Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-03 Thread Pine W
Hi Andy,

Thank you for bringing up the subject of image licensing. While I am not an
expert in the subject, I agree that compliance with licensing standards is
important.

At the same time, I would like to suggest that image licensing might be a
better topic for a separate thread. I share Teles' concern regarding how we
treat new people, especially if they have a known history of supporting
activities or goals that are similar to ours. I am particularly concerned
that the way that your most recent message was communicated could have come
across as being similar to announcing a nomination for "Trustee for
Deletion". While in various circumstances I support dispensing with
problematic people, and I don't think that you intended to suggest that the
new WMF trustee or her photo is unwelcome, I request that you consider
alternative ways to communicate your message.

I am not trying to sound like I am lecturing, and I apologize if this
message sounds pushy. I am trying to make this be a suggestion from one
peer to another.

Thanks for the good work that you do.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-02 Thread Lucas Teles
We should definitely rethink our way of saying “welcome”. :)

I don’t know if Lisa is on the list, but - if she is - welcome to
Wikimedia. We, volunteers, tend to be passionate about projects and
complain about almost everything. Most of the time, with good intentions,
as I am sure those involved in this deletion request are. I already saw
myself in that position. Not hard to be there when overburden with many
wiki issues.

However, let’s not forget about the basics. Sometimes, I miss the good
manners from users that are excellent volunteers as they know a lot about
our rules, but show no empathy to other people.

Just my 2 cents...

Regards.

Teles

Em sáb, 2 de fev de 2019 às 20:20, Andy Mabbett 
escreveu:

> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 23:20, Andy Mabbett 
> wrote:
>
> > P.S. Please see:
> >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pigsonthewing#File_tagging_File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg
>
> And now:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 23:20, Andy Mabbett  wrote:

> P.S. Please see:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pigsonthewing#File_tagging_File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg

And now:

   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-02 Thread James Salsman
WOW! How did you find a MOOC enthusiast who still likes class size
reduction, Maria?

https://vimeo.com/126571400

Superb!

Best regards,
Jim

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 9:18 AM Shlomi Fish  wrote:
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:45:00 +0100
> María Sefidari  wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am  very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the
> > Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa
> > Lewin as our newest Trustee!
> >
> > Lisa Lewin is Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based
> > management consulting firm. She has worked in strategic growth and
> > development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the
> > impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. Her professional focus
> > has always been at the intersection of technology and learning - and we are
> > very fortunate to have her as a part of our team!
> >
> > Below is the official announcement.[1] Welcome, Lisa, and I look forward to
> > working with you!
>
> welcome, and good luck!
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 13:58, María Sefidari  wrote:

> I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see
> it?

P.S. Please see:

   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pigsonthewing#File_tagging_File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Gregory Varnum
The reason why her photo had not yet been uploaded to Commoms is rather simple. 
The staff that were going to do it (thank you for doing it) are attending the 
organization’s All Hands event. Getting the information out was our focus, and 
we will be updating other places early next week. I hope folks can appreciate 
our desire to focus on the event and immediate dissemination of information. :)

For what it is worth, we do make an effort to ourselves take and make available 
a freely licensed photo of board members. However, photo shoots are not always 
the best use of our in-person time with board members. We are looking into ways 
to expedite the process and do them outside in-person gatherings.

I will pass the comment about page design to our design folks. Thank you for 
the feedback and I hope the above helps answer your questions. :)

-greg

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> On Feb 1, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Andy Mabbett  wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 13:58, María Sefidari  wrote:
>> 
>> El vie., 1 feb. 2019 14:30, Andy Mabbett 
>> escribió:
> 
>>> Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used
>>> on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile
>>> image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:,
>>> which uses the image, saying
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-lisa-lewin-as-new-trustee/
>>> 
>>> saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is
>>> licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
>>> license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has
>>> not) been released under an open licence.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see
>> it?
> 
> Thank you. I didn't; I stand corrected, and apologise.
> 
> However, I think the reason that I didn't see it is that it is
> disconnected from the body of the page by two very long sections; one
> (more than a screen deep on my machine) being a pink-backgrounded
> solicitation for donations; the other an entreaty to join a  mailing
> list. Neither relates to the subject of the article, and once I
> reached them I assumed the article had ended. The large version of the
> image, at the head of the page, neither mentions nor links to the
> credits section.
> 
> Perhaps the page design needs to be revisited, to make the credits
> section more apparent? Has any user testing of this aspect been
> undertaken?
> 
> Is there a reason this open-licensed image had not been uploaded to
> Wikimedia Commons? (I've now done so, as:
> 
>   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg )
> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:45:00 +0100
María Sefidari  wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am  very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the
> Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa
> Lewin as our newest Trustee!
> 
> Lisa Lewin is Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based
> management consulting firm. She has worked in strategic growth and
> development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the
> impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. Her professional focus
> has always been at the intersection of technology and learning - and we are
> very fortunate to have her as a part of our team!
> 
> Below is the official announcement.[1] Welcome, Lisa, and I look forward to
> working with you!

welcome, and good luck!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 13:58, María Sefidari  wrote:
>
> El vie., 1 feb. 2019 14:30, Andy Mabbett 
> escribió:

> > Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used
> > on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile
> > image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:,
> > which uses the image, saying
> >
> >
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-lisa-lewin-as-new-trustee/
> >
> > saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is
> > licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
> > license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has
> > not) been released under an open licence.
> >
>
> I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see
> it?

