[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Morocco 2022 Annual Report is out!

2023-01-23 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Thanks for sharing Anass. JP On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 1:42 PM Adel Nehaoua wrote: > شكرا اناس > عمل جيد للمجموعة تمنياتي بالمواصلة ومزيد من العمل التطوعي تحياتي > > Le lun. 23 janv. 2023, 09:03, Anass Sedrati a écrit : > >> Hello dear Wikimedians, >> >> We are very excited to finally share

[Wikimedia-l] Re: See you around...

2023-01-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
very happy for him (as I’m sure so many of the “old timers” are.) Congrats on a role well deserved, Stephen, and Amanda, thank you for your incredible service to the movement. I can tell you from experience that you’re about to want to sleep for a month…. Philippe (Former staff….. a LONG time ago

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

2022-12-31 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Erik speaks wisely here, and I find myself in concurrence with the others who have spoken up: this is an unusual but important opportunity, and I am disappointed to see that WMF not even swing at the pitch. Regards, Philippe Beaudette Tulsa, OK On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 7:51 PM David Gerard

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group 2021 Annual Report

2022-07-22 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Good day, I would like to share with you that the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group has published its 2021 Annual Report here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_North_American_Indigenous_Languages_User_Group/Reports/2021 Thank you, Jean-Philippe Béland

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Form 990 clarification request (for the attention of WMF accounts staff)

2022-06-17 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Are we back to this? Seriously? I thought this topic was dead for at least six months. It’s almost enough to make me walk away and give up on this list. Philippe On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 5:25 PM Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Hi all, > > As the topic of WMF salaries has come up again i

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Board statement endorsing community voting on the enforcement guidelines for Universal code of Conduct (UCoC)

2022-01-30 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Honestly I don’t remember the NDA, and I don’t even remember if I signed one. It was a long time ago. On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:48 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Philippe, Luis, > > Glad to hear that's never been done – though there is always a first time, > and even if there is n

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Board statement endorsing community voting on the enforcement guidelines for Universal code of Conduct (UCoC)

2022-01-30 Thread Philippe Beaudette
kimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/3HVGANIGR25HQFX25BDTI5YU4BK6YTMB/ >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> >>> ___ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group

2021-07-29 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Good day, This is a notice that the 2020 annual activity report of the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group was posted on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_North_American_Indigenous_Languages_User_Group/Reports/2020 Please do not hesitate to reach me

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing 'Wiki for X'

2021-03-30 Thread Philippe Beaudette
for naming conventions here? Philippe On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:57 AM Tulsi Bhagat wrote: > Hello, > Greetings! > > I hope you're doing well. I would like to introduce 'Wiki for X', a > new general format for naming various sorts of Wikimedia community events > and outreach campaigns

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Enterprise API project

2021-03-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ikimedia Foundation >> >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia España has been recognized as a charity in Spain

2021-02-26 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Congratulations to Wikimedia Espana! I know how much work it is since I did it for Wikimedia Canada, and we got recognized as a charity by the Canadian Government on June 2020. Jean-Philippe Béland Wikimedia Canada On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 6:14 AM Santiago Navarro < santiagonava...@wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

2021-02-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
solution. Sometimes "Free" just isn't equal, or better. Sometimes it's an actual honest-to-god security risk and there are reasons why WMF's staff aren't using a free alternative to a proprietary tool. Did anyone ask? Philippe On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:13 AM Risker wrote: &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish! / Stepping down April 15

2021-02-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
it’s only right for you to now take some time to refocus and figure out where next to apply your formidable talents to make the world a better place. I’m very proud to call you a friend. Philippe On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 12:37 PM Brad Patrick wrote: > Congratulations on a remarkable run! Good l

[Wikimedia-l] New Board of Wikimedia Canada // Nouveau conseil d'administration de Wikimédia Canada

2020-11-23 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
plus de conserver une représentation de la communauté LGBTQ+. Nous sommes convaincu(e)s que cela va nous permettre de continuer et de renforcer nos efforts en termes d'inclusion et de diversité. Jean-Philippe Béland -- Wikimédia Canada, chapitre national soutenant Wikipédia 535 avenue Viger Est

