Re: [Foundation-l] Moderate this list

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > This is effectively the only cross-project list at the moment.  And it > is the canonical place to raise certain important issues and > announcements. > > It has become popular to disparage this list as a poor place to have > serious discussio

[Foundation-l] new list summary (and RSS question)

Dear list, List summary service for August is done. Whew! Busy month. Sorry I didn't manage to do a biweekly edition last month. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_August_1-31 Now to start on September :) And a questions: I've gotten a couple requests for an RSS version

Re: [Foundation-l] new list summary (and RSS question)

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Nice! > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:02 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> >> And a questions: I've gotten a couple requests for an RSS version of >> the LSS updates. What would the most useful way to do this be? &

[Foundation-l] advisory board composition

Dear Foundation-istas, It looks like sometime this summer the composition of the Advisory Board changed, with several of the original members becoming former members: http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Advisory_Board&diff=39660&oldid=39327 I don't remember an announcement about this

Re: [Foundation-l] advisory board composition

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > phoebe ayers wrote: >> Dear Foundation-istas, >> >> It looks like sometime this summer the composition of the Advisory >> Board changed, with several of the original members becoming former >> members: &g

Re: [Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > WMF could no doubt spend a lot more in program expenses, though > defining exactly what those are is a pretty fun game. But it's > certainly not spending as inefficiently as the histogram might seem to > suggest. Right. What's a program expen

Re: [Foundation-l] The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent firing?

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Birgitte SB wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 11/2/09, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > >> From: wjhon...@aol.com >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing? >> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:55 PM >> Personally, I process about two or

[Foundation-l] new list summary

Oct. 16-31: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_October_16-31 and a reminder that these are also posted (for lss2rss) at identi.ca: http://identi.ca/listsummaryservice regards, phoebe ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-

Re: [Foundation-l] The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent firing?

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 11/7/2009 9:13:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, > thomas.dal...@gmail.com writes: Dudes. This thread. Case in point. (As I suppose it was fated to be, sigh). Yes, I am reading it, because I care about this issue. I posted a few months ago

[Foundation-l] new list summary

New LSS, special moderated f-l edition. Let's see if the next edition of LSS is easier still :) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_November_1-15 also at http://identi.ca/listsummaryservice for your rss pleasure. -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send persona

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Laura Hale wrote: > This is a follow up to my proposal that Fan History Wiki join the wMF > family, based on my experiences via e-mail, on the list and on strategy > wiki. > As some one who has proposed a new project for the WMF (which would really > probably b

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > I mean to say that since 2006, and perhaps even further back, there have > been no proposals which should have been approved. Why do we need a > process to handle something which, in essence, *doesn't happen*? Does it not happen because th

[Foundation-l] reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated

Erik Zachte ran another analysis on the numbers and concluded that the number of new editors on the English Wikipedia is *growing*, and that the number of editors who edit regularly is basically holding steady. It still looks like we hit a peak of new editor growth in late '06, but the ongoing loss

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Secret Santa!

Hello Wikimedians, Austin and I thought it might be fun to have a Secret Santa New Year's drawing among Wikimedia friends! We're basing it on the MetaFilter community Secret Santa drawing, which has 256 participants and uses a website called Elfster. Totally optional of course, but totally fun to

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Secret Santa … and En vironment

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:51 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> Hello Wikimedians, >> >> Austin and I thought it might be fun to have a Secret Santa New Year's >> drawing among Wikimedia friends! We're bas

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > geni wrote: >> 2009/12/15 Michael Snow : >> >>> That's a strangely limited notion of who has the capability to help - >>> only people who are quantitatively more famous than us? For a project >>> that's built around lots and lots of individua

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Secret Santa!

