Please find on Wikimedia France position regarding chapter fundraising
in France in the coming years.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_France/Fundraising_letter_March_2012
Please keep feedback and comments for meta rather than lists.
Thanks
Florence
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On 2/25/12 2:12 AM, Castelo wrote:
On 24-02-2012 07:48, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Leave the use of historical sources to historians, and then cite from
their books. That's what historians are for.
Kind regards
Ziko
Ziko,
there's a lack of historians writing books outside Europe/US, specially
on som
On 2/23/12 7:29 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
On Thursday 23 February 2012 01:10 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Splitting this off, Achal, I hope that's OK :)
There's a discussion on at the reliable sources notice board, for
instance,
which highlights some of the interpretive problems you raise:
http:
anipulation, and one has
to be extra careful here. I hope this helps.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:52:20 +0100, Florence Devouard
wrote:
I wanted to share an experience with regards to a future FDC.
During two years, I was a member of the "comité de pilotage" (which I
will he
On 2/13/12 11:04 PM, Joan Goma wrote:
From: Florence Devouard
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012
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On 2/13/12 8:45 AM, Mathias Damour wrote:
Why would both
On 2/13/12 3:56 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 14:54, Florence Devouard wrote:
I take it you are aware that each chapter developped over time its own set
of "partners" (similar-minded organizations that have overlapping goals with
the chapters). These organiza
On 2/13/12 12:51 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Florence Devouardwrote:
One benefit I can identify from this decision is that we could push
forward that
* partner organizations are ONLY recognized by Wikimedia Foundation
* whilst chapters could finally push forward
On 2/13/12 8:45 AM, Mathias Damour wrote:
Why would both "Associations" and "Affiliates" both need to use
Wikimedia marks ?
Does OpenStreetMap need it if it gets some grants from the WMF ?
I hope that these models won't be used to softly downgrade (or threaten
to downgrade) chapters that would b
On 2/10/12 10:13 AM, franc...@africacentre.net wrote:
Dear Wiki colleagues,
I am excited to invite members of Wikimedia Foundation
Ah. Hum. Okay.
Thanks for the invitation, which I just forwarded to Wikimedia France
Florence
to participate in
the Wiki Africa project that will expand and
Ah yeah. From what I understood, what I outline as a process is very
similar to any type of academic call of projects/funding in the USA,
such as NSF, NASA, NIH, DOE etc.
Most basic principle: peer review evaluation.
Florence
On 2/9/12 11:52 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
I wanted to share
I wanted to share an experience with regards to a future FDC.
During two years, I was a member of the "comité de pilotage" (which I
will here translate in "steering committee") of the ANR (National
Research Agency in France).
The ANR distributes every year about 1000 M€ to support research in
On 2/3/12 11:15 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
As in... Michael Snow ?
Who is a fabulous guy, ran in community election, and was turned down ?
Florence
Domas?
I do not think we respect him less because of that.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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On 2/2/12 12:26 AM, Risker wrote:
On 1 February 2012 18:17, Theo10011 wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Risker wrote:
In what way do chapter-selected seats improve the running of the WMF,
Thomas? The Board has no say in who is being selected, and there is no
basis in fact to say that
On 12/3/11 11:33 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Charter was created in
> September 2004 with:
>
> ---
> As quoted from Jimbo Wales:
>
> "As you know, the creation of this project was somewhat controversial
> in some quarters, and so I propose an early d
On 10/9/11 11:57 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Sue Gardner wrote:
>> Please read Ting's note carefully. The Board is asking me to work with
>> the community to develop a solution that meets the original
>> requirements as laid out in its resolution. It is asking me to do
>> something. But it is n
On 9/19/11 11:24 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 01:45:18PM -0400, David Levy wrote:
>> Speaking of artwork, Fae mentioned the depictions of "nude female
>> breasts" contained therein. Do those count? What about photographs
>> of breasts taken in medical contexts? Are those equi
On 9/2/11 10:02 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
> On 9/2/2011 12:11 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
>> On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>> On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>>>> I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
>>>>
On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>> I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
>> for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
>> controlled by Brazilians. At the same time I don't think there is an
On 9/1/11 5:37 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>> I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority
>> for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are
>> controlled by Brazilians. At the same time I don't think there is an
On 8/29/11 1:45 AM, Nathan wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 7:34 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>> On 29 August 2011 00:29, Nathan wrote:
>>
>>> Which other criteria are so onerous that folks are reacting
>>> like the letter indicts the entire system of chapters?
