Hoi,
As the discussions about all these plans is going to be in English, it will
be very much "others" telling communities how to behave, how to move
forward. The notion that policies and guidelines are good is offset by
people who found themselves not or no longer welcome and moved away. As this
i
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> Дана Friday 01 May 2009 19:06:55 Gregory Kohs написа:
> > additional jet fuel and hotel consumption (laundered sheets, poor
> recycling
> > standards, etc.) is something to consider if the polar ice melts and
> floods
>
> Laundered sheets
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
> I agree that the turnout was impressive, and I was also impressed that many
> of the wealthier chapters helped to fund travel for the less-wealthy.
>
> I was also amazed by the volunteer devs, many of whom travelled long
> distances on their
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
> Michael Snow wrote:
>> This is the statement on trademarks mentioned earlier. It both states
>> the approach we want the Wikimedia Foundation to take and directs the
>> staff to carry it out. It basically sums up what our understanding ha
2009/5/1 philippe :
> Doing them? Sure. But doing them *well*, in an organized,
> structured, fully designed method?
Going by the rate of guideline and policy growth on en there is
probably a method somewhere.
> I'm not sure we are... we're doing
> some of them really well and we're doing some
On May 1, 2009, at 4:30 PM, geni wrote:
> Doesn't really work. The flawed assumption is that very little of the
> wikimedia community cares about how others think they should move
> forward.
And that, Geni, is where I think Wikimedia is going to do it
correctly: if the plan goes as it has be
On May 1, 2009, at 3:56 PM, geni wrote:
> 2009/5/1 Stu West :
>> - There are many things we could focus on: usability, quality,
>> outreach in countries without chapters, language issues,
>> technology scalability, performance, data center expansion,
>> access for those with limited/no connectivi
Дана Friday 01 May 2009 19:06:55 Gregory Kohs написа:
> additional jet fuel and hotel consumption (laundered sheets, poor recycling
> standards, etc.) is something to consider if the polar ice melts and floods
Laundered sheets at least don't add any polution, because people would have to
launder
2009/5/1 phoebe ayers :
> Besides, this is a (slightly long) generation, which makes a useful
> human-scaled measure to think in. I really want my kids, at some
> point, to be able to say in exasperation, "Mom, this isn't *your*
> Wikipedia anymore!" Or better yet: "Grandma, we are sick and tired o
2009/5/1 Stu West :
> - There are many things we could focus on: usability, quality,
> outreach in countries without chapters, language issues,
> technology scalability, performance, data center expansion,
> access for those with limited/no connectivity,
> legal/trademark/copyright protections, etc
As someone who is relatively new to the Foundation's Board (just
over a year now) and has been through this kind of strategic
planning exercise a few times, I thought I'd share some thoughts:
- There seems to be more agreement on a high-level vision ("every
single human being can freely share in t
2009/5/1 Gregory Kohs :
> The purpose of my question was to examine the carbon impact on our global
> environment by holding this meeting in Berlin, which (by my estimation) is
> quite a ways off from the point of "least cumulative distance" that could
> have been achieved for at least the mandator
From the Chapters point of view, Berlin is pretty much as central as
you can get (restricting locations to those on the surface of the
planet!). I don't know the distribution of developers, so can't
comment about that. If you look at the board meeting alone, then yes,
it would probably mak
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Gregory Kohs wrote:
> The purpose of my question was to examine the carbon impact on our global
> environment by holding this meeting in Berlin, which (by my estimation) is
> quite a ways off from the point of "least cumulative distance" that could
> have been achi
The purpose of my question was to examine the carbon impact on our global
environment by holding this meeting in Berlin, which (by my estimation) is
quite a ways off from the point of "least cumulative distance" that could
have been achieved for at least the mandatory attendees. All of that
additi
I think this is a good idea too.
You can make a pretty template for the images produced that both
briefly explains the project and that also includes the
Category:Wikipedia_Invades_La Plata_Natural_History_Museum. I can
help you with this if you'd like.
This event documentation category would be
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:08 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Dalton
> wrote:
>> 2009/5/1 Samuel Klein :
>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Thomas Dalton
>>> wrote:
2009/4/30 Samuel Klein :
> I'd like to see Wikimedia as a community take some 300-y
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