Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours with Sue Gardner

2012-03-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi everyone: Just a reminder of this. :-) Starts in about 90 minutes. ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Hi everyone, >

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia financials - bank fees

2012-03-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I'm not in accounting, but my guess is that this involves Paypal processing fees for the fundraiser... pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:38 PM, En Pine

[Foundation-l] IRC office hours with Sue Gardner

2012-03-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours . Hope to see you there! _______ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

2012-02-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
gotten it wrong since, to my knowledge. An exception: I'll be damned if I'm writing out ""Oliver Keyes, God of Delphi, Sol, and all Ethereal Planes Known and As-Yet Undiscovered" because I won't grant - in writing - my own claims to those ethereal planes. :-) pb __

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I think we'll be doing some combination of all three of those. But here's the important part: you tell us. I built out the brainstorming page: people are acting as though there's a determined course charted for this team - if anything, it's the opposite. This is the opportunity for the com

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On 2/9/12 7:19 PM, Andreas K. wrote: > > > > Well, what do "fighting for content online", "providing information about > legislative initiatives worldwide that impact online content and > censorship", and "support the advancement of legal conditions that enable > unimpeded access to information o

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
to write submissions to Government policy reviews etc.). >> This will leave Zack's existing department to focus on recruiting new users >> and on the annual fundraiser. >> >> Is that a fair assessment? >> >> Peace, love & metadata >> >> >>

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
globally (such as > helping Chapters to write submissions to Government policy reviews etc.). > This will leave Zack's existing department to focus on recruiting new users > and on the annual fundraiser. > > Is that a fair assessment? > > Peace, love & metadata > >

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
nouncement page), and an IRC chat tomorrow to kick that off. :) pb On Thu Feb 9 18:32:42 2012, Mono wrote: > I think the better question is "what will this department actually do?" > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Philippe Beaudette > wrote: > >> I'm not really

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
es it. :) There's a reasonable discussion in the page, linked from the announcement. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it will take me

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Beria, MZ, and anyone else who said three months is correct. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it will take me to respond), go to http

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
prefers to maintain the minimum data possible for the shortest period of time. Thanks, pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it will take me to

[Foundation-l] Call for moderators

2012-01-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
e of an "active" moderation role, nudging people on topic, etc), would you please let me know by private email (philippe{{@}}wikimedia.org)? Depending on how many people express interest, I'll figure out how we proceed forward. Thanks! pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
You trust GOOGLE's interests to align sufficiently with ours, to the extent that you're willing to cede government affairs to them? pb On Sun Jan 22 12:48:50 2012, geni wrote: > On 22 January 2012 18:00, Gwern Branwen wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote: >>> >>> I'm

[Foundation-l] Announcement: Maggie Dennis to continue with WMF

2012-01-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
she is able to fluently speak "Philippe" and translate that to "real-people talk". As User:Moonriddengirl, she is the maven of copyright for English Wikipedia, and has well over 100,000 edits. In short, she's a rock star. Maggie will continue to report to me. Best, pb

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
To be very clear: a decision on English Wikipedia to take action on this is not binding on Commons. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org To check my email volume (and thus know approx how long it

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-03 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On 1/3/12 9:28 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > they want it so that if they've donated it removes the banner for the > rest of the fundraiser. This was in place for this year's fundraiser, so I'm surprised to see it on the list... pb ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Asking for permission [1] to use WMF resources

2011-12-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi Everton - I forwarded this to the legal team (legal{at}wikimedia.org). They should be in touch. :) ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org 2011/12/21 Everton Zanella Alvarenga > Hi, > &

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours with the Head of Reader Relations, Thursday Dec. 22nd

2011-12-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Yes, Wednesday evening in North America. 4PM PST, 7PM EST ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Risker wrote: > Since that 0:00 UTC is always confusing to

[Foundation-l] New link for SOPA - fantastic

2011-12-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Chairman Issa's office sent me this link... live streaming and markup of the SOPA bill: http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
e to have input during the markup process, this is a nice way to do it. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 20

Re: [Foundation-l] Is a research banner "advertising" of the evil sort?