Thank you. I didn't; I stand corrected, and apologise.

However, I think the reason that I didn't see it is that it is
disconnected from the body of the page by two very long sections; one
(more than a screen deep on my machine) being a pink-backgrounded
solicitation for donations; the other an entreaty to join a  mailing
list. Neither relates to the subject of the article, and once I
reached them I assumed the article had ended. The large version of the
image, at the head of the page, neither mentions nor links to the
credits section.

Perhaps the page design needs to be revisited, to make the credits
section more apparent? Has any user testing of this aspect been
undertaken?

Is there a reason this open-licensed image had not been uploaded to
Wikimedia Commons? (I've now done so, as:

   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg )

-- 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread María Sefidari
El vie., 1 feb. 2019 14:30, Andy Mabbett 
escribió:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 20:45, María Sefidari 
> wrote:
>
> > I am  very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the
> > Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa
> > Lewin as our newest Trustee!
>
> Now on Wikidata as:
>
>https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61295542
>
> Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used
> on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile
> image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:,
> which uses the image, saying
>
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-lisa-lewin-as-new-trustee/
>
> saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is
> licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
> license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has
> not) been released under an open licence.
>

I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see
it?


> I feel for WMF staff when some members of the community continually
> criticise what they do; but I'm sure I'm not the first person to quite
> reasonably point out that WMF really ought to lead by example in being
> clear about licensing, and making media available freely wherever
> possible.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 20:45, María Sefidari  wrote:

> I am  very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the
> Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa
> Lewin as our newest Trustee!

Now on Wikidata as:

   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61295542

Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used
on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile
image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:,
which uses the image, saying

  
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-lisa-lewin-as-new-trustee/

saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has
not) been released under an open licence.

I feel for WMF staff when some members of the community continually
criticise what they do; but I'm sure I'm not the first person to quite
reasonably point out that WMF really ought to lead by example in being
clear about licensing, and making media available freely wherever
possible.

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[Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-01-31 Thread María Sefidari
Dear all,

I am  very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa
Lewin as our newest Trustee!

Lisa Lewin is Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based
management consulting firm. She has worked in strategic growth and
development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the
impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. Her professional focus
has always been at the intersection of technology and learning - and we are
very fortunate to have her as a part of our team!

Below is the official announcement.[1] Welcome, Lisa, and I look forward to
working with you!

Kind regards,

María

[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-lisa-lewin-as-new-trustee/

*Wikimedia Foundation announces Lisa Lewin as new Trustee*

Lisa Lewin brings to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees over two
decades of experience in leading and growing companies focused on
educational media and technology

(San Francisco, California) 31 January 2019 -- Lisa Lewin, Managing Partner
at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based management consulting firm, will
be the newest member of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees.

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia
Foundation and its work, and serves as the organization’s ultimate
corporate authority. As an incoming trustee, Lisa will serve a two year
term effective immediately.

Lisa has worked in strategic growth and development her whole career,
helping launch new ventures and increase the impact and growth potential of
legacy businesses. She began her career in research and consulting with The
NPD Group and BCG before joining McGraw-Hill and rising to vice president
of their professional education group.

She founded and led Mindgate Media, an education technology consultancy,
and later joined Pearson plc as president of their teacher education group,
eventually leading their global learning technology teams spanning six
continents. In 2016 she joined The Ready, a consulting firm specializing in
organizational transformation, where she remains a senior advisor. In 2018
she founded Ethical Ventures, which advises senior executives at
corporations and large nonprofits on navigating change and building
thriving organizations with a positive impact on society.

“I am thrilled to be joining an organisation that is committed to ensuring
the world continues to support freely accessible sources of information.
This is a critical mission given the shifts in the global internet space,”
said Lisa.

Lisa's career long commitment to connecting the worlds of education and
technology matches her passion for the Wikimedia Foundation's vision of
bringing knowledge to every human being.

Lisa joins Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Board Chair María Sefidari, Vice
Chair Christophe Henner, and Board members Esra'a Al Shafei, Tanya Capuano,
Dr. James Heilman, Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak, Raju Narisetti, and Nataliia
Tymkiv.

"The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is fortunate to have Lisa Lewin
joining us as a Trustee," said María Sefidari, Board Chair. "Her capacity
to connect technology with people who desire to learn will be invaluable as
we begin to implement our Wikimedia 2030 strategic direction. I am
confident she will both make a lasting impression on the Wikimedia movement
and feel right at home in our diverse and global community of people who
share that passion."

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

-María Sefidari, Board Chair

-Christophe Henner, Vice Chair

-Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

-Esra'a Al Shafei

-Tanya Capuano

-Dr. James Heilman

-Raju Narisetti

-Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak

-Nataliia Tymkiv

-Lisa Lewin



About Lisa Lewin

Lisa Lewin is Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based
management consulting firm.

Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, she has worked in strategic growth and
development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the
impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. She began her career in
research and consulting with The NPD Group and BCG before joining
McGraw-Hill and rising to vice president of their professional education
group.  She founded and led Mindgate Media, an education technology
consultancy, and later joined Pearson plc as president of their teacher
education group, eventually leading their global learning technology team
spanning six continents. In 2016 she joined The Ready, a consulting firm
specializing in organizational transformation, where she remains a senior
advisor. In 2018 she founded Ethical Ventures, which advises senior
executives at corporations and large nonprofits on navigating change and
building thriving organizations with a positive impact on society.

Lisa is active on the boards of the Center for Responsive Politics and
DoSomething.org. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in