[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

Dear Wikimedia friends, On behalf of our board, I am delighted to announce that Christian Rickerts will be the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland. The board followed the transition team’s unanimous recommendation and hired Christian effective May 1, 2015. Wikimedia Deutschland is sha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:00:38 +0100 Tim Moritz Hector wrote: > Dear Wikimedia friends, > > On behalf of our board, I am delighted to announce that Christian Rickerts > will be the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland. The board > followed the transition team’s unanimous recommendation a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

Congratulation Christian ​!​ On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:00:38 +0100 > Tim Moritz Hector wrote: > > > Dear Wikimedia friends, > > > > On behalf of our board, I am delighted to announce that Christian > Rickerts > > will be the new Executive Directo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

Congrats Christian! Best wishes!! --- Shabab Mustafa On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Hasive, Nurunnaby wrote: > Congratulation Christian > ​!​ > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Shlomi Fish > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:00:38 +0100 > > Tim Moritz Hector wrote: > > > > > Dear Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

A few days ago, a well known Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated near the Kremlin. This murder had a huge political resonance, and conspiracy theories flourished. Yet, one of the theories was due to Wikipedia's representation of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

Well, not all users have JavaScript. But, on the core of the proposal: What threats? What users? How many, how serious? Have they been reported to Legal and Community Advocacy? These are the questions we tend to ask about this sort of issue. "Do we need to insert technical features to prevent it?"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

All of us at Wikimedia UK bid you welcome to the movement, Christian! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 5

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

Threats: This page (in Russian, very non-credible "source" of information, but has enough following to make it to MK.ru), discuss a well known wikipedian Dmitry Rozhkov. I saw t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

Speaking of changes to the timestamps and UTC... Whatever happened to this change that was announced in 2012? http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-revision-history-experiment/ Something like this now happens on the Mobile view, but I thought this experiment (as described in the WMF blog)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes wrote: > But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone > be an element of the timestamps on history pages? It's UTC unless the > user explicitly changes it, and if they explicitly change it that's > known in the database (and already

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes wrote: > But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone > be an element of the timestamps on history pages? It's UTC unless the > user explicitly changes it, and if they explicitly change it that's > known in the database (and already

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Education Program is now on Facebook!

Hello everyone, We are happy to announce a new channel of discussion and collaborative work. Wikipedia Education Program Facebook group .[1] Please join us in the group and add your facebook friends who are involved/interested in Wikipedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

Hello, FYI we had the same issue two years ago in Tunisia when a Tunisian politician was shot and an IP made the edit in UTC. See our response in (in French) http://www.wikimedia.tn/nouvelle-polemique-sur-wikipedia-en-tunisie/ Finally the Radio station who relayed this "scoop" wrote an apolo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

Congratulations to Wikimedia Deutschland in this appointment! Great news. And a most warm welcome to the Wikimedia movement, Christian! I'm glad to know a bit about your experiences and background. I look forward to working together and meeting you in person at the Wikimedia Conference. Katy On

[Wikimedia-l] New Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia Library

Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available: Project MUSE (humanities and social science books and journals): < http://enwp.org/WP:Project_MUSE> DynaMed (clinical reference for medical topics): Royal Pharmaceutical Society (pharmaceutical i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

This idea, I like it! And I think Yuri just volunteered to write the patches :P On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes wrote: > >> But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone >> be an element of the timestamps on his

Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

Hi all, I'm new to this mailing list (mainly active on en-Wikipedia over the past ten years or so), so apologies if this is not the right place to ask this. I've been catching up with posts to this mailing list since I started subscribing back in December 2014, and this thread on proposed changes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

Thanks for the update, Tim Moritz, and congratulations on a successful search. Christian -- willkommen in der Wikimedia-Bewegung und viel Erfolg! :-) -- Erik Möller VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines