Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-06 Thread James Alexander
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:12 AM, James Alexander jalexan...@wikimedia.org wrote: A completely un deduped (and so is double+ counting anyone who is eligible on multiple wikis because of activity there) number is 207911 for 2013. Caveats: This number is quick and dirty and 'reasonable' as a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-06 Thread rupert THURNER
I d really love to have a simple voting right without exceptions, simple to explain. This than could be adopted as well by chapters and thematic orgs to distinguish between active and other members. I.e. have a number of billable contributions to Wikipedia or commons or be a registered developer.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published

2014-10-06 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi James, first of all, congrats for proving this to be possible. As it has already been said it is an achievement nothing short of great. 2014-10-04 15:47 GMT+02:00 James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com: I agree all Wikipedia articles are sort of peer reviewed. When I speak about GA/FA I refer to it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published

2014-10-06 Thread Rachel diCerbo
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:24 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Article published by the journal Open Medicine http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/viewFile/562/564 Will soon be pubmed indexed. Editorial regarding the efforts are here http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/652/565

[Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

2014-10-06 Thread Damon Sicore
wikimedia-l, On arrival I was asked to describe a few leadership principles and practices I live out. In my response I included a statement about courage, honesty, and integrity [1]. These principles are not effective without applying them. To succeed, one must transfer these leadership

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

2014-10-06 Thread Anna Stillwell
I'll join you. Pledge made. /a On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Damon Sicore dsic...@wikimedia.org wrote: wikimedia-l, On arrival I was asked to describe a few leadership principles and practices I live out. In my response I included a statement about courage, honesty, and integrity [1].

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

2014-10-06 Thread Sydney Poore
Hi Damon and welcome! I appreciate your call to action to treat everyone with respect and dignity. And your desire to be inclusive! Call to action: Let's renew our commitment to treat everyone with respect and dignity. Let's lead by example by choosing our words carefully with only positive

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

2014-10-06 Thread Emily Blanchard
Thank you Damon! This is indeed a powerful message and I am looking forward to working with you. Emily Blanchard Talent Acquisition Team Wikimedia Foundation eblanchard@wikimedia. eblanch...@gmail.comorg Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Become a

[Wikimedia-l] Office Hours with VPE Damon Sicore - 9 October 2014 20:00 UTC / 13:00 PDT

2014-10-06 Thread James Alexander
Hi everyone, As our new Vice President of Engineering, Damon Sicore, just announced in his longer email to Wikimedia-l he will be having his first IRC Office hours on Thursday, October 9th, at 20:00 UTC (13:00 PDT). This hour long office hour is a chance to meet the new VPE and ask your burning

[Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published

2014-10-06 Thread James Heilman
@ Cristian. I mean by number of edits. Wikipedians by number of edits is listed here for the Dengue fever article. https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/articleinfo/index.php?article=Dengue_feverlang=enwiki=wikipedia Yes I do know number of edits is not perfect and that someone who has made a single

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

2014-10-06 Thread Milos Rancic
From Bay Area hipsters to revolutionaries in less than five months. That's the change! Welcome! On Oct 6, 2014 10:43 PM, Damon Sicore dsic...@wikimedia.org wrote: wikimedia-l, On arrival I was asked to describe a few leadership principles and practices I live out. In my response I included

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

2014-10-06 Thread Rachel diCerbo
Hear, hear! Thank you for this intention, Damon. I'm in! -rachel On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Damon Sicore dsic...@wikimedia.org wrote: wikimedia-l, On arrival I was asked to describe a few leadership principles and practices I live out. In my response I included a statement about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

2014-10-06 Thread Nathan
Hello and welcome, Damon. One thing I've long appreciated about the Wikimedia movement is that it is not political, and indeed the flagship project is explicitly neutral. This distinction has become a little more nuanced as the movement has taken political positions that are congruent with the

[Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

2014-10-06 Thread Tim Davenport
Here's hoping that the problem of bureaucratic degeneration is addressed by our comrades in San Francisco. Che Guevarra is most illuminating on this matter in his Feb. 1963 article Against Bureaucratism, published in translation by Ocean Press in The Che Reader in 2005. (

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-06 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 October 2014 20:51, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 10/05/2014 08:24 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: I checked a few of the WMF admin staff who have been employed more than a year, and many dont look likely

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jake Orlowitz/Ocaasi comes onto the Grantmaking team at WMF with The Wikipedia Library

2014-10-06 Thread Anasuya Sengupta
Dear friends and colleagues, I am delighted to announce that Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi, User:Ocaasi (WMF)) is joining the Grantmaking department at WMF to lead The Wikipedia Library (TWL)[1], an online resource for Wikipedians to get free access to journal subscriptions. In the last year, TWL

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-06 Thread Risker
John, please explain what your point is here. I mean really, picking on individual people who voted in the election? That's crossing the line, especially as they met the voting eligibility criteria for the election involved, which happened 16 months ago. I expect better from you. If you would

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-06 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 10/06/2014 11:29 PM, Risker wrote: John, please explain what your point is here. I mean really, picking on individual people who voted in the election? Risked, I don't think Jay had a point beyond answering the question Are there many staffers who vote that wouldn't otherwise have been

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jake Orlowitz/Ocaasi comes onto the Grantmaking team at WMF with The Wikipedia Library

2014-10-06 Thread Keilana
A big big congratulations to Jake! His work is so important to our mission. -Emily On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear friends and colleagues, I am delighted to announce that Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi, User:Ocaasi (WMF)) is joining the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jake Orlowitz/Ocaasi comes onto the Grantmaking team at WMF with The Wikipedia Library

2014-10-06 Thread Steven Zhang
Congrats buddy. You've earned it Sent from my iPhone On 7 Oct 2014, at 2:40 pm, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: A big big congratulations to Jake! His work is so important to our mission. -Emily On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

2014-10-06 Thread Andreas Kolbe
The community has heard a lot from the WMF about courage, honesty, integrity and leadership – and rather too much of the latter of late: let's remember that the Wikimedia Foundation's values[1] speak of *community-led* projects. ---o0o--- Our community is our biggest asset We are a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-06 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: John, please explain what your point is here. I mean really, picking on individual people who voted in the election? That's crossing the line, especially as they met the voting eligibility criteria for the election involved,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jake Orlowitz/Ocaasi comes onto the Grantmaking team at WMF with The Wikipedia Library

2014-10-06 Thread Vishnu
Congratulations, Jake! Please count me in for TWL type of efforts in India and in Indian languages. Cheers, Vishnu On Tuesday 07 October 2014 09:13 AM, Steven Zhang wrote: Congrats buddy. You've earned it Sent from my iPhone On 7 Oct 2014, at 2:40 pm, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jake Orlowitz/Ocaasi comes onto the Grantmaking team at WMF with The Wikipedia Library

2014-10-06 Thread Pine W
It's great to hear that this is official, Ocaasi and colleagues. Thanks also to Siko and Anasuya for supporting this. [COI declaration: I'm on IEGCom and I sonewhat passionately believe that we grow the awesome. :) ] Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list,

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Phabricator is now open for everyone

2014-10-06 Thread Pine W
Forwarding good news. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Date: Oct 6, 2014 2:35 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Phabricator is now open for everyone To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Today we celebrate an important