[Wikimedia-l] Join us for a conversation with Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustee candidates

il to this list shortly before the event. I hope to see you all there! 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_of_Trustees 2. The event will be live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AhwrJ9qcgc once it starts. For the Election Committee, James Alexander Ad

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Join us for a conversation with Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustee candidates

May 5, 2017 at 10:20 PM Samuel Klein wrote: > > > Thanks ElecComm, this is great to hear. SJ > > > > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:07 PM, James Alexander < > jalexan...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > Upon req

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Forwarding to WM-l since the auto forward doesn't always work. -- Forwarded message - From: matanya moses Date: Sat, May 20, 2017 at 5:33 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election To: Greetings, The certified resu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Welcome Raju! *James Alexander* Manager, Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Biyanto Rebin < biyanto.re...@wikimedia.or.id> wrote: > Welcome to Wikimedia movements, Raju! > > Best regards from Indonesia, > > 2017-10-17 1:19 GMT+07:00 Chr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] YouTube shooting and risk assessment

oard.wmflabs.org/training/support-and-safety/keeping-events-safe *James Alexander* Manager, Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 9:01 PM, Gnangarra wrote: > en:wp has a very good concept > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_stuff_beans_up_your_nose

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I am going to San Francisco

ng people disagree so strongly and publicly with one of their regular colleagues could very well scare away those colleagues and we don't want that. James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur __

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Draft Strategy

- On April 1st, The Wikimedia Foundation’s draft annual plan will then be submitted for comment. 1, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/Draft_WMF_Strategy Thank you again for your feedback earlier that led to this draft and for your comments in this stage, James Alexander Ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Executive transition planning

A traditional union is also difficult, honestly, because of the nature of the WMF as an incredibly global organization. We are a huge mix of staff in SF from the US, staff in SF on Visas (I don't know if this matters), Full Time Equivalent contractors outside the US (and numerous different ways to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Executive transition planning

beneficial. That representation could possibly be to the board, to the > C-team or otherwise. Or are such structures already in existance (have been > in existance)? > > Lodewijk > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:51 PM, James Alexander > wrote: > > > A traditional union is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Wikimedia Foundation executive transition update

s both for this position and for the foundation as a whole. I'm glad that we have a smart group of people helping to lead the org as we work to move forward. James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:50 PM, J

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero mass effect on Wikimedia projects

uld be really good to think about ways to help deal with that. James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Vi to wrote: > Anytime a new linguistic group joins Wiki* we should expect a looong > September

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who runs the Wikimedia Shop ?

ect that is canceled etc. I imagine we all can think of projects that we think are more or less important but we don't necessarily think of the 'same' projects which makes that trade off discussion difficult (but important since we can't just continue to expand the budget for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What can we learn

nce Committee which oversees them so would wish to speak fully for what they would do in the end :). Also one of their duties is *"As needed, the Committee may assist with other duties as may be assigned by the Board or the Board Governance Committee." *so anything is possible :). Jam

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Legal IRC Office Hour starts in about three hours.

For those that weren't able to attend or want to re re-read the logs have been posted on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2016-04-19 James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What New Thing is WMF Doing w. Cookies, & Why is Legal Involved?

d usually be within the legal department for many organizations. Cookies are also closely tied with privacy and the privacy policy and so compliance and ensuring that the org stays within their promises would, also, often fall within the legal department (though everyone should/does have a ha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons Picture of the Year 2015 round 2 voting has started

they DO share them). In fact, contrary to your accusation, I don't know of ANY other organizations that ensure they are following the SM site Terms of Use and the CC licenses when posting. I've even seen Creative Commons itself, on it's official Twitter and Facebook accounts, pos

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transparency: special WMF employee rights for Wikimedia projects

ensure that staff can do their job while remaining with as little access as possible. In the past everyone having one giant 'all rights staff group' made some sense but at the size the WMF is now I'm not sure it does. James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harassment and blaming the victim

sment is "not real" or not a major problem right now is, at best, naive and could overall be very dangerous not only to our users but the projects as a whole. That does not, of course, mean we know the answer. In fact, we know we don't, it's what we're (all) trying to figure

