Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Diane Ranville
Hi Gereon; "German communities are established and have strong chapters. I suppose the same applies to the French language communites." => Well, no. The situation is different because the WikiConvention Francophone is half African. African french-speaking affiliates are not strong, they are medium

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Gereon, you clearly forget the whole Mediaviewer saga and attendance of WMF staff at the following WikiCon in Cologne ;-) But that was a long time ago :-) On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 01:53, Gereon Kalkuhl wrote: > Since 2010 we have the WikiCon for the German language communities with > more than 300

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Earlier time! September 18, 2019 at 9:30 AM PT, 16:30 UTC

2019-09-16 Thread Janna Layton
Hello everyone, This is just a reminder that the Research Showcase will be this Wednesday, with Miriam Redi and Jonathan Morgan from the Foundation presenting. On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:10 PM Janna Layton wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesd

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Leila Zia
Hi, A different angle for looking at the question of WMF staff attending community events which may help this conversation: As a staff member (and acknowledging that my position is none of the ones Thierry called out in their first email on this thread), with the exception of a few community even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
Thanks for sharing this Leila! This is of course a useful angle. Nattes > Le 16 sept. 2019 à 21:51, Leila Zia a écrit : > > Hi, > > A different angle for looking at the question of WMF staff attending > community events which may help this conversation: > > As a staff member (and acknowledgin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi all, Just a quick note that I was invited to Wikiconvention on Friday 9 August by Wikimedia France. On Monday 12 August (delayed by travel to Wikimania!) I sent a note expressing my regrets, as I had a family wedding to attend during that same weekend as the Convention. I also asked at the same

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: GSoC 2019 and Outreachy Round 18 are over! Call for projects and mentors for Outreachy Round 19 begins.

2019-09-16 Thread Srishti Sethi
Hello all, Just a reminder that the deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 24th. If you are considering to mentor a project via Outreachy, please reach out to me with a project idea before the deadline! Cheers, Srishti *Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Found

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
Hi Jane, Thank you for your answer, but I think I did not make my point clear enough given the answer you made. On the francophone wiki there is not “local WIR”. There are a few sister projects like les sans pages of which I am the founder (so people might turn to me for questions) or ateliers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
Thank you Katherine, We will be happy to see you in Tunis! Along with other reps of the WMF I hope, with the possibility of booking appointments with : - T&S - outreach - grant rep - tech rep Kind regards, Nattes à chat > Le 16 sept. 2019 à 23:54, Katherine Maher a écrit : > > Hi all, > > J