Springer in cooperation with the European Mathematical Society creates
Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki:
http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Main_Page
Invitation to contribute: http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/node/2671
Notice that it is seeded with 8,000 entries from the Kluwer-published
Hi all,
This is a small but common task :) I was writing up some tips for
scheduling a meeting in the wiki-verse for someone and thought what
the heck, I should put this on meta as well. So here it is:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices_in_scheduling_a_meeting
Please edit -- I know
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Carmen yarru...@charter.net wrote:
For example, in the encyclopedic Wikipedia, there's one article called
Brooklyn Bridge...
Actually, I've just considered this a bit longer (for my sins).
Forwarding to Wikimedia-l
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From: Matt Halprin matt.halp...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Internal-l] CSBS 2012 - Results
To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed
subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org
All,
This is notice to the community that the WMF Board has two meetings
planned in the near future:
* June 6, online meeting to discuss the WMF annual plan
* July 11 (before Wikimania), our regularly scheduled in-person meeting
Agendas will be posted at:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Little bit confused as to who this chap is... any ideas?
It looks like he works for AboutUs.org:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Michael Peel
michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
My understanding of this line of argument was that images would be displayed
where you would expect them to be displayed (e.g. the article on penis or
vagina would naturally include a picture of a penis or
All,
FYI
The Board of Trustees passed a resolution extending and making
permanent the Board Visitors visitors program, which we tried out for
a one-year trial in 2011.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_Visitors_%282012%29
The language is the same as that in the resolution
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
In what sense do these visitors have a one-year term when they are
actually just attending one meeting?
In the sense that someone could attend any of the meetings happening
within that year, as agreed on by the board
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedia Community
Here's a copy of an email I have just sent to all the individual community
mailing lists in India.
I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting
Wikimedia in India. I
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Amir E. Aharoni, 29/07/2012 20:27:
In the 2012-13 WMF plan document I saw an interesting thing:
We’ve hosted key community stakeholders such as English Wikipedia’s
ArbCom and Portuguese Wikipedia’s top
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedia friends and colleagues,
It is bittersweet for me to share with all of you that I will be leaving the
Wikimedia Foundation at the end of August to relocate to Australia for
personal reasons.
:( We
IIRC: languages defaulted closed in a first iteration of the new skin,
and then following discussion/complaints they was set to default open
again. Please don't ask me for links to said discussion, I don't
remember where it was :)
Re: the redesigns --
Personally I don't like this particular
Speaking of moving strategy pages to meta...
I was recently looking for the information that is contained in these pages:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Europe
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_and_North_Africa
to help with that seems possible.
-george william herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:01 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com
wrote:
(off-topic for Wikimedia, on-topic for access to knowledge in general)
The below news is sad, but not unusual, and increasingly
I know many of you will have seen this on other lists already, but
it's pretty exciting news.
-- phoebe
- Forwarded Message -
California universities to produce 50 open-source textbooks
via Ars Technica by Timothy B. Lee on 9/28/12
California Governor Jerry Brown gave his pen a workout
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow. I honestly didn't think the conflict of interest issue was this
serious. What does giving up the next fundraiser due to the WM-UK
budget? Does this change reflect a lack of trust between the WMF and
the current WM-UK
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thank you for enabling it again. I had read about the blind tests in
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Quality_assessment
before but I see some major changes in the graphs, which are a bit hard to
A notice of the 6th annual Russian Wikiconference, forwarded with
permission; please contact Stasie, below, if you have any questions!
Phoebe
-- Forwarded message --
From: Анастасия Львова stasielv...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:20 AM
Subject: [Wmfcc-l] 6th Russian
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
I don't see how this validates the fact that you did not consult the
community on these changes. If the changes are fairly trivial and
legalistic, then the community will likely have little objection. But as
you
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote:
The inaugural Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) is pleased to announce
recommendations [1] on Round 1 of funds allocations for the year 2012-13.
The WMF Board of Trustees will make a decision on these
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:10 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 December 2012 09:04, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
For easier comparability of the two banner behaviors -
Activation on hover
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congrats to everyone who worked on the Knight grant!
+1, this is great! Congratulations to all!
best,
Phoebe
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:51 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Keegan Peterzell wrote:
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS
Nice. Thanks for putting this together. :-)
MZMcBride
+1, thanks, this is a great report! It's very cool
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Dear all,
As you may have noticed, in December there was a call for new members for
the affiliations committee. The affiliations committee is entrusted to
advise the Board of Trustees on matters of recognition of
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Christophe Henner
christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm I might be mistaken but WMF board members, selected or not by
chapters, haven't access to chapter-l. But I might be mistaken on that.
--
Christophe
Correct; I didn't have access to chapters-l
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:33 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
This looks pretty substantial:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs
each Federal agency with
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
On 14 March 2013 13:00, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch
wrote:
Thanks Andrew and Philippe for your explanation and links.
