Congratulations to Frieda and Patricio! All the best!!
M.
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From: Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: 03/06/2014 09:31 (GMT+02:00)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] ASBS results
Dear all,
On behalf of the election facilitators I would like to let you know the
results of the Affiliate Selected Board Seats election.
The candidates who won the election are Patricio Lorente and Frieda
Brioschi, and therefore the movement affiliates recommend the Board
appoints them.
There were 27 votes cast by movement affiliates, and the results at each
stage of the count (under the STV system) were as follows.
STEP 1
Votes:
Sums: Patricio Lorente (15.50); Alice Wiegand (5.50); Frieda
Brioschi(5.00); Anders Wennersten (1.00)
Patricio wins.
STEP 2
Votes:
Sums: Frieda (8.73); Alice (6.74); Anders (1.53)
Anders loses.
STEP 3
Votes:
Sums: Frieda (9.26); Alice (7.74)
Alice loses.
STEP 4
Votes:
Sums: Frieda (17.00)
Frieda wins.
The 0.5 votes in the first round occur because some affiliates put two
candidates as 1st preference: this was treated as a half-vote for each
candidate.
The election result was counted independently by two of the facilitators,
one using a script and the other using pen-and-paper, to verify one
anothers' results.
Do let us know if you have any further questions regarding the process.
I would like to thank all the candidates and everyone who participated in
the selection process, and particularly Alice Wiegand for her two years of
service on the WMF Board.
Regards,
Chris
on behalf of James Hare, Lorenzo Losa and Chris Keating, election
facilitators
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GerardM,
Yes, if Asaf or someone else wanted to have a low-frequency discussion about VE on Hebrew Wikipedia or some other wiki on this list I think that would be ok too. IMO this is a high-traffic general-purpose list, but Asaf is right that taking discussions to a more specific place is appreciated by others who may not want to get 50 emails about a local issue.
Let's continue discussion about VE on English Wikipedia on the pages I suggested.
Thanks,
Pine
Asaf, I agree in some ways. ENWP's email list is a backwater though, and since the discussion that got me thinking about this issue started on this list it made sense to me to keep it on this list. Also, other wikis' experiences with VE are relevant. My personal experience with VE has most recently been on Meta. Also, you may remember that I suggested that a recent and much more intensive discussion about Commons would have been better elsewhere than this list, but a lot of it stayed here. The volume of this conversation about VE is pretty low. There should be a single standard on this list, not separate standards for Commons and ENWP.
However, I agree that we don't need to keep this conversation here. Risker and anyone else who's interested, please continue on my ENWP talk page or start a thread somewhere like VP-T.
Pine
I think having a two part RfC with the first part discussing the minimum conditions the community would like VE to meet before having a discussion about more widely enabling VE in the second portion of the RfC makes sense. This raises the possibility that as VE becomes more and more functional that the community will incrementally approve of wider default use over time and different presentations of VE to editors.
There are a lot of options for how extensively VE could be enabled and how it can be presented to users with the community's consent, which we can discuss in the second portion of the RfC. I have a draft for that portion off-wiki that I will tweak depending on how the first portion looks before I put it on-wiki for other editors to review.
Risker, would you like to set up the first portion of this, if this arrangement sounds good to you?
Pine
??? writes:
>On 02/06/2014 21:14, Mike Godwin wrote:
>>
>> Google has a clear purpose too, and it was no defense. Plus, there is
>> a public-interest argument in favor of eschewing the erasure of true,
>> accurate public data that happens to be old.
>>
>
>There is nothing in the judgement about erasing "true, acaccurate public
>data that happens to be old." The judgement is about collecting,
>collating, and processing it, in away that is an invasion of privacy.
This is an incorrect characterization of the opinion. The ECJ said the
right "to be forgotten" applies when the data aggregated "appear to be
inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation
to the purpose for which they were processed and in light of the time
that has elapsed." This does not mean "invasion of privacy," which is
a term generally applied to information that has not previously been
published. By its nature, Google is not publishing information that
has never been published. -- it indexes and enables the retrieval of
information that has been previously published.
Whatever "the right to be forgotten" may turn out to be, it's not
about publication of previously unpublished information. Ergo, it's
not about "invasion of privacy," broadly speaking. The opinion makes
clear that one can publish true, accurate, already-published
information and nevertheless be compelled to erase it by an individual
or entity invoking a right "to be forgotten."
