Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mid-Year Financial Statements

2013-03-13 Thread ENWP Pine
Hm, I guess a planning problem could be the root cause, but since Erik seems to be saying that WMF has found a number of good candidates outside of SF and yet the statement in the FAQ for the mid-year financials said that the competition in the SF region for engineers is the reason for WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Fabrice Florin
Congratulations, you guys! I'm so happy for everyone -- particularly for all the folks in the developing world who are now getting access to free knowledge they wouldn't otherwise have. That's really uplifting in so many ways -- well done! Fabrice ___ Fabrice

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mid-Year Financial Statements

2013-03-13 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:12 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Hm, I guess a planning problem could be the root cause, but since Erik seems to be saying that WMF has found a number of good candidates outside of SF and yet the statement in the FAQ for the mid-year financials said

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Congrats to all! Jan-Bart On Mar 13, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey all, Wikipedia Zero just won the Activism Award @ SXSW! A big thanks to all of you for keeping knowledge free for EVERYONE! -- Kul Wadhwa Head of Mobile Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 10 -- 11 March 2013

2013-03-13 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
From the editor: ''Signpost''–''Wikizine'' merger; new writers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-11/From_the_editor News and notes: Finance committee updates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-11/News_and_notes Featured content:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Stevie Benton
Brilliant - congratulations from the UK! Stevie On 13 March 2013 09:23, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congrats to all! Jan-Bart On Mar 13, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey all, Wikipedia Zero just won the Activism Award @ SXSW! A

[Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Fwd: [Language Engineering] Office hour on 13th March 2013, 1700UTC

2013-03-13 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, This a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be having an office hour today i.e. 13th of March 2013, at 1700 UTC. The agenda can be found in the section below. Also, I'd like to apologize that the original mail was inadvertently not sent to the wikimedia-l list. Please do try

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Fwd: [Language Engineering] Office hour on 13th March 2013, 1700UTC

2013-03-13 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-03-13 13:15, Runa Bhattacharjee a écrit : Hello, This a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be having an office hour today i.e. 13th of March 2013, at 1700 UTC. The agenda can be found in the section below. Hi, it's probably too late, but : where ? -- Association

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Fwd: [Language Engineering] Office hour on 13th March 2013, 1700UTC

2013-03-13 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: it's probably too late, but : where ? IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net Assuming thats what you were asking. :) Thanks Runa -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Fwd: [Language Engineering] Office hour on 13th March 2013, 1700UTC

2013-03-13 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-03-13 13:47, Runa Bhattacharjee a écrit : On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: it's probably too late, but : where ? IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net Assuming thats what you were asking. :) Yes, thank you. --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Orsolya Gyenes
Congratulations from Hungary! This is amazing, thank you for your hard work! *~Orsolya* 2013/3/13 Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org Hey all, Wikipedia Zero just won the Activism Award @ SXSW! A big thanks to all of you for keeping knowledge free for EVERYONE! -- Kul Wadhwa Head of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Shabab Mustafa
That's Awesome! Congratz! --- Shabab Mustafa On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Orsolya Gyenes gyenes.orso...@wiki.media.hu wrote: Congratulations from Hungary! This is amazing, thank you for your hard work! *~Orsolya* 2013/3/13 Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org Hey all, Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive
Congrtz.. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Shabab Mustafa shabab.must...@gmail.comwrote: That's Awesome! Congratz! --- Shabab Mustafa On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Orsolya Gyenes gyenes.orso...@wiki.media.hu wrote: Congratulations from Hungary! This is amazing, thank you for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
That is so cool! Congratulations! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Oona Castro
Congratulations to all involved! On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov dimitar.parvanov.dimit...@gmail.com wrote: That is so cool! Congratulations! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Lua scripting enabled today on all wikis

2013-03-13 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Greetings, As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech bloghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/lua-templates-faster-more-flexible-pages/(article included below) or the tech ambassadors listhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-March/000171.html, a new functionality

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Lua scripting enabled today on all wikis

2013-03-13 Thread Emily Blanchard
Perfect timing since we are having a Lua focused meetup Thursday evening! Emily Blanchard Talent Acquisition Team Wikimedia Foundation eblanchard@wikimedia. eblanch...@gmail.comorg http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Become a Contributor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Samuel Klein
WOW. This is totally, thoroughly wonderful. David Sch. writes: I am certain that the badassitude of our award photo overwhelms any and all skepticism the Internet might -- TOTALLY unjustly[1][2][3] -- feel about SXSW. Where is the mythical award photo of which you speak? SJ On Tue, Mar 12,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Stephen LaPorte
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Where is the mythical award photo of which you speak? SJ Mythical award photo: https://twitter.com/thekulway/status/311636200979054592 -- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *For legal reasons, I may

[Wikimedia-l] WMF Grants Program Retrospective 2009-2012 published

2013-03-13 Thread Asaf Bartov
Dear friends and colleagues, Another component of the Wikimedia Foundation's increased focus on grantmaking is now ready for discussion: it is a retrospective report on the history, evolution, and processes of the Wikimedia Grants Program (the Foundation's first, and until fairly recently only,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Grants Program Retrospective 2009-2012 published

2013-03-13 Thread Samuel Klein
Bravo. A useful thoughtful recap. SJ On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear friends and colleagues, Another component of the Wikimedia Foundation's increased focus on grantmaking is now ready for discussion: it is a retrospective report on the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Grants Program Retrospective 2009-2012 published

2013-03-13 Thread MZMcBride
Asaf Bartov wrote: Another component of the Wikimedia Foundation's increased focus on grantmaking is now ready for discussion: it is a retrospective report on the history, evolution, and processes of the Wikimedia Grants Program (the Foundation's first, and until fairly recently only, grants

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-13 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. I've started collecting notes about a possible Wikimedia or Wikimedia Foundation endowment here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment. Any additional relevant links to past discussions or thoughts about this idea are welcome on that page, its talk page, or this mailing list. MZMcBride