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FY1920 Fundraising Report

2020-10-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
with $16Million. I believe Megan's catchphrase that year was "There's NO CRYING IN FUNDRAISING!" It's fantastic to see the way that the fundraising team has grown and developed. You and your team are to be congratulated! Thanks for raising the money to keep the lights on. Philippe On

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group

2020-09-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Good day all, This email is to announce that we have finally produced our overdue 2019 Annual Report on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_North_American_Indigenous_Languages_User_Group/Reports/2019 . Do not hesitate if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks, JP Béland

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Writing Wikimedia's history [Re: Institutional memory @WMF]

2020-08-28 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Adam writes: “The Wikimedia-pedia [1] is a treasure, thank you Philippe for linking!  I'd love to see this content migrated to a public wiki, where maybe it can come to life again.” Not-terribly-secretly, Eugene and I had always hoped that this section of the deliverables would continue

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Institutional memory @ WMF

2020-08-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Credit for that goes to the inestimable Eugene Eric Kim and the hundreds of Wikimedians who contributed to it. It still exists I believe, at strategy.wikimedia.org. Regards, pb Philippe Beaudette philippe.beaude...@icloud.com > On Aug 25, 2020, at 7:32 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Institutional memory @ WMF

2020-08-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
that you mention. Regards, pb Philippe Beaudette > On Aug 25, 2020, at 6:35 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > > I've thought about institutional memory quite a lot since I stopped working > at WMF in 2011. A few points I think are worth considering: > > 1. Often, institutional

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Canada Annual Report 2019 // Rapport annuel 2019 de Wikimédia Canada

2020-02-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
au français sur le wiki). N'hésitez pas à me contacter si vous avez des commentaires ou des questions. Merci à toutes et à tous, Jean-Philippe Béland Wikimedia Canada / Wikimédia Canada ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France new Board members

2019-12-03 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Merci et félicitations aux nouveaux membres du conseil d'administration ! Jean-Philippe Béland Wikimédia Canada On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 2:15 PM Nadine Le Lirzin via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > On November 16th, Wikimédia France held its

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement about Wikimedia Canada / Annonce au sujet de Wikimédia Canada

2019-11-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
dia Canada à travers tout le pays. Si vous avez des questions au sujet de Wikimédia Canada, n'hésitez pas à me contacter, à utiliser notre page de discussion principale [3] ou à rejoindre notre liste de diffusion générale [4]. Merci, Jean-Philippe Béland Wikimedia Canada / Wikimédia Canada [1] h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] New Board of Wikimedia Canada

2019-10-22 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
t; > Alex > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 3:35 PM Jean-Philippe Béland < > jpbel...@wikimedia.ca> wrote: > >> Good day all, >> >> Wikimedia Canada held its Annual General Meeting 2019 [1] on 19 October in >> Montreal, Quebec with online participation as well. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Haiti

2019-10-21 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Félicitations au groupe d'utilisateurs de Haïti ! Jean-Philippe Béland Wikimédia Canada On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:14 PM Bobby Shabangu wrote: > Congratulations to Haiti Wikimedia UG. Looking forward to seeing great > work from that part of the world. > > Kind regards, >

[Wikimedia-l] New Board of Wikimedia Canada

2019-10-21 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
you, Jean-Philippe Béland Institutional Advancement Manager, Wikimedia Canada [1] https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2019 [2] https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Executive_Committee [3] https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_talk:Discussions [4] https://discussions.wikimedia.ca/lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2020 will be on August 5-9. Bangkok, Thailand.

2019-10-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Well, if it wasn't BEFORE it surely must be NOW On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 11:31 AM Samuel Klein wrote: > Surely synchronized vandalfighting is in the pipeline for a future Olympic > lineup! > >  > > On Tue., Oct. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m. Kiril Simeonovski, < > kiril.simeonov...@gmail.com>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-18 Thread Philippe Beaudette
reminded of this basic pillar of the movement: If you invoke a cute puppy, you better be prepared to prove it. Geez, K, have we taught you nothing in the, what, half a decade, that you’ve been part of this movement? -philippe > > -- Philippe Beaudette phili...@beaudette.me __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki loves SDGs

