Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
Hi Lodewijk, One of the goals for the 2018 conference will be to come to an agreement upon the ultimate goal, structure and set-up for the Wikimedia Conference in the longer future. The outcomes of these conversations will also depend on the agreements we achieve during phase 2 of the strategy pro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Chris Keating
So will there be a broader discussion about the future of the Wikimedia Conference that's open to people who are not attending? I could certainly see a group of people in a conference hotel for a weekend deciding that they are a vital forum for important decisions about the future of the movement,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you do research, you know that there is a deminishing return on adding more people that are asked the same question. It may seem to be empowering but realistically the initial group comes up with the answers you are seeking. So what do you think all these others have to add to what a car

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Nicole Ebber
Chris, As Cornelius wrote, this conversation will be a part of phase 2 discussions which are supposed take place in many different places, on- and offline. We won't just put the cart before the horse. I envision the movement strategy process to also offer space for conversations about how strategi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Gnangarra
Theres never the perfect solution, even with carefully selected groups you will never know what else could have been brought to the table, it doesnt matter where that line is whether its 2, 200, or 2000 whoever, however, what ever the criteria that the carefully selected group is comprised of the s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is not that someone has nothing worthwhile to contribute, it is just that once you have interviewed a group that is of sufficient variety the likelyhood of hearing anything new will vanish. When too much information is gathered it becomes unwieldy as well and the discussion will peter out.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Berkman Klein Center: Will Wikipedia exist in, 20 years?

2017-10-25 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:32 PM mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Great, thank you Asaf. > > Would it possible (both technically and legally) to also transfer > subtitles? They would surely need some fixes, as it's automated (I guess) > transcription , but it would pr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
Hi all, aside from the conversation about project/language communities – thanks for the feedback! – I just wanted to share the Eligibility Criteria page for the conference that is available on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.o rg/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Criteria I have received so

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Berkman Klein Center: Will Wikipedia exist in, 20 years?

2017-10-25 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
You can download the Youtube machine-generated subtitles, but they are not really good (in terms of spelling, etc.). If someone is eager to review them, I'm happy to upload them. Cheers Cornelius On 25 October 2017 at 16:39, Asaf Bartov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:32 PM mathieu stumpf g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] September 28: Strategy update - Final draft of movement direction and endorsement process (#25)

2017-10-25 Thread Toby Negrin
Hi everybody -- I just wanted to follow up quickly that this report has been published and is available here: > I know that some folks were wondering about all the consultation comments > about features, interfaces, and product improvements that didn't get > incorporated into the strategy. We kn

Re: [Wikimedia-l] September 28: Strategy update - Final draft of movement direction and endorsement process (#25)

2017-10-25 Thread Samuel Klein
> > (Oddly enough, I am more likely to read a Wikipedia article > from beginning to end if I'm looking something up on the Kindle, while I'm > reading a book.) > There's definitely some appetite for [WP-branded and -supported!] reading and research devices tuned for this sort of work: hyperlinked

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Berkman Klein Center: Will Wikipedia exist in, 20 years?

2017-10-25 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > If you look at the video on Youtube[1], it says that its license is > indeed CC-BY (and indeed CC-BY 3.0 Unported, more info on this page[2]) > > So, I think that this can be uploaded also on Commons without issue. > Yes! Thanks Asaf

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Asaf Bartov
Unbroken link for those on mobile devices who may have a harder time fixing it: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2 018/Eligibility_Criteria A. On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:50 AM Cornelius Kibelka < cornelius.kibe...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > aside from the conversati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Lodewijk
funny enough, Asaf's version arrived broken here too, albeit in a different place: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/ Eligibility_Criteria Hope more luck this time! On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Unbroken link for those on mobile devices who may h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Biyanto Rebin
Dear Lodewijk, The link is broken too. Here is the the clickable link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Criteria Cheers 2017-10-26 9:45 GMT+07:00 Lodewijk : > funny enough, Asaf's version arrived broken here too, albeit in a different > place: > > https://

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018: Program themes, eligibility criteria and reporting deadlines

2017-10-25 Thread Gnangarra
here is a short url created using Google URL shortner https://goo.gl/pR1SAf On 26 October 2017 at 10:49, Biyanto Rebin wrote: > Dear Lodewijk, > > The link is broken too. Here is the the clickable link: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_ > 2018/Eligibility_Criteria > > >