Hi Garfield,
I'm asking this on Wikimedia-l because a number of Wikimedians have noted
the expensiveness of the San Francisco area including its high cost of
living for staff, employer competition for engineering talent, and
associated high salaries for WMF employees.
I see on
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/8a/RFP_for_Real_Estate_S…
that WMF is considering relocating its offices when its current main office
lease expires.
Questions:
What happens to the remodel expenses that WMF is paying for at its current
location? If WMF vacates the premesis, will it be compensated for the
remodel by the building owner?
I hope that WMF is contemplating fully exiting the San Francisco market
area in order to economize, get better value for our donors' funds, have
less competition for talent, and lower costs of living for staff. Is this
being considered?
Thanks very much,
Pine
Hi All,
Please see in-line below.
-Michelle
On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> + Michelle Paulson
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wiki.pine(a)gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> This issue is also being discussed on the Research mailing list.
>>
>> I have three questions:
>>
>> 1. Was this outreach method approved by RCom?
>>
> No, and RCom, as far as I know has not been active in the past year or
> more (last meeting was on Dec. 22, 2011). This is a research from the
> Research team in the WMF.
>
>> 2. Email addresses are nonpublic information on-wiki unless they are
>> proactively and publicly disclosed by users. Does the bulk collection of
>> nonpublic email addresses in this manner and the bulk provision of those
>> addresses to researchers for their use in this campaign violate the
>> Wikimedia privacy policy? The policy states regarding email, "We use your
>> email address to let you know about things that are happening with the
>> Foundation, the Wikimedia Sites, or the Wikimedia movement, such as telling
>> you important information about your account, letting you know if something
>> is changing about the Wikimedia Sites or policies, and alerting you when
>> there has been a change to an article that you have decided to follow." The
>> bulk scraping of email addresses from account registrations for research
>> and outreach purposes doesn't appear to be contemplated or authorized under
>> the privacy policy.
>>
> Michelle can help with this one as this is related to Legal. Note that
> it's weekend here and this may have to wait until Monday.
>
The research team did speak to me prior to beginning this project to ensure
that they complied with the WMF privacy policy. It is my view that this
type of use falls within the permissible potential uses for email addresses
under the policy. The examples listed in the policy are meant to be
illustrative, not exclusive -- the absence of this situation as an
enumerated example shouldn't be taken as a prohibition.
That said, it is a new use and therefore, will and should be the subject of
discussion and debate. It is such feedback and testing that will help us
refine email practices to be both effective and reflective of community
values.
> 3. Wouldn't talk pages be a more appropriate outreach method than bulk
>> email?
>>
> The reason we chose email over talk pages (or Echo notifications) is
> explained here
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Increasing_article_coverage#.…>.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pine
>>
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Dear Wikimedia friends,
Last week, I have published the documentation of the Wikimedia Conference
2015.[1] For many sessions, participants and speakers agreed on further
steps to be taken in the next weeks and months. You find them on Meta.[1]
In three weeks, many of us will gather again in Mexico City for the
Wikimania. To make the best out of this opportunity and continue the
conversations started at the Wikimedia conference in a structured way, I’m
organising a “WMCON Follow-Up Day” one day before the Wikimania itself, on
Thursday, July 16. At this day, you will find the opportunity to discuss
six different topics (one of them is still tbc). For each topic we will
have around 90 min, which should be sufficient to discuss details and lay
the ground for further steps. And there is still some space available for
two further topics. Email me if you’re interested in giving input.
The Follow-Up Day will take place in the Fiesta Inn Hotel, which is right
next to the Hilton Mexico City Reforma where the Wikimania takes place.
You can find all the information on the Wikimania wiki:
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMCON_Follow-Up_Day
For an easier planning and to increase the chances for coordination and
engagement between participants/speakers during preparation, please sign up
there.
I’m really looking forward to seeing you!
Cornelius
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Documentation_and…
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Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC)
for the Wikimedia Conference
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Dear Ziko,
Thanks so much for your kind words, which mean a lot to me. :)
I too have enjoyed working with you and appreciate all that you do for our movement.
I will miss our collaborations and hope we’ll get a chance to work together again down the line.
For now, I hope to be able to contribute new content as a volunteer, now that I will have more time for this type of work.
And you are in good hands with Ed Erhart for your Wikimedia blog post — I’m really impressed with his work and he’s a great team player.