A reminder to sign up by Sat. if you want to participate. -- phoebe --- On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:51 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Hello Wikimedians, > > Austin and I thought it might be fun to have a Secret Santa New Year's > drawing among Wikimedia friends! We're basin

[Foundation-l] OSTP Request for Comment on Open Access to Federally Funded Research

Possibly of interest to Wikimedians: the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy is requesting public comment on making federally funded scientific research open access. The deadline is Jan. 7. - Forwarded Message - From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." To: st...@ala.org Sent: Thursday, Dec

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia Research policy

Of broader interest than just the research list. This came out of the discussions at WikiSym this October between researchers and Wikimedians about the need to have some structure about how researchers interact with Wikipedia and Wikipedians (to try to alleviate frustration on both sides). -- phoeb

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 bidding is open

l them to me or to James Forrester and we will pass them along to the private jury mailing list. All private communications with the jury are confidential. best regards, and good luck -- Phoebe Ayers Wikimania 2011 jury moderator (non-voting) on behalf of the 2011 jury: http://meta.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Bod Notbod wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:57 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> But then, who isn't a contributor since 2004 these days? > > Is there something special about 2004? That's when I became a volunteer. > > Is that recognised as the year things reached cri

[Foundation-l] Reminder: Wikimania bid deadline Feb. 8

Hi all, This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for posting an initial Wikimania 2011 bid is *Monday, February 8*, just three short weeks away. Remember, you don't have to specify any details at this point; you just have to list the city your team plans to bid with (you can always withdraw lat

Re: [Foundation-l] OSTP Request for Comment on Open Access to Federally Funded Research

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Possibly of interest to Wikimedians: the U.S. Office of Science and > Technology Policy is requesting public comment on making federally > funded scientific research open access. The deadline is Jan. 7. > > - Fo

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Air-L] Critical Point of View: Wikipedia Research Conference (Amsterdam, March 26/27)

Hmmm -- Forwarded message -- From: geert lovink Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:30 AM Subject: [Air-L] Critical Point of View: Wikipedia Research Conference (Amsterdam, March 26/27) To: air Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research

Re: [Foundation-l] 2008/2009 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Jay Walsh wrote: > Hi all, > > In the next day or so Rand and the fundraising team will be sending out an > email to all of our donors (about 230,000 - thanks to a tremendous > fundraiser) recapping the campaign sharing our 2nd annual report, which you > can als

[Foundation-l] List summary service

So after a rather lengthier than planned delay, I posted two new foundation-l list summaries for posterity: December: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2009_December_1-31 January: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2010_January_1-31 I'll try to keep

Re: [Foundation-l] 10th birthday edit drive?

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Stuart West wrote: > At a meetup in San Francisco today I was thinking about next January's 10th > Birthday for Wikipedia and recent strategic planning discussions around > participation.  What about celebrating Wikipedia Day with an edit drive?  We > could aim for

Re: [Foundation-l] the Foundation

Hi Tyler! The history of wikis is pretty well documented here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis And the history of Wikipedia and how it came to be is analyzed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia, and also at length in the book "The Wikipedia Revolution", by Andrew Li

Re: [Foundation-l] the Foundation

undation is >> getting a >> cut. >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org >> [mailto:foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of phoebe >> ayers >> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:40 AM

[Foundation-l] WikiSym 2010 CFP: One Week Left!

ps: worksh...@wikisym.org    * Demonstrations/Tutorials: de...@wikisym.org    * Posters: post...@wikisym.org    * Doctoral Symposium: doc...@wikisym.org General questions should be directed at ch...@wikisym.org. SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE    * Phoebe Ayers, University of California at Davis, USA; Symposium Chair    * Feli

Re: [Foundation-l] I'm here to request a new Wikimedia project

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM, David Goodman wrote: > WP contains many of  the essential elements  of an almanac already, and > could very easily cover all the rest-- it doesn't take a new project, just a > For Pharos, there is also the Atlas project on Commons already -- one of my favorite pro

[Foundation-l] list o' image donations?

Hello Foundation-l, Is there an list somewhere of major image donations/collections that have been uploaded to Commons in the last few years? E.g., the Bundesarchiv donation, Antweb, etc. We've been trying to note these in the Signpost as they come up, but it would be nice to also have a comprehe

Re: [Foundation-l] list o' image donations?

