Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to the Wikimedia Foundation April 2018 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, April 26, 18:00 UTC

2018-04-26 Thread Lena Traer
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. Meeting agenda: * Welcome and introduction to agenda * Movement update * #WeMissTurkey campaign overview * Video greetings from Berlin * Next version of Content Translation * Questions and discussion * Wikilove On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:27 PM, Lena

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

2018-04-26 Thread Jan Ainali
Well, I guess Occam has it that a local Kmart store thought it was good to use a keyword that put them in the top of a fairiy common search result. Sneaky. Med vänliga hälsningar Jan Ainali http://ainali.com 2018-04-26 6:43 GMT+02:00 Gnangarra : > > > > ​No​ > >> thing to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

2018-04-26 Thread Anthony Cole
Thank you Gnangarra. On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, 12:44 PM Gnangarra wrote: > > > > ​No​ > >> thing to do with Wikimedia Australia, we have made no such request. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > G > ​angarra > . > Noongarpedia: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys/Main_Page >

[Wikimedia-l] P. Sainath's comments on the Wikipedia

2018-04-26 Thread Frederick Noronha
In the course of a 2015 talk at Yale, the prominent Indian journalist P. Sainath says (comparing his People's Archive): "We are not the Wikipedia. Just because anyone can contribute does not mean we will accept everything. A lot of democratic decisions are democratically taken by me. Yeah, this is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suspension of FDC grantmaking

2018-04-26 Thread Chris Keating
Thanks Delphine! Yes that makes sense. For the last couple of years it's felt like 80%+ of FDC grants have been basically been renewals of similar amounts to stable, effective organisations. So the process is arguably over-engineered for that, and a simple renewal process will largely reach the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suspension of FDC grantmaking

2018-04-26 Thread Delphine Ménard
Hi Chris, Thanks for your question. We have been planning to share an update of what will happen within the FDC process as part of next year's annual plan and your question came before that announcement. I'm sorry about that. Before sharing information with everyone, our team wanted to discuss

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

2018-04-26 Thread Samuel Klein
Yea, looks like a K*mart ad. On Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 2:55 AM Jan Ainali wrote: > Well, I guess Occam has it that a local Kmart store thought it was good to > use a keyword that put them in the top of a fairiy common search result. > Sneaky. > > Med vänliga hälsningar > Jan Ainali >