[Wikimedia-l] WMIL General Assembly meeting and Board Elections
Dear all, This last Monday, 1.12.14, Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) held a general assembly meeting, during which the members held the elections for members of the Board of WMIL. The results of the elections are as follows: Itzik Edri,(reelected) Deror Lin, (reelected) Ido Ivri, (reelected) Hana Yariv, Yan Nasonov (reelected) The new Board then proceeded to reelect Itzik Edri to Chairman, and to elect Ido Ivri as Board Secretary. In addition, the board will re-approach the two external board members, Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli and Prof. Karine Nahon, to stay with the board for another year and keep providing their excellent mentorship and advice. We would like to take this opportunity and extend our many thanks to Yael Meron, the departing Board Member, for her long and good service to WMIL and its community. Cheers, Itzik ___ 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] Fundraising banners (again)
Just as an aside - tweets about the fundraiser don't appear to be the best source for informed commentary: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtimeq=wikipedia%20donationssrc=typd Examples: Wikipedia is begging for $3 donations? That screams 'Hey, we're in a little trouble over here'. Silly Wikipedia. A service is no longer free once donations are needed to keep it free. Perhaps it would be a good idea to reply to some of the comments via official accounts? Regards, Charles (User:Chuq) On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:21 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Wikipedia begging for donations per usual. Advertising isn't evil they say as they throw a second nag at me as I scroll down. https://twitter.com/enemyplayer/status/539180814739988481 Obnoxious banners *really do damage the brand*. What are the fundraiser metrics? If they don't include effect on the brand, they'll be motivating damaging behaviour. - d. ___ 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] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one other organized group in the sentence A Wikimedia chapter, user group, thematic organization or other organized group, that would be nice to spell out. 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one other organized group in the sentence A Wikimedia chapter, user group, thematic organization or other organized group, that would be nice to spell out. No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. On that field, what if I am a member of multiple listed organisations? Should I fill in the survey multiple times? -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] Fundraising banners (again)
Lila - thank you for this thoughtful update. Fundraising trends and data are always welcome, particularly where communities can help improve and test local messages. I am also deeply thankful for the smooth work of the fundraising team, who have made great progress over the last few years – in storytelling translation, mobile giving, testing data analysis. I look forward to seeing what we learn this year. Sam On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: All -- we will not have a pop-up banner. I know you want more insight into the trends: we will provide some of those in our upcoming reports and metrics and we will plan to shift to a quarterly cadence of a more specific metrics report that will include fundraising. Just to cover some basic trends: the last two years have significantly changed our traffic composition. Regionally, we are seeing growth in emerging languages and regions. This is great: people who need the knowledge most, but cannot afford it and often live in countries where free speech is criminalized are learning about Wikipedia. We need to keep supporting that. In Europe, North America, Australia, etc. we see Wikipedia becoming a part of the fabric of the internet itself: embedded in web searches, operating systems, and other online resources. This is great too: people get knowledge wherever they are. Both of those trends however can make it more difficult to raise funds (and sometimes contribute), so we have to make sure we adapt. We are doing a lot of work around thinking through a diversified fundraising strategy. That said, our main tool today are the site banners. Just to be clear: the pop-up banner had advantages. It tested high with readers, was only shown once to each user and cut the total number of impressions needed by a factor of 7! We did hear your concerns however. The Fundraising team listened and quickly integrated your feedback. While our launch banner will be different from last year’s, it will not be a pop-up, overlay content, or be sticky. As always this starting design will iterate daily and have parallel tests, so you may see variations at any given time. Megan Hernandez will send another email with more details about the process to-date, and how best to communicate with Fundraising during the coming month. And in the spirit of the holidays I'd like to thank the fundraising team for all of their hard work and to all of the volunteers who have helped with the campaigns. Lila On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:39 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Ori Livneh wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:55 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The banners may be effective, but they're not aligned with Wikimedia's values. I wouldn't come out quite as strongly against these banners, but I share the underlying sentiment. What happened to we make the Internet not suck? What happened to the near-universal agreement that pop-ups are bad? (a) solicit input from a neutral reputation management consultancy, and Consultants are the reason the fundraising campaigns and associated banners are so awful. To the idea that we continue paying people needlessly for bad advice, I'm going to say no thank you. I'd rather not. (b) create a forum for staffers to talk openly about this matter, without fear of reprisal What's wrong with wikimedia-l? I can assure you that this mailing list has grade-A reprisal, far better than what you'll receive from work. :-) David Gerard wrote: Wikipedia begging for donations per usual. Advertising isn't evil they say as they throw a second nag at me as I scroll down. https://twitter.com/enemyplayer/status/539180814739988481 Indeed. It might help if we started referring to the fundraising banners as full-page advertising. Calling a spade a spade, and all that. It also occurred to me that it wouldn't be unreasonable for Adblock (Plus) to reconsider its classification of the fundraising notices (even banners is generous). Historically banners on Wikimedia wikis have not been considered ads by Adblock and friends, but this assumed decency and common sense on Wikimedia's part. These full-page gremlins lack both. Obnoxious banners *really do damage the brand*. What are the fundraiser metrics? If they don't include effect on the brand, they'll be motivating damaging behaviour. We used to have live-updating statistics about the annual fundraiser at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics. That error message is probably highly misleading and we really ought to have better reporting about donations. As far as I know, we've taken several steps backward in recent years in terms of donation transparency and this should be addressed in 2015. (I'm somewhat hoping someone will quickly prove me wrong with a link to up-to-date donor stats... go on!) MZMcBride
[Wikimedia-l] Asked Program Committee members for GLAM WIKI 2015
Hello everyone, Wikimedia Nederland is looking for people to join the Program Committee for the GLAM WIKI 2015 conference. GLAM WIKI 2015 is a conference focussed on projects of/with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) that are related to Wikimedia projects and/or have another open knowledge component. The goal of the conference is: 1. To let professionals and volunteers from the cultural sector share lessons learned and best-practices on this topic. 2. To inspire and motivate participants to join existing or start up their own projects that support the mission of the Wikimedia movement. 3. To increase awareness of the importance of accessible cultural heritage and to put currently available content in the spotlight. More information about the Program Committee, such as the profile and how to apply, can be found on https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015. Applying is possible until this Friday, 24:00 CET. Best, Sebastiaan ter Burg *Projectleider Culturele Samenwerking* *Wikimedia Nederland* tel.: +31 30 32 00 238 gsm: +31 6 480 88 615 e-mail: terb...@wikimedia.nl wiki: Ter-burg https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Ter-burg www: www.wikimedia.nl wiki: nl.wikimedia.org *Postadres*:* Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht ___ 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] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Good luck Giuliana, and good luck WMIT with your next step in the professionalization process. I defiantly know that WMIL, but I'm sure that the others chapters as well, will be happy to give advises, information and help her with the first steps in our movement. Feel free to contact us. *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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] WMIL General Assembly meeting and Board Elections
