[Wikimedia-l] New Board member and leadership appointments to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-08-16 Thread María Sefidari
Hi everyone, I have some news to share about recent leadership appointments to our Board of Trustees. Shani Evenstein Sigalov, currently an EdTech Innovation Strategist and lecturer at the School of Medicine in Tel Aviv University, will be the newest member of the Board of Trustees. Shani has b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Ryan Merkley to the Wikimedia Foundation

2019-08-16 Thread Oby Ezeilo
Welcome on board Ryan . On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:02 PM Katherine Maher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I’m excited to let you all know that Ryan Merkley, formerly CEO of Creative > Commons, is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as my new chief of staff. > > Many of you have met Ryan before -- at CC Su

[Wikimedia-l] Wikiwisdom: A Project Proposal

2019-08-16 Thread Adam Sobieski
Wikimedia-l, Wikitech-l, I would like to share a new project proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiwisdom . The project intends to provide a large-scale, crowdsourced collection of wisdom materials (anecdotes, proverbs, quotations, lyrics, poetry, narratives and humor). The project inte

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Wikiwisdom: A Project Proposal

2019-08-16 Thread RhinosF1
I'll make sure to have a look, should be quite an interesting idea. RhinosF1 Miraheze Volunteer On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 21:15, Adam Sobieski wrote: > Wikimedia-l, > Wikitech-l, > > I would like to share a new project proposal: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiwisdom . The project intends to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Board member and leadership appointments to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-08-16 Thread RhinosF1
Congrats and good luckd to those joining/remaining on the board with thanks for your service and good luck for the future to those departing RhinosF1 On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 09:25, María Sefidari wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have some news to share about recent leadership appointments to our Boa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The timeline of the Wikimedia strategy: please reconsider!

2019-08-16 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Let's put it this way: The "recommendations" have been presented as a kind of "Beta". But the actual status looks more like "Alpha". Kind regards Ziko Am Do., 15. Aug. 2019 um 20:03 Uhr schrieb Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net>: > I agree that a lot of review and comment is needed b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The timeline of the Wikimedia strategy: please reconsider!

2019-08-16 Thread Peter Southwood
Some are worse than others. I would settle for a mix of alpha and beta. You don’t want to go too far before getting feedback, but when people don’t know what you are talking about you probably have not gone far enough. There seems to be a lot of variability in response to requests for clarificat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The timeline of the Wikimedia strategy: please reconsider!

2019-08-16 Thread Aron Manning
I appreciate that there is an attempt to start conversations. These are drafts of recommendations, that implies at least 1 more round of community feedback, and preferably 2 or 3 for the alpha drafts, such as licensing. Plenty of time and opportunity to come to a mutually agreeable outcome. If not,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Board member and leadership appointments to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-08-16 Thread camelia boban
Great, congratulations, so happy to see you all there 🤩. Camelia, on behalf of WikiDonne UG On Fri, Aug 16, 2019, 1:16 PM RhinosF1 wrote: > Congrats and good luckd to those joining/remaining on the board > > with thanks for your service and good luck for the future to those > departing > > Rhin