At our all-hands meeting this year, Risker [1] gave a moving talk in which she pointed out that the Wikimedia movement is a part of the open knowledge movement. She showed us a picture of Pando, which is a remarkable organism as you can see for yourself in that article. And she said that the ancient open knowledge movement is like this ancient group of trees that has survived everything. And that we are proud to be a part of that movement. For many of us, it was a reminder that we are connected to something almost invincible and it gave us hope. That hope and strength was what I was tapping into with my message, my apologies for not foot-noting.
[1] https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Risker
On Wednesday, February 17, 2016, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipedia@zog.org wrote:
Aspen grove: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Pando_(tree)
On 17 February 2016 at 10:14, Anders Wennersten <mail@anderswennersten.se javascript:;> wrote:
I second this opinion, please remember we are many not having English as our mother language
Also besides being all lost in the discussion of Knight grant
application,
I do not understand a word from the poem of Yates, neither do I
understand
the meaning of Aspen grove
Please, please go back to simple English in this list to enable many to take part
Andes
Den 2016-02-17 kl. 09:57, skrev Andrea Zanni:
Thanks Asaf, I didn't know about that group.
May I also mention that the conversation is also becoming *exhausting*, being in English and at very high level? I know we can't do nothing about it, but it's worth noting, IMHO, that
the
more we go on the fewer people with incredible stamina, analytic skills and English proficiency will follow and engage. Not really inclusive for Wikimedia. I, for one, find it very hard to follow everything and participate.
Aubrey
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Adam Wight <awight@wikimedia.org
javascript:;> wrote:
Thanks for the note! Fwiw, I can't read that without a login. Feel
free
to urge the owners to make the thread public, if base crook even
supports
such a thing. On Feb 16, 2016 4:47 PM, "Asaf Bartov" <abartov@wikimedia.org
javascript:;> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
These are difficult and confusing times. Many of you are puzzled or receiving partial and possibly contradictory bits and pieces of news.
As a service to the community, I feel I must point out that significantly more conversation is taking place -- for whatever reason -- on the
(public)
Wikipedia Weekly facebook group[1].
Without endorsing that choice of venue (the issues with Facebook are
fairly
well-known), it does appear that if you want significantly more information, you should head on over there and read through the last
couple
of weeks' posts. (much information is in the comments)
(if you are inspired to collect and preserve useful information from
there
on Meta, that would be best.)
In solidarity,
Asaf[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/
-- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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