So that is a plan to build a reserve of funds that is so big that the
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Lisa Gruwell lgruw...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
My team here at the foundation has begun to do a little leg work so that we
are ready to go, if the Board should decide to pursue an endowment. We
have begun to tip our toes into the world of planned giving and have
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
On 3 Apr 2013, at 19:46, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 3 April 2013 03:34, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
So, rather than close the internal wiki, I'd like to propose a
fwd'ing to wikimedia-l, for those who may not follow Wikimania news.
-- Forwarded message --
From: phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2014 bid meetings: this weekend, IRC
To: Wikimania general list (open
Forwarding for Dirk. WikiSym/OpenSym will be in Hong Kong this year, just
before Wikimania; submissions are still open for the community track of
this research conference.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Dirk Riehle d...@riehle.org
Date: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:56 AM
Subject:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:17 PM, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear all,
A small group of long-time Wikimaniacs have been working on the
perrenial plan to produce a Wikimania Committee
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
It's good to see so much interest in this thread.
The purpose of transparency is not feedback. It is valuable in its own
right.
It reduces surprise and supports planning discussions elsewhere in the
movement.
I do
Hi all,
Here is a question that came up during today's US GLAM consortium meeting:
what's the current status of the 'movement partners' affiliation?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/Movement_Partners
Is recognition of movement partners something that AffComm will be
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote:
I agree. We should limit it to only community members, or to give equal
right to everyone.
Asaf, you right, but we are talking also about the
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Erlend Bjørtvedt erl...@wikimedia.nowrote:
Dear Nathan,
I did not suggest what you say I suggested. My proposal was not to send
funds away to weak chapters.
The WMHK case illustrates exactly the point I wanted to make. The WMF has
made reaching out to the
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:33 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
Here is a question that came up during today's US GLAM consortium
meeting:
what's the current status of the 'movement
Dear Bence and all,
This is a very good report! It is very clear, just the right length and
gives a good picture of all of the activity of the committee -- both
accomplishments and frustrations. AffComm did a lot in 2012! Thank you very
much for all of your and the committee's work on behalf of
Submissions for Wikimania are now closed, and there are lots and lots of
good ones:
http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Submissions
Attendees are encouraged to go through and indicate what sessions are of
interest to them, to provide feedback to the program committee. Please do
so
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net
wrote:
These are questions directed at the WMF—for you regular folks, I have a
riddle (I'll give a WikiLove barnstar to the first person to submit a
correct answer). There is /at least/ one community member who does
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Casey Brown, 13/05/2013 07:05:
[...] [Note that I'm speaking generally -- I personally think Gayle can
handle criticism and she seems very nice. She also probably had no
idea this would create dramz. My comment
Hooray!!! Felicitaciones! This is so exciting. And hooray for 30,000 lists!
(anexo:) :)
-- phoebe
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks!
Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers
wikimedians want to share
Perhaps of interest to many Wikimedians: the Endangered Languages project
recently launched a new layout, making it easier to find and submit
information on languages that are in the catalog of endangered languages
that they are building. Worth a look.
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
--
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Pine says no one suggested firing Gayle or Philippe; I think it's
clear that whatever semantics are invoked, he did suggest just that.
That's beyond inappropriate, in my view, and an example of the toxic
environment that will
I ran across this paragraph in the preface to O'Reilly's new book
Encyclopedia of Electronic Components. [1] I'm not sure that I've ever
seen an evaluation of Wikipedia's electronics coverage before, but to me
this sounds like a pretty good description of a lot of our engineering
articles (at
Congratulations WMSE on all your outreach work! *11* edit-a-thons in
April: wow! And it sounds like you're doing good work with Wikiversity too
which is super cool.
also, I watched the references video (with the sound off :) ) and it's
really good, very clear -- we should have these for all
And this is also a great report ... I'm especially pleased to see all of
the library outreach happening in Italy via WMIT!! :)
I just started a page to globally list these library/wikimedia events
projects on the outreach wiki... still *very* much under construction so
please help out!
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Peter Southwood, 02/06/2013 07:43:
So we stand up to small bullies, by not to big ones.
Nice to know where the line is drawn when it comes to principles.
Why would you want to share visual identity with a
Ooh, I didn't know you were running that calendar! Is it for any kind of
Wikimedia-related event?
,
-- Phoebe
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Nicole Ebber nicole.eb...@wikimedia.dewrote:
I don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but probably this google
calendar can serve this purpose.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrak...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Milos, lets call it an extended sabbatical instead! You never know when you
might come back, and you are always welcome :)
Indeed :) Some sabbaticals are longer than others, but I don't think a
person ever stops
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
And to everyone who actually ran the elections - easily forgotten but not
if you work opposite one of them!
Well done.
