[Wikimedia-l] WMIL General Assembly meeting and Board Elections

2014-12-02 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
Dear all, This last Monday, 1.12.14, Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) held a general assembly meeting, during which the members held the elections for members of the Board of WMIL. The results of the elections are as follows: Itzik Edri,(reelected) Deror Lin, (reelected) Ido Ivri, (reelected) Hana

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-02 Thread Charles Gregory
Just as an aside - tweets about the fundraiser don't appear to be the best source for informed commentary: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtimeq=wikipedia%20donationssrc=typd Examples: Wikipedia is begging for $3 donations? That screams 'Hey, we're in a little trouble over here'. Silly

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Andrea Zanni
Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one other organized group in the sentence A Wikimedia chapter, user group, thematic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-02 Thread Samuel Klein
Lila - thank you for this thoughtful update. Fundraising trends and data are always welcome, particularly where communities can help improve and test local messages. I am also deeply thankful for the smooth work of the fundraising team, who have made great progress over the last few years – in

[Wikimedia-l] Asked Program Committee members for GLAM WIKI 2015

2014-12-02 Thread Sebastiaan ter Burg
Hello everyone, Wikimedia Nederland is looking for people to join the Program Committee for the GLAM WIKI 2015 conference. GLAM WIKI 2015 is a conference focussed on projects of/with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) that are related to Wikimedia projects and/or have another

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
Good luck Giuliana, and good luck WMIT with your next step in the professionalization process. I defiantly know that WMIL, but I'm sure that the others chapters as well, will be happy to give advises, information and help her with the first steps in our movement. Feel free to contact us.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMIL General Assembly meeting and Board Elections

2014-12-02 Thread Cristian Consonni
Il 02/Dic/2014 09:14 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel it...@wikimedia.org.il ha scritto: Dear all, This last Monday, 1.12.14, Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) held a general assembly meeting, during which the members held the elections for members of the Board of WMIL. The results of the elections are as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMIL General Assembly meeting and Board Elections

2014-12-02 Thread Santi Navarro
Congratulations and good luck! El 2014-12-02 10:00, Cristian Consonni escribió: Il 02/Dic/2014 09:14 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel it...@wikimedia.org.il ha scritto: Dear all, This last Monday, 1.12.14, Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) held a general assembly meeting, during which the members held the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Santi Navarro
Auguri! Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana. This is a very important step in the history of WMIT, so best luck. Regards from WMES. El 2014-12-02 09:59, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel escribió: Good luck Giuliana, and good luck WMIT with your next step in the professionalization process. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Stevie Benton
Welcome Giuliana, and good luck from Wikimedia UK! Stevie On 2 December 2014 at 09:08, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: Auguri! Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana. This is a very important step in the history of WMIT, so best luck. Regards from WMES. El 2014-12-02

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WaPo Wikipedia's 'complicated; relationship with net neutrality

2014-12-02 Thread Josh Lim
A developing country perspective is missing in this conversation, so I’m going to fill in the gap since I find it odd that we’re talking about developing” countries, when everyone who’s been participating in this discussion so far has been from developed countries. Wiadomość napisana przez

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Magyarország Board Elections

2014-12-02 Thread Balázs Viczián
Hi all, WMHU had its general assembly last Saturday where a new board was elected for the 2014 December - 2016 December period. Gervai, Péter - president (reelected) Balogh, Mónika - financial vice president (reelected) Bihary, Gábor - executive vice president Gyenes, Orsolya - board member

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Samuel Klein
Thanks Anasuya! That's quite a comprehensive survey but instructive to fill out. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Magyarország Board Elections

2014-12-02 Thread Claudia Garád
Gratulálok! And thank you Balazs et al. for your hard work over the last years Claudia for WMAT Am 02.12.2014 um 11:30 schrieb Balázs Viczián: Hi all, WMHU had its general assembly last Saturday where a new board was elected for the 2014 December - 2016 December period. Gervai, Péter -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Àlex Hinojo
Welcome Giuliana! Best luck on behalf of Amical Wikimedia 2014-12-02 11:03 GMT+01:00 Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk: Welcome Giuliana, and good luck from Wikimedia UK! Stevie On 2 December 2014 at 09:08, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: Auguri!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Ivan Nikčević
Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana! All the best from WMRS. *Ivan Nikčević* Executive Director Wikimedia Serbia - rs.wikimedia.org - +381 60 7454 772 *Imagine http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imagine a world http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/World in which every single person on the planet is given free