2019-09-18 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Respectfully, my friend, I disagree. I often make silly or ill considered comments. I hope those will not be the only data points used to describe me. Philippe On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 2:59 AM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Sorry but when you call my comments flippant, you call me fl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
' wish. Really. Philippe On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 1:16 PM Todd Allen wrote: I think everyone here is clear that no one is literally going to be drug off > in a white van by a balaclava-wearing goon squad from the WMF and sent to a >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 4:20 PM Nathan wrote: > Philippe moved on, so the easy solution - put him in charge of > everything - isn't going to work. I laughed. Thank you for this. But remember, I was in front of Arbcomm for a not too dissimilar case, being accused of overre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Martian, While it’s not something I could conjure up today, my time at WMF exposed me to enough things that I could not have imagined prior to seeing them for myself that I am unwilling to discount that such a situation could exist. Philippe On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 11:25 PM Martijn Hoekstra

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
don’t know if the process is the same now but I would be surprised to hear that any single staff member would feel comfortable banning on his or her authority alone. Multiple levels of review exist in order to ensure that ban reasons are valid and appropriate. Philippe On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 6:55

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF commitment for a Wikimedia projects archive

2019-05-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
answer than that. Respectfully, and with great fondness, Philippe On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 4:49 PM Risker wrote: > Well, I think perhaps Fae's question may be considered more generally. Fae > is knowledgeable about the structure of the Wikimedia movement as well as > the WMF, an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

2019-04-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ubject=unsubscribe> > > > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

2019-04-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
(Hit send too early).To my mind the larger problem is that the content becomes static over time, Rather than growing and evolving as it does with many of our more successful Projects. On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:25 AM Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Respectfully Disagree. They can formul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

2019-04-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ave this access. They can correct typos but do > little more. > > Kind regards > Ziko > > > > Am Fr., 26. Apr. 2019 um 00:43 Uhr schrieb Philippe Beaudette > : > > > > The very smart Mr. Lih sayeth: > > > > I have been a fan of the times Wikinews

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

2019-04-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
that given its success in this area, Wikinews could very easily pivot to fill that spot. But a news competitor to traditional news outlets? Nope, that it isn't. Philippe On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 4:05 PM Andrew Lih wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 4:23 PM Jennifer Pryor-Summ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals

2019-04-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
not sure that the cost outlay and the time that it will take to clear up the confusion that a rebrand will cause is demonstrably worth the value received from it, for the reasons that Phoebe lays out below. Best, Philippe (former staff, still a volunteer, though of greatly reduced volume) On Sat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell, Erik!

2019-02-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Like so many others, I was blown away by wikistats. I can’t begin to count the number of times I turned to it in my years at the WMF. And it goes without saying that Erik was an exemplary colleague, and a true gentleman. Enjoy your well earned retirement. Philippe On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 9:27

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Katherine Maher is now CEO and ED of the Wikimedia Foundation

2019-02-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
This is a common sense, reasonable update. Nice work. :) On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 10:21 AM María Sefidari wrote: > Dear all, > > When the Wikimedia Foundation was first established, the head of the > organization was assigned the title of Executive Director (ED). In the US, > this is the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] America may go bizarro, but Wikipedia has a choice to make

2019-01-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
dia on IPFS, which has been > hosting the Turkish Wikipedia in Turkey, unlike the Foundation, for > almost two years now? > > https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/ > > https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:10

Re: [Wikimedia-l] America may go bizarro, but Wikipedia has a choice to make

2019-01-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
. Failing that, there's always Iceland. :-) Philippe On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:05 PM Nathan wrote: > Hi Fae, > > I'm curious what nation you have in mind for your stable Plan B. Is it > Brexit Britain? France of the Yellow Vests and Front National? Perhaps > Orban's Hungary, Putin's Ru

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Wikimedia's new Chief of Community Engagement

2018-12-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Sounds like an amazing fit for the Wmf. Congrats to you all, and Maggie... Take a break now. Good job. Philippe On Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:36 AM Maggie Dennis Hello, all. > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:32 PM Katherine Maher > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Jus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Avoiding sensory overload at Wikimedia Events

2018-10-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
hdraw" model. Philippe On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:39 AM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Michelle, > > during the francophone wikiconvention we had a special calm room for > people who need to retire a moment from the crowd because o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on recruiting for the Chief of Community

