Still a couple days available to offer yourself as Wikimania
scholarships committee member, or as ambassador for your community.
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Oggetto: [Wikimania-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee
Data: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 21:11:05 +0000 (UTC)
Dear Wikimaniacs,
we are now calling for a scholarship review committee.
This year, we additionally want a scholarship ambassador for each major
geography or language, including a representative from each entity which
pays for additional scholarships; the ambassadors will be committee
observers.
The scholarship review committee is an important and diverse group of
volunteers who help to run the scholarship program in accordance with
the pillars
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Pillars> of
this Wikimania. We encourage people from all Wikimedia wikis to apply
for this position so that the committee can handle applications in many
different languages.
The main duties of the committee members prior to Wikimania 2016 are:
* Participation in periodic online meetings with scholarships program
manager and other committee members.
* Review and edit communications material (e.g. Scholarship wiki,
application questions).
* Assistance in determination of scholarship applicant requirements.
* Assurance of due consideration and speedy response time to Wikimania
scholarship applications in multiple languages.
* Work with the local team.
For further information please visit m:Wikimania/Scholarships/Tasks
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/Tasks> (the
committee will also be polishing this page).
We are looking for Wikimedians from all over the world, who are:
* fluent in written English and have good communication skills, or can
name local community member(s)/ambassadors who help them with
English translations.
* discreet and able to handle confidential applicant information, and
objectively assess candidates.
* willing to review scholarship applications in late 2015/early 2016.
* having either or both:
o previously attended Wikimania.
o strong knowledge of the cross-project Wikimedia community.
You will be working remotely. While we hope that scholarship review
committee members will enjoy Wikimania 2016 by giving significant input
to it, the local team cannot guarantee financial support for the
committee members' travel expenses since scholarship review committee
members may not apply for a scholarship themselves.
If you're interested in serving on the scholarship reviewing committee
and/or as scholarship ambassador, *please send us an email at
domande.wikimania(a)wikimedia.it*. If you have any questions, please don't
hesitate to contact us.
Deadline to apply is *Sunday, November 15, 2015*. The local team will
contact all candidates and publish the list of scholarship committee
members right afterwards. Please help with translations on
wm2016:Scholarship committee
<https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_committee>.
Proposed timeline
* Nov 1–Nov 15: Call for Scholarship Committee
* Nov 16–Dec 6: Preparations of the Scholarship Committee
* Dec 6–Jan 9: Submission time
Thanks,
Federico Leva
<https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nemo_bis> and Martin
Rulsch <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DerHexer>
Wikimania 2016 team, scholarships subteam
Greetings,
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the
candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing
authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many
diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
If you would like a translated ballot, you can change your language for
Meta-Wiki on the Universal Language Selector or in your Preferences before
clicking the 'jump to next wiki' button on SecurePoll. You may also click
the vote banner from your home wiki or select your preferred language from
the language box above the ballot.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31.
To vote: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/339
More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the
2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_electi…
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Translations of this message:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/MassMes…
Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff
are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that
are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as
well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To
this end they have published letters
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_fo…>
describing
what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the
community the best are the community themselves, the election
committee is accepting
nominations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015#Informa…>
for
community members you think should run and will reach out to those
nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election
process.
This year, elections are being held for the following roles:
*Board of Trustees*
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately
responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value
wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled.
More information about this role can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Board_e….
*Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)*
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to
allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five
positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/FDC_ele…
.
*Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud*
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process,
investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and
summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an
annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this
role can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/FDC_Omb…
.
The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC
May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for
the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both
self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this
election and the nomination process can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's
village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the
talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
board-elections(a)wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Please participate in the global discussion:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Proposal:_restore_normal_ed…
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[...] What few know is that the mobile sites don't follow the standard
permission system: instead, they override permissions and prevent
unregistered users from editing at all.
I propose to remove this exception to the rule, which was meant to be
temporary and looks now technically unnecessary. Unregistered users will
be allowed to edit on the mobile subdomain for a wiki, if they are
allowed on the main domain. [...]
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The discussion will be open until 2015-03-15. I'll send wider
notifications in few days. In the meanwhile, sorry for the crossposting.
Nemo
Forwarding, FYI.
(sorry for cross-posting.)
-Yena Hong (Revi)
http://revi.orain.org/wiki/
-- Sent from Android --
Hello everyone!
Wikinews phase 1 (sitelinks) have just had a date announced by myself over
on project chat <
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikinews_Sitelinks_.28P…>.
The expected data is August 19th, just after Wikimania :)
The Wikinews page could do with some co-ordination from the Wikidata
community and the Wikinews community, so please do participate and propose
ideas!
John Lewis
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