A few candidates are what I might call 'outsider candidates' in that
they weren't well known across projects before the election and thus
may not be likely to win election to such a democratically-elected
position-- but they seem to have quite a lot to offer us.
If they are elected, we'll have their skills and their contributions
at the foundation level. But why deprive ourselves of their skills
and contributions at the foundation level just because they weren't a
perfect fit for board member?
To me, this question was prompted by the skills of Jane S. Richardson
(Dcrjsr) and William H. DuBay (Bdubay). Both have special expertise,
both propose specific projects that I think are utterly
non-controversial and they don't necessarily need the 'full force of
the office' to help the foundation with them.
An election is always an emotional risk, not winning sometimes feels
like a rejection. For most candidates, they're already 'hooked in' to
our movement and I hope and expect that the election results won't
deter them from further participation. For Dcrjsr and Bdubay, if
they aren't elected, we might want to take the extra effort to make
sure that they get what they need to still contribute at the
foundation level-- Perhaps have someone from
foundation/staff/leadership actively work with them to help them find
their role within the movement.
Dcrjsr's a scientist, and free content desperately wants to capture
science and scientists in particular. WM's well-positioned to help
enable this revolution-already-in-progress away from 'closed'
journals. Science is one of our key specialties, the place where our
projects shine, and I feel like Dcrjsr could be very helpful in a
million unforeseen ways through her experience in this sphere. If she
isn't elected, perhaps we could ask her to become our "science liason
/ ambassador".
Bdubay similarly cites a background in readability consulting and
expertise on communications across languages. If this election has
shown anything, it's that we definitely could use more communications
skills. He's interested in working on a Plain Language project,
working with Simple Wikipedia, and improving readability. If he's not
elected, perhaps the foundation/staff could ask him to study of how
our movement can improve inter-community communication? or something
similar?
These may not be the only two who we should consider actively
recruiting post-election, the list may not be exhaustive. These
people volunteered to do an insane amount of work for us-- let's make
sure they understand "you didn't win" is absolutely NOT "you're
fired"-- and in fact, if we could 'hire' them into volunteer
positions at the movement level if they don't win, so much the better.
Alec
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Scott MacDonald" <doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com>
> To: "'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'" <
> foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:17:54 +0100
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister?
> What does it take for a global ban?
>
> Do you remember "Poetlister"? Aka Cato, aka Runcorn, aka Quillercouch, aka
> British Civil servant with various anti-social problems. Multiple
> sockpuppeting, manipulation, lies, harassment, identity theft, acquiring
> checkuser and crat status on various projects. Banned from en.wp, banned
> from commons, banned even from wikisource.
>
> The same user is now opening editing on Wikiversity:
> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Poetlister
>
> I'm genuinely shocked.
>
> I know projects value their independence, but really? Can this user simply
> wander round projects wreaking havoc? It seems that the only person evil
> enough to get globally banned is Greg Kohs - and as annoying as he is, he
> does not reach this level of fuckedup.
>
>
Glad you pointed out Thekohser. I will point out that despite the use of a
global lock on the account (not vandalism/spam only [1]) several projects
have detached the local account from the global one through a double rename
by bureaucrats [2]. Projects do value their independence and will detach
accounts globally locked by stewards in cases where their ability to make
their own decisions has been infringed. Wikiversity has done this for
several users globally locked. No policy prohibits it.
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_lock#Global_locks
[2] http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?rights=1&user=thekohser
Fwd'ing to F-l in case you did not read the Signpost this week... this
is WONDERFUL, thank you so much to the Signpost and to the Research
Committee.
The amount of research done on and about Wikipedia has grown
substantially over the last few years, and has gotten a good deal more
sophisticated as well; studies about participation, editing
experiences, off-line access and how readers use Wikipedia -- such as
those profiled in this issue -- are all deeply relevant to the work we
are doing across Wikimedia.
Because of this I have long hoped for stronger ties between the
academic research community that studies Wikimedia and Wikimedia
itself, and we are now building those ties with, for instance, the
volunteer research committee:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_committee (RCOM, not to be
confused with ARBCOM), and the summer of research:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/01/summerofresearchannouncement/
The Signpost summary is a welcome addition and I look forward to
future editions.
-- phoebe
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From: Wikipedia Signpost <wikipediasignpost(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:33 PM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Summaries of recent Wikipedia research
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
the current issue of the Signpost (the English Wikipedia's
community-written and community-edited weekly news bulletin) contains
a section summarizing some recent academic research about Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-06-06/Recent…
See also an earlier such overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-04-11/Recent…
In the future, we are planning to publish such surveys of recent
Wikipedia research on a monthly basis, in collaboration with the
Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee - expect further announcements
on this list.
If you know about a newly published academic research paper about
Wikipedia that seems worth covering, a tip is welcome at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggesti…
Regards, HaeB
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Interesting to see accounts with bot flags are also invited to vote for
Board elections :)
-Tinu Cherian
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From: Wikimedia Board Elections Committee <
board-elections(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:26 PM
Subject: Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009
To: TinucherianBot II <tinucherian(a)gmail.com>
Dear TinucherianBot II,
You are eligible to vote in the 2011 elections for the Board of Trustees of
the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates projects such as Wikipedia. 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.
For more information, please see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/en . To remove yourself
from future notification, please add your user name at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list .
I wouldn't describe a short article as "hardly useful for creation" I
created http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass,_California only
three years and already the current article is five times the size of
what I created. It still has some of my original content, and some has
been spunoff into an even bigger new article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine
Who knows how much those small articles will grow in future years and decades.
WereSpielChequers
>
> Indeed, 7 out of 19 articles I created over three weeks are in Great
> Soviet Encyclopaedia (and about a dozen of more among those I expanded as
> well). One of these (on a folklorist Anna Astakhova, which I started today)
> does not exist in Russian Wikipedia. Admittedly all of them (in GSE, not
> those I created) are very short and hardly useful for creation a Wikipedia
> article - although GSE gives a clear proof of notability, just in case.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
>
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>
My bot was invited: user AHbot
2011/6/10 <foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Interesting to see accounts with bot flags are also invited to vote for
> Board elections :)
>
> -Tinu Cherian
>
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:35 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with Sue Gardner, this Friday the 10th at 06:00
UTC
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everyone,
Sorry that we sent out less than a week's notice, but I wanted to extend an
invitation to Sue's office hours this Friday the 10th, at 06:00 UTC.[1]
We're doing it at this time specifically to meet with Wikimedians in
Asia,[2] but the topic of discussion has not been set, so feel free to come
with things you're interested in hearing about.
Talk to you soon,
--
Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
1. Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
2. Conversion from UTC:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=06&min=00&sec=0&d…
Just a reminder that this is happening in a little less than 30 minutes.
--
Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Cross-posting to foundation list also.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
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From: WikiPatrika Newsletter <wikipatrika(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:59 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPatrika is now released - Volume 2 , Issue 1
- 2011 June
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Wikipedians,
The first community
newsletter<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter…>from
the Wikimedia India community was released in September 2010. Since
that time, various community members have been involved with creating a
regular version of the newsletter; today,* we are pleased to announce the
commencement of WikiPatrika*, a monthly newsletter of Wikimedia community,
chapter and foundation updates from India.
'Patrika' is the closest pan-Indian word that has roughly similar meaning
across the country that also conveys the right spirit; it has a multitude of
meanings, but is broadly understood to mean 'journal' or 'magazine'.
WikiPatrika is an independent publication which is not affiliated with the
Wikimedia Foundation or the Wikimedia India chapter. We sincerely thank the
Wikimedia India chapter for allowing us to host this newsletter on
wikimedia.in .
The *first edition of WikiPatrika is now released* - Volume 2 , Issue 1 -
2011 June
*http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika *
*Community News : *
This month: hear what's happening from Wikimedians in Bengali, English,
Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia , Sanskrit,
Tamil, Telugu
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Community_News
*Meetups and Events :*
Meetups in Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Mumbai
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Meetups_and_Events
*Press Coverage :*
As usual, a flood of articles; check in to see where Wikimedia is covered
and how
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/In_the_news
*Free culture news :*
Copyright law changes, government initiatives, and the latest in licensing
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Free_culture_news
*FOSS-MediaWiki Tech news :*
Google Summer of Code, India and Mediawiki. Plus Berlin Hackathon,
Wikimedia Commons and UploadWizard
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Tech_News
*WMIN Chapter News:*
Chapter membership opens!
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/WMIN_Chapter_News
*WMF India Office news :*
Campus ambassadors hit Pune: find out all about it.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/WMF_India_Office_News
You can subscribe to wikimedia-in-newsletter(a)lists.wikimedia.org to receive
the WikiPatrika newsletters ( If you are not subscribed to wikimediaindia-l
mailing list).
We are are also working on user talk page delivery to your home Wikis in
future .
We hope that you find this useful. Going forward, this exercise will only be
possible with *your* involvement, so if there is something you see that you
would like to contribute to, change, or start - tell us!
Write to us at wikimedia-in-newsletter-editors [at] lists [dot] wikimedia
[dot] org
Regards
WikiPatrika Newsletter Team
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Dear all:
We're pleased to announce our first GLAM project in Mexico, in agree with
the Museo de Arte Popular of Mexico City.
Here's the details:
http://ito.mx/Oq6k
Warmly,
Iván Martínez
Wikimedia México proposed chapter
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*Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre
a la suma total del conocimiento humano.
Eso es lo que estamos haciendo <http://es.wikipedia.org>. *