[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-29 Thread Bence Damokos
Thank you for sharing the link to the recording, unfortunately I could not follow it live. I am reassured by the open approach and speed taken to transparently address the issue and hope that the commitments promised will be followed through. With the high turnover at the WMF and many leadership po

[Wikimedia-l] Re: An Uzbek praktical joke and Wikimedia Enterprise

2021-10-27 Thread Bence Damokos
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-20 Thread Bence Damokos
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-26 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks Mario - indeed it seems to be a bit random, maybe there was an update recently- on Hungarian Wikipedia as an anon I today see an edit button but then it tells me I am blocked (it doesn't give any real explanations, but at least the link to contact the stewards goes directly to the contact fo

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are you considering running for the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation board elections?

2022-05-07 Thread Bence Damokos
t; Public archives at > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/ > message/ASGM3QX4UKYOAKZZNKM6TBWMOYCV2SH2/ > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/ASGM3QX4UKYOAKZZNKM6TBWMOYCV2SH2/> >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Contents of annual reports from Wikimedia affiliate organizations

2018-11-29 Thread Bence Damokos
Dear Pine, Just as a thought experiment try to think through how your proposal would work for an all-volunteer organisation: A small group of volunteers starts some programme, and at the same time they hire a contractor (issue an ad, check CVs, hold interviews, draw up a contract, monitor and pay

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-13 Thread Bence Damokos
I think it is important that the WMF is taking the question of harassment seriously. If the community processes are not adequate, it is not an incorrect response to take direct action to protect the individuals that are being harassed. Ideally, community processes should be improved and WMF can giv

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-25 Thread Bence Damokos
p. > > > > best, > > > > dj > > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-25 Thread Bence Damokos
sically, if we would explain to the man of street, why the community > should continue to contribute on volunteering basis if some activities > are paid? The reason that there are unprivileged members is weak in my > opinion. > > This is a distortion itself. > > On 25/08/2019 12

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation joins the global climate strike

2019-09-23 Thread Bence Damokos
In fact, there are countless offset projects in the $1-$15/tonne range, as well: https://offset.climateneutralnow.org/allprojects The total offsetting budget would not need to be too enourmous, yet it could be impactful. Best regards, Bence On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, 18:28 Henry Wood, wrote: > Surel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Greener travel and the ethics of carbon offset for Wikimedia community events

2019-10-11 Thread Bence Damokos
In case it is interesting, for the tenders at my workplace that require offsetting, we include this requirement: " Carbon offsetting will be achieved by means of projects of the following type: CDM (Clean Development Mechanism), JI (Joint Implementation) or VER (Voluntary Emissions Reduction), all

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Greener travel and the ethics of carbon offset for Wikimedia community events

2019-10-11 Thread Bence Damokos
ose articles? If that doesn’t make a difference, then we have > to answer a rather more fundamental question about our impact on the world. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > On 11 Oct 2019, at 22:27, Bence Damokos wrote: > > > > In case it is interesting, for the tenders at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Greener travel and the ethics of carbon offset for Wikimedia community events

2019-10-14 Thread Bence Damokos
The price really depends on the project selected and can vary from less than a dollar to close to $20 per tonne, and the cheaper projects do not necessarily have less of an impact (more likely they have fewer levels of independent verification). Do note that apart from the company recommended on t

[Wikimedia-l] New Board of Wikimedia Hungary

2020-11-30 Thread Bence Damokos
Dear all, At its General Meeting on 21 November, Wikimedia Hungary has elected a new board as follows: - Péter Gervai (grin), president (reelected) - Bence Damokos, executive vice-president (reelected) - Balázs Viczián (Vince), financial vice-president (reelected) - Anna Sárközy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to communicate compassionately with non-native English speakers

2016-07-07 Thread Bence Damokos
dia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > > ___ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New WMF funding option for groups and organizations with annual plans

2015-09-30 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Pine, There is a new committee proposed for these grants (see the second point of the summary). FDC members are not eligible for the new committee, but I guess GAC members could join and volunteer some more of their time :) Best regards, Bence 2015-09-30 21:48 GMT+02:00 Pine W : > Hi Winifre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertising in Central notice?