Be well,
Fabrice
> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:06:29 +0100
> From: Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell
>
> Fabrice, you may not recall my name or know me well, but your thoughtful
> contributions to Wikimedia comms over the past years have been greatly
> appreciated. Seeing your name appear in my inbox has always been an
> indication of something worth reading and giving attention to.
>
> I wish you the best for the future, and hope you appreciate that you will
> be missed.
>
> Very best wishes,
>
> Stevie
>
> On 18 June 2015 at 18:18, Gregory Varnum <gregory.varnum(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Fabrice for all of your work over the years! We will miss you -
>> but hopefully will still see you around the project wikis. :)
>>
>> -greg (User:Varnent)
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> After three great years working at the foundation, the time has come to
>>> say goodbye.
>>>
>>> I will be leaving WMF at the end of June, to spend more time with my
>>> family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy
>>> causes.
>>>
>>> I would like to thank all the community and team members I have had the
>>> pleasure to work with over the years. It has been an honor to serve our
>>> movement together — and to help our contributors share free knowledge
>> with
>>> each other and the world.
>>>
>>> I’m particularly grateful to Katherine Maher and our WMF communications
>>> team for being such wonderful collaborators. I really enjoyed working
>> with
>>> them to manage and edit the Wikimedia blog, help grow our team and
>> publish
>>> some great stories together, to celebrate the heroes of our movement.
>>>
>>> Going forward, WMF's Juliet Barbara will manage the Wikimedia blog, in
>>> close collaboration with Ed Erhart. As many of you know, Ed is the former
>>> editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost and has now joined our team for
>>> the summer. I've worked with him for nearly a month now and find him
>>> uniquely qualified for this project. Starting today, please contact them
>>> directly with any questions about the blog (they are Cc:d on this
>> message).
>>>
>>> After June 30, you can reach me at <fabriceflorin(a)gmail.com> — or follow
>>> me on Twitter ( @fabriceflorin ) or on my blog (
>> http://fabriceflorin.com
>>> ).
>>>
>>> The last three years have been an incredible experience for me, and I am
>>> grateful for all that I have learned from so many of you. You’ve been an
>>> inspiration to me and I have many fond memories of our time together. I
>>> wish you all the best with the next chapter of the Wikimedia movement and
>>> can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Fabrice
>>>
>>> _______________________________
>>>
>>> Fabrice Florin
>>> Movement Communications Manager
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos'
observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an
open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is
happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an
edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is
happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this
year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating
library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
Phoebe
While writing my letter of GLAM lists I recalled that I was once
rejected membership in Education-coop mailing list. The reason was
"Closed List".
As far as I know it's a list for a cabal of people who are working on
Education (an[1] Education Collaborative). I know of them since their
meeting in Prague[2] as a friend-wikimedian of mine attended it. The
process of selecting people to that meeting was quite cabalish (with
absolutely no public announcement) as well, iirc. During the meeting it
was completely ungooglable, iirc. IIRC, the only mention I found back
then was in some affiliate's google calendar. But I'm not about a
meeting ages ago. I'm about the collaborative itself.
I'm not actually a person of WEP[3] but still I'm a person who don't
likes when things are hidden but there's no real reason to do it. It
looks like the case for me. I don't see why should it all be that much
cabalish. Doesn't collaborative a derivative from collaboration? My
views on word are often somewhat perfectionist but anyway I just can't
see how collaboration and making things that closed can co-exist.
I'm fine with closed lists, teams and stuff in general as there are
things which should not be discussed in public or it could because it's
easier to make a tiny group of people do something instead of crying out
to a lazy unorganised crowd. But just make it clear how can one (apply
to) join or e.g. just join as a observer/non-voting commentator/whatever.
Footnotes:
[1] afair the page on outreachwiki was about some older formation under
the name. it's probably fixed since that time) Education Collaborative
[2] was it already 2 years ago? time sure runs fast
[3] which means that it's not like I can e.g. go organise a WEP thing
offline — the most I can do in real actions is helping a WEP person.
That's if actions are about WEP and not about something general which
any wikimedian can do.
Yours sincerely,
Base
What we need to figure out is how to allow translation of articles
through micro contributions via cellphones.
Maybe send out sentences one by one for translation from one language
to another. Just start with the leads of articles that are deemed to
be of good quality. Than when the lead is all translated join it back
together and add it to that language. This would of course only apply
to articles which are non existent in the target language.
Maybe Amir's "content translation" tool could do this eventually
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Starting July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation
My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF
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