I was really surprised this morning by the fact that during the recent
days internal-l has beaten foundation-l by activity; which means that
I didn't have enough time to read everything.
Because of that, I would appreciate (as many others, I suppose) a
little digest about the present conflict.
On
"2. Do you have a suggestion as an alternative for the term "incubating
wikis"? Is the more often used "test wiki" better?"
"Test wikis" is much better. It has been used since before incubator even
existed, it is easy to understand, and I don't see a downside.
_
(after a bit of thinking, I'll post this to foundation-l after all. As a bit
of context, the whole fundraiser discussion continued on internal-l and a
discussion emerged about disconnect between the board of the WMF and the
chapters, of which the letter would be an example. Based on that discussion
On 8/11/2011 7:08 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Anyway, thanks for raising the importance of decentralization. The
> Board agrees: there's a reason it was first in our list of principles.
> To my mind "decentralization is important" raises a whole bunch of
> other important questions: is decentraliz
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 14:53, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> On 8/10/11 8:56 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
>> Perhaps I'm missing something, but where has it been suggested that chapters
>> would not remain free to raise funds independently of the WMF? My
>> impression was that the change being discussed here
Hi, gmail email account has been terminated. ;-(
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Anyone in contact with him? He has been frustrated with some recent
events [1]; I got his email during the second day of Wikimania
[madness] and I hadn't realized that I have to hurry before he closed
his email account.
I think that his insights are very important for Wikimedia movement
and that w
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 9 August 2011 18:29, geni wrote:
> > On 9 August 2011 08:18, David Gerard wrote:
> >> On 9 August 2011 05:13, Kirill Lokshin
> wrote:
>
> >>> This is all very true, and very insightful; but what does it have to do
> with
> >>> chapters?
Hi Robin,
that sounds great, I hope these things will solve some of the
problems. Thanks for your efforts.
Th.
2011/8/12 Robin Pepermans :
> Hi,
>
> @Mark: although I do not like your tone in your original post, you
> provide some good feedback (and started a thread with more feedback),
> which
Hi,
@Mark: although I do not like your tone in your original post, you
provide some good feedback (and started a thread with more feedback),
which is more than welcome.
2. Do you have a suggestion as an alternative for the term "incubating
wikis"? Is the more often used "test wiki" better?
5. I im
What is there to know?
2011/8/11 Gora Kazanskaya
> Anybody knows something about the user Drbug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) after
> the Wikimania 2011?
>
> Kazanskaya Gora.
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Wikimania 2011?
Kazanskaya Gora.
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>From: Jimmy Wales
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>Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 7:49 AM
>Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters
>
>On 8/10/11 7:22 PM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> As for the rest I encourage you to exercise your
>> moral duty by
>
> I don't think chapters are being cut off I think they are being
> centralized. Centralization, not lack of funding, is what I believe will
> make chapters ineffective. Frankly, I think cutting off their funding would
> be less detrimental (although still not a good thing) to the chapter's
> lo
On 8/10/11 8:56 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but where has it been suggested that chapters
> would not remain free to raise funds independently of the WMF? My
> impression was that the change being discussed here would merely remove
> participation in the WMF fundrais
On 8/10/11 8:51 PM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I don't think chapters are being cut off I think they are being
> centralized. Centralization, not lack of funding, is what I believe
> will make chapters ineffective.
Chapters are not being centralized. I don't know how I can be more clear.
The
On 8/10/11 7:22 PM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
> As for the rest I encourage you to exercise your
> moral duty by helping the chapters fulfill the reporting
> requirements, implement the financial controls, and operate
> transparently. You have been through this all before. You were the
> chair
You are right! TYPO!
On 8/10/11 6:14 PM, Delphine Ménard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> It would be, if that's what it were about. But I can say with
>> confidence that at the board meeting, no one spoke about any ideas even
>> remotely similar to this, and I c
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