Congrats and welcome all the board members. And obviously wish a very good
luck for the coming days..
Regards,
Nabin
On Mar 1, 2016 6:44 AM, "Tito Dutta" <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Welcome all, and all the best. :)
On 1 March 2016 at 04:54, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Welcome, new board members, and thank you for
your service, departing
members.
And thank you, Nataliia, for taking the time to introduce them to folks
who
haven't had the opportunity to get to know
them in person.
A.
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 2:09 PM, attolippip <attolippip(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear all,
I want formally introduce to you Wikimedia Ukraine’s Board, elected by
our
General Assembly on December 27, 2015.
We can do it only now, as we have just recently successfully completed
the
requirements from our state to change the people
responsible for the
chapter officially [1].
Three people has decided not to run this year, and I want to thank them
wholeheartedly for all their time and efforts spent on our projects and
making this world better for a change:
-
[[User:Amakuha]], Andrii Makuha. He has been our Chair for the last
two years; his calm personality helped us a lot, especially during
the most
turbulent times of transferring «power» from
one to another Chapter
Board
«without pain» [2], as Andrii has tried his
best to understand
everyone and
continue the dialogues even when it seems that
we won’t be able to
come to
any acceptable terms. By the way, awarding
Wikizghushchivka [3] was
his
> idea.
> -
>
> [[User:NickK]], Mykola Kozlenko, our Treasurer, with great
analytical
skills
and profound knowledge about the Community (and I am talking
not
only about our local community, but the global
one as well) and the
Wikimedia Movement. He is actively engaged in Wikimedia Ukraine’s
projects,
though he lives in France and can contribute
almost only via
Internet. But
he was able to be a vital part of organizing
the rather successful
regional
conference WIkimedia CEE Meeting in Kyiv in
December 2014.
-
[[User:Ліонкінг]], Levon Azizian. He is a lawyer in real life, a
passionate Wiki(m|p)edian. He is blessed with the skills to make the
<s>dreams</s> ideas come into reality, as he is very convincing and
one
just gets the feeling that (s)he can do it.
And so they do it :) And
then
there is only a pure wonder of: wow, we have
organized a
wikiconference in
> 2 weeks; wow, we have organized a CEE Meeting in a month; wow, we
can
> actually (but it is really hard!)
organize wikitrainings for two
weeks
> non-stop in Luhansk region, go to
librarians, preach about editing
> Wikipedia… and just around the corner there is a real war zone…
>
>
> These three are my dear friends, and I was really sorry to see them not
> running. But it was our dream from a long ago: to have more great
> Wiki(m|p)edians join the chapter and get interested in our projects. So
> here we have our newly elected three Board members:
>
>
> -
>
> [[User:Olena Zakharian]], Olena Zakharian. She was (and still is!)
our
> press secretary, she is very keen about
Nature and Freedom of
Speech,
she
believes in our Mission and has contributed
greatly to most of our
projects
before and she is a crucial part of our Board
becoming more
transparent for
> our Community.
> -
>
> [[User:Helgi]], Oleh Yatsozhynskyi. He is an active member of
> Ukrainian Wikipedia community, he has joined the organization only
in
September, but he is an invaluable part of us now (especially his
directness :)) He is responsible for Wikiexpeditions now [4], and he
is
full of ideas and desire to implement them
(and that’s something
really
> really important, you know)
> -
>
> [[User:Pavlo1]], Pavlo Lakiichuk. He is the Secretary of the Board
> now, so he is responsible for all the boring stuff around the
process
of
> making decisions. He is also an active member of our local
community,
he
> cares about wikiprojects a lot. He has initiated a number of
meetings
for
> creators of “real” encyclopedias and wikipedians to talk a few
issues
over
and get to know each other better (well, it
works! quite a few myths
were
dismissed by talking over a cup of tea :) )
The other four members of the Board, re-elected for this year, are:
-
[[User:Ilya]], Illia Korniiko. He is our Chair now. He codes. :) WLX
Jury Tool is his pet project, but he was deprived of almost all
chances to
work on it, as our state’s bureaucratic system
is quite a monster to
overcome...
-
[[User:Юрій Булка]], Yurii Bulka. He is responsible for Wikipedia
Education Program in Ukraine. And he was the one to suggest and
implement
> the project of digitizing and making available the phonograph
cylinder
> collection of Filaret Kolessa (early 20th
century) [5]
> -
>
> [[User:Friend]], Pavlo Sokhan. He is an administrator of
uk.wikiquote,
> works in a library. He has contributed
greatly into organizing of
the
first
Wikimedia CEE Spring article contest in 2015.
He is now responsible
for our
book scanning kit [6] and we hope to get lots
of stuff scanned and
uploaded
to Wikiprojects :)
-
and [[user:antanana]], Nataliia Tymkiv. I am an administrator of
Ukrainian Wikipedia, and I am quite active in a lot of Wikimedia
Ukraine’s
> projects. I am a member of Simple Annual Plan Grants Committee [7]
>
>
> I am sorry for a bit long introduction. But I do believe that it is
vital
> for us all to work together, so even if you
do not read the whole
letter
and
remember all the names, you’ll be able to find the info about the
right
person to reach to, should you need to meet
somebody in Ukraine or find
the
answer.
Best regards,
[[User:antanana]] / Nataliia Tymkiv
Vice-Chair of the Board of Wikimedia Ukraine
[1] Well, they have changed a couple of laws during this period, so it
was
not a pleasant task to do :)
[2]
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/How_to_transfer_%…
>
> [3] The project is aimed at peer recognition and appreciation of new
and
active
editors' contribution by monthly awarding a can of
Wikizghushchivka
> (condensed milk) to the editor with the most contributions in that
month
and the
new editor with the most contributions in that month
[4] We have a very detailed (day-by-day) report, maps, videos, photos,
created and illustrated articles now:
https://ua.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3465
[5]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filaret_Kolessa_phonograph_cylinder_coll…
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Simple/Committee#committee-membe…
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