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WMF] Update regarding expiring Board terms

Thanks for the note Christophe and congratulations Alice! So happy to see you continue on the board! Thanks as well guy for being willing to provide your service these past 2 years! Good luck in the future! On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:13 PM Patricio Lorente wrote: > Thanks for the update, Christop

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Danveg, and reminder about people in distress

first to make usable information easiest to find. James Alexander *Manager, Trust & Safety* Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

ng new” than “removing old.” A member of the team does annual audits of the data to ensure that defunct entries are removed and that everything else matches reality. The time for the next one is coming up. James *James Alexander* Manager, Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation PS: I also fixed th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

before hiring staff, along with the ongoing oversight from both their managers and SuSa, we believe this strikes the right balance. James *James Alexander* Manager, Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:48 PM Adrian Raddatz wrote: > Not for any wiki; only Meta

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Elections Committee members

/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee#Membership ) or email the application address: bec-newmemb...@lists.wikimedia.org James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 <(415)%20839-6885> @jamesofur On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Katie Chan wrote: > Hello a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

f the issue much easier. The best spot on wiki is likely my meta talk page for ping purposes. While I can't think of a more specific tag on Phabricator that would work there is a Support & Safety project that would work perfectly and the whole team is subscribed :). *James Alexa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

l by General Counsel (currently Michelle) or designee. It then comes back to us to actually press the buttons. Global Bans (as well as Event Bans which are done via the same process) have been incredibly rare for that very reason, we don't take them lightly and go through a lot of review bef

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 x6716 > On Jul 19, 2015, at 16:55, Pine W wrote: > > Hmm. It seems to me that having WMF create a policy for conduct that it > imposes on non-WMF wikis would effectively be an office act

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Lane Rasberry wrote: > I wonder if this is related to the recent blocking of reddit. > > < > > http://www.vocativ.com/news/221534/the-story-behind-russias-reddit-shutdown/ Same law of course, but there doesn't appear to be a direct connection. James ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Advanced Permissions

le to fully find the time to fix and update everything but I actually have time set aside on my calendar on Monday to do that :). Sent from my iPhone James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 x6716 > On Sep 24, 2015, at 16:57, Fæ wrote: > > Hi,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Board nominees

ll (though obviously anyone who has some free time should feel free). James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Pine W wrote: > Welcome Boryana. (: > > Will you be able to come to WikiConference USA in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for July-September 2015

community members) not subscribed (for the best, it would be an enormous amount of donor funds spent all combined with them reading it) it's also rarely a productive use of a thread to try and throw it in so many directions at once. That said, the high level comments seem perfect for the thread.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Good news for Wikimedians in San Francisco!

This is spectacular news Romaine! Thank you for finding it! BCCing the Wikimedia-sf list so that they see it ;) [though I imagine I'll have to clear it through given BCC] James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Paid Intern/Fellowship Opportunity

en't taken unaware by that but if it's confusing I'm sure HR could look at changing job descriptions to make it clearer. James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi Jaim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

Oh dear god everyone... [This is in general, not any specific person] I think everyone knows there are a lot of legitimate concerns to be concerned about and certainly Arnnon's actions at Google are legitimate for question however this whole "google is controlling the board/wmf" line of thought is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

I will admit that if I knew I would likely not be wiling to say without talking to others first. However I will never lie and I can honestly say that I do not. On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Fæ wrote: > Hi James Alexander, > > Thanks for writing here. As a WMF insider, do you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beyond the Board (was: WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google)

Honestly while I think that more community governance could be good I worry that this conversation is going into a direction that is doomed to failure and distracts us from the REAL issues that people are frustrated about. Large governing bodies are complicated, difficult to set up and difficult to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Voting formula was Appointment of María Sefidari to Wikimedia Foundation Board

ames' seat. Now that that seems to be done I'm hoping to work with everyone over the next couple weeks to get it going. James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 Ombudsman Committee

Thanks Patrick for all your work on this and Congratulations to everyone coming on board! Thank you Thogo, PhilKnight, Avraham and Alhen for your work over the past years. I know I'll see you all around still :). James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Engagement office hour

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Anthony Cole wrote: > When one's available, would someone please post a link to the transcript? > > Anthony Cole Sure, Karen posted it on meta shortly after: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2016-02-12 James Ale

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > It is important to do things in good timing, but it is even more important > to do things right (not just in decision-making - remember the VIsual > Editor?), not get easily swayed or lead by a crowd, think straight. When > I'm asking

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

It is probably best for me not to get into a long count/counterpoint here but I couldn't avoid not responding at all. As Ori hinted at I hope that everyone can reflect on the idea of causation vs correlation . The fact that good t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transition plans for WMF leadership - Board Reform

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Denny Vrandecic wrote: > I disagree very much with Dariusz on this topic (as he knows). I must say I also disagree with you ;). That is not to say that a community council or membership structure of some sort might not be good (I think there are some logistical

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Katy Love to direct WMF Resources team

Congrats Katy, the perfect choice :) James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Congrats to Katy. She will be an excellent person for this role. > > On Thursday, Febr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

o file a bug now for it assuming someone else hasn't. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Anders Wennersten wrote: > It has to do with timezone preferences. All times in latest changes and in >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:02 AM, James Alexander wrote: > Yeah, I can confirm this. > > It appears that when you turn on HHVM it forces the default time setting > to be UTC, so if you&

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

rsonal time I do still want too or to find someone else who is able too :(. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

I'm willing to do at 5am but I will try to do this later today and get this number down. My guess is this is in the 10k range. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:36 AM, James Alexander wrote: > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

giving people too much to look at, we know for example that over 500 people 'saw' the ballot but never submitted their vote. I also really think notifications could be incredibly helpful to get the word out, but so far that does not seem very likely to be available by then. James Ale

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:12 AM, James Alexander wrote: > A completely un deduped (and so is double+ counting anyone who is eligible > on multiple wikis because of activity there) number is 207911 for 2013. > > Caveats: > > This number is quick and dirty and 'reasonable&#

[Wikimedia-l] Office Hours with VPE Damon Sicore - 9 October 2014 20:00 UTC / 13:00 PDT

re.com>. James [[cross posted on wikitech-l and wikimedia-l]] James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Damon Sicore office hours in 5 minutes

fice_hours_2014-10-09 James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Pine W wrote: > Hi Kirill, my understanding is that Affcom functions under the Legal > department, much like the Individual Engagement Grants Committee functions > under the Grantmaking department. Is that so, and if not, which department > is responsible for Affc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Audit - June 30, 2014

ptions' are available for the staff to choose from rather then actually controlling their money. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Allan J. Aguilar wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:15:17 -0500 > Yana Welinder wrote: > > To address Allan's question, this does not affect the trademark > > status of the logos as governed by the new trademark

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re-licensing Wikimedia logos on Commons to CC BY-SA 3.0

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:48 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: > > > The license is clear, and wmf is an expert in these licenses . So a > previous trademark is void in the respect where it restricts what is > defined in the license? > > Rupert I'm sorry, I don't completely understand the question but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] WikiCheese crowdfunding - Let's photograph 'em all

This is an awesome idea Christophe! I'm only jealous that I'm not in France to take part (in the editing... editing... in no way do I want to be there mostly for the eating of course). Also, KissKissBankBank is an amazing name for a crowd funding site. James Alexander Legal and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons copyright extremism

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Fæ wrote: > > P.S. Stephen, you are young and handsome, in fact rather dishy to my > ageing eyes. Good for you. Keep in mind that your fellow volunteers > might not have been born so lucky, and that being young and pretty all > too soon passes into memory, sigh. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: It's the end

Also: We've actually had the DC Address for a couple years now, it's for a check processing service (Years ago they were processed by hand at the office but that took a lot longer and was no longer the most cost or time efficient way to do it). James Alexander Legal and Communit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: It's the end

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Brad Courcelles wrote: > Perhaps because that is the address they want people to use if they are > mailing in a check for a donation? > > Obviously not in Fundraising so grain of salt but I think that's exactly the reason. If someone is using the address on a dona

