Dear James,
In general the idea sounds interesting, and Wikitravel is certainly
one of the notable wiki community projects. But I am not sure whether
Wikitravel (or the content it provides) fit into the scope of
Wikimedia. Is it really 'educational' content?
Kind regards
Ziko
2012/4/9 James
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote:
I am not sure whether Wikitravel (or the content it provides) fit into the
scope of Wikimedia. Is it really 'educational' content?
Hum... I thought this project was adequate for Wikimedia, but now I'm
having some
I think I would consider it educational. Travel itself is an
educational experience, and a fuller travel experience enabled by the
sharing of Wikimedia-style free knowledge all the more so :)
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Patricio Molina
patriciomol...@gmail.com
Hoi,
Consider the number of links that are possible from a travel experience to
an encyclopaedic experience .. !! Travelling has always been considered
educational.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 9 April 2012 18:39, Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com wrote:
I think I would consider it educational.
One of the most useful articles on Wikitravel that I've found is an outline
of different Bavarian beers, and which groups they are popular with in
Bavaria. I refer back to it regularly. I can't say I see the not
educational argument.
Dan Rosenthal
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Gerard Meijssen
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
One of the most useful articles on Wikitravel that I've found is an outline
of different Bavarian beers, and which groups they are popular with in
Bavaria. I refer back to it regularly. I can't say I see the not
Am 9. April 2012 06:50 schrieb James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com:
The core group of editors at Wikitravel are interested in joining a WMF run
Wiki Travel Guide. A proposal for creating such a project has been
outlined here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Travel_Guide and would
develop from
Hello,
Possibly, what is educational in Wikitravel (-voyage) can go into
Wikipedia, and what not, is not educational.
One might get problems with policies such as NOR and NPOV. I suppose
that they should be applied on Wiki Travel Guide, as on Wikipedia,
Wikibooks and other Wikimedia sites.
Kind
Can you explain why we need this proposed process? The decision has
been made to form a committee to make recommendations to the WMF board
about funds dissemination. The only decision still to be made, as far
as I can see, is who should be on the committee.
What questions do you want to answer
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:42 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 April 2012 13:39, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I've sent you and Ryan an e-mail with a link to the deletion discussion.
In a discussion like this, secret evidence is approximately worthless.
Indeed. This
FD seem to collect lots of crappy feedback...
Why WMF promis always think a wiki interface will save the world? It
definitely will not, because newbies will never touch this
interface... and this is a BIG BIG problem nobody wants to
acknowledge. We do need services that are easier to use than a
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote:
Some modifications and requested info has been added to:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site)
-greg aka varnent
There have also been a couple of other proposals on meta along these
same
. My experience on Wikiquote
has been unfavorable, to put it mildly, where the en.wiki concept of BLP is
non-existent.
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:42:41 +1000
From: jay...@gmail.com
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process
The policies of each
Can we please also have information on how to update them, and source
files? It's good to have brilliant graphics, but also very important
to be able to recreate them.
I guess not all students followed the best practice (and more will next
time): some of those images are SVG.
That's a good
Will you use the Translate extension for translations or will you just ask
the translators to do it old-style? Please consider the extension - it's
far more convenient for the translators and for the managers. It's already
installed in Meta.
06.04.2012 6:42 пользователь Mono monom...@gmail.com
Hi Phoebe,
Thanks for posting this. I've asked a question (OK, three related questions) at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_and_Funds_Dissemination/Board_FAQ#Why_just_the_four_chapters.3F
Thanks,
Mike
On 5 Apr 2012, at 19:29, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 5 April 2012 19:14, phoebe
, that change would be quite good. My experience on
Wikiquote has been unfavorable, to put it mildly, where the en.wiki concept
of BLP is non-existent.
