Dear all,
I am very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa Lewin as our newest Trustee!
Lisa Lewin is Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based management consulting firm. She has worked in strategic growth and development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. Her professional focus has always been at the intersection of technology and learning - and we are very fortunate to have her as a part of our team!
Below is the official announcement.[1] Welcome, Lisa, and I look forward to working with you!
Kind regards,
María
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-li...
*Wikimedia Foundation announces Lisa Lewin as new Trustee*
Lisa Lewin brings to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees over two decades of experience in leading and growing companies focused on educational media and technology
(San Francisco, California) 31 January 2019 -- Lisa Lewin, Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based management consulting firm, will be the newest member of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees.
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation and its work, and serves as the organization’s ultimate corporate authority. As an incoming trustee, Lisa will serve a two year term effective immediately.
Lisa has worked in strategic growth and development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. She began her career in research and consulting with The NPD Group and BCG before joining McGraw-Hill and rising to vice president of their professional education group.
She founded and led Mindgate Media, an education technology consultancy, and later joined Pearson plc as president of their teacher education group, eventually leading their global learning technology teams spanning six continents. In 2016 she joined The Ready, a consulting firm specializing in organizational transformation, where she remains a senior advisor. In 2018 she founded Ethical Ventures, which advises senior executives at corporations and large nonprofits on navigating change and building thriving organizations with a positive impact on society.
“I am thrilled to be joining an organisation that is committed to ensuring the world continues to support freely accessible sources of information. This is a critical mission given the shifts in the global internet space,” said Lisa.
Lisa's career long commitment to connecting the worlds of education and technology matches her passion for the Wikimedia Foundation's vision of bringing knowledge to every human being.
Lisa joins Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Board Chair María Sefidari, Vice Chair Christophe Henner, and Board members Esra'a Al Shafei, Tanya Capuano, Dr. James Heilman, Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak, Raju Narisetti, and Nataliia Tymkiv.
"The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is fortunate to have Lisa Lewin joining us as a Trustee," said María Sefidari, Board Chair. "Her capacity to connect technology with people who desire to learn will be invaluable as we begin to implement our Wikimedia 2030 strategic direction. I am confident she will both make a lasting impression on the Wikimedia movement and feel right at home in our diverse and global community of people who share that passion."
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
-María Sefidari, Board Chair
-Christophe Henner, Vice Chair
-Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
-Esra'a Al Shafei
-Tanya Capuano
-Dr. James Heilman
-Raju Narisetti
-Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak
-Nataliia Tymkiv
-Lisa Lewin
About Lisa Lewin
Lisa Lewin is Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based management consulting firm.
Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, she has worked in strategic growth and development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. She began her career in research and consulting with The NPD Group and BCG before joining McGraw-Hill and rising to vice president of their professional education group. She founded and led Mindgate Media, an education technology consultancy, and later joined Pearson plc as president of their teacher education group, eventually leading their global learning technology team spanning six continents. In 2016 she joined The Ready, a consulting firm specializing in organizational transformation, where she remains a senior advisor. In 2018 she founded Ethical Ventures, which advises senior executives at corporations and large nonprofits on navigating change and building thriving organizations with a positive impact on society.
Lisa is active on the boards of the Center for Responsive Politics and DoSomething.org. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis, and earned a Master of Business Administration with honors from Harvard Business School.
Lisa lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. She enjoys making change, sense, mischief, and knitting scarves.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 20:45, María Sefidari msefidari@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa Lewin as our newest Trustee!
Now on Wikidata as:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61295542
Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:, which uses the image, saying
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-li...
saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has not) been released under an open licence.
I feel for WMF staff when some members of the community continually criticise what they do; but I'm sure I'm not the first person to quite reasonably point out that WMF really ought to lead by example in being clear about licensing, and making media available freely wherever possible.
El vie., 1 feb. 2019 14:30, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk escribió:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 20:45, María Sefidari msefidari@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa Lewin as our newest Trustee!
Now on Wikidata as:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61295542
Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:, which uses the image, saying
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-li...
saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has not) been released under an open licence.
I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see it?
I feel for WMF staff when some members of the community continually criticise what they do; but I'm sure I'm not the first person to quite reasonably point out that WMF really ought to lead by example in being clear about licensing, and making media available freely wherever possible.
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 13:58, María Sefidari maria@wikimedia.org wrote:
El vie., 1 feb. 2019 14:30, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk escribió:
Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:, which uses the image, saying
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-li...
saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has not) been released under an open licence.
I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see it?
Thank you. I didn't; I stand corrected, and apologise.
