[Wikimedia-l] WMF response to PRISM?

2013-07-07 Thread Tobias
Three weeks ago, the foundation asked for community input on the surveillance program PRISM (and perhaps similar programs that have surfaced since). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM To quote from that page: "We will consider all feedback, but, because events are moving quickly, we feel we ne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2013/2014 budget again (m/Oppenheim on YouTube)

2013-07-07 Thread Itzik Edri
Garfield. any new with releasing the AP? Itzik On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Garfield Byrd wrote: > SJ: > > As we may be very close to having a Board of Trustee approved budget, I > suggest we wait until we can release the full Annual Plan document on July > 1, so that there is context for t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2013/2014 budget again (m/Oppenheim on YouTube)

2013-07-07 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Garfield Byrd wrote: > SJ: > > As we may be very close to having a Board of Trustee approved budget, I > suggest we wait until we can release the full Annual Plan document on July > 1, so that there is context for the Wikimedia Foundation spending plan for > FY 13-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

2013-07-07 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Oona Castro wrote: > > For now, it's worth mentioning the Portuguese Wikipedia community has been > working on this antivandalism project > http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia_Discuss%C3%A3o:Projetos/AntiVandalismoin > order to build alternative measures to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)

2013-07-07 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, A great opportunity for this kind of reports is: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA/Journal Kind regards Ziko Ziko van Dijk voorzitter / president Wikimedia Nederland deputy chair Wikimedia Chapters Associatio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

2013-07-07 Thread Henrique Andrade
I'm following this ptwiki captcha case closely and I think I can bring some elements for this conversation. The portuguese community was surprised by the removal of catcha promoted by the global (technical) community. This situation led then to react and a long discussion was held not only about c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2013/2014 budget again (m/Oppenheim on YouTube)

2013-07-07 Thread Garfield Byrd
Hello: It should be posted early this week. I am sorry about the delay, the Q & A needed some additional edits. Regards, Garfield On Jul 7, 2013 2:07 PM, "Itzik Edri" wrote: > Garfield. any new with releasing the AP? > > Itzik > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Garfield Byrd > wrote: > >