Re: [Wikimedia-l] How gay friendly is Wikimedia and where do LGBT Wikimedians hang out?
Le 2013-04-15 16:45, derfu...@gmail.com a écrit : Interesting Topic. The Wikivoyage association’s chairman is gay as well. So he will have an eye on the diversity on WV. He (me) started the travel Topic “gaytravel” and created a small article about gay travel in Cambodia already (http://de.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Thema:Schwul-Lesbisches_Reisen_in_Kambodscha). I hope more information will find their way into our articles soon. Besides we tag bars ans Hotels as gayfriendly on de: Hi, I would find it interesting to have feedback on neutrality problems that kind of topics may rise in our projects. I wish everybody would have a mind focus on human fulfillment/development[1] (for which I think sexual orientation self-determination is a requirement), but I suppose that our project also attract more homophobic minds and so on. On the other hand, I wonder how much the most active part of our community may be more open minded, and enclined to be less neutral on topics where populists propaganda that a majority of uneducated people may easily adopt as mind-set, if you see what I mean. [1] In french I would say épanouissement, but I can't say if there's a one-one semantic equivalent word in English, all the more I may attach non-widely shared semantic to this French word in the first place :P New ideas are always welcome. Thanks for the links Gesendet von Windows-Mail Von: Tom Morris Gesendet: Montag, 15. April 2013 13:15 An: Wikimedia Mailing List On Monday, 15 April 2013 at 08:31, Fae wrote: The answer is we have real idea how gay friendly the projects are, but LGBT Wikimedians have been doing a lot more outreach recently and we think this is great evidence for our increasing diversity. From a few chats over tea at the GLAMwiki conference last weekend, I realised that most folks with an interest in LGBT matters were either unaware that anything had changed in the last year, or just had not got around to finding out where to go for more information (apart from asking me). So, here are 4 new global resources created in the last 12 months for you to investigate, share with friends or bookmark for later: Thanks for posting this, Fæ. I'm hoping that the mailing list can be used for a variety of purposes, both as a safe space for discussing how to handle issues faced by LGBT Wikimedians, and for discussion of what people are working on, developing LGBT content on Wikimedia and so on. It'd be great if list members could post stubs they've been working on at Wikipedia, Wikinews articles, collections of photos they've uploaded to Commons and so on. As for IRC, while it may not be a dating service, there is occasional campy, flirty silliness. :-) -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Board Agenda, April 2013
Hello, Please find below the WMF Board of Trustees' draft agenda for the upcoming meetings on April 17, 2013 - April 19, 2013. == Wednesday, April 17, 2013 == '''16:00 - 18:00''' - Governance Committee Meeting == Thursday, April 18, 2013 == '''09:00''' - Greetings and Introductions '''09:10''' - Committee Reports * Audit Committee Report * Governance Committee Report '''09:45''' - Committee Reporting Guidelines '''10:00''' - Open Resolutions * Resolution on guidelines on potential conflicts of interest * Resolution on recognition of Wikimedia Armenia * Resolution on the Board Governance Committee Charter * Resolution appointing another trustee to the Board Governance Committee '''10:15''' - Annual Plan Update '''11:00''' - FDC Year Two Guidance '''12:00''' - Lunch '''13:00''' - WMF and FDC '''13:45''' - Strategy Committee Proposal '''13:30''' - Guiding Principles for the Wikimedia Foundation == Friday, April 19, 2013 == '''09:00''' - Editor Retention '''10:00''' - Transition Team Update '''12:00''' - Lunch '''13:30''' - Trustee Candidates '''14:30''' - Executive Session -- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.* ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Big Fat Brussels Gathering – How was it? What’s next?
