[Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
Hello, A reminder that Language Engineering's monthly office hour will be happening later today at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the original announcement, local time, and agenda. Thank you. Runa Monthly IRC Office Hour: == # Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141112T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates and plans 2. Q A (Questions can be sent to me before the event) -- Forwarded message -- From: Runa Bhattacharjee rbhattachar...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:05 AM Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC To: MediaWiki internationalisation mediawiki-i...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org [x-posted announcement] Hello, The next monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. We will be taking questions and also discussing about the availability of the new version of the Content Translation tool[1][2] and upcoming plans. Please see below for event details and local time Thank you. Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation [2] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/03/announcing-the-second-version-of-the-content-translation-tool/ Monthly IRC Office Hour: == # Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141112T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates and plans 2. Q A (Questions can be sent to me before the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO
Hi Jon, it was always a pleasure and very constructive to work with you, as one who always had open eyes for global or other countries challenges. What are you up to in future? Rupert On Nov 11, 2014 10:11 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: With some sadness I have to tell you that I will be leaving Wikimedia UK, as an employee, if not as a volunteer, at the end of the year. I have achieved what I set out to do and leave WMUK in a good state. I now need to look for new challenges. I was the first chief executive and it has been an amazing three years watching the chapter grow and develop. It has not always been smooth sailing but we have come through it together in good shape. Wikimania proved how professional we had become and the positive feedback from the participants makes all the work we put in worthwhile. My heartfelt thanks to everyone in the community, particularly the volunteers who are at the heart of all we do, my great colleagues at the Foundation and the loyal and hardworking staff at WMUK who have supported me so ably and with such good humour over the years. My best wishes go to my successor in all they seek to achieve. Cyhoeddiad gan Jon Gyda pheth tristwch rwy'n eich hysbysu y byddaf yn gadael Wikimedia UK, fel cyflogai, os nad fel gwirfoddolwr, ar ddiwedd y flwyddyn. Dw i wedi cyflawni'r hyn roeddwn wedi'i obeithio a dw i'n gadael WMUK ar delerau da. Edrychaf ymlaen rwan am sialensau newydd. Fi oedd y Prif Weithredwr cyntaf ac mae'r dair blynedd diwethaf wedi bod yn hollol anhygoel, wrth i mi weld y siaptr yn tyfu a datblygu. Doedd y daith bob amser ddim yn llyfn, ond daethom drwyddi'n y diwedd yn ddianaf! Profodd Wikimania inni aeddfedu mewn modd proffesiynol a chafwyd adborth adeiladol gan y cyfranwyr oedd yn gwneud yr holl waith yn bleser. Carwn ddiolch o waelod fy ngalon i bawb o fewn ein cymuned, yn enwedig y gwirfoddolwyr sy'n sylfaen i'n gwaith, fy nghydweithwyr bendigedig yn Sylfaen Wikimedia a'r staff sydd wedi bod mor driw i mi, wedi fy nghefnogi mor effeithiol ac wedi gweithio mor arbennig o galed dros y blynyddoedd a hynny gyda hiwmor iach. Dymunaf pob llwyddiant i f'olynydd ym mhopeth y ceisiant ei gyflawni. Jon. -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates! Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Wiki Project Med
Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! Best wishes. Vishnu On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates! Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Wiki Project Med
Great! Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! Best wishes. Vishnu On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates! Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Moderator, Social Media Interaction | The Daily Prothom-Alo http://www.prothom-alo.com Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge http://www.okfn.org Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) http://www.bdosn.org Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh http://www.mozillabd.org Author Translator | Global Voice http://bn.globalvoicesonline.org/author/hasive fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group
I cannot imagine fuzz will be made over that, whether it is official or not :) Lodewijk (not an affcom member any longer, so even more so a personal opinion :) ) On Nov 12, 2014 4:09 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org writes: PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders? I did send Gregory an email shortly after he notified me that we were accepted when the problematic apostrophe was pointed out to me. We'd like to have the apostrophe removed, if possible. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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 the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group
Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org writes: PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders? I did send Gregory an email shortly after he notified me that we were accepted when the problematic apostrophe was pointed out to me. We'd like to have the apostrophe removed, if possible. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group
We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe? -greg On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: I cannot imagine fuzz will be made over that, whether it is official or not :) Lodewijk (not an affcom member any longer, so even more so a personal opinion :) ) On Nov 12, 2014 4:09 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org writes: PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders? I did send Gregory an email shortly after he notified me that we were accepted when the problematic apostrophe was pointed out to me. We'd like to have the apostrophe removed, if possible. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO
Thanks for all the work together, and the very best, Jon, for every continuing adventure. Looking forward to working with you as a volunteer, Anasuya On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: With some sadness I have to tell you that I will be leaving Wikimedia UK, as an employee, if not as a volunteer, at the end of the year. I have achieved what I set out to do and leave WMUK in a good state. I now need to look for new challenges. I was the first chief executive and it has been an amazing three years watching the chapter grow and develop. It has not always been smooth sailing but we have come through it together in good shape. Wikimania proved how professional we had become and the positive feedback from the participants makes all the work we put in worthwhile. My heartfelt thanks to everyone in the community, particularly the volunteers who are at the heart of all we do, my great colleagues at the Foundation and the loyal and hardworking staff at WMUK who have supported me so ably and with such good humour over the years. My best wishes go to my successor in all they seek to achieve. Cyhoeddiad gan Jon Gyda pheth tristwch rwy'n eich hysbysu y byddaf yn gadael Wikimedia UK, fel cyflogai, os nad fel gwirfoddolwr, ar ddiwedd y flwyddyn. Dw i wedi cyflawni'r hyn roeddwn wedi'i obeithio a dw i'n gadael WMUK ar delerau da. Edrychaf ymlaen rwan am sialensau newydd. Fi oedd y Prif Weithredwr cyntaf ac mae'r dair blynedd diwethaf wedi bod yn hollol anhygoel, wrth i mi weld y siaptr yn tyfu a datblygu. Doedd y daith bob amser ddim yn llyfn, ond daethom drwyddi'n y diwedd yn ddianaf! Profodd Wikimania inni aeddfedu mewn modd proffesiynol a chafwyd adborth adeiladol gan y cyfranwyr oedd yn gwneud yr holl waith yn bleser. Carwn ddiolch o waelod fy ngalon i bawb o fewn ein cymuned, yn enwedig y gwirfoddolwyr sy'n sylfaen i'n gwaith, fy nghydweithwyr bendigedig yn Sylfaen Wikimedia a'r staff sydd wedi bod mor driw i mi, wedi fy nghefnogi mor effeithiol ac wedi gweithio mor arbennig o galed dros y blynyddoedd a hynny gyda hiwmor iach. Dymunaf pob llwyddiant i f'olynydd ym mhopeth y ceisiant ei gyflawni. Jon. -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group
Gregory Varnum writes: We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe? Yes. I apologize for the confusion and extra work. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group
No worries - it happens. :) I apologize that we did not bring it up sooner. To be fair, someone on AffCom (Josh) did ask earlier and I'll admit, I thought at the time it was intentional so did not bring it up in our desire to get things approved for the group. I will make sure the updates are completed later today. -greg On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: Gregory Varnum writes: We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe? Yes. I apologize for the confusion and extra work. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Wiki Project Med
Congrats! A very exciting project! On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive n...@nhasive.com wrote: Great! Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! Best wishes. Vishnu On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates! Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Moderator, Social Media Interaction | The Daily Prothom-Alo http://www.prothom-alo.com Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge http://www.okfn.org Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) http://www.bdosn.org Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh http://www.mozillabd.org Author Translator | Global Voice http://bn.globalvoicesonline.org/author/hasive fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Alex Wang Program Officer Project Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Wiki Project Med
Congratulations! On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive n...@nhasive.com wrote: Great! Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! Best wishes. Vishnu On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates! Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Moderator, Social Media Interaction | The Daily Prothom-Alo http://www.prothom-alo.com Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge http://www.okfn.org Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) http://www.bdosn.org Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh http://www.mozillabd.org Author Translator | Global Voice http://bn.globalvoicesonline.org/author/hasive fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
Dear all, It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of the Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe. I would like to thank the fellow Bulgarian Wikimedians for their hard work over the years. They have several projects running and a significant number of talented contributors to those projects. We hope that they will continue their hard work actively so we will get more contributors as well as initiatives to make knowledge free and easily accessible in Bulgaria. Please join us to give them a warm welcome! Tanvir [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ResolutionsWikimedians_of_Bulgaria_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 -- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO
Jon -- Thank you all the hard work for the movement, and for building a great team and great foundations! Hope to see you in different corners of the movement globe. Warmly, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Product Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] fundraising blocked in Russia
Hello, guys! We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc237184.png The only WMF comment I received in #wikimedia-fundraising was that we don't run fundraising in Russia at the moment. Russia is now blacklisted like Libya, like Congo, like Iraq. I always though that WMF is free from politics and tends to be transparent, but why such a decision was made? And why nobody informed us (at least, Wikimedia RU) about it? Now we are starting to receive negative feedbacks from users and readers who treat WMF as a politically motivated organization, not a non-profit organization promoting free knowledge. And as we got no comments from Fundraising team and have no idea what happened, we at Wikimedia RU are not able to cope with such negative publicity. It's now late evening in Russia, but the messages were already posted to some top websites of Russia, and this will be promoted quickly via social networks: so, tomorrow will be a bad day for wiki-movement in our country. WMF, I want to thank you a lot for your transparency. rubin16 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Wiki Project Med
Thanks for this news, Kirill/AffCom! Congratulations Wiki Project Med. :-) a- On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates! Regards,Kirill LokshinAffiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wiki_Project_Med_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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 Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
Thanks Tanvir/AffCom. Congratulations to the Bulgarian User Group, looking forward to working with you all! Warmly, Anasuya On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of the Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe. I would like to thank the fellow Bulgarian Wikimedians for their hard work over the years. They have several projects running and a significant number of talented contributors to those projects. We hope that they will continue their hard work actively so we will get more contributors as well as initiatives to make knowledge free and easily accessible in Bulgaria. Please join us to give them a warm welcome! Tanvir [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ResolutionsWikimedians_of_Bulgaria_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 -- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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 Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
Great :-) 2014-11-12 17:47 GMT+01:00 Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com: Dear all, It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of the Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe. I would like to thank the fellow Bulgarian Wikimedians for their hard work over the years. They have several projects running and a significant number of talented contributors to those projects. We hope that they will continue their hard work actively so we will get more contributors as well as initiatives to make knowledge free and easily accessible in Bulgaria. Please join us to give them a warm welcome! Tanvir [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ResolutionsWikimedians_of_Bulgaria_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 -- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline
I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/ sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline
Kim Bruning, 12/11/2014 19:40: I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/63549/focus=63576 Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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 Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you? Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 12 November 2014 19:49, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com wrote: Great :-) 2014-11-12 17:47 GMT+01:00 Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com: Dear all, It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of the Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe. I would like to thank the fellow Bulgarian Wikimedians for their hard work over the years. They have several projects running and a significant number of talented contributors to those projects. We hope that they will continue their hard work actively so we will get more contributors as well as initiatives to make knowledge free and easily accessible in Bulgaria. Please join us to give them a warm welcome! Tanvir [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ResolutionsWikimedians_of_Bulgaria_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_November_2014 -- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:04:11PM +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Kim Bruning, 12/11/2014 19:40: I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/63549/focus=63576 Oohhh, Interesting! :-) sincerely, Kim ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Wiki Project Med
Kirill Lokshin wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. Could be a good idea for wikiproject folks to work on a RSS feed of recent changes (and recent new page creations) within a category and its subcats. Sounds like a thing that'd increate all our participation in WikiProjects in the first place - and resolve plenty of user retention issues. Some previous (incomplete) notes on this field: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Means_for_watching_categories ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia
I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions started rolling in. Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about potentially controversial issues like this. Regards, Craig Franklin (personal view only) On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon josephsed...@gmail.com wrote: I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the laws that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic sanctions and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I imagine this related to that. Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose the foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past relating to unrest. Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary measure. Seddon On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48: We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371 84.png Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking the Russia link in https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a PayPal donation? Nemo P.s.: ROTFLOL Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information on how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation. In case someone forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA. ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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 Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you? Their Meta page, linked from the announcement linked from the top of this thread, is useful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Bulgaria#Communication A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia
I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT network: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better, but that won't change the fact. On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions started rolling in. Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about potentially controversial issues like this. Regards, Craig Franklin (personal view only) On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon josephsed...@gmail.com wrote: I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the laws that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic sanctions and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I imagine this related to that. Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose the foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past relating to unrest. Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary measure. Seddon On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48: We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371 84.png Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking the Russia link in https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a PayPal donation? Nemo P.s.: ROTFLOL Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information on how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation. In case someone forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA. ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Wiki Project Med