Il 02/Dic/2014 09:14 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel it...@wikimedia.org.il ha scritto: Dear all, This last Monday, 1.12.14, Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) held a general assembly meeting, during which the members held the elections for members of the Board of WMIL. The results of the elections are as follows: Itzik Edri,(reelected) Deror Lin, (reelected) Ido Ivri, (reelected) Hana Yariv, Yan Nasonov (reelected) Congrats! C ___ 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] WMIL General Assembly meeting and Board Elections
Congratulations and good luck! El 2014-12-02 10:00, Cristian Consonni escribió: Il 02/Dic/2014 09:14 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel it...@wikimedia.org.il ha scritto: Dear all, This last Monday, 1.12.14, Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) held a general assembly meeting, during which the members held the elections for members of the Board of WMIL. The results of the elections are as follows: Itzik Edri,(reelected) Deror Lin, (reelected) Ido Ivri, (reelected) Hana Yariv, Yan Nasonov (reelected) Congrats! C ___ 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 -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ 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] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Auguri! Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana. This is a very important step in the history of WMIT, so best luck. Regards from WMES. El 2014-12-02 09:59, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel escribió: Good luck Giuliana, and good luck WMIT with your next step in the professionalization process. I defiantly know that WMIL, but I'm sure that the others chapters as well, will be happy to give advises, information and help her with the first steps in our movement. Feel free to contact us. *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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 -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ 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] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Welcome Giuliana, and good luck from Wikimedia UK! Stevie On 2 December 2014 at 09:08, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: Auguri! Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana. This is a very important step in the history of WMIT, so best luck. Regards from WMES. El 2014-12-02 09:59, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel escribió: Good luck Giuliana, and good luck WMIT with your next step in the professionalization process. I defiantly know that WMIL, but I'm sure that the others chapters as well, will be happy to give advises, information and help her with the first steps in our movement. Feel free to contact us. *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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 -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ 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 -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton 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.* ___ 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] WaPo Wikipedia's 'complicated; relationship with net neutrality
A developing country perspective is missing in this conversation, so I’m going to fill in the gap since I find it odd that we’re talking about developing” countries, when everyone who’s been participating in this discussion so far has been from developed countries. Wiadomość napisana przez Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de w dniu 1 gru 2014, o godz. 09:05: Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Trying to understand Wikipedia Zero as some kind of self-interested organizational move is a mistake, in my view. What it is, IMHO, is a logical development based on the core mission statement of Wikipedia. And in the long term it's actually helpful to the advancement of network neutrality without posing the anti-competitive risks that other zero-rated services may pose. I think on the contrary Wikipedia Zero illustrates nicely why net neutrality is so important: Wikipedia Zero favours solely Wikipedia (und sister projects), while contradicting or simply other opinions and resources bite the dust. This mainstreaming, forming a monopolistic cabal on all things information is why I am a strong proponent of net neutrality. The ease with which information can be shared nowadays should be used so that more people provide their views, not more people consume one view. As far as I know, Wikipedia tries to synthesize several points of view so that we have a neutral approach to a particular topic, not favoring one view over the other. In addition, the fact that you can edit through Wikipedia Zero allows for alternative voices to be heard. I find it hard to believe that Wikipedia Zero stifles NPOV, if you’re hinting at people being forced” to consume only one point of view, when even Wikipedia doesn’t aspire to do that. And I have severe doubts that Wikipedia Zero fulfils actual needs from the perspective of sustainable development. I don’t know about where you’re in, but I can tell you that in the developing world, Wikipedia’s been very helpful in helping us spread the word about the projects. In the Philippines, Wikipedia readership jumped when Wikipedia Zero was rolled out. That’s more readers, and hopefully more editors. We have a good relationship with the Philippines’ largest telecommunications company as a result, and they’ve been very supportive of our efforts to bring knowledge to more Filipinos. And you say that that doesn’t contribute to sustainable development”? I think it’s profoundly important in this discussion that we need to avoid generalizing the world as if everyone’s in Europe or the United States. Yes, net neutrality is important. Yes, I support net neutrality and believe that ISPs shouldn’t discriminate against content providers. But if it means bringing more information to more people, I’m willing to sacrifice that for a while because I think that Filipinos being given access to free information is more valuable — and more important — than what I believe in vis-à-vis net neutrality. I hope everyone else here who doesn’t support Wikipedia Zero because of that will actually see the good that it has done for the developing world, and that the rest of us find great use for this program. Regards, Josh JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines jamesjoshua...@yahoo.com mailto:jamesjoshua...@yahoo.com | +63 (915) 321-7582 Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor http://about.me/josh.lim http://about.me/josh.lim ___ 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] Wikimedia Magyarország Board Elections
Hi all, WMHU had its general assembly last Saturday where a new board was elected for the 2014 December - 2016 December period. Gervai, Péter - president (reelected) Balogh, Mónika - financial vice president (reelected) Bihary, Gábor - executive vice president Gyenes, Orsolya - board member Mészöly, Tamás - board member Please join me in congratulating and wishing them a successful term. Cheers, Balazs (the outgoing executive VP of WMHU) ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Thanks Anasuya! That's quite a comprehensive survey but instructive to fill out. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. I think the intro sentence just needs to be updated to include the WMF. The WMF is in that dropdown. I did have to hunt to find it when I filled the survey out; it would be much easier if that list were alphabetized. Sam ___ 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] Wikimedia Magyarország Board Elections
Gratulálok! And thank you Balazs et al. for your hard work over the last years Claudia for WMAT Am 02.12.2014 um 11:30 schrieb Balázs Viczián: Hi all, WMHU had its general assembly last Saturday where a new board was elected for the 2014 December - 2016 December period. Gervai, Péter - president (reelected) Balogh, Mónika - financial vice president (reelected) Bihary, Gábor - executive vice president Gyenes, Orsolya - board member Mészöly, Tamás - board member Please join me in congratulating and wishing them a successful term. Cheers, Balazs (the outgoing executive VP of WMHU) ___ 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] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Welcome Giuliana! Best luck on behalf of Amical Wikimedia 2014-12-02 11:03 GMT+01:00 Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk: Welcome Giuliana, and good luck from Wikimedia UK! Stevie On 2 December 2014 at 09:08, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: Auguri! Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana. This is a very important step in the history of WMIT, so best luck. Regards from WMES. El 2014-12-02 09:59, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel escribió: Good luck Giuliana, and good luck WMIT with your next step in the professionalization process. I defiantly know that WMIL, but I'm sure that the others chapters as well, will be happy to give advises, information and help her with the first steps in our movement. Feel free to contact us. *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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 -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ 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 -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton 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.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana! All the best from WMRS. *Ivan Nikčević* Executive Director Wikimedia Serbia - rs.wikimedia.org - +381 60 7454 772 *Imagine http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imagine a world http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/World in which every single person on the planet is given free http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Free access to the sum of all http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/All human http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Human knowledge http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Knowledge. That's what we're doing.