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:42:41 +1000
From: jay...@gmail.com
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process
On 7 April 2012 22:00, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Will you use the Translate extension for translations or will you just ask
the translators to do it old-style? Please consider the extension - it's
far more convenient for the translators and for the managers. It's
Looking a bit further into the best way to do this - since mailman
doesn't have any sensible export/import features that retain list
member settings, we'll probably need to make a full copy of the list
on the server, and then remove the members of the old one. I'll ask
Daniel to look into that
Yes we might be on the same page, but I think in general the
employment policy of WFM is one big disaster. I would rather not make
a research on productivity among the employees... which from a POV of
an outsider seems to be a tragedy looking at the site usability and
editing stats... I have no
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote:
new projects suck, because there are (close to) none
Well propose a non sucky one then?
TBH I don't class a QA site really as a new project. Since that bug
(if memory serves correctly) is just about setting one up for
In some respects, that change would be quite good. My experience on Wikiquote
has been unfavorable, to put it mildly, where the en.wiki concept of BLP is
non-existent.
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:42:41 +1000
From: jay...@gmail.com
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation
Yes and why the damn WMF does not throw their support behind such
projects? Do they consider us all to be useless idiots when proposing
such things?
2012/4/6 Mono monom...@gmail.com:
Well, I don't think it could be successful unless the Foundation threw
their support behind it.
On Friday,
Very good stuff!
Can we please also have information on how to update them, and source
files? It's good to have brilliant graphics, but also very important
to be able to recreate them.
By the way, in the same breath, let me plug my basic, simple,
parliament diagram creator (which writes svg
I would be interested in helping with this project from a third-party wiki and
MediaWiki developer perspective.
-greg aka varnent
On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
new projects
Great! Could you two please revise the current dormant proposal at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAnswers
And note that one of the active uses of the site would be a channel
dedicated to QA about using the Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki?
I think it is simpler and easier to say let's start
I will be happy to set such a site for the Foundation, as soon as
someone gives me the power to do so... the only development task is to
connect existing software (probably OSQA) to Global login system...
Btw, Erik, I actually like acting rather than talking and I am
terribly frustrated from the
Some modifications and requested info has been added to:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site)
-greg aka varnent
On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Great! Could you two please revise the current dormant proposal at
Take a look at toolserver.org/~mono/qua
On Friday, April 6, 2012, Gregory Varnum wrote:
Some modifications and requested info has been added to:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ask.wikimedia.org_(Q%26A_site)
-greg aka varnent
On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com
Is there a more wiki like version of that platform available - or would
development of such a platform be feasible and of interest to our volunteer
developers?
-greg
On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote:
Take a look at toolserver.org/~mono/qua
On Friday, April 6,
WOW, you guys are bashing the WMF for not supporting a legal nightmare, and
yet another clone of an existing service (answers.yahoo.com). The
legalities and paperwork necessary to avoid the WMF from getting their
asses sued off for bad answers is probably a multi-year endeavor, and a
money sink.
I believ you misinterpreted the use. This tool would only do users EDITing
Wikipedia.
On Friday, April 6, 2012, John wrote:
WOW, you guys are bashing the WMF for not supporting a legal nightmare, and
yet another clone of an existing service (answers.yahoo.com). The
legalities and paperwork
Possibly, but maybe more trouble that it's worth.
On Friday, April 6, 2012, Gregory Varnum wrote:
Is there a more wiki like version of that platform available - or would
development of such a platform be feasible and of interest to our volunteer
developers?
-greg
On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:30
I'm unclear from a legal perspective how this presents a nightmare. In what
ways do volunteers responding to QA's about Wikimedia projects and content
present great challenges than existing efforts like enWP's Reference Desk and
MW.org's Support desk?
In regards to answers.yahoo.com - I think
Fair enough - I could also go around and around on the value or challenge of
using wiki style editing to help folks running into problems using wiki edit
tools..
-greg
On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote:
Possibly, but maybe more trouble that it's worth.
On Friday,
You might want to warn stackexchange ;-)
Tom Morton
On 6 Apr 2012, at 21:44, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
WOW, you guys are bashing the WMF for not supporting a legal nightmare, and
yet another clone of an existing service (answers.yahoo.com). The
legalities and paperwork necessary
Wasn't there a proposal a while back for a Stack Exchange [1] site
like this? It seems like the ideal software for it.
Although IMO if MediaWiki discussions are too confusing for new users,
we should be concentrating on fixing that (*cough* LiquidThreads
*cough*) rather than going to a different
This site could be an interesting test ground for the developing visual editor
and future LiquidThreads projects.
I always feel a little weird when we develop new platforms rather than enhance
the MediaWiki platform.
-greg
On Apr 6, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com
Steven Walling, 06/04/2012 00:39:
These are fantastic. I don't see them on (EN) articles or Commons yet,
though it's easy to miss... do the students need help uploading etc?
All those images are hotlinked from Commons, or are we talking about
different things?
Some of them are in articles
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
Wasn't there a proposal a while back for a Stack Exchange [1] site
like this? It seems like the ideal software for it.
StackExchange and the open source OSQA equivalent are indeed powerful
tools and worth
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
What about personal development? Do your managers play an active role
in helping their reports develop with objectives, feedback, training,
etc?
Yes, of course. There's a standard $ allotment for each employee in
the
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break reputations
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
I would love to see the new project process on Meta come back online.
(much of this email is posted to [[m:talk:new project proposals]])
I could use some help
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Jürgen Fenn
schneeschme...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu:
I would like to add another option: Who not merge all projects into
Wikipedia proper? The lack in participation in the sister projects is
Hi,
Le 5 avril 2012 05:04, Jürgen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com a écrit :
Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu:
Ziko:
what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut
down such
a project... cease to mention it on Wikipedia main
Thanks for posting this, Phoebe. My question about what you intend to
do over the next 3 years wasn't answered. There is no point waiting
three years and then re-evaluating the situation if you haven't made
sure you've been gathering all the right information during those 3
years and that you are
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with
the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the
meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are
Thanks, Tom. If you don't mind I'll put it on the talk page; this will
likely require some discussion to answer.
-- phoebe
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for posting this, Phoebe. My question about what you intend to
do over the next 3
On 5 April 2012 19:14, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Tom. If you don't mind I'll put it on the talk page; this will
likely require some discussion to answer.
By all means.
___
foundation-l mailing list
You are still doomed as WMF with your new job probram unless you allow
remote work or start a reasonable grant-program to general public...
you will never find the best talents in a limited space... (mainly US
now) go to the full globe instead...
2012/3/28 birgitte...@yahoo.com:
It seems to me
On 5 April 2012 22:42, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote:
You are still doomed as WMF with your new job probram unless you allow
remote work or start a reasonable grant-program to general public...
you will never find the best talents in a limited space... (mainly US
now) go to the full
On Apr 5, 2012 2:42 PM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote:
You are still doomed as WMF with your new job probram unless you allow
remote work or start a reasonable grant-program to general public...
you will never find the best talents in a limited space... (mainly US
now) go to the full
That's great stuff, thanks for letting the list know about it. Wikipedia
may have squashed Encarta and put Britannica on its heels, but those
encyclopedias had the edge with multimedia and professional infographics.
This is a wonderful step forward and I hope we'll see more.
-Andrew
On Thu, Apr
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Leinonen Teemu teemu.leino...@aalto.fiwrote:
Hi,
I have a nice little project to share. Our graphic design students have
been improving some of the information graphics in the Wikipedia articles.
The work was done as part of their Information Design class.
Please don't assume I disagree with all objections that could possibly be made,
just because I disagree that the one's which had been presented so far are very
significant. I sincerely hope this program is more decentralized then any other
program being run right now. It seems to be in rather
So, Erik is best suited to speak for Engineering's wider attitude on
personal development: I can only talk about what I've seen, as an editor
who slaves away for our evil and monolithic overlords in their goal to
obliterate the commu-crud. wrong meeting.
I've been not just impressed but humbled
I don't know if this makes sense, so I beg your patience for my ignorance.
But would it be an option to duplicate the archive? Then both the old and
the new links will work. It would be a Great Pity if the new list would not
contain the archive of the old list.
Best,
Lodewijk
No dia 4 de Abril
On 3 April 2012 07:04, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Will the archives be permanently split?
Probably -- advanced mailman surgeries carry a high risk of fatal
mistakes (e.g. we have a fancy pipermail URL alias,
I totally second SJ's poke for more new projects! Although our flagship
project is highly successful, it would be good if we try to keep creating
new communities. I have been sad for quite a while now that we don't create
new projects any more. It would be great to see one new project every year
Hey :)
just a quick reminder that the english one will be in about 23 hours.
Cheers
Lydia
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Lydia Pintscher
lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi everyone!
Next week the Wikidata team will be complete and start working at full
speed. Finally! \o/ I will be
Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu:
Ziko:
what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut
down such
a project... cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages... or invest money
in promoting it?
Good questions, subtle answers.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
as I mentioned in a response to Liam the other day, we've been working
on having org charts generated in a more automatic, scalable form.
...
Thank you for that.
On a meta-question that raises - there are a lot
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
Has this been an observed issue within the WMF?
In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is
self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to
primarily set that team up for success, hire
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
I totally second SJ's poke for more new projects! Although our flagship
project is highly successful, it would be good if we try to keep creating
new communities. I have been sad for quite a while now that we don't
I would love to see two specific proposals taken up.
One is The Wikipedia Journal as discussed here
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Journal_%28A_peer-review_journal_to_allow/encourage_academics_to_write_Wikipedia_articles%29
Currently
working on corporate partners for this.
And the
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com
wrote:
Has this been an observed issue within the WMF?
In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is
self-organizing and self-managed,
Hi everyone, I'm new on the list and this is my fist email, but I've been
reading for a while(I'm from es.wiki). I support what Jürgen said, Most of
the Wikimedia projects are not very popular (with the exception of
Wikipedia and maybe commons). I talk about what I've read and listened to
people
The policies of each project are different for a very good reason.
e.g. If English Wikiquote was merged into English Wikipedia, the vast
majority of the quote pages would be deleted very quickly, for good or
ill. I know I would be the first to get out the sickle. :P
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:22
On 5 April 2012 02:05, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com
wrote:
Has this been an observed issue within the WMF?
In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is
self-organizing and self-managed, and it's
Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40:
- a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are
as a society towards reaching that goal
We had started a stub table about this:
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free
Nemo
elsewhere
- a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are
as a society towards reaching that goal
SJ
-- Forwarded message --
From: Samuel Klein s...@wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] They do make or break
On 3 April 2012 07:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
We had started a stub table about this:
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free
This is brilliant! I've been after something like this for a while.
- d.
On 3 April 2012 06:50, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote:
Hello,
Interesting. Please allow me to second that with the proposal to
reconsider existing projects. For example, what would a WMF evaluation
of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut down such a project, or
at least
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:47:45 +0200, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40:
- a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we
are
as a society towards reaching that goal
We had started a stub table about this:
Erik Moeller wrote:
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Are there any other consequences of a list rename?
You will feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of
voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
:D
A few pages at
One other thing to think about while you're making larger adjustments: it's
possible to customize the listinfo page to not be so ghastly. For example,
compare https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l with
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l. Perhaps one
of
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Samuel Klein, 03/04/2012 06:40:
- a global list of areas needing free knowledge, and how far we are
as a society towards reaching that goal
We had started a stub table about this:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:38 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 April 2012 07:47, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
We had started a stub table about this:
Hi Andreas,
assuming the original data is in a license that can be used in Wikidata,
and assuming the Wikidata community wants this data in Wikidata, yes :) The
use cases are technically feasible for sure.
Cheers,
Denny
2012/4/1 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de
Hi Andreas
On
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I think wikimedia-l would work fine and make sense. We probably don't need
an additional list, a lot of the lists we have now are lightly used.