Jon.
+1 -- the election committee are unsung heroes, with a tough job.
Thanks very much
And what happened to 'assume good flavor'... I mean faith! Assume Good
Faith! I am sure that Rory has only the best intentions. But it is true
that his message could be misinterpreted.
I think we should all take a step back and try our very best not to eat
each other. I'm sure that if they don't
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the text of
our book How Wikipedia Works, and the text is now in Wikibooks:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works
I'd like to issue an open invitation to help format and update the book. We
published HWW in 2008,
FYI, forwarding.
And, if you are attending (or interested in) Wikimania, and are not yet a
member of the Wikimania-l list (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l), I highly
encourage you to join (at least for the weeks before the conference) -- it
is where news and
Right -- and if not that specifically, I'd imagine most experienced users
do have various hacks, scripts, gadgets etc installed that we've
accumulated over the years. I know many people who have been editing for a
long time have a custom skin as well.
I don't know how any of these might or might
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Craig Franklin
cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote:
For the benefit of chapters that are interested in this space, can you
offer any examples of projects that are of an appropriate size and
Hi all,
Every year at Wikimania the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees hosts a
panel where they take questions from the audience on the work of the WMF
and the Board.
In past years the board has also taken questions via IRC. This year we'd
also like to provide the opportunity to leave
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Daniel Mietchen
daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote:
I could imagine that certain types of bots, tools and gadgets would
benefit if handled and developed with support from a chapter.
For instance,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Citation_bot
is used
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:46 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:36 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Daniel Mietchen
daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote:
I could imagine that certain types of bots, tools
/29 phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com
Hi all,
Every year at Wikimania the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees hosts
a
panel where they take questions from the audience on the work of the WMF
and the Board.
In past years the board has also taken questions via IRC. This year we'd
28, 2013 at 8:31 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
Every year at Wikimania the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees hosts
a
panel where they take questions from the audience on the work of the WMF
and the Board.
In past years the board has also taken questions
On Aug 15, 2013 4:53 AM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all,
During Wikimania's QA panel, the Board lamented that, as always, they did
not have enough time to answer all the questions from the audience and
posted beforehand on-wiki. They did say they were accessible to
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
phoebe ayers, 15/08/2013 12:26:
And lastly of course what's been on everyone's mind lately is we must
continue to try to figure out the best way to develop and roll out
products
in our complex, opinionated
In the U.S. I encourage people to check out what database subscriptions
their local public library offers -- many larger public libraries offer a
surprising number of online journals databases that are available to
anyone who has a library card, which you can generally get for free if you
live in
I just wanted to say thanks to Jake and everyone who has worked on the
Wikipedia Library project -- this is a really cool and exciting set of
initiatives. I've seen a lot of interest lately from libraries in various
Wikipedia projects, and this outreach is definitely a big part of that.
Also, a
Thank you, Megan :)
(besides the part where we get to continue to operate) the notes
were/are my favorite part of the fundraiser. So nice!
best,
phoebe
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Megan Hernandez
mhernan...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
Each year that we run the fundraiser, readers
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
(just for the record: I'm not particularly against this amendment, I
actually never assumed that files would be treated differently from texts
anyway in this kind of stuff. Just plain curiosity.)
Neither did the
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for this, but even with the amendments it sounds pretty weak.
The closing text just shows how helpless we are in helping subjects
when their article is under the watchful eye of some Wikipedia editor
who feels that
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 12 December 2013 19:40, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
With a nod to Andy's comment, as a
community I think we may want to review our progress in the last few
years on the BLP issue, and have a broad
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:55 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Your logic here is broken. There are certainly times to have widely
advertised discussions, but doing so is not free: they often require
creating and deploying banners (with an associated increased risk of
banner blindness),
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:54 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
The 2009 resolution on biographies of living people was about
identifiable people, given they were the subject of a biography. This
new 'media about living people' resolution doesn't make any such
distinction for media,
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski
tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote:
While I appreciate the lengthy discussion about the scope of the resolution
and about the ways it can be implemented in on-wiki processes, I would like
to raise a different question.
I note with some interest
I don't think this has been sent out yet:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitrends/2013.html
(thanks to Itzik for drawing my attention to it, and Johan for coding it up!)
This is fascinating. It's interesting that some languages (like
English) have lots of results that are likely people trying to get
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote:
A basic income would remove the need for such accounting overhead, since
one could just focus on how to best contribute to society, without having
to worry about how to monetize and own every contribution. But absent
such
Hooray! I'm glad that this is happening and congrats to WM-NYC DC. I hope
to attend!
-- phoebe
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.comwrote:
I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are
working in collaboration to host the first national
And a big thank you to legal and the LCA team for their skilled handling of
these issues, including extensive consultations and developing a
community-centric policy. I am proud that we now have such a thoughtful,
open-focused, and yes, unconventional trademark policy for our projects.
best,
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm meeting with the Boundless team tomorrow.
How could they improve attribution?
Looking at the g-book that James linked (and without paying for a download
etc) I don't see any particular attribution at all in the book
Hi all,
I want to draw your attention to two Wikimedia Board of Trustees decisions
that were recently published, regarding funds allocated to the FDC/Annual
plan grant process and Board approval of chapter/thematic organization
status. In a nutshell, the Board decided to allocate approximately
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:30 PM, rupert THURNER
rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote:
pheobe, concerning your motion to vote saying:
wikimedia foundation grows, the affiliated organisations do not grow
the affiliated organisations are recommended to seek other funding
(which the foundation
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:46 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:30 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com
wrote:
pheobe, concerning your motion to vote saying:
wikimedia foundation grows, the affiliated organisations do not grow
Per Fae, a short response in bullet points:
* I'm sorry. I take your criticisms seriously.
* How we got to this point, as I see it*: I think the Board felt we had
gotten input from AffCom because we saw their responses to the proposal to
change to a usergroup-first approval model, which was
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Gregory Varnum
gregory.var...@gmail.comwrote:
One of the (many) problems that I have with this is that it both makes
these user groups more dependent on movement funds for a longer period of
time, but then caps those funds in the same decision.
One quick
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Gregory Varnum
gregory.var...@gmail.comwrote:
While AffCom will likely be making an official statement later, I am having
a hard time not chiming in and I do think it is worth pointing out that
AffCom was not consulted in a manner I think most of us would have
change. Of course groups might want to become a chapter later on, but
that's not exactly always an easy process...
On Feb 12, 2014 1:20 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
If a group was in the process of applying to affcom, we will consider then
case by case - this decision does not apply
Hi Greg!
A few fast notes before I go to bed :)
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Gregory Varnum
gregory.var...@gmail.comwrote:
Phoebe,
I appreciate you sharing this information - it fills in a few gaps. I am
still concerned that there was not more opportunity for input prior to the
Hi all,
A few notes from my own perspective:
1) I'm glad to see this lively debate! I hope the right solution comes out
of it and is iron-clad against contingencies, insofar as possible :)
2) I don't want to see the projects used and misused as a platform to
achieve goals other than our mission
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Anders Wennersten
m...@anderswennersten.se wrote:
phoebe ayers skrev 2014-02-20 20:16:
3) I think this proposal is trying to addressing a long-standing issue of
COI editing. That issue was recently brought to the forefront again by the
actions of a few
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
My dear friends in Ukraine, you are cool people and excellent
Wikimedians.
Know that I care about you and wish you peace
Hello everyone!
So, to change the subject entirely, I just discovered that this is the 10
year anniversary of foundation-l/wikimedia-l!
Foundation-l was founded in April 2004, and was renamed to wikimedia-l two
years ago:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/
Foundation-l was
Hi Mike,
Sure. Both were open discussions, and no decisions were taken or specific
proposals developed. And neither topic is in any way limited to being a
board discussion: both are broad-ranging topics concerning all of us. We
took these up to, as a board, have some time to step back and think
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Interesting thoughts. I have a few brief comments, and will engage further
(on Meta, perhaps) later:
2. This does include free knowledge _about_ every last language of the
world, so by all means: let us preserve all
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.comwrote:
[snip]
For the things we could do, I quote form other people:
* encourage Wikisource, Commons, Wiktionary as primary projects for
new/endangered languages.
You could scan books or documents if the language is
Congratulations Mexico! I can't wait to visit the amazing Mexico City :)
And, a big thank you to all the bidders, everyone who commented and
participated, and to the selection jury, steering committee, and Ellie.
This is the first year in a long time that I haven't been involved in the
Wikimania
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:13 AM, edward edw...@logicmuseum.com wrote:
On 08/05/2014 17:58, geni wrote:
So while it is unlikely that a published journal article would be a
complete hoax
This is because they have a robust review process, which Wikipedia
doesn't. Enough said.
Geni did say
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From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On 8 May 2014 19:27, Anthony Cole ahcole...@gmail.com
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:31 AM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi, can someone with knowledge of WMF's thinking expand on this statement
from Lila?
Starting the process for our next strategic planning exercise, which will
be different from last time, and focused on improving our
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
As of today, I am Wikipedian in Residence [1] at ORCID [2].
The role is described in [3]. Please let me know if I can assist you,
in that capacity.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ORCID
[2]
2014 03:39, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Andy Mabbett
a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
As of today, I am Wikipedian in Residence [1] at ORCID [2].
The role is described in [3]. Please let me know if I can assist you,
in that capacity
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Not quite sure what you're shouting about, Gerard. The amendment clearly
gives individual projects the right to have an alternative to this
particular section of the terms of use, and that alternative can be either
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