* On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language barrier: If we want to include our volunteers, especially the non-Board members, we'll have to translate the questionnaire and some general information first. While this is probably doable for German or French quickly enough to meet the deadline on December 21, it might be a major challenge for smaller langugage communities. Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia -- Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien Austria +43 699 141 28615 www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at/ Am 01.12.2014 um 22:56 schrieb Anasuya Sengupta: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center. *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences and best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to take. Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has consulted closely with TCC over the course of the engagement. Please note that the questionnaire is not intended to be a test of individual organizations in any way; the Foundation will not be provided with individual organization results. As part of this consultation, TCC will aggregate findings from the movement-wide Organizational Effectiveness Questionnaire and provide them to the Foundation’s grantmaking team, along with a “capacity building roadmap” to help the team - and the wider movement - think about how organizations can build capacity for specific program strategies. *We request that you respond to the questionnaire by December 21st*, so that TCC can collate the results and share it with all of us early in the new year. Please let us know if you have any difficulties or
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Ciao Giuliana, great to have you on board! Tanti auguri, Jan 2014-12-02 12:46 GMT+01:00 Ivan Nikčević ivan.nikce...@vikimedija.org: Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana! All the best from WMRS. *Ivan Nikčević* Executive Director Wikimedia Serbia - rs.wikimedia.org - +381 60 7454 772 *Imagine http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imagine a world http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/World in which every single person on the planet is given free http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Free access to the sum of all http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/All human http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Human knowledge http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Knowledge. That's what we're doing.* On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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 -- Jan Engelmann Geschäftsführender Vorstand / Executive Director - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0 www.wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition! http://wikipedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
I assume this survey is only for organizations that have been recognized by AffCom? We are still struggling to get ours (despite the fact that we are one of the most productive educational groups), so I thought Id at least answer the questionnairre, but under name of organization the only option is to select from a group of pre-determined names. This even though the instructions say that they welcome responses from informal groups. Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:31:00 +0100 From: claudia.ga...@wikimedia.at To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language barrier: If we want to include our volunteers, especially the non-Board members, we'll have to translate the questionnaire and some general information first. While this is probably doable for German or French quickly enough to meet the deadline on December 21, it might be a major challenge for smaller langugage communities. Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia -- Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien Austria +43 699 141 28615 www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at/ Am 01.12.2014 um 22:56 schrieb Anasuya Sengupta: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center. *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences and best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to take. Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has consulted closely
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
OK I see now the box for other not as an option for a name (which is how these things are usually set up) but underneath the original question. From: osama...@hotmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: RE: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 06:27:14 -0700 I assume this survey is only for organizations that have been recognized by AffCom? We are still struggling to get ours (despite the fact that we are one of the most productive educational groups), so I thought Id at least answer the questionnairre, but under name of organization the only option is to select from a group of pre-determined names. This even though the instructions say that they welcome responses from informal groups. Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:31:00 +0100 From: claudia.ga...@wikimedia.at To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language barrier: If we want to include our volunteers, especially the non-Board members, we'll have to translate the questionnaire and some general information first. While this is probably doable for German or French quickly enough to meet the deadline on December 21, it might be a major challenge for smaller langugage communities. Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia -- Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien Austria +43 699 141 28615 www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at/ Am 01.12.2014 um 22:56 schrieb Anasuya Sengupta: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center. *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Anasuya! That's quite a comprehensive survey but instructive to fill out. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. I think the intro sentence just needs to be updated to include the WMF. The WMF is in that dropdown. I did have to hunt to find it when I filled the survey out; it would be much easier if that list were alphabetized. True enough, there it is, between the Netherlands and India. Anyway .. how should we fill this in for multiple organisations? -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.
Dear Wikimedia friends, Wikimedia Deutschland held its General Assembly on Saturday, 29 November 2014. It is with great pleasure that I present to you our new board, for the first time for a two-year term: * Tim Moritz Hector (Chair): Long-time Wikipedian and Wikimedian (re-elected) * Kurt Jansson (Vice Chair): WMDE founder and former president 2004-2009 * Lukas Mezger (Vice Chair): Former WMF legal intern, long time member of the DE community, lawyer * Sebastian Moleski (Treasurer): Former president 2009-2012, highly involved in the international movement, background in economics and IT * Jürgen Friedrich (At-large): Professor of computer science and digital media, very well connected to the academic and institutional world (re-elected) * Harald Krichel (At-large): Long-time Wikipedian * Nikolas Becker (At-large): Former president, highly involved in EU advocacy * Sabria David (At-large): Wikipedia researcher and slow media advocate * Catrin Schoneville (At-large): Former WMDE spokeswoman (2008-2013), well known to the national and international communities and organisations. Anja Ebersbach got re-elected as Vice Chair but decided to step down immediately on the following day. The board has elected Lukas Mezger as her successor. I am very much looking forward to working with these outstanding board members in the coming two years. The diversity in Wikimedia backgrounds and professional experience in our board will provide the foundation for reflection, determination, and the look ahead. I am looking forward to a fruitful exchange with our colleagues from the Wikimedia Foundation and the other Wikimedia Affiliates. The new board would like to extend its thanks to the outgoing board members, Jens Best, Ralf Bösch, Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Steffen Prößdorf, and Sebastian Wallroth for their dedicated service to the organisation. The General Assembly also discussed our annual plan and the FDC recommendations. They wisely decided to postpone the final decision about the plan and have called for an extraordinary general assembly in Q1 2015. That gives our Executive Director Jan Engelmann and our staff time to reflect on the feedback from the FDC and WMF and to work out an improved annual plan in cooperation with the new board. I am looking forward to leading Wikimedia Deutschland through the next two years that will undoubtedly provide new challenges to the organisation. As we reconsider our strategic focus and our financial underpinnings, I am confident that we will emerge as a stronger partner within the Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Tim Moritz Hector -- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the board Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | D-10963 Berlin tel.: +49 (0)30 - 219 158 260 http://www.wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. Help us make it reality!http://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ 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] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.