2011-12-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Nathan wrote: > > > FWIW, the banner was switched on by Philippe (using his WMF account). > > ~Nathan > > Yep. After an official request from the Research Committee through their assigned staff liaison, Dario. :) pb __

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: office hours this morning with WMF General Counsel

2011-12-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It's quite back now, also at Geoff's request. :) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > It was deleted at Geoff'

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: office hours this morning with WMF General Counsel

2011-12-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It was deleted at Geoff's request; I'm not certain if he's intending to reformat it and put it back up somewhere else, or what, but I'll add it to my list of things to talk about with him. We'll try to get the info up in some format, of course. :) pb _____

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to Fae

2011-11-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
where can I get that script? :) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://l

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
job. I (finally) have the full results parsed in such a way as to make it * potentially* possible to release them for discussion by project. However, I'm still waiting for the committee to approve that release. I'll re-ping on that, because, frankly, it's been a week or so. That will

Re: [Foundation-l] Grant agreements

2011-10-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Point of clarification (and this is to help someone else answer, because i don't know)... MZ, are you talking about grants such as Stanton, where the WMF is the recipient, or grants such as to the chapters, where the WMF is the granting partner? pb ___ Philippe Beaudette He

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-22 Thread Philippe Beaudette
read the major discussion pages on each of the English language projects (regrettably the only language I speak) weekly. I try to hit the others with Google translate regularly, but not quite that. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Minor projects withering and dying? Really?

2011-09-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Usage statistics alone, I would agree with you. But stats can tell so much more than just what you get from usage stats. For instance: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm (be sure to scroll all the way to the right). ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:04 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Philippe Beaudette > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-10 Thread Philippe Beaudette
As soon as I've got it to give and the comments have been anonymized, absolutely. I do not yet have a full feed that meets our needs for analysis beyond what's already done. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Béria Lima wrote: > And about culture - forgive > me - but the only people who seems concerned about remove those images from > wiki are AFAIS american. > > I'm sorry, no. This is just untrue. I wonder, would the same sentence be acceptable if you substitute anyt

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 04/09/11 14:33, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > > Please note that the results are not final: although the vote count > > is, and has been finalized, the analysis of comments is ongoing. > > It would be nice to see a co

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 03:08:54PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On German language Wikipedia, there is a poll of its own. > > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einf%C3%BChrung_pers%C3%B6nlicher_Bildfilte

[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-03 Thread Philippe Beaudette
the vote count is, and has been finalized, the analysis of comments is ongoing. Posted on behalf of the committee, Philippe ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-08-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Kim Bruning wrote: > I can still, today, as an anon, remove or add > images as I see fit. This is permitted and even encouraged, provided > that what I am doing is sane (And thus most likely meets consensus). > Tried it lately? pb

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-08-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It is absolutely not part of the resolution, nor is it in the design plans that I've seen. My understanding is that it works like current categorization, in that anyone can participate. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-68

Re: [Foundation-l] AbuseFilter to be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis by default today

2011-08-24 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Wjhonson wrote: > > Extreme cases can be used to justify any action Victor. > Why live in a country where every month new powers are being given to the > police to control the population? > Who wants to live in that country? > > > I'm amused. The first sentence

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
It's really truly not going to be a matter of weeks, I can assure you of that. It may be, at best, a couple of extra days, but we've all been vote checking as we go. I don't anticipate much delay if any. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ojects election was held for anything but a Board of Trustees election, and so, yeah, mistakes will be made. But let's just wait and see on the timeframe, shall we? No doubt an extension will have to happen, but what's the harm? If we take a couple extra day

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter referendum

2011-08-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Yeah, we're troubleshooting now... thanks. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Tel: (415) 839-6885 | x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org | www.wikimediafoundation.org On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:23 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov wrote: > 2011/8/16 Bence Damokos > >> [...]

