Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote:
> GTBOS: http://www.youtube.com/v/l7AWnfFRc7g
>
>
> At 03:49 16-04-2011, you wrote:
>> Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote:
>>> So nobody has any idea why things are the way they are? Will I have
>>> to make a drawing?
>>
>> I would love a drawing.
>>
>> MZMcBride
(by the way)
An equally interesting episode of that by the way is the one about
what really motivates us, and the free software movement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc#t=7m30s
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Krinkle
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 months she will
help us with the professionalisation and with building up the office
of Wikimedia Nederland.
The communication specialist Marjon Bakker is not only a Wikipedian
but also one of the founders of our association. *Welkom* (welcome)
and good luck!
Ziko van Dijk
President Wikimedia Nederland
In a message dated 4/5/2011 6:08:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org writes:
> Another quick note on the Movement Communications Manager posting that we
> are hoping to fill at WMF. We have a number of applicants, but very, very
> few are from the Wikimedia community. We would really love to fill this
> role
> with a strong Wikimedian, so if you are interested or know someone who may
> be interested, please apply or reach out to Jay Walsh or myself.
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Movement_Communications_Ma
> nager
>
The job is written in such a narrow way that it's not very likely you're
going to get many candidates from within the community sorry.
You want someone with a communications degree, who is a native English
speaker, can also communicate in a non-English language, and has experience in
CSS, and templates, and Wikimedia projects in general.
Sorry all of those things just do not go together in my mind.
Even tech savvy people do not necessarily know much to anything about CSS,
and those that do are not journalists and writers in general. So that's
your first strike out. People who are journalists with degrees in
communications or that sort of field, do not gravitate toward the Wikimedia projects at
all. The few that do, are very very unlikely to be able to create or even
understand templates. So that's your second strike out.
99% of native English speakers, perhaps even 99.9% can not communicate even
minimally in any other language whatsoever. So that's your third
strike-out.
It seems the job requirements were written by a computer science
degree-holder who thinks somehow knowing how to use IRC is a requirement of
communications outreach....
I see the deadline is in two days for submissions :)
I prophecy doom.
Dubya the artist formerly known as Will Johnson
Hoi,
I am so bold and forward this message about our blog aggregator in
Spanish... It does need attention but I have no clue who to approach..
Thanks,
GerardM
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From: Leigh Thelmadatter <osamadre(a)hotmail.com>
I left a message on meta, but Ive gotten no response so far. The Spanish
language Planet hasnt been updated since sometime last year. I dont follow
any of the blogs on it but at least one person in Wikimedia México does and
says that its not a problem with no posts from any of the subscribed blogs.
Anything we can do about that?
Leigh
On 04/15/11 5:05 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote:
> So nobody has any idea why things are the way they are? Will I have
> to make a drawing?
A *relevant* drawing would be nice. Your offer of a drawing is no less
sarcastic than David's about being consulted. We're not talking about
elaborate theoretical ramblings purporting to explain how we got where
we are. That solves nothing. What I addressed was a class of comments
that is neither constructive nor a personal attack, but somewhere in
between.
Ray
> At 00:43 16-04-2011, you wrote:
>> It is a valid point about David's comment. Maybe us old hands have
>> become too accustomed to David's sarcasm. Other than that it seems to
>> have been a conversation where one person was offside to everybody else.
>> I've been there before and know how uncomfortable it can become. The
>> insensitive comment was certainly not essential to the main topic of the
>> thread, but if in raising it the only result would be to have David
>> personally change his ways nothing of significance to the community
>> would have been accomplished. One person would have been fixed while
>> the rest of us could go smugly on believing that that was the end of it.
>>
>> The continuum from valid on-topic comments, through insensitive sarcasm
>> to outright personal attacks is not made up of discrete and easily
>> identifiable steps. Where is the middle ground between insensitivity
>> and hypersensitivity.
>>
>> Ray
>
Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote:
> So nobody has any idea why things are the way they are? Will I have
> to make a drawing?
I would love a drawing.
MZMcBride
Reminder that this is happening in a hour or so.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:33 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with Sue Gardner, Thursday April 14th
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everyone,
Just a notice that on Thursday the 14th at 23:00 UTC, we'll have IRC office
hours with Sue Gardner in #wikimedia-office. The loose topic is new editor
retention, in light of the recent resolution passed by the Board. We'd
especially love to chat with people on the front lines of activities like
New Page Patrol etc.
As usual, instructions for when and how to participate are on Meta.[1]
Thank you!
--
Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
Dear community,
on the IRC board meeting at April 8th 2011 the board approved
unanimously the following resolution:
We, the Wikimedia Foundation Board, believe that the continued health of
our project communities is crucial to fulfilling our mission. The
Wikimedia projects are founded in the culture of openness,
participation, and quality that has created one of the world's great
repositories of human knowledge. But while Wikimedia's readers and
supporters are growing around the world, recent studies of editor trends
show a steady decline in the participation and retention of new editors.
As laid out in our five-year Strategic Plan, and emphasized by these
findings, Wikimedia needs to attract and retain more new and diverse
editors, and to retain our experienced editors. A stable editing
community is critical to the long-term sustainability and quality of
both our current Projects and our movement.
We consider meeting this challenge our top priority. We ask all
contributors to think about these issues in your daily work on the
Projects.
We support the Executive Director in making this the top staff priority,
and recommend she increase the allocation of Foundation resources
towards addressing this problem, through community outreach,
amplification of community efforts, and technical improvements.
And we support the developers, editors, wikiprojects and Chapters that
are working to make the projects more accessible, welcoming, and
supportive.
The Board resolves to help move these efforts forward, and invites
specific requests for Foundation assistance to do so. We welcome and
encourage new ideas to help reach our goals of
[[strategy:Openness|openness and broader participation]].
We urge the Wikimedia community to promote openness and collaboration, by:
* Treating new editors with patience, kindness, and respect; being aware
of the challenges facing new editors, and reaching out to them; and
encouraging others to do the same;
* Improving communication on the projects; simplifying policy and
instructions; and working with colleagues to improve and make friendlier
policies and practices regarding templates, warnings, and deletion;
* Supporting the development and rollout of features and tools that
improve usability and accessibility;
* Increasing community awareness of these issues and supporting outreach
efforts of individuals, groups and Chapters;
* Working with colleagues to reduce contention and promote a friendlier,
more collaborative culture, including more thanking and affirmation; and
encouraging best practices and community leaders; and
* Working with colleagues to develop practices to discourage disruptive
and hostile behavior, and repel trolls and stalkers.
;Resources
:
[[strategy:Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary|Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary]]
: [[strategy:Editor_Trends_Study|2011 Editor Trends Study]]
([[strategy:March_2011_Update|Executive Director's summary]],
[[strategy:Openness|ideas]])
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Ting Chen
Member of the Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
E-Mail: tchen(a)wikimedia.org
Hello.
http://toolserver.org/~kalan is redirected to Russian Wikipedia article «Хуй (значения)». This is very incorrect redirect («Хуй» («Khuy») in Russian mean obscene word, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_(Russian_profanity) ) and in fact a vandalism: this toolserver account contains statistics about Arbcom elections (example: http://toolserver.org/~kalan/arb10/), and this redirect mean «russian arbitrators is khuy».
Owner of this Tollserver account does not respond to abuse reports in-wiki.
Please delete redirect and replace it with standard TOC or blank page.
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His Shadow.