Thank you, Tim for sharing the results. And congratulations to the recently elected members and thank you to the outgoing members for their service to the wikimedia movement. Warm regards, Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Tim Moritz Hector tim-moritz.hec...@wikimedia.de wrote: Dear Wikimedia friends, Wikimedia Deutschland held its General Assembly on Saturday, 29 November 2014. It is with great pleasure that I present to you our new board, for the first time for a two-year term: * Tim Moritz Hector (Chair): Long-time Wikipedian and Wikimedian (re-elected) * Kurt Jansson (Vice Chair): WMDE founder and former president 2004-2009 * Lukas Mezger (Vice Chair): Former WMF legal intern, long time member of the DE community, lawyer * Sebastian Moleski (Treasurer): Former president 2009-2012, highly involved in the international movement, background in economics and IT * Jürgen Friedrich (At-large): Professor of computer science and digital media, very well connected to the academic and institutional world (re-elected) * Harald Krichel (At-large): Long-time Wikipedian * Nikolas Becker (At-large): Former president, highly involved in EU advocacy * Sabria David (At-large): Wikipedia researcher and slow media advocate * Catrin Schoneville (At-large): Former WMDE spokeswoman (2008-2013), well known to the national and international communities and organisations. Anja Ebersbach got re-elected as Vice Chair but decided to step down immediately on the following day. The board has elected Lukas Mezger as her successor. I am very much looking forward to working with these outstanding board members in the coming two years. The diversity in Wikimedia backgrounds and professional experience in our board will provide the foundation for reflection, determination, and the look ahead. I am looking forward to a fruitful exchange with our colleagues from the Wikimedia Foundation and the other Wikimedia Affiliates. The new board would like to extend its thanks to the outgoing board members, Jens Best, Ralf Bösch, Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Steffen Prößdorf, and Sebastian Wallroth for their dedicated service to the organisation. The General Assembly also discussed our annual plan and the FDC recommendations. They wisely decided to postpone the final decision about the plan and have called for an extraordinary general assembly in Q1 2015. That gives our Executive Director Jan Engelmann and our staff time to reflect on the feedback from the FDC and WMF and to work out an improved annual plan in cooperation with the new board. I am looking forward to leading Wikimedia Deutschland through the next two years that will undoubtedly provide new challenges to the organisation. As we reconsider our strategic focus and our financial underpinnings, I am confident that we will emerge as a stronger partner within the Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Tim Moritz Hector -- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the board Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | D-10963 Berlin tel.: +49 (0)30 - 219 158 260 http://www.wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. Help us make it reality!http://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ 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] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Giuliana Mancini, welcome to the Wikimedia movement. :-) Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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] WMIL General Assembly meeting and Board Elections
Congratulations to the newly or re-elected members. And thank you, Yael, for your service to the wikimedia movement. Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel it...@wikimedia.org.il wrote: Dear all, This last Monday, 1.12.14, Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) held a general assembly meeting, during which the members held the elections for members of the Board of WMIL. The results of the elections are as follows: Itzik Edri,(reelected) Deror Lin, (reelected) Ido Ivri, (reelected) Hana Yariv, Yan Nasonov (reelected) The new Board then proceeded to reelect Itzik Edri to Chairman, and to elect Ido Ivri as Board Secretary. In addition, the board will re-approach the two external board members, Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli and Prof. Karine Nahon, to stay with the board for another year and keep providing their excellent mentorship and advice. We would like to take this opportunity and extend our many thanks to Yael Meron, the departing Board Member, for her long and good service to WMIL and its community. Cheers, Itzik ___ 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] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
On behalf of Wikimedia France, welcome to the mad house Giuliana :) We're a crazy but lovely bunch, and we enjoy lame puns. Best, -- Christophe On 2 December 2014 at 16:28, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Giuliana Mancini, welcome to the Wikimedia movement. :-) Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Gerard, I'm not sure I understand this concern. Data of all kinds are important, but in this case, the questionnaire is meant to help organizations reflect on how they make the strategic choices they do, and what more we can do, as individual organizations and collectively across the movement, to be effective. These questions are not answered by numbers alone, as by context and resource mapping and analysis. Perhaps if you gave me examples of the data you believe we should be collecting/sharing, I would understand better? Warmly, Anasuya On Dec 1, 2014 11:22 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I would assume that statistics are an important tool. There are many statistics I can think of off the top of my head that make sense in this context., WHERE ARE THEY... Given that this is a WMF initiative, why are the statistics not there.. You have the capability ! and the need is obvious when the ED says that metrics are how chapters are evaluated.. Thanks, GerardM On 1 December 2014 at 22:56, Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org wrote: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Learning_center . *User guide: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide *Questionnaire text: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire *Link to take questionnaire (can be used once per IP address, but more links can be requested): https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire The learning center is intended to be a base from which Wikimedia organizations can grow their knowledge and share their own experiences and best practices. TCC worked closely with a handful of Wikimedia volunteers from different organizations to design the Questionnaire you are about to take. Wikimedia Foundation has provided funding for this project and has consulted closely with TCC over the course of the engagement. Please note that the questionnaire is not intended to be a test of individual organizations in any way; the Foundation will not be provided with individual organization results. As part of this consultation, TCC will aggregate findings from the movement-wide Organizational Effectiveness Questionnaire and provide them to the Foundation’s grantmaking team, along with a “capacity building roadmap” to help the team - and the wider movement - think about how organizations can build capacity
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Hi Nemo and John, The questionnaire is not meant to exclude WMF at all, instead the wording was meant to _include_ all forms of Wikimedia 'organization'. So yes, the phrase can be easily modified. And as SJ points out, WMF is on the list too. :-) Anasuya On Dec 2, 2014 12:34 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_ effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_ Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one other organized group in the sentence A Wikimedia chapter, user group, thematic organization or other organized group, that would be nice to spell out. 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 ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Hi John, I think it's really up to you and the organizational team(s) you represent. If you are critically involved in the program and org leadership of more than one, you're welcome to respond more than once. In this case, we'd ask you to make sure you have more than just your responses from each organization. This might affect a few folks across the movement, so I'm glad you asked. Warmly, Anasuya On Dec 2, 2014 12:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/User_guide#Preparing_to_Take_the_Organizational_Effectiveness_Questionnaire If the WMF is one other organized group in the sentence A Wikimedia chapter, user group, thematic organization or other organized group, that would be nice to spell out. No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. On that field, what if I am a member of multiple listed organisations? Should I fill in the survey multiple times? -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Thanks, Sam. Will work on making the drop down easier to access. Anasuya On Dec 2, 2014 2:38 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Anasuya! That's quite a comprehensive survey but instructive to fill out. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: No, .. from the survey itself: Throughout, we use the phrase “Wikimedia Organization” to refer to chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups. And on the first page of questions there is a drop down What is the name of your organization? , which excludes the WMF. I think the intro sentence just needs to be updated to include the WMF. The WMF is in that dropdown. I did have to hunt to find it when I filled the survey out; it would be much easier if that list were alphabetized. Sam ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Hi Anasuya, Is there by any chance a public list of the questions asked in the survey? I've just clicked through a few pages and noticed that some questions need a little preparation to answer truthfully. It would be helpful if the questions could be looked up in advance. Thank you for your help, Sebastian ___ 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] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.
