Hello! The Advisory Board (AB) and its role was indeed among the BGC
priorities for this year [1]. And I have been working with the former AB
members on a concept for how the AB’s work should be organized. The concept
they came up though needs to be clarified and improved, especially on how
the AB
Dariusz
Thanks for that update. You don't mention any channels for communication
between the reconstituted Board and the Community at large, nor
opportunities for the Community at large to be involved in suggesting
names. I assume then that engagement with the Community is not considered
importa
Thanks for the updates, Dariusz and Nat.
I thought I'd mention that in the past my impression is that the Advisory
Board was the body to which people were "retired" after serving
high-profile roles, and the AB performed little to no actual work. It
sounds like your plan is to reverse both of those
This thread is going in many directions, and I'm enjoying reading the
conversation.
If I may go back to some questions that I asked in my earlier post, I would
like to hear from Katherine (or someone else at WMF, perhaps Anna):
* How much is this timeline extension projected to cost, and from wha
I like a tool for Wikidata that Hay created which is called VizQuery. More
information about it is below.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine
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From: Hay (Husky)
Date: Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:10 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] A visual way to query Wikidata
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Hello Pine,
Good evening. In line.
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Pine W wrote:
> This thread is going in many directions, and I'm enjoying reading the
> conversation.
>
> If I may go back to some questions that I asked in my earlier post, I would
> like to hear from Katherine (or someone els
What's making me happy: I'm giving a talk about transgender issues at
the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco tomorrow (June 27):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_QueERG/LGBTQ%2B_Speaker_Series
The talk will be livestreamed (1:30 p.m. PDT) and archived for later
Hoi,
Anna I have one question for you. You say that "you would not frame the
challenge as I do". How would you characterise the inherent diversity issue
of the WMF that is centred around how it spends its money and where its
attention goes?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 26 June 2017 at 01:57, Anna Stil