[Wikimedia-l] New edition of the Signpost

The Signpost – Volume 12, Issue 28 – 4 November 2016 News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-11-04/News_and_notes In the media: Washington Post continues

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal Update

Kelly: Wonderful news; congratulations, and thanks for the update. Christophe, thank you for that thoughtful addendum. Rogol: > The point of [my comment] was that the process of managing Kelly's conflict of interest will deprive the Board of a source of advice > I don't see why this should

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal Update

Sam, Thanks you for your views. Referring to the possible conflicts between Wikimedia and Quora, you say that "there is almost no current overlap between the organizations' main projects". Whether or not this is true right now, it is entirely possible that it may not be true in future, and I

[Wikimedia-l] Repost: Technical Collaboration Guideline

Thanks to Pine for pointing out that some emails to WikimediaAnnounce-l were not going through to Wikimedia-l; I think this is such a post. I originally sent this on 24 October, and the only thing in the list archive is a reply from SarahSV, thanking us for the work [2] (much appreciated, by the

[Wikimedia-l] Conflict of Interest Guideline 3

Does Guideline 3 of https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution: Guidelines_on_potential_conflicts_of_interest include questions from the community? Is it ever appropriate to try to negotiate limits to answers to such questions in private communications? "Best solutions to avoid conflict of

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Opening the 2016 Values discussion

Reposting in case it didn't make it to the list (and because more exposure can't hurt an any case.) -- Forwarded message -- From: Guillaume Paumier Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:27 AM Subject: Opening the 2016 Values discussion To: Wikimedia-announce

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DEITYBOUNCE and reader logs (was Re: Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian The things that immediately spring to mind are: Big brother is watching you, All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others, Newspeak Cheers, P -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On

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

*bump* Just wondered whether anyone had been able to look in more detail at what the legal/data protection barriers to releasing statistics broken down by country are? I'd be particularly interested to see how WMF is doing at securing repeat donations and tax-efficient donations from the UK, as

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference: Join us in Berlin in March 2017

Wikimedia Conference 2017 in Berlin https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017 Date: March 31–April 2, 2017 Registration: November 18–January 8, 2016 Dear Wikimedians, It is my pleasure to invite Wikimedia Affiliates, the WMF Board of Trustees and staff, the Affiliations

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal Update

Hi everyone, On the process, Kelly notified Katherine and myself about the possibility of conflict shortly after receiving an offer from Quora, in accordance with the Foundation's Conflict of Interest Policy.[1] Kelly wanted to make sure the issue was transparently disclosed to the full Board and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal Update

Christophe writes "suggesting a Board member should resign and at the same time saying the process was properly followed, is not ok". I am not sure exactly what he means to convey by this, but I am not aware that anyone posting to this thread has said anything that can be described in this way.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DEITYBOUNCE and reader logs (was Re: Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer)

James, thanks for bringing up that NYTimes article. Having taken a quick look at it, it does raise some concerns but I would consider it a matter worthy of further inquiry rather than a red flag. In Wikimedia we have our own issues with trying to have an "open society" type atmosphere while