages to adding translations on
Wikidata to build translation tools for many languages that don't exist at
the moment to simply adding these books to Wikisource. Odia Wikimedians
User Group member and Wikimedian Sailesh Patnaik (User:Saileshpat) worked
closely with the government officials of the Odisha government's
Electronics and Information Technology Department for a long time for this
negotiation.

Subhashish


On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:20 AM Pine W  wrote:

> *Preface*
>
> User:Lucas Werkmeister
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister> started last
> week's WMYHTW email thread on Wikimedia-l and I was waiting for an Amharic
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic_language> translation, so I decided
> to delay this content from the week of 13 October to the week of 20
> October. The Amharic translation was kindly provided by User:ክርስቶስሰምራ
> <
> https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%AD%E1%88%B5%E1%89%B6%E1%88%B5%E1%88%B0%E1%88%9D%E1%88%AB
> >
> .
>
> *English Wikiquote of the Day for 30 September*
>
> "Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for
> you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring
> your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that
> presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight."
> — Rumi <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi>
>
> *New affiliate recognitions from the Affiliations Committee*
>
>- North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group
><
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group
> >
>- Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group
><
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Saint_Petersburg_User_Group
> >
>- Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group
><
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Santali_Language_User_Group
> >
>- Wikimedia Stewards User Group
><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Stewards_User_Group>
>
>
> *English Wiktionary Words of the Day*
>
> "pleach" <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleach>:
> (transitive) To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of
> shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.
>
> "dojo" <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dojo>:
> 1. (martial arts) A training facility, usually led by one or more sensei; a
> hall or room used for such training.
> 2. (by extension) A room or other facility used for other activities, such
> as meditation or software development.
> 3. The dojo loach, Japanese weather loach, or pond loach (*Misgurnus
> anguillicaudatus*), a freshwater fish native to East Asia.
>
> "orient" <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orient>:
> 1. (transitive) To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
> 2. (transitive, by extension) To align or place (a person or object) so
> that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the
> corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a
> map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two
> of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.
> 3. (transitive) To direct towards or point at a particular direction.
> 4. (transitive, reflexive) To determine which direction one is facing.
> 5. (transitive, often reflexive, figuratively) To familiarize (oneself or
> someone) with a circumstance or situation.
> 6. (transitive, figuratively) To set the focus of (something) so as to
> appeal or relate to a certain group. 7. (intransitive) To change direction
> to face a certain way.
>
>
> *Images from Commons*
>
>- Image 1
><
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunset_in_The_Trossachs,_Scotland.jpg
> >:
>Sunset in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park
><
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Lomond_and_The_Trossachs_National_Park>
>(Scottish Gaelic <
> https://en.wikipedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] Which script oral language will use anyway?

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Dear Wikimedians,

Some of you might be recovering from the Wikimania fatigue. Those of you
who have already recovered, I wanted to pick your brain about something
that came up multiple times during discussions but none really seem to have
a clear answer.

Which script (writing system) an oral language speaker would use for
creating an entry on (gateway [1]) projects like Wiktionary or Wikibooks or
even uploading a list of words on Commons using a tool like Lingua Libre?
Will it be the script used for the official language of the region where
the former language is from?[2] This is a bit controversial as native
speakers of many indigenous languages would see this as a form of
colonization. Will it be the w:International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)? This
is probably the least controversial but a common and average user might not
be able to read IPA as the latter was created by linguists and was created
for linguistic and scholarly studies rather than for everyday use.

Wikimedians who are native speakers of languages with less written/recorded
documentation and individuals who work on such languages are more
encouraged to share their inputs based on past experience.

1. Gateway project: This is a made-up term to define the Wikimedia projects
that are more welcoming to newbies and do not require stringent citation as
almost all oral languages would lack that. It was fascinating to see Amir
challenging that it only takes about 30 seconds to add an entry to
Wiktionary (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amir_Aharoni_demonstrating_how_to_add_an_entry_to_Wiktionary_in_any_language_to_Ingrid_Cumming,_Wikimania_2019,_Stockholm,_Sweden.jpg
)

Subhashish
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Celebrating Women's Day : Wikimedia India

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Great to see many old and new faces - I guess many Wikimedians might not
know active contributors from other language communities. Congratulations
to all the friends who made it to the list. :) Thanks Yohann and other
friends at WMIN for the research and letting us know about these
Wikimedians who are leading the Wikimedia movement in India and helping
bridge the gender gap.

Subha


On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 11:23 PM Yohann Thomas  wrote:

> Greetings From Wikimedia India !
>
> Wikimedia India takes the opportunity in wishing all the Women
> Wikimedians, A Very Happy Women's Day. Let's join hands and salute all
> Women's who are building our open knowledge ecosystems.
>
> Wikimedia India wishes to celebrate the occasion in its own little way
> through its program, Featured Wikimedian Of The Month.
>
> Every Month, Wikimedia India celebrates editing by recognising and writing
> story for an editor working on Indian language projects. The process is
> same like featured article or featured picture.
>
> Today, Friday, 8th March, we wish to do something different. Wikimedia
> India is happy to recognise 16  different  Women Wikimedians  working on
> different language projects.
> Since it's 2019, so we have covered stories for 19 Women Wikimedians
> Please find the stories on these Super-Women from India <
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Women_Month/2019>.
>
> Also, we have come up with a blog-post on how previously Featured Women
> Wikimedians are doing today. Please give it a read <
> http://blog.wikimedia.in/2019/03/07/growing-women-leadership-in-india-eyes-from-featured-wikimedian-of-the-month-program/>
>
>
> We wish to thank User:Netha Hussain and User: Manavpreet Kaur for being
> the special guest facilitators for this exercise.
>
> At last, Wishing All Women Wikimedians, A VERY HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY.
>
> Regards,
> Yohann Thomas
> Wikimedia India 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations everyone from Kerala!

Frederick, you can find the process and other important info about user group 
here: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups

Subhashish

> On Oct 17, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Frederick Noronha  
> wrote:
> 
> Congrats, guys! We are just 800 kms north of you, and are trying to build a
> Goa Wikipedia Group (focussing on local content in all languages, including
> and specially Konkani http://gom.wikipedia.org )
> 
> I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to the URL which lays down the
> procedure for forming and getting recognition for a user group.
> 
> Fredericknoronha
> +91-9822122436
> Do join our GWG by WhatsApping me on the above no.
> 
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 16:09, Nabin K. Sapkota 
> wrote:
> 
>> Congratulations!!!
>> 
>> Nabin,
>> Wikimedians of Nepal
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:10 PM Shlomi Fish 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:41:09 -0400
>>> Kirill Lokshin  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi everyone!
>>>> 
>>>> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
>> recognized
>>>> [1] the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>>> The
>>>> group will be working on various Wikimedia projects related to the
>>>> Malayalam language.
>>>> 
>>>> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> congratulations!
>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Kirill Lokshin
>>>> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>>>> 
>>>> [1]
>>>> 
>>> 
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Kerala_User_Group
>>>> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Kerala_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing launch of Santali Language Wikipedia

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Thank you Haidar for sharing in details about the amazing support that
Wikimedia Bangladesh has provided to the community there. Kudos to the
Santali community for this achievement and all the best for their
activities. And Odia Wikimedians User Group will continue to work with them
more in the future.

Subhashish


On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:27 PM Amir E. Aharoni 
wrote:

> This is a wonderful achievement. Shows that dedication and organization can
> take you far. Good luck in continuing and developing it further!
>
> בתאריך יום ד׳, 8 באוג׳ 2018, 17:49, מאת Ali Haidar Khan ‏<
> tonmoy...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > We are very pleased to announce the launch of Santali Language Wikipedia
> (
> > https://sat.wikipedia.org). The site has been launched on August 2, 2018
> > and, after the import of pages from Wikimedia Incubator and some
> > maintenance work, it’s now open for all. Santali Language’s own alphabet,
> > Ol Chiki, has been used as the alphabet of this Wikipedia. Santali is
> > a language in the Munda subfamily of Austroasiatic languages, spoken by
> > around 7.4 million people in South Asia (Bangladesh, India and Nepal).
> >
> > This is a very special moment for us and has been made possible because
> of
> > the joint effort by Santali Language Wikipedian’s from Bangladesh, India
> > and Nepal. Wikimedia Bangladesh and Bangla Wikimedia Community
> > congratulates the Santali Language Community for their accomplishment and
> > are honored to be a part of this tremendous achievement. Manik Soren, a
> > dedicated Santali Wikipedian from Bangladesh, along with some very active
> > Santali Language Wikipedians from Bangladesh and India has been
> > instrumental in this effort. We would also like to thank Shabab Mustafa,
> > President of Wikimedia Bangladesh and Nahid Sultan, a very active steward
> > and Secretary of Wikimedia Bangladesh, for coordinating the effort in
> > Bangladesh and Odia Wikimedians User Group for coordinating the effort in
> > India.
> >
> > It is worth mentioning that the process of creating a Santali Language
> > Wikipedia began in 2012 and, later on, got momentum in February, 2017.
> Back
> > in 2012, Wikimedia Bangladesh organized a Wikipedia meetup and workshop
> > with the Santali Language Community in Dinajpur District of Bangladesh
> with
> > the goal of launching a Santali Language Wikipedia. However, that process
> > slowed down after some time. Then in September 2017, Wikimedia Bangladesh
> > organized another meeting with Santali Language Community in a Dhaka
> > Wikipedia meetup where a decision was made to expedite the launch of the
> > Wikipedia. Following that discussion, a workshop was organized by
> Wikimedia
> > Bangladesh for Santali Language Wikipedians on December 30, 2017. Santali
> > Language Wikipedians from India also participated in that program through
> > online discussion. Subsequently, another workshop was organized for
> Santali
> > Language Community in India on March 11, 2018 in collaboration with Odia
> > Wikimedians User Group.
> >
> > After months of work, Santali Language Wikipedia got the approval of
> > Language Committee on June 28, 2018 and finally, the Santali Wikipedia
> site
> > was launched on August 2, 2018.
> >
> > Let us congratulate and welcome the Santali Language Community.
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Ali Haidar Khan
> >
> > Executive Committee Member, Wikimedia Bangladesh
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Wow. Really impressive, modern and colorful. The type look quite bold and
the overall flow is pleasant. The theme somehow felt a bit like Mozilla
sites as well (in a good way). Congratulations comms. <3

Subhashish

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:21 AM, Gregory Varnum 
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> Hello,
>
> After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the organization
> and movement, the Wikimedia Foundation's new website soft launched this
> week!
>
> You can check it out for yourself here (you may need to clear your
> browser's cache):  https://wikimediafoundation.org/
>
>
> So what comes next?
>
> Throughout this week, the Communications department and core website team
> will be doing final tweaks and quality assurance testing in preparations
> for translations.
>
> Over the coming weeks we will be working with affiliates and contributors
> around the world to make the site in available in Arabic, Chinese, French,
> German, Russian, and Spanish - in addition to the English version soft
> launched today. Once the translations are completed, we will be doing a
> more public announcement regarding the new website and begin more formally
> implementing usage of it.
>
> Additionally, we will be holding office hours in the coming weeks.
>
>
> What about the old website?
>
> The old website (aka Foundation Wiki) will be given new life in the coming
> weeks as the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki - where it will continue
> to house important documentation for the Wikimedia Foundation like
> policies, board resolutions and minutes, legal documents, etc. Additional
> information on the changes coming to that wiki and the plans for migrating
> archived content to Meta-Wiki will be available in the coming weeks.
>
>
> What else should I know?
>
> There is a lot of great things about this new website we are excited to
> share with all of you! More information about office hours will available
> in the coming weeks. Until then, we encourage you to take a look and
> contact me directly if you find any bugs, typos, or have any comments.
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> The Communications department greatly appreciates all of the discussions,
> work, and patience everyone has put into this gigantic undertaking. We are
> very close to the finish line, and today marks a significant step which was
> only possible with the help of the 100+ people involved.
>
> On behalf of the Communications department and core website team (Heather,
> Zack, Katherine, Mel, and Greg),
>
> -greg
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Don Wikimedians User Group

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Congratulations friends!

Subhashish

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> Cheers to Don Wikimedians User Group!
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> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Md. Ibrahim Husain 
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> > A warm congratulation to members of Don Wikimedians User Group.
> >
> > Cheers!!!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations friends! This is a great news indeed.

Subhashish

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Gnangarra 
wrote:

> kaya woolah wanjoo nyungarang
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> On 6 February 2018 at 16:24, Kangah Donatien KOFFI <
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> > Welcome!
> >
> > 2018-02-06 2:29 GMT+00:00 Asaf Bartov :
> >
> >> Congratulations! :)
> >>
> >>A.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:51 PM Kirill Lokshin  >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi everyone!
> >>>
> >>> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
> recognized
> >>> the Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova User Group [1] as a Wikimedia
> User
> >>> Group. The group aims to promote the use of Romanian Wikipedia and its
> >>> sister projects by the residents of Romania and Moldova, with the goal
> of
> >>> improving the relevance and perception of Wikimedia projects among
> >>> readers
> >>> and users, as well as within the cultural and scientific communities.
> >>>
> >>> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Kirill Lokshin
> >>> Chair, Affiliations Committee
> >>>
> >>> [1]
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Welcome Raju!

I could only see you from far during the recent ONA 17 but missed the
opportunity to meet and say hi.

The Wikimedia community has a lot to gain from your long journalistic
experience. Look forward to getting your advice for our communities.

Love,
Subhashish
Odia Wikimedians User Group

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:35 AM, James Alexander 
wrote:

> Welcome Raju!
>
> *James Alexander*
> Manager, Trust & Safety
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Biyanto Rebin <
> biyanto.re...@wikimedia.or.id> wrote:
>
> > Welcome to Wikimedia movements, Raju!
> >
> > Best regards from Indonesia,
> >
> > 2017-10-17 1:19 GMT+07:00 Christophe Henner :
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Over the past year, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has been
> > > reviewing and evolving our appointment and onboarding process for new
> > Board
> > > members. While that has resulted in some lingering vacancies, we knew
> it
> > > was important to update these processes to help maintain a cordial and
> > > productive Board.
> > >
> > > The updated appointment process provides the entire board with more
> > > detailed (albeit private) information about each candidate’s
> background,
> > > public profile, past professional and volunteer work, and ability to
> > > contribute to the Board. The updated onboarding process is meant to
> help
> > > Board members learn about the processes and expectations of our Board
> > more
> > > quickly to help reduce productivity lost to transitions. Special thanks
> > to
> > > everyone serving on the Board Governance Committee and Nataliia for the
> > > work they have put into these improvements!
> > >
> > > I am also incredibly excited to share that these efforts have helped us
> > > identify and appoint an amazing addition to the Wikimedia Foundation
> > Board
> > > of Trustees! At our October meeting, the Board appointed and welcomed
> > Raju
> > > Narisetti to fill one of the vacant expert seats.
> > >
> > > Raju is a veteran media executive and journalist and brings a wealth of
> > > communications experience to the board. He is also a veteran of
> nonprofit
> > > governance and currently serves on the board for the International
> Center
> > > for Journalists and Institute for International Education. I am
> confident
> > > he will be a very valuable addition to the board and thrilled that he
> has
> > > agreed to join us!
> > >
> > > We will continue to make improvements to our governance processes, for
> > > example with the learnings from the on-going governance review, and
> apply
> > > what we have learned to future appointments and filling our remaining
> > > vacancy. Thank you for everyone’s patience as we took a pause and
> worked
> > on
> > > recruiting the best possible candidates, rather than simply rushing to
> > fill
> > > the seats.
> > >
> > > In the meantime, below (and on the Wikimedia Blog) you will find the
> > > official announcement about Raju Narisetti and please join me in warmly
> > > welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and to the
> > > Wikimedia movement!
> > >
> > > Christophe
> > > Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
> > >
> > > Raju Narisetti joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
> > >
> > > Media veteran brings nearly three decades of global strategic
> experience
> > in
> > > digital media and audience development to the Wikimedia Foundation
> Board
> > >
> > >
> > > Image:
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raju_Narisetti_-_
> > > International_Journalism_Festival_2015.JPG
> > >
> > > San Francisco, CA, October 16, 2017 — The Wikimedia Foundation today
> > > announced the appointment of Raju Narisetti, a veteran media executive
> > and
> > > journalist, to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
> > >
> > > Raju brings more than 29 years of media experience across three
> > continents.
> > > He is currently CEO of Univision Communications Inc’s Gizmodo Media
> > Group,
> > > the publisher of websites including Gizmodo, Jezebel, Lifehacker and
> The
> > > Root.
> > >
> > > “Raju has dedicated his life’s work to information as a public service.
> > His
> > > commitment to editorial integrity, independence, and inc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please welcome new chair for Wikimedia UK

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Many congratulations Josie and other friends at the WMUK board.

Love,
Subhashish
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Biyanto Rebin <
biyanto.re...@wikimedia.or.id> wrote:

> Congratulations Josie and WMUK team! Welcome on the board :)
>
> 2017-07-16 0:34 GMT+07:00 Michael Maggs :
>
> > Dear friends
> >
> > At today's AGM, three trustees (Doug Taylor, Nick Poole and me) were
> > re-elected to the board.
> >
> > I have today retired as chair, and the role has been taken by my
> colleague
> > Josie Fraser. I'll be remaining on the board as an ordinary board member
> to
> > support Josie until my new term expires in two years time.
> >
> > Our board lineup is now:
> >
> > Josie Fraser - Chair
> > Carol Campbell - Vice-chair
> > Greyham Dawes - Treasurer
> > Kate West  - HR trustee
> > Nancy Bell - Trustee
> > Lorna Campbell  - Trustee
> > Jordan Landes  - Trustee
> > Nick Poole - Trustee
> > Doug Taylor - Trustee
> > Michael Maggs - Trustee
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming Josie as our new Chair.
> >
> > Michael
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations all of you!

Subhashish
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Katy Love  wrote:

> Lovely to hear this. Looking forward to seeing what's next for the user
> group!
>
> Katy
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> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Kirill Lokshin 
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> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> > the Hindi Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
> > aims to advance the work of the Wikimedia movement in the Hindi language.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> >
> > Regards,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikipedia Library User Group

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

This is a great news! Congratulations everyone involved in bringing this
awesome collective.

Subhashish

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:02 AM, Katherine Maher 
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> Welcome and congratulations!
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Samuel Klein  wrote:
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> > Awesome.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Tito Dutta  wrote:
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> > > Congratulations on getting the recognition. :)  I wish you all the
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> > >
> > > On 29 June 2017 at 17:53, Kirill Lokshin 
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> > > > Hi everyone!
> > > >
> > > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
> > recognized
> > > >  the Wikipedia Library User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.  The
> > > > group aims
> > > > to combine and multiply collaboration with libraries and librarians,
> > from
> > > > edit-a-thons hosted at libraries to the Wiki Loves Libraries outreach
> > > > campaign and the broader institutional and publisher outreach of the
> > > > Wikipedia Library, and to serve as a forum open to all Wikimedia
> > > community
> > > > members and any librarians interested in working with Wikipedia.
> > > >
> > > > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Kirill Lokshin
> > > > Chair, Affiliations Committee
> > > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC results

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations all of you amazing people. This is such a great news. :)

Subhashish

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Katherine Maher 
wrote:

> Thank you Dariusz!
>
> Congratulations to our new FDC members, and many thanks to those who are
> concluding their term of service. Also my deep appreciation to all
> candidates - your participation in the process, and willingness to take on
> this important work - is wonderful and necessary.
>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:19 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Somehow the results of the FDC elections have not been yet announced here
> > on the list. The certified outcome of the elections can be found here:
> >
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> > elections/2017/Results
> >
> > Congratulations to:
> >
> > FDC members
> >
> >- Michał Buczyński – User:Aegis Maelstrom
> ><https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aegis_Maelstrom>
> >- Lorenzo Losa – User:Laurentius
> ><https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Laurentius>
> >- Liam Wyatt – User:Wittylama
> ><https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wittylama>
> >- Osmar Valdebenito – User:B1mbo
> ><https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:B1mbo>
> >- Katherine Bavage – User:Leela0808
> ><https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Leela0808>
> >
> > FDC Ombudsperson
> >
> >- Kirill Lokshin – User:Kirill Lokshin
> ><https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin>
> >
> >
> > On being elected. Many thanks to all candidates, putting yourself forward
> > in elections requires courage, and is a great service to our community
> > irrespective of the result.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Dariusz
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

This is indeed a great news. Congratulations María, Dariusz and James! :)

Subhashish

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Shlomi Fish  wrote:

> On Sun, 21 May 2017 00:32:40 +
> matanya moses  wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > The certified results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
> > election are now available on Meta-Wiki:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> elections/2017/Results
> >
> > Congratulations to María Sefidari (User:Raystorm), Dariusz Jemielniak
> > (User:pundit), and James Heilman (User:Doc James) for receiving the most
> > community support. Subject to a standard background check, they will be
> > appointed by the Board at their August meeting at Wikimania.
> >
> > These results have been certified by the elections committee, the
> Wikimedia
> > Foundation staff advisors to the committee, and the Board of Trustees.
> >
> > There were 5,581 votes cast, with 5,120 of those being valid. The
> 461-vote
> > difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast
> ballots to
> > change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 34. (Some of
> the
> > recast votes were also struck.)
>
> Congratulations and good luck!
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 30 April 2017)

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

What made me happy this week is the release of our latest converter (check
it out: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/14kh) that converts the Odia-language
text into International Phonetic Alphabet and Roman. We have been
struggling for some time now to add pronunciations for words and could not
find anything that could do that job. So another fellow Wikimedian Prateek
Pattanaik I scraped the code from an existing converter and created this.
Now we are going to integrate this into our pronunciation project
Kathabhidhana (https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana) where we
create pronunciations of words. The next batch of audio recordings will
come on Commons with IPA and Romanization. Yay for more metadata! :)

Subhashish

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Isaac Olatunde 
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in two
> academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria
> Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community (Wikimedia
> User Group Nigeria) who made this happened.
>
> Regards,
>
> Isaac
>
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman  wrote:
>
> > Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae is
> > there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
> >
> > James
> >
> > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific
> > > imagery that was openly licensed!
> > >
> > > The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of
> > > agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain.
> > > I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee
> > > Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to
> > > the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack
> > > job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for
> > > batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php
> > > (anyone interested in molluscs?)
> > >
> > > I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC
> > > by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality
> > > medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch
> > > of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of
> > > content: https://opentextbc.ca/
> > >
> > > [1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/
> > > [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou
> > >  wrote:
> > > > +1 on this.
> > > > News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
> > > >
> > > > K.
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W  wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User
> > Group
> > > >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group>.
> > > >>
> > > >> Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
> > > >>
> > > >> The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings
> > for
> > > >> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited
> > experience, I
> > > >> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I
> > > bought
> > > >> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not
> intuitive
> > > to me
> > > >> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop",
> > the
> > > >> manual was written for someone who already had good technical
> > knowledge
> > > of
> > > >> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted.
> Wikipedia
> > > has
> > > >> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would
> have
> > > >> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.
> > > After a
> > > >> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more
> > knowledgeable
> > > >> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a
> > > >> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons
> Photographers
> > > group
> > > >> will facilitate k

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's go gender neutral

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

The Odia-language itself is gender neutral though we have some
gender-specific pronouns. So we never worried about these issues. :)

Subhashish

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> Mmmm, the Hebrew Wikipedia has been gender-neutral for at least eight years
> :)
>
> So Commons is not exactly the first project to do this.
>
>
> בתאריך 12 באפר׳ 2017 10:14 AM,‏ "Fæ"  כתב:
>
> I am delighted to say that Wikimedia Commons is today the /first/
> project to have an official Gender-neutral language policy for its
> policies and help pages, so that the project is a welcoming
> environment for all. Thanks to everyone that took part in the
> discussions and vote!
>
> * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Use_of_gender_
> neutral_language
> *
>
> The proposal was an unplanned outcome from the WM-LGBT+ user group
> taking part in this year's Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, part of all
> the creative discussions that go on when so many international
> Wikimedians get together.
>
> If you missed it, the English Wikipedia has an ongoing 'lively'
> Request for Comment for its own Gender-neutral policy for policies,
> see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/RFC_GNL
>
> Thanks
> Fae
> Wikmedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+
> https://telegram.me/wmlgbt
>
> On 8 April 2017 at 14:04, Gnangarra  wrote:
> > I beg to differ with Anders final comment;
> >
> >>
> >> And our standpoint is that we as Wikipedians should not be first in
> >> introducing new use of language but wait until it has become mainstream
> (if
> >> it ever will be)
> >
> >
> > I have no issue within our policies and projects being a leader the use
> of
> > neutral language that encompasses all equally because neutrality is one
> of
> > the key pillars of the community.  We can and must do better to ensure
> that
> > everyone has the ability to contribute on an equal basis.
> >
> > If a language doesnt have a gender neutral way to express an individual
> > then we should be encouraging speakers to find alternative ways which can
> > best express our neutral position
> >
> > On 8 April 2017 at 20:32, Fæ  wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the French experience. :-) You may not have picked up on
> >> the specific comment about the French Wikipedia a few days ago in the
> >> general Wikimedia Commons Village Pump discussion:[1]
> >>
> >> "* Total Support. This is not only useful to the trans community, but
> >> in the case of French, it is more inclusive for women also, as the
> >> French (I'm writing French and this does not mean francophone) have
> >> the disastrous tendency to masculinize everything pretending this is
> >> the way the french grammar addresses "gender neutrality in French". I
> >> would really like us to reflect on writing a best practice manual for
> >> all those who want to have an inclusive language (coupled with a non
> >> violent communication guide for online practices). Actually on the
> >> French wikipedia, most pronouns are in the masculine form even on talk
> >> / user / help pages, and when one raises the issue, one gets insults
> >> and very silly remarks. --Nattes à chat"
> >>
> >> It is sad to see that the local community has difficulty staying
> >> respectful or even civil when these gender related discussions arise,
> >> and should be a welcoming and open debate about the facts for modern
> >> language usage. There are no easy solutions, apart from persisting,
> >> keeping the topic on our agenda, and gradually educating where we can,
> >> even though this gets very tiring for our best volunteers!
> >>
> >> The French Wikipedia is not alone, and I have been told over the last
> >> week of exactly the same problem of "silly comments" on the German
> >> Wikipedia, and my experience with raising a Request for Comment
> >> yesterday on the English Wikipedia[2] is that discussions on this do
> >> include critical views being expressed, which is okay, in a
> >> disrespectful way, which is definitely not okay! It's a shame that
> >> even some administrators will defend intentionally disrespectful
> >> comments as so-called "free speech", rather than a breach of our
> >> civility policies or the basic WMF terms of use for our websites.[3]
> >>
> >> P.S. Florence, your email gets automatically put in spam when using
> >> Google'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of new Affiliations Committee advisors

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations Anasuya, Patricio and Ting. So great to see you all again
in different avatars. :)

Subhashish

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Isla Haddow-Flood 
wrote:

> Brilliant news!! The best of the best!
>
> On 4 April 2017 at 21:26, Anna Torres  wrote:
>
> > Congrats to all the new advisors!!! :)
> >
> > 2017-04-04 16:13 GMT-03:00 Michał Buczyński :
> >
> > > Let me join the best wishes and write it is great to see you three
> > around,
> > > sharing your experience and insight in the Movement!Best,  michał.
> > > Dnia 3 kwietnia 2017 23:10 Pierre-Selim <pierre-se...@huard.info&
> gt;
> > > napisał(a):  \o/ quite happy to see people with such experience joining
> > the
> > > affcom as  advisors.   2017-04-03 22:56 GMT+02:00 Tito Dutta &
> > > lt;trulyt...@gmail.com>:   Welcome, Anasuya di, Patricio, and Ting
> > and
> > > all the best. :)   On 4 April 2017 at 01:57, Kirill Lokshin &
> > > lt;kirill.loks...@gmail.com> wrote:   > Hi everyone,  >  >
> > > I'm very pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
> > > appointed  > three new advisors for the coming year: Anasuya
> Sengupta,
> > > Patricio  Lorente,  > and Ting Chen.  As non-voting advisors,
> Anasuya,
> > > Patricio, and Ting will  > lend their unique experience and insight
> to
> > > the committee as we support  the  > ongoing movement strategy
> process
> > > and the continuing evolution of the  > Wikimedia affiliate
> ecosystem.
> > > >  > Please join me in welcoming Anasuya, Patricio, and Ting to
> > their
> > > new  roles!  >  > Kirill Lokshin  > Chair, Affiliations
> > Committee
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Signing out with my official hat!

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Thank you so much Anna, Gerard, Jorge, Katherine and Katy for your kind words 
-- really honored. I have had the opportunity to work with some of you and the 
experience has been really amazing. Katy, I cannot thank you more for all the 
great support that you have given to us over the years. In the coming days, I 
will continue to connect with you all as a community member, and may be also in 
my professional capacity.

Love,
Subha

Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@subhapa / https://cis-india.org

- Original Message -
From: "Katy Love" 
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" 
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 6:24:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Signing out with my official hat!

Hi Subha,

Congratulations on your new role at Mozilla! I will miss working with you
and learning from you! You have always been kind, patient, and committed to
both sharing and learning. Thank you for all you've done for the Wikimedia
movement! We'll miss you!

Katy

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
subhash...@cis-india.org> wrote:

> 
>
> Friends,
>
> TL; DR
>
> After almost five years of professional engagement with the South Asian
> language Wikimedia communities, I have decided to step down from my current
> role. And I will remain a Wikipedian friend of yours who you can reach out
> in volunteer capacity on my talk page.
>
> ——
>
> I was about to complete my first wiki-versary when I joined the Wikimedia
> Foundation’s India Program as a Consultant for Community and Program
> Support. The program ran until August of 2012 and then got housed at the
> Centre for Internet Society’s Access to Knowledge program (CIS-A2K) [0].
> Thanks to Sunil, Pranesh, Nirmita, Nishant and many others at the CIS
> family who embraced my team from India Program with great amount of trust.
> CIS became more like a family for me all these years. It will always remain
> my other home and alma mater - calling CIS a former employer will be quite
> an understatement. I feel I grew as a person along with the organization
> that is today a noted name for its research in openness, accessibility,
> privacy, IP reform, access to knowledge, and digital humanity.
>
> Over these years I have had the most memorable time in my personal and
> professional life. I have traveled a lot in the country and across the
> world, met many friends in the Wikimedia and the open knowledge community,
> and had the privilege of working on many important projects both locally
> and globally. The South Asian language Wikimedia communities that I have
> worked with have not just been patient and understanding, but have been my
> mentor in many ways. I thank you all wholeheartedly for being such great
> friends and guides. And I hope that I have added some value to your
> community, project and the larger Wikimedia movement.
>
> This was an incredible journey and I feel really honored to see as many as
> three new Wikimedia projects taking birth where I had a chance to
> contribute. Many of you have shared your stories in an interview series
> WikipediansSpeak [1] that I started during my time at CIS, and I felt so
> touched and connected to many people that spoke languages that I never even
> understood. I want to thank many Wikimedians both from the Indian and the
> global Wikimedia community that participated in @WeAreWikipedia [2], a
> rotation curation project on Twitter that I started as a voluntary project.
> The good news is @WeAreWikipedia has always been and will be a
> volunteer-led project even after I leave my professional role at CIS.
>
> In the last few days of my work at CIS, my biggest worry was if I will be
> able to give much time to wrap up Project Ol Chiki [3], a project to create
> typeface family and input tools for the Ol Chiki script (used to write the
> Santali language) that I was leading. I would like to personally thank to
> colleagues T.Vishnuvardhan (former Programme Director of CIS-A2K) for his
> guidance, Pooja Saxena for designing the typeface and several other
> peripherals, Prof. Damayanti Besra and other friends of the
> Santali-language community who have reviewed the typeface, and Wikimedians
> Jnanaranjan Sahu and Nasim Ali who have created the input tools. A few
> years of my childhood was spent in a place where 30% of people spoke this
> aboriginal language Santali, and I cannot share how nostalgic it felt when
> the opportunity came to lead this project.
>
> Once again, thanks you all the friends in the Wikimedia community, and the
> larger openness movement for your kind support over all these years. In the
> long road, this was a great milestone but there are many more to come. I
> hope to continue working with you in my 

[Wikimedia-l] Signing out with my official hat!