However, I think the reason that I didn't see it is that it is disconnected from the body of the page by two very long sections; one (more than a screen deep on my machine) being a pink-backgrounded solicitation for donations; the other an entreaty to join a mailing list. Neither relates to the subject of the article, and once I reached them I assumed the article had ended. The large version of the image, at the head of the page, neither mentions nor links to the credits section.
Perhaps the page design needs to be revisited, to make the credits section more apparent? Has any user testing of this aspect been undertaken?
Is there a reason this open-licensed image had not been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons? (I've now done so, as:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg )
The reason why her photo had not yet been uploaded to Commoms is rather simple. The staff that were going to do it (thank you for doing it) are attending the organization’s All Hands event. Getting the information out was our focus, and we will be updating other places early next week. I hope folks can appreciate our desire to focus on the event and immediate dissemination of information. :)
For what it is worth, we do make an effort to ourselves take and make available a freely licensed photo of board members. However, photo shoots are not always the best use of our in-person time with board members. We are looking into ways to expedite the process and do them outside in-person gatherings.
I will pass the comment about page design to our design folks. Thank you for the feedback and I hope the above helps answer your questions. :)
-greg
_______________ Sent from my iPhone - a more detailed response may be sent later.
On Feb 1, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 13:58, María Sefidari maria@wikimedia.org wrote:
El vie., 1 feb. 2019 14:30, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk escribió:
Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:, which uses the image, saying
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-li...
saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has not) been released under an open licence.
I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see it?
Thank you. I didn't; I stand corrected, and apologise.
However, I think the reason that I didn't see it is that it is disconnected from the body of the page by two very long sections; one (more than a screen deep on my machine) being a pink-backgrounded solicitation for donations; the other an entreaty to join a mailing list. Neither relates to the subject of the article, and once I reached them I assumed the article had ended. The large version of the image, at the head of the page, neither mentions nor links to the credits section.
Perhaps the page design needs to be revisited, to make the credits section more apparent? Has any user testing of this aspect been undertaken?
Is there a reason this open-licensed image had not been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons? (I've now done so, as:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg )
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 13:58, María Sefidari maria@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see it?
P.S. Please see:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pigsonthewing#File_tagging_File...
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 23:20, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
P.S. Please see:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pigsonthewing#File_tagging_File...
And now:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Lisa_Lewin...
We should definitely rethink our way of saying “welcome”. :)
I don’t know if Lisa is on the list, but - if she is - welcome to Wikimedia. We, volunteers, tend to be passionate about projects and complain about almost everything. Most of the time, with good intentions, as I am sure those involved in this deletion request are. I already saw myself in that position. Not hard to be there when overburden with many wiki issues.
However, let’s not forget about the basics. Sometimes, I miss the good manners from users that are excellent volunteers as they know a lot about our rules, but show no empathy to other people.
Just my 2 cents...
Regards.
Teles
Em sáb, 2 de fev de 2019 às 20:20, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk escreveu:
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 23:20, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
P.S. Please see:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pigsonthewing#File_tagging_File...
And now:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Lisa_Lewin...
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Hi Andy,
Thank you for bringing up the subject of image licensing. While I am not an expert in the subject, I agree that compliance with licensing standards is important.
At the same time, I would like to suggest that image licensing might be a better topic for a separate thread. I share Teles' concern regarding how we treat new people, especially if they have a known history of supporting activities or goals that are similar to ours. I am particularly concerned that the way that your most recent message was communicated could have come across as being similar to announcing a nomination for "Trustee for Deletion". While in various circumstances I support dispensing with problematic people, and I don't think that you intended to suggest that the new WMF trustee or her photo is unwelcome, I request that you consider alternative ways to communicate your message.
I am not trying to sound like I am lecturing, and I apologize if this message sounds pushy. I am trying to make this be a suggestion from one peer to another.
Thanks for the good work that you do.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:45:00 +0100 María Sefidari msefidari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear all,
I am very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa Lewin as our newest Trustee!
Lisa Lewin is Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based management consulting firm. She has worked in strategic growth and development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. Her professional focus has always been at the intersection of technology and learning - and we are very fortunate to have her as a part of our team!
Below is the official announcement.[1] Welcome, Lisa, and I look forward to working with you!
welcome, and good luck!
WOW! How did you find a MOOC enthusiast who still likes class size reduction, Maria?
Superb!
Best regards, Jim
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:45:00 +0100 María Sefidari msefidari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear all,
I am very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa Lewin as our newest Trustee!
Lisa Lewin is Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based management consulting firm. She has worked in strategic growth and development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. Her professional focus has always been at the intersection of technology and learning - and we are very fortunate to have her as a part of our team!
Below is the official announcement.[1] Welcome, Lisa, and I look forward to working with you!
welcome, and good luck!
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