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

2020-02-21 Thread Camelia Boban
Great. Someone for Android (and other cemeteries) too? Or some open code. Camelia -- *Camelia Boban* *| Java EE Developer |* *Affiliations Committee - **Wikimedia Foundation* Diversity WG for Wikimedia Strategy 2030 *Interwiki Women

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

2020-02-21 Thread Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l
Great news! We can do a lot of things in this area. For example, an app for the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The app is based on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons. I've started improving Wikimedia projects and then try to find a dev to write an app or a website. I was lucky to find a dev specia

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

2020-02-18 Thread Camelia Boban
Yes, I'm responding in my capacity of a UG co-founder, so from a personal perspective (but also using the knowledge and experience gained during the participation in the committee). And no, even if on the territory are more than one UG, the topics could be different: someone could treat GLAM, some

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

2020-02-18 Thread Isaac Olatunde
You are probably responding in your personal capacity and not as an AffCom member. So, I am going to take this as your personal opinion. But if the intention is to begin to recognize country-specific or region-specific cemeteries, I doubt you will be able to manage the potential conflicts that may

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

2020-02-18 Thread Camelia Boban
@Isaac Why not 😆? Camelia Il giorno mar 18 feb 2020 alle ore 14:00 Isaac Olatunde < reachout2is...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Congratulations to the founding members. @Rosie, I hope we will not begin > to see country-specific cementeries like "Wiki Cemeteries User Group > Nigeria", "W

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

2020-02-18 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Congratulations to the founding members. @Rosie, I hope we will not begin to see country-specific cementeries like "Wiki Cemeteries User Group Nigeria", "Wiki Cementeries User Group Africa" etc for example. Regards? Isaac On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 1:47 AM Camelia Boban wrote: > @Ciell > As one of

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

2020-02-18 Thread Camelia Boban
@Ciell As one of who joined the group, I can say it is not the charm of the cemetery itself, but the particularities of the local culture and the history (many of the personalities are buried, often the texts on the funeral stones are real poems and the funeral stones themselves are cultural herita

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

2020-02-18 Thread Ciell Wikipedia
What?? There are more Wikipedians with this craaazy fascination for cemeteries and burial ceremonies?? 😲 Congratulations on your recognition as a UG, and I'll surely be in touch. Best, Ciell Op di 18 feb. 2020 02:28 schreef Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight < rosiestep.w...@gmail.com>: > Hi everyone

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wiki Cemeteries User Group

2020-02-17 Thread Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] Wiki Cemeteries User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to collaborate around the scope of cemeteries with existing Affiliates; connect with new partners and editors, especially in the fie