[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE

There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests in family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1] has been set up on Meta. I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian

[Wikimedia-l] Join my Reddit AMA about Wikipedia and ethical, transparent AI

Hey everybody, TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism while also making life better for newcomers. We plan to hold this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA

On 24/05/2017 00:29, David Gerard wrote: > For those who missed it in the 10th footnote, this is the link to spread: > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/23/wikimedia-nsa-appeal-standing/ I think this is great news and it should be celebrated :-) Thanks to the legal team and to our partners

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Join my Reddit AMA about Wikipedia and ethical, transparent AI

Cool, Aaron. Thank you. /a On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Aaron Halfaker wrote: > Hey everybody, > > TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA > ("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial > intelligence on

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2015-2016 now on-wiki

Dear All, Please see email below on behalf of Jaime Villagomez, CFO of the Wikimedia Foundation. Hello everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation has submitted to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and posted on-wiki[1] our annual Form 990 filing. The Form 990 is the annual financial reporting which

[Wikimedia-l] Chief Communications Officer search & job description

We are please to announce the upcoming launch of the recruiting process for the Chief Communications Officer. As part of the process, we wanted to share the job description (below). A big thank you to the Communications team for their collaboration, support and guidance in creating it. We also

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Videos of sessions at Vienna Hackathon and WikiCite

Thanks Andrew and Leila - I am watching right now.. the sound quality is amazing. It feels like I am in the room... -E On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Leila Zia wrote: > Hi all, > > I could not make it to Vienna for the Hackathon [1] and WikiCite [2] > and I was happy to

[Wikimedia-l] Videos of sessions at Vienna Hackathon and WikiCite

Hi all, I could not make it to Vienna for the Hackathon [1] and WikiCite [2] and I was happy to see that Andrew Lih has been doing some serious recordings [3] of the sessions. I watched the Showcase Talks [4] from the third day of the Hackathon which gave a nice overview of everything that had

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Videos of sessions at Vienna Hackathon and WikiCite

Yes, thanks Andrew! A much welcome enlargement of the audience. I was very happy to watch. Kind regards Ziko 2017-05-24 22:55 GMT+02:00 Leila Zia : > Hi all, > > I could not make it to Vienna for the Hackathon [1] and WikiCite [2] > and I was happy to see that Andrew Lih has