Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fuck the community, who cares

2014-04-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Take one step back. What our aim is, is to share in the sum of all knowledge. Arguably, this is the main and overriding objective of what we do. There are many strategies to get to the point where we share information. From where I stand, with Wikidata we have the opportunity to do better

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New board Wikimedia Nederland

2014-04-08 Thread Nurunnaby Chowdhury
Congratulations all new board member. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Likewise! Thank you, Frans and all. Sam On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: Frans, Congratulations on your new role and I wish you and your team

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New board Wikimedia Nederland

2014-04-08 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hi, It is the season for new boards apparently :) Frans: congratulations on the new challenge and looking forward to seeing you in Berlin. As always: thanks to all those who volunteer their time to serve on the board! Jan-Bart On 07 Apr 2014, at 22:26, Frans Grijzenhout fr...@wikimedia.nl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New board Wikimedia Nederland

2014-04-08 Thread Alice Wiegand
Congrats and best wishes to the new Board! And a heartfelt thank you to Ziko and Paul for your long lasting commitment. Alice. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote: Congratulations all new board member. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Samuel Klein

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fuck the community, who cares

2014-04-08 Thread Jane Darnell
Gerard, I think you mean There are organisations that want to share CC-0 information with us under a CC-0 license and there are those who want to share CC-0 information under a CC-by license. We are fine with organizations sharing CC-by information under a CC-by license, no? O and I agree

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fuck the community, who cares

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Morris
Ziko van Dijk wrote: I think that a single quote by a unnamed female Wikimedian, said in public or in private, is a very small basis for any substantiate criticism... I've said fuck the community a fair few times. And fuck the foundation and fuck chapter [name]. Generally, all of them under my

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fuck the community, who cares

2014-04-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, From where I stand ie Wikidata, the license we use is CC-0. When a GLAM wants to share data it has to be CC-0. When it is CC-by or CC-by-sa, we cannot use it. We do not retrieve it from their database we will find the same data from elsewhere where there is no such burden. When people use

[Wikimedia-l] The aim of the movement

2014-04-08 Thread Steffen Prößdorf
Hi Gerard, thanks for pointing this out. This is just the question I mentioned on my blogpost. You say the main thing is to share in the sum of all knowledge, no matter how. I say the main thing is to support the communities doing this. These are the opposite opinions I mentioned - and we should

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Announce] WMMX's assembly and new Board

2014-04-08 Thread Patricio Lorente
¡Felicitaciones, Wikimedia México! 2014-03-26 5:39 GMT-03:00 Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com: El martes, 25 de marzo de 2014, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com escribió: 2014-03-24 8:33 GMT+01:00 Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com javascript:; : As results of that assembly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The aim of the movement

2014-04-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Steffen Prößdorf, 08/04/2014 11:25: And that's why I cited the mission of the foundation in my blogpost, with the first sentence *Our mission is to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose.*

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fuck the community, who cares

2014-04-08 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, One reason is that the license of Wikidata is questioned by members of the Wikidata community. Thanks, GerardM On 8 April 2014 11:27, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, From

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

2014-04-08 Thread Tomasz W. Kozlowski
Pete Forsyth wrote: I also published a response to the WMF report: http://wikistrategies.net/belfer1/ This is an absolutely fantastic blog post, and a must-read for anyone interested in making sure this... controversy never happens again. Thanks so much for taking the time to post that,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation

2014-04-08 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:46 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Pete Forsyth wrote: ... there are very good reasons to be cautious about how much and what kind of advocacy the Wikimedia Foundation engages in, but by and large, the reasons are not *legal* ones. They're related

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

2014-04-08 Thread MZMcBride
Russavia wrote: Annd queue crickets. I believe you want cue here. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please join the community review of 4 FDC funding requests: review 2013-2014 Round 2 proposals by 30 April

2014-04-08 Thread Winifred Olliff
* Greetings to all on this list! We are very excited to announce that four proposals for annual plan grants have been submitted on 1 April as part of the FDC process in 2013-2014 Round 2, and are now open for community review until 30 April 2014[1]: The Centre for Internet and Society[2] is

[Wikimedia-l] Amical Wikimedia Report, March 2014

2014-04-08 Thread David Parreño Mont - Comunicació
Dear fellows, The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities developed in March by Amical Wikimedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/March_2014 Kind regards, David Parreño Mont User:Davidpar Communications, Amical Wikimedia *Source:*

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Announce] WMMX's assembly and new Board

2014-04-08 Thread Lodewijk
congratulations for really existing now :) it feels like you have been around already for a long time ;-) 2014-04-08 11:59 GMT+02:00 Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com: ¡Felicitaciones, Wikimedia México! 2014-03-26 5:39 GMT-03:00 Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com: El martes, 25

[Wikimedia-l] neologisms

2014-04-08 Thread James Salsman
What does productize mean in the context of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_Quarterly_Review_(February_2014).pdf ? Where did the idea that services need to be turned into products come from? Where is the learning patterns library mentioned at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] neologisms

2014-04-08 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:35 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: What does productize mean in the context of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_Quarterly_Review_(February_2014).pdf ? Sorry for the jargon. We try to avoid tech industry terminology in public communication but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] neologisms

2014-04-08 Thread Tilman Bayer
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:35 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: ... Where is the learning patterns library mentioned at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Grantmaking/April_2014 ? At

[Wikimedia-l] OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-04-08 Thread ENWP Pine
I'm cross-posting this email from Wikitech-l from Greg Grossmeier. I think wide distribution is appropriate especially for contributors who may use vulnerable off-wiki communication tools with their Wikimedia password or for Wikimedia activity. -- Yesterday a widespread issue in OpenSSL

[Wikimedia-l] Strategic goals of Wikimania

2014-04-08 Thread ENWP Pine
Have there been any discussions of the link between the purposes that Wikimania serves and the Strategic Plan? I'm interested in thinking about what kinds of resources are appropriate for Wikimania especially regarding attendance for grants committee members. To make the case for significant