>>
>>
>> Because that's its effect:
> 2011/8/11 Jimmy Wales
>
>> 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
On 8/9/11 4:46 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> 2011/8/9 Delphine Ménard
>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Kirill Lokshin
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, let's be clear here: in what sense are the chapters "participating"
>> in
>>> the fundraiser, rather than merely being its beneficiaries? The
>> underlying
On 8/6/11 1:36 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> On 8/5/2011 4:26 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
>>> .. Honestly, I must say that it
>>> is a colossal disappointment to find that with all the posts I've seen
>>> both here and on internal-l, nobody has ye
Someone just pointed me this link :
http://webmasterformat.com/blog/destroy-wikipedia-serp-ranking
Florence
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Here is a copy of an email I received today in my mail box. I saw it at
the ultimate proof of fame :)
--
Managing Partners
Clinton Barnes Solicitors & Co
326-328 Old Street
London, EC1V 9DR
England
Dear Sir / Madam ,
I am Clinton Barnes , an attorney at law. A deceased client of mine,
On 6/10/11 3:30 PM, Yann Forget wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I also received one, with
>
> {{GENDER:Yann|Cher|Chère|Cher/Chère}} Yann,
>
> Well, is this an attempt to be politically correct for BTGL? ;o)
>
> Regards,
>
> Yann
Yes, this one was very cute :)
I also liked the
"Le comité directeur est l'orga
On 3/8/11 7:05 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
> A pleasure to have him back.
>
+1
Anthere
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Thank you Veronique for taking on that tough job of straightening WMF
financial procedures from basically scratch to what they are today. I
with you and your family the best of luck !
Florence
On 3/3/11 9:41 PM, Veronique Kessler wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'll be leaving WMF at the end of June to r
On 1/21/11 11:06 PM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
> On 21/01/11 17:58, F.-F. Duron wrote:
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> J'espère m'adresser au bon endroit.
>>
>> Aujourd'hui, ma nièce m'a appelé à l'ordinateur en me disant que Wikipédia
>> faisait de la publicité pour un site pour adultes. Je lui ai dit que
>> Wikipé
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:23 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
>
>> 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 go
Bonjour François
En fait, wikiwix n'est pas un site miroir de Wikipedia (une copie).
C'est un peu plus compliqué.
Le lien sur lequel vous avez cliqué fait partie des "liens de
références" (c'est à dire des liens menant vers des sites web externes,
qui sont utilisés comme sources de l'article).
Hm,
Well,
Thank you for your job at WMF Pete. I missed you on irc chan this
evening. Will be glad to chat with you about your next job :)
Ant
On 1/13/11 9:24 PM, Frank Schulenburg wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This email is to announce that Pete Forsyth's year-long position with
> the Foundation h
eference to Wikileaks
Ant
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
>> On 12/10/10 1:01 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
>>> On 12/9/2010 3:28 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
>>>> Calling Jimmy "Wikipedia founder" was already incredibly close to crossing
&g
On 12/10/10 1:01 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> On 12/9/2010 3:28 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
>> Calling Jimmy "Wikipedia founder" was already incredibly close to crossing
>> the line. Calling Sue "Wikipedia Executive Director" clearly crosses the
>> line. From reading your posts today, I believe you agree.
>>
On 11/5/10 3:21 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
> On 11/5/10 1:37 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
>> A memo to Wikimedia community, friends, staff, and other stakeholders.
Arg. I just read your internal email. I should never read external
emails before internal news lists. My question is con
On 11/5/10 1:37 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> A memo to Wikimedia community, friends, staff, and other stakeholders.
>
> On Monday, November 15, we will launch the 2010 annual fundraising drive for
> the Wikimedia Foundation. As you know, our funding model relies on the
> support of our friends
On 10/26/10 11:01 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
I'd love to see at least a
> basic MediaWiki/Etherpad integration, it would give MW a huge
> productivity boost for real-time note-taking and collaboration.
+ 1 !
Anthere
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Censorship !
:)
On 10/9/10 12:35 AM, Austin Hair wrote:
> Peter has been placed on moderation as a preventive measure. If
> future posts are still civil, irrespective of sanity considerations,
> we'll let them through.
>
> Austin
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Peter Damian
> wrote:
>> I
On 10/7/10 12:52 AM, Svip wrote:
> On 7 October 2010 00:44, Florence Devouard wrote:
>
>> Ok, maybe that's just me but I could not find us ! Where are we ?
>> (north west ? south east ? )
>
> Between Troll Bay and Sea of Memes.
>
> Heh, that felt silly to s
On 10/6/10 5:43 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> xkcd's updated somewhat-but-not-strictly-scientific map of social
> communities, where the size of website "territories" is determined by
> the size of their userbase& activity, is out:
> http://xkcd.com/802/
>
> a) it's hilarious
> b) look at how tiny wik
On 7/31/10 5:21 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> I am thinking about making Wikimania 2011 as awesome as possible and
> here's a little something that bothered me.
>
> Wikimania 2010 was my first. It was a lot of fun to meet Wikimedians
> from around the world. I also think that a lot of new ideas were
ick comment below.
>
>
> On 23 July 2010 11:18, Florence Devouard wrote:
>> 2) You are maybe aware that some chapter members (deeply) regret that
>> chapters are not listed as revenu sources in the annual plan and I hope
>> that this will be fixed in the future.
>> B
On 6/30/10 1:16 AM, Veronique Kessler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The 2010-11 Annual Plan and Questions and Answers have just been posted
> to the Foundation website
> (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports#2010-2011_fiscal_year).
> The plan was approved by the Board last week.
>
> The 2010-11
On 7/22/10 6:24 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Florence Devouard
> wrote:
>> On 7/21/10 4:39 AM, Cary Bass wrote:
>>> On 7/20/2010 7:27 PM, James Heilman wrote:
>>>> Not sure were to ask this...
>>>>
>>>>
n the year (it could also be mentionned
>> during general assembly for example).
>>
>> Alas...
>>
>> Well, every year brings new improvements ;)
>>
>> Ant
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner<
>>
On 7/21/10 4:39 AM, Cary Bass wrote:
> On 7/20/2010 7:27 PM, James Heilman wrote:
>> Not sure were to ask this...
>>
>> A group of 20 of us from Wikiproject Medicine are working on a paper to
>> explain the usage of Wikipedia to the medical community. We were working on
>> it in Google documents b
ings new improvements ;)
Ant
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Christophe Henner<
> christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21 July 2010 10:00, Noein wrote:
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>&g
On 7/15/10 6:23 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
> Perhaps in future (for say, Haifa) it would be an idea if any chapter-based
> scholarships were put on hold until after the Foundation makes its choices?
> That way the systems could mesh, with people who don't quite meet the
> Foundation requirements/do
On 5/11/10 7:40 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Sue Gardner wrote:
>> Yeah. I don't remember exactly what Ting said, and even if I did, I wouldn't
>> comment on it. But FWIW to your point, Ting's not in a chapters-selected
>> seat; Ting was elected by the Wikimedia community.
>>
>>
> His seat doesn't
On 5/11/10 8:26 AM, David Goodman wrote:
> From my favorite author (paraphrased):
>
> Young admirers to Samuel Johnson: We congratulate you on not including
> any indelicate words in your dictionary.
> SJ to young admirers: what, my dears! Have you been searching for them?
>
>
> David Goodman, Ph.
On 5/9/10 3:16 AM, Casey Brown wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Mark Ryan wrote:
>> I have to agree with you, Anthere. It's starting to look like over
>> time the role of the board has evolved from broad guidance and
>> administration to some sort of twisted version of enwp's Arbitration
>
On 5/9/10 1:42 AM, Svip wrote:
> On 9 May 2010 01:01, Florence Devouard wrote:
>
>> On 5/8/10 7:31 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not defending such a criterion, and I do not believe that such a
>>> criterion informed Jimmy's actions. Jimmy
On 5/8/10 12:15 AM, Ting Chen wrote:
> What I can say to your questions is that Jimmy informed the board about
> his intention and asked the board for support. Don't speaking for other
> board members, just speak for myself. I answered his mail with that I
> fully support his engagement.
>
> Person
On 5/8/10 7:31 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Andre Engels wrote:
>
>>
>> Defending means lessening the chance of the opponent to succeed. If
>> you throw all the riches that are demanded and then some over the city
>> wall, that's not defending, that's capitulating.
>>
On 4/21/10 6:43 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> Dear world: Help wanted. Plz send a rowboat and a few paddles.
Have you thought of setting up a travel in balloon such as Jean-Louis
Etienne
http://www.jeanlouisetienne.com/generali_arctic_observer/en/
and asking sponsors to fund the whole thing
I'll engage myself on all of them (GFDL presumed)
I am tagging the 370. Already did 200 today. Will finish the last 170 by
hand tomorrow. That's a fascinating job.
Ant
On 2/20/10 6:54 AM, The Cunctator wrote:
> Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other
> submi
Nathan wrote:
> I wasn't there, but I'll echo Erik, Ting and Jerry - from everything
> I've read, the organizers did a great job and really represented the
> Wikimedia community well. Thanks for your hard work and
> congratulations on a job well done.
>
> Nathan
>
>
Ting Chen wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> one year ago when I run for the board election I came with the same
> proposal as you. Meanwhile I have changed my oppinion. The problem is
> that this would not work out.
>
> I totally agree with you that voting is the minor part of the board
> decision makin
Kropotkine_113 wrote:
> Thank you very much all of you (Brigitte SB, Ting Chen, Mickael Snow and
> others).
>
> To close my participation in this thread I just add three points :
...
> - Even more important point is the cultural gap between Foundation's
> intentions and communication, which are
Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> We're still in the process of getting up to speed, but I'm anxious to
> start interacting with more of you and garnering some feedback as we
> prepare to initiate this process. As a way to get to know each other
> and talk about the process, Philippe and
I can not help share this with you.
I was looking for the name "devouard" in a little tool I just discovered
today (TouchGraph).
And I was surprised to discover that the word "devouard" was highly
linked to the Hoggar plateau (Ahaggar) in Algeria. I consequently
clicked on the central point ap
Michael Bimmler wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to use this opportunity to say "Goodbye" to all of you,
> because my involvement with Wikimedia is now coming to an end. I could
> make this a long email, taking about my time here and giving my
> opinion and advice about the state and future of
effe iets anders wrote:
> Hi Veronique,
>
> thanks for posting this. In Part VI, question 82b, it is mentioned that
> 333,125 USD was donated in kind. Can you confirm that this does not include
> the volunteer contributions to Wikipedia? (assume not, or at least hope that
> it's not valued that lo
Michael Bimmler wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Chad wrote:
>
>> Why would you let this spam through?
