[Foundation-l] Announcement: Pete Forsyth leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

Hi All, This email is to announce that Pete Forsyth's year-long position with the Foundation has come to an end and he is leaving us January 15, 2011. Pete's contract as Public Outreach Officer actually ended by in October 2010, but we asked him to stay on for an additional few months to finish a

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hour for Friday, June 11, featuring Mike Godwin

I'm happy to do office hours as well. Thanks Thomas, Frank 2010/6/9 Thomas Dalton : > On 10 June 2010 01:13, Cary Bass wrote: >> Hey everyone! >> >> On Friday, June 11, the Office Hour will once again be hosted by Mike >> Godwin, Legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, who you can read >> ab

[Foundation-l] Update on outreach projects

Hi all, Here is a short update about some ongoing and new projects of the Wikimedia Foundation's outreach department: (1) Aradhana Ravindra will support the Bookshelf project as a contractor It is my pleasure to announce that Aradhana Datta Ravindra started in April to help us as a contractor. S

[Foundation-l] Announcing Pete Forsyth as Public Outreach Officer

Hi all, I am delighted to announce that this week, Pete Forsyth joins Wikimedia as its first Public Outreach Officer. Pete will support me in all of the Foundation's public outreach activities, including the development of educational materials (Bookshelf Project), the development of public outrea

[Foundation-l] Announcing Marlita Kahn as the Project Manager for the Bookshelf Project

Hi all, I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia's Bookshelf Project will be led by Marlita Kahn. Marlita is a Senior Project Manager/Program Manager with over 15 years experience managing educational, technical, media-rich and multilingual projects. Her employment contract with us started on Se

[Foundation-l] NIH and Wikimedia Foundation collaborate to improve online health information

Hi all, Every day millions of people access health information online. We have recently seen some new hard evidence of Wikipedia's growing prominence as a health information resource. The rapid development and traffic on the English Wikipedia of an article on Influenza related articles demonstrate

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of

2008/12/23 Ziko van Dijk : > Thank you very much for these explanations for us curious Wikipedians. :-) > Oh, you just want to show how the place will look like? I cannot find > something Wikipedia-related on that US Congress site. No, it was just to give you an impression you how it _could_ lo

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of

2008/12/19 Marcus Buck : > I will not judge, cause I spent too few time on it, but this thing > doesn't work well for me. The subtitles or better sidetitles seem to be > not in synch and it looks confusing for me as a first time user. Is > there a coordination place or a place with information abou

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of

Hi Marcus, Thank you very much for your question. The first two Guided tours will initially be available in English (the language we produced the videos) and in German (as Wikimedia Deutschland paid the production costs). The footage will be published under a share-alike licence and uploaded to W

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia video tutorials: the making-of

enses. So, please join me in thanking Wikimedia Germany for the financial support and ... enjoy the making-of video :-) Frank Schulenburg Head of Public Outreach NB. This mail address is used for public mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will get