Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

2015-10-15 Thread Peter Southwood
+1 -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Kolbe Sent: Wednesday, 14 October 2015 7:01 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Leila Zia wrote: > I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

2015-10-15 Thread Erik Zachte
I also feel disheartened about this yearly controversy, which seems to go nowhere. I also am scared by even considering https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#/media/File:Sept2015BannerEx.png In my opinion this very ambitious budget (maybe too ambitious if such extreme doomsday measures ar

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iraqi Wikimedians

2015-10-15 Thread Carlos M. Colina
Dear all, I am honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the recognition of Iraqi Wikimedians as a Wikimedia User Group [1]. Among their goals are supporting the different Wikimedia projects in Iraq, supporting Iraqi Wikimedians, and eventually becoming the recognized chap

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community

2015-10-15 Thread Carlos M. Colina
Dear all, I am honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community as a Wikimedia User Group [1]. Among their goals are connecting the uzbek wikimedians, promote the use the different Wikimedia projects in Uzbekistan and teach m

[Wikimedia-l] Please upload Wikiconference USA presentations to Commons

2015-10-15 Thread Pine W
Hi presenters, Please upload your slide decks under https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_USA_2015_presentations . Video uploads from sessions that were in rooms other than the main room will likely happen sometime in the next 7 days. Thanks, Pine __

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Digitization User Group

2015-10-15 Thread Carlos M. Colina
Dear all, I am honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the recognition of Wikimedia Digitization User Group as a Wikimedia User Group [1]. Among their goals are brining together people and projects who digitize all kinds of public domain works (records, photographs, artw

[Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-15 Thread Carlos M. Colina
Dear all, On behalf of the Affiliations Committe, I am pleased to introduce the launch of the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list, which is basically a place for all the affiliates (chapters, thematic organizations, user groups) to discuss issues related to affiliates, make announcements to oth

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-15 Thread Pine W
Hi Carlos, Can you clarify how this list relates to the existing chapters mailing list? (Also, please see the discussion at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network#Mailing_list_request_for_comment ). Thanks, Pine On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Carlos M. Colina wrote

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Earth 2015 winners announced!

2015-10-15 Thread attolippip
Hi everyone and sorry for crossposting :) Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine -- Forwarded message -- We are happy to announce the results of Wiki Loves Earth photo contest! And we would like to take this occasion to thank those of you who helped us make this WLE happe

[Wikimedia-l] Help

2015-10-15 Thread reachout2isaac
Hello Wikimedian Colleagues, I tried to send a mail to affiliates-own...@lists.wikimedia.org but all to no avail. It seems the e-mail address is currently not working. Any help? Olatunde Isaac. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -Original Message- From: wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

2015-10-15 Thread James Heilman
I agree that the WMF needs to slow its growth and look at stabilizing around its currently level of funding. Continuing to grow at 20% is simply not sustainable while maintaining our values and our reputation. I am not yet sure what the rest of the board's position is on this matter but I share man

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help

2015-10-15 Thread Gregory Varnum
We are getting emails at it. Try: affiliates-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org - there was an extra p in the address you posted. -greg ___ Sent from my iPhone - a more detailed response may be sent later. > On Oct 15, 2015, at 5:46 PM, reachout2is...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello Wikimedian C

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-15 Thread Neil P. Quinn
Carlos, Is there a reason why the list is private? The topics you mentioned—general affiliate discussion, regional conferences, blog post announcements, and so on—don't seem particularly sensitive. (I'm just curious. My WMF role has nothing to do with affiliates and I wouldn't subscribe to the lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Earth 2015 winners announced!

2015-10-15 Thread Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
Some nice pics, you are improving (some countries need better, to not say, have judges) Its sad to see that most of the winners will not a Featured Pictures at Commons. I would like to see bigger photos, print most of this images will not be good... On 15 October 2015 at 19:50, attolippip wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Earth 2015 winners announced!

2015-10-15 Thread Gnangarra
IMHO the winner is not the best example of contributing to Commons as the high resolution image wasnt uploaded until after it had been announced as the winner and when you read the rules it says "*Please submit images that are as large as possible and do not “downsize for the web”. We value high re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-15 Thread Gregory Varnum
Hey Pine, As you know, AffCom started looking into this list after some discussions with affiliates in Berlin, Wikimania, and at that page you referred to. We did talk with that list’s moderators about potentially reusing that list (largely why the creation of this list took awhile). However, u

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-15 Thread Gregory Varnum
Hey Neil, I’ll let Carlos add his thoughts, but basically, this was a consistent request from affiliates. So the short answer is that the target audience requested it, and we want them to use it. :) The page that Pine mentioned (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network#

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-10-15 Thread Pine W
Got it. Thanks Varnent. Regarding the privacy question: I'm sort of thinking that if we really want to keep the new list private for legal or other reasons, it should be run outside of WMF servers like the chapters list is. On the other hand, if the purpose of the new list is to facilitate discuss

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community

2015-10-15 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Congratulations all! On 10/16/2015 12:59 AM, Carlos M. Colina wrote: > Dear all, > > I am honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the > recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community as a Wikimedia User > Group [1]. Among their goals are connecting the uzbek wikimedians,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community

2015-10-15 Thread alexhinojo
Congrats! Mobile sent El 16/10/2015, a les 7:36, Subhashish Panigrahi va escriure: > Congratulations all! > >> On 10/16/2015 12:59 AM, Carlos M. Colina wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the >> recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan