[Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode

Dear all, as a member of the board in question, i would like to explain more But let's not pretend this is a question of a sudden need to set up a new mailing list. That's not what this is about (q) A. yep. totally agree. this all is about usearching for transparent and convenient forms of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hong Kong diary

yep. i strongly agree 'an understanding of some basic concepts and ideas' is really important, i believe but what-makes-wikiworld-go just doesn't seem to work within a 'formal' organization i wonder if a 'visible' hierarchy 'reverts' users into ordinary people... ziko, thank you for sharing

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

small in my humble opinion, what's the big deal? we usually vote openly in the projects and everything bad/great about this or that user is revealed really openly (sometimes too openly, but well... nothing to be done here) it is our own decision whether to vote and how to vote, isn't it? /small

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

May you fare well! We have published a few blog posts and you have been a great help to us. Wish you all the best! Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine 2015-06-18 19:25 GMT+03:00 Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org: Hello everyone, After three great years working at the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

Dear Johan, Our greetings to you! [1] And Ukrainian Wikipedia now has one more article because of Danish Wikipedia :)) [2] (and because of 100wikidays challenge, of course [3]) [1] https://wikimediaukraine.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/wikipedia-danskoiu-siahnula-200-tysiach-statei/ [2]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

Oh, Liam, you are right :) We award the best newbie of the month on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1] (we also award with a can of condensed milk the best contributor of the month, and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote,

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

There were only 9 votes from Ukrainian community in 2013, I believe So this year we just made sure that our community REALLY knows about the elections, thus we: - translated the candidates statements into Ukrainian - prepared a short table with the essence of these statements in Ukrainian and

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

Sad news indeed. Is there a public discussion about this issue anywhere? Can we get the WMF comments about it publicly? Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine 2015-08-18 21:42 GMT+03:00 Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com: Hi all, Sad news. The title of this thread seems a bit hard,

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Earth 2015 winners announced!

Hi everyone and sorry for crossposting :) Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine -- Forwarded message -- We are happy to announce the results of Wiki Loves Earth photo contest! And we would like to take this occasion to thank those of you who helped us make this WLE

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Join the community review of 11 annual plan grants proposals to the FDC

Thank you very much! Your work is really appreciated. It was very very useful Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine 2015-10-09 8:42 GMT+03:00 Anders Wennersten : > I have now reviewed these proposals (with the exception of WMDE, being too > complex, and WMSE,

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

Hello everybody. What grieves me most is that this edit was done by only a few people, however powerful [1] And to make this edit a lot of work and far more trust was involved... [2] [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Board_of_Trustees=104353=103933 [2]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome Delphine Ménard as WMF's Annual Plan Grants Program Officer

Great news! Congratulations Delphine! Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv Wikimedia Ukraine 2016-06-20 15:55 GMT-07:00 Katy Love : > Hi Wikimedians, > > Today WMF's Community Resources team is joined by Delphine Ménard as our > newly appointed Annual Plan Grants >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

WOW, wonderful news indeed! Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv Wikimedia Ukraine 2016-06-17 1:38 GMT+02:00 Romaine Wiki : > Hi all, > > Great news! > > Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament. > A mayority voted in favour of freedom of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Another goodbye

Oh, Siko... I am really sorry to see this letter of yours. But I am truly grateful for all your support and understanding. In wikiworld being awfully far in real life does not matter that much, so I have always felt that you are near... Thank you Warm regards, antanana Wikimedia Ukraine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

<3 <3 <3 may you fare well it was pleasure working together... you have inspired me a lot and I am thankful for all your work see you <3 warm regards, antanana Wikimedia Ukraine 2016-02-09 19:49 GMT+02:00 Anna Koval : > Dear friends, > > During the past three years, I

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine’s Board

Dear all, I want formally introduce to you Wikimedia Ukraine’s Board, elected by our General Assembly on December 27, 2015. We can do it only now, as we have just recently successfully completed the requirements from our state to change the people responsible for the chapter officially [1].

[Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

+1 to Yurik best regards, antanana 2016-02-27 1:23 GMT+02:00 Yuri Astrakhan : > Lodewijk, this is a very valid point, thanks. My understanding is that > this process done in private has lost some of its credibility with the > staff and the community, and thus I

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

Congratulations! :) To us all :) Best regards, antanana Wikimedia Ukraine 2016-02-26 1:02 GMT+02:00 Maggie Dennis : > Hello, all. > > I am delighted to announce that Katy Love has agreed to step into the role > of Director of Resources in the Community Engagement

[Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

Thank you Ido and +1 to your message. I would also +1 to Yaroslav's message, but I want to note, that though most volunteers would not care about smth (seemingly) far away like WMF and its troubles, they WOULD care about backlogs of bugs that are piling up, lack of strategic approach to

[Wikimedia-l] Access and Participation in the ASBS

Dear all, As you are (probably) aware, the 2016 affiliate-selected Board seats process has started already. And I do think that the process is broken somewhere [1]. The democracy principles even in my country, though it is far from being a role model for transparency and governance, state that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Italy Board

Welcome :) Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv Wikimedia Ukraine 2016-04-13 17:58 GMT+03:00 Ginevra Sanvitale : > Dear all, > I'm glad to announce the new composition of Wikimedia Italy board: > > Board of Directors > *President: Lorenzo Losa [[User:Laurentius]] >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Florida Librarians of Wikipedia

Welcome! And congratulations :) P.S. Are all members of the UG already subscribed to this list? The page says that the talk page [1] is the best place to contact the group. Maybe we need to post welcomes there, as Lane did :) [1]

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

Dear Lorenzo, You can ask the chapters that voted already, if they are okay with publishing the list. I think. Personally I do not see a problem, but who knows. JFYI, Wikimedia Ukraine has not voted yet, as we wanted to talk to the candidates via skype/hangouts before making the final decision

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Conference India 2016, logo challenge

Dear Sailesh, Thank you for the info :) In Ukraine we usually ask people to publish their works under CC-zero license [1], so we do not have to mention the author (and the license) on pins and pens, but we mention the author(s) and license if there is enough space for that (they are mentioned

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Direction] WMF Board of Trustees 2016 priorities

Dear Chris, A quick answer: Yes, all Board Committees have been updated. I guess it just takes some time to update the pages with all the changes :) Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv 2016-06-28 23:48 GMT+03:00 Chris Keating : > Thanks Christophe! > > Just a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Danish Wikipedia turns 15

Happy Birthday! ;) Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv 2017-02-02 0:03 GMT+02:00 Johan Jönsson : > It's Danish Wikipedia's turn to turn 15. (: > > In those 15 years, the Danish community and passers-by have together > created a bit over 223000 articles. They had a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMDE-update: Christian Rickerts might become Undersecretary of State

Wow. Good luck with all this :) Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv 2016-12-05 13:06 GMT+02:00 Tim Moritz Hector : > Dear Wikimedians, > > On Saturday, the Green Party has resolved the coalition agreement for the > future Berlin government and nominated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulation, Hebrew Wikipedia

Wow, congratulations! כל הכבוד :) Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv 2016-12-29 17:10 GMT+02:00 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel : > Hi, > > I'm happy to share with you that this morning the 200,000th article has > been written on the Hebrew Wikipedia - The Southern Pudu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

and Ukrainian :) and per Amir about instructions Best regards, antanana 2017-04-21 20:03 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni : > If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this thread? > Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :) > > בתאריך 21

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMIL General Assembly meeting and Board elections 2017

Congratulations! Best regards, antanana 2017-05-09 12:01 GMT+03:00 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel : > Dear all, > > Yesterday (8.5.17) Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) held a general assembly meeting, > during which the members held the elections for members of the Board of > WMIL. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New board at Wikimedia Estonia

Congratulations! And thank you for keeping us in the loop :) Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv 2018-02-18 17:07 GMT+02:00 Tanel Pern : > Dear friends, > > Wikimedia Eesti is happy to announce the election of a new board at our > yesterday's general assembly. The new

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

It also does not seem to work correctly on mobile (android): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMFnewsiteonandroidmobile.png Best regards, antanana On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 17:47 Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 8 August 2018 at 15:23, Shabab Mustafa > wrote: > > > I had to turn off my

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New board of Wikimedia Venezuela

Congratulations! And warm welcome to Marianny and Lourdes! Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv пн, 10 груд. 2018 о 10:40 Oscar Costero пише: > Dear Wikimedians, > > At our seventh general assembly on November 24, the members of Wikimedia > Venezuela elected its new board, whose members

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Serbia board members

Welcome, Teodora! Thank you Filip, Marko and the whole team! And congratulations, Miroslav! :) З повагою / Best regards, antanana Disclaimer: This letter is sent in my Wikimedia volunteer capacity, not as a Board member of Wikimedia Foundation пн, 9 груд. 2019 о 23:37 Filip Maljkovic пише: >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: News about some CTeam transitions in Wikimedia Foundation

Hello, Ashwin, would this link work for you? https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/N6GHEXM3KTPODS33VQAN7NZKMMPNFA4S/ З повагою / Best regards, antanana Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine Wiki Loves Earth International team Disclaimer: This letter is sent

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Книжковий Арсенал 2022: потрібні волонтери

Усім привіт! 25—29 травня пройде XI міжнародний фестиваль «Книжковий Арсенал» у Києві. Плануємо мати стенд з презентацією ГО «Вікімедіа Україна» на фестивалі, і потрібні волонтери, які будуть у ці дні (або один чи кілька днів) чергувати на стенді. Волонтери отримають футболки, у яких потрібно

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Hiba Abu Nada, RIP

very sad news, thank you, Andy, for sharing this. a loss of any innocent life is sad, and loss of civilians to unjustified violence in any and all wars is horrible... and losing a fellow Wikimedian is especially painful -- i wish to read a book by her some day, for now i can only commemorate her

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Goodbye and see you around

Oh, Biyanto, so sorry to read you are leaving Wikimedia Indonesia -- but I am glad you are moving to your next adventure: wishing you all the best with your studies. And I hope we shall be able to meet in the wikiverse at some point! З повагою / Best regards, antanana Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine