wer are. As a movement, we have a very poor record of
> following through on our trials with proper evaluations and that is
> because we never actually plan them out at the start. It is really
> important that we don't make that mistake again here.
>
> On 5 April 2012 18:35, phoe
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with
> the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the
> meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are p
Hi all,
The Board has published a Q&A document around the recently published
fundraising & funds dissemination resolutions.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Board_FAQ
It's quite long -- sorry! -- but hopefully informative. Note that we
did this as everyone was tr
Dear all,
The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with
the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the
meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are published
here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions
* "Recognizing models
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 31 March 2012 22:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>> P.s.: It's a bit weird to focus so much on the reasons to oppose; why should
>> opposing be justified /more/ than supporting?
>
> There's supposed to be a Q&A coming that will explain t
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 8:16 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Dalton
> wrote:
>> On 31 March 2012 06:45, John Vandenberg wrote:
>>> There is no requirement to know everything. There is a requirement to
>>> make decisions in the best interests of the organisa
During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on
Trustee voting transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency
asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees
with their votes for each resolution.
best,
Pho
nding at least some time actually
> discussing that end?
>
> On 25 March 2012 18:33, phoebe ayers wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The next WMF Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for March 30-31,
>> 2012 in Berlin, held with the chapters meeting.
>>
>> The a
Hi all,
The next WMF Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for March 30-31,
2012 in Berlin, held with the chapters meeting.
The agenda is now posted here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_meetings/March_30-31,_2012
Wikimedia Chapters Meeting information:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w
For another take on encyclopedias & EB -- Karen Christensen, who is a
lovely person, fan of Wikipedia and the head of Berkshire publishing,
which publishes specialty encyclopedias, has a few blog posts up:
http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog/
I thought this was especially interesting:
"An art
ngest advocates of producing good
Wikimedia merchandise!
cheers,
phoebe
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Those of you who have been around for a few years may remember
> user:Tlogmer, aka Ben Yates -- co-author with Charles Matthews and I
> on "How Wikipedia W
Those of you who have been around for a few years may remember
user:Tlogmer, aka Ben Yates -- co-author with Charles Matthews and I
on "How Wikipedia Works."
I got an email from his mother this morning with the very sad news
that Ben passed away yesterday. I do not know the details. He was in
his
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:22 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> 2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
>> replace my old set!) Future versions will be digital only.
>>
>> http://mediadeco
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> 2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
> replace my old set!) Future versions will be digital only.
>
> http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/?s
2012/3/7 Juliana da Costa José :
> Andreas, you seem really maniac fixed to this theme. I am since 7 years in
> Wikipedia and never saw this pictures.
> For me are pictures from tortured persons, from war and weapons torn bodies
> and shot heads a much more terrifying that sex-pics (I spare posting
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Kat Walsh wrote:
...
> Sorry to drag this out--there are definitely more interesting things
> to talk about. But as someone who basically holds Phoebe's position on
> the issue I'd like to say what I am thinking also.
>
> I think, in fact, that I am almost exactly
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 6 March 2012 00:57, phoebe ayers wrote:
>
>> Well, in my opinion I haven't given much indication of what I
>> personally think on the issue at all, as I often explicitly ignored
>> speculation about my own
Hi David,
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:50 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 5 March 2012 17:07, phoebe ayers wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:32 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>>> You do realise this has become a toxic electoral issue for the board,
>>> with people who vote
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:32 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 5 March 2012 05:03, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
>
>> I am sorry to say that unless you are prepared to put your foot down, and
>> represent the tens of thousands of people who expressed their views in the
>> (admittedly suboptimal) referendum, yo
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:49 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> 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 sta
Hi Lodewijk,
In this board meeting we were trying to see if we had a general
consensus on the direction we wanted to go (rather than take a final
vote). There are still lots of aspects to be resolved, though -- what
the FDC looks like, what criteria are used for payment processing, and
many more t
The Wikimedia Foundation Board is very pleased to welcome and approve
our 39th chapter, Wikimedia Kenya:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Kenya
Congratulations to all for your hard work!
