[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-01 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. What happened with implementing software related to controversial content? There was quite a bit of hubbub at some point, then Wikimedia pulled back a little (and Sue visited Germany to give some assurances)... what's the current status of the project? Is it still a project? (If there's a proj

Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

2012-03-01 Thread Sue Gardner
On 1 March 2012 18:27, Béria Lima wrote: > Hello people, > > So after receive authorization from all candidates, the list of candidates > + statements are in meta, and you can find it here: http':// > meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Candidates > > Until 14 March is time f

[Foundation-l] Chapter Selected Board Seats - Time for questions

2012-03-01 Thread Béria Lima
Hello people, So after receive authorization from all candidates, the list of candidates + statements are in meta, and you can find it here: http':// meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Candidates Until 14 March is time for questions, so if you have any questions to any of t

Re: [Foundation-l] Foursquare ditches Google Maps for OpenStreetMap

2012-03-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/1 David Gerard : > Other companies doing similarly: > > http://blog.nestoria.co.uk/why-and-how-weve-switched-away-from-google-ma > http://www.fubra.com/blog/2011/11/24/google-maps-free-alternatives/ ... And, in case anybody missed this piece of news, so will Wikimedia's official mobile app

[Foundation-l] Foursquare ditches Google Maps for OpenStreetMap

2012-03-01 Thread David Gerard
http://blog.foursquare.com/2012/02/29/foursquare-is-joining-the-openstreetmap-movement-say-hi-to-pretty-new-maps/ "When we initially began looking around for other map providers, we found some incredibly strong alternatives. And while the new Google Maps API pricing was the reason we initially sta

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome Lindsey Smith - Mobile UI/UX Contractor

2012-03-01 Thread Tomasz Finc
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to welcome a new member of to the mobile engineering team. Lindsey Smith started this week as our new Mobile UI/UX contractor. She'll working with us in San Francisco helping us flush out the look, feel, and experience across all of our mobile projects. This fits a critica

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Introducing Oona Castro as Wikimedia Brazil Program Consultant

2012-03-01 Thread Barry Newstead
Querida comunidade Wikimedia: Antes de mais nada, muito obrigado a todos pela ajuda com os esforços para a contratação do cargo de Diretor Nacional de Programas do Brasil. Foi uma experiência única para todos nós, e um esforço emocionante que produziu resultados maravilhosos (sem mencionar muito

[Foundation-l] New Models of Affiliation update

2012-03-01 Thread Bishakha Datta
Dear all, A quick update on New Models of Affiliation for the Wikimedia Movement since the publication of the board letter on 13 Feb. The letter is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models. From the emails responding to this, SJ and I extracted a number of relevant questions

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Student Club in UNAM

2012-03-01 Thread Ivan Martínez
Dear all: We're very proud to announce the beggining of the activities of the Wikipedia Student Club in the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, FFyL) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, one of the most relevant in Latin America and the most important

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> OK. Any strong objections to changing the list name and scope (the > latter being the description at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ) to be > all-encompassing for Wikimedia-wide issues? > > The rename would likely occur by unsubscribing current members from > this li

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 March 2012 16:30, Erik Moeller wrote: > The rename would likely occur by unsubscribing current members from > this list and re-subscribing them to the new one, to avoid breaking > links or accidentally corrupting archives -- meaning that list > archives pre-move would be accessible via a dif

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > That sounds reasonable.  Most things discussed on this list are not > specially relevant to the Foundation. OK. Any strong objections to changing the list name and scope (the latter being the description at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Samuel Klein
rupert THURNER wrote: > "Amir E. Aharoni" >> David Gerard : >> > Strainu wrote: >> >> If names are that important for you, go ahead and rename foundation-l, >> >> but there is really no need for yet another list. >> > >> > +1 >> Another +1. > +1 That sounds reasonable. Most things discussed on

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread rupert THURNER
On Mar 1, 2012 12:12 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: > > 2012/3/1 David Gerard : > > On 1 March 2012 10:23, Strainu wrote: > > > >> If names are that important for you, go ahead and rename foundation-l, > >> but there is really no need for yet another list. > > > > > > +1 > > > > Adding a new list w

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/1 David Gerard : > On 1 March 2012 10:23, Strainu wrote: > >> If names are that important for you, go ahead and rename foundation-l, >> but there is really no need for yet another list. > > > +1 > > Adding a new list would be largely redundant. Another +1. There just aren't so many Founda

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Richard Symonds
Just to clarify, who else has access to internal, as a rule? Trusted volunteers, chapter staff/officers, and the majority of WMF staff and contractors? Richard On 01/03/2012 11:07, Thomas Dalton wrote: On Mar 1, 2012 10:55 AM, "Ilario Valdelli" wrote: I would correct that not *all* chapters

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Mar 1, 2012 10:55 AM, "Ilario Valdelli" wrote: > > I would correct that not *all* chapters board members have access in internal. > > The number of subscriptions were limited to three per chapter, as I know. It was five per chapter, but that limit was removed a while back.

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 March 2012 10:23, Strainu wrote: > If names are that important for you, go ahead and rename foundation-l, > but there is really no need for yet another list. +1 Adding a new list would be largely redundant. - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi all, > > We currently have this public list for Wikimedia Foundation matters, > as well as a private list called "internal-l" which in practice is in > large part used for WMF/chapters discussions, because chapter board > members are added

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Strainu
În data de 1 martie 2012, 11:30, Benjamin Lees a scris: > This proposal seems fine to me, but I'm not sure it will address the > issue you seem to be targeting (that discussions aren't held > publicly). I'll go further and say that further splitting the lists will lead to more cross-posting and q

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > We currently have this public list for Wikimedia Foundation matters, > as well as a private list called "internal-l" which in practice is in > large part used for WMF/chapters discussions, because chapter board > members are added to it by defa

[Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-03-01 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi all, We currently have this public list for Wikimedia Foundation matters, as well as a private list called "internal-l" which in practice is in large part used for WMF/chapters discussions, because chapter board members are added to it by default. The latter is often used for discussions that i