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter referendum

2011-08-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:23 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov < alexandrdmitriroma...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/8/16 Bence Damokos > > > [...] > > > > While the eligibility rules would encourage wide participation, the 1) > > click > > on sitenotice 2) read wall of text 3) go back to your own wiki,

Re: [Foundation-l] Sending announcements to this list

2011-08-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
As Jay is away for a while, I checked… 381. pb Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Tel: (415) 839-6885 | x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org | www.wikimediafoundation.org On Aug 12, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Nemo wrote: > We need Jay Walsh to check the number of subscribers; they're

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Actions

2011-07-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Dan, Legal-en goes to the legal queue. Legal@ goes to the legal department. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Dan Rosenthal wrote

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Actions

2011-07-11 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Huib, If you'd send the details to le...@wikimedia.org (and copy me), I'm sure we can take a look at it. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org On Mon, Jul 11,

[Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-06-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum shortly. For the coordinating committee, Philippe (WMF) Cbrown1023 Risker Mardetanha PeterSymonds Robert Harris ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia

[Foundation-l] IRC Office Hours

2011-06-23 Thread Philippe Beaudette
___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects ...

2011-05-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
he best place to post it for comment? > > Tom, one other thing to keep in mind: the messages will need to be translated. So you might make sure that TransCom is in the loop. :-) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Rel

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Sarah wrote: > > For those who deal with the BLP queue on OTRS, how serious is the > problem of BLP attack pages, whether rising to the level of defamation > or not? > > I know the problem exists -- anyone who edits can see it -- but I'd be > interested in hearing

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I hope we'll have some answers soon, but I'll ask her to give me a 30,000 foot overview and report back here. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org > >

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

2011-05-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Thomas Morton wrote: > It could well be that an image banner does improve > click through and (in the case of the fund raiser) donations... but I can't > find any actual A/B tests (or any other tests) to see if this is actually > the case or not. > It does. We

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

2011-05-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > Until most recently, it > has been displayed on every single page view for most of our 400 Million > readers or so, according to the setup for 20 days > Factually incorrect: it displayed to every reader for only 3 days. It then switc

[Foundation-l] Ombudsman commission

2011-04-30 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ously volunteered for this position. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 2106 (reader relations) phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubs

Re: [Foundation-l] Picture of the Year 2010 global notice and translation

2011-04-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
eady. I note one on the contest's talk page. This seems to be at odds with your stated goal of increasing participation. pb * _______ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 (office) phili...@wikimedia.org On Thu, Apr

[Foundation-l] Change to Ombudsman commission

2011-04-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
position open. If you wish to self-nominate, or to nominate another user, please feel free to send me their name. Best wishes, pb [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 elections - low turnout

2011-03-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > > > > 2011/3/20 KIZU Naoko > >> Phillipe could give the whole recollection perhaps? Or it would be >> somehow embarrassing for now a WMF staffer? :D >> > > I don't recall anything that would

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 elections - low turnout

2011-03-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
2011/3/20 KIZU Naoko > Phillipe could give the whole recollection perhaps? Or it would be > somehow embarrassing for now a WMF staffer? :D > I don't recall anything that would be particularly embarrassing, but I'll be honest and say I don't recall anything at ALL about that decision. Let me dig

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
well) had a "hide" button on it (an X in the right hand corner to turn it off). pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@list

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

2011-03-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:54 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Philippe Beaudette wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:06 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > > > >> Sue Gardner wrote: > >>> Ah, Sarah, I don't think that's particularly fair. Bear in mind we'

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

2011-03-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:06 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Sue Gardner wrote: > > Ah, Sarah, I don't think that's particularly fair. Bear in mind we've > > just published a strategic plan that 1,000+ Wikimedians helped create. > > I'm not denying that some Wikimedians may feel alienated from the > > Wik

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-05 Thread Philippe Beaudette
:: remove Head of Reader Relations hat, and put on "I worked on the strategic plan" hat :: On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:31 PM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > > Sure. I'd love to get opinions from more people (perhaps at Wikimania, > too?) > The (editing) community should to be comfortable with Wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Zack Exley wrote: > > > I think he'd tell you he regrets the way he put that. Our jobs don't > matter > at all if they're not significantly helping the movement. And I know he > feels that way too. > > So that we're not hypothesizing, I'll say it: I sincerely regr