tl;dr: Let’s get active in Brussels! During a two-day meeting, an international core group of Wikimedians agreed on launching the first necessary steps: Establishing a monitoring system and launching task forces on three hot topics: Free access to government works, Freedom of Panorama and Orphan Works. You can easily join the initiative, even if you feel you actually don’t have the time. Dear fellow Wikimedians, In February, we suggested [1] a “Big Fat Brussels Meeting” which finally took place on april 5-7th. A dozen Wikimedians from several countries like the Netherlands, Estonia, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Belgium and Germany discussed [2] the basic challenges of an open and transparent advocacy group which monitors EU legislation. This includes keeping an eye on currently discussed issues that *might* have implications on our work. Taking part in consultations launched by the European Commission or the profound analysis of amendment proposals in the European Parliament are an essential part of this work. While these tasks might seem intimidating to some, we also need people who monitor important issues by following Twitter accounts and blogs of decision-makers in Brussels and on the national level. Join the monitoring team [3] and decide for yourself how to get involved! == Proactive advocacy == Apart of just being reactive to EU legislation, we also like to push things forward in fields which aren’t at the heart of the Brussels machinery. While the European Digital Agenda is basically economy-driven, we need to develop a mid-term-strategy to get Free Knowledge onto the agenda. In our view, there are at least three Wikimedia-related topics that enjoy considerable community consensus: Freedom of Panorama [4], PD-Gov [5] and Orphan Works [6]. Our job here is to simply follow up on the discussions and proposals, map the field and make out threats or desirable changes early on. If you fancy removing obstacles in these particular policy fields, please add some comments on the Meta page [7] or – even better – enrich our three issue-specific task forces with your personal expertise! There will be a debriefing of the Brussels meeting during the Wikimedia Conference in Milan [8] on Friday afternoon. Those who couldn’t make it to Brussels are warmly invited to join us there! Cordiali saluti, Nicole [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-February/124085.html [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_Policy/Big_Fat_Brussels_Meeting/minutes [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Monitor [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Freedom_of_Panorama [5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/PD-Gov [6] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Orphan_Works [7] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Engage [8] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2013 -- Nicole Ebber International Affairs Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 30 219158 26-0 http://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. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How gay friendly is Wikimedia and where do LGBT Wikimedians hang out?
On 04/16/2013 04:48 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: but I suppose that our project also attract more homophobic minds and so on. That has not been my experience. I think much of the perception of liberal bias is actually caused by the generally widespread acceptance of the average anglophone Wiki[mp]edian towards diversity; at least comparatively to the societies they primarily represent. My hypothesis is that -- pretty much be definition -- a group of people rallying together under the banner of Open Knowledge has a strong natural aversion to the kind of obscurantism and information control that is necessary for prejudice and discrimination. While there may be individuals that have problems, the group's natural flow will work against it. -- Marc ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How gay friendly is Wikimedia and where do LGBT Wikimedians hang out?
Le 2013-04-16 16:58, Marc A. Pelletier a écrit : On 04/16/2013 04:48 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: but I suppose that our project also attract more homophobic minds and so on. That has not been my experience. I think much of the perception of liberal bias is actually caused by the generally widespread acceptance of the average anglophone Wiki[mp]edian towards diversity; at least comparatively to the societies they primarily represent. All my apologies, I wanted to write I suppose that our project also attract *some* homophobic minds. My hypothesis is that -- pretty much be definition -- a group of people rallying together under the banner of Open Knowledge has a strong natural aversion to the kind of obscurantism and information control that is necessary for prejudice and discrimination. While there may be individuals that have problems, the group's natural flow will work against it. -- Marc I agree and it's also my experience. Also while free software movement seems to have bigger problem with women arrassement, the wider free culture movement seems less affected. However androcracy being a general society problem, I suppose you may expect to find that kind of comportement in our movement too. -- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Are you interested in being interviewed about your LGBT experience with Wikimedia?
