Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program

2017-03-20 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hello, Rupert. On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:17 AM rupert THURNER wrote: > > asaf, you mind loose a word about the spec or brand of these laptops? > The specs vary, but all laptops are about 3-4 years old. The current stock includes mostly Dell and Lenovo laptops of

[Wikimedia-l] March 20: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#11)

2017-03-20 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi all! After months of planning, we are underway: we officially launched some big discussions last week! If you missed the many messages sent out with this news, read on for more details. (Apologies for sending this out a few days late - we were very busy with annual planning meetings last

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread Pine W
Gergo, perhaps my point got lost since it was a tangent from the TCoC discussion. I was intending to address the topic of communication and information management in general. This topic came up during the course of the TCoC thread, and I was responding to that. Lodewijk was right to branch the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread Pine W
Attempting to summon Chris Schilling over here from the other thread. (: I think that some kind of analysis about optimal use of consultations and surveys would be beneficial, and I'd welcome seeing something like that in the next Annual Plan. Perhaps there might even be a consultation or survey

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment Kick-Off: Changes to the Timeline

2017-03-20 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Christophe Henner wrote: > > > 2. Time comitment. So on that, we are actively working on trying to reduce > the mandatory time board members have to allocate to WMF. Goal is between > this year and next year to lower it down to what we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread Chris "Jethro" Schilling
Hey Pine, Had to laugh a little bit about a consultation about consultations, but I understand the rationale for it. Your point is well taken that information management is important to think about when there is much going on. I think the community notification calendar

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program

2017-03-20 Thread Moheen Reeyad
+1 On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Hello, Rupert. > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:17 AM rupert THURNER > wrote: > > > > > asaf, you mind loose a word about the spec or brand of these laptops? > > > > The specs vary, but all

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sambad's 100 Women Editathon

2017-03-20 Thread Sailesh Patnaik
Dear All, We finished the Sambad's 100 Women Editathon, As the event was of two days, the first day was for training the journalists on “How to write on Wikipedia, Create Account, Upload pictures etc”.. More than 30 journalists and 3 Wikipedians from Bhubaneswar Tungi attended the event on first

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread Pine W
I'm hoping that one advancement which will help both WMF and the community will be the Newsletter extension. I'm hoping that will help cut down on the number of broadcast emails and centralnotice banners. I'd like to see all WMF notifications for consultations and surveys scheduled for a single

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread
I did, it's not my job to teach Communications theory to the WMF or all affiliates by writing 50 words in an email. There are plenty of books for that. Most define what Communication is, and how to measure its success, perfectly well. Fae On 20 Mar 2017 10:24, "Gerard Meijssen"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread
In practice what we (Wikimedians) see from WMF communications programmes is widely spread announcements and sometimes an anonymous survey, again widely spread. This is literally not 'communication', it is 'broadcasting'. For communication to be meaningful, your message must not only be sent to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread Lodewijk
Thanks Fae. Aside from what the initiator of the communication can do (in this case, the WMF/affiliates), what could the community do to make their life easier? It sounds to me like you're answering that with 'nothing'. Fair enough, thanks for the response. Anyone has some ideas what might be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread Peter Southwood
Might it be useful to analyse the community before trying to get communication out of them? Then efforts can be directed to be more representative of the various parts. OK, I understand that to analyse them it needs some communication. But that is a specific and directed communication. Work out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Pine, it's always easier of course to tell other people what they have to change, which is why I'm asking the opposite question too :) What can we change, on our end, to make communications easier for the WMF, for community members that want to reach out, for chapters and other affiliates. All

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread Peter Southwood
All surveys should have a feedback option at the end, That lets people comment on what was right or more often what was wrong with the survey. There is almost always something wrong with the questions and options for answers, which is annoying and frustrating as you know that the results will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Would you be so kind and answer the question Lodewijk asked. We are all aware that things are not perfect but what is it that can be done to improve it? Thanks, GerardM On 20 March 2017 at 10:58, Fæ wrote: > In practice what we (Wikimedians) see from WMF

[Wikimedia-l] New project: stage on FakeNews and new Journalism

2017-03-20 Thread Àlex Hinojo
Hi all, I would like to introduce you a new project: In collaboration with FABER humanities residency, Amical Wikimedia is co-organizing a* onsite* stage. We do an opencall to journalists, data scientists, sociologists and humanists to meet during some days in a quite village and make a state of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New project: stage on FakeNews and new Journalism

2017-03-20 Thread Anna Torres
Thanks Alex! For some reason I did not notice this detail. Thanks :) We are going to share it with our community! As you said it is interesting to be involved. We have participate in some discussions here in Argentina :) Great job and great to see innovative proposals within the movement!!!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New project: stage on FakeNews and new Journalism

2017-03-20 Thread Anna Torres
Love it! It is an ongoing debate that we is also taking place in Argentina so we are going to spread the word. Any facilities regarding flights? Just to have the full picture of the activity! Thank you!!! 2017-03-20 13:29 GMT-03:00 Àlex Hinojo : > Hi all, > > I would like

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New project: stage on FakeNews and new Journalism

2017-03-20 Thread Àlex Hinojo
Hi Anna, thanks for your kind words. As said in the one-pager, organisers don't fund flight: "Faber offers free accommodation and half-board (breakfast and dinner) for residents. There is also a fully-equipped kitchen at residents’ disposal in case they would like to prepare their own lunch.