Picking this up again .. I'll go ahead and make this change on
Saturday 4/7, unless
Hi Andreas
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:14 AM, andreas meier meier.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Through reports in the German Television I was made aware of the WikiData
project. This sounds really interesting. I could also find the press
Hah! Nice. Do you remember where you saw it?
announcement
On 1 April 2012 12:25, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
America’s most trusted encyclopedia, Conservapedia, have decided to
launch a new wiki-based semantic data project named Conservadata. The
new project will make right-wing soundbites available in machine
readable form.
phoebe ayers, 01/04/2012 07:49:
In the meantime, if there are any questions for us (as a board) or for
individual trustees I encourage you simply to send those along, either
to me (if you want them to go to the whole board, as I will pass them
along) or privately. That would help make sure that
happy april first
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 April 2012 12:25, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
America’s most trusted encyclopedia, Conservapedia, have decided to
launch a new wiki-based semantic data project named Conservadata. The
new
My personal view on this John is that abstaining is appropriate in a couple
cases:
- you truly don't have an opinion and trust those who do have opinions to make
the decision. in that case it's really a decision to support the majority view
of the others who are voting.
- you don't
On 31 March 2012 06:45, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
There is no requirement to know everything. There is a requirement to
make decisions in the best interests of the organisation, *as you see
it*. If a trustee persistently abstains on the big decisions because
they cant see *it*
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 March 2012 06:45, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
There is no requirement to know everything. There is a requirement to
make decisions in the best interests of the organisation, *as you see
it*. If a
John Vandenberg, 31/03/2012 06:56:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 March 2012 02:03, John Vandenbergjay...@gmail.com wrote:
I expect that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the
board. If not, then the board should put in
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:56 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 31 March 2012 02:03, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
I expect that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the
board.
On 3/31/12 8:07 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 31 March 2012 06:45, John Vandenbergjay...@gmail.com wrote:
There is no requirement to know everything. There is a requirement to
make decisions in the best interests of the organisation, *as you see
it*. If a trustee persistently abstains on the
Craig Franklin, 31/03/2012 23:20:
For the record, those who did not vote in favour of the resolutions, this
morning explained their reasons for doing so. I'm sure someone more
eloquent than I can summarise those reasons, but I think that they were
valid. John Vandenberg is correct that if
On 31 March 2012 22:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
P.s.: It's a bit weird to focus so much on the reasons to oppose; why should
opposing be justified /more/ than supporting?
There's supposed to be a QA coming that will explain the supports.
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 March 2012 22:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
P.s.: It's a bit weird to focus so much on the reasons to oppose; why should
opposing be justified /more/ than supporting?
There's supposed to
phoebe ayers, 30/03/2012 14:03:
During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on
Trustee voting transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency
asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees
with their
During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on
Trustee voting transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Transparency
asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees
with their votes for each resolution.
Message: 2
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:03:55 +0200
From: phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Foundation-l] resolution on voting transparency
Message-ID:
On 30 March 2012 13:56, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
That's a very welcome move, and I hope it helps build bridges back to the
community. From time to time we will have very divisive issues to discuss,
and in such situations it is much easier for the losing side in the
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:19 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 30 March 2012 13:56, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
That's a very welcome move, and I hope it helps build bridges back to the
community. From time to time we will have very divisive issues to
On 30 mrt. 2012, at 15:19, David Gerard wrote:
Yes. This will also avoid, as recently, board members appearing to
later disclaim actions (a vote) that they were in fact responsible for
taking.
- d.
1) Assume good faith, I cannot recall ANY incident in which a board member
We ask the Executive Director not to allow any additional chapters to payment
process, until the Board revisits the framework for fundraising and payment
processing in late 2015 in advance of the November 2016 fundraising campaign.
This is very disappointing. It's a real shame that chapters
Michael Peel, 30/03/2012 23:52:
On voting transparency: this is a great step forward. However, I would
encourage the WMF to take a further step, and to explain why trustees voted
approve/abstain/against.
+1 (as on the other topic). I hope this will done, at least for this
particular
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