Hi, While I am at the Wikimedia conference in Milan, meeting a wide selection of Wikimedians from around the globe, I would love to use the opportunity to start recording a few short interviews with LGBT/queer/gay contributors about their experiences on our projects. I am happy to keep your identity confidential, though I would like to be free to publish transcripts after they are reviewed with you and anything you are no longer happy with is deleted. If you would like to meet up with me for a short chat during the conference, please do either track me down or send me an email and we will try to coordinate a time. For those not at Milan, I would love to chat. Drop me an email and perhaps we can arrange a Skype call and pen a few notes together on etherpad at some point. If I can get a few interviews on record, I would like to eventually write a short piece for Wikinews about what the culture on different Wikimedia projects feels like for both open LGBT contributors or those that prefer to keep their sexual orientation (or gender) a secret. There's no hurry, I'm not a fast article writer. :-D Cheers, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How gay friendly is Wikimedia and where do LGBT Wikimedians hang out?
On 04/16/2013 11:22 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: However androcracy being a general society problem, I suppose you may expect to find that kind of comportement in our movement too. I'd actually in interested to see /comparative/ numbers. There's no question that, in absolute terms, there is a problem; but is it any better in our communities? Probably one of the better examples of what I mean is, for instance, the North-American sysadmin culture (which overlaps a great deal with open source and open knowledge). While it is clear that straight white males are overwhelmingly overrepresented, my own experience is that women and other members of underrepresented groups tend to be held in exactly the same respect as the majority. (I don't mean this in a one of the boys sense so much as in a this isn't even an issue territory for the most part). I've no doubt that there /are/ issues - some of which I may be blind to given my own who gives a fuck attitude - but I'm under the impression that the magnitude of those issues is lower. -- Marc ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process, starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according to Sue's narrowing focus recommendations which were approved by the Board [1]: - Visual Editor - Mobile (mobile contributions + Wikipedia Zero) - Editor Engagement (also known as the E2 and E3 teams) - Funds Dissemination Committe and expanded grant-making capacity I'm proposing the following initial schedule: January: - Editor Engagement Experiments February: - Visual Editor - Mobile (Contribs + Zero) March: - Editor Engagement Features (Echo, Flow projects) - Funds Dissemination Committee We’ll try doing this on the same day or adjacent to the monthly metrics meetings [2], since the team(s) will give a presentation on their recent progress, which will help set some context that would otherwise need to be covered in the quarterly review itself. This will also create open opportunities for feedback and questions. My goal is to do this in a manner where even though the quarterly review meetings themselves are internal, the outcomes are captured as meeting minutes and shared publicly, which is why I'm starting this discussion on a public list as well. I've created a wiki page here which we can use to discuss the concept further: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews The internal review will, at minimum, include: Sue Gardner myself Howie Fung Team members and relevant director(s) Designated minute-taker So for example, for Visual Editor, the review team would be the Visual Editor / Parsoid teams, Sue, me, Howie, Terry, and a minute-taker. I imagine the structure of the review roughly as follows, with a duration of about 2 1/2 hours divided into 25-30 minute blocks: - Brief team intro and recap of team's activities through the quarter, compared with goals - Drill into goals and targets: Did we achieve what we said we would? - Review of challenges, blockers and successes - Discussion of proposed changes (e.g. resourcing, targets) and other action items - Buffer time, debriefing Once again, the primary purpose of these reviews is to create improved structures for internal accountability, escalation points in cases where serious changes are necessary, and transparency to the world. In addition to these priority initiatives, my recommendation would be to conduct quarterly reviews for any activity that requires more than a set amount of resources (people/dollars). These additional reviews may however be conducted in a more lightweight manner and internally to the departments. We’re slowly getting into that habit in engineering. As we pilot this process, the format of the high priority reviews can help inform and support reviews across the organization. Feedback and questions are appreciated. All best, Erik [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Narrowing_Focus [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l Following up on this... The Editor Engagement Experiments team had the first one of these with Erik and Sue last Tuesday (the 15th). Tilman was there to take notes, and I published our slide deck, so there is a transcript and PDF to review for those interested at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Editor_engagement_experiments Erik will likely share some notes soon on how he and Sue want to rejigger the meeting structure based on this first try. Overall it was helpful for all parties, but obviously in a meeting this long and covering this kind of material, adjustments can and should be made. Steven The minutes and slides from the E3 team's second quarterly review meeting can now be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Editor_engagement_experiments/2013-04-12 . -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help
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