[Wikimedia-l] Re: A new Signpost issue is out

2024-05-17 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Let me clear it a bit. The only ones who git blocked were Vladimir Medeyko and few others involved in creating of Russian Wikipedia clone. For example, all of NWR-Hist User group is still active in various projects while most of its members are still in Russia. There were some discussions on

[Wikimedia-l] Being a (CEE) community

2024-05-11 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Good day everyone. I’m Nikolai Bulykin, the co-founder and organizer of North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User group. You may have heard about us in connection with the previous CEE Meeting in Tbilisi. For those who haven’t - we’re thematic user group focused on the topics of history,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana

2024-04-03 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Guys, I’m glad for the wikimedians of Botswana and we’re now cheering for them in a pub in Samarkand, but I’ve checked their page and found two resolutions on recognition — one dated by 2017 and another is this one. Can anyone explain what have happened?   >Четверг, 4 апреля 2024, 1:55

[Wikimedia-l] North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group 2023 annual report

2024-01-14 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Good day, colleagues! Our user group aimed to enreach content on North-West Russia have published a new activity report for 2023. Link is here:  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group/Annual_reports/2023  report is available in Russian and English. In

[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] North-West Russia Wiki-Historians User Group annual report for 2022

2023-01-12 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Colleagues! I’m here to present you our annual report for 2022. This year was very difficult for us in many different levels. In a situation of ongoing war and government campain to disown Wikimedia movement and claim us as a treat we continued our efforts to enlarge representation of our

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Decision of WLM in Ukraine organizers not to submit photos for the international round

2022-12-14 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Olga, thank you for your message, I think it's very important to know the insight of this decision. And at the time when I agree with your decision to not to take responsibility for the risks that are (sadly still) exist for the photographers, I can not agree with your assumption that

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Preserving cities and buildings, block by block

2022-03-24 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Hi! There is a Russian project  https://domofoto.ru  directly on that. IDK if there’s same projects on other languages.   >Четверг, 24 марта 2022, 18:32 +03:00 от Samuel Klein : >  >Are there any projects in the vein of Geograph , OSM, Yelp, or Wikipedia for >people remembering and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation governance and Russian finances

2022-03-14 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
For your information WMF doesn’t allow donations from Russia since 2014. That was noted several times (for example  https://habr.com/ru/post/242987/  (in Russian)). Russian Wikimedia community repeatedly asked to transfer donors from Russia to a Russian chapter donations page, but that was

[Wikimedia-l] North-west Russia Wiki-Historians User Group Annual report on 2021

2022-01-18 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Greetings all! Our UG have published an annual report on 2021 here  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group/Annual_reports/2021 . It is originally published in Russian and translated to English, so, I hope it’ll be understandable for most of subscribers of

[Wikimedia-l] NWR-Hist annual activity report

2021-01-09 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Good day everyone! I’m here to inform you that North-West Russia Wiki-Historians user group have submitted a 2020 activity report. You can find it by following link:  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group/Annual_reports/2020/en  Feel free to translate it

[Wikimedia-l] Aknowledge Russia. Novgorod lands

2020-10-31 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Good times everyone! I’m happy to inform you that North-West Russia Wiki-historians UG and Wikimedia Russia are starting edit-a-thon that goes from November 1 to December 15, 2020  (UTC). It's thematic contest for writing Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles about geography, history and culture

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group

2020-04-03 Thread Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l
Wow, glad to see kazakhs with us.   >Пятница, 3 апреля 2020, 3:29 +03:00 от Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight >: >  >Hi everyone! > > > >I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized >[1] Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group [2] as a Wikimedia >User Group.