Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism, yet again

2020-04-22 Thread K. Peachey
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250508 On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 09:53, Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l wrote: > > Hi, > > It seems that they just gave a link to that website, which...eh... > When I opened it, I heard one sentence of the stream before I stopped it > and read the rest of the webpage:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism, yet again

2020-04-22 Thread Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l
Hi, It seems that they just gave a link to that website, which...eh... When I opened it, I heard one sentence of the stream before I stopped it and read the rest of the webpage: "and then we give thanks to spirit, for the air we breathe, for the earth..." After reading the rest of the webpage, I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Café - Sat 25 April 2020...

2020-04-22 Thread RhinosF1 -
Hey, 2 meetings would be fine with one at an alternate time. Thanks, Samuel On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 20:54, Pine W wrote: > Hi RhinosF1, > > The Café previously has been held on weekday mornings (US Pacific > time). The schedule was moved to its current time after a suggestion > that more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism, yet again

2020-04-22 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, I can confirm that I see the same also here in the Netherlands. Which is strange, there are no general elections here before 2021... An explanation about this link would be interesting. Kind regards Ziko Am Mi., 22. Apr. 2020 um 22:50 Uhr schrieb Yair Rand : > The WMF corporate site

[Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism, yet again

2020-04-22 Thread Yair Rand
The WMF corporate site (wikimediafoundation.org) currently has a full-page ad with the text "We are watching Earth Day Live today. Will you?". This links to an external site with the text "Click here to sign on to the US Youth Climate Strike Coalition Earth Day Demands - From congress and the next

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Early thoughts regarding a global code of conduct and a GCC committee

2020-04-22 Thread Pine W
Hi, Thanks for the comments here. I'm busy with off-wiki activities today and can't respond with as much specificity as I would wish. I request that you copy these comments to the talk page on Meta for discussion there. Please keep in mind that this process is in the early stages. There are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Café - Sat 25 April 2020...

2020-04-22 Thread Pine W
Hi RhinosF1, The Café previously has been held on weekday mornings (US Pacific time). The schedule was moved to its current time after a suggestion that more people from India would attend at the new time. The average attendance has been significantly higher at the new time slot, so I think that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Summary of the Brand Project presentation

2020-04-22 Thread David Gerard
I'd like to stress - I can see a case for renaming it all as "Wikipedia". I could even make that case! I'm not inclined to advocate such a change myself - and I'm not convinced that branding is a problem we have - but it's not an unreasonable *position*. But pre-deciding the outcome, then

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Summary of the Brand Project presentation

2020-04-22 Thread Steven Walling
I can't believe I'm saying this but I agree with Fæ as well. Having been on the inside at some companies that underwent controversial rebrands, I can see how this might be a very early stage thing to help guide and shape thinking about how to approach a rebrand by unifying around a high level

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Café - Sat 25 April 2020...

2020-04-22 Thread RhinosF1 -
Would it be possible to run one at an alternative time? Maybe on a weekday morning? Samuel On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 10:29, Lane Rasberry wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing to invite anyone to join the next online meeting of Wikimedia > Café on Saturday 25 April 2020 4:30 PM UTC. Details for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-22 Thread James Salsman
Yaroslav, How do you feel about the system of compulsory royalties they have to pay for both academic journals and news journalism in Germany? See e.g. https://www.vgwort.de/die-vg-wort.html In the U.S., we pay musicians for their works played on the radio, in public venues, and pirated, all out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Summary of the Brand Project presentation

2020-04-22 Thread Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l
As it appears my earlier email was not approved by the moderators: I'm in agreement with Fæ on this. The text and videos given on the subject of the new "interconnection" focus is all extremely vague. I don't see how this is a change from previous branding, or how the idea of "interconnection"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Summary of the Brand Project presentation

2020-04-22 Thread Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l
I’m in agreement with Fæ here. I just checked and wikipedia.org’s Alexa ranking is 13. That’s very different from the 5 last time I checked, but it could be due to a number of temporary factors. If there is evidence of a marked decrease in traffic independent of the Coronavirus and other issues,

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Café - Sat 25 April 2020...

2020-04-22 Thread Lane Rasberry
Hello, I am writing to invite anyone to join the next online meeting of Wikimedia Café on Saturday 25 April 2020 4:30 PM UTC. Details for joining are at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café > (video room open at that time) https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt The agenda for this