>>
>
> No one approved it (see headers, there is no Approved-on line). But I
> found a legacy entry in the "Always accept posts from these
> non-members" filter for anth...@wikimedia.or
Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
>> Michael Snow wrote:
>>> This is the statement on trademarks mentioned earlier. It both states
>>> the approach we want the Wikimedia Foundation to take and directs the
>>> staf
Michael Snow wrote:
> This is the statement on trademarks mentioned earlier. It both states
> the approach we want the Wikimedia Foundation to take and directs the
> staff to carry it out. It basically sums up what our understanding has
> been for a long time, but hadn't really been formally sta
Jim Redmond wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:11, Florence Devouard wrote:
>
>> By the way, is that completely normal that the site notice on the
>> english wikipedia is occupied by Wikimania scholarship rather than by
>> the change of licence ?
>>
>> W
Florence Devouard wrote:
> Someone asked me a question on the French wikipedia and to be fair, I am
> not sure what to answer.
>
> The CURRENT text of the licencing proposition gives a link to
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
>
>
> Whilst the text of t
Someone asked me a question on the French wikipedia and to be fair, I am
not sure what to answer.
The CURRENT text of the licencing proposition gives a link to
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Whilst the text of the resolution adopted in december 2007
http://wikimediafoundation.o
Sue Gardner wrote:
> So .. that is my rough, quick recap of where I think we're at.
>
> In terms of next steps – as I said, I'll be speaking about this issue
> with the board in early April. This is just an interim note: Please
> feel free to help me further my thinking on all this -particularly
David Gerard wrote:
> http://xkcd.com/547/
>
>
> - d.
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Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>> i dont think the argument here is that people can make money from commons
>> and the pictures etc, its the fact (as i see it) that a commercial site
>> has
>> a link from the french wikipedia side bar to their site to make a profit.
>> what is the difference between th
Michael Snow wrote:
> Lars Aronsson wrote:
>> Florence Devouard wrote:
>>
>>> The confusion mostly came from the fact I had absolutely not
>>> understood that chapters at the national level, or chapter at
>>> any other level would have exactly the sam
Nathan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>
>> 2009/1/20 Ting Chen :
>>> Not quite. One criteria is that the chapters should have well defined
>>> geographical areas and they should not overlap. So an Amsterdam chapter
>>> beside a Dutch chapter is not possible.
>> It w
does a chapter do" and "Why does the US need this" and other such dead
> horses, it'd be nice if we all used the proper terminology. Thanks.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Cary Bass wrote:
>
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>>
Mike Godwin wrote:
> Florence writes:
>
>>> The chapters has agreement with the WMF that they may in their area
>>> negotiate with third parties on use of wikimedia project logos and
>>> names.
>> Actually, that's a pretty optimistic view of the situation.
>> The very largest majority of chapters
Delphine Ménard wrote:
> [OT]
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 13:34, Sebastian Moleski wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Delphine Ménard
>> wrote:
>>> It is interesting how the "power distance" thing is playing out here. :)
>> I'm not getting the reference. Can you help?
>
> For Germans,
Sebastian Moleski wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Florence Devouard
> wrote:
>>> I don't agree that that's necessarily the case. It's entirely within
>>> the realm of possibility for a chapter (board) to appoint a
>>> representative who
Ting Chen wrote:
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>> Hoi,
>> The territofy for the Dutch chapter ends officially at the border between
>> Belgium and the Netherlands.
> I don't see it necessary to be must so. As you have said, it is unlikely
> that there would be a Belgium chapter. So if the community sup
Sebastian Moleski wrote:
> Hi Florence,
>
>> First, when a meeting occur with say, 25 people, there is room for
>> discussions and work. When a meeting occur with 100 people, much less.
>> Last year was fine. This year will probably be okay in terms of figures.
>> But every year will become more a
Guillaume Paumier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> [it might be useful to move this topic to a dedicated thread if it goes on]
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Florence Devouard
> wrote:
>> We hold an annual meeting between all chapters and WMF.
>> Already, because of
I was wondering myself.
