Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-06 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi Chris, Thanks for the update. So we're at 62% voted, another 21% probably-voting, and 17% silent, with voting ending tonight. An improvement on last year, at least! Andrew. On 6 May 2016 at 15:32, Chris Keating wrote: > Just an update on this: > > Currently 26 of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-06 Thread Dennis Tobar
Just for ask: the final day to cast a vote, is tonight (May 6 23:59:59 UTC) or May 7 23:59:29 UTC? El vie., 6 de may. de 2016 a la(s) 11:55, Andrew Gray < andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> escribió: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for the update. So we're at 62% voted, another 21% > probably-voting, and 17%

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

2016-05-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Just a few points of clarification: * I have, to the best of my memory, passed on information only with the understanding of my sources. If any of my sources disagrees with that, please send me a message - I want to know and understand that I made a mistake there. * We are not talking about the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO: This is the Wikimedia Foundation & This is Wikipedia

2016-05-06 Thread Andrew Sherman
Hello, Thank you for expressing an interest in translating these videos. The English captions are now available for translation. You can find them at the following links: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:This_is_the_Wikimedia_Foundation.webm.en.srt

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

2016-05-06 Thread Joseph Seddon
Greetings all, I wanted to give you a heads up about a small test WMF Online Fundraising will be running over this weekend. Following a suggestion from User:Wittylama we are for the first time going to be testing fundraiser banners that are content specific. [1] From now until Monday 9th May we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

2016-05-06 Thread Nathan
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Just a few points of clarification: > > * I have, to the best of my memory, passed on information only with the > understanding of my sources. If any of my sources disagrees with that, > please send me a message - I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-06 Thread Petr Kadlec
Hi, On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Chris Keating wrote: > Those whose intentions I don't know at all include Hong Kong, Hungary, > Czech Republic, India, Macedonia, and Macau. At least one of those appears > to be completely inactive. > AFAIAA, WMCZ Board has

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-06 Thread Chris Keating
As it says on the voting page: *Voting will end at* 23:59, 7 May 2016 (UTC) On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Dennis Tobar wrote: > Just for ask: the final day to cast a vote, is tonight (May 6 23:59:59 UTC) > or May 7 23:59:29 UTC? > > El vie., 6 de may. de 2016 a la(s)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-06 Thread Dennis Tobar
Chris: Thanks for the clarification. When I read Andrew's message "tonight ends", I'm read it like as "the end of the world is near", because we will cast our vote tonight. Regards! El vie., 6 de may. de 2016 a la(s) 11:59, Chris Keating < chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> escribió: > As it says on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-06 Thread Andrew Gray
Many apologies - I for some reason thought today was the 7th! I entirely retract my scaremongering about tonight :-) Andrew. On 6 May 2016 at 16:05, Dennis Tobar wrote: > Chris: > > Thanks for the clarification. When I read Andrew's message "tonight ends", > I'm read it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-06 Thread Chris Keating
Just an update on this: Currently 26 of the eligible affiliates have voted. A further 9 have either confirmed they are planning to vote, or have engaged substantively in the process (e.g. by nominating someone or participating in the Wikimedia Conference session on the subject). I'd expect most

Re: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO: This is the Wikimedia Foundation & This is Wikipedia

2016-05-06 Thread Takashi OTA
To whom uploaded it on to YouTube: I'm pleased if you enable "full-screen" when embedded (it seems not, currently). It is very important when I subtitle it on amara.org (and apparently any other subtitling platform). Thanks in advance, --Takashi [[U:Takot]] 2016年5月7日(土) 11:17 Takashi OTA

Re: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO: This is the Wikimedia Foundation & This is Wikipedia

2016-05-06 Thread Àlex Hinojo
Hi victor! Great work! would love to help translating these videos to Catalan and Spanish If needed! Àlex Hinojo [[User:Kippelboy]] El 6 maig 2016, a les 0:26, Amir Ladsgroup va escriure: > This is super awesome. Thank you Victor! > > Best > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] “For Cause”

2016-05-06 Thread James Heilman
Thanks Atsma I would be happy to return to the board. I ran initially as I believe our success will be greatest when the WMF and community are working together as equals. Of course, Katherine taking over as intern ED is a big step towards this goal. I believe I can still contribute substantially

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Conference India 2016, logo challenge

2016-05-06 Thread David Emrany
You are aware that copyright law of India has specific procedures to be followed for relinquishment or assignment of copyright and which involves Registrar of copyrights or public notice (as defined in Indian law) ? Dave On 5/5/16, sailesh patnaik wrote: > Dear

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

2016-05-06 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
04.05.2016 22:00 "Katie Horn" napisał(a): > > Either way, I would be deeply encouraged to see progress in creating a more > robust and predictable connection between the board and WMF staff. Whether > that connection ends up being a board liaison or something else, I suspect

Re: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO: This is the Wikimedia Foundation & This is Wikipedia

2016-05-06 Thread Takashi OTA
Thanks Victor for sharing it. Awesome work. I shared it on Facebook and got some re-sharing among friends, including one of them saying "some friends says I will not donate because the ads (on Wikipedia) looks scam, and I couldn't persuade them. This video helps me (to explain them how the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO: This is the Wikimedia Foundation & This is Wikipedia

2016-05-06 Thread Takashi OTA
For subtitles translators: Uploaded Andrew's transcription on amara.org. http://www.amara.org/en/videos/xEzAkDqhCaqb/en/1329538/ Now it got easier to make subtitles in other languages (and exporting .srt files for uploading on to commons). --Takashi [[U:Takot]] 2016年5月7日(土) 2:14 Andrew