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Friends,

TL; DR

After almost five years of professional engagement with the South Asian
language Wikimedia communities, I have decided to step down from my current
role. And I will remain a Wikipedian friend of yours who you can reach out
in volunteer capacity on my talk page.

——

I was about to complete my first wiki-versary when I joined the Wikimedia
Foundation’s India Program as a Consultant for Community and Program
Support. The program ran until August of 2012 and then got housed at the
Centre for Internet Society’s Access to Knowledge program (CIS-A2K) [0].
Thanks to Sunil, Pranesh, Nirmita, Nishant and many others at the CIS
family who embraced my team from India Program with great amount of trust.
CIS became more like a family for me all these years. It will always remain
my other home and alma mater - calling CIS a former employer will be quite
an understatement. I feel I grew as a person along with the organization
that is today a noted name for its research in openness, accessibility,
privacy, IP reform, access to knowledge, and digital humanity.

Over these years I have had the most memorable time in my personal and
professional life. I have traveled a lot in the country and across the
world, met many friends in the Wikimedia and the open knowledge community,
and had the privilege of working on many important projects both locally
and globally. The South Asian language Wikimedia communities that I have
worked with have not just been patient and understanding, but have been my
mentor in many ways. I thank you all wholeheartedly for being such great
friends and guides. And I hope that I have added some value to your
community, project and the larger Wikimedia movement.

This was an incredible journey and I feel really honored to see as many as
three new Wikimedia projects taking birth where I had a chance to
contribute. Many of you have shared your stories in an interview series
WikipediansSpeak [1] that I started during my time at CIS, and I felt so
touched and connected to many people that spoke languages that I never even
understood. I want to thank many Wikimedians both from the Indian and the
global Wikimedia community that participated in @WeAreWikipedia [2], a
rotation curation project on Twitter that I started as a voluntary project.
The good news is @WeAreWikipedia has always been and will be a
volunteer-led project even after I leave my professional role at CIS.

In the last few days of my work at CIS, my biggest worry was if I will be
able to give much time to wrap up Project Ol Chiki [3], a project to create
typeface family and input tools for the Ol Chiki script (used to write the
Santali language) that I was leading. I would like to personally thank to
colleagues T.Vishnuvardhan (former Programme Director of CIS-A2K) for his
guidance, Pooja Saxena for designing the typeface and several other
peripherals, Prof. Damayanti Besra and other friends of the
Santali-language community who have reviewed the typeface, and Wikimedians
Jnanaranjan Sahu and Nasim Ali who have created the input tools. A few
years of my childhood was spent in a place where 30% of people spoke this
aboriginal language Santali, and I cannot share how nostalgic it felt when
the opportunity came to lead this project.

Once again, thanks you all the friends in the Wikimedia community, and the
larger openness movement for your kind support over all these years. In the
long road, this was a great milestone but there are many more to come. I
hope to continue working with you in my volunteer capacity, and/or may be
in my new role.

Where I am heading next?
Some of you might know this already. I am super excited that the next
milestone is going to be another open source community as I am joining
Mozilla’s Participation team as South Asia Community Catalyzer [4]. I am
super excited for it. And I will keep seeing you all amazing people on the
Wikimedia projects like before.

Do feel free to get in touch with me in my talk page at User:Psubhashish,
or over email at psubhashish (at) gmail (dot) com, or at @subhapa on both
Twitter and Telegram.

0. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak
2. https://twitter.com/wearewikipedia
3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Ol_chiki
4. https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/introducing-
our-new-south-asia-community-catalyzer/11975

Love,
Subhashish

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ray Saintonge has died

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

This is such a terrible news. Condolences and prayers for Ray's family and 
those whose were close to him in such a difficult time.

I still remember when I first met Ray at Wikimania 2013 Hong Kong, he not just 
politely asked me to go ahead of a line for food, but kindly agreed to speak 
over lunch. He shared a lot of interesting stories from his work. Unfortunately 
I could not upload the video and it might still be in one of my hard drives. 
Though the empty space he has left in the community could never be filled up, I 
will try to search the video interview and upload on Commons.

Best!
Subhashish

- Original Message -
From: "Ting Chen" 
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:16:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ray Saintonge has died

I feel very sad reading this news. He was always friendly and fair. Had 
always made me smile seeing him.

Expecting to meet him on a Mania is just natural. Knowing will never see 
him there again is ... very strange.

I will miss him, very very much

Ting


Am 13.09.2016 um 18:00 schrieb Milos Rancic:
> He died yesterday. As he was an important member of our community, I
> think we should make something appropriate so he would be remembered.
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[Wikimedia-l] Tulu-language Wikipedia goes live

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Tulu Wikipedia <https://tcy.wikipedia.org/> has finally gone live after being 
in the Incubator for nine long years. Tulu is spoken by nearly 2 million 
speakers in the Mangaluru, Udupi and other South West regions of the Indian 
state of Karnataka and in some places in the state of Kerala. 198 editors have 
contributed so far to make this happen. The project has started seeing more 
activity since 2014 when the first ever community meetup was organised in April 
, 2014. St. Aloysius College and St. Agnes College, two educational 
institutions in Mangaluru, India have done a commendable job in 
institutionalizing education programs and several outreach programs for their 
students. CIS-A2K congratulates everyone who have helped grow this project, the 
language committee and other friends in the global communities who have 
supported and guided in working towards the approval of the project. We will 
continue to support the community to the best of our abilities and introduce 
them to other friends in the movement so that they can learn the best practices 
for community building, designing and running outreach and education programs 
and several other Wikimedia activities. 

Best! 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Powerful on-wiki art visualization

[subhashish]

Amazing stuff! This is going to change the face of Wikipedia.

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- Original Message -
From: "Edward Saperia" 
To: "UK Wikimedia mailing list" 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 6:38:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Powerful on-wiki art visualization

This... is... amazing!! The idea of commonly seeing these on Wikipedia
pages fills me with immense joy!

It seems to me like we might be able to kick off a big project to create
and promote useful templates and guides for creating these. The dataviz
movement is very popular among designers and journalists, and they're
always looking for tools, lessons and data to practise on. Are there any
existing efforts to popularise this, or would anyone like to help me do so?

*Edward Saperia*
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On 23 February 2016 at 03:15, Yuri Astrakhan 
wrote:

> First complex interactive graph in Wikipedia explores the most expensive
> paintings in history. Move the mouse around to view images, click the
> period or artist to highlight their work.
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings#Interactive_graph
>
> Thank you Jane [[user:Jhoffswell]], the VegaJS team, and [[user:Primaler]]
> who designed the original graph!
>
> P.S. See graph demo page for examples and tutorial links
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo
>
> P.P.S. The "click to open a page" feature is still missing in Graphs
> extension, but is on my todo list.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

media.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Adventure
>>> [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation
>>> [10]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Central_and_Eastern_Europe
>>> [11] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
>>> [12]
>>>
>> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education/Countries&oldid=70367
>>> [13] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries
>>> [14]
>>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ACEE_2015_State_of_the_CEE_Movement_Presentation.pdf&page=28
>>> [15] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_wiki_way
>>> [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Msannakoval
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Anna Koval, M.Ed.
>>> Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> +1.415.839.6885 x 6729
>>> Skype: annakoval.wiki
>>> ako...@wikimedia.org 
>>> education.wikimedia.org
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of María Sefidari to Wikimedia Foundation Board

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations and welcome back Maria!

best,
Subha

On 1/30/2016 1:44 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) wrote:
> Congratulations Maria!
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Anthony Cole  wrote:
>
>> Welcome back Maria. Recent events have shed a much-needed bright light on
>> the board, and it would have been good to hold a community election in that
>> light. We do have a limited volunteer capacity to manage elections, though,
>> and I can understand the desire not to impose too much on volunteer
>> goodwill. A shame, though. We all might have learned something from the
>> process.
>>
>> On Saturday, 30 January 2016, Todd Allen  wrote:
>>
>>> So, why not make the best of both worlds?
>>>
>>> If you need another Trustee immediately, well...I don't really think
>> that,
>>> you have a quorum without it. And an appointed trustee who lost a
>> community
>>> election is not a community elected trustee. It is insulting to say that
>>> they are. James Heilman was the community trustee, and we still have been
>>> given absolutely no specifics about his removal, just vague handwaves at
>>> "lack of trust". Why, specifically, did he lose your trust? What,
>>> specifically, did he supposedly do wrong?
>>>
>>> But if the seat absolutely must be filled, make this an interim
>> appointment
>>> until a new election is complete, and hold such an election as soon as
>>> possible. A new election is necessary, and not having one is
>> unacceptable.
>>> A lot has changed since the last one, and the individual you appointed
>> did
>>> not pass the previous election.
>>>
>>> Or in other words: This is still not acceptable.
>>>
>>> Todd
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Adam Wight >> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:09 PM Tomasz W. Kozlowski <
>>>> tom...@twkozlowski.com >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Considering the results of the 2015 May Board elections, I think it
>>> fair
>>>>> to say that María’s appointment to the Board lacks any community
>>>> legitimacy
>>>>> whatsoever.
>>>>
>>>> I have to disagree with this statement.  Please see my analysis of the
>>>> election, where I show that Sefidari would have been the top-ranked
>>>> candidate if we had counted votes equally.[1]  The "oppose" votes you
>>> refer
>>>> to are not serving the purpose you imagine they are, of weeding out
>>>> controversial candidates.
>>>>
>>>> Yet another hugely surprising decision from the Board, I’m sorry to
>> say.
>>>> That's another story... It would be nice to read the minutes of this
>>> Board
>>>> discussion, to see what alternatives were raised and how they were
>>>> evaluated.  It would be even nicer if the broader community had been
>>>> directly involved in deciding how to backfill their hatcheted
>>>> representative's seat.
>>>>
>>>> -Adam
>>>> [[mw:User:Adamw]]
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Adamw/Draft/Board_Election_analysis
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Wikimedia Bangladesh has a new Executive Committee

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Wow, three friends already! :)

Congratulations everyone. Looking forward to hear more on the new EC's
work soon.

