There are 36 hours remaining for nominations for the affiliate-selected
seats. Self-nominations are allowed.
The two existing chapter appointed board members, Patricio Lorente and
Alice Wiegand, are currently the only candidates, which will save a lot of
volunteer time in the selection process. ;-)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2014/Nominat…
However more candidates would be good, as the original call for candidates
put it:
"The chapters and thematic organizations wish to appoint two excellent
board members and believe this can best be achieved by selecting from a
large number of varied and skilled candidates.
Therefore, the chapters and thematic organizations call for nominations by
everyone who believes they or someone they know would be suitable.
This call for candidates should be distributed as widely as possible
through such forums as mailing lists, village pumps, and blogs."
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2014/Call_fo…
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John Vandenberg
Hey folks,
I'm pleased to announce we've hired a Chief Communications Officer for the
Wikimedia Foundation, replacing Jay Walsh who left us in October. Our new
head of communications will be Katherine Maher, and she will join us on 14
April, reporting to me.
Katherine comes to the WMF from Washington DC, where she was Advocacy
Director for the global digital rights organization Access. At Access, she
was responsible for all media and communications work, including
communications between the organization and its 350,000 members. She also
handled coalition work and advocacy efforts and urgent global threats to
digital rights, participated in the organization's strategic planning, and
was deeply involved with the production of RightsCon.
Before Access, Katherine worked on the launch of the Open Development
Technology Alliance at the World Bank, and was a program manager for
internet freedom projects at the National Democratic Institute. Earlier,
she worked on the UniWiki initiative for the UNICEF Innovation team,
intended to improve MediaWiki's usability for people who were new to
computer use, using early-model technology, or connecting in low-bandwidth
environments. Through her career she's been a frequent media spokesperson
and writer of op-eds and other media materials.
Katherine has lived and worked in nine countries and visited many more. She
is a native speaker of English, and has a basic knowledge of French, Arabic
and German.
The purpose of the CCO role is to ensure fast, easy information flow about
Wikimedia in multiple languages, both internally within the movement and
outside of it, and I think Katherine will be a wonderful fit for that work.
Her experiences advocating for the rights of ordinary internet users and
communicating with a large global volunteer community are both rare and
directly relevant. She's got a solid understanding of internet
technologies. She's a crisp, clear communicator, and an experienced
spokesperson.
I want to thank the people who helped with the interviewing process: Geoff
Brigham, Jove Oliver, Gayle Karen Young, David Gerard, Erik Moeller, Lisa
Gruwell, Frank Schulenburg, and Jimmy Wales. A special thanks to Geoff,
who's ably overseen our communications functions for the past several
years, and to Jay, who's generously filled in when it took us longer than
we expected to hire for this role. Geoff and Jay will be helping Katherine
get on-boarded, and I know she'll benefit enormously from their guidance
and support.
Please join me in welcoming Katherine, who's on CC.
Thanks,
Sue
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Sue Gardner
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi all,
I wanted to give people an extra notice that we're updating the default
typography across all Wikimedia sites, for users of the Vector skin. This
was mentioned in the last Tech News edition that goes out to all local
wikis, and also announced by our Release Manager, Greg Grossmeier, as part
of the software deployment roadmap.
This will happen in the following order:
1. Test wikis and mediawiki.org tomorrow. That's Thursday, March 27th.
2. Non-Wikipedia projects on Tuesday, April 1th.
3. All Wikipedias on Thursday April 3rd.
If people have questions, there is a summary of the changes and an
extensive FAQ at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh. There
will also be a post at blog.wikimedia.org tomorrow morning.
For a bit more backstory, this is the first time we're graduating something
from the opt-in "beta features" framework to the stable version of
Wikimedia sites. This has been in beta for desktop users since November
2013,[1] and has been tested by more than 10,000 registered users across
Wikimedia communities.
Thanks to the many editors and readers who took time to send us comments or
questions. This feature went through several major iterations based on
community feedback -- there were 100+ discussion threads on the Talk page,
in addition to mailing list discussions. We're really lucky to have so many
Wikimedians willing to get their hands dirty when it comes to the dark art
of web typography. ;-) Congrats to the designers, engineers, and others who
volunteered their time to help make this ready to release as new default
typography.
P.S. Apologies for cross-posting this and spamming your inbox, if you're
also on wikitech-l or other technical mailing lists.
1. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/07/introducing-beta-features/
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:35 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> as i overrun my monthly limit of mails allowed on this list already,
> and i do not want an unrelated discussion on a public mailing list,
> this in private:
>
> nathan, would you be so kind to invest a little bit more thought into
> your mails? i pay bandwith for receiving your mails, and thousands of
> others also. just a couple of questions you might consider answering
> for yourself before contributing to a discussion about ticket prices
> on wikimania:
> * do you edit wikipedia, and how much?
> * if you do not edit, why? and why you use the time to write emails?
> and make others read your emails?
> * do you give money to wikimedia, and how much?
> * do you write software for wikimedia, and how much?
> * do you participate in conferences, meetings, and how many?
> * do you know accounting, and are able to calculate "the price of
> attending"?
> * if paid persons help organizing, this means a conference in UK is
> much more expensive than say in tansania?
> * should we host conferences then only in low wage, good connected
> cities, like mumbai?
> * if you go, what persons you want to meet there? beggars? subsidized
> people? not price sensitive people?
> * if you give money, would you like to attach a string, like "only for
> server operations"?
> * did you ever think that subsidizing people who need is a government
> business in many countries?
> * do you think i missed some angles in the above list?
>
> i even did a little research before sending this email. if you look at
> your stats, you write minimum 10-20 mails to "the movement" every
> month:
> * http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/Nathan.html
> * http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/_PowerPosters.html
>
> and by writing such emails, you even earn recognition:
>
> http://sciencepolice2010.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/the-wiki-wankers-2-nathan…
>
> i'd be really glad to see mails from you where i can notice that you
> put some work into that mail, which helps me to learn new things, get
> new angles, and progress. and i even would not care if, instead 20, i
> only have to read 2 a month.
>
> best regards and a happy sunday,
> rupert.
>
>
Hi Rupert,
I've been reading and responding to the list since 2007. I edit the English
Wikipedia from time to time, under my name or anonymously, although not
nearly as much as I used to... but I remain a believer in and supporter of
the Wikimedia movement, and I try to keep current on its progress. Once in
awhile I offer my thoughts on one of the mailing lists, and I have donated
money in the past (but not since WMF revenue crested into the tens of
millions). I do attend conferences, and I am familiar with the principles
of accounting.
It is true that sometimes I get "recognition" of the type you link to,
where a banned user researched my background, discussed it on his blog,
labeled me a psychopath and suggested I be fired from my job. Along with an
old threat of a lawsuit from an Italian megamillionaire, I consider such
interactions the price of supporting Wikimedia under my real identity. Yet
though I have answered your questions, I no more need to justify how I use
my time to you than I do to the "sciencepolice" blogger. If you would
prefer not to waste bandwidth on receiving my posts, feel free to filter
them out. I won't return the favor, because telling people I disagree with
to sit down and shut up just isn't my style.
Have a great rest of the weekend yourself,
Nathan
Wikimedia Commons has concluded the Picture of the Year contest from the 2013 Commons featured pictures.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:POTY/2013
Congratulations to RitchyBlack (Stefan Krause) from Germany and all of this year's winners.
Thanks to all 4000+ voters this year. Also thanks to the competition organizers, Beria, Rillke, Mono, and Miya.
Pine (boldly posting since no one else has yet (:)
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Hi Sue,
Since you announced your departure, to whom have you
delegated the responsibility of insuring that Foundation
advocacy is aligned with the interests of Foundation volunteers,
if anyone?
Do you support statistical sampling using a method such as at
http://www.allourideas.org/wmfcsdraft
to determine volunteer interests and priorities?
Thank you!
What, now we cannot have a different perception? Or worse, we are not allowed to say it on this list?
Sent from Samsung Mobile
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From: Austin Hair <adhair(a)gmail.com>
Date: 25/03/2014 10:44 (GMT+02:00)
To: "Carlos M. Colina" <maorx(a)wikimedia.org.ve>,Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Gayle Karen Young <gyoung(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] ED transition responsibility
Guys... c'mon...
Austin
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Carlos M. Colina
<maorx(a)wikimedia.org.ve> wrote:
> Sometimes I have the perception that it is not just not aligned but diverting more and more as time passes by..
>
> M
>
>
> Sent from Samsung Mobile
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 25/03/2014 02:23 (GMT+02:00)
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,Gayle Karen Young <gyoung(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] ED transition responsibility
>
> Hi Gayle,
>
> During the ED transition, who is responsible for insuring that
> Foundation advocacy is aligned with the interests of Foundation
> volunteers?
>
> Thank you!
>
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