-- Phoebe Ayers
WMF Board of Trustees Secretary
--
* I use this
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Kat Walsh wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:19 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie wrote:
>>> Looks like a braindead law.
>>> Does the foundation have a specific position on OpenAccess?
>>
>&
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Chess Pie wrote:
> Looks like a braindead law.
> Does the foundation have a specific position on OpenAccess?
The WMF as an entity doesn't have a specific position/policy, though
in general we are squarely in the camp of OA supporters; but as Daniel
noted the Resear
Someday, I can only aspire to be a Vice President of Pencil Sharpeners :)
Sidenote: indeed, on our board we use the terminology Chair &
Vice-Chair, not president.
cheers,
phoebe
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> Many organizations have dozens or hundreds of vice presidents,
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Risker wrote:
> Thanks for your prompt responses, Beria. I have a few follow-ups.
>
> On 31 January 2012 22:43, Béria Lima wrote:
>> >
>> > * Will the names of the candidates be published for the entire Wikimedia
>> > community to see? *
>>
>>
>> The real names
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, En Pine wrote:
>
> Phoebe,
>
> On this agenda, could you give more detail about the topic "Paid editing
> discussion"? There is a current discussion on EN at the Village Pump
> regarding, among other things, PR personnel who edit on Wikipedia in ways
> that migh
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Kat Walsh wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers
> wrote:
>> Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it
>> omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to
>> discuss blackouts, SOPA and lo
Hi all,
The WMF Board of Trustees is planning our winter meeting for next
weekend. The draft agenda is posted here for comment:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_Meetings/February_3-4,_2012
This is a very full agenda, focusing on three main topics: the WMF
annual planning process for
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
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, George Herbert
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, FT2 wrote:
>> It's worth pointing out the discussion was open from 15 December to 16
>> January before any close.
>
> No, there was informal discussion going back into December. "The
> discussion" - the con
Should be fixed now; right at the very beginning it was blacked out
accidentally. . -- phoebe
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Chris Lee wrote:
> The "Learn More" link at en.wp is blocked too.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Minh Huy (WMF) wrote:
>
>> Landing page SOPA on Vietnamese Wikipedi
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
> Relatedly, where is the updated, latest discussion on what Wikimedia's
> response (if anything) is going to be?
> Presumably there is are several on-wiki debates, but because there are
> different potential "levels" of blackout (all project blac
Thanks Kevin :) Yes, I am a professional librarian who follows such
things (and listens to NPR!) and I somehow missed this story. I don't
think it is a well known or reported on event. Thank you for bringing
it to everyone's attention, it sounds like a tragedy. Following David,
if anyone has sugges
A bit of context for those who haven't been following those pages -- a
draft of those principles (going hand in hand with funds dissemination
principles) was proposed by the WMF board and submitted for community
review and input. After a few months of this, the board is now voting
to approve a fina
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:16 PM, MF-Warburg wrote:
> On Incubator we have in this year for the first time compiled an
> end-of-the-year review in order to inform people about what is going on on
> Incubator / new wikis.
>
> The version on-wiki can be found on
> http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 31 December 2011 19:28, Zack Exley wrote:
>> Geni - You're being mean. On New Years Eve! Happy New Years!
>
> Neither Geni's meanness or the date are relevant to the point he was
> making. It certainly seems to be the case that the WMF
Mateus, you misunderstood me. I am not saying we should only use it
after the bill is approved; that would indeed be pointless. I am
saying that this could be a very good time to strike, but it would
have to be right now, as we speak, this morning. And if the bill does
pass this vote, then it goes
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Just wanted to let you know that I got word a few minutes ago that today's
> SOPA markup meeting will be using a new tool that allows for public input
> into the markup. Shortly before 8:30, you'll see the SOPA bill replac
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:08 AM, emijrp wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> Looks like Wikimedia Foundation is very worried about censorship and the
> cut off of fundraising payment processors. Now.