I thought this information would be in the FAQ, but it is not.
Two questions.
First, the annual meeting.
We hold an annual meeting between all chapters and WMF.
Already, because of the number of chapters, it is recommanded that only
one representant of all chapters come t
Michael Snow wrote:
> Florence Devouard wrote:
>> For example, on meta, Wikimedia NYC is listed as chapters, not
>> subchapters. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City. And
>> the name does not clarify the difference either (it could have been
>> mand
Michael Snow wrote:
> I've been assembling my notes from last week's board meeting to pass
> along. The first set of items I have to report is business from the
> chapters committee. All of these resolutions have been posted on the
> foundation website.
>
> We approved two new chapters, and the
Florence Devouard wrote:
> May it bring each of you happiness.
>
> Ant
Lodewijk pointed out (with reason) that I was much shorter this year
than last year.
I'd like to propose you a small and easy game.
New year, yet another year... you certainly do not have a LOT of time.
But
May it bring each of you happiness.
Ant
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Sue Gardner wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Here is the RTTB for October. November will follow soon :-)
>
> Enjoy!
> Sue
>
>
> Report to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
>
> Covering: October 2008
> Prepared by:Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
> Prepared for
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Florence Devouard wrote:
>> Birgitte SB wrote:
>>
>>> I am strongly against collaborating with Westernish governments to help
>>> make their censorship more effective. I personally don't think we should
>>> help an
Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 12/13/08 6:52 PM, Florence Devouard at anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> "Professionals could probably help us grow up in certain areas, but they
>> would have to cope with all the no-life standing on our mailing lists".
>
>
> Florenc
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Florence Devouard wrote:
>> I can not help reflect further on the whole Virgin Killer story.
>>
>
> Why is that?
>
> A lack of self control, or because you actually have a
> deeply thought out viewpoint?
Yeah.
Tomorrow, I am talk
Birgitte SB wrote:
>
>
> --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Florence Devouard wrote:
>
>> From: Florence Devouard
>> Subject: [Foundation-l] and what if...
>> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:52 AM
>> I can not help
I can not help reflect further on the whole Virgin Killer story.
Whilst I am very happy of the final outcome, and thank David Gerard and
WMF for having handled that very well, I feel also a big disatisfied by
the way we acknowledged what happen and discuss future steps.
We all perfectly know th
geni wrote:
> 2008/12/8 Florence Devouard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> A link
>>
>> http://stats.grok.se/en/200812/Virgin_Killer
>>
>> Ant
>>
>
> More up to date:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_articles
>
> If th
A link
http://stats.grok.se/en/200812/Virgin_Killer
Ant
Jay A. Walsh wrote:
> Many of you have probably noticed the considerable media coverage over the
> weekend about
> blocking of WP content in the UK, and much more alarming, the blocking of WP
> editing for
> most UK internet users.
>
>
Nathan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> What are you saying here? Do you think free speech is promoted by telling
>> people "no" when they ask if they can use your trademark, but then not
>> doing
>> anything when someone uses it without asking?
>>
Casey Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Bence Damokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I guess the issue is that usually organisations need to "earn" the title of
>> non-profit (by being accepted as such by the courts/authorities), so a
>> non-incorporated group of people recognised as W
Michael Bimmler wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 5. So far, no legal entity has been created and there is no such a group
>>> of Wikimedia representatives.
>> That's an interesting point that we seemed to be missing.
>
> Yes. I somehow thou
Luiz Augusto wrote:
> I will try whit my poor enghish report a problem that are in discuss in
> mailling list of the brazilian chapter[1]. In the end of this text, are the
> original text in portuguese, for try to minimalize the comunicacion
> mistakes.
Hello,
Thank you for the feedback. I can no
Tim Starling wrote:
> Florence Devouard wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For some reasons, the banner at the top of the French wikipedia has been
>> switched to the english version. That's ridiculous.
>>
>> Who is able to switch it back to the French version and
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