Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appreciation shown on Wikipedia

[Kalliope Tsouroupidou]

Love this!! What a great way to show appreciation further than words.

K.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Romaine Wiki 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Past Saturday during the new year's event in Leiden, the Netherlands, the
> Dutch Wikipedia community reached the annual prizes for most valued
> contributions to this Wikipedia in 2016.
>
> In six categories users and projects were nominated by the community and in
> a closed voting they decided which of them should receive the physical
> appreciation.
>
> The most valued contributors received a stone statue of an owl, standing
> for wisdom.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiUilen_2016_(2).jpg
>
> See for more photos of the ceremony and statues at:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiUilen_
> ceremony_2016,_21_January_2017
>
> More information about the special awards can be found at:
> https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiUilen
>
> Congratulations to all receivers!
>
> Romaine
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[Wikimedia-l] Appreciation shown on Wikipedia

[Romaine Wiki]

Hi all,

Past Saturday during the new year's event in Leiden, the Netherlands, the
Dutch Wikipedia community reached the annual prizes for most valued
contributions to this Wikipedia in 2016.

In six categories users and projects were nominated by the community and in
a closed voting they decided which of them should receive the physical
appreciation.

The most valued contributors received a stone statue of an owl, standing
for wisdom.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiUilen_2016_(2).jpg

See for more photos of the ceremony and statues at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiUilen_ceremony_2016,_21_January_2017

More information about the special awards can be found at:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiUilen

Congratulations to all receivers!

Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appreciation

[Luis Villa]

Thanks for the kind words, Pete.

For what it is worth, other details on our initial proposal to FDC are on
meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_2016-17_Annual_Planning_Recommendation
Note that this was the initial proposal, and we are deliberately trying to
keep it fluid, so some things will inevitably change.

I would urge everyone to keep expectations in check: this process will be a
first at this scale for both us and FDC. As with any good experiment(s),
some will succeed and others will fail; hopefully we'll learn along the
way, of course.

Luis

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:

> Today in the Metrics & Activities meeting, the WMF took a significant step
> toward improving its transparency and accountability -- something under
> much discussion in recent weeks.
>
> The cause of this was not the recent drama around the Board, but a
> recommendation given by the FDC in November 2015, that the WMF should hold
> its own financial decisions to a standard similar to that expected of the
> organizations it funds.
>
> Kudos to the FDC for taking the initial step, the WMF board for approving
> the recommendation, and Luis Villa (who discussed the issue in some depth
> at the meeting) and everyone at WMF who worked toward implementing the
> recommendation. I'm sure many of us will be looking forward to the results.
>
> I have discussed this in a bit more detail on my blog:
> http://wikistrategies.net/fdc-recommendation/
>
> -Pete
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appreciation

[Dariusz Jemielniak]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:

>
> The cause of this was not the recent drama around the Board, but a
> recommendation given by the FDC in November 2015, that the WMF should hold
> its own financial decisions to a standard similar to that expected of the
> organizations it funds.
>

Yes, the FDC has been in discussion about this since at least 2013, and my
hope is that 2016 will start a good example and tradition.

In principle, the way I see it (and it is my personal view only), there
should be different standards for small/grassroot organizations (let's say,
up to 100,000$ budget), medium ones (100k-1m), and the large, fully
professional ones, including WMF, so I think that as a final outcome WMF
should set standards, that will be higher than required from most of the
organizations. But one step at a time.

best,

dariusz




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prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego
i grupy badawczej NeRDS
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
http://n wrds.kozminski.edu.pl

członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
członek Komitetu Polityki Naukowej MNiSW

Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego
autorstwa http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010

Recenzje
Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
Pacific Standard:
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/
Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia
The Wikipedian:
http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge
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[Wikimedia-l] Appreciation

[Pete Forsyth]

Today in the Metrics & Activities meeting, the WMF took a significant step
toward improving its transparency and accountability -- something under
much discussion in recent weeks.

The cause of this was not the recent drama around the Board, but a
recommendation given by the FDC in November 2015, that the WMF should hold
its own financial decisions to a standard similar to that expected of the
organizations it funds.

Kudos to the FDC for taking the initial step, the WMF board for approving
the recommendation, and Luis Villa (who discussed the issue in some depth
at the meeting) and everyone at WMF who worked toward implementing the
recommendation. I'm sure many of us will be looking forward to the results.

I have discussed this in a bit more detail on my blog:
http://wikistrategies.net/fdc-recommendation/

-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
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