2015-11-06 Thread Bence Damokos
My first guess would be that the company is mentioned as a way to notify users that they will be sending data to an outside company if they click on the link (but the text you quote is not that clear on the privacy aspect here). Best regards, Bence 2015-11-06 12:33 GMT+01:00 Itzik - Wikimedia Isr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Affiliations Committee appointments, January 2016

2016-01-24 Thread Bence Damokos
Apologies for the thankspam. :) Congratulations to all the newly appointed members. And indeed a huge thank you to Greg for his dedicated work on the committee in the past years, and Josh for his outreach efforts and work over the years. Best regards, Bence 2016-01-24 20:11 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk :

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Your questions about KE.

2016-02-17 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks Lila for posting this. Just as a courtesy to those who follow the topic here on the mailing list, can you please send an update to this list whenever there is new content on the page, or at least when there are significant changes? Best regards, Bence 2016-02-17 18:40 GMT+01:00 Lila Tretik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Call for candidates 2015 [UPDATE]

2014-09-04 Thread Bence Damokos
Thank you for the suggestion, Anne! As some background, the reason the private e-mail address is used instead of the AffCom mailing list is that it allows the incoming applications to be looked at all at the same time - thus not giving anyone an advantage or disadvantage based on the time they ap

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

2014-09-11 Thread Bence Damokos
I believe names and how we treat them both hold great power and tell a lot about the name-giver and power relationships. "Wikimedia" means different things to different people (possibly all valid), it is both the name for the concept of the different sister projects and their combined ethos formin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

2014-09-11 Thread Bence Damokos
his name for the next > cycle... This is the perfect opportunity to address what is, you must > admit, a minor concern easily solved. > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > > > I believe names and how we treat them both hold great power and tell a >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

2014-09-11 Thread Bence Damokos
I can see that people who are (also/only/additionally) part of different interpretations of the word Wikimedia might feel excluded by the use of the name by a subset of people who also make up a valid constellation under the name Wikimedia. I cannot tell if this feeling involves the small number of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal

2014-10-11 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Pine, We are actively following the case of Cascadia Wikimedians to see whether we can facilitate the signing of the user group agreement between the user group and WMFLegal (the group's recognition has been approved by AffCom in September -- apologies in any delays you have experienced up to t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

2014-11-30 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > On 11/30/2014 10:19 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > >> Michael Snow, 30/11/2014 01:03: >> >>> One avenue for fraud that's facilitated by posting account numbers is >>> small payment fraud, usually involving stolen credit cards. >>> [...

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is shutting down grantmaking for good projects for 3 months for no reason

2015-01-03 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Jane Darnell wrote: > Nope. Gendergap is about the gap in female participation, not in > female-related topics. > I would say it is both, but in either case this would be important to define if that is the criteria on which to solicit proposals. (The vision of Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please report to Google [was Re: Warning: "Wikimedia-l" Google Group]

2015-01-11 Thread Bence Damokos
I found the same issue. The best thing to do is to send a letter to the unsubscribe address from your various adresses (change the from field in Gmail), and it should do it. (Doesn't work for the "opt out" option for resubscribing.) Best regards, Bence On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Cristian Co

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of two new user groups

2014-01-29 Thread Bence Damokos
. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of two new user groups

2014-01-30 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Laura, The Brasilian community has a long history with many twists. At one time there was a proposed chapter that the Board has recognized but was never founded; and the Affiliations Committee has recommended the user group route for the community in their current aspiration to form a chapter.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board decisions on movement funding and approval issues

2014-02-11 Thread Bence Damokos
Speaking in my personal capacity, I echo the surprise that the Board has decided to move a motion before they had full or close to full consensus on the issue - which is in general a departure from the usual. I can only assume that there was a better reason behind the urgency than the need to paus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board decisions on movement funding and approval issues

2014-02-20 Thread Bence Damokos
imedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMF_Board_meetings/2013-11-24/FAQ#AffCom_response(translations can be provided at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/February_2014_Statement). The English version is copied below for your convenience. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Link to Wikimedia Shop now included in the English Wikipedia sidebar

2014-02-27 Thread Bence Damokos
I seem to remember it was geotargeted to the US, wasn't it? The change seems to have been made at the end of January, if I am reading Gerrit right (to which there is no guarantee): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98885/ Best regards, Bence On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Philippe Beaudette

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

2014-03-21 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks Erik, for looking into it constructively. Looking forward to the report and the learnings from the assessment. Best regards, Bence On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Fæ wrote: > > > Eric, in this thread you are officially speaking f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-03-31 Thread Bence Damokos
Please note that this year the invitation to the conference states "Organizations who would like to send more than two persons will have to book and pay for all their travel and accommodation themselves." - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Registration - There is no more a