>
> What did WMF do when WikiLeaks domains were seized and its fundraising
> payment processors (PayPal, Visa, Mas
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Itzik Edri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> *I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 2011 in Haifa are
> now available on our channel in YouTube!: http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL
> .*
> Next week I will send a HDD with all the footage and the edited videos to
> t
All,
Minutes for the October 7-8 meeting of the WMF Board are now posted:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-10-07
Sorry about the long delay on getting these up.
best,
Phoebe
--
* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
gmail.com *
--
* I use this
Hi all,
The Sept-Oct activity report for the Board of Trustees is published on
Meta here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_Reports/September-October,_2011
This is an informal report that we started doing a few months ago to
try and communicate more about what the board and individual trustees
Following up on last year's OSTP call for comments (which I also sent
to foundation-l), the US government is seeking public comment on more
technical questions (including policy, repository and standards
development) related to sharing federally-funded scholarly data and
publications. This process
So cool! Thank you, WMF reports team! I look forward to hearing how
the experiment works :)
Phoebe
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Tilman Bayer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as mentioned in last week's announcement of the September 2011
> Wikimedia Foundation report, this time we published a separate
> "Hig
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> On 9 October 2011 14:18, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>> On 9 October 2011 13:55, Ting Chen wrote:
The majority of editors who responded to the referendum are not opposed
to the feature. However, a significant minority
Of interest:
Benjamin Mako Hill is giving a talk at the Berkman Center on October
11, entitled: "Almost Wikipedia: What Eight Collaborative Encyclopedia
Projects Reveal About Mechanisms of Collective Action"
It will be webcast:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/10/makohill
cheers,
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
>
>> http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/
>> Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take. Naturally, please
>> discuss the blog on the blog and not t
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:10 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:>
>>
>> This seems like an over-hasty statement. There are many possible
>> categorization schemes that are neutral; the ALA in fact makes that
>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Tobias Oelgarte
wrote:
> 86% of the German contributers opposed the feature. Does the same
> pattern apply to the global poll, or was it just the difference in
> question? We don't know as long per project data isn't released. I
> repeatedly asked for this data for
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Fae wrote:
> Thanks Phoebe. I'm glad to hear that the WMF has used almost no
> donated money in staff costs running this global referendum.
>
> As a member of the board you may want to consider what it means in
> terms of operational accountability if such a large
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:01 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Fae wrote:
>>> Fae wrote:
Is there a link somewhere to the total budget and actual staff costs
of the referendum?
>>>
>>> This was asked very early on:
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/Archive1#Cost
>>
>>
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:53 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 11 September 2011 17:22, Kim Bruning wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:38:38AM -0700, Sue Gardner wrote:
>
>>> I wrote the questions, with Phoebe and SJ, in Boston at the Wikipedia
>>> in Higher Ed conference.
>>> It's not a secret --
better understood? If so, it would
> probably be helpful to link them from the minutes :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lodewijk
>
> Am 12. September 2011 19:27 schrieb phoebe ayers :
>
>> FYI: the minutes from the August 3rd, 2011 Board meeting in Haifa (the
>> Wikimania me
chapter:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_District_of_Columbia
-- Phoebe Ayers
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Tempodivalse wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I thought the Wikimedia community should know that a large portion of
> WIkinews' contributor base has forked into its own project
> (http://theopenglobe.org) after becoming deeply dissatisfied with Wikinews.
> The n
FYI: the minutes from the August 3rd, 2011 Board meeting in Haifa (the
Wikimania meeting) are now posted:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-08-03
Regards,
Phoebe Ayers
p.s. Digression on minutes:
Since I recently had to learn the process by which board minutes are
written and
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>
> On Monday 05 September 2011 03:53 AM, Kim Bruning wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 11:54:44PM +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Yes, exactly! You're smart! :-)
Now, one definition of censorship is :
* Filtering on the basis
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> Well, it seems that every year we choose locations that for one reason or
> the other are likely not to be accessible to some groups or nationality (I
> hear complaints every year about these issues)(no judgements, just a fact).