Re: [Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC office hours with Sue Gardner today

2011-02-24 Thread Philippe Beaudette
afternoon/evening of the 24th, if you're in our end of the world.) > > The agenda is open, and as usual times and conversion links can be found on > Meta at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours > > Thanks! > -- ____ Philippe Beaudette Head

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-23 Thread Philippe Beaudette
t; wouldn't be a terrible idea. pb -- ____ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. phili...@wikimedia.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https:

[Foundation-l] OTRS identification policy

2011-02-06 Thread Philippe Beaudette
sent identification yet, feel free to defer doing so. For those who have provided ID, we will destroy it on request (we may have to again obtain it if we finally conclude that retention is necessary). pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011-01-31 Thread Philippe Beaudette
at has its own standards and rues. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://donate.wik

[Foundation-l] Ombudsman Commission

2011-01-28 Thread Philippe Beaudette
for a term of one year. Thanks, everyone! Best, pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643 mobile: +1 918 200 WIKI (9454) pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011-01-27 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ive. It seemed anti-thetical to me. I'm pleased to see steps towards opening this up. ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of al

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:04 PM, James Alexander wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Pharos wrote: > >> I actually tried to set up a geonotice to catch Wikipedian >> Antarcticans a while back, but unfortunately the convergence of the >> longitude lines kind of threw it off :P >> >> Thanks, >

[Foundation-l] Fundraising banners

2010-12-31 Thread Philippe Beaudette
g people to get involved in tenth anniversary celebrations around the world, and to make their first edit (the "contribution" phase of the campaign). Now let's go celebrate! Zack Exley Philippe Beaudette Megan Hernandez ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
best way to go about doing that (and we'd appreciate any suggestions), we'll start putting a process into place. Centralnotice is like a cannon... we don't want to direct a notice at millions of people, if the party isn't ready for the potential end result. pb __

[Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
where the fundraiser messaging is controlled by the Foundation. Enjoy the respite :) Philippe ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all know

Re: [Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving

2010-12-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
es the > database go back and how many individual donors have there been? > > -Liam > > wittylama.com/blog > Peace, love & metadata > > > On 15 December 2010 03:28, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > >> One member of the fundraising team had it on her Chri

[Foundation-l] Monthly Recurring Giving

2010-12-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ng it on the initial donation. You can sign up for recurring giving at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Monthly_donations/en With this, we gleefully delete the “sorry, we don’t have a recurring donation option” template from our email response systems. Best wishes, Philippe

[Foundation-l] Wiki[p/m]edia

2010-12-09 Thread Philippe Beaudette
we've taken this approach. To anyone we offended, I offer my personal apologies. With that said, the banners are being changed right now - they'll say Wikimedia. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

2010-12-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
For the record, MZMcBride did let me know that he was sending a "nastygram". So while I disagree with his language choice, he checked first. \ pb On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Newyorkbrad wrote: > I agree that this factual error should be corrected (as we have told it is > being corrected), but

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

2010-12-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ow, so I wanted to acknowledge that... pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643 mobile: +1 918 200 WIKI (9454) pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum o

Re: [Foundation-l] "Personal Appeals for individual editors" strikes the right chord

2010-12-05 Thread Philippe Beaudette
send it to the chapters so they can create their new landing pages. pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643 mobile: +1 918 200 WIKI (9454) pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being c

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser statistics

2010-12-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
obably from Sue, with the introduction of a graphical thermometer treatment (though this is all fairly preliminary) This is exactly as we expected... we knew there would be several phases to this campaign, and we're hitting them just almost exactly when we thought we would. :) pb __

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser statistics

2010-12-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I think it's important to point out that we are, in fact, using community input :) For instance, the editor appeals that are being tested were suggested by community members and written by community members pb On Dec 1, 2010, at 4:39 AM, KIZU Naoko wrote: > Time to use community input?

