Hi,
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I’m happy to welcome two new members in the Wikimedia blogs family:
the Community blog < http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/community/ > , and
the Global blog < http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/global/ >.
As the Wikimedia Foundation grows, so does our need to communicate
with the rest of the community. Our blogs are a major communication
channel to share news and accomplishments of our staff and volunteers.
Recently, we’ve started to publish more often, to increase
transparency, understanding and collaboration. These new dedicated
blogs are a way for us to structure the conversation with our
community, much like we did in the past with the Tech blog.
Rather than creating completely separate blogs, we’ve decided to build
on the existing Wikimedia blog. For those familiar with WordPress, it
means the community & global blogs are categories that we’re simply
showing more prominently than regular categories. More details are
available in the history of the [[m:Wikimedia Blog/2011 overhaul]]
page on meta.
The new blogs also have shortcuts that you can bookmark:
http://communityblog.wikimedia.org and
http://globalblog.wikimedia.org.
The Techblog, which was living separately, is now fully integrated
with the Wikimedia blog; from now on, our readers will be able to find
all our news in one central place.
If you’re only interested in a specific topic, you can still subscribe
to the dedicated RSS feed available at the top of each blog, or in
your browser’s URL field. You can subscribe to the “Main
blog/Highlights” section to be notified only of major news.
We’ve also taken this opportunity to upgrade the software and fix a
few bugs in the theme.
We’ll continue to improve the blogs incrementally over the next few
months. We already have a few ideas, but we’d love to hear your
opinions in the comments of the blog post or on [[m:Talk:Wikimedia
Blog/2011 overhaul]].
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Guillaume Paumier
I'm pleased to announce that the 2011 Board Election now accepts candidates.
The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 2nd to 23:59 UTC May
22nd. The election will fill the three community-elected board seats that
are currently held by Ting Chen, Kat Walsh and Samuel Klein. More
information on what it means to be a board member, who is eligible to be a
candidate and how to submit your candidacy can be found on the election
pages on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011 .
As always, help with translation is very much appreciated. The translation
coordination page can be found at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Translation .
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village
pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page
on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
board-elections(a)wikimedia.org.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
Hello, everyone.
As announced in the Wikimedia Conference 2011 in Berlin, the Wikimedia
Foundation would like to set up a Grant Advisory Committee, to help evaluate
grant requests and to benefit from a wider movement perspective.
We are now looking to populate the committee with volunteers. Please take a
look at the description in the committee page on Meta[1], and if you have
relevant background and are so inclined, apply at the bottom of the page.
Cheers,
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee
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Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com>
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Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com>
Hi all,
please find the monthly report for Wikimedia Germany for March 2011 on
meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutsch…
We are using a new translation service, so it would be great if you have
some feedback regarding the language. Any other comments are welcome as
well, of course.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Pavel Richter
Geschäftsführer
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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 Berlin
Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0
www.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/
**** Unterstützen Sie Freies Wissen mit einer SMS. Senden Sie einfach WIKI
an 81190. Mit 5 Euro sichern Sie so die Verfügbarkeit und Weiterentwicklung
der Wikipedia. ****
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi all,
please find the monthly report for Wikimedia Germany for February 2011 on
meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutsch…
We are using a new translation service, so it would be great if you have
some feedback regarding the translation. Any other comments are welcome as
well, of course.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Pavel Richter
Geschäftsführer
-------------------------------------
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Eisenacher Straße 2
10777 Berlin
Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0
www.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/
**** Unterstützen Sie Freies Wissen mit einer SMS. Senden Sie einfach WIKI
an 81190. Mit 5 Euro sichern Sie so die Verfügbarkeit und Weiterentwicklung
der Wikipedia. ****
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.