[Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-19 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. As Daniel noted in his earlier e-mail to the list, Achal Prabhala is now a Wikimedia Fellow.[1] I actually missed this announcement as it didn't hit wikimediaannounce-l or this list (foundation-l), it apparently only got posted to the blog, but that's not really here nor there. There have bee

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing our GLAM fellow, Liam Wyatt

2011-01-19 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Congratulations Liam! regards Arun Bangalore, India On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Daniel Phelps wrote: > Hello All, > > Following in quick succession from the recent announcements of fellowships > for both Achal Prabhala and Lennart Guldbransson I am pleased to announce > our sixth fellow,

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing our GLAM fellow, Liam Wyatt

2011-01-19 Thread aude
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Daniel Phelps wrote: > Hello All, > > Following in quick succession from the recent announcements of fellowships > for both Achal Prabhala and Lennart Guldbransson I am pleased to announce > our sixth fellow, Liam Wyatt, based in Sydney. During this one year projec

[Foundation-l] Announcing our GLAM fellow, Liam Wyatt

2011-01-19 Thread Daniel Phelps
Hello All, Following in quick succession from the recent announcements of fellowships for both Achal Prabhala and Lennart Guldbransson I am pleased to announce our sixth fellow, Liam Wyatt, based in Sydney. During this one year project Liam will be working to build the capacity of the Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] propuesta de proyectos

2011-01-19 Thread Michael Snow
On 1/19/2011 1:35 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Don't ask how the foundation could help your projects, ask how your > projects can help the foundation. Clever, but needs editing. In contrast with the original quotation, the foundation is not intended as an object of patriotism, or an entity to be bu

Re: [Foundation-l] propuesta de proyectos

2011-01-19 Thread Colombia Pérez Muñoz
Ok, teniendo en cuenta el mensaje anteriorcómo pueden nuestros proyectos de wikis para la gestión del conocimiento aportar a la funcación? Queremos articularnos a los desarrollos que sean pertinentes para seguir fortaleciendo el uso de estas herramientas estratégicas en la sociedad del cono

Re: [Foundation-l] propuesta de proyectos

2011-01-19 Thread Pedro Sanchez
2011/1/19 Colombia Pérez Muñoz : > Hola: soy candidata al doctorado en Sociedad del Conocimiento y la > informaciòn de la Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, mi tesis se llama "wikis > para la gestión del conocimiento en la universidad". Trabajo en la > Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia como Dire

[Foundation-l] propuesta de proyectos

2011-01-19 Thread Colombia Pérez Muñoz
Hola: soy candidata al doctorado en Sociedad del Conocimiento y la informaciòn de la Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, mi tesis se llama "wikis para la gestión del conocimiento en la universidad". Trabajo en la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia como Directora Nacional de Planeación. La Universi

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

2011-01-19 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
Now, I found it. Indeed, I exaggerated (not several hundreds, just a hundred, and not overnight, but over two or three days, but the idea is still the same) The poll: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum/Archives/2008-07#Global_sysops_.28poll.29_.28closed.29 The proposal: http://meta.wi

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

2011-01-19 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
I do not have it ready, and I would need to search. May be somebody else has it ready. Some details may slightly differ from what I said, since it was smth like couple of years ago. Cheers Yaroslav On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:10:13 -0300, Noein wrote: > On 19/01/2011 06:04, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrot

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

2011-01-19 Thread Noein
On 19/01/2011 06:04, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > I remember > still how in the middle of tough but slowly progressing discussion on > global admins on Meta within a day several hundred en.wp users apparently > unhappy with the fact that somebody may be rolling back their edits came, > voted no,

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

2011-01-19 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
I basically agree that the big communities are now too big to take major course changing community decisions. I do not follow so closely what is going on in en.wp, however, the never-ending-story of flagged revisions could be a good example. Another never-ending-story on Global arbcom / Wikicounci

[Foundation-l] EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 4 Number: 123

2011-01-19 Thread EN Wikizine
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