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

2014-04-07 Thread Bence Damokos
I am not sure it would qualify as a public statement rather than a sentence taken and quoted out of context from a closed meeting - in other words, it was not made at a public, accessible location, rather at a closed meeting (with limited places, an entrance fee, etc.). While there are published n

[Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

2014-04-10 Thread Bence Damokos
leave the committee in the very capable hands of Carlos and Cynthia, and will remain an ordinary member of AffCom going forward. Best regards, Bence Damokos Member, Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Cynthia Ashley-Nelson (Cindamuse)

2014-04-12 Thread Bence Damokos
the other community members gathered here in Berlin: Carlos Colina, Chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee Bence Damokos, Outgoing chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately

[Wikimedia-l] Chaptersplanet.org

2014-04-13 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi all, As we have been discussing communication and sharing of experiences at various sessions here at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, I wanted to remind people of the chaptersplanet.org website i set up a few years ago that aggregates blog posts, reports and newsletters from the various affi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chaptersplanet.org

2014-04-13 Thread Bence Damokos
h > it's so large page. My browser started to lag badly while opening that page > which is 46 A4 pages if we print it. > > Yours sincerely, > Base > 13.04.2014 15:20, Bence Damokos написав(ла): >> >> Hi all, >> >> As we have been discussing communic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ASBS sessions update

2014-04-14 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks Chris for the update. I was not in the session, but there is an Etherpad I will be looking at: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wmcon14-14 Best regards, Bence ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ASBS sessions update

2014-04-14 Thread Bence Damokos
whatever reason.) Best regards, Bence On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > Thanks Chris for the update. > I was not in the session, but there is an Etherpad I will be looking > at: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wmcon14-14 > > Best r

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Bence Damokos
What is currently stopping a community assessment from being carried out? (If indeed the community has the actual desire to do it -- I assume the data is as public as it gets at the WMF's current level of transparency.) Best regards, Bence On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Risker wrote: > On 27 A

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Risker wrote: > On 27 April 2014 15:01, Bence Damokos wrote: > >> What is currently stopping a community assessment from being carried >> out? (If indeed the community has the actual desire to do it -- I >> assume the data is as public

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-30 Thread Bence Damokos
While this is a compelling interpretation - for the sake of argument - I am not sure the words of the ED of the WMF can bind the Board of the WMF in the decisions they make. I could imagine situations where they could, and normally the ED advises the Board on what direction to take, but normally it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] simple and effective creation process for chapters

2014-05-03 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks Rupert for thinking about this. The chapter creation process[0] is indeed under-going review following the Board's November decision, and all comments, input is welcome. There are some reasons that make it a bit difficult to enact your suggestions or to come to the results you suggest in th

[Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee Vice-Chair

2014-05-25 Thread Bence Damokos
tions/Vice_Chair_selection_2014_-_May_2014 Best regards, Bence Damokos, Affiliations Committee @WikimediaAffCom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

2014-05-28 Thread Bence Damokos
I do agree that with all good faith being assumed, Wil's style of interaction is a bit new and the novelty is starting to wear off a bit. Wil is of course his own individual and beyond respecting the soft posting limits as part of this list's etiquette I do not think anyone is trying to stifle or s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-05-29 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Sam, If all the steps could happen at the same time, and decisions were made by a single person, then the process could indeed be done in 30 minutes under ideal circumstances (a person being 24/7 online, and all information being available at the time of application). However, currently there

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-05-29 Thread Bence Damokos
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Nathan wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > > > Hi Sam, > > > > If all the steps could happen at the same time, and decisions were made > by > > a single person, then the process could indeed be don

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-05-29 Thread Bence Damokos
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Sam Klein wrote: > Thanks, Bence and Greg. I appreciate all of the thought going into this. > Can you describe the groups that might have been problematic as UGs? > I think both becoming and stopping to be a UG should be a simple process. > Thanks Sam - your thi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-05-29 Thread Bence Damokos
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Sam Klein > wrote: > >> Thanks, Bence and Greg. I appreciate all of the thought going into this. >> Can you describe the groups that might have been problematic as UGs? >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-05-29 Thread Bence Damokos
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Kevin Gorman wrote: > other active GAC members given the > relatively low bar required for UG status - we'll be paying way more > attention at the details of the grant and the applicant(s) than on whether > they have AffCom recognition. I'd definitely rather giv