Several great comebacks here! Thanks Tim and everyone for this new 2 years commitment. 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] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Congratulations and welcome, Giuliana! I look forward to working together. Warmly, Katy On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Welcome Giuliana, and good luck from Wikimedia UK! Stevie On 2 December 2014 at 09:08, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: Auguri! Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana. This is a very important step in the history of WMIT, so best luck. Regards from WMES. El 2014-12-02 09:59, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel escribió: Good luck Giuliana, and good luck WMIT with your next step in the professionalization process. I defiantly know that WMIL, but I'm sure that the others chapters as well, will be happy to give advises, information and help her with the first steps in our movement. Feel free to contact us. *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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 -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ 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 -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton 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.*
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Welcome Giuliana. Congratulations Wikimedia Italia! On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Katy Love kl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congratulations and welcome, Giuliana! I look forward to working together. Warmly, Katy On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Welcome Giuliana, and good luck from Wikimedia UK! Stevie On 2 December 2014 at 09:08, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: Auguri! Congratulations WMIT and Giuliana. This is a very important step in the history of WMIT, so best luck. Regards from WMES. El 2014-12-02 09:59, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel escribió: Good luck Giuliana, and good luck WMIT with your next step in the professionalization process. I defiantly know that WMIL, but I'm sure that the others chapters as well, will be happy to give advises, information and help her with the first steps in our movement. Feel free to contact us. *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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 -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ 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 -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton 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-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland report for October
The WMNL report on October is available on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201410 It is also included in this message as plain text. *COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors* - Wiki-Saturdays In October there were two Wikisaturdays, one devoted to last-minute preparations for the annual Wikimedia Nederland Conference on November 1. Writing event Naturalis *WORK: content, collaboration and activity development* - Project Nature The writing event in cooperation with the natural history museum Naturalis took place on October 5, around the theme of nature in the Netherlands. Around 11 new and existing editors participated in the editing event. This event was also the awards ceremony for Wiki Loves Earth NL 2014 (jury report) where 17 visitors attended. - Project World War II The Worldwar II projectpage on Wikipedia was remodelled and revitalised. It now includes a list of articles missing and to be improved. We will use it as a platform for online writing events. - Wiki loves libraries The monthly local training in the public library of Amersfoort were continued in October by volunteers of WMNL. - Wikipedia awareness campaign WMNL will launch a Wikipedia-awareness campaign in January 2015. Aim of the campaign is to make the general public more aware of the fact that Wikipedia is a volunteer project. The campaign will not focus on fundraising or membership recruitment for WMNL. In October, we choose the agency that will help us develop and run the campaign. We selected MV, a two-woman company with a track record in working for non-profits. - Wikipedia in the Museum Thanks to a donation from a private grant making foundation earlier this year, WMNL could start developing an application that will allow visitors to a museum to directly access Wikipedia-articles related to the exhibits they are seeing. At this stage, it is a pilot with one or two museums. *GLOBAL* - GLAMout Global WMNL organised the global GLAMout in October, the hangout is available on youtube. The next global GLAMout will be organised by WMSE. *GOVERNANCE* Board meeting The WMNL Board met on October 8. Q3 report We submitted our report on the third quarter of 2014 to WMF. *UPCOMING EVENTS* - Wikimedia Nederland Conference, Utrecht, November 1. - Wikipedia beginners course, Zeeuwse Bibliotheek, Middelburg, November 11. - GLAM Hackathon, Amsterdam, November 14 - 16. - workshop Wikidata for GLAMs, Amsterdam, November 14. - Wikipedia intermediate course, Zeeuwse Bibliotheek, Middelburg, November 25. - Writing event on World War II at NIOD, Amsterdam, November 29. - New Years Reception and Presentation year plan 2015 to partner organisations, January 17. - GLAMwiki Conference 2015, tbd, April 10-11-12 2015 *OTHER EVENTS* *These events are relevant to the Netherlands and/or Dutch language Wikimedia-projects but were not organised by WMNL*: - Writing event Nature, Utrecht University, October 4 - organised by User:Spinster for the expeditions project - Lecture by Hay Kranen, National Archives of the Netherlands, October 5 - organised by User:Husky - Writing event Scientific expeditions, Technical University of Delft, October 18 - organised by User:Spinster for the expeditions project - Sandra Rientjes Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland tel.(+31) (0)30 3200238 mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379 www.wikimedia.nl *Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Hi Sebastian, are you looking for this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool/Questionnaire Best Claudia Am 02.12.2014 um 18:03 schrieb Sebastian Moleski: Hi Anasuya, Is there by any chance a public list of the questions asked in the survey? I've just clicked through a few pages and noticed that some questions need a little preparation to answer truthfully. It would be helpful if the questions could be looked up in advance. Thank you for your help, Sebastian ___ 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] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.
Thank you, Tim. Welcome to the incoming board and thanks to all of the candidates. -- Sam On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Several great comebacks here! Thanks Tim and everyone for this new 2 years commitment. 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 -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ 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] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?
