Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-01 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Hi Leila, First, thank you for your clear analyze and suggestions. I won't respond extensively on list about this thread anymore for now. So to your reply, I will just make a single point more clear, and take the rest in consideration off list. Le 01/12/2017 à 22:49, Leila Zia a écrit :

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Cristian Consonni
On 01/12/2017 23:22, Michael Peel wrote: > Thank you, Esra’a, for volunteering! Welcome,Esra'a! > However, I’m very concerned by this: > > "P.S. Due to the nature of Esra’a’s work, sharing photos or videos of Esra’a > may endanger her safety or the safety of others. To help ensure the privacy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-01 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Le 01/12/2017 à 05:51, John Erling Blad a écrit : My reference was to in-place discussions at WMDE, not the open meetings with Markus. Each week we had an open demo where Markus usually attended. As I remember the May-discussion, it was just a discussion in the office, there was a reference to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-01 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Haha, thank you for the funny form of your message Luca. Now on topic, I'm not convinced that the current situation resolve the problem, it just pretend that nothing exist out of the simple cases. For example, currently we can not use data from OSM due to this license restriction. May the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-01 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Le 01/12/2017 à 09:34, Markus Kroetzsch a écrit : Dear Mathieu, You are in an impossible position. Either you want to be an objective researcher who tries to reconstruct past events as they happened, or you are pursuing an agenda to criticise and change some aspects of Wikidata. The way

[Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, With the appointment of Raju to the Board of Trustees a couple of months ago, we were left with a remaining open vacancy to fill. I am thrilled to share that after several months of searching and discussions, we have made another important appointment. At our November Board Retreat,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I would not call it research. You have an opinion and you are dead set on hearing yourself talk, making your current opinion prevail. Fine. You start from assumptions that are not proven.. "this is a wonderful community" there are plenty of arguments possible why there is a dictatorship of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Patricio Lorente
Great news, thanks Christophe! Welcome to the Wikimedia movement, Esra'a. El vie., 1 de dic. de 2017 a la(s) 18:28, Anna Stillwell < astillw...@wikimedia.org> escribió: > Welcome, Esra'a. Thank you for taking the time to serve. I look forward to > your contribution. > /a > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-01 Thread Leila Zia
[I'm writing in my personal capacity.] Hi Mathieu, On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 2:45 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > > > Le 01/12/2017 à 09:34, Markus Kroetzsch a écrit : > > Dear Mathieu, > > You are in an impossible position. Either you want to be an objective >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Michael Peel
Thank you, Esra’a, for volunteering! However, I’m very concerned by this: "P.S. Due to the nature of Esra’a’s work, sharing photos or videos of Esra’a may endanger her safety or the safety of others. To help ensure the privacy and safety of Esra’a and her colleagues, we are not sharing any

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Pierre-Selim
Welcome Esra'a ! Le 1 déc. 2017 23:23, "Michael Peel" a écrit : > Thank you, Esra’a, for volunteering! > > However, I’m very concerned by this: > > "P.S. Due to the nature of Esra’a’s work, sharing photos or videos of > Esra’a may endanger her safety or the safety of others.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Anna Stillwell
Welcome, Esra'a. Thank you for taking the time to serve. I look forward to your contribution. /a On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Christophe Henner wrote: > Hi everyone, > > With the appointment of Raju to the Board of Trustees a couple of months > ago, we were left with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Katherine Maher
Thank you, Christophe, for sharing this excellent news. Those of you who were at Wikimania or watching on the livestream had the chance to get acquainted with Esra'a through her keynote. I'm certain that, if you were part of that audience, you'll join me in agreeing that she is an exceptional and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Liam Wyatt
Fantastic Wikimania keynote, fascinating addition to the board, fabulous addition to our community. Welcome. On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 at 22:28, Anna Stillwell wrote: > Welcome, Esra'a. Thank you for taking the time to serve. I look forward to > your contribution. > /a > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Sydney Poore
Welcome Esra! I'm thrilled to have you join the Board. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians, Co-founder WikiWomen User Group, Co-founder WikiConference North America Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Christophe Henner

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising - End Week Update

2017-12-01 Thread Joseph Seddon
==REALLY IMPORTANT ASK== Before updating you on our first week. I have and ask We need your help. We've had some really close results with some of our best messages in banners recently. Rather than the fundraising team making the decision what to do, we would like the community to help us

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Lane Rasberry
Congratulations. Katherine, you just said there was a livestream. There was no livestream and no recording at Wikimania 2017 for this speaker, right? Was there a transcript of that talk or anything else recorded? The notice here says that we still are not doing photos of Esra'a, which is doable,

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 13, Issue 11 – 24 November 2017

2017-12-01 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Cons, cons, cons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-11-24/News_and_notes Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-01 Thread Katherine Maher
You're right, sorry Lane. I was responding with excitement and trying to be more inclusive in my message by acknowledging that people could participate in Wikimania even if they weren't in the room, but of course that was true for all *but* this session. There was no livestream! Katherine On