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-05-29 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Leigh, Actually, we were discussing your group's application even before your writing here. I do apologize for the lack of communication or clarity, although there was no news to communicate. In general, I would advise everyone to be bold in following the recommendation that is on the Meta pag

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-05-31 Thread Bence Damokos
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > > > Also, somewhat unfortunately in my view, there is a requirement for user > > groups is to have a "history of projects", which was not further define

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-05-31 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Risker wrote: > I'm still stuck on "bylaws". Why is AffCom asking for bylaws? > Depends on the context. We do review them, or at least try to, whenever a group (chapter, user group, thematic organisation) decides to have them, in order to make sure they comply

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-05-31 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Leigh Thelmadatter wrote: > > Obviously, having more user groups would be great, but we do not > currently > > know how many are not being created due to the process. > > It is entirely possible, that the creation of active user groups (without > > further investm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement affiliates liaisons

2014-06-02 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Nathan, There is a shortish overview at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Reports/2012#State_of_affiliates . In general, we very rarely reject applications outright publicly -- more often than not, an application will run until we have worked with the group to the point t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-06-04 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks for sharing, Tilman! (These are really useful pages, and nice to see them continue to be maintained). Best regards, Bence On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Tilman Bayer wrote: > Minutes and slides from last week's quarterly review of the > Foundation's Mobile Contributions team are now a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Bangladesh has completed its local registration in Bangladesh

2014-06-10 Thread Bence Damokos
Woohoo! Great news! Best regards, Bence On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Tonmoy Khan wrote: > Dear All, > > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh (WMBD) has > successfully completed its local registration in Bangladesh. Our > application for registration was approv

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Translators-l] We have an awesome Translation Tools....made for English speakers first

2014-08-27 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks Niklas for the reply. Notwithstanding the subject line's snark, and despite the fact that components of the problem have been solved for a long time, from a user's perspective there hasn't been progress on the handicap (not being able to translate from languages other than English on Meta) a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: [WCA][Governance] Training for chapter and thematic org. board members

2013-04-21 Thread Bence Damokos
Sounds like a great idea. Best regards, Bence On Sunday, April 21, 2013, Fae wrote: > The majority of chapter boards (and the proposed thematic > organizations) do not routinely have an induction process with > training in expected reporting requirements, liability as directors, > the role of ov

[Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee 2012 Annual Report

2013-05-01 Thread Bence Damokos
with where the Committee is at right now, even though this year is facing up to be a busy one. Any questions, or feedback are welcome, especially as we are still experimenting with reporting format, content, and the level of detail. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affilia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee 2012 Annual Report

2013-05-11 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > phoebe ayers, 01/05/2013 21:54: > > Dear Bence and all, >> >> This is a very good report! It is very clear, just the right length and >> gives a good picture of all of the activity of the committee -- both >> accomplishments and frust

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffComs $40,000 Hong Kong junket

2013-05-13 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Tomasz, On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski < tom...@twkozlowski.net> wrote: > Gregory Varnum wrote: > > I am not sure what you mean by none of the members being willing to >> comment. >> > > Our chair has responded several times on Meta and many others have > responded >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffComs $40,000 Hong Kong junket

2013-05-14 Thread Bence Damokos
art of the community, I > think > > should have the maturity to say "Thanks for the option, but we prefer for > > the visibility and the fairness to book less expensive accommodation". > > > > BTW. 40,000$ it's about 25 scholarships we can give. Not saying A

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee 2012 Annual Report

2013-05-16 Thread Bence Damokos
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Gregory Varnum, 12/05/2013 19:47: > > Nemo, >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by a single person's POV. Are you referring >> to Stephen? >> > > No. It doesn't matter who that is. Geoff speaking and signing his post as General Counsel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-28 Thread Bence Damokos
Personally I think this line of the conversation (people resigning/fired) is taking the situation a bit too far. At the least not having volunteers administer the WMF's wiki is just punishment already. It seems that the WMF is unlikely to change its policy, so the best they can do to heal the hurt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

2013-05-28 Thread Bence Damokos
(typo fix) On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > Personally I think this line of the conversation (people resigning/fired) > is taking the situation a bit too far. > At the least not having volunteers administer the WMF's wiki is just > punishment already.

