Re: [Wikimedia-l] "News Integrity Initiative" at CUNY

On a related note, the Foundation Blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/07/misinfocon-fake-news/ proudly announces that "the Wikimedia Foundation joined a handful of media organization at the MIT Media Lab to lend their expertise at MisInfoCon". That's certainly good to hear, but a little short

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates regarding the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Still absolutely no need to do this as a requirement. Adrian Raddatz On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Rogol Domedonfors wrote: > Nataliiya, > > Thank you for that information. It seems that you are happy to introduce > the new members of this Committee to the community

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

Hi SJ, thanks. The document is here https://ru.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82:%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F the table at the bottom, and a short English summary at the very bottom, but the table is still in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > [...] On the Russian Wikivoyage, all of our active partipants produced > a document, to be told by the facilitator that this is not what WMF wants > to see. > This does not strike me as a description of what a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

Yaroslav: thanks for these thoughts. Could you link to the RU Voyage document? How was it different from what a facilitator expected? Let's see if we can all make a better central discussion space, and make brainstorming by individual-contributors more satisfying & w/fast feedback loops from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates regarding the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Nataliiya, Thank you for that information. It seems that you are happy to introduce the new members of this Committee to the community under pseudonyms. I suggested at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee back in July 2016 that, considering that this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates regarding the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Hello Rogol, hello all, Frankly speaking, I have not personally seen your question on the talk page of the Committee. And my announcement followed the example of the first announcement from 2016 [1], mentioning the usernames, not names of real people. So I actually did not know this is even an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

Yaroslav, What did you wish to see in the Track B discussions that was absent thus far? Have you read the strategy portal? Specifically the process page and the audit of past processes? To doom a process from its beginning stages to failure on an unknown reason is, at least, extremely hasty.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

2017-04-08 12:44 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav Blanter : > Thanks Jane. No, 15 April 15 is the Easter, I will be hopefully travelling. > May be we will have another opportunity. > > However, I still believe that Track 2 has been so far essentially a > failure. > > Why? On at least several

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's go gender neutral

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked - in my capacity of meta admin - to change the phrasing of a site notice on meta, meant to call for participation to the month of Francophonie. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-WikiFranca_MC17=prev=16482259 The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

I was in Berlin and participated in the strategy track for the three days. The process was very open used open space approach such that at the end of days 1 & 2 all I could say is that its been an interesting and thought provoking sessions because that was how the process was running. At the end

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

I agree with everything Gnangarra said. As I recall, previous strategy discussions on meta involved fewer people later in the game with fewer documents produced than what we have now. That said, I think there was a pretty good representation of chapters at the Berlin conference and depending on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

Thanks Jane. No, 15 April 15 is the Easter, I will be hopefully travelling. May be we will have another opportunity. However, I still believe that Track 2 has been so far essentially a failure. Cheers Yaroslav On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > I agree

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

Hi Tomasz, may be the Polish Wikipedia is an exception, I do not know. I have the strategy discussions on the English Wikipedia, Wikidata, Meta, and Russian Wikivoyage on my watchlists, and I posted on all of them. On the first three I do not see any discussion happening (and on Wikidata, Szymon

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's go gender neutral

Thanks for the French experience. :-) You may not have picked up on the specific comment about the French Wikipedia a few days ago in the general Wikimedia Commons Village Pump discussion:[1] "* Total Support. This is not only useful to the trans community, but in the case of French, it is more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's go gender neutral

I beg to differ with Anders final comment; > ​ > And our standpoint is that we as Wikipedians should not be first in > introducing new use of language but wait until it has become mainstream (if > it ever will be)​ ​I have no issue within our policies and projects being a leader the use of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DEADLINE EXTENDED: Wikimania 2017 call for submissions

REMINDER: Deadline for submitting presentations, panels, roundtables and workshops to Wikimania is *April 10*. You have TWO days remaining. The deadline for posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions remains *May 15*. Please see below for the call for submissions for Wikimania, and submit your