Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report just published

2016-10-01 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Sam, Thanks. One question that I keep hearing from our volunteers, from our real life organisers and other stakeholders, as well as the press is how the amounts are broken up by country. This would be very helpful information, and would help us to place best practices better. It has been asked

[Wikimedia-l] Call for help with the LGBT+ Featured Picture competition

2016-10-01 Thread
We are getting ready to launch the LGBT+ Featured Picture drive, and hand out $600 in prizes for winners. :-) To make this a success lots of help is needed! If you have language skills, please take a look at the draft banners proposed at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/LGBT/W

[Wikimedia-l] Cluster ban on most Wikimedia IRC channels on Freenode

2016-10-01 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi, Today a ban was set on #wikimedia-bans that bans any user who is not authenticated to the nickserv from joining a channel ( [BanList:#wikimedia-bans] $~a set by AlexZ on 10/01/16 09:19 AM ). #wikimedia-bans is inherited by most Wikimedia channels so a lot of people get banned messages. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Project Grant proposals (Sep 12-October 11)

2016-10-01 Thread Marti Johnson
There is just over a week left to submit a Project Grant proposal < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> by the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas about how you could enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others to apply as well. Sup

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cluster ban on most Wikimedia IRC channels on Freenode

2016-10-01 Thread Pine W
I'll forward your inquiry to the IRC ops email list and ask one of the GCs to respond to you here. Pine On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi, > > Today a ban was set on #wikimedia-bans that bans any user who is not > authenticated to the nickserv from joining a channel (

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cluster ban on most Wikimedia IRC channels on Freenode

2016-10-01 Thread Alex Zariv
Hi, This ban was set yesterday to reduce the impact of a large-scale spam campaign against multiple Wikimedia IRC channels, and not something that was taken lightly. We've been dealing with an ongoing problem with a user who is able to switch IPs rapidly and flood channels for hours on end, someti