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Claudia Garád
Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Jan Engelmann
Ciao Giuliana, great to have you on board! Tanti auguri, Jan 2014-12-02 12:46 GMT+01:00 Ivan Nikčević ivan.nikce...@vikimedija.org: Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana! All the best from WMRS. *Ivan Nikčević* Executive Director Wikimedia Serbia - rs.wikimedia.org - +381 60 7454 772

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Leigh Thelmadatter
I assume this survey is only for organizations that have been recognized by AffCom? We are still struggling to get ours (despite the fact that we are one of the most productive educational groups), so I thought Id at least answer the questionnairre, but under name of organization the only

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Leigh Thelmadatter
OK I see now the box for other not as an option for a name (which is how these things are usually set up) but underneath the original question. From: osama...@hotmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: RE: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Anasuya! That's quite a comprehensive survey but instructive to fill out. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.

2014-12-02 Thread Tim Moritz Hector
Dear Wikimedia friends, Wikimedia Deutschland held its General Assembly on Saturday, 29 November 2014. It is with great pleasure that I present to you our new board, for the first time for a two-year term: * Tim Moritz Hector (Chair): Long-time Wikipedian and Wikimedian

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.

2014-12-02 Thread Sydney Poore
Thank you, Tim for sharing the results. And congratulations to the recently elected members and thank you to the outgoing members for their service to the wikimedia movement. Warm regards, Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Sydney Poore
Giuliana Mancini, welcome to the Wikimedia movement. :-) Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMIL General Assembly meeting and Board Elections

2014-12-02 Thread Sydney Poore
Congratulations to the newly or re-elected members. And thank you, Yael, for your service to the wikimedia movement. Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Christophe Henner
On behalf of Wikimedia France, welcome to the mad house Giuliana :) We're a crazy but lovely bunch, and we enjoy lame puns. Best, -- Christophe On 2 December 2014 at 16:28, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Giuliana Mancini, welcome to the Wikimedia movement. :-) Sydney Poore

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Anasuya Sengupta
Gerard, I'm not sure I understand this concern. Data of all kinds are important, but in this case, the questionnaire is meant to help organizations reflect on how they make the strategic choices they do, and what more we can do, as individual organizations and collectively across the movement, to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Anasuya Sengupta
Hi Nemo and John, The questionnaire is not meant to exclude WMF at all, instead the wording was meant to _include_ all forms of Wikimedia 'organization'. So yes, the phrase can be easily modified. And as SJ points out, WMF is on the list too. :-) Anasuya On Dec 2, 2014 12:34 AM, Federico Leva

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Anasuya Sengupta
Hi John, I think it's really up to you and the organizational team(s) you represent. If you are critically involved in the program and org leadership of more than one, you're welcome to respond more than once. In this case, we'd ask you to make sure you have more than just your responses from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Anasuya Sengupta
Thanks, Sam. Will work on making the drop down easier to access. Anasuya On Dec 2, 2014 2:38 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Anasuya! That's quite a comprehensive survey but instructive to fill out. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Sebastian Moleski
Hi Anasuya, Is there by any chance a public list of the questions asked in the survey? I've just clicked through a few pages and noticed that some questions need a little preparation to answer truthfully. It would be helpful if the questions could be looked up in advance. Thank you for your

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.

2014-12-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Several great comebacks here! Thanks Tim and everyone for this new 2 years commitment. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Katy Love
Congratulations and welcome, Giuliana! I look forward to working together. Warmly, Katy On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Welcome Giuliana, and good luck from Wikimedia UK! Stevie On 2 December 2014 at 09:08, Santi Navarro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Lila Tretikov
Welcome Giuliana. Congratulations Wikimedia Italia! On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Katy Love kl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congratulations and welcome, Giuliana! I look forward to working together. Warmly, Katy On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland report for October

2014-12-02 Thread Sandra Rientjes Wikimedia Nederland
The WMNL report on October is available on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201410 It is also included in this message as plain text. *COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors* - Wiki-Saturdays In October there were

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Claudia Garád
Hi Sebastian, are you looking for this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire Best Claudia Am 02.12.2014 um 18:03 schrieb Sebastian Moleski: Hi Anasuya, Is there by any chance a public list of the questions asked in the survey? I've just clicked

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.