> So I agree th
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:20 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 27 August 2011 09:04, wrote:
>> On Aug 26, 2011 11:12am, David Gerard wrote:
>>> On 26 August 2011 16:06, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> > This labeling is proposed to be done on the basis not of the regular
>>> > commons
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:21:23PM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > Board was aware of that, as the first Robert Harris' report included
> > very similar text from Canadian librarian association.
>
> I would then like to point out that there is
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:
> phoebe ayers, 04/08/2011 07:29:
> > The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
> > first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
> > summary, meant to hel
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 01:17:15PM -0700, phoebe ayers wrote:
> > This week, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously
> > passed a resolution addressing the issue of controversial content on
> > the pro
Every time we've run an election of any kind with emails, to the best of my
knowledge, the email has caused a huge jump in participation. This time,
sending the email led to an additional 5000 votes overnight, which more than
doubled the total vote count. I don't have the numbers to hand, but we s
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:58 AM, church.of.emacs.ml <
church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 08/14/2011 11:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> > I support the idea of language contact persons, or ambassadors, but
> > their appointment shouldn't be as rigidly regulated as the appointment
> > of
That's really unfortunate :(
The best way I can think of to honor his recent contributions is to have a
look at his meta userpage:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alecmconroy
which is filled with all sorts of good and ambitious ideas about the future
of our projects, and begin to discuss them
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Birgitte SB wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >____
> >rom: phoebe ayers
> >To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> >Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:13 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapters
> >
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
> On 8/11/2011 7:08 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> > Anyway, thanks for raising the importance of decentralization. The
> > Board agrees: there's a reason it was first in our list of principles.
> > To my mind "decent
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 9 August 2011 18:29, geni wrote:
> > On 9 August 2011 08:18, David Gerard wrote:
> >> On 9 August 2011 05:13, Kirill Lokshin
> wrote:
>
> >>> This is all very true, and very insightful; but what does it have to do
> with
> >>> chapters?
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> On 8/5/2011 7:17 PM, Nathan wrote:
> > John's e-mail reads like a suggestion that the Foundation negotiated
> > in bad faith. I hope this isn't the case, although the references made
> > to consulting with outside auditors and meetings of the
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_accountability for discussion.
Note: for those currently at Wikimania, please feel free to ask us questions
in person as well as on the list or on meta.
best,
Phoebe Ayers
(2011-12 Board Secretary)
---
The Board of Trustees
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:19 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
>
>> phoebe ayers wrote:
>> > The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find
>> the
>> > first report, covering May and
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> phoebe ayers wrote:
> > The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
> > first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
> > summary, meant to help share our work w
Dear all,
The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
summary, meant to help share our work with the community and movement, and
help make Board work and trustee activities more accessible & trans
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Andre Engels wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:25 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Risker wrote:
>> > I have a hard
>> > time understanding why people think chapters are representative of the
>> > community. They're repres
Jan -- thanks for your work exploring systems -- I think it's
definitely worth trying out for a test and agree it's worth trying to
support participation. You note in the bug that there could be
different sections for the different projects -- I've also always
wanted a meta-focused Q&A site for all
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Sarah wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:16, Béria Lima wrote:
>> I receveid two mails:
>>
>> 1. To my main account (Beria) in portuguese.
>>
>> 2. To one of my bot accounts, in english.
>>
>> So, i will guess that the language is chosen based in the home wiki (m
Fwd'ing to F-l in case you did not read the Signpost this week... this
is WONDERFUL, thank you so much to the Signpost and to the Research
Committee.
The amount of research done on and about Wikipedia has grown
substantially over the last few years, and has gotten a good deal more
sophisticated as
Hi Andrew! Can you put the proposal on meta without including the
details about the case?
cheers,
Phoebe
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Billinghurst wrote:
> I also believe that there are special cases where there should be a policy
> decision made
> by the body that has the responsibility for
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:30 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 4 June 2011 15:42, MZMcBride wrote:
>
>> I think it's a fairly dangerous precedent to have the Wikimedia Foundation
>> involved in making individual decisions about who can and can't edit.
