red. Local community preparatory work for dealing with possible
WMF action is ... roughly what I would expect (including the commitments to
not cooperate with UCoC efforts, or to implement them).
This is a pretty bad situation.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ג׳, 5 באפר׳ 2022 ב-17:32 מאת Stella Ng
I don't see how it could be a "community-driven" group if every member of
the group is a WMF appointee.
I find the practice of WMF staff appointing volunteers to groups to be very
problematic. I hope that different methods can be used in the future.
-- Yair Rand
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is a good thing, but this should be
accompanied with actions to ensure that it is a vote that will be
recognized as a fair and valid representation of the communities' will.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ב׳, 24 בינו׳ 2022 ב-16:36 מאת Shani Evenstein <
sh...@wikimedia.org>:
> Hello
reception.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ה׳, 13 בינו׳ 2022 ב-13:53 מאת Lane Chance <
zinkl...@gmail.com>:
> Dariusz, Chair of the BGC: "Cryptocurrency and blockchains were not a
> factor here – the Governance Committee, and then the Board, were
> considering other things..."
taken as a position on the correctness/value
of such a policy.)
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ה׳, 9 בדצמ׳ 2021 ב-10:25 מאת Richard Gaines <
rgai...@wikimedia.org>:
> Hello,
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team is excited to announce the
> approv
wish that the WMF itself could provide summaries of changes to its
rules. Unfortunately, it often doesn't, and even when it does, it often
leaves out critical modifications (e.g. certain things in the last bylaws
changes), requiring volunteer effort to determine what the WMF is doing.
-- Yair Rand
hile the lack of disclosure makes it impossible to be sure, it looks quite
likely to me that the WMF has acted inappropriately in desysopping these
users.
-- Yair Rand
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-10-31/In_focus
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik
leave that for another time.)
Thank you.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ד׳, 8 בספט׳ 2021 ב-10:09 מאת Lisa Gruwell <
lgruw...@wikimedia.org>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We are excited to share that we have chosen the first round of grantees
> for the Knowledge Equity Fund pilot. The Equit
resolutions.)
(Also, contrary to the recent WMF blog post on the UCoC, the WMF also does
not "administer Wikipedia", a mistake they have made for the second time
now.)
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ג׳, 2 בפבר׳ 2021 ב-21:34 מאת Risker <risker...@gmail.com
>:
> While I often a
they can do this unilaterally.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ג׳, 2 בפבר׳ 2021 ב-6:59 מאת María Sefidari <
ma...@wikimedia.org>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I’m pleased to announce that the Board of Trustees has unanimously
> approved a Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia proje
proposal, and the final text at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/October_2020_-_Proposed_Bylaws_changes/Three-way_diff
. (Turned out to be not quite as readable as I hoped, unfortunately. Also,
no summary. Still, might be helpful to some.)
-- Yair Rand
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ki/User:Yair_rand/WMF_membership_proposal>
have the legal ability to take that away.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ה׳, 21 בינו׳ 2021 ב-12:15 מאת María Sefidari <
ma...@wikimedia.org>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The Board has discussed and approved some governance improvements in two
> rece
le to ensure transparency in the
Board's activities. This is a very disappointing development.
I do not understand how WMF internal accounting issues justify transfering
the grant money to an outside organization, which additionally appears to
have no obligation to publicly report where the t
No, the Wikimedia Endowment is a separate thing.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום א׳, 13 בדצמ׳ 2020 ב-4:18 מאת Michael Peel <
em...@mikepeel.net>:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment ?
>
> On 13 Dec 2020, at 08:33, Yair Rand wrote:
>
> According to t
in the
public annual plan, which set out rather less than this amount for the
entire grantmaking budget for the year. No application was made through any
of the various Wikimedia grants processes. No further information has been
provided on the administration of this new Fund, or on the text of the
g
Reminder that this begins in about 45 minutes. Please see the page on Meta <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9> for more information.
-- Yair Rand (User:Yair_rand)
בתאריך יום ד׳, 11 בנוב׳ 2020 ב-3:05 מאת Yair Rand <yyairr...@gmail.com
>:
> Hi everyon
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café>
for more information. If there are any problems with connecting to the
meeting or if you have any questions or comments then please write on the
Meta talk page.
Hope to see you there. :)
-- Yair Rand (User:Yai
he appointed
seats from "non-community-selected, non-chapter-selected" to
"non-community-sourced" seems to imply that the Board is prohibited from
filling these seats with any community members. Previously, there have been
community members in these seats.)
-- Yair Rand
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, threaten, or sue
contributors, or to seize control over the projects, that would be the time
for all editors and affiliates and donors to level-headedly level the
Foundation to its foundations. Until then, we should attempt to work with
them, even when their behaviour leaves much to be desired.
-- Yair
community consultation or
input, and the structure and category system are clearly WMF-oriented.
Also, it's based on WordPress, yet again, and with a very
problematic privacy policy which probably won't be acceptable to many in
the community.
This is not a positive development, in my opinion.