2018-10-24 Thread Philippe Beaudette
There are no words for how fantastic Maggie is - personally, and to work with. Katherine, you've done the right thing here, and I'm thrilled to see it. Philippe On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 2:33 PM Pine W wrote: > Putting our differences aside for a minute, one thing for which Maggie > wil

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline announcements

2018-10-23 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 4:30 AM Fæ wrote: > > > I propose that we create a movement wide announcements list > (wikimedia-announcements) that is intended for broadcasting, rather > than discussion... > > Hi Fae, Are you suggesting the creation of another announcements list? In addition to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing launch of Santali Language Wikipedia

2018-08-08 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Congratulations and thank you for sharing your experience! JP User:Amqui On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Thank you Haidar for sharing in details about the amazing support that > Wikimedia Bangladesh has provided to the community there. Kudos to the > Santali

[Wikimedia-l] Countries that publish in public domain

2018-05-15 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Good day, Is there a list somewhere of countries or sub-national governments that publish the works of their employees in the public domain? Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President, Wikimedia Canada ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikitongues User Group

2018-05-11 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Hello, Does this mean that Wikitongues will work to change it's licence to be compatible with Wikimedia projects? Because now their content is under CC BY-SA-NC which is incompatible with Wikimedia projects. Will the future videos produced by Wikitongues be under CC BY-SA? I assume that if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems

2018-05-11 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
e- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > Behalf Of Jean-Philippe Béland > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 6:28 AM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems > > You are missing the whole point. I'm n

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems

2018-05-11 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
e Americans migrating through Beringia but that, > > if a > > > > tribe's tradition is that it was always in the Americas, that should > be > > > > included in its article. Probably not enough to satisfy everyone... > > > > > > > > > > > > F

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems

2018-05-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
or purposes that conflict with our purposes. Times change. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > > Behalf Of Jean-Philippe Béland > > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 5:3

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems

2018-05-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
oduce > > > reasonably reliable work. Moving away from those constraints opens the > > > doors to extremely unreliable material. If Wikipedia is to remain open > to > > > anyone to edit, there do not appear to be any robust alternatives. > Other > > > project

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems

2018-05-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
"Nothing odd, it's baked in: Wikipedia is a summary of the canon of knowledge, the corpus of generally accepted knowledge." But it is what we accept as part of the canon of "knowledge" as Wikipedia that could be improved. We have a very western approach to that saying that it needs to be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

2018-04-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I suspect that the ad in question is a freebie, donated through Google's giveaway to nonprofits. If so there is a point person at wmf (maybe in the advancement team?) Who would know for sure. Philippe On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 5:10 PM Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> wrote: > I jus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] YouTube shooting and risk assessment

2018-04-05 Thread Philippe Beaudette
that is good practice. Philippe On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 5:19 PM, Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Safety of attendees has for a long time been a criteria ... agree, but the > risk assesement we are discussing here is not about safety, but secu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru

2018-03-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
endorsing the creation of the user group. That being said, I would also be interested in hearing from Wikimedia UK's perspective on this new user group and the reasoning behind it. Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President, Wikimedia Canada Coordinator, Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages

Re: [Wikimedia-l] knowing English is a privilege (was Re: Paid translation)

2018-03-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
I think this is à propos in this discussion about how authoritative can be the Wiktionary... here a scientific article starts by using a definition from the Wiktionary: http://theconversation.com/de-facebook-au-developpement-des-plantes-quand-les-reseaux-sen-melent-90891 JP On Thu, Mar 1, 2018

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-28 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
The Wikimedia movement is more than encyclopedias... We already have Wikiversity for teaching, no? Are efforts to contribute to Wikiversity and other sister projects making us lose focus? I'm not sure to understand what you are saying. JP On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:32 AM Amir E. Aharoni <

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-27 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
e: > > Well... Not that teaching languages—big or small—is bad, but wouldn't we > be > > losing focus if we got into it? > > > > Wikibooks and Wikiversity can theoretically be places for teaching. Are > > they good at it? Probably not. Should they be made better? May

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-27 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
-Philippe Béland Vice President and Programs Coordinator, Wikimedia Canada Coordinator, Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-24 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
their own Wikipedia is to be able to express knowledge in their own way according to their own culture. Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President, Wikimedia Canada On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:09 PM Vi to <vituzzu.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll reply to the most recent email just for laziness

