Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group

2019-10-07 Thread Chris Keating
Hi Ziko, I believe the only "official" rationale is in the 2012 Board resolution: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Resolutions/Recognizing_Models_of_Affiliations and the thinking behind this is documented here, also from 2011-12. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project I do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

2019-10-07 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 05:50, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > The disappointing you show and the grotesque conclusions are imho based > in a sense of entitlement. I don't think calling Yuri's conclusions grotesque or saying he is entitled are particularly productive comments. Let's keep this list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group

2019-10-07 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Sorry, people, but I would like to read an official statement of the WMF (committee) what is the reason or rationale behind this policy to accept WM user groups in countries where you already have a chapter. Does anybody have a link? Kind regards Ziko Am Sa., 5. Okt. 2019 um 19:16 Uhr schrieb

[Wikimedia-l] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread
Plans for a Wikimedia LGBT+ conference and workshops in 2020 are moving forward. We would very much like to learn and borrow successful experiences from other conferences. This conference is expected to be relatively modest in size, around 50 attendees, and is to be hosted in Linz, Austria. We

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

2019-10-07 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Gerard, you assume that "my wikipedia" is the only project I participate in? Let me assure you this is not the case. On the contrary, the last few years I mostly contributed to Wikidata and recently - a massive Wiktionary lexeme import, and very little to Wikipedia. That said, I think removing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Lane Rasberry
Hello, I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in Wikidata so that we could generate visualizations of the demographics of participants. I do not think the wiki movement is quite ready for this, but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Jan Ainali
Besides any other aspects, most scholarship recipients are probably not notable. When I suggested to create items for all of the Wikimania sessions I perceived it as concensus (in the Wikidata telegram group) that they were not notable. So unless they already are notable (and already should have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Vi to
Making their data publicly available? Yiiikes! Vito Il giorno lun 7 ott 2019 alle ore 22:39 Lane Rasberry ha scritto: > Hello, > > I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even > when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in > Wikidata so

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group

2019-10-07 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Hi Ziko, When WMPT was forced by AffCom early this year to change the old chapter agreement we had signed in 2009 for a new one, which we were told was the current model for everyone, the main difference between the two was precisely the end of the chapter hegemony over the national territory. We

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Risker
I'm pretty shocked at this idea; in fact, if someone created a Wikidata profile about me, I'd have it taken down under applicable legislation. Making financial support contingent on adding one's name to a publicly editable database does not seem to be particularly wise, nor for that matter

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, For any and all other conventions those giving a presentation are notable per the completeness of informing and linking to the presentations. Quite often people have presented before and only when these presentations are linked through their presenter it is possible to make the connection.

[Wikimedia-l] Statement of Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong regarding possible internet censorship in Hong Kong

2019-10-07 Thread William Chan
Dear all, Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong has released the following statement in response to the effect to the local community from the use of Emergency Regulations Ordinance within the city: *** Free speech, expression and access to uncensored web services are some of the fundamental

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

2019-10-07 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, You are entitled to an opinion and you may voice it and so am I. The Wikimedia Foundation is not a democracy and neither is our movement. This was done with deliberation. At best our movement is represented in the board and through its chapters. In essence the main function of the WMF is to