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> Is there an list somewhere of major image donations/collections that >> have been uploaded to Commons in the last few years? E.g., the >> Bundesarchiv donation, Antw

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikiversity

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Anthony wrote: > What's going on over at Wikiversity?  Jimmy Wales has now been threatened > with a block by someone who seems to be an admin in good standing, and he > responds that he has "the full support of the Wikimedia Foundation".  Is > this true?  What does

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikiversity

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:41 PM, geni wrote: > On 18 March 2010 17:16, Cormac Lawler wrote: >> On 18 March 2010 16:33, Erik Moeller wrote: >> >>> 2010/3/18 Anthony : >>> > For what it's worth, I think it's probably a good idea to shut down >>> > Wikiversity.  Wikiversity hasn't to my knowledge

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:28 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Mike Godwin wrote: >> Darn it! A waste, I say! And I worked so hard to give you >> . > > Huh, neat. I'm not sure there was an announcement about that, but it's nice > to know it's there! I do

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas from Limburg

Ziko, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > When he told me about, I looked up again what I had written about > (small) Wikipedia language editions in my handbook (in German): > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ziko/Handbuch-Titel . I then, in > 2008, found li.WP relatively

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas from Limburg

u > are more experienced still. > > Kind regards > Ziko > > > 2010/4/2 phoebe ayers : >> Ziko, >> >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Ziko van Dijk >> wrote: >>> When he told me about, I looked up again what I had written about >>> (sma

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome to a new board member

I'm with Sydney :) Welcome Bishakha to our crazy projects and community. Wiki(mp)edia is diverse, huge, decentralized, a little overwhelming and full of some of the geekiest, most awesome people I know -- I hope you can make it to Wikimania to meet some of them! And as with all new board members,

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Announcement list is active

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Jay Walsh wrote: > Hi all, > > A few weeks ago there was much discussion about establishing an > announcement-only email list that would be used as a 'push-only' list where > important announcements from the Foundation, chapters, or other > representatives could

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] 2011 delay

someone asked me about wikimania 2011 and I realized I only sent this to wikimania-l -- sorry. -- phoebe -- Forwarded message -- From: phoebe ayers Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:34 PM Subject: [Wikimania-l] 2011 delay To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Form 990 Now Filed and Posted

Great! Thank you for posting this. (Both expressing my sincere appreciation, and testing the replies to wikimediaannounce-l :) ) phoebe On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Veronique Kessler wrote: > Please note that the 2008 Form 990 which covers fiscal year July 1, 2008 > through June 30, 2009 ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 29

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Anthony wrote: >> My understanding is that William is being paid. > > Seriously? Well, okay then. If that's what our grants are being spent on… Jeez, does it matter? If William's style is to deal with cranky comments by being as polite as possible and acknowledgin

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:18 PM, David Goodman wrote: > Is there anyone who disagrees that we need to hold to the policies: > > 1. that the WMF projects as a whole contains only material --of any > sort , on any topic-- with informative or educational value, Maybe we need a new motto for Commons:

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > By now, just two Board members explicitly stated what do they think > about Jimmy's action: Jan-Bart de Vreede and Ting Chen (who explained > his position in details). > > According to not precise Board's statement I may guess who supports > Ji

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:31 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 8 May 2010 17:29, phoebe ayers wrote: > >> Well, we as a community don't require such individual statements about >> any other issue; I realize this may be a personal dealbreaker for you >> but it does

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 announcement

e the energy that has been put into these bids by hosting smaller regional events, and considering another bid for Wikimania in the future. Phoebe Ayers James Forrester Cary Bass Jury moderators (non-voting) On behalf of the Wikimania jury: Mariano Cecowski Austin Hair Benjamin Mako Hill Teemu Lei

Re: [Foundation-l] On Wikimania locations

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Wikimania 2011 has come, yet again another location in the middle-east. > > It seems to me that every major populated geographic region has a > multitude of sites which could create viable wikimania candidacies— > and this has certainly bee

Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Austin Hair wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Lodewijk wrote: >> However, I am missing why it was decided to decrease the size of the >> logo. It definitely looks more professional, but also somewhat less >> friendly to me. Maybe it is just me, maybe not -

Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Austin Hair wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> Oh well— at least we've got something to complain about and improve. > > We could always go back to talking about porn on Commons. > > Austin n. what about Wikimania rot

Re: [Foundation-l] FYI: Wikipedia, Open Access and Cognitive Virology

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Klaus Graf wrote: > Stevan Harnad in the American Scientist Open Access Forum: > > On Sat, 15 May 2010, Barbara Kirsop [Electronic Publishing Trust for > Development] wrote: > > What is very confusing about [the SAGE survey's] call for feedback is > the title ["Ope