--Mike
Hi,
Amical is just drafting its very first collaboration with a Hospital, in
order to improve MED articles on ca.wiki
The doctors comittée asked us, in order to optimize efforts, if we knew
which are the most visited articles medicine related, so they can start
putting their efforts there
Do you know if there is a tool for that?
- tracking which are the most visited articles in a category tree on a wiki
(not only En.wiki).
I just tried to RTFM and JGI but didn't found what I was looking for.
Hi, guys.
I just wanted to remind you that the FDC staff are hosting an office hour
in about 15 minutes. For information on how to attend, please see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
I hope to see you there!
Maggie
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Maggie Dennis
Senior Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Just wondering whether there is going to be a bigger announcement of
Wikimania 2015 going to be in Mexico City, than its appearance in the
WM2014 programme
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme
If the decision is announced on [[m:Wikimania 2015]] by the green text, I
think that is a very quiet way of doing things. Seems that we can make a
bit of a bigger fuss. Congrats Mexico City.
Regards, Billinghurst
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The initiative, which is first of its kind in Nigeria, is dubbed Wikipedia
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Hi all,
please spread the word: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1
About one year ago, we, Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., announced June 30th
as the deadline of the Toolserver migration (Roadmap at [1]). This
deadline is approaching. The Toolserver will stop working on June 30th.
What will happen afterwards?
Background information
The Toolserver is a community based infrastructure that hosts software
supporting Wikipedia and its sister projects. Over the years many active
volunteers have developed helpful and great software tools that are
running on several Wikimedia projects.
The Toolserver is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland with assistance from
the Wikimedia Foundation and several chapters. For many reasons, the
Toolserver will be discontinued and replaced by Tool Labs [2], a
platform operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see the reasons at
[3]. For more than one year Wikimedia Deutschland has been coordinating
the migration of software tools from Toolserver to Tool Labs.
What editors should know
The toolserver is a community-driven project. The tools shall be
migrated by the developers resp. maintainers themselves. Many of them
have already migrated their tools or have indicated that they will do so
before the end of this month. We have a special agreement with the
OpenStreetMap projects and with the developer of Merlbot [4] to ensure
these tools don’t stop working. All other tools will stop working by
July 1st.
What editors can do
* On Tool Labs [2], you can look up if the tools that you use and need
have already moved there.
* Talk to the developers of your favourite tools: It is important to let
them know how much you appreciate their tools and that you need them to
do your work.
* Contact us if you don’t know who these developers are or if you have
any questions or if you want us to forward wishes or requests to tool
developers. Contact information is given at the end of this text.
Information for tool developers
If you are still facing the migration of your tools, please keep in mind
that lots of people use your tools. They are a great support for their
daily work and will be missed when they fail. Please take the time to
migrate them or poke us: WMDE can still support you during migration -
what we can’t do is maintain abandoned tools in the long run.
>From July 1st on, the toolserver admins will still hand you over your
backups upon request and create redirects to Tool Labs for you. *You
won’t be able to log in to the toolserver anymore though.*
If anyone wants to have and reuse other people’s code, we recommend to
seek approval from them directly, even if from a legal point of view
there is no problem. Don’t hesitate to talk to us if you need a contact
person.
Here is a collection of the relevant links for you again:
* Tool Labs: http://tools.wmflabs.org
* Tool Labs help pages:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help
* How to create redirects to Tool Labs:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/.htaccess#.htaccess
* Magnus Manske’s migration manual:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools…
* Scripts to clean up your toolserver account]] after migration:
https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page
* Mailing list Labs-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
* IRC channel #wikimedia-labs:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-labs
* Marc-André Pelletier (Coren) and Andrew Bogott (andrewbogott) are the
WMF Tool Labs ops. Petr Bena (petan) and Tim Landscheidt (scfc_de) are
voluntary Tool Labs admins.
We invite you to join our IRC office hour in #wikimedia-office on
Wednesday, June 11th, at 5 p.m. UTC.
Contact:
The migration is coordinated by Silke Meyer (WMDE). Birgit Müller
supports her in communications. The two toolserver admins Marlen
Caemmerer und Alexander Mette are glad to help you with advice.
Marc-André Pelletier can answer all questions concerning Tool Labs.
Contact us at
Silke: silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [5], IRC: Silke_WMDE
Birgit: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [6], IRC: Birgit_WMDE
We hope that the transition will happen as smoothly as possible!
Best, Silke
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en
[2] http://tools.wmflabs.org
[3] https://toolserver.org/
[4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:MerlBot
[5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Silke_WMDE
[6] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Birgit_Müller_(WMDE)
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Tel. (030) 219 158 260
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