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Honorary degree for Wikipedia + meeting

g non-religious building in > Amsterdam.) > That is an awesome looking building, I'm very jealous. Congrats Jimmy and the entire Dutch community who did much of the work which led to people respecting WP in the Netherlands enough to want to do this. James Alexander Legal and Community Adv

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

Yeah, it seems like they have the deed in a bunch of languages now but the actual full license is officially only in En,no and fi ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode#languages ) James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:05 PM, James Alexander wrote: > Yeah, it seems like they have the deed in a bunch of languages now but the > actual full license is officially only in En,no and fi ( > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode#languages ) > > James Alexan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

Aye, I also only have anecdotal evidince at this point (from my father who has been messaging me and myself) but the comments I've seen in the american press have been 10:1 (higher on tech sites) with generally more thoughtful comments then usual and where there are critiques they are not bad ones.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

etc. The base page is currently just a redirect until there was more to put there but could certainly get used. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

rd and staff disagreeing publicly and trying to hash out their differences causes enormous rifts within the organization and the community that are even harder to heal then the current ones between the foundation and the community (which we most definitely need to heal). James Alexander Communi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 60 Minutes episode link

Ivan: I think we were told the link should be without country restrictions. Do you get a 'not available in your country' type warning when you go? James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Ivan Martí

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q on the 2013 elections re voter breakdown

they were eligible, they went into one giant bucket. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Katie Chan wrote: > On 06/04/2015 18:14, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > > Hi, > > > > regarding the Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Access to Private Information Policy: How Long Will This Be Left a Question Mark?

eople responsible for the rollout on both the Legal and CA side are also some of the most over scheduled members of those teams during the past year and so the speed of advancement hasn't been what we'd like because other responsibilities had to take priority given that the existing policy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A transition and a new chapter.

lling then your last :). Sent from my iPhone James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 x6716 > On Apr 13, 2015, at 11:27, Brion Vibber wrote: > > It's been a long journey -- I remember that 2007 office well, and the crazy > times befo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A transition and a new chapter.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:53 AM, James Alexander wrote: > Denver that a departure from a role like this only allow you to take on > different roles ;). > Remember that a departure auto correct can be both a dangerous and wondrous thing. James Alexander Community Advocacy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright status of the mobile application button icons?

The WMF Logos are now all or almost all released under cc-by-sa 3.0 now as well rather then All Rights Reserved. I think you should be fine but if you want to be double sure you can email tradema...@wikimedia.org with what you're thinking and they are very good at getting back to you.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Foundation-l] Single login - decision 2004

James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > On Nov 11, 2004, at 03:27:00 UTC , Erik Moeller > wrote > [1]: > > > Hi, > > there's been some movement forward

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

le comparatively (this is actually smaller then many/most banners that are shown for non-fundraising purposes just brighter) and I think we came to a safe balance. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Gregory Varnum w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments

James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Pine W wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Philippe is on vacation, so I'm forwarding this to Rachel. > > Pine > He pops in every once in a while during his bre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

e there was a strong need for change right now. When this conversation came back up it was broached whether we wanted to revisit and no one said expressed a desire to. Also as Greg said I think this is a good topic for a permanent election committee which I very much think should exist. James

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Nathan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:43 PM, James Alexander > > wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel < > > it...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote: > > > > > Any response or input from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

choose the current structure) but I don't currently see great reasons to get rid of the options we have other then just 'simplicity'. That isn't a horrible reason of course, I'm just not sure it's necessary. (obviously not speaking for the committee or with my staff hat o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Results of the 2015 Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) election

been involved in that part). The board candidates don't generally get seated officially until WIkimania for similar reasons as an example. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

A couple comments inline from a technical election process (not commenting on much of the rest not because I'm not interested but just for simplicity right now given other work :) ). James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, May 31, 2015

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

for 2.58% of the total votes compared to less then 1% (.99%) of the whole electorate. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:14 PM, attolippip wrote: > There were only 9 votes from Ukrainian community in 2013, I beli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:20 PM, James Alexander wrote: > Ukraine has done great this year! Your work clearly paid off, currently > 11.74% of the eligible users on ukWiki have voted (making it one of the > highest % wikis, and the highest if you only count medium/large wikis some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

were eligible to vote in the 2013 or 2011 elections for example has been incredibly difficult since some of them ( stewards ) could be eligible on not only a couple wikis but sometimes 100s of wikis and would be listed independently on each one. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Fou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Voting system (was: Results of 2015 WMF Board elections)