Thanks Kirill, James and all involved. Svetlana, presently we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as of interest to WikiProjedt Medicine (about 33,000 so far). I'd like all our medical articles to have a button at the top saying email me when this article changes, so interested experts could easily adopt a few articles. (But we're getting a bit off-topic here.) Anthony Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:34 PM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: Kirill Lokshin wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. Could be a good idea for wikiproject folks to work on a RSS feed of recent changes (and recent new page creations) within a category and its subcats. Sounds like a thing that'd increate all our participation in WikiProjects in the first place - and resolve plenty of user retention issues. Some previous (incomplete) notes on this field: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Means_for_watching_categories ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Wiki Project Med
Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas! Anthony Cole wrote: Svetlana, presently we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as of interest to WikiProjedt Medicine (about 33,000 so far). This is a grand tool. Though 1) it doesn't filter for new page creations (would it be nice to have a new page tag?), and 2) is not as grained as subcats would be (where people would be able to pick a more narrow topic to watch). Anthony Cole wrote: I'd like all our medical articles to have a button at the top saying email me when this article changes, so interested experts could easily adopt a few articles. Yes, this is a watchlist thing, it's already there (interested people can enable email delivery). ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia
I think that this is extremely important moment in the existence of Wikimedia and contemporary free content movement. The future of the concept of free knowledge could depend on how Wikimedia positions itself in relation to this issue and the future similar ones. This is not about our personal political opinions, this is about very real consequences, which could define would we have united movement as we know or just fragments of once great idea. All the lamest Wikipedia edit wars could look like quite decent past. Imagine any of our past conflicts. And that could look like a childish game. This is also the question of how mature our particular and broader movements are. Are we really a global movement or we are just a sum of people with good will, strictly determined by our citizenship? During the last six to seven years we lost few opportunities to become significant stakeholder on the global stage (cf. contemporary significance of Facebook). We lost the momentum few times and now we are absolutely irrelevant as the movement. And if we don't want to lose the movement itself, we have to be extremely pragmatic from now on. One very good fact is that it is not anymore a heresy to talk about the movement instead of data. Yes, our movement is the most important thing to preserve. Capacity of hard disks and links improved that much, that preserving data is just a matter of decent organizational work. Our movement is not just the most important thing to us. In my opinion, our movement is the best chance of our species to build the future. There were no and there is no comparable movements. We have to take this moment extremely seriously and start to work together on solving numerous obstacles which we'll find in the future. Our worst-case scenario is to disappear in irrelevance. It will start with inactive chapters. Formal organization is the most expensive thing to us. Our events will become less diverse. Our declining editor community will become less diverse, as well. Eventually, one by one, Wikipedia in particular languages will become less important source of information than third party collaborative sums of knowledge. (Keep in mind that Chinese Wikipedia is not the biggest and the most useful encyclopedia in Chinese language.) If we want to keep us as a movement, we have to fight hard for that. It's not about one challenge, it's about constant challenges which we'll have. This issue is just the first one. Wikimedia Foundation's job is to do the best -- and I don't count conformist answers as valid ones, as the time of plenty is behind us -- to solve formal obstacles. If the servers have to go to Singapore, they should go there as soon as possible. Chapters have to cooperate. That's especially important in relation to the chapters in the present and future conflict zones. I am aware that such things are far from an issue presently. However, it could be much harder in the future. The rest of us have to take this moment seriously, as well, and do the best in our personal capacities. That means writing Wikipedia and contributing to other projects. That means introducing one friend per month into contributing to Wikimedia projects. That means having active friendships with people from the other parts of the world. On Nov 13, 2014 2:01 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT network: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better, but that won't change the fact. On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions started rolling in. Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about potentially controversial issues like this. Regards, Craig Franklin (personal view only) On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon josephsed...@gmail.com wrote: I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the laws that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic sanctions and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I imagine this related to that. Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose the foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past relating to
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia
There were no recent changes in sanctions and I don't understand why this turn off in donations happened just now. Ideas about SWIFT kick out are not relevant here, as it was just a discussion some months ago but no such action happened. Furthermore, the sanctions were placed on particular companies and individuals, there were no prohibitions against all financial relations. So, I could understand if donations weren't accepted when they were sent via a couple of banks under sanctions, but I want to repeat that there is, for example, no prohibition to receive money from Russians. rubin16 13 нояб. 2014 г. 4:01 пользователь David Gerard dger...@gmail.com написал: I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT network: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better, but that won't change the fact. On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions started rolling in. Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about potentially controversial issues like this. Regards, Craig Franklin (personal view only) On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon josephsed...@gmail.com wrote: I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the laws that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic sanctions and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I imagine this related to that. Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose the foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past relating to unrest. Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary measure. Seddon On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48: We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371 84.png Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking the Russia link in https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a PayPal donation? Nemo P.s.: ROTFLOL Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information on how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation. In case someone forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA. ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia
Hello rubin16, We are not running fundraising in Russia at this time, but I want to assure you that this was not a decision motivated by politics. We take compliance with appropriate laws very seriously in everything we do. Out of an abundance of caution, we're not fundraising in Russia right now. Of course, the fact that we are not fundraising in Russia does and will not have any impact at all on how the WMF continues to support the Russian language Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Russian Wikimedian community. Thank you, Lisa Gruwell On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:44 PM, rubin.happy rubin.ha...@gmail.com wrote: There were no recent changes in sanctions and I don't understand why this turn off in donations happened just now. Ideas about SWIFT kick out are not relevant here, as it was just a discussion some months ago but no such action happened. Furthermore, the sanctions were placed on particular companies and individuals, there were no prohibitions against all financial relations. So, I could understand if donations weren't accepted when they were sent via a couple of banks under sanctions, but I want to repeat that there is, for example, no prohibition to receive money from Russians. rubin16 13 нояб. 2014 г. 4:01 пользователь David Gerard dger...@gmail.com написал: I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT network: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better, but that won't change the fact. On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions started rolling in. Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about potentially controversial issues like this. Regards, Craig Franklin (personal view only) On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon josephsed...@gmail.com wrote: I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the laws that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic sanctions and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I imagine this related to that. Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose the foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past relating to unrest. Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary measure. Seddon On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48: We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371 84.png Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking the Russia link in https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a PayPal donation? Nemo P.s.: ROTFLOL Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information on how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation. In case someone forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA. ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia
What about a notice for users from Russia: We are not able to process money from Russia now, but you are welcome to donate to Wikimedia Russia by using this bank account -- if nothing more creative could be imagined? On Nov 13, 2014 4:46 AM, Lisa Gruwell lgruw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello rubin16, We are not running fundraising in Russia at this time, but I want to assure you that this was not a decision motivated by politics. We take compliance with appropriate laws very seriously in everything we do. Out of an abundance of caution, we're not fundraising in Russia right now. Of course, the fact that we are not fundraising in Russia does and will not have any impact at all on how the WMF continues to support the Russian language Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Russian Wikimedian community. Thank you, Lisa Gruwell On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:44 PM, rubin.happy rubin.ha...@gmail.com wrote: There were no recent changes in sanctions and I don't understand why this turn off in donations happened just now. Ideas about SWIFT kick out are not relevant here, as it was just a discussion some months ago but no such action happened. Furthermore, the sanctions were placed on particular companies and individuals, there were no prohibitions against all financial relations. So, I could understand if donations weren't accepted when they were sent via a couple of banks under sanctions, but I want to repeat that there is, for example, no prohibition to receive money from Russians. rubin16 13 нояб. 2014 г. 4:01 пользователь David Gerard dger...@gmail.com написал: I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT network: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better, but that won't change the fact. On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions started rolling in. Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about potentially controversial issues like this. Regards, Craig Franklin (personal view only) On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon josephsed...@gmail.com wrote: I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the laws that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic sanctions and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I imagine this related to that. Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose the foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past relating to unrest. Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary measure. Seddon On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48: We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371 84.png Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking the Russia link in https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a PayPal donation? Nemo P.s.: ROTFLOL Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information on how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation. In case someone forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA. ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med
Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we don't have a button at the top of articles making it easy for readers to enable email alerts. 99.999% of readers wouldn't know it was available. (This is something BLP subjects would appreciate too, I'm sure.) Anthony Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas! Anthony Cole wrote: Svetlana, presently we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as of interest to WikiProjedt Medicine (about 33,000 so far). This is a grand tool. Though 1) it doesn't filter for new page creations (would it be nice to have a new page tag?), and 2) is not as grained as subcats would be (where people would be able to pick a more narrow topic to watch). Anthony Cole wrote: I'd like all our medical articles to have a button at the top saying email me when this article changes, so interested experts could easily adopt a few articles. Yes, this is a watchlist thing, it's already there (interested people can enable email delivery). ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Wiki Project Med
Actually, as I recall, email alerts for changes in articles has never been activated on English Wikipedia. Risker/Anne On 12 November 2014 22:53, Anthony Cole ahcole...@gmail.com wrote: Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we don't have a button at the top of articles making it easy for readers to enable email alerts. 99.999% of readers wouldn't know it was available. (This is something BLP subjects would appreciate too, I'm sure.) Anthony Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas! Anthony Cole wrote: Svetlana, presently we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as of interest to WikiProjedt Medicine (about 33,000 so far). This is a grand tool. Though 1) it doesn't filter for new page creations (would it be nice to have a new page tag?), and 2) is not as grained as subcats would be (where people would be able to pick a more narrow topic to watch). Anthony Cole wrote: I'd like all our medical articles to have a button at the top saying email me when this article changes, so interested experts could easily adopt a few articles. Yes, this is a watchlist thing, it's already there (interested people can enable email delivery). ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia
Hello, Lisa. Could you, please, provide us with more details? - why did it happen just now though restrictions due to the US sanctions were I'mposed quite a long time ago? Probably, you have received some warning from authorities, haven't you? - what is the exact problem and applicable legislative restriction? Have your bank stopped processing of payments from Russia or have something else happen? - is it an indefinite stop of fundraising here (till the end of sanctions)? You know, relations between Russia and the US are not in their perfect state and this a sensitive question where we need maximum of information to make readers believe that it is not a political campaign of US-based WMF . rubin16 13 нояб. 2014 г. 6:46 пользователь Lisa Gruwell lgruw...@wikimedia.org написал: Hello rubin16, We are not running fundraising in Russia at this time, but I want to assure you that this was not a decision motivated by politics. We take compliance with appropriate laws very seriously in everything we do. Out of an abundance of caution, we're not fundraising in Russia right now. Of course, the fact that we are not fundraising in Russia does and will not have any impact at all on how the WMF continues to support the Russian language Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Russian Wikimedian community. Thank you, Lisa Gruwell On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:44 PM, rubin.happy rubin.ha...@gmail.com wrote: There were no recent changes in sanctions and I don't understand why this turn off in donations happened just now. Ideas about SWIFT kick out are not relevant here, as it was just a discussion some months ago but no such action happened. Furthermore, the sanctions were placed on particular companies and individuals, there were no prohibitions against all financial relations. So, I could understand if donations weren't accepted when they were sent via a couple of banks under sanctions, but I want to repeat that there is, for example, no prohibition to receive money from Russians. rubin16 13 нояб. 2014 г. 4:01 пользователь David Gerard dger...@gmail.com написал: I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT network: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-banks-from-swift-money-system It strikes me as quite unlikely that there's anything at all WMF can actually do about this. Possibly it could have been handled better, but that won't change the fact. On 13 November 2014 00:12, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions started rolling in. Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days of chapter and user group press contacts being the last people to find out about potentially controversial issues like this. Regards, Craig Franklin (personal view only) On 13 November 2014 10:07, Joseph Seddon josephsed...@gmail.com wrote: I would hate to preclude any answer from the foundation. However the laws that govern the foundation are that of the US. Given the previous and renewed ongoing palaver with Ukraine and the presence of economic sanctions and the increasing likelihood of on top of what is already present, I imagine this related to that. Im not sure of what legal risks accepting such donations would expose the foundation to. However such precautions have been made in the past relating to unrest. Its no slight on the country or its individuals, just a precautionary measure. Seddon On 12 Nov 2014 19:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48: We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc2371 84.png Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking the Russia link in https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give Through what channels are donations blocked? Did anyone try sending a wire to the EU (SEPA) account (IBAN GB54CHAS60924241034640), or a PayPal donation? Nemo P.s.: ROTFLOL Please email don...@wikimedia.org for more information on how to make a bank transfer to the Wikimedia Foundation. In case someone forgets there is an ocean between Europe and USA. ___ Fundraiser mailing list fundrai...@lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
Congratulations to the Bulgarian User Group! On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you? Their Meta page, linked from the announcement linked from the top of this thread, is useful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Bulgaria#Communication A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Moderator, Social Media Interaction | The Daily Prothom-Alo http://www.prothom-alo.com Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge http://www.okfn.org Treasurer | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) http://www.bdosn.org Task Force Member | Mozilla Bangladesh http://www.mozillabd.org Author Translator | Global Voice http://bn.globalvoicesonline.org/author/hasive fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