Best,
Subha

On 1/27/2016 7:02 PM, Tanvir Rahman wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It is my pleasure to inform you that the Wikimedia Bangladesh has a
> new Executive Committee (aka Board) to the serve the chapter for the
> term 2016-2018.
>
> 27 of a total 43 regular members and 1 of 2 supporting members were
> present in the General Meeting on January 15, 2016 which took place
> early before the inauguration of Wikipedia's 15th birthday party. The
> new committee was elected by the vote of regular members who were
> present at the general meeting in person.
>
> Minutes of the General Meeting can be found here
> <https://bd.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Bangladesh_First_Annual_General_Meeting_2016_15_January_2016.pdf>.
> Unfortunately it is in Bangla, and English version is not available yet.
>
> The following members were elected to serve the Executive Committee.
>
> 1. Munir Hasan <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Munirhasan>
> 2. Tanvir Rahman <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wikitanvir>
> 3. Tanweer Morshed <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tanweer_Morshed>
> 4. Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive>
> 5. Nahid Sultan <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NahidSultan>
> 6. Shabab Mustafa <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tarunno>
> 7. A. K. Al Mohiuddin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Moheen_Reeyad>
> 8. Masum-Al-Hasan Rocky
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Masum-al-hasan>
> 9. Ali Haidar Khan <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ali_Haidar_Khan>
>
> We have not elected the new office bearers (president, secretary, and
> treasurer) yet. According to our bylaws they get elected by the vote
> of EC members internally. It may take a week or two more. Once they
> are elected, we would be happy to inform the community with an update.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tanvir Rahman
> Secretary
> Wikimedia Bangladesh
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you, Jan-Bart and Stu

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, I'd
>>> like
>>>>> to do it myself: Thank you Jan-Bart and Stu for all the time, energy
>> and
>>>>> effort that you poured into our movement. I know that not all of us
>>>>> appreciate this as much as we perhaps should, and sometimes you may
>> even
>>>>> have perceived us as hostile. I do sincerely hope that you had fun
>> with
>>> us
>>>>> though, and I'm confident that you made a big dent in our impossible
>>>>> mission of sharing the sum of all knowledge with everyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope to meet you again soon, at least in Italy at Wikimania, and I
>>> hope
>>>>> to see you around in our movement in many different ways.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Lodewijk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New board of Wikimedia DC

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations all!

On 12/8/2015 1:28 AM, Tito Dutta wrote:
> Congrats Wikimedia DC.
>
> On 8 December 2015 at 01:25, Kalliope Tsouroupidou <
> ktsouroupi...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Wikimedia DC! Keep up the great work that you do 😊
>>
>> K.
>>
>> On Monday, 7 December 2015, Katy Love  wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations, Wikimedia DC!
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 7:11 PM, James Hare >> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Following our annual board election and our first-ever round of board
>>>> appointments, I am happy to announce that Wikimedia DC has a new Board
>> of
>>>> Directors, comprising:
>>>>
>>>> * Kirill Lokshin, President
>>>> * Emily Temple-Wood, Vice President
>>>> * James Hare, Secretary
>>>> * Walter Gómez Segura, Treasurer
>>>> * Rob Fernandez
>>>> * Peter Meyer
>>>> * John Sadowski
>>>> * Diane Shaw
>>>> * Rebecca Williams
>>>>
>>>> Congratulations to all our new directors, and especially to Kirill and
>>>> Walter on becoming President and Treasurer!
>>>>
>>>> Today we also enacted our annual plan for Fiscal Year 2015–16,
>> available
>>>> here: <https://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_plan_(2015%E2%80%932016)>.
>> We
>>>> look forward to another year of outreach!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> —
>>>> James Hare
>>>> Secretary, Wikimedia DC
>>>> https://wikimediadc.org
>>>> @wikimediadc
>>>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Punjabi Wikimedians User Group

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations all of you for making this possible!

best,
Subha

On 11/18/2015 12:08 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) wrote:
> Congratulations Panjabi Wikimedians User Group!
>
>
> ~Hasive
> WMBD
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Tito Dutta  wrote:
>
>> That's amazing. Congrats Satdeep, Gaurav, Parveer, Gill sir and others. :)
>>
>> On 18 November 2015 at 02:18, Carlos M. Colina 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am honoured to announce the
>>> recognition of Punjabi Wikimedians [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>>>
>>> They are a group of wikimedians who are working together in different
>>> projects related to the Punjabi language and culture. They have already
>>> organized a few events and activities, like the edit-a-thon on occasion
>> of
>>> the 13th anniversary of the Punjabi Wikipedia, another on the
>> International
>>> Women's day and several Wikipedia Workshops and meetups.
>>>
>>> Welcome!!!
>>>
>>> 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians
>>> --
>>> "*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
>>> junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
>>> Carlos M. Colina
>>> Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
>> www.wikimedia.org.ve
>>> <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
>>> Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
>>> Phone: +972-52-4869915
>>> Twitter: @maor_x
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[Wikimedia-l] [CIS-A2K] October 2015 Newsletter

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

iner (MWTTT,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MWTTT). After conducting these two
events, and communicating with the participants the need to start a
training program on regular basis was felt and designing the
"Train-a-Wikipedian" program was initiated. Initially, the focus would
be on five Focus Language Areas (FLAs); a) Kannada, b) Konkani, c)
Marathi, d) Odia, and e) Telugu, and the program might be scaled up
slowly based on its first pilot implementation. The TAW page on
Meta-wiki (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TAW), a number of topics are
listed that are going to be discussed. As not everything could be
imparted to every single participant, almost all the training sessions
are going to be custom-made where the learners will be independently
selecting topics of their own interest. Suggestions and inputs on this
program are welcome!


== Blog posts ==

⬤ Panigrahi, Subhashish. WikipediansSpeak: Telugu-language library
catalog project helps Wikipedia
grow,(http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-october-9-2015-subhashish-panigrahi-telugu-library-catalog-project-wikipedians-speak)
11 October 2015;

⬤ Panigrahi, Subhashish. Odia Wikisource to Celebrate Its First
Anniversary in Bhubaneswar,
(http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mybhubaneswar-october-25-2015-subhashish-panigrahi-odia-wikisource-celebrates-its-first-anniversary-in-bhubaneswar)
24 October 2015;

⬤ Agarwal, Shirish. Hamara Linux at Wikipedia workshop. Hamaralinux.org,
27 October 2015;


== Media coverage ==

1. How to do Guerilla GLAM
(https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/openotago/2015/10/06/how-to-do-guerilla-glam/),
University of Otago, 6 October 2015;

2. ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରର ଆବଶ୍ୟକତା ସମାଜ
(http://www.fullodisha.com/odia-wikiource-to-celebrate-its-first-anniversary-at-bhubaneswar/)
Full Odisha, 24 October 2015;

3. Odia Wikisource to Celebrate Its First Anniversary in Bhubaneswar
(http://mybhubaneswar.com/odia-wikisource-anniversary/)
Mybhubaneswar.com, 24 October 2015

4. Odia Wikisource celebrates 1st anniversary this 25th October
(http://www.bhubaneswarbuzz.com/events/odia-wikisource-celebrates-1st-anniversary-this-25th-october)
Bhubaneswar Buzz, 24 October 2015,

5. "महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक" होणार लोकाभिमुख, महाराष्ट्र टाईम्स, Maharashtra
Times, 24 October 2015;

6. Odia Wikisource to Celebrate Its 1st Birth Anniversary Today At
IMAGE, Bhubaneswar
(http://www.odiaportal.in/2015/10/odia-wikisource-to-celebrate-its-1st.html)
Odiaportal.in, 25 October 2015;

7. ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱରରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରର ପ୍ରଥମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ପାଳନ (http://goo.gl/WiC5hS) 
Odia
Pua, 25 October 2015;

8. Odia Wikisource to celebrate its first anniversary tomorrow!
(http://odishasuntimes.com/2015/10/25/odia-wikisource-to-celebrate-its-first-anniversary-tomorrow/),
Odisha Sun Times, 25 October 2015;

9. Odia language classics could now be read from phones, tablets and of
course from computers!,
(http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=62374) Orissa Diary, 25
October 2015;

10. Odia Wikisource to Hold 1st Anniversary
(http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/odia-wikisource-to-hold-1st-anniv.html),
 The pioneer, 26 October 2015;

11. Otago Southland are the Coolest
(http://www.lianza.org.nz/article/otago-southland-are-coolest), Library
and Information Association of New Zealand, 26 October 2015;

12. Open Access Week round up (https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/openotago/),
University of Otago, 27 October 2015;

13. मराठी पुस्तके 'विकिस्रोत'ला, सकाळ, Sakaal, 28 October 2015;

14. महाराष्ट्र ग्रंथोत्तेजक संस्थेमधील एक हजार ग्रंथ ऑनलाइन, सामना Saamna, 28
October 2015;

15. India & France to digitise manuscripts, artworks & archives
(http://www.medianama.com/2015/10/223-india-france-manuscript-digitisation/),
Medianama, 29 October 2015;

16. एक हजार ग्रंथ ऑनलाइन, महाराष्ट्र टाईम्स, Maharashtra Times, 30 October 2015;


== Op-eds ==

⬤ Panigrahi, Subhashish. ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାରର ଆବଶ୍ୟକତା (Need for an
Odia-language Wikisource)
(http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/samaja-october-25-2015-subhashish-panigrahi-need-for-an-odia-language-wikisource),
Samaja, 25 October 2015;


This newsletter is also available on Meta at:

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations all!

On 10/16/2015 12:59 AM, Carlos M. Colina wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the
> recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community as a Wikimedia User
> Group [1]. Among their goals are connecting the uzbek wikimedians,
> promote the use the different Wikimedia projects in Uzbekistan and
> teach more people how to contribute to them.
>
> Let's welcome our colleagues in Central Asia 8-)
>
> Welcome!!!
>
> 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Uzbekistan_Community
>

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Ecuador User Group

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Congrats amigos! :)

Subhashish Panigrahi
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@subhapa

On 9/29/2015 8:34 AM, Tito Dutta wrote:
> Congrats. :)
>
> On 29 September 2015 at 00:21, Shlomi Fish  wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:51:44 +0300
>> "Carlos M. Colina"  wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am pleased to announce the
>>> recognition [1] of Wikimedians of Ecuador [2]. Among their goals is
>>> promoting the culture of Free Knowledge in Ecuador, strenghtening the
>>> digital education in the country, and supporting the access of speakers
>>> of indigenous languages to the different Wikimedia projects.
>>>
>>> ¡Bienvenidos!
>>>
>>
>> Congratulations and good luck!
>>
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>> List of Portability Libraries - http://shlom.in/port-libs
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[Wikimedia-l] [CIS-A2K] August Newsletter

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Dear all,

Centre for Internet and Society' Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) program
would like to share with you the newsletter below for the month of August
2015. We look forward to hear any feedback or input you might have.

Odia Wikipedia (available at or.wikipedia.org), an Indian-language
Wikipedia project, celebrated thirteen years of free knowledge contribution
in June 2015. It was one of the first four Indic Wikipedias (Assamese,
malayalam and Punjabi being the other three)to have started in 2002. The
first edit on the Wikipedia was made on 3 June 2002. Currently the project
has over 8,900 articles and about 17 active editors (also known as
"uikiali"). The voluntary editor community has put its efforts into
acquiring valuable content, re-licensing them under Creative Commons (CC)
licenses, and building tools for acquiring more encyclopedic content from
various sources.