Re: [Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As William alluded to, a bunch of us have been studying the user interface > for Flagged Protections and figuring out how to make it more intuitive. Thanks for asking about the name -- though I suspect there's nothing that wi

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Air-L] Open Video Conference proposals deadline: June 7th

This is relevant to Wikivideoistas ... wasn't last year's conf the origin of the "video on Wikipedia" campaign? Watch out, who knows what they'll come up with this year. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ben Moskowitz Date: Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:58 AM Subject: [Air-L] Open Video Con

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Announcing new Chief Global Development Officer and new Chief Community Officer

> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Sue Gardner > Date: 2 June 2010 19:08 > Subject: Announcing new Chief Global Development Officer and new Chief > Community Officer > To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Hi folks, > > I am really happy to announce two important new Wik

Re: [Foundation-l] Communication

Hi Noein, With no comment on the issue you were interested in, you raise good questions about internal communication, which has indeed been chaotic for as long as I've been around, but is -- if you can imagine -- better than it used to be! On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Noein wrote: > -BEGI

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Announcing new Chief Global Development Officer and new Chief Community Officer

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Daniel Phelps wrote: > On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:40 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > >> Also as I'm sure you're aware it's definitely time to update >> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Org_Chart_Without_Names.png ! >> (from

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > Erik Moeller wrote: >> 2010/6/3 Fajro : >> >>> Maybe we should support the "Language Icon" idea: >>> >>> http://languageicon.org/index-icon.php >>> >> That icon seems about as intuitive as the name "Hyperion >> Frobnosticating Endoswitch" for

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > Sort of tangentially, ... am I really the only one that frequently > uses the Wikipedia inter-language links as a big translating > dictionary?  I've found it to be much more useful than automatic > translation engines for mathematical te

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a BadIdea, part 2

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 5 June 2010 19:40, Aphaia wrote: > >> What is the good reason usability team thought data from English >> Wikipedia visitors' behaviors and alone were enough to design for all >> other 200+ languages' readership? It looks me an obvious mis

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:03 PM,   wrote: >> Sorry for top-posting. >> >> Austin, think about who "everyone" is.  The folks here on foundation-l are >> not representative of readers.  The job of the user experience team is to >> try to bala

Re: [Foundation-l] Communication

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Keegan Peterzell wrote: >> Okay, so from my perspective, here's where we are: >> >> The WMF staff cares about the projects and we respect the work that they do >> [snip] but this is what a thread >> like the ones we've had recently f

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Michael Snow wrote: >> >> Similarly, we know that the community population skews young and male. >> That has important consequences, and some of those unfortunately >> reinforce our lack of diversity. It's been pointed out what a >> ma

Re: [Foundation-l] Community, collaboration, and cognitive biases

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > 7) Further experimentation with tools like IdeaTorrent for large-scale > brainstorming and ranking purposes (we have a prototype running at > http://prototype.wikimedia.org/en-idea/ideatorrent/ ). I was super excited to see this go up the o

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Gerard Meijssen wrote: >> Hoi, >> The WMF has as its strategy to invest in what has the highest impact. Given >> limited resources that makes sense. It also means that while philosophically >> as volunteers we do not have to make such

Re: [Foundation-l] Community, collaboration, and cognitive biases

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > Chad wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Michael Snow wrote: >> >>> ...if for example I was qualified to review a >>> staff member's patch (which I'm not), I might want to think twice about >>> what audience gets that feedback. >>> >>>

[Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

There's been discussion of the gender gap among Wikimedia editors on and off for many years now, and it's a focus of the strategic planning process. This is a part of a larger issue of how to get members of underrepresented groups to edit more, to combat system bias on all fronts. (Or, simply how t

Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:16 PM, George Herbert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:26 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> There's been discussion of the gender gap among Wikimedia editors on >> and off for many years now, and it's a focus of the strategic planning >> proc

Re: [Foundation-l] Floating a notion: permanent Wikimania committee?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > Hi folks, > > For several years now, people have occasionally floated the notion > that there should be a permanent Wikimania oversight committee – > basically, a group of people responsible for giving some coaching and > guidance and oversigh

Re: [Foundation-l] "The problem with Wikipedia..."