[For the record I'm running the vote dumps now that should allow some of that analysis to be done by those interested. No exact promises on timing because while I'll send it out today it will take some time to approve for anonymization etc.] James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikipedia-BN] 10th year founding anniversary of Bengali Wikipedia

but there is so much work that has been done during those 10 years that it really is a marathon. Here's to 10, 20, 100+ more years :) Congrats! James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu <

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing staff changes at the WMF

mmediately. Although we aim for full transparency, occasionally there are factors in place that mean we can’t be as transparent as we'd like in the moment. Thanks for understanding. James James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Renewal of the Recognition to Wikisource Community User Group

er and (more and more) as an editor. I'm excited to see the user group continuing to move forward. Sent from my iPhone James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 x6716 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:55 PM, James Salsman wrote: > We should be discussing the merits of individual candidates in the open. > No... we should not. That would greatly hamper the board's ability to get good candidates. Most people who are already in a current job are not going to be willing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine -- is everyone safe?

my iPhone James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 x6716 > On Feb 23, 2014, at 17:01, Maryana Pinchuk wrote: > > For those of you who don't read Ukrainian, a quick ad-hoc translation of > the blog post. So sorry for the loss of a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l archives

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61792 James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Cornelius Kibelka wrote: > Hi, > > I can't access the supposed-to-be-public archive of wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] the big red notice on the top of http://strategy.wikimedia.org - done

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk wrote: > But we close wiki. We not set wiki read only. Why should we use another > therm than the procedure is called? Because what we DO (no matter what we call it) is set it as Read Only, it is still 100% accessible you just can't edit it. I th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] the big red notice on the top of http://strategy.wikimedia.org - done

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk wrote: > Is it *just *can't edit? I believe at least we can't create a new acc in > there. Closing is more then setting read only. We should use proper therms > instead of those that more understandable by noobs. --Base > Well, then we can disagre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations

I'm confused about what you mean? The Wikivoyage logo for example is certainly marked as free https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-logo.svg can you clarify? James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, Mar 10, 2014

[Wikimedia-l] Office Hours with Gayle Karen Young Thursday (March 13th) 19:00 UTC (noon PDT)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office Hours with Gayle Karen Young Thursday (March 13th) 19:00 UTC (noon PDT)

Just a reminder that this will be happening in about one hour. If you do not have an IRC program you can use the webchat link below. Webchat - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office James James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hotmail fatal bounces

/show_bug.cgi?id=62838. James James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Richard Ames wrote: > > Hotmail has bounced many connections with a 'fatal' error code: 550 > SC-004. This happened

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Carlos M. Colina wrote: > Wait, are we in kindergarden? I think Rupert's email was sent off-list, so > basically there is no need to bring it up to the list, regardless how > related it is to the thread. Private discussions between two people should > remain that,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

rbitration/Durova/Proposed_decision#Private_correspondence > > > > Just to be clear for the record, that was James Forrester, not James > Alexander. > > Thanks Ben, As emufarmers points out (sorry, I would have earlier but gmail compresses this thread into the wikimania-l th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

ay not see these emails or proposals in the way I described but I urge you look at them through others eyes. James Alexander User:Jamesofur On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 4:47 PM, James Salsman wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > Would you please clarify which of the advocacy topics below, if any, >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

aren't on there because they are generally handled by engineering). Overall we don't actually require separate accounts at the moment but I strongly encourage them, I think it behooves everyone to have a clear distinction between 'personal' and 'work' actions and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Michael Peel wrote: > Hi James, > > On 21 Apr 2014, at 19:16, James Alexander > wrote: > > > Philippe and I have worked hard to try and make the 'staff' user group as > > it traditionally stands a very 'as needed'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

Hc&single=true&gid=5&output=html James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Fæ wrote: > On 10 May 2014 19:02, Fæ wrote: > > On 21/04/2014, James Alexander wrote: > > ... >

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