Hi James,
Good luck to the new board!
Op 7-12-2015 om 23:38 schreef Siska Doviana:
> Any photos? :D
Why are people sending this to the announce list and why isn't the
announce list properly moderated?
Maarten
Dear all,
It is an honor to announce that the Affiliations Committee has resolved
[1] recognizing the Wikimedia User Group China as a Wikimedia User
Group; their main focus areas are getting more chinese people know and
use Wikipedia, encouraging people to become contributors to the
different Wikimedia projects, and maintain the community healthy and
growing. Let's welcome the newest member of the family of affiliates
-and the fourth from the Sinosphere!
Regards,
Carlos
1:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedi…
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"*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
Carlos M. Colina
Vicepresidente, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
www.wikimedia.org.ve <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
Twitter: @maor_x
Congratulations, Wikimedia DC!
On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 7:11 PM, James Hare <james.hare(a)wikidc.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Following our annual board election and our first-ever round of board
> appointments, I am happy to announce that Wikimedia DC has a new Board of
> Directors, comprising:
>
> * Kirill Lokshin, President
> * Emily Temple-Wood, Vice President
> * James Hare, Secretary
> * Walter Gómez Segura, Treasurer
> * Rob Fernandez
> * Peter Meyer
> * John Sadowski
> * Diane Shaw
> * Rebecca Williams
>
> Congratulations to all our new directors, and especially to Kirill and
> Walter on becoming President and Treasurer!
>
> Today we also enacted our annual plan for Fiscal Year 2015–16, available
> here: <https://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_plan_(2015%E2%80%932016)>. We
> look forward to another year of outreach!
>
>
> —
> James Hare
> Secretary, Wikimedia DC
> https://wikimediadc.org
> @wikimediadc
>
>
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for me they are normal too
Mardetanha
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Leon Liesener <leon.liesener(a)wikipedia.de>
wrote:
> May I ask what the issue is? All three mails look completely normal to me.
>
> Regards,
> Leon
>
> Op 8 dec. 2015 om 22:32 heeft Martin Rulsch <rulschmartin(a)gmail.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> Third try … get mailman fixed please.
> ----
> Hi all,
>
> Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino
> Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016 are now being accepted. Applications are
> open until Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC.
>
> Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full
> scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel,
> shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the
> Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference
> registration fees and shared accommodation.
>
> Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and
> selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the
> Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful.
> To learn more about Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please visit:
> https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
>
> To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form
> on:
> https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply
>
> It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the
> Scholarships page and the associated FAQ (
> https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before
> submitting an application.
>
> If you have any questions, please contact:
> wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org
> <wikimania-scholarships(a)wikimedia.org>
> or leave a message at:
> https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships
>
> Please help us spread the word!
>
> Best regards,
> for the Scholarship Committee
> https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_committee
>
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Hello all,
The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting is
now available on Meta Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_meetings/2015-12-09
Thanks,
Zhou
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Wikimedia Foundation
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our legal disclaimer
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Thanks again, Dan Garry, for pointing me on this again-ill formatted mail.
Cheers,
Martin
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Hi all, Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in
Esino Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016 are now being accepted. Applications
are open until Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC. Applicants will be able
to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover
the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and
conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A
partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared
accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection
process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and
the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are
successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please visit:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships To apply for a
scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on:
https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply It is highly recommended that
applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the
associated FAQ ( https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ
) before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please
contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org
<wikimania-scholarships(a)wikimedia.org> or leave a message at:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships Please help us
spread the word! Best regards, for the Scholarship Committee
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_committee
Hi all,Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC.Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation.Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please visit:https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/ScholarshipsTo apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on:https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/applyIt is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting an application.If you have any questions, please contact:wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.orgor leave a message at:https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:ScholarshipsPlease help us spread the word!Best regards,for the Scholarship Committeehttps://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_committee
Hello all,
As the end of the year approaches, the Ombudsman Committee seeks new
members. This commission works on all Wikimedia projects to investigate
complaints about violations of the privacy policy, especially in use
of CheckUser
tools [1], and to mediate between the complaining party and the individual
whose work is being investigated. They may also assist the General Counsel,
the Executive Director or the Board of Trustees in investigations of these
issues. For more on their duties and roles, see:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission>
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission>
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission
This is a call for community members interested in volunteering for this
commission. Commissioners should be experienced Wikimedians, active on any
project, who have previously used the CheckUser tool OR who have the
technical ability to understand the CheckUser tool and the willingness to
learn it. They are expected to be able to engage neutrally in investigating
these concerns and to know when to recuse when other roles and
relationships may cause conflict. It is important that volunteers for this
role commit to being active in their work on this commission, including
participating in email discussions and, ideally, occasional virtual
meetings.
Commissioners are required to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation and must
be willing to comply with the appropriate board policies (such as the access
to non-public data policy [2] and the privacy policy [3]). This is a
position that requires a high degree of discretion and trust.
If you are interested in serving on this commission, please drop me a note
at pearley@wikimedia detailing your experience on the projects, your
thoughts on the commission and what you hope to bring to the role. The
commission is deliberately quite small, so slots are limited, but all
applications are appreciated. The deadline for applications is January 1.
Any timezone. :)
Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think
may be interested. Best regards,
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CheckUser_policy
[2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_data_policy
[3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
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Patrick Earley
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
pearley(a)wikimedia.org
We are. It's not about particular thread on this list, it's about our
existence. Initially I thought it's because the level of our
responsibility, but eventually I've realized we are simply boring and
nobody bothers about that.
Our meetings and conferences look like the meetings of a regional branch of
German Social Democratic Party at the best. In regular occasions they are
more like the meetings of a village cell of a communist party from an East
European country during the 80s.
This enormous distance between the value of our work and ideals and
presenting ourselves to *us* in the range between shiny snake oil merchants
and demagogues nobody trusts is quite striking. (OK, there is one more end,
thus making a triangle: highly specialized topics which require highly
specialized knowledge to participate.)
The distance is also quite striking because the most witty people I ever
met are from the Wikimedia movement itself.
It's endemic. From local Wikimedian meetings to Wikimania. The most
interesting part of such events is talking with other Wikimedians.
Listening talks, lectures and ceremonies is the worst option. Workshops and
collective decision making are like gambling: it could be constructive, but
it could also be not just wasting time but occult session with the only one
goal: to drain the energy from the participants.
On average, I would rather spend two times more time talking with a
Wikimedian than listening her or his lecture or talk.
There are some straight forward techniques. For example, we could work on
making our talks much better. We could also ask HR professionals how to
make our live interaction better.
However, being boring is somehow quite deeply rooted inside of our culture.
While trying to become "serious", we lost our ability to be playful.
Creativity is something we treat as the least important of our activities.
This is not something which could be fixed quickly. There is no a pill to
magically cure it. But we could start thinking about this as a problem and
start implementing various ideas to tackle it.
I wouldn't say that our revolution forbids us to dance. (Whenever somebody
from Bay Area is DJ-ing, we dance and it's beautiful, no matter how trashy
the music is.) But I am sure we can do better.