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Here's the phrase in a 1988 sociology paper: > > http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/1/1/19 > > I'd call it a pretty obvious play on words, though, so I really doubt > we got it from that. > > Anyone got a complete wikien-l archive

Re: [Foundation-l] "The problem with Wikipedia..."

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:37 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> Here's the phrase in a 1988 sociology paper: >> >> http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/1/1/19 >> >> I'd call it a pretty obvio

Re: [Foundation-l] Floating a notion: permanent Wikimania committee?

erested.  I will be happy to put it in my > schedule, and I think James would probably be interested too. (James Owen, > not Forrester. I actually don't know if James Forrester is coming this year, > although now that I think of it, maybe he is one of the train-travelling > pe

Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: >> I don't think scapegoating Wikipedia's gender imbalances to biological >> differences is especially helpful. And the suggestion that it may not be >> possible to dumb-down Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Floating a notion: permanent Wikimania committee?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > On 6/17/2010 5:35 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> OK, so I guess my question is (and we talked about this on IRC too) -- >> who has the power or the ability -- or who *should*, in a perfect >> world -- create such a committe

Re: [Foundation-l] Floating a notion: permanent Wikimania committee?

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:27 -0700, phoebe ayers > wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Michael Snow >> wrote: >>> --Michael Snow >> >> I'm interested in this case specific

Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: >  While I appreciate the efforts to encourage wider partici- > pation, IMHO we should make sure that we keep the quality of > our "products" and our "human resources" in mind. No edits > at all may be better than one edit in ten days for pr

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Aaron Adrignola wrote: > It may be relevant to note that http://wikijunior.org currently redirects > to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior . > > From what I've heard, Wikijunior was supposed to become its own separate > project at some point.  Now, that is Wik

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> Yes.  We should definitely lay the groundwork well, as Ziko says.  But >> there are good projects underway today and doing this, in spanish, >> french, and dutch.  Some of the organizers

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Mark Williamson wrote: > Phoebe, in my humble opinion, this project is a bit different. I think > when we are talking about child development and creating a project for > children, there's no room to screw around or create some amateurish > product. This is somethi

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Program Schedule

Fwd'ing to Foundation-l for those not on the Wikimania list. Jacek has managed to wrangle a great Wikimania schedule out of chaos :) -- phoebe -- Forwarded message -- From: Jankowski, Jacek Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Program Schedule To: "Wikimania

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to Foundation Website

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:16 PM, 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. >

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to Foundation Website

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > When you consider the source of much of the donations, you will find that > they have been coming mainly from the United States. Chapters are becoming > more and more active in fundraising. The Dutch chapter for instance plans on >

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

n work we're >> trying to get done :-) >> >> Thanks, >> Sue >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Eugene Eric Kim >> Sender: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org >> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:45:49 >> To: Wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Note from the Board Chair

two > chapters-selected Board seats. Arne Klempert has been reappointed to his > seat, and Phoebe Ayers has also been appointed to join the Board. > > This means that Michael Snow will be leaving the Board: he has been invited > to join the Advisory Board, and the Board warmly thanks him

[Foundation-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

There have been a number of proposals floated in the Wikimedia community over the years to build a wiki-based project for collecting journal citation information. For those interested in that topic, you might want to check out the University of Prince Edward Island's "knowledge for all" project pro

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

Hi guys! I'm glad my little post helped re-start such a productive conversation. Since some people are replying only to the research-l list and some to both research-l and foundation-l (my fault for cc'ing both) maybe we should centralize this discussion (at least of the nitty gritty metadata issu

[Foundation-l] Noam Cohen discusses Wikimania..

... on this weeks NY Times "tech talk" podcast. Subjects include: flagging enthusiasm for Wikipedia, the differences between the Foundation & the contributor base, WMF efforts to increase diversity, Google Translation Toolkit, British Museum collaborations, and a very brief mention of flaggedrefs.

Re: [Foundation-l] How many books are there in the world?

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Bod Notbod wrote: > Google has attempted to answer the question of how many books exist in > a very interesting blog post. > > http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-counted.html Interesting! This, in a nutshell, is why projects to co

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Vice President?

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,

Re: [Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

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? >> >&

[Foundation-l] Congratulations to Wikimedia Kenya!

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising Letter Feb 2012

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

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

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

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

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

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

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