Odia Wikipedia community assessment survey June 2015. It gives an overview
about the various hindrances for the growth of Odia Wikipedia and the
community.

During the thirteenth anniversary celebrations, the community came together
to assess community needs, address issues that had been identified earlier
via irc and mailing list discussions, and identify priority areas to focus
on in the future. Odia Wikipedia administrators Mrutyunjaya Kar and
Subhashish Panigrahi designed a needs assessment survey. (
https://or.wikipedia.org/s/tnp) Participating Wikimedians were asked to
discuss various problems they face in editing and outreach two major areas
that ensures quality standards. .

Two-fifths of participants said that problems with the rendering of Odia
characters in different operating systems, ignorance or lack of more
documentation about enabling encoding for Odia, input methods and keyboard
layouts, and other font- and keyboard-related issues as the major reason
for low readership and contribution on Wikipedia.

. . .Read more in the Wikimedia blog at:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/21/odia-wikipedia-celebrates-13/
== Event organized/participated ==

(CIS-A2K events page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events)

⬤ Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Annamacharya library (
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/rare-telugu-religious-and-historical-work-preserved-at-annamacharya-library-to-come-on-wikisource
):

On 6 August a Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted at Annamacharya
library to preserve rare Telugu literature text. Annamacharya library has a
rare collection of the religious and historical works in Telugu language.
This event was conducted by Telugu Wikipedia Community and the Centre for
Internet & Society's Access To Knowledge program. The second iteration of
the event was organized on 31 August.

⬤ Tamil Virtual University workshop (
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/workshop-on-digital-collaborations-in-tamil-language-tamil-virtual-university-chennai
):

On 8-9 August, a two-day long workshop on digital collaborations in
Tamil-language was organized by Tamil Virtual University, Anna University
Campus, Chennai. U.B.Pavanaja, on behalf of CIS-A2K, participated in this
event. Four major topics discussed during the event were: Digitization,
Research and Development, e-learning and Open source and Outreach.

⬤ SDM Ujire Kannada workshop:

(
http://cis-india.org/openness/events/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-at-shree-dharmasthala-manjunatheshwara-sdm-college-ujire-karnataka
)

CIS-A2K has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. The college's
academic year started on 12 August. It was followed by a one-day workshop
where the students were introduced to editing in Kannada Wikipedia. The
head of the journalism department of the College Bhaskar Shetty and others
supported the event.

⬤ Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Mangalore (
http://cis-india.org/openness/wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-mangalore-to-bring-tulu-wikipedia-live
):

A three-day edit-a-thon was organized between 14-16 August in Mangalore for
bringing good quality content in Tulu Wikipedia. This event, organized in
collaboration with the Tulu Sahitya Academy and Ramakrishna Pre University
College, saw 30 Wikipedia editors participating and creating about 89 new
articles. 12 of these 30 participants crossed more than 10 edits. Some of
the new participants faced problems with using the input methods and the
Wiki-markup. It is important to note that because of the lack of addition
of Tulu-alphabet code points in the Unicode chart, and the speakers being
well conversant in Kannada, they are using Kannada script for Tulu
Wikipedia Incubator project. There is a plan to organize a monthly meetup
and/or edit-a-thon to continue the momentum these editors have brought in.

⬤ Kannada Wikipedia workshop at DSERT (
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-language-science-related-wikipedia-articles-1
):

A Kannada Wikipedia workshop was organized between 18-20 August at the
Department of State Educational Res

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

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

What a great news! Congratulations Patricio and Alice both. Looking forward to 
see you here in Wikimania.

Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@subhapa

> On 16-Jul-2015, at 7:18 pm, Vinicius Siqueira  
> wrote:
> 
> Felicitaciones!
> 
> Vini
> Em 16/07/2015 19:09, "Philippe Beaudette"  escreveu:
> 
>> Wonderful officer choices; welcome to the new Board, thanks to the
>> departings.
>> 
>> pb
>> 
>> 
>> *Philippe Beaudette * \\  Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia
>> Foundation, Inc.
>> T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 |  phili...@wikimedia.org  |  :  @Philippewiki
>> <https://twitter.com/Philippewiki>
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Patricio Lorente <
>> patricio.lore...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thank you all for your nice words. Just to follow up Jan-Bart's email I'd
>>> like to add that today were officially apointed to the Board the recently
>>> elected Board members: Dariusz Jemielniak, James Heilman and
>>> Denny Vrandečić. Please, join me in congratulating them as well.
>>> 
>>> And also to thank the work and continuous commitment with the Wikimedia
>>> movement of Maria Sefidari, Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein, who left
>>> today the Board but we all know that they will continue working along
>> with
>>> our community.
>>> 
>>> And thank you, Jan-Bart, for leading the Board in these past two years of
>>> changes and transition. You did a great work!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Patricio
>>> 
>>> El jue., 16 de jul. de 2015 a la(s) 7:37 p. m., Edward Galvez <
>>> egal...@wikimedia.org> escribió:
>>> 
>>>> Congratulations!
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Katy Love 
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Congratulations Patricio and Alice!!
>>>>> Katy
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Christophe Henner <
>>>>> christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Congrats Patricio and Alice.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jan-Bart when are you buying rounds?
>>>>>> Le 16 juil. 2015 5:12 PM, "Pierre-Selim" 
>> a
>>>>>> écrit :
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Congrats Patricio and Alice!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And thank you Jan-Bart :)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2015-07-16 17:08 GMT-05:00 Gregory Varnum <
>>> gregory.var...@gmail.com
>>>>> :
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Congratulations (and condolences) to Patricio and Alice! Good
>>> news.
>>>>> :)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thank you Jan-Bart for your service as Chair and for staying
>> for
>>>>>> sticking
>>>>>>>> around for the transition. :)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -greg
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ___
>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone - a more detailed response may be sent
>> later.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 16, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede <
>>>>>>> jdevre...@wikimedia.org>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hello Everyone
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I am happy to inform you that the Board has unanimously
>>>> appointed a
>>>>>> new
>>>>>>>> Chair and Vice Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
>>> Trustees.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Patricio Lorente will be the new Chair and Alice Wiegand will
>>> be
>>>>> the
>>>>>>> new
>>>>>>>> Vice-Chair. Both have several.years of experience on the board
>>> and
>>>> we
>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>> confident that they will help the board grow and be successful
>> in
>>>> the
>>>>>>>> coming years.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Personally I am looking forward to helping them get
>> acquainted
>>>> with
>>>>>>>> their new role in the coming months as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Sorry, misspelt your name in the previous mail.

Subha

> On 19-Jun-2015, at 5:30 am, Subhashish Panigrahi  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Fabtice,
> 
> It feels terribly bad to learn that you're leaving the foundation. But I'm 
> sure we would not miss you in all your community activities in a personal 
> capacity. Wish you all the best for the future projects.
> 
> Best!
> Subha
> 
>> On 19-Jun-2015, at 1:36 am, Stevie Benton  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Fabrice, you may not recall my name or know me well, but your thoughtful
>> contributions to Wikimedia comms over the past years have been greatly
>> appreciated. Seeing your name appear in my inbox has always been an
>> indication of something worth reading and giving attention to.
>> 
>> I wish you the best for the future, and hope you appreciate that you will
>> be missed.
>> 
>> Very best wishes,
>> 
>> Stevie
>> 
>>> On 18 June 2015 at 18:18, Gregory Varnum  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thank you Fabrice for all of your work over the years! We will miss you -
>>> but hopefully will still see you around the project wikis.  :)
>>> 
>>> -greg (User:Varnent)
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Fabrice Florin 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>> 
>>>> After three great years working at the foundation, the time has come to
>>>> say goodbye.
>>>> 
>>>> I will be leaving WMF at the end of June, to spend more time with my
>>>> family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy
>>>> causes.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to thank all the community and team members I have had the
>>>> pleasure to work with over the years. It has been an honor to serve our
>>>> movement together — and to help our contributors share free knowledge
>>> with
>>>> each other and the world.
>>>> 
>>>> I’m particularly grateful to Katherine Maher and our WMF communications
>>>> team for being such wonderful collaborators. I really enjoyed working
>>> with
>>>> them to manage and edit the Wikimedia blog, help grow our team and
>>> publish
>>>> some great stories together, to celebrate the heroes of our movement.
>>>> 
>>>> Going forward, WMF's Juliet Barbara will manage the Wikimedia blog, in
>>>> close collaboration with Ed Erhart. As many of you know, Ed is the former
>>>> editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost and has now joined our team for
>>>> the summer. I've worked with him for nearly a month now and find him
>>>> uniquely qualified for this project. Starting today, please contact them
>>>> directly with any questions about the blog (they are Cc:d on this
>>> message).
>>>> 
>>>> After June 30, you can reach me at  — or follow
>>>> me on Twitter ( @fabriceflorin ) or on my blog (
>>> http://fabriceflorin.com
>>>> ).
>>>> 
>>>> The last three years have been an incredible experience for me, and I am
>>>> grateful for all that I have learned from so many of you. You’ve been an
>>>> inspiration to me and I have many fond memories of our time together. I
>>>> wish you all the best with the next chapter of the Wikimedia movement and
>>>> can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Fabrice
>>>> 
>>>> ___
>>>> 
>>>> Fabrice Florin
>>>> Movement Communications Manager
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>> 
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
>>>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Hi Fabtice,

It feels terribly bad to learn that you're leaving the foundation. But I'm sure 
we would not miss you in all your community activities in a personal capacity. 
Wish you all the best for the future projects.

