Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimédia France - informations sur la situation actuelle

2017-07-11 Thread Nathan
Everything else aside, the apparent fact that the ED of WMFr hired her husband in any capacity is a clear sign of serious dysfunction and poor governance controls. If the association has had half its board resign and is accusing Anthere and Christophe Henner of misconduct, it suggests that WMFr's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimédia France - informations sur la situation actuelle

2017-07-11 Thread Katy Love
Hi Chris, hi all, I am forwarding the email I sent to a French Wikimedia community mailing list . I include the message first in English and then French. Dear all, This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. We’re the non-profit

[Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 9 July 2017)

2017-07-11 Thread Pine W
It's good to hear of progress with the Structured Data on Commons program, such as in the email below. What's making you happy this week? Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Alex Stinson Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:00 AM Subject: [Commons-l] Welcome

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [fellowship] Opportunity for people working on "open projects that support a healthy Internet."

2017-07-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Mel, On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:26:14 -0400 Melody Kramer wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to pass along an opportunity that I saw earlier today via Twitter: > https://medium.com/read-write-participate/work-in-the-open- > with-mozilla-1410be0a83b2 > this is a note that the

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimédia France - informations sur la situation actuelle

2017-07-11 Thread Chris Keating
I thought this email from Wikimedia France was worth wider circulation within the movement. Topics covered include: * How WMFr feels community members are "destabilising and denigrating" the chapter, and how Wikimedia France is responding by expelling some of those people from the organisation,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimédia France - informations sur la situation actuelle

2017-07-11 Thread Natacha Rault
So this is the translated part stopping in may 2017 (recent developments not included) Sorry for the presentation, not really pretty, and surely a lot of mistakes left: it has not been reviewed. Natacha / Nattes à chat Title This website takes its inspiration from the one developped by Molly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimédia France - informations sur la situation actuelle

2017-07-11 Thread Natacha Rault
Hi James, We are working on a translation, but are quite exhausted as recent events develop. Sorry for the delay… Nattes à chat / Natacha > Le 12 juil. 2017 à 00:47, James Heilman a écrit : > > Chris do we have an EN copy of the timeline. > > 2017-07-11 16:25 GMT-06:00

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimédia France - informations sur la situation actuelle

2017-07-11 Thread Craig Franklin
I am not closely familiar with the issuse at WMFR right now, and I would suggest that those here that speak French probably already have a strong view on this, and those who do not probably do not know enough to have an educated view on what is happening. With that being said, if WMFR staff are