Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timeless: a grant proposal

2017-03-29 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What remains unclear is what it is that you aim to achieve. There are great possibilities possible but there has to be a focus. One such focus would be that it helps us focus on the relations that an article has with with other articles. They are all or should all be related in Wikidata anywa

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation's commitment around our environmental impact

2017-03-29 Thread María Sefidari
Forwading. -- Mensaje reenviado -- De: "María Sefidari" Fecha: 29 mar. 2017 15:06 Asunto: Wikimedia Foundation's commitment around our environmental impact Para: , , Cc: Hi everyone, Since early 2015, the Wikimedia Foundation has been evaluating efforts and engaging in discussi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation's commitment around our environmental impact

2017-03-29 Thread James Salsman
A frustrating reason why it is difficult to "use green energy" in general is because of the secret accords between Franklin D. Rosevelt and King Faud of Saudi Arabia just after the end of WWII, wherein, according to the BBC documentary "Bitter Lake," the U.S. agreed to uninterrupted purchases of Sa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation's commitment around our environmental impact

2017-03-29 Thread Liam Wyatt
Excellent news, thank you for this María and to the Board! And, thanks to those - especially Gnom/Lukas - who have been doing such a good job of raising awareness in the community, and documenting their progress, at [[Sustainability Initiative]] on Meta over many many months - https://meta.wikimedi

[Wikimedia-l] Tonight is Bay Area WikiSalon at Noisebridge in SF and you are invited!

2017-03-29 Thread J.
Hi, Everybody. We are reaching out to any Wikimedians or WMF staffers that might be at the Wikimedia mothership in San Francisco today. We are meeting at Noisebridge hackerspace/makerspace (near 16th ST BART in SF) tonight and everybody is invited. Details and RSVP (helps us figure out the food an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation's commitment around our environmental impact

2017-03-29 Thread gamaliel8
It's okay we can just use the green tech on the secret CIA moonbase. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2017, at 7:30 PM, James Salsman wrote: > > A frustrating reason why it is difficult to "use green energy" in general > is because of the secret accords between Franklin D. Rosevelt and King Fau

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using non-free elements vs our values (Apple Maps vs Wikipedia iOS app)

2017-03-29 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Today it is announced that for maps in Commons, maps that are known in Wikidata we have now support for "geoshapes". Dan, you indicated nine days agao that this is not on your road map. But it is there. Could you please inform us how this can be used in Apple maps? Thanks, GerardM htt