That's very interesting. However, as stated, in .nl (and SEPA) one pays people using IBAN accounts. One not-pays people using not-IBAN. iDeal is a handy dandy web interface to do (essentially) IBAN transfers. Them's the options; whether I personally like them or not.[*] c'est tout! Incidentally, for a SEPA area bank transfer, at a typical .nl bank, you fill in the person's name, their IBAN Account Number [**], and the amount; then click send. [***]. [] Alternately, iDeal fills this out for you, and you just click Approve. [] Re:Fraud: one bank I work for has the policy to hunt down, find, and prosecute every single fraud at all costs, and to the fullest extent possible under law. They do so as a matter of honour. Suffice to say this does tend to reduce the incidence of fraud in the country O:-) sincerely, Kim Bruning [*] Actually I kinda like these options; but I do live just ~2 hours from Brussels, so things tend to work well for me. YMMV for people who live in some island kingdom or what have you O:-) [**] International Bank Account Number account number; brought to you by the department of redundancy department. [***] For WMF I'd love it if they also ticked repeat monthly ;-) [] Not counting security procedures. :-P On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 12:31:23AM -0500, Risker wrote: Ummm. We have all kinds of ways for people to donate, and the process for transferring is pretty clear. Having been in a situation where I had to make bank transfers, I felt honestly like I was handing over the keys to the kingdom just for the right to pay someone money: far more personal information was required than is needed for any other means of payment that I've ever used. Banks in Canada regularly call their customers for transactions under $5 because fraud is so common - and that is with chip cards and PINs. Risker On 1 December 2014 at 00:08, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, IMHO we need to advertise how people can transfer money to us. It requires an account number. Now if the USA is not able to accommodate this, FINE, let us do it in Europe at least.. WHAT AM I MISSING HERE ? Thanks, GerardM On 1 December 2014 at 03:38, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote: On 11/30/2014 1:14 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, An IBAN number is NOT a credit card ... You need a ping number in combination with some smart card functionality in order to make it work.. The combination generates a number that is always different.. You seem to have misunderstood the scenario I laid out. I'm not talking about people using the IBAN to steal money out of a Wikimedia account, I depend on the bank to have security robust enough to prevent that. The scenario I'm discussing involves people using the IBAN to fraudulently pay money to Wikimedia from someone else's account, such as a credit card. That account does not necessarily have an IBAN or chip-and-pin security, and at any rate whatever security it has was already breached. The payment would just be a method for the fraudsters to verify the success of the breach. The result would be added costs to Wikimedia and to the financial institutions involved, in order to identify and reverse the fraudulent transactions. To respond to some of the other questions raised about my scenario: This was a risk scenario I presented to answer the question, How can posting a bank account number lead to fraud? It may or may not have been a factor in the decision to not publicly post the IBAN, I don't know. I'm also not suggesting that this scenario is unique to IBAN, it could affect any type of account number that accepts payments (for example, accounts you might have for various utility services, such as water, electricity, telephone, or internet). It's also possible thru PayPal, of course, and that's the reason for having a $1 minimum donation requirement, among other protections. I don't know if there are difficulties with establishing comparable security around the IBAN, or if it's more a matter of a cost-benefit analysis indicating that it's worth the resources to deal with this for donations via Wikimedia's online payment form, but not for donations directly to Wikimedia's bank account. Also, I'm no expert on EU regulations, but I do observe that according to the European Payments Council, it seems payees receiving SEPA credit transfers are advised to communicate the IBAN only where necessary: http://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/index.cfm/sepa-credit- transfer/iban-and-bic/ (and likewise for payers making direct debit payments). It may simply be that the fundraising team has been advised that this is more consistent with providing the IBAN upon request, rather than posting it on the website. Not to disparage what may be common practice at other
[Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing
Hey All I have be trying to convince the World Health Organization to go to a CC BY SA license for a few years now. Najeeb Al-Shorbaji Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO states: https://dgroups.org/hifa2015/discussions/35152a41 We would welcome sharing with us some evidence-based research on how licensing works under the Creative Commons attribution licence has made an impact in the area of scientific, technical and medical publishing. If people know of research articles on this topic please send them my way. Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.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] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing
Not research, but it is a brief intro: http://www.plos.org/open-access/ http://www.plos.org/resources/ -- svetlana ___ 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] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing
And just to clarify currently WHO is green open access, free to view but not free to reuse. The request is for them to go gold open access free to view and free to reuse. They are wondering why is this reuse bit important. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.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] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing
On 2 Dec 2014, at 21:54, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: And just to clarify currently WHO is green open access, free to view but not free to reuse. The request is for them to go gold open access free to view and free to reuse. Those definitions are wrong: green is self-archiving by the author (e.g. by posting a copy on arxiv), while gold is open access via the journal's site. Neither 'gold' or 'green' means that the content can be reused, although articles may also be released under a free license. Have a read of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_journal (and note that no-where does that article use the word reuse, or even licence). Thanks, Mike ___ 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] Wikimedia engineering report, October 2014
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in October 2014 is now available: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/October -- Guillaume Paumier ___ 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] Funding a new gear for WM photographer Poco a poco
Sorry for crossposting: Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore his stolen equipment. Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco in Wikimedia Commons. In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share freely-licensed content with everyone. Wikipedia uses Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository, so, in fact, most of the times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia Commons image. While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons volunteers, he is a very special one: he's one of the main Commons contributors ever, having some amazing records, such as being the user with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever (153 images) and also the one with the highest amount of quality images ever, with 5,777 Quality Images. That's an awesome amount of very high quality material, that Diego has given to every living person for free. Never heard about Wikimedia Commons? It's the repository that hosts allmultimedia files that you can see (and download) in Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are also available for everybody else with a free license. Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways. One of them is by supporting (by being an organizer or a jury) two of the most importantphotographic contests in the Wikimedia movement (and in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth. Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, he got his equipment stolen. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also every single picture he took during his 2 weeks trip in South America, which he was going to upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere. As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of this, so we decided to help him to restore his equipment. You can help, too, by contributing to this campaign! Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly the same equipment he lost. All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to the price from Amazon for the same equipment. TipoModelo Preço Camera body Canon EOS 5D Mark II$ 2,694.00 Objective fisheye f/4.0 Canon EF 8-15mm L USM $ 1,349.00 Objective wide-angle f/4.0 Canon EF 17-40mm L USM $ 839.00 Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0 Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM $ 1,149.00 Laptop Acer Aspire 1810T $ 600.00 Total $ 6,631.00 Converted to Euro (since Diego is based in Europe) that goes to 5,300 Euro + 200 euro of Indiegogo fee, which is our target to collect. This campaign is runned on indiegogo.com and the link is https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funding-a-new-gear-for-wm-photographer-poco-a-poco#home You can use the short link http://igg.me/at/pocoapoco in social networks Thank you -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ 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] Fundraising banners (again)
