[Wikimedia-l] Re: activity around Wikimedia.ru

2023-05-25 Thread Victoria Doronina
Hello Yaroslav, Let me get this straight: there's no links between the Russian Wikipedia community and the chapter, but you left the Community because of your conflict with the Director of the chapter? I disagree that the chapter is useless. Yes, it was always used by Medeyko for personal

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] 2022 Picture of the Year Results

2023-05-25 Thread Wilson Oluoha
Thank you Kunal, The metrics are impressive. I personally also love the winning photo. Amazing work done. Kudos to you and the team. Congratulations to the winners. Best. Wilson On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 12:44 PM Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Dear Kunal, > Thank you for your mail! And if we want to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] 2022 Picture of the Year Results

2023-05-25 Thread Ammar Abdulhamid via Wikimedia-l
Hello Ziko,  There's a project, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, that's championing this effort (maximizing use of Commons' images on Wikipedia articles). Best,Ammarpad On Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 12:44:47 PM GMT+1, Ziko van Dijk wrote: Dear Kunal,Thank you for your mail! And if we

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Announcement] Establishment of Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group

2023-05-25 Thread Butch Bustria
To our Bangla Wikimedians who initiated this tensive plan, I humbly suggest that rather than you set an ambition of going further east, you work on capacitating collaborating and helping the Wikimedia communities of Central Asia, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan, Afghanistan and even the islands of the

[Wikimedia-l] 10*100K grant funding for AI oversight (OpenAI)

2023-05-25 Thread Erik Moeller
FYI, OpenAI's nonprofit parent has launched a new grant program for responsible AI: https://openai.com/blog/democratic-inputs-to-ai This is not concerned with the problem that's probably of highest concern to Wikimedians (AI as bullshit generators) but with the longer term steering of AI as it

[Wikimedia-l] Re: activity around Wikimedia.ru

2023-05-25 Thread effe iets anders
I think Yaroslav was reasonably open about his conflict with Vladimir Medeyko. I can appreciate that. Thanks also for the update with links, I really appreciate it because it's hard to follow these stories/events if you don't speak the language and don't even know where to start. Kolya, thanks

[Wikimedia-l] Re: activity around Wikimedia.ru

2023-05-25 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Sorry, Yaroslav, but while I mostly agree with facts you’ve presented here, I don’t think that your words are «non personal» since you’ve had long-term personal conflict with Vladimir Medeyko and few other members of Wikimedia RU. Your view on their activity can be your view, but saying that

[Wikimedia-l] activity around Wikimedia.ru

2023-05-25 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
This story made some headlines in Russian-language media, and I guess it could be of general interest here. Vladimir Medeyko, who has been the president of Wikimedia.ru, the Russian chapter of WMF, since its foundation in the 2000s, announced yesterday that he is starting a Russian Wikipedia fork

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Announcement] Establishment of Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group

2023-05-25 Thread Mrb Rafi
Well, this is strange and interesting at the same time. There is a lot going on inside South Asian communities that have been hidden from the world and have started to surface now. I have made an effort to analyze and document my observations regarding the "WAP UG" and have outlined them in the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Announcement] Establishment of Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group

2023-05-25 Thread Bodhisattwa
Hello Aishik, The name of the group suggests that it is a geographical group encompassing entire South Asia and ESEAP region which overlaps with all the geographical affiliates of the region including the ESEAP hub. Whether this group tries to be complimentary or not, the group directly comes

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Announcement] Establishment of Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group

2023-05-25 Thread Butch Bustria
Hi Aishik, I understand your intent but I believe you should consider the practicality of choosing a group name. I suggest you establish a clear network first and build trust of your intended target. We all wish the general public to have a simple understanding of how our Wikimedia community is

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Announcement] Establishment of Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group

2023-05-25 Thread Aishik Rehman
Dear Bodhisattwa and Butch Bustria, Thank you for your responses and expressing your concerns regarding the establishment of WAP User Group. I appreciate your input and would like to provide further clarification on the matter. Firstly, I want to emphasize that we have acknowledged the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Announcement] Establishment of Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group

2023-05-25 Thread Aishik Rehman
Dear Bodhisattwa and Butch Bustria, Thank you for your responses and expressing your concerns regarding the establishment of WAP User Group. I appreciate your input and would like to provide further clarification on the matter. Firstly, I want to emphasize that we have acknowledged the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Announcement] Establishment of Wikimedians of the Asia Pacific User Group

2023-05-25 Thread Ameisenigel
Hello. Maybe there is some kind of a misunderstanding: We have many user groups and not all of them are recognized user groups. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups says "Recognition from the Affiliations Committee allows a group to apply for using the Wikimedia trademarks and to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] 2022 Picture of the Year Results

2023-05-25 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Dear Kunal, Thank you for your mail! And if we want to celebrate the photographers, the best is to do that by embedding images into Wikipedia articles. :-) Kind regards Ziko Kunal Mehta schrieb am Di. 23. Mai 2023 um 05:56: > Dear Wikimedians, > > The 2022 Picture of the Year competition has