Best!
Subha

> On 19-Jun-2015, at 1:36 am, Stevie Benton  
> wrote:
> 
> Fabrice, you may not recall my name or know me well, but your thoughtful
> contributions to Wikimedia comms over the past years have been greatly
> appreciated. Seeing your name appear in my inbox has always been an
> indication of something worth reading and giving attention to.
> 
> I wish you the best for the future, and hope you appreciate that you will
> be missed.
> 
> Very best wishes,
> 
> Stevie
> 
>> On 18 June 2015 at 18:18, Gregory Varnum  wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you Fabrice for all of your work over the years! We will miss you -
>> but hopefully will still see you around the project wikis.  :)
>> 
>> -greg (User:Varnent)
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Fabrice Florin 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> After three great years working at the foundation, the time has come to
>>> say goodbye.
>>> 
>>> I will be leaving WMF at the end of June, to spend more time with my
>>> family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy
>>> causes.
>>> 
>>> I would like to thank all the community and team members I have had the
>>> pleasure to work with over the years. It has been an honor to serve our
>>> movement together — and to help our contributors share free knowledge
>> with
>>> each other and the world.
>>> 
>>> I’m particularly grateful to Katherine Maher and our WMF communications
>>> team for being such wonderful collaborators. I really enjoyed working
>> with
>>> them to manage and edit the Wikimedia blog, help grow our team and
>> publish
>>> some great stories together, to celebrate the heroes of our movement.
>>> 
>>> Going forward, WMF's Juliet Barbara will manage the Wikimedia blog, in
>>> close collaboration with Ed Erhart. As many of you know, Ed is the former
>>> editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost and has now joined our team for
>>> the summer. I've worked with him for nearly a month now and find him
>>> uniquely qualified for this project. Starting today, please contact them
>>> directly with any questions about the blog (they are Cc:d on this
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>>> 
>>> After June 30, you can reach me at  — or follow
>>> me on Twitter ( @fabriceflorin ) or on my blog (
>> http://fabriceflorin.com
>>> ).
>>> 
>>> The last three years have been an incredible experience for me, and I am
>>> grateful for all that I have learned from so many of you. You’ve been an
>>> inspiration to me and I have many fond memories of our time together. I
>>> wish you all the best with the next chapter of the Wikimedia movement and
>>> can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
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Dear Wikimedians,

This is to bring to your notice the proposed change in leadership of the 
CIS-A2K Program. The current Program Director, T. Vishnu Vardhan will be 
transitioning by June 2015, due to health and personal concerns.


As many of you know, Vishnu has led the A2K Programme since February 
2013. We at CIS are working with Vishnu and the rest of the A2K team to 
ensure smooth transition so that the momentum of the A2K program does 
not lose pace.


We will soon be putting out an Advertisement for the next CIS-A2K 
Program Director and will involve the community members and the 
Wikimedia India in the selection process.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...

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Dear Viswa and the Malayalam Wikimedia community,

Deepest condolence for Balachandran's family for this great loss. This 
is a great loss for all of us, the entire Wikimedia community as well. 
May his blessed soul rest in peace.


best,
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On 06-03-15 17:02, Anna Koval wrote:

<3

Thank you, Viswa, for posting this tribute and sharing this eulogy.

My heartfelt condolences to his wife Jagadamma, to his family, and to his
wiki community.

May his repose be blessed.

May his memory be eternal. [1]

Anna

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Eternal_%28chant%29

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On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:07 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) 
wrote:


Dear Wikimedians all over the world,

One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG
<https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug> (
https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug)  expired yesterday night.

Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by
several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son,
Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to
escape perpetual loneliness.

His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in
a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the
Southernmost state of India.He  joined the Armed Forces Engineering College
and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years.

He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia,
in the year 2008.

His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a
pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through
GFDL licence then.  He continued to create even more full-featured articles
on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in
Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by
himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350
images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome  amount of contributions to
Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary.

He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the
Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year
long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever
since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an
extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change
lives.

In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great
example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP.

Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document
<http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf>, a  review
on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011:

G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala

state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after

a

stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife

Jagadamma

K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.”


For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a
great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge
and wisdom.


Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has
shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble
contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind.


-ViswaPrabha
(On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community)
http://ml.wikipedia.org
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: A new structure for WMF Community Engagement

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

nual Plan Grants, Project and Event Grants, and Travel and

Participation

Support. Her team will include Katy Love, Winifred Olliff, Alex Wang,
Janice Tud, Jonathan Morgan, and Asaf Bartov. Asaf will also take on

a

new

title as Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities.

[2] Rachel DiCerbo, Philippe Beaudette, Siko, and Anasuya’s other

direct

reports, and their respective teams (CL, CA, and Grantmaking/GLEE)

will

report to Luis. The Engineering Community team will be part of the

tiger

team but will continue to report to Engineering.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 200 000 articles on Slovak Wikipedia

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations Slovak community and looking for more such good news 
from you all!


best,
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On 11-02-15 01:57, Rodrigo Padula wrote:

Congratulations to the Slovak community and Wikimedia SK!

Best regards!

Rodrigo Padula
-= Brazil =-

2015-02-10 16:48 GMT-02:00 Michal Matúšov (WMSK) :

Dear community,

On February 5th 2015 the Slovak Wikipedia reached 200 000 articles and is
the 35th largest Wikipedia by number of articles.

Chapter-to-be Wikimedia Slovakia send press release and it was republished
by TASR (Slovak press agency) -
http://www.teraz.sk/magazin/slovenska-wikipedia-dvestotisic-clankov/119561-clanok.html

Especially nice was interview for new but famous journal Denník N with lots
of details about everyday editing and preview of future of (especially
Slovak) Wikipedia:
https://dennikn.sk/46502/slovenska-wikipedia-ma-22-milionov-zobrazeni-mesacne/

Cheers!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Delphine Ménard, Lodewijk Gelauff and Bence Damokos as AffCom Advisers

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations Delphine, Lodewijk and Bence! So happy to see you all there.

Best!
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> On 30 ନଭେମ୍ବର 2014, at 1:39 am, Carlos M. Colina  
> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Recently the Affiliations Commitee, in order to improve its governance and in 
> its need for improvement and organizational advise, voted in favor of 
> appointing Delphine Ménard [1], Lodewijk Gelauff [2] and Bence Damokos [3] as 
> non-voting advisers . They have provided this committee during their 
> respective tenures as full members of this committee with invaluable 
> expertise, governance advise and language and communication skills. Hence, 
> this committee has decided to appoint them as advisers for a term ending on 
> Deceber 31, 2016.
> 
> Many thanks in advance to Delphine, Lodewijk and Bence for their 
> contributions and support to the Affiliations Committee. And of course, 
> congratulations!
> 
> Best regards,
> Carlos
> 
> 1: 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Appointment_of_Delphine_M%C3%A9nard_as_adviser_%E2%80%93_November_2014
> 2: 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Appointment_of_Delphine_M%C3%A9nard_as_adviser_%E2%80%93_November_2014
> 3: 
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> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Algeria Wikimedians User Group

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Congratulations all our Algerian friends!

Best!
Subha

> On 2 ନଭେମ୍ବର 2014, at 8:01 am, Keilana  wrote:
> 
> (: !مبروك وأهلاً بكم! أنا فعلاً سعيدة لكم
> 
>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Asaf Bartov  wrote:
>> 
>> Congratulations to our Algerian colleagues (I hope some are subscribed to
>> this list!) from the Wikimedia Foundation.
>> 
>>   A.
>> On Nov 1, 2014 11:17 AM, "Carlos M. Colina" 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> We are pleased to announce the recognition [1] of the third Wikimedia
>> User
>>> Group from the Arab World and the fifth from Africa: Algeria Wikimedians
>>> User Group.
>>> 
>>> Our Wikimedian brothers and sisters in Algeria have for a long time
>> wanted
>>> to associate and multiply their contributions tigether, since as early as
>>> 2009, when started attempts to create projects in different languages
>>> spoken in Algeria in the Incubator, an education program in an Algerian
>>> university, and participating in Wiki Loves Monuments in 2013 Algeria,
>>> which was quite a success and created a lot of awareness at a local level
>>> about the need of making more and more knowledge open in Algeria.
>>> 
>>> So, now we have them joining the family of affiliates.Please, let's give
>>> them a warm welcome!
>>> 
>>> Soyez les bienvenus, amis algériens!
>>> 
>>> Carlos
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/
>>> Resolutions/Algeria_Wikimedians_User_Group_-_
>>> Liaison_approval,_October_2014
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Carlos M. Colina
>>> Vicepresidente, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
>>> www.wikimedia.org.ve 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] "media" vs "images", "videos", "songs" and "files"

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I echo Amir. For instance, media is my native language Odia is often used for 
"print/digital media". Because of this reason I keep writing "images, audio, 
video, etc.) to clarify. Haven't yet got a better option.

Best!
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> On 22 ଅକ୍ଟୋବର 2014, at 8:00 pm, Amir E. Aharoni 
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> In the user interface messages of MediaWiki and its extensions the word
> "media" is usually used to refer to images, videos, sounds and files. It is
> convenient, because they are handled similarly by the software.
> 
> But it is also awful, because I'm quite sure that people don't talk to each
> other about "media" in real life, but they do talk about "pictures",
> "videos", and "sound recordings". Every time I translate messages that have
> the word "media" in them, I think that a lot of users will not actually
> understand them, and that if I would stand next to them, I'd have to
> explain what that is.
> 
> Is my impression wrong?
> 
> Is it conceivable to consider that using the word "media" less in user
> interface messages will make the interface clearer to the user?
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alessio Guidetti, Cotton

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Really sad news! Condolences to the  family.

Best!
Subha

> On 19 ଅକ୍ଟୋବର 2014, at 7:17 am, Asaf Bartov  wrote:
> 
> Terrible news.  I had the pleasure of knowing him, and had a few
> interesting conversations with him over the years.
> 
> Like the best, he was modest, tireless, and collegial.
> 
> My condolences to the family and all his friends in the community.
> 
>Asaf
>> On Oct 18, 2014 6:26 AM, "Andrea Zanni"  wrote:
>> 
>> It is with great sorrow that Wikimedia Italia announces the death of
>> Alessio Guidetti, better known on the projects as Cotton. He has been
>> treasurer of the organization for about five years, from 2009 until last
>> April.
>> 
>> Alessio started to contribute to Wikipedia at the end of 2006: after a few
>> months he became already a sysop. He was a tireless translator of English
>> articles in the most diverse fields, and also part of the small group of
>> the patrollers -and, indeed, he continued his precious work until the last,
>> even if invisible for most of the editors.
>> 
>> From the moment he joined Wikimedia Italia, Alessio was very keen to
>> contribute effectively, guided by his well-known pragmatism. He run for the
>> Board: as soon as he was elected, he took the role of treasurer, a
>> difficult task and a fundamental one for us but little recognized. It was
>> Alessio who took care of the most delicate and complicated tasks, and he
>> did so in the years during which Wikimedia Italia was starting to grow big,
>> the years of our quantum leap.
>> 
>> This spring he decided to not run again for the Board, but he kept
>> collaborating with his successor for an effective -and not only formal-
>> handover. He took care of the accounting, donations and employees'
>> paychecks till his very last days. He has been an incredible help:
>> trustworthy, precious, always ready for a joke.
>> 
>> Alessio has been a pillar of Wikimedia Italia: his pragmatism, his
>> hardworking disposition, his sense of humor were, and are, a part of our
>> organization. A part of how it was born and how it is growing. A part of
>> what we are.
>> 
>> Wikimedia Italia is close to the family and the friends of Alessio in this
>> grievous moment.
>> 
>> We will terribly miss him.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Many of you have know Alessio in Wikimanias and conferences.
>> 
>> If you wish, you can leave a last goodbye here on his userpage:
>> https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_utente:Cotton#Ciao.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Andrea Zanni
>> 
>> on behalf of Wikimedia Italia
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jake Orlowitz/Ocaasi comes onto the Grantmaking team at WMF with The Wikipedia Library

[subhashish]

 

Great to hear about this (again)! :) Congratulations, Jake. 