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-24 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Thank you James for this detailed feedback. It is very interesting. JP On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 8:27 AM James Heilman wrote: > We learned a few things during the medical translation project which > started back in 2011: > > 1) You must start with high quality content and thus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-24 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
I think the request for such projects should come from the concerned language projects, same for the list of articles. If not, in my simple opinion, it is a form of coloniasm again. Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President, Wikimedia Canada On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:40 AM John Erling Blad <

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-24 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
colonialism * On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:55 AM Jean-Philippe Béland <jpbel...@wikimedia.ca> wrote: > I think the request for such projects should come from the concerned > language projects, same for the list of articles. If not, in my simple > opinion, it is a form of coloniasm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group

2018-02-21 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
I forgot to include the link to the WikiLang portal on the Wikiversity: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Wikilang JP On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 1:58 PM Jean-Philippe Béland <jpbel...@wikimedia.ca> wrote: > I had proposed to create a project called WikiLang to teach

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group

2018-02-21 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
I had proposed to create a project called WikiLang to teach languages on a Wikimedia platform, but it didn't attract enough attention so I moved the content to the Wikiversity and that's what you see there with the Atikamekw language. JP On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:26 AM mathieu stumpf guntz <

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2018 Ombuds Commission members

2018-01-31 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Great group! This is such an important role, it's good to see serious people filling it. On Jan 31, 2018 3:47 PM, "Karen Brown" wrote: > Apologies for the broken formatting in my original message! I forgot how > Mailman handles HTML in messages. Please see below for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia vs. NSA

2018-01-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
xt. 6635 > +1 (415) 712 4873 > kma...@wikimedia.org > https://annual.wikimedia.org > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Austin Hair is gone

2017-12-18 Thread Philippe Beaudette
A tremendous loss to the movement and the world. I count myself lucky to have known him. My thoughts are with all you grieve. Philippe On Dec 18, 2017 5:52 AM, "Asaf Bartov" <asaf.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > I regret to have to inform this lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tool to help reaching community consensus

2017-12-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
n/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Philippe Beaudette phili...@beaudette.me 415-275-1424 415-889-9614 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia is an Excellent Information Source for Medical Students, Study Finds.

2017-11-02 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
in WP they do not > bother fixing them. Both WP and Uptodate change slowly over time. > > James > > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Jean-Philippe Béland > <jpbel...@wikimedia.ca> wrote: > > This could have been alleviated by using a dump of Wikipedia at a > specifi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia is an Excellent Information Source for Medical Students, Study Finds.

2017-11-02 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
for the sake of having scientifically replicable findings). JP On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Jean-Philippe Béland <jpbel...@wikimedia.ca > wrote: > Hi James, > > I finally found time to read the whole article carefully. It is a very > well done article and study, in my opinion. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia is an Excellent Information Source for Medical Students, Study Finds.

2017-11-02 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-23 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
f > the > > Wikimedia Conference will be needed anyway. > > > > Additionally, I want to highlight this, because this was criticized in > the > > past as well, all regularly eligible affiliates may send at least two > > representatives. > > > > I’m aware that th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-23 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
I share the questions of Lodewijk On Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 19:22 Cornelius Kibelka, < cornelius.kibe...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Of course, I meant: > > "The registration process will start on November 24, *2017* and will end > sharply (no exceptions), on January 15, 2018." > > Thank you > Cornelius

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

2017-10-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
gt; > On Oct 16, 2017 12:47 PM, "Jean-Philippe Béland" <jpbel...@wikimedia.ca> > wrote: > > > My opinion is that such projects should be supported, we should encourage > > 'be bold'. That being said, people planning projects at a large scale &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

2017-10-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
> scale. > > While this particular topic seems enwp specific, its theme isn't. > > Lodewijk > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Jean-Philippe Béland < > jpbel...@wikimedia.ca> wrote: > > > There is so many threads on this list that are only about English >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

2017-10-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
t; > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Jean-Philippe Béland < > jpbel...@wikimedia.ca > > wrote: > > > There is so many threads on this list that are only about English > Wikipedia > > like it is the centre of the world... Why other communities are able to > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

2017-10-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
There is so many threads on this list that are only about English Wikipedia like it is the centre of the world... Why other communities are able to keep their internal discussions internal and not this community? Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President, Wikimedia Canada On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:20

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emerging Communities: a proposed new definition

2017-10-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
even if there are less speakers than that. If the language is used in day to day life and to teach at schools, why wouldn't it be considered for a Wikipedia and a Wiktionary even if there are less than 750,000 speakers? Thank you, Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President, Wikimedia Canada On Sun, Oct

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mailing lists (was Encyclopedic Writing Guide)

2017-09-26 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Alors nous induisons les lecteurs/trices en erreur avec des pages comme celle-ci : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mailing_lists#Public_mailing_lists JP On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@frontier.com> wrote: > On 9/26/2017 6:34 AM, Jean-Philippe Bél

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

2017-09-26 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
t "content about Wikipedia, *particularly* when not specific to any one language"... JP On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Sep 25, 2017 18:57, "Jean-Philippe Béland" <jpbel...@wikimedia.ca> > wrote: > > This

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

2017-09-26 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
king "less" of those cultures of people... JP On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 3:31 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jean-Philippe, yes, absolutely: > > http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/how-well-represented- > is-the-mena-region-in-wikipedia/ > > As biases go, o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

2017-09-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

2017-09-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > Anna Torres Adell > Directora Ejecutiva > *A.C. Wikimedia Argentina* > ______

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

2017-08-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Congrats to all re-elected! JP On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 11:30 AM Shani Evenstein wrote: > Thanks for the update, Christophe. Wishing the board a productive, > fruitful and smooth year! > > And Happy Wikimania, everyone, especially to all the Wikimedians who > couldn't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy

2017-08-08 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Verifiability can be very different. For example oral sources. JP On Tue, Aug 8, 2017, 05:20 John Erling Blad, wrote: > Policy should not have local variations, unless you want to create > something different from Wikipedia. This is about core content policies. > Those are no

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy

2017-08-07 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Can we access this article with no pay wall anywhere? JP On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 9:49 AM Gnangarra wrote: > to quote, worth a read before even considering policies being global > http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23901/abstract > > This article explores the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy

2017-08-02 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
I oppose to that. Like that communities with bigger number, i.e. English, will impose their rules to other communities. It's a basic fundamental principle of Wikimedia projects since the beginning that every community is independant, JP On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 6:19 PM John Erling Blad

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

2017-08-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> > wrote: > > > On 31/07/17 00:06, Jean-Philippe Béland wrote: > > > The restoration work is indeed an extensive work, but is it a > "creation > > of > > > the mind", which is n

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

2017-07-30 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
The restoration work is indeed an extensive work, but is it a "creation of the mind", which is necessary for copyright? JP On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 2:23 PM Gordon Joly wrote: > On 29/07/17 02:12, geni wrote: > > Your mistake is in assuming the only work here is from the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

2017-07-28 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Ok sorry, I could only read the text of the email, I can't open the images from here right now, my bad. JP On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 28 July 2017 at 13:28, Jean-Philippe Béland <jpbel...@wikimedia.ca> > wr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

2017-07-28 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Exposed = exhibited. My French is taking over. JP On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Jean-Philippe Béland <jpbel...@wikimedia.ca > wrote: > Maybe I misunderstand what you wrote, but from what I read they do not > claim copyright over the objects. They only tell you "do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Copyfraud by the British Museum

2017-07-28 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Publicpolicy] Wikimedia Sverige vs. the Visual Copyright Society in Sweden (BUS)

2017-07-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] James Heilman joins the Board Governance Committee as a volunteer and advisory member

2017-06-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
James, That's great! Thank you very much for your involvement. Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President, Wikimedia Canada Lead Organizer, Wiki Loves Earth 2017 in Canada User:Amqui On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonf...@gmail.com> wrote: > James > > Do you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposed projects

2017-05-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
I see that Wikilang had more "interested participants" than those that you are linking and it was purely rejected, what do you mean by majority support? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang Thanks, JP On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:58 PM Milos Rancic wrote: > On Tue, May 9,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] General Counsel: Welcome Eileen Hershenov

2017-04-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
of it myself. Michelle - go take a good long break. You've earned it. Well done, my friend. Well done. philippe On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-04-26 15:33 GMT+02:00 Katherine Maher <kma...@wikimedia.org>: > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should the Foundation take a position on a general strike?

2017-01-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
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