2014-12-02 Thread Samuel Klein
Thank you, Tim. Welcome to the incoming board and thanks to all of the candidates. -- Sam On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Several great comebacks here! Thanks Tim and everyone for this new 2 years commitment. Nemo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

2014-12-02 Thread Kim Bruning
That's very interesting. However, as stated, in .nl (and SEPA) one pays people using IBAN accounts. One not-pays people using not-IBAN. iDeal is a handy dandy web interface to do (essentially) IBAN transfers. Them's the options; whether I personally like them or not.[*] c'est tout!

[Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing

2014-12-02 Thread James Heilman
Hey All I have be trying to convince the World Health Organization to go to a CC BY SA license for a few years now. Najeeb Al-Shorbaji Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO states: https://dgroups.org/hifa2015/discussions/35152a41 We would welcome sharing with us some evidence-based

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing

2014-12-02 Thread svetlana
Not research, but it is a brief intro: http://www.plos.org/open-access/ http://www.plos.org/resources/ -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing

2014-12-02 Thread James Heilman
And just to clarify currently WHO is green open access, free to view but not free to reuse. The request is for them to go gold open access free to view and free to reuse. They are wondering why is this reuse bit important. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing

2014-12-02 Thread Michael Peel
On 2 Dec 2014, at 21:54, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: And just to clarify currently WHO is green open access, free to view but not free to reuse. The request is for them to go gold open access free to view and free to reuse. Those definitions are wrong: green is

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia engineering report, October 2014

2014-12-02 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in October 2014 is now available: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/October -- Guillaume Paumier ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] Funding a new gear for WM photographer Poco a poco

2014-12-02 Thread Santi Navarro
Sorry for crossposting: Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore his stolen equipment. Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco in Wikimedia Commons. In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share freely-licensed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-02 Thread Megan Hernandez
Hi all, As Lila’s email said, we launched our end of year English fundraising campaign on Tuesday. I wanted to share a little more background on the mechanics of the English Wikipedia campaign, and where we are on our goals this year to-date. Starting today, banners are being shown to 100% of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-02 Thread geni
On 2 December 2014 at 06:53, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: All -- we will not have a pop-up banner. And how exactly would you describe this then? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oversized_donation_notice.png -- geni ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-02 Thread Risker
On 2 December 2014 at 20:27, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 December 2014 at 06:53, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: All -- we will not have a pop-up banner. And how exactly would you describe this then? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oversized_donation_notice.png

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-02 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* geni wrote: On 2 December 2014 at 06:53, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: All -- we will not have a pop-up banner. And how exactly would you describe this then? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oversized_donation_notice.png I got something like that on my mobile phone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Anasuya Sengupta
Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia Hi Claudia, Thank you for the appreciation and your help - as so many others on this list - in thinking through this questionnaire and next steps. Thanks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-02 Thread Ryan Lane
Megan Hernandez mhernandez@... writes: As Lila’s email said, we launched our end of year English fundraising campaign on Tuesday. I wanted to share a little more background on the mechanics of the English Wikipedia campaign, and where we are on our goals this year to-date. Starting

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

2014-12-02 Thread Anasuya Sengupta
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com wrote: OK I see now the box for other not as an option for a name (which is how these things are usually set up) but underneath the original question. Thanks, Leigh - we're working on changing the way the box is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.

2014-12-02 Thread Asaf Bartov
Congratulations to WMDE, and welcome back to some familiar names! :) A. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Tim. Welcome to the incoming board and thanks to all of the candidates. -- Sam On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Federico Leva

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

2014-12-02 Thread Asaf Bartov
Congratulations to WMIT! And it is heartwarming to learn of this final act of service by our late friend and colleague Alessio. Tanti auguri! A. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding a new gear for WM photographer Poco a poco

2014-12-02 Thread Russavia
(Sorry for crossposting) This is indeed a cause that the entire community should get behind. I know that normally people could apply for grants but is there anyway that the WMF as an organisation could bypass that often long, drawn out process and pitch in with this as well? I have sent out a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing

2014-12-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Not what you asked, but UNESCO's recent leaflet is rather nice and has a dozen pages on impact. http://www.unesco.de/fileadmin/medien/Dokumente/Kommunikation/Open_Content_A_Practical_Guide_to_Using_Open_Content_Licences_web.pdf James Heilman, 02/12/2014 21:20: We would welcome sharing with us