It's really disappointing to me that the Structured Data work has been used to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 1:20 PM Lisa Gruwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Christophe and SJ. You both were great supporters of this > effort when you were on the WMF board and it wouldn't have gotten off the > ground without you. It takes a lot of vision and trust to do something > long-term like an endowment. Thanks for giving that to us! > > Best, > Lisa > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 1:52 AM Christophe Henner < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Congratulations Lisa and team, I know how much energy you pour into it! >> That is an amazing step. And great to see the endowment becoming its own >> organization. >> >> And "welcome" to the "new" endowment board members! :) >> >> Few people might know Doron, but he is not a stranger. He has been >> supporting the movement for a very very long time and knows us very well. I >> remember back in 2016, he understood very very fast why it was critical to >> invest in Wikidata and that lead to the Structured Data grant: >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant. >> >> Phoebe, Doron and Patricio are great additions to the endowment board! >> >> All good news, thank you again Lisa! >> >> >> -- >> Christophe >> >> >> On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 16:58, Lisa Gruwell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Today I am very happy to announce the Wikimedia Endowment [1] has >>> reached its initial $100 million goal. The Endowment was started in 2016 as >>> a permanent fund to support the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity [2]. >>> >>> My deep gratitude goes out to our generous donors, the Endowment board, >>> Foundation staff, and volunteers who made this possible. I am grateful >>> to the future-focused community members who began considering the idea of >>> an endowment years ago, to those who participated in community >>> conversations on Meta [3] to help us think through initial decisions >>> regarding its launch, and to all contributors whose work creating >>> Wikimedia content has brought free knowledge to the world. >>> >>> As part of this milestone, the Wikimedia Endowment Board has also >>> welcomed three new members: Phoebe Ayers, Patricio Lorente, and Doron >>> Weber, bringing in important expertise of the Wikimedia movement and >>> priorities as well as in nonprofit management. >>> >>> You can read more about this milestone, what it means for the movement, >>> and what comes next for the Endowment on Diff [4] and the Endowment Meta >>> page [5]. We invite you to share any questions or feedback on the Endowment >>> talk page [6]. >>> >>> Thank you to everyone who has made this incredible achievement possible. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Lisa >>> >>> [1] https://wikimediaendowment.org/ >>> >>> [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/mission/ >>> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/mission/> >>> >>> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment_Essay >>> >>> [4] >>> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/22/the-wikimedia-endowment-reaches-100-million-milestone-and-welcomes-three-new-members-to-its-board-more-on-what-these-developments-mean-for-the-projects-and-movement/ >>> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/22/the-wikimedia-endowment-reaches-100-million-milestone-and-welcomes-three-new-members-to-its-board-more-on-what-these-developments-mean-for-the-projects-and-movement/> >>> >>> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment> >>> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Endowment >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Lisa Seitz Gruwell >>> >>> Chief Advancement Officer >>> >>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >>> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> Public archives at >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/LUHSNVCRIHQCGADJM5GHXGLX6R6A7LNW/ >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/4KIW46G7KAFHWZFRZZSQH2F2P5LWQEJG/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > -- > > Lisa Seitz Gruwell > > Chief Advancement Officer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/56ONJVVBAIZIG6SHPP544ZNG4NVY6ZWA/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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