>
>
> They certainly can determine who can and can'
Reminder: general meeting today in a couple hours (1800 UTC). Bring
your agenda items and topics for discussion with others, etc. (see
below for the original idea). Casual, moderated by Mono and myself.
freenode#wikimedia
best,
Phoebe
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
>
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> To those of you not (yet) following the Wikimedia Blog, let me point your
> attention to my (first) blog post, introducing the Grant Advisory Committee:
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/03/gac-it-up-introducing-the-gran
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Scott MacDonald
wrote:
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-
>> boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Yaroslav M. Blanter
>> Sent: 03 June 2011 18:05
>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
>>
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:52 AM, George Herbert
wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:55 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>> On 2 June 2011 18:48, Fae wrote:
>>
>>> In 2016 San Francisco has a major earthquake and the servers and
>>> operational facilities for the WMF are damaged beyond repair. The
>>> emer
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Risker, 02/06/2011 00:53:
>> I think the more important part of this announcement is the resolution on
>> images of identifiable people [...]
>
> I agree. It's also the first time (if memory serves me well and if I
> understand it corr
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Fae wrote:
> Briefly responding to a couple of points raised so far:
>
> Yes, there is a need for a policy as otherwise the WMF would have no
> long term operational archive plan. "Self evident" is insufficient in
> order to budget and plan in a credible way. If as
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Alec Conroy wrote:
> I feel that basically _is_ the role of the board. I feel like my
> dream board personified is a little like a judo master. When push to
> rule on a dispute, usually they should pull that energy and
> productively deflect that energy back to
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 11:05 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
>> On 6/1/2011 2:03 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
>>> "Wikimedia projects are curated and edited collections, according to
>>> certain principles: namely, we host only content that is both free and
>>> educ
has worked on this issue, and special thanks
to Robert and Dory Harris for their hard work.
-- Phoebe Ayers, on behalf of the Board working group and the Board
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Back in September we had an open community IRC meeting, where we
> introduced the new Trustees and talked about various issues. It was
> pretty successful and we discussed af
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Thomas Morton
wrote:
> So, just a quick thought for future reference - during maintenance is it
> possible in future to update the error message to explain that maintenance
> is ongoing?
I work with lots of (library) databases, and standard practice for
these serv
>
> How did that go? Any further developments?
>
> Best,
> Andreas
>
>
>
> --- On Sun, 20/2/11, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
>
>> From: Andreas Kolbe
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content --
>> update
>> To: "phoebe
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
> On 5/10/2011 4:13 PM, ext phoebe ayers wrote:
>> Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
>> since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
>
> Joan and Анатолій have mentioned th
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> I'd like to publicly welcome our colleagues at Wikimedia Macau on being
> recognized as a Wikimedia Chapter.
congratulations to Macau!
> May you create and share much knowledge!
:) We need to start collecting wiki-toast
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Marco Chiesa wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:13 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
>> Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
>> since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
>> Originally with spe
Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years
since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these
sites were:
catalan.wikipedia.com
chinese.wikipedia.com
esperanto.wikipedia.com
french.wikipedia.com
de
Hurray! Welcome Marjon to a new role, and congratulations to the Dutch
chapter :)
-- phoebe
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> Today is Marjon Bakker's first day in the office of the Dutch chapter,
> our first paid coworker in Utrecht. For the next six mont
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 14:50 -0400, ext Pharos wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>> > Perhaps it would be helpful if, when creating a new account, a user could
>> > write a short message about what would they like
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Sarah wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 13:54, phoebe ayers wrote:
>> * "how do I delete an article?" and its counterpart: "why was my
>> article deleted?"
>> * "how do I merge/split an article?"
>> * "
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:36 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Risker wrote:
>> I'm particularly interested in policy simplification; I know our project has
>> far, far too many complex and even contradictory policies, guidelines, and
>> miscellaneous pages that result in "alphabet soup" messages that even
>>
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