[Wikimedia-l] Approval of Wikimedians of Nepal user group

2013-05-30 Thread Bence Damokos
, for a fixed, renewable time-period and they are to enjoy limited trademark use and simplified access to grants. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliatons Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia for Diplomats (June 21)

2013-06-18 Thread Bence Damokos
I will be representing myself as a Wikimedia volunteer, who happens to hold a title related to AffCom and has a somewhat theoretical education of what diplomacy is supposed to be. I hope I am not totally unqualified to speak about the Wikipedia topics. The webinar will be broadcast using Google Ha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia for Diplomats (June 21)

2013-06-18 Thread Bence Damokos
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote: > Bence Damokos wrote: > > I hope I am not totally unqualified to speak about the Wikipedia topics. >> > > Quite the contrary, I think you're very knowledgeable about the > subject—but what does AffCom

[Wikimedia-l] Recognizing the GLAM-Wiki U.S. Consortium as a Wikimedia User Group

2013-06-26 Thread Bence Damokos
the Wikimedia affiliate family, and go ahead and sign up to be a member if you would like to participate in its work. Best regards. Bence Damokos, Affiliations Committee [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/GLAM-Wiki_U.S._Consortium_%E2%80%93_June_2013 [2] http

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Uruguay recognized as newest chapter

2013-07-14 Thread Bence Damokos
s and wish them success in furthering our mission in Uruguay! Best regards, Bence Damokos, Chair, Affiliations Committee ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status & IRC office hours

2013-07-16 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Itzik, As far as I understand, the activity report is a requirement in the chapters agreement, which the WMF is finally starting to take somewhat seriously. (§8 [1]) But otherwise I agree that the FDC process requires quite a bit of time spent on it throughout the year. Best regards, Bence [

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of YouTube videos in fundraising banners

2013-07-17 Thread Bence Damokos
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote: > However, as you correctly write, that banner only served those millions of > our viewers a cached image that was uploaded to donate.wm.org (so it was > cached the usual way) and /only/ if they had clicked the play button were > they se

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of YouTube videos in fundraising banners

2013-07-17 Thread Bence Damokos
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote: > Victor Grigas wrote: > > > This was because much of the material surrounding the video was > > written in English, and there was a lot of it, so translation would > > have been slow, expensive and prone to error. > > That's what commun

[Wikimedia-l] Approval of WCUG Greece as Wikimedia User Group

2013-07-20 Thread Bence Damokos
Day 2013 and organized an edit-a-thon recently on el.wp as part of the World War I edit-a-thons. The group is also working towards chapterhood in the future. The Affiliations Committee's recognition is valid until 31 July 2014. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliatons Comm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's have the courage to sit down and talk about VisualEditor

2013-07-28 Thread Bence Damokos
Can somebody summarize the concerns raised in that RfC? Best regards, Bence On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote: > Hi, > there is a famous quote on courage by Winston Churchill, a British Prime > Minister, who once wisely said: "Courage is what it takes to stand up and >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

2013-09-05 Thread Bence Damokos
As I understand the blog is currently a self-hosted instance of Wordpress and the idea is to move the hosting to somewhere else. (So this is not MediaWiki vs. Wordpress, but self-hosting vs. not self-hosting) Best regards, Bence On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5

[Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Commitee Wikimania Report

2013-09-19 Thread Bence Damokos
bers Best regards, Bence -- Bence Damokos, Chair, Affiliations Commitee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who will host Wikimedia Conference 2014? Bidding process is open!

2013-09-20 Thread Bence Damokos
The name "conference" doesn't mean that it has to stick to the traditional conference format. Indeed, one of the suggested discussion topics (both in general, and for the actual programme committee) is to consider different formats and approaches (e.g. using the event for capacity building workshop

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Request for consultation about the Community logo

2013-09-23 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks for posting this and for putting in the work on a short notice. Just to clarify: your preferred/proposed course of action has changed over the weekend, from registering a standard trademark to a community mark? And to further our mission: do we have a Wikipedia article about this type of t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Request for consultation about the Community logo

2013-09-23 Thread Bence Damokos
(correct slip of the tongue...) On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > Thanks for posting this and for putting in the work on a short notice. > > Just to clarify: your preferred/proposed course of action has changed over > the weekend, from registering a standard tr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Request for consultation about the Community logo

2013-09-23 Thread Bence Damokos
(And to answer my own second question - with the correct search term, there is indeed an article in 3 languages.) On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > (correct slip of the tongue...) > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > >> Thanks for p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who will host Wikimedia Conference 2014? Bidding process is open!

