Dear all,
The Chapters Committee[1], the committee that is mainly responsible
for the preparation of approval of new chapters is looking for five
new members, and we are looking for candidates.
The main focus of Chapcom is to guide groups of volunteers in forming
chapters. We make sure that the g
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Ting Chen wrote:
>
> Following consultation with the Wikimedia community on meta, the
> Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is now releasing the guiding
> principles below, which are intended to govern Wikimedia fundraising and
> funds dissemination practices.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
> Would this bleed over to Wikimania? That is the largest conference WMF
> organizes.
Strictly speaking, Wikimania is organized by a local organizing team/entity
(which, in recent years, has always been a chapter) rather than by the WMF,
so the
phoebe ayers wrote:
> It would be, though I'm not sure that's the most useful division --
> I'd imagine what most people want to know is what policies apply to
> all of the global projects vs what policies apply to just the WMF vs
> what policies might apply to the WMF & other wikimedia entities
>
Samuel Klein wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild)
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 19:38, Steven Walling
>> wrote:
>>> I think it makes sense to better delineate what applies to different
>>> groups.
>>
>> Agreed. A good starting point is the navigation template for
>
Actually, what is WMF technical events specifically? It would be helpful to
mention what those are.
Would this bleed over to Wikimania? That is the largest conference WMF
organizes. It is a bit unclear about the scope. It states that it applies
to "Foundation-organized activities" and then "Wikime
So then perhaps we should modify the intro as I suggested below. :) Right now
the intro says "and applies to Foundation-organized activities." - what's a
wording that would be more helpful to folks?
Also, I don't assume everyone is - I was speaking to MZMcBride.
-greg
On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:
Mr. Gregory Varnum, 22/01/2012 00:33:
MZMcBride - I guess I'm unclear what the purpose of this thread is. Just a FYI
or are you asking for something specific to be done? I'm not sure how you got
confused about its scope given the listserv you forwarded this from which
outlined all this in grea
I fully supported this policy's development and feel volunteers impacted by it
were directly involved in its authoring.
Should the intro be modified to make it clearer this is for tech conferences?
Although I personally didn't find that confusing.
MZMcBride - I guess I'm unclear what the purpos
Strainu wrote:
> Has anyone made an analysis on what the license change would mean to
> Wikipedia? Looking at the ODbL FAQ on the OSM website, it seems that
> using maps would not be affected. But what about using data from OSM
> in our articles? Also, my unterstanding is that reverse import of dat
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jesse (Pathoschild)
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 19:38, Steven Walling
> wrote:
>> I think it makes sense to better delineate what applies to different
>> groups.
>
> Agreed. A good starting point is the navigation template for
> Board-approved policies, whic
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:32 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
>> Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the
>> policy and it now lives at
>>
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy
Thank you for working on this, Sumana.
> I do
Hi,
Has anyone made an analysis on what the license change would mean to
Wikipedia? Looking at the ODbL FAQ on the OSM website, it seems that
using maps would not be affected. But what about using data from OSM
in our articles? Also, my unterstanding is that reverse import of data
(that is from Wi
1]On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
>
> David, I'm a bit surprised that you think a policy that includes the
> language "Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference
> venue or talks." is a good idea. I think it'd be difficult to have a
> discussion about Wiki
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> I think it'd be difficult to have a
> discussion about Wikimedia Commons with a rule like this.
Right now, the policy is pretty much framed around technical events
like hackathons, because that was what motivated its creation. In that
context, e
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 19:38, Steven Walling wrote:
> I think it makes sense to better delineate what applies to different
> groups.
Agreed. A good starting point is the navigation template for
Board-approved policies, which distinguishes between global policies
(like the licensing policy) and s
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:
> MZMcBride, 21/01/2012 01:19:
>
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies#Policies lists policies of
>> the
>> Wikimedia Foundation.
>>
>> Would it make sense to sub-divide these policies into sub-lists? It seems
>> very strange
MZMcBride, 21/01/2012 23:32:
Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the
policy and it now lives at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy
I don't think the Volunteer Development Coordinator (or any Wikimedia
Foundat
David Gerard wrote:
> On 21 January 2012 22:50, Steven Walling wrote:
>
>> If a policy makes good sense, we clearly need it, and feedback about the
>> text is mostly positive, then we should adopt it. Rejecting a good idea
>> because of process wonkery is stupid.
>
> +1
David, I'm a bit surpris
Steven Walling wrote:
> If a policy makes good sense, we clearly need it, and feedback about the
> text is mostly positive, then we should adopt it. Rejecting a good idea
> because of process wonkery is stupid.
Really? Does this apply to discussions on any Wikimedia wiki at any time
with any group
On 21 January 2012 22:50, Steven Walling wrote:
> If a policy makes good sense, we clearly need it, and feedback about the
> text is mostly positive, then we should adopt it. Rejecting a good idea
> because of process wonkery is stupid.
+1
- d.
___
On Jan 21, 2012 2:33 PM, "MZMcBride" wrote:
>
> Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> > Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the
> > policy and it now lives at
> >
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy
>
> I don't think the Volunteer Development Coo
MZMcBride, 21/01/2012 01:19:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies#Policies lists policies of the
Wikimedia Foundation.
Would it make sense to sub-divide these policies into sub-lists? It seems
very strange to place all of these policies next to each other in a single
list.
I thought ab
Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> Thanks to all of you for your feedback on this. We've now finalized the
> policy and it now lives at
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy
I don't think the Volunteer Development Coordinator (or any Wikimedia
Foundation employee) has the pow
A new policy should always be announced on foundation-l; forwarding.
MZMcBride
-- Forwarded Message
From: Sumana Harihareswara
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:30:07 -0800
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] proposed
Agreed and congrats!
Jan-Bart
On 20 jan. 2012, at 22:45, Kat Walsh wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Philippe Beaudette
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm thrilled to announce that Maggie Dennis, our community liaison, has
>> agreed to transition to a permanent role with the Wikimedia Foun
Agree that "raise the maximum" is a serious concern. Perception of greed
and money focus is one. The other problem is it mandates a specific
priority on the organizers of "all" fundraising events which may be
incompatible with the best interests of the project. For example I could
"maximize" fundra
> I am applying for a summer student to do a Wikipedia Medicine research
> project through my department at UBC. One potentially project I am
> looking
> it is having them review all the edits made to Wikiproject Medicine
> articles. The student will go through each edit and a) determine if the
> e
I am applying for a summer student to do a Wikipedia Medicine research
project through my department at UBC. One potentially project I am looking
it is having them review all the edits made to Wikiproject Medicine
articles. The student will go through each edit and a) determine if the
edit is okay
> From: Ilario Valdelli
>
> >
> > Why does the Board of Trustees think that WMF should raise the ?maximum
> > possible amount of money??
> > Why not ask for what is needed and nothing more?
> >
>
> I agree. A no profit association should raise the "opportune" amount
> otherwise there a "profit".
>
Hi there,
If you have size restrictions on commons, use
http://www.archive.org/create/ it has no size restrictions.
thanks,
mike
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to update everyone about our progress in putting up WikiConference
> India 2011 videos on Youtube. I did
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:38 PM, wrote:
> PS: Commons was not used due to file size restrictions.
If you get the files to the foundation staff in some method (USB
Drive/DVD/Hosted on a server somewhere they can download them) they
can get them uploaded to commons without worrying about the upload
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