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:39 PM, James Alexander wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:13 AM, wrote: > >> So it is your belief, that the WMF is not accountable at all to it's >> volunteers, such as editors? Just to its donors? >> > > > I prefer contributers or simply the community. Donors, edit

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

2010-11-17 Thread Philippe Beaudette
We tested Kartika earlier this week, and it did very very well. So we're putting together a campaign based around editor appeals, and many of the folks we have are not ... well, people who look like me. So I'm very happy about that. pb ___ Philippe Beaudet

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners inviting people to edit.

2010-11-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I believe that's in the works as well :) ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!

Re: [Foundation-l] Banners inviting people to edit.

2010-11-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hey James, I'm going to link you to my blog post today, where I talked about our intent to do exactly that: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/11/14/2010-contribution/ pb On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:45 PM, James Heilman wrote: > Once again our yearly fundraising banners are here. It seem to be work

[Foundation-l] Report from Day 1 of technical testing

2010-11-13 Thread Philippe Beaudette
ut for anything unusual and report it either by email or in the #wikimedia-fundraising IRC channel. Philippe ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can f

Re: [Foundation-l] And if I don't understand Dutch?

2010-11-12 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi Ziko, Each chapter builds their own landing pages, but they have the ability to build them in as many languages as they'd like. In this case, it looks like the Dutch didn't build a German language landing page, and so it defaulted to their dutch language one. :) pb On Nov 12, 2010, at

[Foundation-l] Fundraiser 2010: A memo to the community

2010-11-04 Thread Philippe Beaudette
est wishes, Philippe PS - for ease of linking, the full text of this memo is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Updates#4_November:_The_Schedule ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagin

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation switching to Google Apps?

2010-10-26 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Actually, I've watched some etherpad history "replays" and I've seen > simple patterns of a number of edits by an user and then a number of > edits by another user (even on another section): nothing you can't > easily do on MediaWiki. I

[Foundation-l] Christine Mellenberndt joins Reader Relations at WMF

2010-10-24 Thread Philippe Beaudette
rected to her, as well. If there's something urgent that you need me to see, feel free to continue to send it directly to me. Christine will bring questions to me, early on, but I've found her to be a quick study and think she'll be fully functional almost immediately. B

Re: [Foundation-l] Community Associates

2010-10-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Philippe Beaudette > wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:46 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: >> >>> Who are they and what do they do? >>> >>> Yours sincerel

Re: [Foundation-l] Community Associates

2010-10-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
to our various systems and general office-related help. Best, Philippe ____ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us m

[Foundation-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-05 Thread Philippe Beaudette
us beat the Jimmy appeal! Thanks, Philippe [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testing#Test_six_ :_September_23rd.2C_2010 Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every h

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-03 Thread Philippe Beaudette
whatever it is they do to close the project. Philippe Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it

[Foundation-l] IRC office hours with Zack Exley

2010-10-03 Thread Philippe Beaudette
. [1] - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Chief_Community_Officer ____ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a r

[Foundation-l] Office hours with Sue Gardner

2010-09-28 Thread Philippe Beaudette
be on. ____ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours with Danese Cooper

2010-09-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Just a reminder to all that this is upcoming. It's in #wikimedia- office on the freenode network: see below for connection info. Philippe On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Hi all, > > Danese Cooper, the "open source diva", and Wikimedia'

[Foundation-l] Office hours with Danese Cooper

2010-09-16 Thread Philippe Beaudette
y warning. It's fine. Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org. As always, the chat will be logged and put on meta for those who are unable to join. Look forward to seeing you there! Philippe ____ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship program

2010-09-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi all, Please see the Wikimedia Blog (http://blog.wikimedia.org/ ) for an exciting announcement about the Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship program, and the first recipient of a Fellowship, Steven Walling. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia

[Foundation-l] Bodnot bod unable to access...

2010-09-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
There are some DNS issues in Europe :) Tech team is actively working. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org ofc: +1 415 839 6885 (x 643) mobile: 918 200 WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being

[Foundation-l] Office hours with Sue Gardner

2010-09-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
be on. ____ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/

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