Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-31 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, How about Portuguese from Africa? Thanks, GerardM On 27 July 2018 at 16:41, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > Hello Jane, > > Yes, maybe I have been lucky for having to deal with a Wikipedia that, > despite having its fair share of problems, actually has not that kind of > strife. We have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-31 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Hello Gerard, AFAIK officially the PALOPs (Portuguese speaking African countries) use European Portuguese. I'm quite used to reading news articles, laws, and books from all those countries, and apart some local vocabulary, my impression is that it's basically European Portuguese indeed. And at the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Inc. working with Go Fish Digital, a company that whitewashes Wikipedia

2018-07-31 Thread Mario Gómez
Thank you for the update! On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 4:19 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you to everyone that has provided thoughtful and constructive input > on this discussion, and to the volunteers who are investigating the > possible policy violations. We have some additional info

[Wikimedia-l] Favoring FLOSS solutions and services [WAS: Re: Update #4: Upcoming call for participation in Working Groups]

2018-07-31 Thread mathieu lovato stumpf guntz
Hi Katherine and everyone, Reading this email, my attention was caught by the fact that the video link is pointing to YouTube. I don't question the idea of publishing videos of the foundation on YouTube, the rational of having an immediate larger audience is obvious. But I think that wherever

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-31 Thread Samuel Klein
Micru -- these are good and kind thoughts, and practical suggestions. I don't know how much energy it's usfeul to put into *extra communication* to/from/about the current groups. But I would be especially interested in ideas for ways other groups (some are excluded from any closed process) could

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members

2018-07-31 Thread Info WorldUniversity
And perhaps with a further focus on specific African countries that speak Portuguese? Scott_WUaS On 5:46AM, Tue, Jul 31, 2018 Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > How about Portuguese from Africa? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 27 July 2018 at 16:41, Paulo Santos Perneta > wrote: > > > Hello Jane