--
free, unrestricted access for non-commercial, research, and small
to moderate commercial use." Earlier versions elaborate somewhat, and there
were considerable reservations expressed about the idea during the process.
It is quite concerning.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום א׳, 14 ביוני 2020 ב-14:33
identified areas that relate to Wikimedia activities (Access,
Censorship, Copyright, Intermediary liability, and Privacy; see the public
policy portal and associated documents) is not acceptable, and advocacy is
only acceptable even within those areas under limited circumstances.
-- Yair Rand
[1
y necessary for the Wikimedia movement to function.
(@Nathan re stats: wikimediafoundation.org gets roughly 10,000 views per
day, and the banner was up for the full 24-hour period, IIUC.)
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום א׳, 26 באפר׳ 2020 ב-18:03 מאת Rebecca O'Neill <
rebeccanin...@gmail.com>
;, it's not nonsense, but it's
also a position extremely strongly opposed by the Wikimedia community, for
good reason.
Wikimedia is about allowing people to freely share in the sum of all
knowledge. Its purpose is not to influence elections or governments. If one
uses a definition of "apolitical&q
ate more appropriately in the future.
--Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ו׳, 24 באפר׳ 2020 ב-1:18 מאת Gregory Varnum <
gvar...@wikimedia.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> I am responding on behalf of the Foundation in my capacity handling
> movement communications, includ
his constant stream of terrible failures.
-- Yair Rand
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oderate support". Similar things have been happening elsewhere,
eg, for the WMF's "Space" project. (Speaking of which, holding a discussion
on a private off-wiki forum is not a valid method of community decision
making, for branding or otherwise.)
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך שבת, 7 בספט׳ 2019
בתאריך יום ג׳, 25 ביוני 2019 ב-18:02 מאת Lucas Werkmeister <
m...@lucaswerkmeister.de>:
> On 25.06.19 23:18, Yair Rand wrote:
> > So far outside Wikimedia
> > spaces that the only place it was even _announced_ was an off-wiki
> mailing
> > list?
>
-transparent communication?
(Closed-source software, unless I'm mistaken?) So far outside Wikimedia
spaces that the only place it was even _announced_ was an off-wiki mailing
list?
Is there something the Wikimedia Foundation would like to tell us?
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ג׳, 25 ביוני 2019 ב-14:56 מאת
ents
since the discussion of the post began (these statements made on the same
page where that discussion occured), none of which denied (or referenced at
all) the accuracy of the snippet. That's all we know.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ה׳, 13 ביוני 2019 ב-1:59 מאת David Gerard <dger
Philippe, the email from Trust & Safety said quite clearly that the ban was
triggered by edit 895438118. I assume that T would not lie about their
reasons for something like this.
בתאריך יום ג׳, 11 ביוני 2019 ב-22:35 מאת Philippe Beaudette <
phili...@beaudette.me>:
> Nathan writes:
>
>
There does not appear to be any intention to hand over responsibility for
small grants to the FDC or other non-WMF body. Which leaves us back at the
start, with no existing way to avoid WMF influence or interference in
grants.
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ג׳, 4 בספט׳ 2018 ב-2:01 מאת Yair Rand
irectly fund content
creation or Signpost support.)
-- Yair Rand
בתאריך יום ב׳, 3 בספט׳ 2018 ב-22:07 מאת Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com
>:
> I apologize for the unusually large load of typos, especially misspelling
> Kaarel's name. Usually I get enough sleep but last night I d
of chapters, the Wikimedia Foundation
provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for
the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other
endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep
useful information from its projects available on the Interne
is in English.)
Is there any intention to have somewhere where edits can be at least
proposed?
-- Yair Rand
2018-08-01 21:51 GMT-04:00 Gregory Varnum :
> Hello,
>
> After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the organization
> and movement, the Wikimedia Foundation's new webs
cacy which can't be reverted, is really damaging.
-- Yair Rand
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, Erik...I really don't think my personal beliefs have a role in this
> discussion, except as they very narrowly apply to the Wikimedia mission,
> vi
month ago specifically
calling for a change in refugee policy.
Using Wikimedia projects to push politics is not okay. If the WMF does not
accept this, I suspect many projects will simply block CentralNotices,
avoid associating with WMF statements, and quite possibly fork/leave.
This is a serious pro
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Mike Godwin <mnemo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yair Rand writes:
>
> > I find it difficult to believe that this situation is so critical
> > and urgent that an RfC in advance was impossible, so if it does fall
> under
> > that section,
Would this action fall under "Collaborative advocacy" in the Foundation
Policy and Political Association Guideline? The section refers to
"collaborat[ing] with another organization to take action on a particular
policy or political question". The example given is signing a petition by
the EFF
When and how the Wikimedia Foundation should associate itself publicly on
policy and political issues is not a new topic, and (as I have quite
recently discovered) official guidelines have been around for nearly five
years now. The Guidelines on Foundation Policy and Political Association
[1],
of the mailing list administration and moderators
to act against this list's rapid slide into unreadability.
Thank you.
-- Yair Rand
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