Hi Nadine, thank you for this update. Does the French Chapter have a position on replacing bitcoin mining with foldingcoin (http://foldingcoin.net)? I hope that all Wikimedians will oppose the wasteful consumption of electricity when useful alternatives exist.
Best regards, Jim On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Nadine Le Lirzin <nlelir...@wikimedia.fr> wrote: > Hi all, > > Update on the topic. > > Since Request Network were so slow and reluctant to change their delusive > communication into a fair and clean information, Wikimédia France broke the > agreement with them. Thus, this partnership is over. > > We deleted our blog post about it. And we keep on trying to obtain the same > from Request Network (who are turning a deaf ear until now). > > Once again, sorry for the noise and thanks for alerting us, > > Nadine Le Lirzin > *Secrétaire du conseil d'administration* > *Wikimédia France* > > *Post-scriptum:* no other cryptocurrency donations project is planned ^^' > > > > > > 2018-04-28 17:12 GMT+02:00 Nadine Le Lirzin <nlelir...@wikimedia.fr>: > >> Hi all, >> >> First of all, thanks for reporting the issue. Impressive reactivity :) >> >> Then, sorry for the intempestive and unwelcome communication about this >> local partnership. The agreement is quite clear, it has been established by >> Wikimédia France (of course *not* in name of Wikimedia Foundation) and >> our partners are obviously *not allowed* to use any of Wikimedia projects >> marks. >> >> Today, Request Network updated their posts to clarify things and >> suppressed Wikipedia logo from their communication messages : >> — https://www.reddit.com/r/RequestNetwork/comments/8firkq/up >> date_to_clarify_wikimedia_france_partnership/ >> — https://blog.request.network/request-network-project- >> update-april-27th-2018-partnership-with-wikimedia- >> woocommerce-plugin-c598372e9b58 >> >> We updated our blog post as well, with an introductive warning : >> — https://www.wikimedia.fr/2018/04/27/wikimedia-france-annon >> ce-partenariat-fondation-request-network-accepter-donations- >> crypto-monnaies/ >> >> After the week-end and labor day (1 May), we are expecting that all >> occurrences of this misunderstanding have disappeared. >> >> >> Nadine Le Lirzin >> >> *Secretary of the Board* >> *Wikimédia France * >> >> >> >> 2018-04-27 16:23 GMT+02:00 Devouard (gmail) <fdevou...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Definitly confusing. >>> >>> See also this : https://blog.request.network/r >>> equest-network-project-update-april-27th-2018-partnership-wi >>> th-wikimedia-woocommerce-plugin-c598372e9b58 >>> >>> >>> Florence >>> >>> Le 27/04/2018 à 15:49, geni a écrit : >>> >>>> According to their twitter feed they have announced a partnership with >>>> something called the "Request Network" for cryptocurrency donations. >>>> Also this article here >>>> >>>> https://www.wikimedia.fr/2018/04/27/wikimedia-france-annonce >>>> -partenariat-fondation-request-network-accepter-donations-cr >>>> ypto-monnaies/ >>>> >>>> Ok. I don't approve but I'm not french so not its not an area where I >>>> can reasonably expect anyone to pay any attention to my opinions. >>>> >>>> What concerns me is that they have retweeted something claiming the >>>> partnership is with the wikimedia foundation rather than just >>>> wikimedia france: >>>> >>>> https://twitter.com/wikimedia_fr?lang=en >>>> >>>> Is some form of clarification possible? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >>> i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >>> i/Wikimedia-l >>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
