Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Rapid Grants Closure May 14 - June 30, 2018

2018-05-14 Thread Laurentius
On mar, 2018-05-01 at 15:51 -0700, Woubzena Jifar wrote: > 2. Regarding having a minimum of $500 for the rapid grants program, > this is something we’re experimenting with while we’re aligning to > the new strategic direction. Our preliminary data is showing that > this change will improve our abil

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Publication of WMF Affiliate agreements

2019-01-24 Thread Laurentius
he and Dariusz - took part in the discussion on Meta) Laurentius [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2019-01 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/December_2018_-_Affiliate-selected_trustees,_term_limits,_and_div

[Wikimedia-l] Affiliate-selected Board seats voting started

2016-03-24 Thread Laurentius
Dear all, voting for the affiliate-selected board seats is starting today, and will end on May 8 (results will be announced shortly after that). Ten people nominated - which is more than in any previous round - and all nominations got an endorsement. Therefore, we have ten candidates running: * Ch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliate-selected Board seats voting started

2016-05-02 Thread Laurentius
Il giorno dom, 01/05/2016 alle 22.24 -0400, Benjamin Lees ha scritto: > This is still going on, right? Yes. The voting closes on Saturday. Lorenzo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines N

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-03 Thread Laurentius
t; wiki. Is that no longer possible? This is still possible, of course! Any chapter can choose its internal processes: whether to have a discussion in their board, in the members' mailing list, or in the general assembly, or whether to publicly publish their vote or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-03 Thread Laurentius
Il giorno mar, 03/05/2016 alle 08.05 -0400, Lane Rasberry ha scritto: > Or - I could be wrong. Should the list of voting chapters be reported? > What is the correct interpretation of closed voting in this case? At the end of 2015, before starting the election process, there has been some discussio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday

2015-08-11 Thread Laurentius
Il giorno mer, 12/08/2015 alle 01.11 +0900, Hong, Yongmin ha scritto: > It has been a year (and a day) since the gerrit 153302 [1] has been > merged > and deployed to the dewiki. And it's high time it got removed. Laurentius ___ Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does openly declaring your gender change the probability of having an upload overwritten?

2015-08-14 Thread Laurentius
rs on the Commons page [1]. Laurentius [1]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Does_openly_declaring_your_gender_change_the_probability_of_having_an_upload_overwritten.3F ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-19 Thread Laurentius
Il giorno mar, 18/08/2015 alle 20.42 +0200, Romaine Wiki ha scritto: > [...] > This is really sad for Italy. Extra sad because of the difficult > copyright > situation in Italy, what requires the local team already to do much > much > much more work than in most other countries, just to have a norm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Chapters] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-21 Thread Laurentius
o our > events > around the national monuments day in Austria), at a time when all the > information material with dates etc. was already printed and > distributed. Yes, this will be an issue for WMI too. And WLM Italy has a lot of partners. Laurentius _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-21 Thread Laurentius
Il giorno gio, 20/08/2015 alle 01.26 -0400, Risker ha scritto: > [...] perhaps a big bright button on the sidebar that says "Upload > images for Wiki Loves Monuments here!" may be technically feasible. This might be a way to mitigate the problem, although I'm not sure whether it's technically fea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-24 Thread Laurentius
or uploading the pictures on Commons during the contest. The participants to the contest do not have any specific work to do related to this. Laurentius ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guideli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-11-03 Thread Laurentius
At the end, is that mailing list currently active? If it is, are you asking affiliates to join, or are affiliates expected to contact you? Laurentius Il giorno ven, 16/10/2015 alle 00.04 +0300, Carlos M. Colina ha scritto: > Dear all, > > On behalf of the Affiliations Committe, I am p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect is gone

2015-11-05 Thread Laurentius
> Wikimedia servers. This is great news! Just to understand, is it still present in MediaWiki but not active on Wikimedia sites or it not in the MediaWiki code anymore? Laurentius ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wik

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

2016-01-02 Thread Laurentius
* Releasing private board information; * Publishing the statement about his removal on Wikimedia-l. (the last one clearly cannot have had a role in his removal, so this leaves the first two) Laurentius ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guideline

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia recognized as OpenStreetMap chapter

2016-01-28 Thread Laurentius
Dear all, after a long process, today Wikimedia Italia has been officially recognized as the Italian OpenStreetMap chapter! OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project that shares the same value as the Wikimedia movement. It's not based on a wiki software and it's not in the Wikimedia family, but fro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia recognized as OpenStreetMap chapter

2016-02-02 Thread Laurentius
Il giorno ven, 29/01/2016 alle 00.21 +0100, Lodewijk ha scritto: > Congratulations Lorenzo, congratulations Wikimedia Italia. It was > indeed a long process, and I recall that this question came up - was > it more than five years ago? I don't even remember when we first talked about his, but it mi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Candidates - Affiliate Selected members of the WMF Board

2016-02-19 Thread Laurentius
here are three white males on the election committee. [...] I think Anne was referring to the results of 2015 elections (with Dariusz, James and Danny elected), not to the election facilitators. The positive note here is that at the last two ASBS rounds both elected trustees were

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Become a Digital object identifier (DOI) registarnt

2014-12-31 Thread Laurentius
example https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=31445754 It looks quite expensive indeed: http://www.medra.org/en/terms.htm Laurentius ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Calling all Chapters re Wikimania Scholarships!

2015-01-27 Thread Laurentius
F program). Wikimedia Italia plans to offer scholarships directly, like in the past years. The call for applications are likely to come in 1-2 months from now (usually scholarship are discussed together with the annual budget, which is going to be approved in March). Laurentius ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner and chapter members

2014-06-23 Thread Laurentius
banner, how it was shown, what was the result) Laurentius ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Karthik Nadar appointed as WCA Council member for Wikimedia India

2013-03-04 Thread Laurentius
In data lunedì 4 marzo 2013 15:28:00, Markus Glaser ha scritto: > Great news! Welcome to the WCA, Wikimedia India and Karthik :) Good news indeed. Welcome, Wikimedia India and Karthik! Laurentius ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedi