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What I thought was a simple question has generated a volley of strong
answers, even some hostility. This was not the original topic. So I will
wrap my intervention and be gone for a while.
==Representation==
As far as I know, there is no survey of the
Good Job !
We were inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM who Spoke the
freesb.eu conf in Vlore Albania and motivated us to start our own Photo
Contest for Kosovo.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/BestPictureOfKosovoForWikipediaContestThere
is still alot to do, most of the activity
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Brian J Mingus
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
>
>> >
>> > As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
>> > staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
>> > As this would/should involve the first deployment o
News and notes: No further Bundesarchiv image donations; Dutch and
German awards; anniversary preparations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-22/News_and_notes
In the news: Jimbo Wales interviewed and parodied; Wikipedia in politics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip
On 22 Nov 2010, at 23:17, Brian J Mingus wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
>
>>>
>>> As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
>>> staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
>>> As this would/should involve the first deployment of semanti
I started this thread to discuss Wikimedia's CSR. Unfortunately, people are now
debating salaries for the major part of this thread...
~Abbas.
> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:53:32 -0500
> From: nawr...@gmail.com
> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social R
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> >
> > As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
> > staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
> > As this would/should involve the first deployment of semantic
> > mediawiki by WMF, it would be good for that someo
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:31 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel wrote:
> >
> >> Could this be part of dbpedia?
> >
> > dbpedia is about collating the information available on Wikipedia and
> providing that as a database for others to use. This is about hav
>
> As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
> staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
> As this would/should involve the first deployment of semantic
> mediawiki by WMF, it would be good for that someone to already
> experienced with semantic medawiki.
>
>
Agree. S
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:42 PM, wrote:
> In a message dated 11/22/2010 2:10:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> wikipe...@frontier.com writes:
>
>
> > They aren't - as a
> > member of the audit committee, I have full confidence that the Wikimedia
> > Foundation's tax reports are using the appropriate
In a message dated 11/22/2010 2:10:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,
wikipe...@frontier.com writes:
> They aren't - as a
> member of the audit committee, I have full confidence that the Wikimedia
> Foundation's tax reports are using the appropriate categories for
> expenses.
So auditing is now
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel wrote:
>
>> Could this be part of dbpedia?
>
> dbpedia is about collating the information available on Wikipedia and
> providing that as a database for others to use. This is about having a
> central information store that can be edited to add inform
On 11/22/2010 1:08 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/22/2010 11:31:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> wikipe...@frontier.com writes:
>> On 11/22/2010 10:47 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
>>> In a message dated 11/22/2010 10:33:53 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>>> rkald...@wikimedia.org write
(also including foundation-l as this isn't really a commons-specific discussion)
On 22 Nov 2010, at 21:04, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> A wikidata project could use semantic mediawiki from the outset, and
>> be seeded with data from dbpedia.
>>
>> A lot of existing & proposed projects would benefit fr
In a message dated 11/22/2010 11:31:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
wikipe...@frontier.com writes:
> On 11/22/2010 10:47 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 11/22/2010 10:33:53 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > rkald...@wikimedia.org writes:
> >> * I believe "Salary and other compensatio
On 11/22/2010 10:47 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/22/2010 10:33:53 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> rkald...@wikimedia.org writes:
>> * I believe "Salary and other compensation" includes payment to
>> contractors, of which we currently have about 20-30 (which aren't
>> counted as e
In a message dated 11/22/2010 10:33:53 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rkald...@wikimedia.org writes:
> * I believe "Salary and other compensation" includes payment to
> contractors, of which we currently have about 20-30 (which aren't
> counted as employees). >>
>
Why so many, and contractors gen
A couple quick points:
* Average rent for an apartment in San Francisco is $2,282/month. If you
exclude the neighborhoods where you're likely to get shot, it's more
like $2500-$3000.
* I believe "Salary and other compensation" includes payment to
contractors, of which we currently have about 20-
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:13 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>>> For some time I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I don't know any
>>> African American Wikimedian. For some time just because I am living in
>>> a European country without African popul
Hello,
A coincidence: last weekend, in Germany and the Netherlands both the
winners of photo contests were made public. In Germany the Zedler
Medaille jury gave no first and second prize, while in the Netherlands
the competition Wiki loves monuments honoured quite a number of
winners.
(In English
For those who miss Jimmy while surfing other sites.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/idkjdjficifbfjjkdkiimioljbloddpl
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On 22 November 2010 05:00, David Gerard wrote:
> On 22 November 2010 11:10, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
>
>> Glad to read this question here, have often wondered about this myself.
>> User:Emelian1977, an African American PhD student named Brenton Stewart,
>> conducted a survey of Black American Wikiped
> If the Foundation wanted to enquire, or do something about the relative
> dearth of African American editors, a good person to contact would
> probably
> be Henry Louis Gates
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates
>
> He's a Harvard professor, famous for having been arrested on the fr
On 22 November 2010 03:18, Yann Forget wrote:
> BTW, I am looking for financial support, or some free hosting solution.
> My idea was and still is that this project should be managed by a community,
> not by myself alone. I am open to any proposition.
Sounds like something that would fit nicely
On 22 November 2010 07:26, MZMcBride wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> What are some examples of particular current problems that you feel
>> this position would fix?
> I'm not sure I agree that this position is designed to fix any current
> problems. The task of fixing the problems lies with thos
On 22 November 2010 11:10, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> Glad to read this question here, have often wondered about this myself.
> User:Emelian1977, an African American PhD student named Brenton Stewart,
> conducted a survey of Black American Wikipedians in 2008. I can only find a
> short write-up of hi
jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> So I think one reason why we don't see more diversity is that the
> established, predominantly white user base is giving editors from other
> backgrounds a pretty hard time!
>
You could also add in the photo of the bare chested African adolescent that was
proposed
If the Foundation wanted to enquire, or do something about the relative
dearth of African American editors, a good person to contact would probably
be Henry Louis Gates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates
He's a Harvard professor, famous for having been arrested on the front
porch o
Glad to read this question here, have often wondered about this myself.
User:Emelian1977, an African American PhD student named Brenton Stewart,
conducted a survey of Black American Wikipedians in 2008. I can only find a
short write-up of his study online:
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