Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appreciation shown on Wikipedia

2017-01-24 Thread Kalliope Tsouroupidou
Love this!! What a great way to show appreciation further than words. K. On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Romaine Wiki wrote: > Hi all, > > Past Saturday during the new year's event in Leiden, the Netherlands, the > Dutch Wikipedia community reached the annual prizes

[Wikimedia-l] Appreciation shown on Wikipedia

2017-01-22 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hi all, Past Saturday during the new year's event in Leiden, the Netherlands, the Dutch Wikipedia community reached the annual prizes for most valued contributions to this Wikipedia in 2016. In six categories users and projects were nominated by the community and in a closed voting they decided

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appreciation

2016-01-14 Thread Luis Villa
Thanks for the kind words, Pete. For what it is worth, other details on our initial proposal to FDC are on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_2016-17_Annual_Planning_Recommendation Note that this was the initial proposal, and we are deliberately trying to keep it fluid, so some things will

[Wikimedia-l] Appreciation

2016-01-14 Thread Pete Forsyth
Today in the Metrics & Activities meeting, the WMF took a significant step toward improving its transparency and accountability -- something under much discussion in recent weeks. The cause of this was not the recent drama around the Board, but a recommendation given by the FDC in November 2015,