2013-10-02 Thread Bence Damokos
I believe it was a matter of keeping the travel cost estimate simple - note that the wmf (staff, board, fdc, affcom) and future chapters, thorgs and possibly user groups were also not counted. Amical should definitely be invited again, and indeed there is a member from Amical participating in the

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2014 location decision

2013-10-12 Thread Bence Damokos
bidders and other interested parties to provide their own feedback. Best regards, Asaf Bartov, Bence Damokos, Arnau Duran, Itzik Edri, Mike Peel, Osmar Valdebenito, Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia Conference 2014 Location Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Bids

[Wikimedia-l] Become a member of the Affiliations Committee!

2013-11-05 Thread Bence Damokos
e to apply. Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you are interested.[3] Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee (please follow the links and familiarize yourself with our work) [2]:

[Wikimedia-l] Wikisource Community User Group recognized

2013-11-24 Thread Bence Damokos
esolutions/Wikisource_Community_User_Group_%E2%80%93_November_2013. The group has already signed the user group agreement, their first round of recognition runs until 31 November 2014. Please join me in welcoming them and wishing them luck. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Become a member of the Affiliations Committee!

2013-12-01 Thread Bence Damokos
regards, Bence On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > // For translated versions, please consult > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Call_for_Candidates_2014 > // > > Dear all, > > The Affiliations Committee [1], the committee th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Extensive feedback from WMDE to the FDC process

2014-01-15 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks Pavel for sharing this. I think a bigger conversation will be on-going on Meta and in general on where to continue it in the real world. It might be useful to keep in mind that the movement has already invested and committed to bringing all chapters (and possibly thorgs) to the Wikimedia Co

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Extensive feedback from WMDE to the FDC process

2014-01-15 Thread Bence Damokos
n redesigning the FDC process after Round 2 is > finished (in May). > > best, > > dariusz > > > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > >> Thanks Pavel for sharing this. >> >> I think a bigger conversation will be on-going on Met

[Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee election results

2014-01-18 Thread Bence Damokos
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Affiliations_Committee#Future_members. The next call for candidates is expected in November 2014, with new members joining in January 2015. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Language links and double language links on the Wikipedias

2012-06-25 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Denny, This is a really interesting list. Looking at the Hungarian list, I find that in many instances the duplicate interwiki link is actually commented out (in the form of " or ), and not real duplicate links. (In some cases there are indeed duplicate links, where one concept covers two conce

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board appointments July 2012

2012-07-25 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi Beria, I am sure Bishakha will give a more thorough answer if I am mistaken, but from what I heard from Board members when I asked the same question: the new board members fully participated in the meeting on the 11 July, but for technical reasons and simplicity's sake, they only assumed the po

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Hungary Quarterly Report 2012/2

2012-07-29 Thread Bence Damokos
zed a big community meetup in Budapest with roundtable discussions on a number of Wikipedia-related topics. Thirdly, a lot of behind the scenes work went into getting our administrative and accounting backlog and organizing our annual General Meeting" Best regards, -- Bence Damokos Exec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] conversations between WMF and non-English projects

2012-07-29 Thread Bence Damokos
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 29 July 2012 22:57, Nathan wrote: > > Can your masters degree in mathematics point out where in Wikimedia's > > statement it said "all" or implied anything other than having met some of > > Portuguese Wikipedia's top contributors? Not su

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Survey, Feedback requested, and Office Hour

2012-09-14 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Jan-bart de Vreede wrote: > Hey > > So someone sent me the internal-l mail and I do think that the "zero > real-world" thing is taken out of context here. But a few points > > 1) Lets not have these discussions on internal-l, there is no reason to > not have

[Wikimedia-l] Proposed Wikimedia Medicine Thematic Organisation

2012-10-14 Thread Bence Damokos
Dear all, I wanted to update you on behalf of the Affiliations Committee that we are now considering the application of a proposed thematic organisation active in the field of Medicine. You can see the proposal at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Medicine We would like to invite you to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposed Wikimedia Medicine Thematic Organisation

2012-10-14 Thread Bence Damokos
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Medicine#Liability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Iridescent#arbitrary_break_2 (and above) Best regards, Bence On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Thanks for the notice. > > Bence Damokos, 14/10/2012 19:07: >

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Hungary Report for July, August, September

2012-11-01 Thread Bence Damokos
on in preparation. Best regards, -- Bence Damokos Executive Vice President, Wikimedia Hungary http://wikimedia.hu <http://wiki.media.hu/> @WikimediaHU ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.

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