Subha 

User:Psubhashish & Founder, @WeAreWikipedia 

Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K)
Centre for Internet and Society 

On 07.10.2014 18:40, Sydney Poore wrote: 

> Happy dance This is awesome news! Congratulations, Jake.
> 
> Sydney
> 
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
> Wikipedian in Residence
> at Cochrane Collaboration
> 
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Anasuya Sengupta 
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear friends and colleagues, I am delighted to announce that Jake Orlowitz 
>> (User:Ocaasi, User:Ocaasi (WMF)) is joining the Grantmaking department at 
>> WMF to lead The Wikipedia Library (TWL)[1 [1]], an online resource for 
>> Wikipedians to get free access to journal subscriptions. In the last year, 
>> TWL has helped nearly 2000 unique users access 3000 accounts of sources like 
>> JSTOR, Elsevier, De Gruyter, and Oxford University Press,[2] and is now 
>> experimenting with community-run branches in Arabic, German and other 
>> languages. Jake will be a full-time contractor with part-time support from 
>> Alex Stinson (User:Sadads, User:Astinson (WMF)) for an initial period of six 
>> months. They are both working with an amazing volunteer team of Wikipedians 
>> guided by Head of Volunteer Coordination (User:Nikkimaria). We're 
>> particularly looking forward to seeing how TWL can expand its global 
>> (non-English) work, and what it can teach us about the best ways to support 
>> some of our top contributors, and improve
content on our projects. Many of you know Jake well, but for those who don't: 
Jake (Ocaasi) is a long time Wikipedian, with two Individual Engagement Grants 
from us, and he has been on the IEG grants committee for the past two years. 
Jake works remotely from Philadelphia but is frequently in the Bay Area, 
especially during long and dark East Coast winters. Alex has been involved for 
many years with both Education and GLAM outreach. He resides in Kansas where he 
works on Digital Humanities at Kansas State. You can catch up on all of TWL's 
new happenings in the latest edition of the Books and Bytes newsletter.[7] 
We're excited to bring The Wikipedia Library on board and look forward to its 
growth and evolution! Warmly, Anasuya Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi) started 
editing in 2007 as an ip. Early on he worked on articles about religious 
groups, political movements, and alternative health. Around 2010 he shifted 
focus from editing to helping new users, working in the irc-help channel and
developing the Plain and Simple guide for New Editors [3 [2]] and its COI 
counterpart [4 [3]]. In 2012 Jake began developing projects through the 
Individual Engagement Grants department at WMF. He built The Wikipedia 
Adventure,[5 [4]] a playful interactive game to onboard new editors. He also 
began establishing and expanding donation partnerships in The Wikipedia Library 
to provide free research access to top article contributors. He helps out as a 
board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation [6 [5]] and gives talks about 
Wikipedia's role in education. Jake grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and 
studied political theory at Wesleyan, before starting a tutoring company in 
Colorado. He currently splits his time between coasts, working full-time on 
Wikipedia projects. His contract with WMF will focus on expanding the number 
and global reach of Wikipedia Library partnerships. Alex Stinson (User:Sadads) 
is a 9-year editor with over 80,000 contributions, actively involved in 
different forms
of outreach. He is currently a project manager with the The Wikipedia Library, 
a long time volunteer with The Wikipedia Education Program, and supporter of 
GLAM-Wiki outreach. Alex has a Masters degree in English Literature from Kansas 
State University with research focused on cultural studies and the digital 
humanities. He works as a digital humanist at K-State, where he helps develop 
projects and create partnerships with educators and cultural institutions. [1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library [1] [2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library/Renewal/Final 
[6] [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PANDS [2] [4] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PSCOI [3] [5] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure [4] [6] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WPMED [5] [7] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/August-September2014
 [7] -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation*
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum 
of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia 
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Egypt Wikimedians User Group

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Congratulations everyone!

Best!
Subha

> On 30-Jul-2014, at 1:58 pm, Nurunnaby Chowdhury  wrote:
> 
> Congratulation & welcome.
> 
> --
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> Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia
> Member, IEG, WMF
> 
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2014, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
> wrote:
> 
>> Congrats all.
>> Welcome Egypt.
>> :)
>> On Jul 29, 2014 9:59 PM, "Ivan Martínez" >
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Welcome Egypt!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2014-07-29 11:21 GMT-05:00 Rodrigo Padula > >:
>>> 
 Congratulations to all members of the new user group!
 
 Best regards!
 
 Rodrigo Padula
 Brazil
 
 
 2014-07-28 16:25 GMT-03:00 Carlos M. Colina > >:
 
> Dear all,
> 
> It is an honor to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
>> resolved
> [1] recognizing the Egypt Wikimedians User Group as a Wikimedia User
 Group;
> their main focus areas are supporting the Wikimedia projects in Egypt
>>> as
> well as their fellow Egyptian Wikimedians, and becoming eventually
>> the
> recognized chapter in the land of the Pharaohs and the Nile.  Let's
 welcome
> the newest member of the family of affiliates -and the second one
>> from
 the
> Arab World!
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Carlos
> 
> 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/
> Resolutions/Egypt_Wikimedians_User_Group_-_July_2014
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Video Documentary about Wikimania

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Awesome work Victor! Loved the way you have connected the footages and created 
a beautiful story - feels like experiencing the Wikimania in real. Kudos!

Best!
Subha

> On 23-Jul-2014, at 11:26 pm, Tomasz Finc  wrote:
> 
> thank you for this Victor
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Victor Grigas  wrote:
>> Hello Wikimedians,
>> 
>> Last year, I went to Wikimania to create a documentary about the convention
>> itself, to educate the public about what Wikimania is and simulate the
>> feeling of what it's like to be there.
>> 
>> Here is the short documentary:
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2013_in_Hong_Kong.webm
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq8ZgIeYmow
>> https://vimeo.com/101369412
>> 
>> Here is a version without burned-in English-language subtitles (I'll be
>> adding open captions to this one soon):
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2013_in_Hong_Kong_%28no_subtitles%29.webm
>> 
>> Blog post here:
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/22/look-back-wikimania-2013/
>> 
>> My thanks to everyone who let me interview them on camera last year.
>> 
>> I'll be at Wikimania in London this year looking more stories from
>> Wikimedians - I hope to see you there :)
>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Bangladesh has completed its local registration in Bangladesh

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Congratulations all of out friends from Bangladesh for this great success!

Best!
Subha

> On 11-Jun-2014, at 10:52 am, Arjuna Rao Chavala  wrote:
> 
> Hi Tonmoy,
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Tonmoy Khan  wrote:
>> 
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> 
>> It gives me great pleasure to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh (WMBD) has
>> successfully completed its local registration in Bangladesh. Our
>> application for registration was approved by the Registrar of Joint Stock
>> Companies & Firms - Bangladesh on 9th June, 2014 and I have collected the
>> certificate of registration today (10th June, 2014).
> Congratulations to you and your colleagues on this important milestone. I
> am happy to hear about this, as this used to be a topic of discussion
> between us, when we met for FDC meetings during  the last two years.
> 
> Best wishes for the growth of WM Bangladesh
> 
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> Former Cofounder and President, Wikimedia India
> FDC member, 2012-14
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel been accepted to the Google Grants program

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Congratulations Wikimedia Israel! This is indeed a great achievement by you 
all. Kudos for the good work.

Best!
Subha

> On 05-May-2014, at 11:04 pm, "Federico Leva (Nemo)"  
> wrote:
> 
> Andrew Gray, 05/05/2014 16:33:
>> 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 chapters used these?
> 
> WMIT tried Facebook in 2010, for an event across multiple cities. No impact.
> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Greetings from India! We are so happy and excited to have you, Lila. As Sue 
will continue being with us as a key community player, the gender gap community 
is going to expect a lot from you. 

Congratulations! See you soon in Wikimania. :)

Best!
Subha

> On 02-May-2014, at 7:11 am, Tonmoy Khan  wrote:
> 
> Welcome Lila and best wishes.
> 
> Ali Haidar Khan
> Wikimedia Bangladesh
>> On May 2, 2014 6:59 AM, "Paolo B."  wrote:
>> 
>> On behalf of Wikimedia Philippines, congratulations, Lila! We wish you
>> all the best and we look forward to working with you. Mabuhay at
>> maligayang pagdating!
>> 
>> Paolo Barazon
>> Chairman of the Board of Trustees
>> Wikimedia Philippines
>> 
>>> On 5/2/14, Markus Glaser  wrote:
>>> Congratulations and a very warm welcome, Lila! Hope you will find it
>>> easy to be at home in the Wikimedia world. Thanks to everyone involved
>>> in the process. The task is not completely done, yet. Let us work
>>> togehter, with Lila, to make her start as smooth as possible!
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Markus
>>> 
>>> Am 01.05.2014 21:59, schrieb Tim Moritz Hector:
 A warm welcome from Germany and all the best for your new role at the
 Foundation, Lila!
 Looking forward to meeting you in real life, probably in London.
 
 Big thanks to the transition team for the hard work you've done in the
 past year.
 
 Best,
 Tim
 
 Am 01.05.2014 21:51, schrieb Chris Keating:
> Congratulations, Lila!
> On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout"  wrote:
> 
>> Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to
>> Jan-Bart
>> & the other members of the transition team. I will forward this
>> great news
>> to the Dutch board & community.
>> Frans Grijzenhout
>> 
>> 
>> 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede
>> :
>> 
>>> Dear fellow community members,
>>> 
>>> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am
>>> delighted to
>>> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation will
>>> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology
>>> leader,
>>> most recently with SugarCRM.
>>> 
>>> As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she
>>> planned
>> to
>>> step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
>> spent
>>> some time working through the most critical requirements for the
>>> role. We
>>> decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
>> background,
>>> ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We
>> wanted
>>> someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd
>>> managed
>>> staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
>>> continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context.
>> We
>>> wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency
>>> and
>>> openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder
>>> environments, and
>>> with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with
>>> courage
>>> and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by
>>> attempts to
>>> censor the projects.
>>> 
>>> Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
>>> 
>>> Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States
>>> alone,
>> as
>>> a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
>> open
>>> source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started
>> her
>>> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded
>>> GrokDigital, a
>>> technology and design company. She spent three years as senior
>>> director
>> of
>>> development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based
>> wireless
>> data
>>> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
>>> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as
>> the
>>> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT,
>>> marketing,
>>> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
>>> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
>>> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>>> 
>>> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The
>>> Transition Team
>>> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted
>>> unanimously to
>>> recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to
>>> accept the
>>> recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and
>>> unpretentious,
>>> and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
>>> 
>>> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening
>>> mode,
>>> and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the
>>> month. He