Hi all, As Lila’s email said, we launched our end of year English fundraising campaign on Tuesday. I wanted to share a little more background on the mechanics of the English Wikipedia campaign, and where we are on our goals this year to-date. Starting today, banners are being shown to 100% of anonymous readers on English Wikipedia in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Our end of year campaign goal is $20 million. As Lila mentioned, our goal is to serve more powerful reminders to be able to limit the total number of banners each reader sees. We are constantly experimenting with new methods to reach our readers and optimize the donation experience. Around the world, banners have been showing to a low level of traffic since the start of the fiscal year in July. We have also run campaigns to 100% of traffic in Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Belgium, and France. These campaigns have shown good results, and we look forward to sharing more detail in our regular annual fundraising report. If you spot any errors or have problems donating, your can reach us quickly at: problemsdonat...@wikimedia.org We also anticipate some of you will want to know more about this process and may have questions. If you have questions or comments, please let us know on our Meta talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising We look forward to answering your questions to the best of our ability, but the team has limited resources and everyone will be working at an increased pace in December, particularly during the launch week (12/2-12/5). Unfortunately, this means we will not be able to respond to questions on Wikimedia-l as they arise -- so instead we have set aside time to review your questions on Meta, and post an update by December 15 and again in January. Thank you again for all your support now and throughout the year! Megan On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Lila - thank you for this thoughtful update. Fundraising trends and data are always welcome, particularly where communities can help improve and test local messages. I am also deeply thankful for the smooth work of the fundraising team, who have made great progress over the last few years – in storytelling translation, mobile giving, testing data analysis. I look forward to seeing what we learn this year. Sam On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: All -- we will not have a pop-up banner. I know you want more insight into the trends: we will provide some of those in our upcoming reports and metrics and we will plan to shift to a quarterly cadence of a more specific metrics report that will include fundraising. Just to cover some basic trends: the last two years have significantly changed our traffic composition. Regionally, we are seeing growth in emerging languages and regions. This is great: people who need the knowledge most, but cannot afford it and often live in countries where free speech is criminalized are learning about Wikipedia. We need to keep supporting that. In Europe, North America, Australia, etc. we see Wikipedia becoming a part of the fabric of the internet itself: embedded in web searches, operating systems, and other online resources. This is great too: people get knowledge wherever they are. Both of those trends however can make it more difficult to raise funds (and sometimes contribute), so we have to make sure we adapt. We are doing a lot of work around thinking through a diversified fundraising strategy. That said, our main tool today are the site banners. Just to be clear: the pop-up banner had advantages. It tested high with readers, was only shown once to each user and cut the total number of impressions needed by a factor of 7! We did hear your concerns however. The Fundraising team listened and quickly integrated your feedback. While our launch banner will be different from last year’s, it will not be a pop-up, overlay content, or be sticky. As always this starting design will iterate daily and have parallel tests, so you may see variations at any given time. Megan Hernandez will send another email with more details about the process to-date, and how best to communicate with Fundraising during the coming month. And in the spirit of the holidays I'd like to thank the fundraising team for all of their hard work and to all of the volunteers who have helped with the campaigns. Lila On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:39 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Ori Livneh wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:55 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The banners may be effective, but they're not aligned with Wikimedia's values. I wouldn't come out quite as strongly against these banners, but I share the underlying sentiment. What happened to we make the Internet not suck? What happened
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)
On 2 December 2014 at 06:53, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: All -- we will not have a pop-up banner. And how exactly would you describe this then? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oversized_donation_notice.png -- geni ___ 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] Fundraising banners (again)
On 2 December 2014 at 20:27, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 December 2014 at 06:53, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: All -- we will not have a pop-up banner. And how exactly would you describe this then? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oversized_donation_notice.png Pop-ups are generally considered to obscure content and prevent the user/reader from proceeding until some sort of action is taken. I don't know about you, but for me none of the content was obscured (it was just pushed down further on the page, but it was all readable), and I did not need to do anything to see the content or use other functions like edit or search. So no, I don't think this is a pop-up. It's big, and I still think the message could be improved in a way that doesn't sound as though the funds go to feeding the caffeine addictions of WMF staffers, but this is a lot better than the version we saw just under a week ago. Risker/Anne ___ 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] Fundraising banners (again)
* geni wrote: On 2 December 2014 at 06:53, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: All -- we will not have a pop-up banner. And how exactly would you describe this then? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oversized_donation_notice.png I got something like that on my mobile phone yesterday, only it didn't cover 80% of the screen but over 400% of it (over four full screens), and unlike your example, it was not possible to scroll past it (it's a pop-over that has to be dismissed by scrolling back to the top and hitting the difficult-to-hit x). I also note that the german banners claim 20€ average donations while the screenshot above claims 10 GBP (which is currently around 12.50€). Never minding that only a small part of the donations is used as claimed in these banners (keeping Wikipedia online and ad-free for a year). Is the Foundation also still running banners that spoof web browser security messages? -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de D-10243 Berlin · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de Available for hire in Berlin (early 2015) · http://www.websitedev.de/ ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia Hi Claudia, Thank you for the appreciation and your help - as so many others on this list - in thinking through this questionnaire and next steps. Thanks too for raising the question of languages; a critical one. In the introduction to the questionnaire, we do say that if language is an issue (as we well understand it could be), folks should contact Winifred ( orgeffectiven...@wikimedia.org for convenience) for any support around this. If the deadlines need to be pushed back for that reason, we can certainly work that out together. Warmly, Anasuya ___ 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] Fundraising banners (again)
Megan Hernandez mhernandez@... writes: As Lila’s email said, we launched our end of year English fundraising campaign on Tuesday. I wanted to share a little more background on the mechanics of the English Wikipedia campaign, and where we are on our goals this year to-date. Starting today, banners are being shown to 100% of anonymous readers on English Wikipedia in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Our end of year campaign goal is $20 million. As Lila mentioned, our goal is to serve more powerful reminders to be able to limit the total number of banners each reader sees. We are constantly experimenting with new methods to reach our readers and optimize the donation experience. I know I used to write an email internally every year, saying our banners are getting out of control, but that's because every year they get bigger and more obscuring of the content. This year, as usual, is not an exception. However, this year the banners didn't just get bigger, the copy seems to be more fear inducing as well. Today I had a coworker private message me, worried that Wikipedia was in financial trouble. He asked me if the worst happened, would the content still be available so that it could be resurrected? I assured him that Wikimedia is healthy, has reserves, and successfully reaches the budget every year. Basically I said there wasn't much to worry about, because there isn't. The messaging being used is actively scaring people. This isn't the first person that's asked me about this. When they find out there's not a real problem, their reaction quickly changes. They become angry. They feel manipulated. My coworker told me that he donates generously every year, which is rare for him because he doesn't often donate to charities. He said this year's ads are putting him off. He doesn't feel like he should donate. I understand that efficient banner ads are good, because they reduce the number of times people need to see the ad, but it's not great when people stop posting funny banner memes and start asking Wikimedia to switch to an advertising model (seriously, do a quick twitter search). - Ryan Lane ___ 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] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com wrote: OK I see now the box for other not as an option for a name (which is how these things are usually set up) but underneath the original question. Thanks, Leigh - we're working on changing the way the box is configured, so it's more intuitive. We do encourage informal groups to take the questionnaire, as you notice, since it's useful to see what of these questions (and possible responses) might apply to groups like yours. Anasuya From: osama...@hotmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: RE: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 06:27:14 -0700 I assume this survey is only for organizations that have been recognized by AffCom? We are still struggling to get ours (despite the fact that we are one of the most productive educational groups), so I thought Id at least answer the questionnairre, but under name of organization the only option is to select from a group of pre-determined names. This even though the instructions say that they welcome responses from informal groups. Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:31:00 +0100 From: claudia.ga...@wikimedia.at To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations) Thank you for this initiative and all the hard work that went into creating these tools and resources! I'm really looking forward to the results and learnings of the next steps. At the moment, from our perspective the biggest challenge of the planned process is to overcome the language barrier: If we want to include our volunteers, especially the non-Board members, we'll have to translate the questionnaire and some general information first. While this is probably doable for German or French quickly enough to meet the deadline on December 21, it might be a major challenge for smaller langugage communities. Would it be possible for interested organizations to get in touch with the Foundation in order to get help in this regard? Best Claudia -- Executive Director Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15 1070 Wien Austria +43 699 141 28615 www.wikimedia.at http://www.wikimedia.at/ Am 01.12.2014 um 22:56 schrieb Anasuya Sengupta: tl;dr Request for Wikimedia organizations to take a survey on organizational effectiveness, that will help us understand and support each other better: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OEQuestionnaire Dear friends and colleagues of the Wikimedia movement: The Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking team has initiated a project with TCC Group - a consulting firm focused on social impact - and the larger Wikimedia communities, to help Wikimedia organizations of all shapes and sizes (including user groups, chapters, and thematic organizations), to improve their effectiveness and their ability to have impact for the movement. The project was initiated in response to growing interest and conversations by volunteers and organizations, to better understand how organizations in particular have impact in the Wikimedia movement, which is unique in that it is online, growing extraordinarily fast, and created and supported almost entirely by volunteers. The project seeks to help Wikimedia organizations better understand 1) how impact is defined from an organizational perspective in their contexts, 2) what strategies Wikimedia organizations use to achieve that impact, and 3) what resources and skills Wikimedia organizations may need to be more effective in the strategies they choose to pursue. In the first “impact” stage of the project, TCC interviewed several organizations, administered an impact survey to all organizations, and attended Wikimania 2014 in London where the project was discussed with AffCom, an informal organizational effectiveness working group, the FDC and other grantmaking committees, as well as many other individuals in the movement. TCC also conducted in-depth research on three organizations, resulting in case studies illustrating different organizational models leading to impact. Many thanks to those of you who took your valuable time to participate in one or more of these exchanges; Wikimedians around the globe created the foundation for this work. The second and third stages of the project involve development of an online organizational effectiveness questionnaire, a user guide to help organizations interpret their results, and an organizational effectiveness learning center, which may help organizations think about the different strategies they are using and how they could build specific capacities to be more successful with those strategies. *Learning center:
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.
Congratulations to WMDE, and welcome back to some familiar names! :) A. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Tim. Welcome to the incoming board and thanks to all of the candidates. -- Sam On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Several great comebacks here! Thanks Tim and everyone for this new 2 years commitment. 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 -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ 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 -- 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] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Congratulations to WMIT! And it is heartwarming to learn of this final act of service by our late friend and colleague Alessio. Tanti auguri! A. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ 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 -- 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] Funding a new gear for WM photographer Poco a poco
(Sorry for crossposting) This is indeed a cause that the entire community should get behind. I know that normally people could apply for grants but is there anyway that the WMF as an organisation could bypass that often long, drawn out process and pitch in with this as well? I have sent out a few appeals to avgeeks, seeing as he has taken aviation photos, via twitter and other avenues. Perhaps we can get a tweet from @wikicommons on this as well. It's in all of our best interests to get Poco a Poco taking photos again as soon as is possible. And I hope that insurance will be taken out on the equipment when replaced :) Cheers Russavia On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: Sorry for crossposting: Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore his stolen equipment. Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco in Wikimedia Commons. In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share freely-licensed content with everyone. Wikipedia uses Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository, so, in fact, most of the times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia Commons image. While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons volunteers, he is a very special one: he's one of the main Commons contributors ever, having some amazing records, such as being the user with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever (153 images) and also the one with the highest amount of quality images ever, with 5,777 Quality Images. That's an awesome amount of very high quality material, that Diego has given to every living person for free. Never heard about Wikimedia Commons? It's the repository that hosts allmultimedia files that you can see (and download) in Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are also available for everybody else with a free license. Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways. One of them is by supporting (by being an organizer or a jury) two of the most importantphotographic contests in the Wikimedia movement (and in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth. Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, he got his equipment stolen. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also every single picture he took during his 2 weeks trip in South America, which he was going to upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere. As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of this, so we decided to help him to restore his equipment. You can help, too, by contributing to this campaign! Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly the same equipment he lost. All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to the price from Amazon for the same equipment. TipoModelo Preço Camera body Canon EOS 5D Mark II$ 2,694.00 Objective fisheye f/4.0 Canon EF 8-15mm L USM $ 1,349.00 Objective wide-angle f/4.0 Canon EF 17-40mm L USM $ 839.00 Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0 Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM $ 1,149.00 Laptop Acer Aspire 1810T $ 600.00 Total $ 6,631.00 Converted to Euro (since Diego is based in Europe) that goes to 5,300 Euro + 200 euro of Indiegogo fee, which is our target to collect. This campaign is runned on indiegogo.com and the link is https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funding-a-new-gear-for-wm-photographer-poco-a-poco#home You can use the short link http://igg.me/at/pocoapoco in social networks Thank you -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ 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] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing
Not what you asked, but UNESCO's recent leaflet is rather nice and has a dozen pages on impact. http://www.unesco.de/fileadmin/medien/Dokumente/Kommunikation/Open_Content_A_Practical_Guide_to_Using_Open_Content_Licences_web.pdf James Heilman, 02/12/2014 21:20: We would welcome sharing with us some evidence-based research on how licensing works under the Creative Commons attribution licence has made an impact in the area of scientific, technical and medical publishing. What sort of impact? Even the most negative found an impact on citations http://ssrn.com/abstract=2269040 but am.ascb.org/dora/ 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
